At a meeting of the Rochester Diocesan Conference on Friday
week, the Bishop of Rochester stated that a Bill had been introduced into Parliament to create a Suffragan Bishopric, to be cut out of his diocese, which would be called the Bishopric of Southwark, and mentioned that a great London publisher,—who has since been stated to be Mr. Alexander Macmillan,—had offered to present a residence for the proposed Suffragan Bishop. This residence is a roomy and charming house, called Knapdale, at Upper Tooting, and we are told that £2,000 will probably be contributed as the nucleus of an endowment. Southwark and its neighbourhood undoubtedly need greatly fresh missionary effort, and the appropriation of a Suffragan Bishopric to the spiritual needs of the people will greatly aid such effort. Nor is it unsatis- factory to find one of the great potentates of the world of books coming forward to give generous aid to the missionary energy of the Church. It is not every country in Europe where one of the greater publishers, and one of the greatest of University publishers, would be eager to co-operate directly with the Church of the nation.
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