We regret to believe that there may be too much
truth in a report, newly-revived, "that Dr. Hinds, Bishop of Norwich, had intimated to the Archbishop of Canterbury his desire to resign his see ; trusting to the liberality of Parliament to grant him any pension it may think desirable, and without making stipulation." Dr. Hinds is one of those men—and they are not few though they are distinguished—who have united a spirit of genuine and unaffected piety with orthodoxy in doc- trine and liberal administration in the Church. He has identified himself, by an accomplished and graceful pen, with a band of leading men in the encyclopEediacal literature for which the pre- sent day is conspicuous. And we have had occasion to observe the courageous enthusiasm, and the polished tact, with which he has aided some of the most important movements in the practical busi- ness of public life ; giving most valuable help, especially, in bringing about the great and beneficial changes of late years in our Colonial policy. The newspaper report is, that " his Lordship has been se- riously ill for many months, and it has only been at intervals that he has been able to perform his episcopal duties."
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