The interview with the Bishop of Sydney never took place, for the
excellent Bishop Broughton arrived with health shattered by his
attendance on the sufferers from fever in the ship which brought him
from St. Thomas, and he did not long survive his landing.

The 'Mary Church affair' here referred to was the laying the
foundation-stone of the Church, built or restored, it is hard to say
which, on the lines of the former one, and preserving the old tower,
at St. Mary Church, near Torquay. Though the death of the Rev. Gr.
M. Coleridge had broken one tie with the place, it continued to be
much beloved by the Patteson family, and Sir John had taken so much
share in the church-building work as to be asked to be the layer of
the corner-stone. The speech he made at the ensuing luncheon excited
much attention and the sisters took care that their brother should
not miss reading it. The stay at Dresden was drawing to an end; and
he was preparing to return through Berlin, intending to go direct to
Oxford and reside there till the summer, when he meant to seek
ordination and enter on the Curacy at Alfington. He says to his
sister Joanna:--

'It is a long time to pass without seeing you, but I hope, if it
please God that we all live on together, that it will be long before
such another interval occurs. I have not grown out of an occasional
fit of home sickness yet; and on these occasions Arthur and I talk
incessantly about domestic matters, and indulge our fancies in
conjecturing what you are all doing, and so forth. I followed Joan
and Clara's trip, step by step, from the Den at Teignmouth to St.
Mary Church, Oddiscombe, Rabbicombe, Anstey's Cave, Meadfoot, &c.
How I remember every inch of the dear old places! Better than the
mud banks at Felixstowe, are they not, Clara? I shall keep always