20 APRIL 1867, Page 3

The new Bishop of Rochester is to be the Rev.

Thomas Legh Claughton, Vicar of lUdderminster, and the Oxford Professor of

Poetry in 1852. He is the brother-in-law of the Earl of Dudley (Lord Ward), whose sister he married. He is said to be a very able administrator of at once Broad and rather High-Church ten- dencies, and to have been of great use to Lord Dudley in advising him as to the management of his estates, and organizing the education of the different parishes. His close connection with a Conservative Peer has also, of course, told in his favour. Oin• Church at least has never affected to despise the mammon of unrighteousness.