Mr. Gladstone has filled his first bishopric by the nomination
of Dr. Moberly to Salisbury. Dr. Moberly, as Tutor of Balliol, Head Master of Winchester, and Bampton Lecturer, has earned the reputation of a "sound" but moderate Churchman, a learned and thoughtful theologian, not much narrower than a bishop must be, and a most eloquent preacher. He has an idea, too, that the laity have rights in the Church, that they form the mystical " body of Christ," which sounds as if he had broken some of the bonds of the sacerdotal schools. It is objected that Dr. Moberly is too old ; but a Premier of sixty hardly thinks a man only six years his senior quite antiquated, while to punish the deserving for having been long neglected is strange equity. If the super-
annuation of bishops were as compulsory as that of other civil officers of the State, age would not matter.
