Doubtless to the disappointment of our peculiar readership,
but because of the day, our theme will be secular affairs, and purely
ecclesiastical subjects will have to wait for another.
Not that Trespassers W, our latter-day Dr Codex, has not
been busy in the internal affairs of the Church. Time would fail me to tell of
the preferments of the Bishop of Stockport and Canon White (for those who like
that sort of thing), of Prebendary Thomas (for those who really don’t) and of
Farther North (so good they nominated him twice), of the Archdeacon of Hackney
(for those who don’t think suffragan bishops really count; by far the soundest
proposition on offer). And words fail me (because of excitement, of course) to
tell of the Bishop of Islington (for those who think the Church of England needs
more small under-resourced organisations) and the Bishop of Richmond (because
if episcopacy is good, even more episcopacy must be better).
