The death of Dr. Dnrnford, Bishop of Chichester, once more
compels Lord Salisbury to undertake the harassing duty of filling an English See. How he must wish that he could order a competitive examination ! The place, however, is not so difficult to fill as Winchester, or even Norwich, The diocese includes only one county, the episcopal residence is not a ruinous one, and Dr. Durnford was a working Bishop of moderate opinions, who knew and influenced every con- siderable clergyman and every ecclesiastically minded layman within his jurisdiction. Physically so strong that at ninety- three he could travel hi Switzerland, deliver a good charge, and write heaps of able letters, he kept the business of his -diocese thoroughly done, while both his example and his counsel always tended to enforce, if not to elevate, the spiritual standard of life. He was an excellent Bishop for a quarter of a century, during the whole of which time he read his world the greatly needed lesson that there is no necessary incompatibility between deep spiritual convictions and acute -common-sense.
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