10 AUGUST 1872, page 6

The Bishop Of Gloucester On The Labourers. T He Bishop Is

worse than the Duke. It makes one almost despair of the future of the English Church, to read such a speech as that which the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol on Friday week......

The Chancellor's Retirement.

A RUMOUR which ever since the commencement of the Session may be said to have been in the air suddenly took shape this week, and provoked demi-official contradic- tions......