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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 553, 3 August 1869, Page 4

Lord Lyttelton has endeavored to give form and shape to the vague idea that " more BiBhop" would be good for the Church of England. He proposed to enable the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to frame schemes for new Sees to be sanctioned by the Queen in Council. Each new bishop was to rise in his turn to the House of Lords, and to recieve L 2500 a year, obtained by voluntary contributions. The Peers did not like the notion of " subscription bishops," and the bench generally rather snubbed the Bill, perhaps under the notion that if cheap bishoprics succeeded, all bishoprics might be cheapened. Lord Granville, in his gentlest manner, offered wliat'he called a " practical suggestion" to Lord Lyttelton, which was, to talk it over with the Bench and himself before he took a division ; but L"rd Lyttelton held on, and was beaten by 43 to 20. Cornwall does want a bishop, .and London a coadjutor, but an indefinite quantity of bishop would never do. No faith could survive fifty or sixty pastorals a year,