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Hospital will be immediately reopened under new auspices.
Heretofore, provision was made for the maintenance of
twelve old men. This will now be extended to the fair sex,
and twelve elderly women, if any such can be found in
Barchester, will be added to the establishment. There will
be a matron; there will, it is hoped, be schools attached
for the poorest of the children of the poor, and there
will be a steward. The warden, for there will still be a
warden, will receive an income more in keeping with the
extent of the charity than that heretofore paid. The
stipend we believe will be L450. We may add that the
excellent house which the former warden inhabited will
still be attached to the situation.

Barchester Hospital cannot perhaps boast a world-wide
reputation, but as we adverted to its state of decadence,
we think it right also to advert to its renaissance. May
it go on and prosper. Whether the salutary reform which
has been introduced within its walls has been carried
as far as could have been desired may be doubtful. The
important question of the school appears to be somewhat
left to the discretion of the new warden. This might have
been made the most important part of the establishment,
and the new warden, whom we trust we shall not offend by
the freedom of our remarks, might have been selected with
some view to his fitness as schoolmaster. But we will not
now look a gift-horse in the mouth. May the hospital go on
and prosper! The situation of warden has of course been
offered to the gentleman who so honourably vacated it five
years since, but we are given to understand that he has
declined it. Whether the ladies who have been introduced
be in his estimation too much for his powers of control,
whether it be that the diminished income does not offer to
him sufficient temptation to resume his old place, or that
he has in the meantime assumed other clerical duties, we
do not know. We are, however, informed that he has refused
the offer and that the situation has been accepted by Mr.
Quiverful, the vicar of Puddingdale.

So much we think is due to Hiram redivivus. But while we
are on the subject of Barchester, we will venture with
all respectful humility to express our opinion on another
matter connected with the ecclesiastical polity of that
ancient city. Dr. Trefoil, the dean, died