Bishop Moberly, who had intended to resign his diocese on
Jane 30th, but who was then too ill to be disturbed with business, expired on Monday morning, at the age of eighty-two. He was a first-rate head master at Winchester, and a good and popular Bishop at Salisbury, though not one of the more conspicuous kind. Perhaps he became Bishop at somewhat too late an age,—he was sixty-six when he was consecrated,— to throw his full power into his episcopal work. But he was always a man of sagacity and judgment. He opposed the Public Worship Regulation Act, though he was by no means an extremely High Churchman, and opposed it in spite of his love for Archbishop Tait, who, in fact, came round at the end of his life to Bishop Moberly's opinion. We sincerely hope that Lord Salisbury will have the courage to follow Mr. Gladstone's example in taking no account of politics in his ecclesiastical appointments. In that case, he would confer a great distinction on the Anglican Church by the appointment of Dr. Liddon to the vacant see.
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