21 NOVEMBER 1863, Page 2

The Bishop of St. David's has published a very liberal

and scholarly charge, to which we hope to draw attention next week. It is the only episcopal production we have seen of late years which really takes careful note of the theology of other than clergymen, and estimates them by other than professional criteria. It is devoted to the subjects treated of in" Essays and Reviews," the Bishop of Natal's work on the Pentateuch. and Dr. Stanley's argument against the Act of Uniformity, and not merely to the political necessities of the clerical profession. We need scarcely -we recognize in both the style and force of his reasoning, qualities now very rare upon the episcopal bench.