The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-10 00:00:00

AND BRISTOL.
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I The Earl of ELLINBOHOUGIi said he wished 13 tithe
the earliest oppoetunity of calling the attention of the noble
earl °plants (Earl Granville) to the vacancy which had
jest arisen in the united diodes of Gloucester and Bri•bl.
He deeply lamented the demise of the late bishop, who Ina
a men of distinguished learning, great database, and mag-
Liflcent liberal.ty, and who had at heart t►e extrados of
religious education in hie dieeste. Foe some tale
after the late prelate was ep;ainted to the see
be added alternately at Gloucester and Bristol ;
hut a very late palace hada', been built at Olteceater
which it was tones very *spades to keep up, that circum-
stance, combined with others, inducted him to reside
permanently at Stapleton, end abandon altogether his
original residence. The consequence was that during the
last ten or fifteen years there had virtually been a non-
resident bieh tp. He did not mean to say that the es:dain-
tiest dune' of the diocese had ►eon Of glinted, but then had
cordial,' been a want of that .personal communication be-
tween t►e bishop and the gentlemen of the county which
was so *tetanal to the usefulness of the foveae. A petition
to ►er 'Lipsey was at the present moment is circulation
throughout the county, and from what he (Lord Ellen-
tonagh) had beard several months ago, as to the
adage of the members of the toasty and of the
toasty gentlemen, Its believed that petition wesid
raper,' an elm st sniveled assist as to the
necessity alternating the two dioceses. Under thee* Cie.
cusatericas be ea taunted cot merely a hope, bat • confident
ezpettatioa that the goer moment would adopt no step what-
ever
toward, fil:ing up the vacancy which bad wises until
they had had an orportunity of ascertaining the feelings of
the inhabitants of filoucestenbize upon the atjeot to which
he had alluded.

Lord RED EBDALB thcoebt it impossible for any cler-
gyman toner, en tee duties of the united see of Gloomier
aed Bristol is the miner in which they ought to be performed.
It should be remembered that the anion of the met of
Oh:roc-stir and Bristol was effected ate time when it wee
deter:grimed that the number of tees shoald not be incnased,
and that four we—namely, Bangor and Bt. Aleph, and
Gloucester and Bristol, were formed Into two, in order to
form the new sees of Maachater and Ripon. la the ease
of Bangor and St. Asaph, the oppositioa to the solos of the
nee had proved sueessfel ; and as the sees of Glonoater
and Bristol were fa more populous than the two former
ens, he hoped that ths slams of the inhabitants would not
be neglected.
Bast GRANVILLE said the question which bad ben
raised was one of a vets Miceli character and required
much consideration. There were several sees with respiet
to which there had been great complaists of the necessity of
dividing them; and therefore it wee obvious that if scy-
thing war to be done in such a motet it should be by mean
of a general mane, and sot one applyieg only to this par-
Colder case. All be could say en tee siatject was that he
had no doubt that, after what had passed that evade,. who-
ever might sneered the late right rev. prelate would do se
on tee understanding that the future ansafronleats with
✓eopen to reddens would be of a satisfactory chemist.