17 NOVEMBER 1883, Page 3

The Dean of Carlisle has, it appears, been offered the

Deanery of Manchester, but has not yet made up his mind to abandon his present sphere of work, so soon after he had entered on it. We trust, however, that he will accept the larger sphere of use- fulness open to him. There is no city in England where his broad and manly type of Christianity would find more accept- ance than amongst the hard-headed and laborious people of Manchester.