The Right Rev. Charles Sumner, lately Bishop of Winchester, offied
on Saturday at Winchester. He was, let us trust, the last of his kind,—an Evangelical who really believed, but who wanted, above all things, to get on and become rich. He .obliged the Conyngham family by marrying a lady to -whom the heir of the house was attached, and thence- forward was pushed on by the Marchioness, George IV.'s latest friend. He was rapidly made Canon of Worcester, -Canon of Canterbury, Bishop of Llandaff, and Bishop of the unreformed See of Winchester, with Farnham Palace and an -unknown income. He enjoyed this for forty years, and yet when he resigned conditioned for Farnham and a pension of 22,000 a year. His moderation was extolled, for he might have had more ; but he drew in his life probably three-quarters of a million from the Church, and did for it in return little beyond the ordinary --duty of a Bishop. He wrote nothing, urged nothing, founded nothing. He was not a nepotist, and had no moral defects, and he led a serene and stately life, which, with his fine manner, im- pressed people ; but if there is never another Bishop like him, so much the better for the Church.
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