23 AUGUST 1890, Page 3

It is stated that the Bishop of Winchester has finally

resolved to resign his See, and to leave Farnham Castle towards the end of the present year. Dr. Harold Browne has been Bishop of Winchester for upwards of seventeen years, and a very good Bishop he has been ; but during the last few years, infirmities have greatly diminished his power of work, and it is almost a pity that his resignation has been so long deferred. It is as well to abdicate an office of that kind while you are still almost at your best; and Dr. Harold Browne's best marked a standard far above that of the average English Episcopate. His spiritual influence was widely felt, and that is almost the last kind of influence which an ordinary English Bishop exercises.