The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF
DUBLIN.

The above melluicholy event, which has been
daily expected for some weeks, took place yester-
day, at 12 o'clock, at the country residence of the
lamented prelate at Roebuck, near Dublin.
Richard Whately was born in 1787. He had,
consequently, attainod the age of seventy-six. He
was the son of Dr. Whately, a prebendary of
Bristol, in a private school near to which ancient
city he received his early education. In 1806 the
future archbishop was entered of Oriel College,
Oxford, where he graduated in 1808. In 1810
he gave earnest of his future distinction as a
writer by obtaining the university prise for an
English essay. In 1812 he graduated as )3.D., and
in 1825 as doctor of divinity. He had previously,
in 1811, become a fellow of Oriel, a college which
has sent forth many men of mark, among the rest
Dr. Arnold, Dr. Copleztou, and Dr. J. H. Newman.
In 1822 Mr. Whately filled the position of Hampton
Lecturer ; and in the same year the living of
flalesworth, in Suffolk, of the ♦alue of 4501. per
annum, was bestowed upon him. In 1826 be was
ehosen Principal of St. Alban's Hall, where he car-
ried out various important reforms, and raised that
acidity out of a sort of disrepute into which pre-
vious indiscipline had brought it. He was also for
some time Professor of Political Economy at Ox-
ford. I. 1819 his career as an author began, by the
publication of the well-known "Historic Don"
During the contest which took place in the uni-
versity, when Sir Robert Peel appealed to
his constituents upon changing his views upon the
Roman catholic question, Dr. Whately took his
first public step, of a political nature, by support-
ing the right hon. baronet against the church party,
who carried the elation of Sir Robert Inglis by
large majority, sad drove Peel to take refuge in
the borough of Westbury. In 1821 Dr. Whately
married MALT, daughter of Mr. W. Pope,
who died in 1859, universally beloved for her ex-
emplary Christian character and uubounded bow
voleoce. In 1831 he was elevated to the Arch-
bishopric of Dublin by the ministry of Hal Grey,
the Marquis of Angjesey being Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland. Dr. Whately was Bishop of Glendalough
and Kildare, Chancellor of the Order of St. Patrick,
and Visitor of Trinity Collate, Dublin. He was
also a member of the French Institute.

Referring to his appointment to the archiepisco-
pate, one of Dr. Whately's earliest and most inti-
mate friends, Dr. Arnold, thus spoke—" I ale surd
that, in point of real emential holiness, there does
not live a truer Christian than Whately. He is a
great man in the highest sense of the word ' • and if
the safety and welfare of the church in Ireland
depend in any measure upon human instrumen-
tality, he is the man in the whole empire most
likely to maintain it."
Archbishop Whately was a constant and finest
writer during the entire period of his manhood and
age almost to its very close, the result being a very
voluminous series of contributions to the theolo-
gical, educational, and social literature of his time.
Amongst the most prominent merits of his pub-
lished works may be enumerated logical preci-
sion, remarkable clearness, extensive and sound
scholarship, and singular fertility of illustration,
which, though never picturesque, was often inge-
nious and always apt. A Dublin contemporary (the
Evening Mai!) says of him :—" Very proud of the
power of his intellect, he was yet simple and child-
like in hie habits and amusements. He never was
more in his element than when he could gather
round him a circle of listeners to samples of his
vast stock of puns and conundrums, and the great
delight be took in practising with the Australian
boomerang, when it was find made known here,
will be remembered by many who witnessed his
feats with that instrument on flandynicunt Strand.
An enthusiastic logician and, as be thought, a most
severe examiner of evidence, be was also the
most credulous of men. He was a firm believer in
mesmerism and clairvoyance, and to the last hour
of his life he was • devoted hormsopathisL A
theoretical political economist of the severest
order, he was charitable as an almagiver even
to a fault." He had but one son. He
is a clergyman of many years' standing and
superior ability, and yet all that his father did for
him was to give him the small parish of St. Wee-
burgh, in Dublin, worth only 3001. or 4801. • year.
"This self-denial," observes the Times, "contrasts
favourably with the excessive nepotism of some of
the most evangelical and pious of our bishops,
who have given the beet livings in their diocese to
their young sons and sons-in-law lad nephews,
while able and excellent men who had grown up
grey in the service of the church were left to drag
out the remnant of their existence on their miser-
able stipends as curates."
The province of Dublin includes the five dioceses
of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlia, Limerick, Ardfert,
and Aghados • Cork, Cloys., and Roes ; Cashel,
Waterford. and Emly ; and %Make, Kilfeuora,
Clonfert, and Kilmaoduagb. The diocese itself is
made up of the counties of Dublin, Kildare, and
Wicklow, with some part of Werfori, Queen's
County, and King's Count,. The annual income
attached to the archbishopric is 8,9301. Nothing,
of coarse, is known as to the future occupant of
this distinguished office, but rumour has for some
time indicated Dr. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Hillside,
as his grace's probable successor is St. Patrick's
chair. •

The Duke of Atbole hes not been out of doors
rime the day after ber Majesty's visit. The Dodoes@ et
Athol. is in mutant attendance upon the duke st
Castle, beg watching being only shared in and relieved by
bin grace's relative, Mims Macgregor, assisted by a leasiooai muse.