The new Dean of St. Paul's is to be Canon
Gregory, who has long been familiar with the practice and policy of that great Cathedral, and will probably carry out, so far as he enters into them, the intentions of Dean Church. This is one of Lord Salisbury's unambitious ecclesiastical appointments. Canon Gregory is seventy-one, though a strong man for his age, and is understood to belong rather to the less sympathetic side of the High Church school. He has none of the genius of Church or Liddon, but will be efficient and punctual in the discharge of the duties he has undertaken. The hopes of Anglicans had rather pointed to a younger and more apprehen- sive intellect, to one of those which were engaged in the pre- paration of " Lux Mundi," from whom more freshness might have been expected. But it is sometimes well, perhaps, to let the older men know that their faithful services are appre- ciated, and that the patronage of the Church is used to recognise the past, as well as in anticipation of the future.
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