6 DECEMBER 1856, Page 2

The " enthroning " of two British Bishops in one

week is a coincidence worth notice, especially as it is accompanied by the announced appointment of a third Bishop—Robert Bickersteth, the Rector of St. Giles's, who has become Bishop of Ripen, and has already responded to the Short-time Committee of Yorkshire with expressions of sympathy for the working classes of his dio- cese. The Bishop of Durham was enthroned on Wednesday, the Bishop of London on Thursday. The ceremony was of course purely formal ; the oaths, the processions, the service, all preordained ; but one remarkable incident was the presence in the choir of Dr. Binney, the eminent Dissenting minister, whose enemies, when they desire to censure the broad style of his doctrine, call him " the secular preacher."