§ MR. GREGSONsaid, he would beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it was in the contemplation of the Government to propose any plan for the retirement of bishops on pensions similar to the arrangement for Colonial Bishops, Lord Chancellors, Judges, and Ministers of State?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTONIt is not my intention to propose any general measure upon the subject. But the Bishop of London and the Bishop of Durham having both signified their wish to retire in consequence of infirmities which, in their opinion, render it impossible for them with satisfaction to themselves to continue in the 14 active discharge of their functions, I shall have to propose a Bill limited to those two cases.