The new Bishop of Lichfield is to be the Hon.
and Rev. Augustus Legge, Canon of Rochester and Vicar of Lewisham. He is, we believe, a moderate High Churchman, and a sensible and zealous man. The new Dean of Worcester is to be the Rev. Prebendary Robert William Forrest, D.D., Vicar of St. Jude's, South Kensington, a popular Evangelical preacher. Both appointments are modest ones, and will hardly add to the weight of the ecclesiastical dignitaries of our Church. Is not Lord Salisbury rather neglecting the Broad Churchmen P Amongst the Broad Churchmen there are to be found clergy- men of greater influence and power than either of these. To say nothing of Mr. Llewelyn Davies, whom it seems a tradition of Governments to ignore, why do we never hear that Mr. Page Roberts has been made a Dean I'
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