NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Bishop of Peterborough is to succeed Archbishop Thomson in the Archbishopric of York, and the appoint- ment has been received with general, we might almost say, universal satisfaction. Dr. Magee is not only a most eloquent preacher, but a capable and vigorous statesman, and he never speaks, either in the House of Lords, or in Diocesan Conferences or Church Congresses, without commanding the most eager attention. Probably he has not excited quite so much admiration as the head of a diocese as he has in his capacity of statesman and ecclesiastical politician, for he can display a certain bluntness of manner, and a kind of wit which some- times leaves a sting behind it ; but as Archbishop of York, though he will have plenty of diocesan work, he will also have plenty of occasions for showing statesmanship and courage, in which our leading Bishops are apt to be somewhat deficient. We are not sorry that an Irishman, and a most genuine Irish- man, should have been chosen by the Unionist Government for the second place in the English hierarchy. It may tend to show Ireland the reality of Unionist appreciation for Irish genius and Irish character.
