1 JANUARY 1870, Page 11

The Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Prince Lee) is dead, and

Mr. Gladstone has another vacancy to fill up. We suppose it is due by rights to the Evangelical party, if only they bad any eminent men at all. Apt whoever it is, we hope he will be a man of real mark. The only tenable theory for the English Episcopate is to take the most powerful men of all parties with as much theological impartiality as possible. There is tepidity enough on the Bench already.