Lord Beaconsfield has made a good appointment to the vacant
Deanery of Peterborough, in the Rev. John James Stewart Perowne. Dr. Perowne is a considerable Hebrew scholar, one of the Company for the Revision of the Authorised Version of the Old Testament, has published his own translation of the Book of Psalms, and an elementary Arabic grammar. He also edited "The Literary and Theological Remains of Bishop Thirlwall," and has written a good deal on the criticism of the Bible. No doubt, he will make an excellent Dean, and a Deanery will not interfere, as almost any bishopric would, with the prosecution of his studies as a scholar. The English Church has not now so many scholars, that she can afford to sacrifice any of the few that she has to the laborious and somewhat too mechanical duties of the Episcopacy.
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