The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

in the undergraduate world, partly because
he was a gentleman, partly because he was not

a " Don."
The Bishop showed much forethought and
tact in the men he brought into is diocese,
his
and at least as much in those he pt out 9(
lASI I
it. Among the latter waa his brot ? who*
(as Vicar of East Bre 44 left fig a gacy to
future Bishops of B and We . he new
Bishop took to hi* Riliy? appoints 4 him iii
succession Arcilleacon df Taunton and ex-
amining chaplain. And now GEORGE ANTHONY
seems to have entered on public life with an
impression that his Christian names pledged
him (beyond their ordinary obligations) to a
faithful following of the somewhat question-
able saints, his namesakes ; and thenceforward
dragons and evil spirits (ecclesiastical) have
come as thickly in his way as ever they did in
the path of ST. GEORGE or ST. ANTHONY. The
great education question, the great Hampden
question, the great Gorham question, the
great Convocation question, have all been suc-
cessively swollen into preternatural propor-
tions by his unrelenting loquacity In print
he has been (what CAMPBELL once called) the
great " paper-stainer ;" viva voce, the great bel-
lows' blower of the factions of the day. He
appears throughout to have looked upon the
Church as a sort of gigantic " Dons' Union,"
a fine broad arena for speechifying and eccle-
siastical uproariousness in general. Trout and
salmon, and such like, are hooked in still
waters, but flat-fish are only to be caught in a
storm; and GEORGE ANTHONY devoted himself
to the (somewhat inglorious) flat-fishery.
With what success we pretty well know. Edu-
cation is, happily, much where it would have
been, had he let it alone ; " Hampden" is
Bishop of Hereford ; " Gorham" is Rector of
Brampford-Speke ; and convocation would
have had a much better chance of its embryo
existence if the world at large had not imbibed
an unsatisfactory impression that it was likely
to be a debating club for Elliotts, Coxes,
Denisons, and noisy people of miscellaneous
persuasions.
Latterly, the Church, weary of all this ever-
lasting speech-making, has been so pertina-
ciously peaceful, that the Archdeacon's occupa-
tion has been where Othello's was. Even the
odd escapade of the Oxford election of 1853,
when the Archdeacon and Mr. BENNETT be-
came Protestants for once, and supported Mr.
PERCEVAL, failed to excite a sensation. The
powder was wet ; the thing " hung fire" alto-
gether. The committee at Magdalen-hall felt,
like LIVY'S old friend in his grim old pun,
" Magis oneratus quam honoratus," by their
company : something else must be started.
We heartily wish he had made " game" of
something less sacred than the subject he has
chosen, of which, in this connection, we for-
bear to treat. Hereafter, much more seriously,
it may be ow duty to recur to it.
For the present we content ourselves with
referring him to a person, as full of bonhommie
as himself, and bearing quite as grand a name,
Mr. MARE TAPLEY, of happy memory. To him
was "no credit to be jolly " in cheerful
life and a " public ;" so he went to the back
woods and to work. Can the Archdeacon be
persuaded to follow his example, avoid " the
public," and go to work? There is plenty
to be done, even in " the pleasant vale of
Taunton, " without embroiling the Church,
or embittering the last days of a kind and
indulgent diocesan.

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DIRECTORIAL JOBBING IN APPOINT-
MENTS FOR INDIA.
fins duties of the Legislature and the
V.,sactitive are essentially distinct. It belongs
to the former to make laws, to the latter to see
that they are faithfully obeyed ; and those
'Ministers of the Crown incur a heavy responsi-
bility who suffer not only the plain intentions
!lout the direct enactments of the Legislature
to be disobeyed or corruptly evaded. To Sir
CHARLES WOOD, as President of the Board of
Control, was confided the duty of seeing the
recent India Charter Renewal Act fairly
carried into effect, and he is answerable for
permitting, through negligence or favour, its
e?Epress provisions to IN3 invaded in one very
important respect.