5 MAY 1877, Page 3

The new Bishop of St. Albans is to be Bishop

Claughton, translated from Rochester, and the new Bishop of Rochester is to be the Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, now Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of York Cathedral. The new Bishop is a man of fifty-three,---tolerably young, for a bishop,—and has a reputation for strength and ability ; while he is understood to lean towards the Evangelical party, a party not at present strongly represented on the Bench, and never likely to be strongly represented in literature. It is probably a good, though not a brilliant appointment.