Canon Ryle was consecrated Bishop of Liverpool in York Minster
yesterday week, amidst a crowd of clergy, by the Archbishop of York, assisted by the Bishops of Durham, Chester, and Manchester. Canon Garbett, who preached on the occasion from a text describing Barnabaa's work at Antioch, drew a contrast, which is described as striking, between the condition of the ancient Antioch and the modern Liverpool, though hardly one, we should have thought, likely to help Bishop Ryle much in his new duties. Daring the banquet, at the Lord Mayor of York's, the new Bishop, in returning thanks for congratulations, expressed his solemn sense of responsibility, and declared that it was one thing to criticise Bishops, and quite another to be a bishop,—a just enough remark, but like most remarks on such occasions, a little wanting in point, since there is certainly no function, or indeed object in life, to which it might not be safely applied. In the sermons and speeches which mark these occa- sions there is, indeed, too often a noticeable dexterity in finding geographical, historical, or moral excuses for directing attention to almost anything in the world except the specific difficulties, duties, and obligations of the Church in the new sphere carved out for her.
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