Dean Cowie is to be translated from Manchester to Exeter,
and to fill the Deanery vacated by the death of Dean Boyd. The appointment is a good one. Dean Cowie is, in the first place, a Senior Wrangler, and so considerable an authority in mathe- maticttl and physical science that he was chosen Principal of the College of Civil Engineers at Putney, and subsequently Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. His experience as a Government Inspector of Training-schools makes him an authority on educational questions. As Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, in London, he showed the use to which the City churches may be put by starting short week-day services, with short addresses of a kind to draw popular audiences. At Manchester, be has been successful as administrator of the Cathedral, and so popular with the clergy of the Northern Province, that the Lower House of Convocation made him their Prolocutor, on the death of the late Dean of York. We trust that some one will be appointed to succeed him who will carry on his work at the Cathedral in the same spirit. It will be remembered that the Bishop of Manchester was so well satisfied with the ritual of the Cathedral, that he held a special synod with the view of recommending it as a model for the rest of the diocese.
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