The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-19 00:00:00

THE NEW RISHoPs OF LONDON AND

DURHAM.

The Very Rev. A. C. Tait, D.C.L., who bas been
nominated by the Crown to the Bishopric of London,
which will be formally vacated, by the Right Rev. Dr.
Blomfield at the close of the present month, was edu-
cated at Balliol College, Oxford, in which University he
graduated in 1833, when he took a first class in &undo-4
in the same year but not in the same term with Mr. It.
Lowe M.P., Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, and Dr.
Liddell, Dean of Christchurch, all of whom were first
class in classics. He became a fellow and tutor of his
college, and a select preacher of the University. Upon
the death of Dr. Arnold, who so long and so ably pre-
sided over Rugby School, Dr. Tait was elected his suc-
cessor. 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 representative for the University of Oxford, when
he was opposed by Dr. Marsham, the Warden of Mer-
ton College, and again for the right hon. gentleman on
his acceptance of the office of Chancellor of the Exche-
quer under Lord Aberdeen's Government, when he was
opposed by Mr. D. M. Perceval, recently deoeased. Im-
mediately after Dr. Blomfield's resignation is completed
her Majesty will direct a conge d'eliee to the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, empowering them to
elect Dr. Tait to the bishopric, and his " confirmation"
will shortly afterwards take place in the pariah church
of St. Mary le•Bow, Cheapside. He will be consecrated
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose province the
diocese of London is situate. The new bishop holds what
are usually called via media views on the doctrinal ques-
tions which agitate the two great parties in the church,
sympathising, however, rather than otherwise, with the
evangelicals.
Dr. C. T. Longley, who has accepted the Bishopric of
Durham in the room of the Right Rev. Dr. Maltby,
who has resigned, was educated at Christ Church, Ox-
ford, where be graduated in 1815, taking a first
class in classics. lie 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 1794, and baying
gone through the usual course at Westminster School
removed to Oxford. In 1829 be was presented to the
rectory cf West Tytherley, near Stockbridge, Hamp•
shire, and in 1831 resigned that benefice on being elected
to the head mastership of Harrow School. On the fore
mation of the see of Ripon, in 1836, he was appointed
by Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister, to be its; first
bishop, and has presided over that diocese up to the pre-
sent time, His theological views are moderate, with a
*slight leaning to the evangelical rather than to the high
church party. Dr. Longley's confirmation to the see of
Durham after his election by the dean and chapter will
sake place is the parish church of St. James, Piccadilly.
It has yet transpired who will succeed Dr. Longs
ley iii the bishopric of Ripon, or Dr. Tait in the deanery

A decision of some importance was pronounced by
Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, in the Court of Bankruptcy,
yesterday. It appears that where a trader has come
before the court under a petition. for arrangement he is
not protected from bankruptcy, if it should appear that
he has committed an act of bankruptcy prior W the filing
of his petition.