The new Bishop is Dr. Thompson, the Preacher of Lincoln's
Inn, not one of the peculiar class whom Lord Palmerston has usually delighted to honour. He is a distinguished logician, and has published a treatise of some repute on the Laws of Thought The apparent novelty of the selection is, in part, relieved by the mode in which the appointment has been mameavred. The vacant see of Durham has been filled up by the translation of Dr. Baring, a true Recordite, from the see of Gloucester, to which Dr. Thompson suc- ceeds. Lord Palmerston has thus managed, by a single stroke, to vindicate the catholicity of his sympathies, and to retain the sectional popularity which he had acquired among this peculiar sect. With the "Laws of Thought" fairly despised at Durham, the Evangelical party in the Church will still be at peace with the Premier, even though they see with grief that those laws are to be enthroned at Gloucester.
