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CHAPTER IX.
ENTRANCE ON LONDON EPISCOPATE.
1856.
THE summer of 1856 was spent by the bereaved parents
at Hallsteads, a beautiful house on Ullswater, lent to them
by friends, and near enough to Carlisle to enable the
Dean to resume his work in the Cathedral and elsewhere.
To this work he set himself with unabated courage, and his
diary is full of such entries as the following :
"
Sunday, July 2*]th. In Carlisle all day. Preached in the
afternoon. Lecture 5-6. Bible-class 8.30-9.30."
"Monday, July
Cathedral School.
28. 10 A.M. Cathedral service. Visited
Administered Holy Communion to dying
man. Returned late to Hallsteads."
They had not again occupied the Deanery,
but the
question of their return thither had become imminent,
when, on September i/th, the Dean received the following
letter from the Prime Minister :
Viscount Palmerston to the Dean of Carlisle.
"94 PICCADILLY, 15 September 1856.
" MY DEAR SIR, I have much pleasure in informing you
that I have received the Queen s commands to offer you the See
of London, which is about to become vacant by the resignation of
the present Bishop on the 3oth of this month ; but subject to two
conditions. The first is that you should hold the See subject to a
future division of the Diocese if Parliament should pass an Act
for the purpose, and subject, of course, to any arrangement as
to endowments or otherwise which may be consequent upon such
a division, and, secondly, that the Estates of the See shall be
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