We omitted to mention last week one of the very
best of Lord Salisbury's ecclesiastical appointments, though all of them give us the impression of having been very carefully and conscientiously considered, in this respect resembling his predecessor's, Mr. Gladstone's. Dr. Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church, has resigned his deanery, and his resignation will take effect at the end of the present year. Lord Salis- bury has appointed Dr. Paget, the Professor of Pastoral Theology, to succeed him, and the appointment has given almost universal satisfaction. Dr. Paget is a son of the great surgeon, and is one of the most thoughtful and im- pressive preachers in the University of Oxford. He is a man of large sympathies, and with a dash of poetic insight in his composition, which is as useful in the pulpit as it is in the administration of a great College like Christ Church ; more- over, he is a young man from whose influence in the University we may hope much. Under him Christ Church will certainly not lose in attractiveness, and it may gain in intellectual and moral rank.
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