The Globe announces, that "early in the next session the
Ministers will' propose to Parliament the immediate erection of Lancashire into a separate see, under the title of the Diocese of Manchester. The new diocese 'will consist of the Archdeaconry of Manchester, including the Deaneries of Blackburn, Leyland, Manchester, and Warrington, and also the inde- pendent Deanery of Andrew's, or Amounderness; comprising in the whole 405 benefices-in fact, the whole of Lancashire, except the Deanery of Cartmel and Furness, comprising 31 incumbencies, which will still apper- tain to the diocese of Chester." It is understood that Mr. Villiers, Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, (brother of Lord Clarendon and Mr. Charles- Villiers.) will be the new Bishop.
Mr. Cobden, it seems, is to be opposed in Stockport at the general elec- tion, by "the Conservative Tradesmen and Operatives Society," who have a man of their own in view.
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