30 MAY 1874, Page 14

HOW TO GET GOOD BISHOPS.

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THB SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—Mr. Bartlett's proposal may be open to some criticism in respect of its practicability. But if the Archbishop's Bill is to pass, the idea of consecrating, say, all the Judges and placing them at once on the Episcopal thrones, is a sensible one. Whether the Bishops could by way of substitution assume the ermine for a year or two might be a secondary question. They would certainly be thus enabled to learn a good deal of the principles of the administration of law, which would be valuable to them on their return to their dioceses, although the process might be perplexing