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NLW ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
(From the Times.)
We believe we may set at rest the speculations
vhich have been raised by the vacancy in the see of'
York, by announcing that Dr. Musgrave, the Bishop
f Hereford, is to be the new Archbishop, and that he
s to be replaced in his present see by
Ze
On the former of these appointments we have but
'ittle to remark; but that little, we are sorry to say,
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ten hndeetsmi oopnniso Dr. Hampden, gins Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
not very favourable. Dr. Musgrave may, fur aught
►
ve know, be a Rood man of business, and he may
for-
hearance of the occupant. The selection, however,
tayhnmed importancealnuntlm aoiablfni
tedyt hmi
aensan eandnqpeuora3B-;
will certainly add one more example to that prescrip-
ion which seems to establish as a rule of English
aatessnanship that the titular Primate of England ought
:o be a man as free from extraordinary talents as of
Overweening ambition. We will not dispute that it
may still bean object to preserve our nobles from another
Wolsey, and our Howleys from another Williams.
But there is a clerical gift not at all formidable to
,tatesmen, though otherwise exceedingly useful in days
when everybody, in or out of office, is thrown on his
awn intrinsic resources. Preaching, though apt to
he schismatic, is not often rebellious. Dr. Musgrave
can write a sensible discourse; but ha has neither the
shysical nor the intellectual powers requisite for the
most ordinary degree of oratorical effect. The Whit-
-kids and Wesleys of Yorkshire have no reason to
tremble for their reign.
The other appointment is a far more serious affair.
We cannot imagine on what principle or motive it
has been adventured, and 'should certainly have
thought that the maxim Quieta non movere applied
co the embers of that melancholy quarrel. Dr.
Hampden is now a purely historical character. Se-
veral years since a very great battle was fought over
his body, and very great bitterness excited. his
appointment to the Regius Professorship could not
be disturbed, but the University pronounced, or
rather enacted, upon him a very clumsy and irregular
sort of censure, which it has not, indeed, removed,
but which it has incidentally and partially qualified
in a recent professorial statute. The same statute,
however, which recognizes Dr. Hampden's authority
also swamps him with a crowd of theological rivals;
and the young divines of Oxford may now choose
their several favourites from some half-dozen pro-
fessors. Dr. Hampden is not an attractive teacher,
and he never would have set the Isis on fire if his
own natural flint had not come in collision with the
well-tempered steel of a far higher mind. As matters
now stand he is very well housed and shelved. He
is Regius Professor of Divinity, Canon of Christ
Church, Rector of Ewelme, and Principal of St.
Mary I Tall. He possesses little influence, and excites
few alarms. The University has protested, and with
that protest is now perfectly content. We should
have thought, therefore, that the present state of
affairs is satisfactory to all the parties concerned;
and nothing certainly can be more unnecessary than
to disturb it.
It is now some years since the Church of England
presented itself to the State in a jealous and anta-
gonistic character; and whatever the results of
theological warfare, we cannot but think the country
has derived great benefit from the truce we at present
enjoy. Whatever differences may occasionally arise
between Church and State, nothing is more evident
than that they should act conjointly, and as one, in the
government and social improvement of the country.
For some time there has been a considerable degree
of co-operation between the two powers. We have
recently seen them making mutual concessions in the
cause of education. Much yet remains to be done
In bodies and souls, habits and habitations, there is
still room for improvement. Fifteen thousand
educated persons, generally with time and talents to
spare, posted at geographical intervals over the whole
c nintry, and under one system of management, are
a corps of auxiliaries not to be despised. A distin-
guished savant recently proposed that they should all
be compelled to make and contribute atmospheric and
other physical observations. A statesman will take
much the same view of their moral and statistical
opportunities. Their cordiality, as well as their con-
sent, is required. Everything, therefore, likely to
make a breach with ever so inconsiderable a party is
the Church ought to be avoided.
On the other hand, there is no party whatever, at
least none worth taking into account, to whom the
new appointment to the see of Hereford can
possibly he agreeable. It is not a question be
tween - High and Low Church, or between the
Church and Dissenters. Dr. Hampden may have
been ready to receive consolation from all who were
ready to offer it; but if we ask what is the original
ground he represents in the field of theology, we shall
find very few parties willing to share it unreservedly
with him. Dr. Hampden, being neither a graceful
writer, nor an original thinker, nor a clear-headed
man, procured an appointment which demanded at
least one of these qualifications. By canvassing a
limited board of electors he became Bampton Lec-
turer. Haply at the moment he fell in with persons
who were both willing to suggest a topic, and able to
develop it. Under questionable auspices he com-
posed a very dull compilation from French and other
writers of indifferent repute, and whom it would
have contributed as little to his theological as to his
literary credit to acknowledge. The fact is, that
Dr. Hampden had not the least notion what he was
writing about, or what he was driving at, or where it
would end. He had just the sense to stop short
where he did, and as he afterwards became still more
sensible, lie took care for the future to stop still
shorter. He has not, however, honesty and openly,
recanted a system which turns into a mere mist of
words, or rather into nothing at all, not merely this
or that doctrine, but everything Christianity pro-
fesses to teach and reveal. He continues an offender,
not only against Anglican orthodoxy, but against
Presbyterian, 'Wesleyan, Independent, Baptist, and
every other orthodoxy whatever.
Lord John may depend upon it that in selecting
Dr. Hampden he has committed a political error. He
has roused the slumbering antipathy of a considerable,
though a beaten and d iscountenanced party. It is not safe
for a popular chief to neglect any element of influ-
ence. For some time he has been reaping the benefit
of a growing belief that he is a better friend to the
Church than Sir Robert. The clergy, accordingly,
are beginning to look with favour on liberal measures.
It is something to silence a battery which merely
annoys. The clergy, however, can do more than
annoy. In their separate capacity they have an im-
mense negative power. They can refuse to do almost
anything, and if they are sulky will be very likely to
make a virtue of idleness. Bishops and Parliaments
can make a clergyman reside on his living as easily as
you can bring a horse to the pond, but they can no
more make a clergyman do an atom of good than you
can make a horse drink. Now, such an appointment
as that we announce is just the very thing to
drive half the clergy to disgust and despair. Forth-
with, instead of heading and tailing old sermons,
they will set to work writing new ones, discussing
'
Church and State, and intimating very plainly that a
certain person, who should not, guides the counsels
of Downing-street. They will represent themselves
as persecuted, insulted, and betrayed. They will
publish sermons and circulate tracts. The booksellers
will get a harvest, for which the families of some five
hundred reckless and needy pamphleteers will pay
with reduced allowances of bread and butter, and a
protracted wear of last year's new clothes. Mean-
while, time and temper will be lost ; patience, purses,
and parishes will be ruined. All this may 'be silly.
but a statesman is bound to prevent it if he can. A
wise shepherd has no respect for the intellect of his
sheep, but he nevertheless takes most carefully into
account all that they are likely to do.
(From the Poet.)
It has been publicly announced that Dr. Musgrave,
now Bishop of Hereford, will he elevated to the Arch-
diocesefar of York, and that Dr. Hampden, Regiuswhoto
Professor of Divinity in Oxford University, will be
no-
minations will disappoint, and the second disgust,
the new Bishop of Hereford. The first of these
t,ahrohsiegsf.rienTdisieoref
steheemCehdutrochbeall
to expect reasonably good appointments from th
as the Church was concerned, in the removal Robert Peel from power; but Lord John Russell Sir
as if he were desirous of proving that the connexion acts
of the Church with the State is even a greater evil,
under his Administration, than under thatofthe •vi
Right
Hon. Member for Tamworth.
The Right Rev. Personage said to be chosen for the
Archdiocese of York is by no means eminent as a
divine. He has abilities of a certain kind, which it is
understood were found useful to the Whigs in the
cti: n?ering affairs of the West 'aiding of Yorkshire.
Hence his promotion to the Episcopal Bench. But
Hereford not being enough, he now gets York! Does
Lord J. Russell expect that such promotion will serve
the cause of religion, or make the Church more effi-
cient for its great work ?
And yet the appointment to York is almost com-
mendable in comparion with that to Hereford. Dr.
Musgrave is not eminent for sound divinity, but
Dr. Ilampth n is notorious for unsound divinity.
True, he is Professor of Divinit7 in Oxford Uni-
versity, but it was not from the University he re-
ceive that appointment. He is the Itcgiui Professor,

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.
Hampden 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 Dr. 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 sbown 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 tithe 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-
grown the means of religious influence and instruc-
tion. For the duties involved in the management
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 16 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 established 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,
trees of Trent, raised the cry of heresy in an Eng'
lish University against the teachings of a Protestan
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WRECK OF THE NEW YORK
PACKET-SHIP STEPHEN WHITNEY.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENlNG.—Further infor-
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ship Stephen Whitney has been received here this
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several letters had been received from Skibbereen,
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One letter mentions the loss at ninety individuals,
twenty of that number being ladies; and also adds,
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" The third, a more detailed and correct account,
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" Skibbereen, Nor. 12.
" lam sorry to inform you that, on the night
before last, a dreadful shipwreck occurred outside
Baltimore Harbour, on the rocks called ' The
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The vessel was an American packet from New York;
her name I don't know yet. I am informed Mr.
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one of the parties lost. It is reported, since I began
this letter, that there were three vessels lost on the
same fatal night.'

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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 ►piles only of the spot."
In addition to the foregoing, we find the following
in a late edition of this day's Liverpool Albion:—
" 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,
contnining the explanation of the disaster to the Ste-
phen Whitney, and other details.

" It appears that Captain Popham, the commander
of t±e ill-fated ship, having run close on the land,
tnlst,,ok the lighthouse of Croolchaven for that of the
°la Head of Kinsale, and under this erroneous im-
pr,miion 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
sherd the same fate ; and, in a short space, ninety-
one, of the hundred and ten individuals on board were
nu,nbered with the dead. Immediately upon intelli-
gei ice reaching the inspector and collector of customs
the! proceeded to the scene of the wreck, and ren-
dere, I all the assistance in their power; and from the
oth,E; accounts published it will have been seen that
nint,,teen lives were saved.

" ,Large quantities of the carg ) and pieces of the
wrt e k had been cast on shore.

" _Nine years back a similar fate attended another
ship. upon the same spot, the Lady Flora Hastings,
we believe; and on that occasion every soul on board
poi's bed."

ie Rev. George Urquhart, M.A., Fellow of Mag-
da./ i College, Cambridge, has been licensed by the
Bib I op of Ripon to the district living of Meanwood,
near Leeds, on the nomination of Mrs. Mary Beckett
awl Miss Elizabeth Beckett, of Meanwood-park, the
fot p iders..

No. 17,07.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING Ny NOVEMBER 16, 1847.