Mr Gladstone is lucky. He has actually found a clergyman, the Yen. W. B. Jones, who is a Welsh scholar, a commentator on Sophocles, and an Evangelical of the moderate but decided school, and has made him Bishop of St. Asaph. To please the Church, the Record, Wales, and the Spectator all together,—what a bit! The Kaiser has finally accepted the resignation of the minority of his Ministers. This minority is in favour of so increasing the power of the Pro vincial Diets as practically to change the provinces into “ States ” of the American kind, leaving Emperor and Eeichsrath in the position of President and Congress, The majority, on the other hand, wish to retain the English form of government, a sovereign Par liament ruling all Austria outside Hungary. The object of the Federal ists is to place the Slav element above the German in Galicia and Bohemia, and they are supported for clerical reasons by the Tyrol. The object of the Centralists, on the other hand, is to beep the German element, which all over the country is as 19 to 11, supreme. They are supported by the well-understood danger of driving the Germans into the arms of Berlin, and the Emperor has finally decided on their side. It is a curious and almost inexplicable fact that Count Beust, who as Chancellor of the Empire (Eeicbskanzler) is not called upon to resign, is on the Federal side. Small States have some charm for him. News from Eome this week there cannot properly be said to be. The petition in favour of declaring the infallibility of the Pope has been signed, it is believed, by 400 bishops, of whom Dr Manning is not one,— probably because he is on the Commis sion appointed to investigate matters of faith, whose names could not well be appended to any request into the opportuneness of which they would be bound to inquire. 