23 APRIL 1864, Page 3

Dr. Davys, Bishop of Peterborough, died on Monday, and Lord

Palmerston has therefore to select his thirteenth bishop. The deceased prelate was a man of no mark in learning, theology, or politics, and owed his promotion to his selection as tutor to Princess Victoria, but his personal character had endeared him to his clergy. The diocese, it is said, needs a strong administrator, the class of bishop of all others hardest to find.