The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9.

Tax appointment of Dr. Tararca, the Dean of
Westminster, to the Archbishopric of Dublir, is
one that is likely to give as much satisfac-
tion as any that could have been made to that
anomalous post. It is difficult to select in
the present day men of very pre-eminent qua-
lifications for any high position ; and we do n.
speak of Dr. TRENCH as a man of pre-eminence.
But in the various positions in life in which he has
been placed, he has shown himself a useful and a
laborious man. He has also shown himself in the
ordinary affairs of life a clever and—what is per
in these days more important—a steady and a
steadfast man. It may be thought that he owes
his great preferment more to private friendship
than to public reputation ; but, after all, in this age
no man can be merely promoted by private friend-
ship without public desert, and public deserts,
unhappily, may be said to be too often wholly in-
effective where private friendship is wanting.
Dr. TRENCH, no doubt, exemplifies both rules.
Had he not bad the advantage of a personal
friendship he would never have been Dean of
Westminster ; had he not poisseseed public quali-
fications he would never have been Archbishop of
Dublin. It was at the commencement of the
present century that a gentleman of good extrac-
tion and coonexions settled himself at the somewhat
remote village of Botley, in the county of Hants ;
a district at that time of somewhat unenviable
notosisty. It was on the verge of localities ineli-
gible from the character of their populations.
On one side lay the New Forest, notorious for the
deer-stealing and smuggling propensities of those
who resided in its neighbourhood ; on the other
hand was Waltham Chase and the Forest of Bere,
inhabited by the
." Waltham Blacks," a race cele-
brated by no lean a person than Wrtuur Coaawrr,
who resided in the midst of them, and who took
every opportunity of making known their habits
and deficiencies in his now almost forgotten, but
then most popular, " Weekly Register." Cosarrr,
perhaps, did as much in one way for the improve-
ment of this district as RICHARD Titsscii did in
another ; but Mr. TRENCH'S influence lasted
longer. He acquired lands and friends, where
C,oserrr, unfortunately acquired neither.

Bonney, an hereditary seat of the family of
Teams, is at no great distance from Botley or
from Bishop's Waltham. It might have been sur-
prising in those days if a young man, a Minister of
the Crown, occupying a high place at Court, a
favourite in society, a man of fashion and of power,
should have cultivated the acquaintance of
WILLIAM COBBIITT ; but it was not at all surprising
that such a man, an Irishman in blood and in
feeling, should visit and become intimate with
his neighbour, a scion of the families of the
Earl of CLarrcaery and Lord ASHTON/1, and bear-
ing the honourable name of Taestcn. It would
have been, perhaps, quite as surprising, despite
shades of difference in politica, if the one fami'y had
been found arrayed in opposition to the other when
• county election occurred upon which the fate of
a statesman and a friend depended. The South
Hampshire election of January, 1835, is remem-
bered, perhaps, by very few amongst us. It was
the election consequent upon the accession of Sir
ROBERT PEEL to power, and the country gentlemen
of South Hants determined to throw out of their
representation the two men, both famous in the'-
generation, who then represented the-n
—the
Viscount PALMERSTON and Sir Groans STAUNTON. I
They succeeded. Two respectable top-bootmen,
up to their knees in the mud of their own lands,
were elected in their stead. WiLm•sr Coesarr was
returned at the same election for Oldham, and
died six months after. But Mr. nasal in Mimi
shire, despite b is family politica, supported Viscount
PALMERSTON, the rejected of South Banta, and
his son is to-day Archbishop of Dublin.
It is • decided merit in a statesman not to
forget those who have done him service. Mr.
TRENCH was the incumbent of a small living called
Itchin-Stoke, on the chalky lands between New
Alresford and Winchester, when the Pains
Munirrs• of England, his father's friend, found •
favourable opporturity of giving him preferment,
and raised him to the Deanery of Westminster.
Mr. Terser( was not undeserving the promotion.
He had taken good academical degrees, he had
been many years a laborious parish priest. The
Bishop of OXFORD, who had held an important
living in the same diocese, had appointed him one
of his chaplains, he had contributed somewhat to
literature, and had made himself a name. A
Minister is almost always right who, in the absence
of great talent elsewhere, promotes a man upon
whom he can rely. Lord PALMIASION thought
be could rely upon Mr. TRENCH, and he made him
a Dean.

Since the days of Dean Swirr (we mention it
for the especial benefit of our friends in Dublin)
Deanery has been regarded on this aide the
Channel as an office in the Church requiring no
very active exercise of ability, clerical or secular.
It has rather been regarded as a position of repose:
the easy cushion of the Church. If a Dean will
only keep his chapter in respectable order; open
the cathedral to the public ; maintain it in repair;',
preach occasionally a few tolerable sermons ; avoid
extreme opinions either in affairs of Church or
State ; regulate his household with decorum ; fill,
with due propriety, a place in good society ; give