The new Dean of Carlisle, Rev. John Oakley, the Vicar
of St. Saviour's, Horton, is likely, we think, to turn out a man of some mark in the Church. He is one of the few High Churchmen who is as large-minded and full of sympatl-y with the people, as he is confident that the teaching of the Church, when rightly understood, is intended to meet the wants of all minds and beasts. As a rale, the strong belief in a hierarchy, and in grace ,which only a hierarchy can dispense, seems to exert a contracting effect on the sympathies. Strong Churchmen, and especially High Churchmen, are seldom popular in their political and social tendencies, being disposed to lean as much upon authority in ham= institutions as they do in divine. Mr. Oakley, how- ever,.is one whose hard and successful work in the East of London appears to have widened his sympathy with the people whom he has so zealously served ; and there are, we think, very few High Churchmen whose promotion will do more to make the Church popular, even with the abler and more influential Dissenters, than that of the Vicar of St. Saviour's, Roston. His manliness, earnestness, and general breadth of character have won him almost as many friends outside the Church as within its limits.
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