The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

ARCHBISHOP WHATELYS SUCCESSOR.

The Dublin correspondent of the Times, under
date the 24th, has the following edifying observa-
tions as to the probable successor of the late vener-
able and gifted Archbishop Whately
"A tremendous excitement has been produced
among the Evangelical clergy here by the announce-
ment that Canon Stanley has been offered the mitre
of the Archbishop of Dublin. The fact that he is
an Englishman is one objection, but this is merged
in the dreadful charge of heterodoxy. He is be-
lieved to be the author of an article in the Edin-
burgh Review, in which, it is said, he defended the
authors of Essays and Reviews. He is accused of
being a rank neologist, who does not go the length
of Colenso only because he wants the moral courage
to avow his convictions. Ho has written a letter to
the Bishop of London recommending the abolition
of clerical subscriptions. - When referring in his
works to the errors of other writers, ho„Studiously
avoids expressing what his own opinions are on the
disputed pOinfs: From this his Dublin censors
infer that he is decidedly unsound in his faith.
There is a long indictment against him copied in
some of the Protestant journals from the Church.
and State Gazette ; and the Daily Express is flooded
with letters from the clergy containing sweeping
censures, and earnestly protesting against his ap-
pointment. But no language of his own has been
quoted against him. Hitherto the evidence is all:.
econdhand. They ,admit his learnioi", his eloquence,
the fascination of his style, the excellence of his

character; but they deprecate his appointment the
more vehemently on account of these dangerous
snares which would render the attractions of heresy
irresistible. Come what will the clergy have re-
solved not to allow Lord Palmerston to taint the

7ountain of orthodoxy which has flowed so purely

from Trinity College, Dublin. In vain they are re-
minded that Canon Stanley is the Chaplain of the
Queen and of the Prince of Wales and of the Bishop
of London, and that he is the Profees3r of Ecclesi-
astical History in the University of Oxford. So
much the worse, they would say, for the Queen, the
Prince, and the young clergy ofLondon. They pro-
test that they will not have Canon Stanley to rule
over them, even if their resistance involved the
separation of the Church from the State. Any other
Canon would be accepted, even an English one.
They will give the Premier half a dozen to choose
from,—Canon M'Neile, dignissimus ; Canon Boyd,
of Paddington ; Canon Miller, of Birmingham.
Any one, English or Irish, rather than the neolo-
gical Canon Stanley."

There is not, perhaps, a bishop in Ireland who
hoped to step np to the vacant throne ; there is not
a dignitary who hoped to wear that bishop's mitre;
there is not a clergyman who expected to get that
dignitary's place; there is not a friend in the
respective circles of those numerous expectant
parties who would not be likely to swell the
cry of neology and heresy against the New
Archbishop of Dublin if Canon Stanley should
accept the post, and submit to have his cha-
racter in the ecclesiastical pillory for several years
to come. One clergyman has only ventured to
write to a neutral journal, in defence of the ap-
pointment, and he asks some very pertinent ques-
tions :

" Alas, sir, what is all the splutter in the news-
papers about? Do the Dublin clergy remember
what a howl was raised at the advent of Dr.
Whately 32 years ago? Were those frantic pre-
dictions verified ? Do not many of the clergymen
and laymen who opposed him most bitterly now
hang their heads, and blush for shame, when they
think of that intensely prejudicial opposition. Has
anything been said against Canon Stanley which
was not virtually said against his predecessofr
There is one class, I admit, which has a right tot be
o
profoundly dissatisfied with the appointment
to
the
case
a' I
Canon Stanley, such as formerly it had in .
of Dr. Whately. I mean the class which 1
see the Established Church annihilated
i
country. There are thinkers in England—Profoundn this
and judicious thinkers too, who firmly
jart, or 11 believe that,
iY
had a narrow-minded High Churchman,
over the see of
ch
nar-
row-minded Evangelical, been se
Dublin in 1831, the Established Church would not
h quite a stranger
And what are
Canon be existing in Ireland.
in the
Canon Stanley's faults?
shoat him
_ as any
to him, I perhaps know etsiimplpuhinhutg7y
of his accusers the trouble
of those who write so
take Dublin
hours till they
papers. Will any
of his works ?
indgme.nt for. 48
1 do not bay
they will find
hofaysuesroeonkdeidu suspending their
in them_ elegant scholarship, deep eru-
dition, and a
b (for this is
glow of chastened feelino.
admitted onsay they will find all
all sides), but I
the faith in their purity
fib
stated. Canon Stanley is
ore esisyellts attractively of the Christian ri
ssia
much more a man of the world—much better
acquainted with the delicate shades of human cha-
racter—much less liable to be duped by assentation
—much better quatifid to maintain Lis exalied posi-
tion in olegant soJe- i t .
o y, and to leaven the magnates
of the lend with earnest religious feeling, than the
admirable and single-winded -Mutely was."
There is much truth in this. Whately, who may
be sr:id, in
the phraseology of the Church of Rome,
to have dir,d "in the odour of sanctity,,' was de-
"united as a Socinian—a9 oeu who ELnied the in-
Ppiration of the Scriptures—who was an enemy of
the Bible, and an underminer of the faith. His
assailants lived to see and to deplore their error re-
garding that great and good prelate ; and so, no
doubt, they would in the case of his successor.

A 'CUTE YANKEE BULL.—An American is re-
ported to have said that, if he koew that it was predostinat ed
that he should be drowned in a particular lake, nobody would
ever catch him going within a mile of it.