ord[43] should be appointed Bishop of Ripon; and
that Dr Trench[44] be appointed Dean of Westminster with the condition
that he is not to receive any fees or emoluments arising out of
appointments of Knights of the Bath.

Dr Trench is a man of the world and of literature, and would in
those respects be well suited to be Dean of Westminster, and if his
tendencies are, as some persons suppose, rather towards High Church
opinions, his position as Dean would not afford him any particular
means of making those opinions prevail; while his appointment would
show that the patronage of the Crown was not flowing exclusively in
one direction.

Viscount Palmerston will, on another occasion, submit to your Majesty
the names of persons for the Deaneries of Hereford and Carlisle.[45]

[Footnote 42: Charles Thomas Longley (1774-1868) became Bishop
of Durham 1856, Archbishop of York 1860, and Archbishop of
Canterbury 1862.]

[Footnote 43: Richard Dawes, who became Dean in 1850, and
restored the Cathedral. He did not become Bishop of Ripon;
Robert Bickersteth, a Canon of Salisbury, being eventually
appointed. See _post_, 24th November, 1856, note 60.]

[Footnote 44: Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886), Archbishop
of Dublin from 1864-1884.]

[Footnote 45: Francis Close (1797-1882), Rector of Cheltenham,
succeeded Dr Tait as Dean of Carlisle.]

_The Duke of Cambridge to Queen Victoria._

ST JAMES'S PALACE, _17th September 1856._

MY DEAR COUSIN,--This morning the reply from Baden reached me, and I
hasten to inform you at once of the purport of it, embodied in a
very excellent letter written by my sister Mary, who _declines_ the
proposal made to her on the part of the King of Sardinia, for some
very excellent and weighty reasons.[46]

I must confess that I fully agree with her in the view she has
taken, and, I can say with truth, that I think her decision is a very
judicious and very correct one, and I am not at all sorry she has
come to it. As I know that Clarendon was very anxious to have an early
reply, I have in the first instance sent Mary's letter on to him, and
have requested him, after perusing it, to send it on to you, and I
hope you will not think that I have been wanting in respect to you in
so doing. With many thanks to you for your great kindness in having
left the decision of this weighty matter entirely in our hands, I beg
to remain, my dear Cousin, your most duti