18 AUGUST 1883, Page 3

We hear with lively pleasure that the Bishop of Peterborough

is now at last thought to be in a good way to recover. He has hung between life and death for upwards of a month, but there now seems every reason to hope that his great eloquence, abili- ties, and manliness will exert their influence amongst us for many years to come. Moreover, a strong man who has hung so long between life and death, if ho really recovers, is apt to be much less careful of conventional formulae than those who have never been annealed by physical and mental suffering of this stern kind. We want that sort of strength among our Bishops.