A deputation of parishioners as-sited a few days since upon
the Bishop of Lon- don, requesting his Lordship to bestow the vacant preferment of St. Martin's upon the Reverend 31r. Andrews, clerk in orders at St. James's. His Lord- ship's reply was as follows: " Gentlemen, the living of St. Martin's-in-the- Fields is my gift; if I were to comply with your request as regards Mr. Andrews, it would be in yours, and that is what I do not intend it shall be. Good morning !"— Courier.
This anecdote is very characteristic of Bishop BLOMFIELD. He would rather offend a whole parish any day than abate one jot of his own personal dignity and privileges. The fact of Mr. Ast- DREWS being agreeable to the parishioners of St. Martin's, is a sufficient reason with him for appointing some One else to the va- cant living, lest it should appear that his sic vole, sic jute°, was interfered with. How can we wonder that at Chester, and in Lon- don, Dr. BLOMFIELD has been the most unpopular Bishop the clergy and laity of those dioceses have ever known ? Never was a man, whose intentions are probably good, better fitted to work the ruin of an Established Church.
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