New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-19
TOPICS IN LONDON.
THE NEW DEAN-soCIAL sHAMs.

| Dr. BRADLEYs ABLE AND DISTINGUISHED CA
hEER-rHE WHITEHALL REVIEWS IDEA OF So
| clErY JoURNALIsM--MR. GLADSTONE TO BE
| CREDITED WITH THE CORRECT ENGLISH OF THE
| QUEENS SPEECH.
lFRon REGULAR coRRRspoSnpxr xr on TIM, ,,,n,-,
LoNDoN, Sept. Liver since Dean Stanley died
speculation has been rife as to his successor The
Deahery OF Westmi 1ster is regarded as one of the
prizes OF tine Church Compared to the great hisb.
oplics, lts money vaiue is small. The pay is only
@Io'ooo year, while the chief episcopal salaries
range from S25,o0c to 275 900 year and only
TWO or three of the minor ones are less than
9Zo,ooo One of the Canons of Westminster owing
to some anomaly the origin of which is probablv
ancient and Therefore venerable has a larger in
/ come unan the Dean has from the revenues of tho
Abbey 1t has been said to be one charm of West
minister that its Dean is subject TO no eplscopal
authority. He can snap his fingers in the face of
the greatest spiritual potentate of them all even
him OF Canterbury, Prmate of All England OF him
OF London, who would naturally be the Deans
spiritual superior. The metaphor is perhaps too
IrlVoious TO apply to an ecclesiastical dgnitary
But 1t is certain that Dean Stanley tolerated no
interference with his administration of the Abbey.
aud accepted no rebuke from any bishop whatever
ior any of his theological escapades. He was not
only independent of the Bishop of London. He
contested with him the leadership of the religions
world IN his own diocese. OF the extra-eccesasti-
cal splendor with which Dean Stanley thanks 10 his
standing at Court general society and IN litera
ture, invested his Deanery enough has been said
already. 1t was factitous but so long as the late
Dean lived it added to the reputation and power
OF the post he filed, and made it, of course as has
been said hundred times, all the more difficult for
any possible successor to fill.
OF the candidates mentioned during the last few
weeks the best known was Canon Liddon the
fashionable preacher who so crowds ST. PauPs
when he breaches that tickets are issued 10 all the
Al
called an eloquent preacher, one vastly admired
by women, and his appointment would have been
popular In society. But he belongs 10 that sect OF
the Church known as High, and his nomination
would have offended the Evangelcals past forgive
ness, besides being a sharp censnre npon the
memory of Dean Stanley, who was before all things
Broad Churchman. The place was not at any
rate, offered TO Canon Liddon, nor vet to Canon
Farrar also favorite preacher with churchgoers
of The West End. IL was offered TO the Dean of
Christchurch, Dr. Liddell of the authors of the
Greek Lexicon known and used in America as uni
versaly as here and one of the best scholars of his
day. But be preferred to stick TO Oxford of which
he is Vice-Chancelor 1t was proposed also to Or.
Vaughan. Master of the Temple and Dean of
Llandaf, Dean Stanley's brother-in-law. and q
most learned, excellent and too modest man. and
by him also refused Finally.it was offered to and
accepted 10y DIR. Bradley.
The appointment % DR.. Bradley is not what ia
called popular. He is not known as a preacher and
has never published Sermons, nor books of any
kind, nor taken a lead in any of the innumerable
controN ersies with which the Church begules its
leisure. He belongs TO no great family, and is a
stranger in society None the less is he very able
man, who has done most useful and honorable work
in hIs line Like Stanley, lac was a pupil of
Arnold, and believe had Stanley himself for a
tutor at Oxford. By and by he became an under
master at Rugby, and went thence to Marlborough,
fiab la hao
lifted that school into the front rank doing for is
what Arnold had done for Rugby, and doing it SO
well that Marlborough is now reckoned better
school than Rugby, and perhaps the best of the
great public schools in all England: dispacing
Rugby, as Rugby had previously displaced Eton:
which now for being the worst of all though
still the most fashionable, and boasung more
Dukes sons than all others; and more sDobs Also
TO whom the school which has most Dukes must
always remain the best Mr.. Bradley's preeminent
capacity for governing a school seemed presently,
often happens a sufficient reason for transfer
ring hum 30 a different business, in which his
capacity was less preeminent. He was elected
Master of University College at Oxford in 1870;
and accepted that post. 1t may seem more brill
liant one, but in England the head masters of the
leading public schools stand a level to say the
least, with the heads of colleges at the Universities
and make much more money. Marlborough must
have been worth $4,000 a year when Mr. Bradley
gave IL up. 1t Is understood he was impelled 10
accept University College by reforming zeal and
he went to work at abuses both in the college and
the University, with energy which soon raised
up in his path host of adverSaries. He far pre-
vailed against them to lift his college which had
fallen low into the front of colleges of the second
rank; Ballio still standing by itself in the first
rank and tolerating no rivalry in its successful
competition for academical honors Dr. Bradley
became a conspicuous figure at Oxford but distlnc-
fiOO Mt tlNfa
elsewhere. and the Master of University has cer-
tany been less known to the world in general than
was the Head Master of Marlborough ten or fifteen
years ago. II he had applied himself to the writing
of books TO the giving of lectures or TO tIansla
ing Thucydides, he might have won a more brilliant
name.
As il is. DIR. Bradleys appointment TO the Deanerv
of Westminster, while il proyokes no active hostility
except from the disappointed ecclesiastical clioues
who hoped TO install one of their own men excitas
enthusiasm mainly among his Old pupils One of
them has printed a panegyric on him. from which
may bL CLEANED the interesting item that As an
Undergraduate, he used 20 read nine hours and run
nine miles daily. And this other even more sicnii-
cant fact TO his notions of college discipline: IL
anyone persistently kept away from the chapel ser
vices nc sent for him and asked if the abstentioa
was due TO principle Incidence; if principle
was pleaded for ones absence he was Quick TO COM
mend, and careful to explain that he attached no
value to attendance unless it could be conscien-
tiously and voluntarily rendered. / wonder what
President WOolsey would have said II l had told
him l should like TO stay away from chapel on
principle. Or rather, l do not wonder And L
suppose Yale students are still driven like sheen To
chapel twice day and thrice of Sunday,