Victoria R.
Pray tell it to good Philip, and also to Leopold and Marie.
Footnote 47: See ante, [p. 405].
Queen Victoria to Viscount Palmerston.
THE SEE OF WORCESTER
Windsor Castle, 1st December 1860.
The Queen has received Lord Palmerston's second letter respecting the Bishopric of Worcester,48 just as she was going to answer the first. While not objecting to the nomination of Mr Bayley,49 she wanted to point out the importance of, at a future vacancy, not to confine the selection to respectable parish priests, but to bear in mind that the Bench of Bishops should not be left devoid of some University men of acknowledged standing and theological learning; it would be seriously weakened if, in controversies on points of doctrine agitating the Church, no value were attached to the opinions at least of some of those who are to govern her. Lord Palmerston may now have an opportunity of selecting a stronger man of Liberal views from Cambridge.
Footnote 48: Bishop Henry Pepys had died in November, and was succeeded in the following January by Canon Henry Philpott of Norwich, Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Footnote 49: Probably the Rev. Emilius Bayley, Rector of St George's, Bloomsbury; now the Rev. Sir Emilius Laurie.