Lord Lyttelton's Bill for legalising the division of dioceses and
the creation of new bishoprics within any diocese too big for the efficient control of a single Bishop, was discussed in Committee in the House ofiLords on Tuesday, and Dr. Temple carried his amendment empowering the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to attach to a new bishopric made out of any diocese any part of the income of the old bishopric which might seem desirable, his other proposals, to give the new Bishop the income of a living in his own diocese, and to assign as part of his income the proceeds of any canonry in the cathedral of the old diocese, were opposed by Lord Lyttelton and the Lord Chancellor, and were rejected. The Bill then passed through Committee, but not till both Lord Cairns and the Archbishop of Canterbury had, each sepa- rately, contributed a small wet blanket apparently as the article of clothing most suitable for wear on its entrance into the House of Commons. If it should survive their kind gifts, it will indeed be a conspicuous case of the survival of the fittest.
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