The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

THE NEW BISHOPS.

(From the Church and State Gazette.)
Opinions seem much divided on the subject of these
appointments. It is to us satisfactory that to the Trac-
tarian party alone are they matter of positive discontent.
We should say that, as regards the archbishopric, it
might have been better and it might have been worse.
We certainly do not, with our contemporary, the Morn-
ing Post; consider that the humble origin of the nevr
archbishop is anything to his disparagement, but the con-
trary ; and we shrewdly suspect that what is disgraceful
in an Anti-Tractarian bishop, as Archbishop Musgrave
undoubtedly is, would be pleaded by our contemporary as
enhancing merit, were the equally-humbly born Bishop
of Exeter; for example, the prelate selected.
With respect to the second appointment—that of the
Regius Proissor of Divinity at Oxford to the see of Here-
ford—we think the government, whose measures we are
so often forced to censure, have exercised a sound discre-
tion, and performed an act of tardy justice. We shall not
be expected to review the painful history of the Oxford
controversy,. or to say how far some may have been led by
any imperfection of expression, unattended to by an author
full of his subject, and guileless and unsuspicious as re-
garded his theological associates, to misconstrue, for a
time, a man who has been tried in the fire, and now comes
forth without a hair of his head singed. The " higher
mind," as the Times has it, of his most formidable anta-
gonist has shown what was its true bias, and what was the
mainspring of the movement against the professor. All
parties in the church, or rather all in the church who are
not partizans, are satisfied on this point—all, except the
" beaten and discountenanced" party,. who, Jesuit-like,
took advantage of a period of grave political suspicions to
depress an opponent too honest to be won over, and too
talented to be despised.
On the merits of the Bampton Lectures of 1833, no less
an authority than the accomplished Hallam has pronounced_
(in opposition to the Times scribe} that their author has
alone, of our countrymen, penetrated to the depths of the
scholastic philosophy ; and we have also perused an
earlier work of Bishop Hampden, on the " Philosophical
Evidence of Christianity," than which Bishop Butler
himself cannot boast of one more closely and clearly
reasoned. We should, of course, bow with profound
deference to the Times writer but that we are—if we are
not mistaken—borne out in our judgment by the early
friend of the author, the late Canon Davison.

What, then, has been the subsequent offence which has
provoked our contemporary to bespatter the new bishop
with his mud and slang ? For a series of yeaA, amidst
discouragement and lukewarmness, Dr. Hampden has de-
voted his splendid talents and unrivalled metaphysical
powers to unravelling the sophistries of the Roroanizers
of the University—has foiled the " well-tempered steel of
a higher mind," that of the author of Tract 90—and drivea
him into the more respectable position which he occupies
at present than when, with the theologians of the Times,
he eat the bread of one communion and held the faith of
another ! The noble stand made by Dr. Hampden, against
the now avowed apostate, Mr. Mac Mullen (webelieve, at
a considerable pecuniary sacrifice,) is, we can assure our
contemporary, duly appreciated by true Churchmen,
who, we would fain believe, still constitute a majority of
our clergy; and in this belief we will charitably conclude
, that the discountenanced" party, who have failed to
place a Hook and a Manning, a Dodsworth and a Bennett,
on the bench, may learn to bear what they may not dis-
turb, and prove themselves undeserving of the Times'
character of them, by not " turning sulky, and making a
merit of idleness"—not representing themselves as " per-
secuted, insulted, or betrayed"—keeping their " temper,
time, and patience ;" and avoiding their threatened me-
tamorphosis into " reckless and needy pamphleteers" or
angry politicians, which the Times writer pays them the
compliment of telling them is so very " silly," and yet so
very likely. We can only express a hope that future whig
appointments may be, in all respects, as unobjectionable
as this last.

According to a lAte account received from Oxford, Dr.
Hampden's appointment is viewed with satisfaction by
the principal members of the University. One or two
meetings had been held of the Tractarian clique, but they
had not succeeded in creating the desired impression, and
the alarm at the nomination is strictly confined to them-
selves.

THE LOSS OF THE STEPHEN WHITNEY.
The Cork Constitution supplies the following additional
particulars connected with the loss of this ill-fated ves-
sel :

" On the 10th instant, being the twenty-fourth day at
sea, the ship was hove to about 2 o'clock, p.m., when
soundings were taken. By this it appeared they were in
50 fathoms water, and they believed they were then in
the English channel. When the cabin passengers and
officers of the ship sat down to dinner, they congratulated
each other on the voyage they had made; and the captain
promised that if the wind continued blowing from the
point it then was in for the next twenty-four hours, they
would be all safe in Liverpool within that time. It soon
came on to blow hard, the fog still continuing ; the ship
was then going swiftly under double-reefed topsails before
a S.W. wind, and about 6 o'clock p.m. the gale increas-
ing, the sails were close-reefed. At 8 o'clock p.m. Mr.
Allen came on deck for his watch, and he immediately
perceived the reflection of a light on the larboard bow.
He instantly called out that there was a light on the lar-
board, but he was answered that it was the reflection of
the signal-lamp of the ship. To this he replied, that if
it were the signal-lamp the reflection ought to be on both
sides. He then looked over the sides of the ship, and
being enabled to see the white foam on one side and not
on the other. it confirmed him in his impression that
there was a light on the larboard whose reflection was
diffused by the fog. Before he had power to remark on
this discovery, there was a cry of ' Breakers ahead and
he clearly perceived the land, to which they had run so
close that the receding surge from the rocks broke over
the larboard bow of the ship. It will be necessary, for
the proper understanding of what subsequently occurred,
to describe the locality in which the vessel then was, but
which, until after the wreck, none of the crew or passen-
gers had any knowledge of. The vessel had passed the
Mizen-head, and instead of bearing up Channel had
rounded Brow-head, passed the Crookhaven light, and
run close to the Alderman's rock, a small craggy island
at the entrance of Crookhaven. Brow-head and Balti-
more, two extreme points or arms of the main land, em-
brace a wide expanse of sea, which forms a large sea
entrance common to several harbours, comprising Crook-
haven, Toormore bay, Skull harbour, Roaring Water bay,
Ilen river, and Baltimore harbour. At the Baltimore
side of the entrance, the Sherkin Islands and Clearlsland
stretch away far into the sea. About midway between
Clear Island and Skull there are three smaller islands,
called Calf Island West, Calf Island Middle, and Calf
Island East, about five miles from Skull. When the
hapless officers perceived the vessel so close to the rock
(` The Alderman'), orders were given to put the ship
about, which were immediately obeyed. She swung
round without touching, ' clawed off the land, mid, after
running about half a mile, the light on Crookhaven was
opened to the view of those on board. A question arose
as to what light it was ; they looked all round, but were
unable to discern Cape Clear light, which was then close
on the starboard bow, but invisible from the fog. The
captain gave it as his opinion that it was the light on the
Old Head of Kinsale. In this he was supported by the
opinions of all on board, and orders were given to put the
ship to sea, taking the heading. S.E. by S. At 9 p.m. it
was considered that they had taken sufficient offing, and
they steered the channel course E. by S., supposing they
were going round Cork harbour, but, unfortunately, she
again ran through the sea entrances above described,
inside C'ear Island, and, at the moment when safety ap-
peared all but certain, she struck with a tremendous
crash, at a quarter to 10 o'clock p.m., upon the west side
of Calf Island West, the cliff at this side being perpendi-
cular for some forty or fifty feet above water, and some
twenty fathoms below, on which a tremendous sea beats
at all seasons of the year. Having recoiled a short dis-
tance from the concussion, she was again dashed broad-
side against the rock, with a violence that clearly told she
could not hold together more than a few minutes. All
those on deck were in the utmost dismay, and the captain,
mate, second mate, third mate, cre or, and such psasengers
as had got on deck, immediately removed their clothes,
expecting to have to swim for life. On the vessel striking
a third time, the immense mass of strong timber quivered,
and shook like a reed, and gave evident signs of an imme-
diate breaking up. The captain, mates, and some of the
sailors got over the lee-side, and hung by the chains for
about a minute, when the captain said he would drop
into the water and endeavour to swim to the rock, and
before the mate had time to prevent him, he jumped into
the sea, but was almost immediately killed by a stroke of
a sea dashing him against the rock. When he had dis-
appeared the mate perceived that the bottom of the noble
vessel was gone, as he felt the deck sinking down, and at
the same time conceived he saw a ship's boat lying bot-
tom up, and forming a bridge between the deck and the
rock. On scrambling towards it, he found it was a pro-
truding piece of cliff, which was driven some feet into the
side of the vessel, and by which he clambered on to a
place of safety. Here he turned to look on the scene of
destruction and death beneath, and he discovered he was
followed in the course he had taken by a few of his com-
panions in misery, while beneath them he saw, by the
light of Crookbaven tower, a vast number in the water
crushed to death by the timbers of the ship, as they fell
in quick succession from her sides. This dreadful scene
lasted about three minutes, and from the time the ship
first struck until every timber of her had been broken
into small pieces, not more than twelve minutes elapsed.
The mate then proceeded to collect those who had escaped,
and seeing there were no others to whom he could give
assistance, they proceeded to clamber to the summit of
the cliff. There was amongst those preserved an inte-
resting boy named Patrick Peterson, a native of Roscrea,
in the county of Tipperary, whom it was somewhat diffi-
cult to prevent throwing himself down the cliff into the
surf, and who upbraided himself very bitterly for his want
of courage in not leaping into the sea when lie perceived
his father drowning, as, his remaining parent being thus
removed, he had no human protector or means of sup-
port. When they arrived at the top of the cliff, they
descried a light on the island. and having proceeded in
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make a fire, and they were almost frozen with cold and
denuded of clothing. Driscoll, however, was determined
to do all that in him lay to relieve their sufferings, and
he ran off to where he was told the wreck took place, and
in a short time returned loaded with fragments of the
noble vessel in which an hour before they had all the
comforts of life, and, piling them in the chimney corner,
his wife endeavoured to fire them to warm her visitors,
while Driscoll again travelled the rugged island and again
returned, bringing with him two goats, whose milk was
distributed amongst the shipwrecked crew. Thus the
night passed over, and the next morning a fleet of boats
was seen all round the island, picking up portions of the
cargo that floated about or were T. 04110 asIVWE RE;

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