By the death of the Bishop of Durham on Saturday
last, we have lost much the most impressive figure on the English Bench of Bishops. He had been greatly weakened by the alarming and, as it was then thought, almost necessarily fatal attack of cardiac dropsy, from which he suffered at the end of last year. He did, however, in great measure recover from that illness, and was well enough to resume many of the duties of his diocese, and to make a very impressive address on accepting the gift of a pastoral staff from his clergy. He went to Bournemouth not long ago, hoping to obtain as much advantage from its climate as he did in the terrible illness of last year; but its mild climate did not save him from con- tracting a severe chill, and he died in four days from rapid inflammation of the lungs. He was quite the most learned of our Bishops, especially in the ecclesiastical history of the apostolic and post-apostolic times ; and his masterly writings on the Ignatian controversy, and in answer to " Supernatural Religion," have gained him the admiration not only of English but of the best Continental scholars.
