The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

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Garden, Wantland, and H. Widdicomb. Mesdames Stephens.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5.

THAT extravagantly high Churchmen should
feel annoyed when one of the prizes of the Eng-
lish Establishment is given to a prominent Evan-
gelical is no more than we all expect ; but it
seems there is more than ecclesiastical dissatis-
faction in the very loud outcry now raised
against the gift of the Exeter Deanery to Canon
BOYD. It was not until reading last Satur-
day's issue of our staunch contemporary, the
John lAdI, that we saw how diversified are
the bearings of what at first sight seems a very
simple matter. Those who imagine that to make
a good Church appointment it is only neces-
sary to prefer eminent merit must, it seems,
expect to find others of a very different
qpinion. Our zealous contemporary objects in
Es own person to Canon Born's appointment, not
in the interests of piety or learning, or church-
=unship, but, three times over, because it is " cal-
" culated seriously to damage the Conservative
" party." " For the sake of the Conservative
" party we venture to assure the Earl of DERBY
" that he can have no conception of the profound
" sensation which this appointment has created.
" It was received at first with incredulity, and
" when not denied, with dismay." If Canon
BOYD were a strong Whig partisan, or had
been in the habit of leading radical multitudes
at the hustings, this excited language would have
been intelligible. He is not, however, a political
man. The dismay of these good Conservatives is
not caused by the open rewarding of an enemy ;
it arises from the discovery that Lord DERBY
does not feel at liberty to employ every good
thing that falls into his hands to reward
political services. Hear the John Bull again :
" It is not that we anticipate any grievous results
" from Dr. BOYD'S tenancy of the Exeter
" Deanery ; but it is the heavy blow and great
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" who have worked so heartily for the Government
" during their long exclusion from office that
" makes us speak so openly." Our contem-
porary knows what ho is saying, and he is well
backed up by correspondents. "Ex-M.P."
thinks that Lord DERBY would have done better
to look for a dean among the brothers of his
colleagues, and in pure kindness recommends him
to " ask Mr. HARDY the evil such an appoint-
" ment is causing among those who worked for
" him so zealously at the last Oxford election."
Another writer, who credits himself with having
rescued a borough from the Liberals, objects to
Canon BOYD, that he " has not even the lowest
"claim of having exerted himself for the Con-
" servative party in any conspicuous way ;" and
asks, " What is the advantage, if patronage is
" to be dispensed by the Conservative chiefs with-
" out reference to the merits of their supporters I"
The Government are reminded that, "if they will
"not act manfully for the party, they cannot
" expect the party to be devoted to them ; the
" loyalty must be reciprocal." These people state
their case in a plain-spoken way, which is refresh-
ing in an age of Pecksniffian periphrasis ;
and as they put it, we think there is a
great deal in it. They know best what
bargain they made, and if they have really
done the work, hard and disagreeable as it is,
of the Tories without receiving the promised
reward, we can only wonder that Lord DERBY
should be capable of acting so shabbily by
his supporters. But, after all, it is an odd busi-
ness, and we should never have learned from the
chiefs of the party the understanding which
these dissatisfied agents betray. The doc-
trine that patronage is a trust, and that every
public service must be administered with reference
to the interests of those who are served, has been
so readily accepted on all sides of late years, that
we are surprised to find the affairs of one of our
public institutions discussed as if such a doctrine
were unknown. In the Civil Service we have long
had in operation a system of examination ex-
pressly designed to deprive the party in power of
the means of rewarding their inferior political
supporters by quartering them upon a department,
so as to give room for selection according to
fitness. The same principle, it would seem,
is not yet universally acknowledged in the
Church. At all events, a highly respectable
ecclesiastical newspaper has no hesitation in assum-
ing and arguing upon the existence of a compact
under which the clergy work hard at elections for
the Tories, and are rewarded from endowments
consecrated to religion. In future, whenever any
of us hear of a clergyman "exerting himself for the
" Conservative party in a conspicuous way," we
shall fancy we know what he is about.

THE FARNHAM UNION.—The Poor-law Board
have directed an official inquiry to take place on Wednes-
day, the 13th inst., into the charges made in respect of
the Farnham Workhouse. Any delay which may have
occurred in appointing the inquiry is attributable to the
neoesaity which the board were under of communicating
previously with the guardians, whose meetings are held
once a week only. The inquiry will be conducted by Mr.
Lambert, Poor-law Inspector, with whom will be associated
Dr. E. Smith, the medial officer of the board.— Tines.
The fortresses in Russian Poland have been in-
spected by General Todleben and other eminent engineers,
preparatory to their proposed enlargement.