Bishop White, of the diocese of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia
on the 17th of July, aged eighty-eight. He had been a Bishop for forty.nine years ; and was universally beloved and respected. His funeral was expected to be attended more numerously than any cere- mony since the funeral of Dr. Franklin. When his death became known, the bells of the churches were muffled ; and, to quote the words of a Philadelphia paper, "a general sorrow seemed to pervade the community." On this account the Courier remarks- " Such is the character of an American Bishop ; and such is the respect paid to him by his fellow citizens, whom unthinking travellers sometimes stig- matize as neglecting or despising religion. When will a Primate of Ireland, or when will even a Bishop of Durham or of Winchester, go so honoured to his grave? Nothing is said in these accounts of the Bishop's revenue, and no allu- sion is made to his palace. He died at his residence in Walnut Street, Phila- delphia."
The salary of Bishop White was probably about la ;/. a year. Let the people of England ponder on these facts.
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