The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-05 00:00:00

THE VACANT BISHOPRICS.

According to the Western Morning News of yester-
day, Prebendary Mackarness, rector 6f Honiton, Devon,
on Friday accepted the Bishopric of Oxford, vacant
through the translation of Dr. Wilberforce to the See
of Winchester. It was offered to him on the previous
day by Mr. Gladstone. The new Bishop of Oxford is
a moderate Liberal belonging to the High Church
school.
Just at the present moment it may be of interest to
glance at the enormous episcopal patronage enjoyed
by Lord Palmerston during his nine years of office,
namely, from 1855 to 1858, and from 1859
to 1865. During this time he made five
archbishops and twenty bishops. The archbishops
were—Canterbury, 1; York, 2 (Dr. Longley and Dr.
Thomson); Armagh, 1; and Dublin, 1. The noble
lord appointed three bishops to Durham (Dr. Longley,
Dr. Villiers, and Dr. Baring); three to Gloucester and
Bristol (Dr. Baring, Dr. Thomson, and Dr. Ellicott ;
two to Carlisle (Dr. Villiers and Dr. Waldeg-rave ;
two to Cork; and one each to London, Ey.
Killaloe, Kilmer°, Norwich, Peterborough, Ripon,
Rochester, Worcester, and Chester. Dr. Longley
appeared to be a great favourite with Lord Palmer-
ston, he having first been transferred from the
bishopric of Durham to the archbishopric of York,
and then, on the death of Dr. Sumner' to the Pri-
macy of All England. The episcopal appointments
of Mr. Gladstone already number si.-K, viz., three by
death (Salisbury, Exeter, and Carlisle), two by
resignation (Winchester and Bath and Wells), and
one by translation (Oxford).
MR. DICKENS AT DITEMTNGIIA3I.
The remarkable epigram spoken by Mr. Dickens at
Birmingham last week, has received different inter-
pretations. Tho popular novelist deiicliareind htihse ppolietnpiclael
creed to be as follows :---‘ My at
governing
is, on the whole, infini ftesimal, My faith in
the people governed, is, on the whole, illimitable."
The Times asserts.,, ' . that the publics bosom friend
has turned Tory, whilst the Saturday Review
squeezes out of that single sentence the essence of
b
Radicalism, and me slaver of flatteryteothhe'as
k 4
s thee'
common, and popular." Tho May xul thinks
remark legitimately bears both interpretations, as
follows :

Tory Interpretation.—"My faith in the people governing
in the masses exercising the functions of government'
is infinitesimal. My faith in the people [being] governed
is illimitable."

Radical Interpretation.—" My faith in the people
governing [i.e., the persons who now govern] is infini-
tesimal. My aith in the persons [who arc] governed is

A,%_SaaxL3Veller

thi-3-vi6•Tai"-q• breawrirea traecoraingii to the 05
and fancy " of the reader.

THE LAND QUESTION.
The Times commissioner has just visited Wexford,
and finds in that county another instance of the good
results achieved by just dealing between landlord
and tenant. Wexford is one of the most
prosperous counties in Ireland. There 30
practically—through divers excellent customs--
less insecurity of tenure than in any other
part of the country. "The relative position of land!
Lord and tenant is largely adorned by mutual goo
will, and the results are visible in general progress, in
signs of content that cannot be mistaken, in a
remarkable look of independence and self-feliance
among the humbler classes." Agrarianism has long
been unknown in Wexford, and Fenianism took
,nc
root in it. There is some agitation for fisitS
of tenure and the like; but the feeling., nevertheless,
for change is as nothing compared to what it is n'
less peaceful and well ordered districts; there is nc
general antipathy to the law, no senso of per
vading discontent, the more dangerous because
vague ; no complaints of widespread wrong and 0?
preesion.