29 AUGUST 1874, Page 3

The suns of the late Dr. Sunnier and the brother

of Mrs. Sum- ner indignantly deny that the son of the Marquis of Conyngham -was attached to Macllle. Maunoir, or that the Bishop married her to prevent his pupil from forming a misalliance. Sir John Taylor 'Coleridge, it is added, affirms that the marriage displeased the family, though it is admitted that they promoted the interests of their son's tutor. Considering the history of George IV., is not that the real accusation against the Bishop, who, whether de- serving or not, was undoubtedly promoted at a most unusual and rather scandalous rate by the personal influence of his patroness? Even in that day, a See like Winchester was not a usual reward to a man of forty-six, for doing nothing at all.