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LONDON, TUESDAY, NO V. 16.
THE new appointments occasioned by the vacancy
of the see of York will excite more surprise than
episcopal arrangements usually call for. We have
already expressed our opinion of the common prac-
tice of selecting undistinguished candidates to fill the
highest ecclesiastical offices. Either as an ally or an
opponent, the church will be most conveniently dealt
with, through leaders whom it is disposed to respect
and obey. Vigour of character, eloquence, reputa-
tion for ability and learning, enable a bishop to
I become something more than the nominal head of his
clergy. When they feel that he is their superior in
knowledge and judgment, as well as in position, he
generally acquires an influence which enables him to
I speak in their name, with the confidence that they will
carry out measures to which he assents, and abide
by conoetaions which he may think expedient. Through
one large and liberal mind enlightened views are
spread through an entire diocese. It is true that
some of the cleverest and most active of the existing
bishops have minds neither large nor liberal ; but the
obstructive power which they display is a sufficient
proof of the necessity of selecting advocates of en-
lightened ecclesiastical policy of at least equal abi-
lity. An archbishop who should be as tolerant and
as zealous for improvement as the most unprejudiced
layman would afford little aid to agovernment which
he supported, if his suffragans and his clergy confined
themselves in their relations with him to strictly ca-
nonical obedience.

lf, however, the ministry was bent on adhering to
the old routine of mediocrity, we are bound to
admit that it could not have chosen a more
respectable candidate for the primacy than the Bishop
of HEREFORD. Dr. MUSGRAVE'S second promotion
will probably excite leas surprise than his original
elevation to the episcopal bench. The skill and tact
with which he managed his hereditary influence in
the borough of Cambridge, his usefulness even in the
elections for the county, from his popularity. and his
seal as a farmer, combined with his reputation as a
man of business, acquired by the management of the
great estates of Trinity College, of which he was
bursar, and with a high personal character, to recom-
mend him to the government whose Chancellor of the
Exchequer was member for Cambridge. His conduct
as Bishop of HEREFORD has done justice to the choice.
By attention to his duties, by a business-like manage-
ment of the affairs of his diocese, and, above all, by a
frank, simple, and manly bearing, he has secured both
the good-will of his clergy, and an unusual amount of
popularity with the laity of his diocese. Though well
known to possess strong and genuine religious feel-
ing, he has, we believe, kept himself entirely clear of
all controversial squabbles ; and, as far as he is con-
cemed, the diocese of York is not likely to be troubled
by an inundation either of I'useyism or Anti-
Puseyism.
We have no objection to make to Dr. MUSGRAVE'S
new promotion, except his want of claim to it on the
ground of striking ability or general reputation. In
every station he hu occupied he has been respected
as a man of sense and of good feeling ; but no one ever
supposed him to be eminent as a divine, a scholar, an
orator, or a statesman. To the profound and severe
learning of the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S, to the
eloquence and versatile ability of the Bishop of
OXFORD, or to the scientific reputation of the Dean of
ELY, also a thorough man of business, the new arch-
bishop makes no pretence. He is simply a fortunate
man who has done credit to tke preferment which is
thrust upon him. In quiet times, we hare no doubt,
he will get through the not very difficult business of
his diocese and province with general satisfaction;
but if it should happen that the church requires an
able adviser and a prudent leader, and the state a co-
adjutor who can secure the allegiance and sympathy
of those whom he represents, we fear that it will
not have beenerudent to exhibit this new proof
of the degree in which a clerical career,
like most others in England, is closed against
talent. The great age of the two archbishops
has for some years enabled the Bishop of LONDON to
assume, in a great measure, the position of representa-
tive of the -English church. In the negotiation
connected with the Jerusalem bishopric, and in the
ecclesiastical affairs of the colonies, he has taken the
place which properly belongs to the two archbishops.
Without blaming him for an encroachment, which
perhaps naturally arose from the circumstances, we are
strongly impressed with the expediency of subjecting
his proceedings to the control of a colleague or superior
not less active and energetic than himself. We can
scarcely expect that Dr. M uso Ray a will fulfil these con-
ditions. His experience of an easy life at Cambridge
and at Hereford will not have prepared him to con-
tend with the indefatigable love of being busy which
distinguishes the ecclesiastical BROUGHAM. After
all, of the requisites which we suggested as essential
to the fit discharge of the vacant office Dr. MUSGRAVE
possesses several. He is a man of sense, a man of the
world—not a fanatic or agitator. The only fault we
have to find with him is, that he is not a man of
commanding character and ability.
The Times, waiving for the occasion its character of
an official journal, prophesies great evils from the
appointment of Dr. HAMPDEN. The choice of the
reams professor is certainly rather strange; but we
believe it will be found that the most numerous party
in the church has its hands tied in a way which will
prevent any vehement opposition to the appointment.
One of those alarmists who delight in using extraor-
dinary means for the accomplishment of trivial ends,
lately, through the Morning Post, exhorted the dean
and chapter of Manchester to refuse obedience
to the cove d'elire issued in favour of Mr. LEE.
" What," as he forcibly observed, "are the penalties of
a preamunire ?" (that mysterious bugbear, which acts
by terror, like Demogorgon's dreaded name').
" What are any temporal
penalties to a violation of
co nscience ?" Mr. EE'S offence consisted in some
liberal commonplaces uttered—not by Mr. LEE—bat
by the Bishop of Worteeirrea, at a meeting held in
honour of the new Bishop of MANCHESTER. The
dean and prebendaries of Hereford have now a ouch
better opportunity of earning the martyrdom of a
pramunire by refusing to elect Dr. --.-14..PDEN ; but
we believe they will decline the formidable honour.
The Standard repeats the announcement of the Times,
and very significantly makes no remark upon it. The
fact is that Dr. HAMPDEN'S heresy, whatever may
have been its demerits, has altogether been lost sight
of by the party which the Standard represents, in the
more formidable and newer perversion of those who
are supposed to approximate to the Antichrist of
Rome.

We doubt the prudence of the appointment of Dr.
HAMPDEN. He is well-known, without being emi-
nent. There is • popular prejudice against him not
counterbalanced on his part by great merit or great
capacity. His power to do good will be constantly
checked by the knowledge that a slur hu been
thrown on his orthodoxy. If he had done great ser-
vices to literature or divinity, or to the public, his re-
putation and his merit would soon outweigh the vague
dislike of his character which prevails among many
who are totally uninformed as to the grounds of their
disapprobation. As it is, he will weaken in popular
estimation any cause, exposed to prejudice and op-
position, which he may have occasion to advocate. It
is, however, possible that in his new position he may
display powers which have not hitherto been known
to exist.
Our readers will not expect of us to enter into
the merits of Dr. HAMPDEN'S Hampton lectures, which
created so much clamour some years ago. We may
however remark, that subsequent events have proved
that orthodoxy was more frightened than hurt en the
occasion. High church and low church, semi-pa=
and semi-diameters, united in the burst of
which MU created by Dr. HAMPDEN'S appointment
to the regius profrenceship. It was resolved that