A correspondent of the Times recently attacked Colonial Bishops -for
coming home too often and resigning their sees too easily, whereupon Dr. Ryan, late Bishop of Mauritius, says that Dr. Wilson lived his life in Calcutta, that Dr. Smith was twenty-five 'years in China, that three consecutive Bishops died in Sierra Leone, while he himself only left his see under urgent warning from his medical adviser. All that is quite true, but still these Colonial Bishops do trot about too much, and we would suggest a method 'of cure. Let them have pensions on the Indian system after so many years of actual residence in their sees, say, as they are seldom young men, fifteen years. All 4, leave" would then count against pension, and it has been found by experience that under those 'circumstances officials can keep themselves alive even in the tropics.
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