19 MARCH 1870, Page 11

Two new Bishops have been nominated by gr. Gladstone. The

Bishop of St. Asaph is to be the Rev. Joshua Hughes, Vicar of Llandovery. He is Evangelical, rather young for a bishop, a good Welsh scholar, and a very effective Welsh preacher, and is a graduate of Cambridge, having graduated in 1842, when he belonged to Queen's College. The new Bishop of Chichester is to be the Venerable Archdeacon Durnford, Canon of Manchester, and Rector of Middleton,—an Oxford first-classman as long ago as 1826, and an Etonian. He is said not to be a "party man" either in the political or ecclesiastical sense. Both appointments. appear to be highly respectable—and uninteresting.