The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

THE DEANERY OF YORK.

The new Dean of York, we are compelled in
strict duty to say, whatever be his merit,. has cer-
tainly no distinction beyond that of being a Tory,
a brother to Lord Feversharn, and already the
holder of church prererments and other possessions
of the reputed value of 12,0001. a-year. The Hon.
and Rev. A. Duncombe brings no other lustre
to the office. Neither does the place become him
nor he the place. There is a glaring and notorious
incongruity to which neither the wealth nor name
of the new incumbent can reconcile us. The deanery
of Yolk is both too low and too high a place for the
Hon. and Rev. A. Duncombe. It is too low for the
honourable and too high for the reverend—too low
in regard to pride and profit=too high in regard to
talent and eminent Christian character. The won-
der, indeed, is lgss that the Derbyites (for it is their
nature) should have made such an appointment than
that she Hon. and Rev. A. Duncombe should have
consented to accept it ; for the paltry 1,0001. a-
year, which the place is now worth, can scarcely be
an ohj( ct of desire to the possessor of an income of
12 times that value. A job is always scandalous,
but the present scandal is greater from its being at
the expense of religion and a Christian Church.
The greatest degradation which such a church can
know is when its high offices are made political
pr zes. The Deanery of York, if it implies anything,
more than the empty title and a sleepy dominion
over sleepy vergers, is not a crumb to be scrambled
for among the hungry rank and file of party dive-
nity. _ Too long already has this reign of slumber
lasted, to the prejudice of the Church in those parts
and to the detiiraent of the noble edifice which our
forefathers buiit for worship and we retain for show.
Too long has vergedom sat like a dark dragon at
the porch cf God's hovse in the obscure watch for
sixpences ; and now, it ever, is the time to rescue
the temple from the money-changers, and to restore
it to its old use ; but what are our prospects under
the Hon. and Ray. A. Duncombe I—Yorkshireman
of Saturday.

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such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches,
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