14 JULY 1883, Page 3

We greatly regret to hear of the serious illness of

the Bishop of Peterborough, which on Tuesday took the form of peritouitis, accompanied by terrible pain. On Friday he was thought to be much better, though by no means out of danger. The Bishop is by far the greatest orator on the Episcopal Bench, probably the greatest orator in the House of Lords, and has, too, a good deal less of the professionally clerical posture of mind in hint than the other Bishops. We heartily hope for his early and complete recovery. Genius of any kind is not too abundant in either Church or State, and the Bishop of Peterborough is not only a man of genius, but a man of genius with that dash of audacity in him which gives to the character of an ecclesiastic a special flavour of its own.