We are glad to hear it said that those who
know Mr. Mackar- ness—the Bishop Designate of Oxford—best, admire him most, and hope for most from him. We wrote of him, we confess, in com- plete and excusable ignorance, and it is quite possible that men who have published least may have really most to say. But of Dr. Goodwin, the Dean of Ely, who is nominated to the vacant bishopric of Carlisle, we do know something, and we fear that all we can say of him is that he was liberal, is cautious and very "safe." lie is the author, we think, of several volumes of ser- mons, especially a recent one ou the Pentateuch, partly conceived in answer to Dr. Colenso, but which we must say seemed to us to evade the main critical questions raised by the Bishop of Natal. Dr. Moberly, the Venerable Lord Arthur Hervey, the Very Rev. Dr. Goodwin, Mr. Mackarness, aud Dr. Temple,—surely not a very alarming stimulant. The hyoscyamus is far in excess of the ether, after all !
