16 NOVEMBER 1861, Page 2

The Lord 'Bishop of London thanks God for Mr. Spur-

geon,—unseasonably. We are disposed to deny neither the rough force nor the frequently earnest purpose of the vulgar and vain stump-lecturer. But episcopal .sympathy might at least be spared at a time when the attraction .of the reverend gentleman's secular lectures has consisted not only in buffooneries, but indecencies.