The Bishop of Gloucester, who, under the new "scheming" system,
has been enthroned Bishop of Bristol, holds, in addition to his Bishoprics, a rich stall of 14001. a year at Westminster, and the Rec- tory of Peakirk, Northamptonshire, of 600/. a year, which he is suf- fered to hold in commendani. Now as the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and Prebendary of Westminster is an Ecclesiastical Commis- sioner, and has recommended that no living, however small the value, shall hereafter be held by dispensation with another, provided it be dis- tant more than ten miles, and as his Lordship's living of Peakirk is about 250 miles from his bishoprics and stall, would not his Lordship be meting to himself the same measure he advises should be measured to all inferior clergy, were he to advise Lord Melbourne, to whom it would lapse, to withdraw the commendam and present it to the Reverend Mr. Rowlett, who was jockeyed out of the living of St. Bride's by Sir Robert Peel and the Bishop of London, or to the Reverend Dr. Lamb, the Master of Corpus, who, though coming in rotation, has been passed over by the Conservative heads at Cambridge because his principles are too liberal.—Morning Chronicle.
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