The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

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Da. TArr, D.C.L., who has been nominated to the
Bishopric of London, to be formally vacated by Dr.
Blomfield at the close of the present month, was edu•
cated at Balliol, Oxford, graduated in 1833, took a
first class in classics in the same year but not in the
same term with Mr. R. Lowe, M.P., Dr. Jackson,
Bishop of Lincoln, and Dr. Liddell, Dean of Christ-
church. Dr. Tait became a fellow and tutor of his
college, Lnd a select prearher of the University.
Upon the death of Dr. Arnold, Dr. Tait was elected
his successor as Master of Rugby. In 1849, on the
death of Dr. Cramer, he was nominated by Lord John
Russell to the deanery of Carlisle, and has been in
possession of that dignity up to the present time.
In 1852 he voted for Mr. Gladstone as the represen-
tative for the University of Oxford, when he was
opposed by Dr. Marsham, the Warden of Merton
College, and again for the right hon. gentleman on
his acceptance of the office of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer under Lord Aberdeen's Government, when
he was opposed by Mr. D. M. Perceval, recently
deceased. Immediately alter Dr. illomfield's resig-
nation is completed, her Majesty will direct a congh
dl•lire to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathe•
dral, emrowering them to elect Dr. Tait to the
bishopric, and his "confirmation" will shortly after-
wards take place in the pariah church of St. Mary-
le-Bow, Cheapsile. He will be consecrated by the
Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose province the
cbooese of London is situate. The new bishop holds
what are usually called via media views on the doc-
trinal questions wh.ch agitate the two great parties
in the Church, sympathising however, rather than
otherwise, with the evangelicals. Dr. LONOLEY,
who succeeds to the bishopric of Durham,
vacant by the res;gnation of the Right Rev.
hdward Maltby, P.D., was educated at Christ-
church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1815, taking
a first class in classics. He is a younger son of Mr.
John Longley, formerly Recorder of Rochester, and
for some time one of the magistrates at the Thames
Police court. He was born at Rochester in 1704,
and having gone through the usual course at West-
minster School removed to Oxford. In 1829 he was
presented to the rectory of West Tytherley, near
Stockbridge, Hampshire, and in 1831 resigned that
benefice on being elected to the head mastership of
Harrow School. On the formation of the see of
Ripon in 1830 he was appointed by Lord Melbourne,
then Prime Minister, to be its first bishop, and has
presided over that diocese up to the present time.
His theological views are moderate, with a slight
leaning to tt.e evangelical rather than to the high
church party. Dr. Longley's confirmation to the ace

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of Durham, after his election by the dean and chap-
ter, will take place in the parish church of St.
James, Piccadilly. It has not yet transpired who
will succeed Dr. Longley in the bishopric of Ripon or
Dr. Tait in the deanery of Carlisle.
THE CLERGY OF DURHAM AND THE NORTH OF ENO-
LAND generally have addressed a remonstrance to
the Archbishop of Canterbury upon his grace's
judgment in the case of Archdeacon Denison, which
appears to the undersigned "fraught with conse-
quences " disastrous and detrimental to the best in-
terests of the Church," and to impose limitations and
burdens upon the conscience un..uthorised by Scrip-
ture or doctrines of the Church universal :
We have only to add (concludes the address) that, as
Archdeacon Denison impugns none of the doctrinal state-
ments of our Articles, but merely vindicates the co-existent
truth of another set of statements, which cannot be shown
to be theologically incompatible with the former, we cannot
regard a sentence which would condemn him, on the
ground of his contradicting what he dues not contradict,
otherwise than as repugnant to equity, as establishing a
most dangerous precedent, and on all accounts to be seri-
ously deprecated.
THE REV. Dn. LIVINGSTON, the celebrated African
traveller, has arrived safe at the Mauritius. This
gentleman has completed in his last tour a journey
through southern tropical Africa from Loando to
Quillemain in the east.
A Suomi Copy of the earliest edition of Hamlet,
printed in the year 160:3, hasrecently been discovered,
wanting the titlepage, but otherwise perfect and in
good condition, and of importance beyond its exces-
sive rarity and curiosity as completing the text of
the only other known exemplar of this edition, also
imperfect, which has for so many years been the
chief and unique ornament of the matchless
Shakespearian collection of the Duke of Devonshire.
It will be remembered that this edition is not a copy
of the play of Hamlet in the form now lead, but a
transcript of the tragedy as originally written; in
other words, the author's original sketch. It ex-
hiuits, to use the words of Mr. Caldecott, "in that
which was afterwards wrought into a splendid drama,
the first conception and comparatively teeble expres-
sion of a great mind." The Duke of Devonshire's
copy is imperfect at the end, but the deficiency is
fortunately now supplied by the discovery o: the
present one, which is understood to have been
purchased by Mr. 3. 0. Halliwell, for the sum of 1201.

THE IMPERIAL RESIDENCE AT BIARRITZ, according
to Court gossip, is not favorably regarded by the
ladies in waiting. The Emperor, it is reported, was
greatly amused at the confusion and dismay exhibited
by the ciinolined ladies of honour when they were
tirrst ushered to the room.. alloted to their use in the
little palace. "Mon Dieu! " cried one, " not so large
as the cell in the convent where I was brought up."
" Good gracious ! " exclaims another, "we shall
never be able to squeeze into these cabanaus, for
they are nothing better." The consternation of the
ladies' maids was even more loudly expressed, and
amid it all the general belief that the Emperor him-
self had superintended the design of this wing of the
palace has rendered the warfare against this State
imprisonment one of the chief diversions of Biarritz.
The Duchess de Bassano has increased the merri•
went of the party by a clever petition. put into
rhyme, and placed in the hands of the Imperial
Prince, purporting to be written in the name of all
the bussels, crinolines, tourneurs, and agacantes of
Paris, who, cramped and squeezed beyond endurance
in the hermit cells of their unfortunate owners, were
gradually losing all the elasticity and vigour which
rendered them so redoubtable in Paris. The
"hermit cells" of Biarritz are scarcely ten feet
square, containing a small iron bedstead, a couple of
chairs, and a dressing-table !

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, September 16.

BANKRUPTS.—JosncA POOLEY, Brighton, milliner—WlL-
LlAM I'•AwcErr, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer—Et:owns
DENBY, Stow•ou-the-Hold, GI ineester; chemist and druggist—
WILLIAM BERRY DUMPER, PROM. Somerset, wine and spirit
merchant—Joserit lir Evens, Leeds, engraver, lithographer,
and dyer—ROBERT SAUL and Thom ts KIRBY, PreSLOR, joiners
and huildeis—MlCHAEL BYERS end TROBAS BYERS. Motikwear-
m. ut t. Sunderland, shipbuilders and rope manufarturers.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—.1 tMES GRMAI4, High.
street, Edinburgh. duper, hosier, and shirtn,aker—SAmult.
B9AZ LANULCK, Broomielaw, Glasgow, wholesale druggist and
ship chandler.
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