23 NOVEMBER 1861, Page 2

The new Bishop of Gloucester has withdrawn his name from

the list of lecturers at Exeter Hall to the Young Men's Christian Association, on the ground that Mr. Spur- geon is also on the list. We earl scarcely wonder that, look- ing to that gentleman's recent secular lecture*, no refined and cultivated man is willing to be associated in the same work. But we should be sincerely sorry if we thought that the withdrawal could with any justice be ascribed to that aristocratic pride with which the Church is apt to regard the different sects of Dissenters.