11 JULY 1874, Page 3

The new Bishop of St. David's seems to be a

respectable scholar and a Welshman, and that is pretty much all that the world in general knows of him. Archdeacon William Basil Jones was a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, and the Ireland University Scholar in 1842 ; he -took a second-class -at Oxford in 1844 ; and is known, so far as he is known, as a good Welsh antiquarian and a good Greek scholar. He has long been examining-chaplain to Archbishop 'Thomson (of York), and Arohdeacon of the West Riding. Of course he cannot fill the gap which the retirement of by far the most learned and thoughtful of the whole Right Reverend Bench has made. But he seems to be a respectable choice, deficient neither in local qualifications nor in general attainments.