The vacant bishopric of Oxford has been filled by the
appointment of Dean Paget. The Bishop designate, who is just fifty, worthily maintained the repute of Shrewsbury scholarship by a brilliant academic miner. He has been in succession a College Fellow and Tutor, the vicar of a country living, Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology, and for the last nine years, as Dean of Christ Church, head of the largest Oxford College. A fine scholar and a learned theologian, Dean Paget adds to his in- tellectual equipment the urbanity and kindliness, as well as the industry, which distinguished his honoured and illustrious father, whom he also resembles in the curious felicity of his occasional oratory. It is hardly necessary to add that the appointment has been received with general satisfaction.
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