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and our readers will remember that, so far as it . was
possible, the University, in convocation assembled,
declared its want of confidence in him as a teacher of
divinity.
Lord John Russell, who has great confidence in
himself, probably thinks that he is a better judge than
the University of Oxford is of the merits of Dr.
llampden as a divine. In the appointment of
Bishops, however, it seems to us that the Prime
Minister should defer to the general opinion of the
Church rather than to his own. If Lord J. Russell
does not know, he ought to have known, that this ap-
pointment of 1)r. Hampden will give great offence to
the Church, and may produce a disturbance the
quieting of which will require far greater abilities
than any which his Lordship can command. His
Lordship, let us tell him, has quite enough of diffi-
culties to deal with at present, without dragging upon
himself those which may probably arise from his
forcing or trying to force Dr. Hampden upon the
Bench of Bishops. But second-class Whigs have
always shown far greater aptitude for getting them-
selves and the nation into trouble, than ability and
energy for getting out of it.
(From the Chronicle.)
The manner in which the vacancy in the see of
York has been filled up does equal credit to the judg-
ment and the honesty of the Prime Minister. Dr.
Musgrave, the Bishop of Hereford, is translated to
the archbishopric, and the bishopric of Hereford is
to be conferred upon Dr. Hampden. Both appoint-
ments are manifestly made upon public grounds only,
and in both cases we think it will be felt, by all but
the members of one discontented party in the Church,
that Lord John Russell has exercised a most sound
discretion.
The amiable prelate who has been pitched upon for
for the archbishopric is known to be an able and
strenuous upholder of the Protestant character of the
Church of England, and to possess, in an eminent
degree, those administrative talents which are not
less needful to the spiritual ruler than to him who
is at the head of secular affairs. The vast district
comprised within the see of York is one of those
in which, from the rapid development of the na-
tional industry, society has most conspicuously out-
grownin. For th
o the meanse duties involved in theinfluenceofreligious
andinstruc-
tmanagement
of such a diocese Dr. Musgrave is peculiarly fitted,
by a clear and firm judgment, a moderate tone of
feeling and opinion, conciliating manners, and ten
years of episcopal experience. It is equally honour-
, able to the prelate and the Minister, that the recom-
mendations of the former are purely of this personal
kind. Dr. Musgrave has no aristocratic connexions
to push him into notice. His elevation is precisely
one of those facts which redeem the general system of
ecclesiastical promotion in England, by showing that
quiet and modest merit is not always shut out from
the highest dignities. A choice so free from objection
would scarcely have provoked a word of remonstrance
from any quarter, but that Dr. Musgrave has evinced
a very determined hostility to all the ingenious varie-
ties of doctrine and morality produced by the Trac-
tarian movement. This, however, is quite enough to
provoke sneers at his preaching and depreciation of
his learning and talents.
Upon the same grounds, it is in the natural course
of things that the name of his successor should awaken
old animosities. Neither the professional acquire-
ments and abilities, nor the retiring and inoffensive
character of Dr. Hampden,•can protect him from the
ill-natured criticisms of a party who strove to crush
him by an accusation of heresy, at the very time
when they were themselves secretly undermining
the foundations of the English Church. The Times,
which in one of its unaccountable gyrations has again
chosen to become the organ of this old discontent, un-
wisely reminds us of the great head and manager of
the Hampden persecution. In what respect, let us
ask, can any lover of good faith compare the new
Bishop of Hereford with the " far higher mind" to
whose fierce and factious opposition he is no doubt in-
debted for some part of his fame ? The lectures of
the Regius Professor of Divinity may not be wholly
free from the traces of timidity or self-distrust,
uncommon as those qualities are in theologi-
cal writings, but they are at least untainted
with the moral poison of Tract 90. His
logic may not have been so finely tempered as,
that'of his former opponent, but it was wielded with
rather more honesty of purpose. Dr. Hampden's
Protestantism was certainly not well adapted to the
atmosphere of Oxford, but the bulk of English
.
churchmen, we apprehend, will think that -views of
religious truth tending to unite together all the
adherents of the Reformation, are more in confor-
mity with the spirit of their estahlished standards.
than a system professing to harmonize with them
every doctrine which they were framed to exclude.
We have no desire to speak harshly of a man un-
questionably of the highest ability, who, whatever
may have been the errors of his former conduct, did
at length acknowledge his position in the Church
of England to be false and unjustifiable, by openly
joining another communion. But the party which
Mr. Newman created, animated, and left behind him,
in the English Church, might now at least be ex-
pected to feel too much humiliation at what has
occurred to revive in the public mind the recollection
of their former arrogance. There is neither discre-
tion nor good taste in refreshing our memories with
the fact, that men whose hearts were in Rome, and
whose real, if not avowed, standards were the de.
crees of Trent, raised the cry of heresy in an Eng.
lish University against the teachings of a Protestan
professor.

THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
THE COUNTRY.
Last night a grand demonstration in favour of a
sound and comprehensive Sanitary Bill took place at
the Crown and Anchor Tavern, under the auspices
of the following associations:—Health of Towns,
National Philanthropic, Health of London, City and
Liberty of Westminster, and the Working Men's
Associations. The Crown and Anchor Tavern has
been the theatre of many popular demonstrations.
There is scarcely a principle for which the people
have fought which has not at one time or another
been enunciated in this hall. Successful as many of
those demonstrations have been, we much mistake the
character of last night's meeting if the object for
which so many people appear heart and hand to have
combined will not speedily be achieved.
The meeting was largely attended, and was pre-
sided over by Mr. B. B. Cabbell, M.P.
Letters of apology were read by Mr. Davis, the
secretary, from Baron Rothschild, M.P., Mr. T.
S. Duncombe, M.P., Sir B. Hall, M.P., Sir W.
Clay, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart M.P., and Mr.
Wakley, M.P. Baron Rothschild, in his letter,
said, " The promoters of this movement may be as-
sured of my cordial concurrence with their desire
for prompt introduction of a code of efficient regu-
lations, and of my disposition, under ordinary cir-
cumstances, to place my humble co-operation at their
disposal. But I find that necessary attention to the
preliminaries of the question in which I am per-
sonally interested, will now engross my time to an
extent quite incompatible with attendance at any meet-
ing on or near the day fixed for your demonstration,
and must therefore stand excused for declining." Mr.
Duncombe pleaded illness. Sir B. Hall merely
stated, totidem verbis, his inability to attend; so also
did Sir W. Clay, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Mr.
Wakley, alleging as their grounds absence from town
and prior engagements.
There were present on the platform, Mr. W. A.
Mackinnon, M.P., Mr. C. Lushington, M.P., Dr.
Ellerman, Dr. Gowrley, Dr. Gavin, Dr. Guy, Rev.
Mr. Lusignan, Sir C. Aldis, Dr. Aldis, Mr. Joseph
Rogers, Mr. J. P. Murrough, Mr. S. P. Besly, Mr.
J. Randolph, and many of the most influential mem-
bers of the associations enumerated in the opening
paragraph.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
meeting, observed that it was not necessary for him
to enter fully into the subject which was to engage
their attention that evening, since the gentlemen
who were to speak to the resolutions would clearly
and distinctly place the whole question before them.
He thought, however, he should scarcely perform his
duty if he abstained from stating the particular object
which they had in view in calling that meeting. It
must be known to all of them that sanitary reform
was emphatically the leading topic of the day; and
that to accomplish that mush desired end various
associations had been in existence now for some five
or six years. It had been considered, as the Govern-
ment had taken the question up with the intention,
he believed, of honestly and fairly carrying it
out, that those associations should meet, and that
they should come to one distinct resolution, by which
their powers might be concentrated ; and all the in-
fluence, public and private, which they possessed,
might be given to the Government to aid them in
carrying their object into effect.—(Cheers.) The
resolutions of the evening had been framed with that
view, because they felt convinced that without a uni-
formity of action and a unity of purpose they never
would obtain their end.—(Cheers.) There was one
subject to which he wished to allude, which, though
it did not stand out the most prominent, yet he hesi-
tated not to say formed a most important feature in
the present movement—he alluded to the custom of
burials in towns—(Hear, hear)—and upon this sub-
ject he could not refrain from calling their attention
to a letter addressed to the Lord Mayor, which ap-
peared in the newspaper police reports of that morn-
ing. The writer of that letter stated that there was
at the present moment a burial ground in actual ope-
ration in the neighbourhood of Golden-lane, where
they dug graves eighteen or twenty feet deep, leaving
them merely covered over with planks until they were
quite full ; that those graves remained in that state
until they were filled with coffins to within two
or three feet of the top, and that then they
were only covered over with loose ground
to the depth of two or three feet, whereas it
was known that fourteen feet of hard ground was
required to prevent the effluvium arising from de.
cayed animal matter penetrating to the surface.—
(Cries of " Shame.") He thought, then, it was pre-
eminently necessary for the Government to interfere,
and to put a stop to such a state of things, so de-
structive to human life, and so antagonistic to every
good and decent feeling.—(Cheers.) He was con-
vinced it was only necessary for the public
voice t i be raised to induce the :Government to
do that which was right in this respect, and it was to
elicit the feeling of the public upon the subject, and
to urge the matter upon the attention of the Govern-
ment, that that meeting had been convened.
Mr. MACE INNON, M.P., proposed the first resolu-
tion, which was as follows :—" That the drainage and
sewage of the metropolis are very insufficient, the
cleansing of the streets exceedingly imperfect, the
supply of water lamentably deficient in quantity, and
bad in quality. That the practice of burying the dead
in the midst of the living produces great demoraliza-
tion, and grossly violates the sanctity of the grave.
That these, among other evils, entail enormous and
unnecessary expenses upon the people, and lead to a
great deterioration of health and fearful destruction
of life." The Honourable Gentleman said he was
not aware what objection there could be to the
adoption of that resolution.—(Hear.) The more
they considered' the subject the more satisfied
they must be that some improvement must take place
in the health of towns. Having had the honour of
being twice chairman of a committee of the House of
Commons upon the subject, and having been the first
in the House of Commons who mooted the question,
he did feel a conscientious and lively interest in the
result of their undertaking.—(Cheers.) It was not
his intention to trouble them with any lengthened re-
marks, but he could not help saying a few words as
chairman of the committee by whom the idea was
first originated in the House of Commons, that it was
necessary to attend to the health of the community.—
(Cheers.) Their chairman, in the course of the ob-
servations which he had addressed to them, said it
was desirable that her Majesty's Government should
take this matter in hand. He (Mr. Mackinnon)must
do the present Government and Lord Morpeth the
justice to say that they had in the most able and ac-
tive manner endeavoured to introduce a Sanitary Bill
into the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) But
Lord Morpeth had been prevented carrying out his
good intentions by faction, and by various circum-
stances over which he had no control.—(Hear, hear.)
He thought it his duty to state so much of the Noble
Lord, and as it was generally his lot to oppose the
measures of the present Ministry, he thought that
praise from him might be taken to be impartial. The
fact was, and it was a great misfortune that in our
House of Commons almost every interest was repre-
sented but one—they found the monied interest re-
presented, the commercial interest represented,
the trading interest represented ; they found,
in short, every interest admirably protected
in the House, with numbers of supporters
and defenders; but one single interest was
never defended, and that was the public
interest.—(Cheers.) He must still say, however, that
her Majesty's Ministers appeared most anxious and
most zealous in the cause of the health of towns'
reform.—(Hear, hear.) By many of the opponents
of this measure it had been imagined that this was all
a delusion—that the excitement with regard to the
interment in towns was not genuine, and that it was
created by persons who had an interest in the dif-
ferent cemeteries in the neighbourhood.
H
himself well investigated that subject, and hehad
bad
come to the decided conclusion that it was a gross, a
crying, and an abominable nuisance--(Cheers)--a
nuisance which ought not to exist in a
civilized coun-
try, and a nuisance which did not exist in any other
civilized country in the globe. Was it not disgrace-
ful that in the 19th century Great Britain, the most
civilized in the world, the nation which led the van in
morality, in honour, in principle, in commerce, in
deeds of arms, should be the last nation with regard
to the health of its metropolis—that there should be
less attention paid to the health of the people, particu
larly
country of the lower
of Europe ?
classes,
—(Chße in rers.itain, than in any
-
other o sh
effect which an attention to sanitary reform handwuptohne
the length of our lives, let him call their attention
for one moment to what had taken place with
regard to our own men-of-war. Sixty years ago
when Commodore Anson sailed his ship, the Centu-
rion, round the world, he lost in a voyage of two
years and a half no less than 75 per cent, of his crew,
n
owing to the filth, and diet,bad provisions, and
bad management on boardhiasship. Within the last
ten years another vessel had been the same length of
time going round Cape Horn and the Pacific Ocean,
and that vessel, now that sanitary measures had been
adopted, lost only 2f per cent. of its crew instead of
75.--(Hear, hear.) If that were the result on board
a ship where there were not more than 600 men,
what amelioration might they not expect in that_
metropolis if they adopted a Health of Towns Bill
(Cheers.) The importance of such a measure coup
not be over-rated, and if that dreadful scourge, the

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WRECK OF THE NEW YORK
PACKET-SHIP STEPHEN WHITNEY.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENlNG.—Further infor-
mation respecting the fate of the New York packet-
ship Stephen Whitney has been received here this
morning. The Cork Reporter, of Saturday, says that
several letters had been received from Skibbereen,
confirming the report.
" The statements," says the Cork Reporter, " as to
the loss of life in this unhappy disaster differ slightly.
One letter mentions the loss at ninety individuals,
twenty of that number being ladies; and also adds,
that portions of the cargo had been washed ashore.
" A second letter states the number lost at ninety-
five, and that the passengers on board the wrecked
ship were ' all of the better class'--steerage passen-
gers probably.
" The third, a more detailed and sprrect account,
agrees with our information, as will be perceived from
the extract annexed :

" Skibbereen, Nov. 12.
" lam sorry to inform you that, on the night
before last, a dreadful shipwreck occurred outside
Baltimore Harbour, on the rocks called The
Calves.' Ninety-one lives were lost, and nineteen
saved. Yesterday the bodies of a lady and child
were thrown on shore. The lady had three gold
rings on her fingers, and was very richly dressed.
'The vessel was an American packet from New York;
her name I don't know yet. I am informed Mr. i
Cleburne's son, of this town, was in the ship, and is
one of the parties lost. It is reported, since 1 began
this letter, that there were three vessels lost on the
same fatal night.'
" Later accounts state that the vessel was com-
pletely dashed to pieces, and that the cargo, which
was very valuable, was being carried off by the coun-
try people, who flocked in thousands to the scene of
the wreck. The driver of the Skibbereen mail-coach
had reported in Cork that ninety-three lives were
lost, amongst whom were Captain Popham and his
wife.

" The vessel became a total wreck in fifteen
minutes after she struck. The coast the scene of
the disaster is of a fearfully rugged character, and
Cape Clear lies within a few miles only of the spot."
In addition to the foregoing, we find the following
in a late edition of this day's Liverpool Albion :-
4 We have been favoured with the perusal of a
letter received this morning from a magistrate of the
county of Cork, by his son, resident in Liverpool,
containing the explanation of the disaster to the Ste-
phen Whitney, and other details.
" It appears that Captain Popham, the commander
of the ill-fated ship, having run close on the land,
mistook the lighthouse of Crookhaven for that of the
Old Head of Kinsale, and under this erroneous im-
pression bore away and went ashore. In ten minutes
she went to pieces. All the female passengers are
said to be drowned ; the first, second, and third mates
shared the same fate ; and, in a short space, ninety-
one
of the hundred and ten individuals on board were
numbered with the dead. Immediately upon intelli-
gence reaching the inspector and collector of customs
they proceeded to the scene of the wreck, and ren-
dered all the assistance in their power; and from the
other accounts published it will have been seen that
nineteen lives were saved.

" Large quantities of the cargo and pieces of the
wreck had been cast on shore.

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widel possible. They said that there were
five -p-articular requisites which ought always to
belong to every inhabited place where, hu-
man beings took shelter ; the first was pure
air, the next good drainage, the third the total
absence of all putrid vegetable or animal matter, the
fourth the supply of pure water, and the fifth the re-
moval of all stagnant pools and cesspools from within
a quarter of a mile of a dwelling. Those were the
five requisites, and he left any unprejudiced person
to say to what degree, or whether to any degree at
all, they were enjoyed by the lower classes of the
tnetropolis.—(Cheers.) Assuredly they were not to
be met with; yet surely by every man of feeling, by
every man who took an interest in his country and in
the welfare of her poor, they must be regarded as
sacred things. They were most sacred, and certainly
demanded the attention of the wealthy of the commu-
nity.—(Cheers.) It was the bounden duty of the
Legislature to inquire into this matter. He believed
that Ministers entirely coincided in that view, and
that it was their desire to introduce an efficient and
comprehensive Bill for the purpose of promoting the
health of this great town, and of every great town in
England. He was sure the meeting also would coin-
cide with him on that point.--(Cheers.) He was
satisfied nothing could be dote in this country unless
public opinion took it up. He called on all present,
then, to set their shoulders to the wheel to assist
the benevolent intentions of that committee, that
they might be enabled to realise the sentiment of
the poet—

" May we when nature calls to rest,
And blushing skies the morn foretell,
Say, ' In this cause we've done our bt st,'
And bid the waking world farewell."
The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud
and universal plaudits.
The resolution was seconded, and was about to be
put to the meeting, when
Mr. GEORGE, one of the overseers of the parish of
St. Anne's, Soho, presented himself. The speaker
was a member of an association for preventing burials
in towns, and he seemed to think that some indignity
had been cast upon that association, which prevented
its members taking a part in the present meeting.
He expressed himself as a warm advocate of sanitary
reform, but he looked upon the prevention of inter-
ment in crowded cities as the prime object first to be
accomplished. With reference to the monstrous
abuses perpetrated in some of the metropolitan grave-
yards, he stated that the churchyard in his own
parish had been established about 150 years, that it
was only seven-eights of an acre in extent, and that
95,000 persons had in that time been buried in it.
From the 4th of February, in one year, to the 22d
March in the same year, there were buried in one
grave, 18 feet deep, seventeen grown persons and
eight children.--(Cries of " Shame.") Mr. George
concluded by expressing a hope that Government,
having regard to these matters, would grant some
boon to the poor, for if they hid their eyes from it,
they might depend upon it that, in the words of Scrip-
ture, they should have many curses.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Rooeas (the:Chairman of the Anti-Interment
in Towns Association) followed on the same side, and
seemed hurt at not having been requested to partici-
pate in the meeting. He said the Health of Towns
Association had characterised his (Mr. Rogers') object
as only of secondary importance. He contended,
however, that it was of the first magnitude, and that
the Health of Towns Association was afraid to grapple
with it on aceount of the three bishops and seventy-
seven clergymen that were members of that associa-
tion, and who derived emolument from the burials.
Mr. T. BEGGS explained. The meeting was under-
stood to be an aggregate meeting of all the associa-
tions in the metropolis for the promotion of sanitary
reform. Mr. Rogers was labouring under an egre-
gious error when he stated that the Health of Towns
Association said anything about the interment in
towns being a secondary object. What he (Mr.
Beggs), as the representative of the Health of Towns
Association, said was, " We regard the burial in towns
as one branch of a very great question, and we wish
it to have the same prominence as the other branches.
We think it better to have one resolution, stating all
the evils that we have to complain of, than to have
separate resolutions. Some gentlemen may think
the burial in towns the most important branch. I
think the water subject the most important. So if
the burial in towns has a separate resolution the water
subject should have a separate resolution also."
These gentlemen then said they would have nothing
to do with the meeting ; they bore no share
in the expense or in the anxiety of getting
it up, yet, when the meeting took place, they
came amongst them and attempted to throw in the
brand of discord.— (Cheers.) There was no question
of the evil of' laying the dead in large towns, and no
doubt it ought to form an important feature in an
measure for sanitary improvement, for the health, hap.
piness, and morality of the country depended upon it
to a great extent. If they looked to the resolution
itself, however, they would see that the subject was
specially introduced, and that peculiar pre-eminence
was given to it by printing that portion of the resolu-
tion in larger letters than the other part. That was
the case, and he really did not see what the gentlemen
had to complain of.—(Loud cheers.) After alluding
to the bad supply of water in London, to the mono-
polies enjoyed by the water companies, and to the
High charge which, in consequence, the public had to
pay for water, he contended that a case had been
made out for the necessity of legislative interference.
If Government existed for any intelligible purpose, it
was to throw a protection, not only over the pro-
perty, but over the health and happiness of the com-
munity at large, to legislate for the whole and not for
the few; and if it could be proved that a large mass
of the population was groaning under oppression it
was the duty of the Government to interfere.—
(Cheers.) He confessed the question was surrounded
with difficulties. There were about 130 paving
boards in the metropolis, and there were something
like 300 Acts of Parliament to regulate the paving,
and cleansing, and sewage of the different parishes of
London. What objection could there be to ask the
Legislature to give them one simple, comprehensive
Act to govern the whole of that portion of our domestic
polity ?—(Hear, hear.) What they had to do now
was to second the Government.—(A voice, " When
it's honest.") He maintained that the Government
had manifested a desire to do something. He stated
fearlessly that in the matter of sanitary reform the
Government had shown themselves in advance of
the people, and under such circumstances he would
defend them.—(Cheers.) The speaker concluded by
earnestly calling upon the meeting energetically to
support the Government in carrying out this great
measure of social reform.
The resolution was then put and carried unani-
mously.
Mr. C. LUSUINGTON, M.P., proposed the next re-
solution :—That this meeting deplores the apathy
generally evinced by the public relative to the evils
referred to in the preceding resolution, as well as the
absence of a uniform law which would enable the
Government to exercise an efficient control over local
administrative bodies ; and that this meeting pledges
itself to support the Government in any efforts made
to pass a sound and comprehensive sanmitaernynedmeba-
sure." The Honourable Gentlenmdanre
commenced
that there
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numerous reports which had been issued
improvement
with regard to it, and he must say that they exhibited
a lamentable tale of neglect, suffering, and danger_
of neglect which they could not sufficiently atone for
of suffering on the part of the poor which it was their
bounden duty most earnestly to strive to remedy, and
of danger which it was their common interest to meet
and to endeavour to counteract.—(App .)
(Al He
did not see how they could better
meet the danger
with which they were threatened by the approach of
that dreadful scourge, cholera, than by adopting the
measures which had been suggested to them that
night, and he did not see how they could more effeo-
tually render the Government that support of which
they stood in need than by adopting the resolution
which, without further preface, he now proposed to
them.—(Cheers.)
Dr. GAVIN seconded the resolution. The Learned
Gentleman entered into numerous details, but con-
fined himself more particularly to the subject of hors
and street cleansing. The houses of the poor, he !
which d.
were generally built on damp soil ; they had no place
to deposit their filth and garbage,
conse-
quently thrown into the streets, an
being neglected, those streets were in
other diseases,
population. n a constant state
of putrescence, producing fever and
_hese things were
.and the
drainage
which desolated the _culated that for 3d.
per head a thorough system
of sewage and drainage,,
and a good supply of water,might be procured. The
nclued b
Learned Gentleman co
rt the Government calling upon the
people to suppo
The resolution was carried with acclamation, gild a
vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman,
the meeting separated.
Petitions to the two Houses of Legislature had
been prepared for the occasion, and when we left they
bad already obtained many signatures.