The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-10-24
Titles.

There are in our more minute deal
ings with ecclesiastical and academical
dignitaries one or two delicate observ-
ances which are apt to puzzle strangers.
remember the odd effect of letter to
the head of college in Oxford, adj
dressed, in the way that in America is
polite, to president A" We never
say president A" We may say Mr..
or Dr. A, or "The President of "
such college, according to circum-
stances, but president A." on no ac-
count. That is, as long as he is alive;
for, in showing the buildings of the col
lege we should say that such part was
built by President B." That is, of
course, simply for shortness, to say
A. B. built the building, and that a. B.
was President. But we constantly say
s'Archdeacon A" He is never cut
down to Mr.. or Dr., and it is only in
rather formal language that we say
1.-The Archdeacon of'f such a place.
But the Dean is always s'the Dean Of
he has to be mentioned several times,
and the full description becomes weari-
some. Then he may sink into 'sDean
A. -" or even s.Dr. A." This may be
because the Dean commonly stands by
himself in the diocese, while of Arch
deacons there commonly are several.
The last new thing in ecclesiastical
titles is the Bishop Designate" Or,
rather, he is not the'last new thing, for
several still newer things have been
formed after his likeness, down even to
.'Curate Designate The "Bishop
Designate" is q creature of advertise
ments. 1 perfectly well remember
his beginnings. Some publisher
was advertising the writings of
clergyman named, but not
yet consecrated, to some Irish or Colo
nial See. His proper description, of
course, was "Bishop elect;" but the adj
vertiser fancied that there could not be
Bishop-elect where there was only one
elector, so he invented the name of
'.Bishop designate. The thing took;
only the name presently changed its
meaning. 1t is now used in the case of
an ordinary English Bishop to express
stage, earlier than ''Bishop-elect,
stage namely, when no legal or eccle-
Siastical step has yet been taken to
make him into Bishop. The Bishop
designate is one who has simply re-
ceived letter from the Prime Minister,
which as yet makes no difference what
ever in his actual legal or ecclesiastical
POolbiOAf bLOuSh II NOi toahAN hAenCo ~
highly probable that he will before long
be recommended by the Crown, elected
by the chapter, and confirmed and con-
secrated by the Metropolitan. Long
before even the first of those steps has
been taken, people now call him '.Bish-
op designate" quite gravely, as if it
were an established legal or canonical
description, instead of the device of an
advertiser not many years back. have
seen the nickname used in formal uni
versity notice, and saw the other day
in the Court Circular something about
the s.Dean of Windsor Designate" The
oldest thing Of all was serious discus.
sien in a newspaper as to ''the legal
status of a Bishop Designate" as if
there really was such a creature IN re-
rssnl pdtslrd.-E. d. Freeman, IN Long
| sadn's Magazine.
-Workmen engaged in painting
/; Trinity Church, in Newport, r. L, re-
gently took down the vane, which was
placed on the spire in Queen Anne's
! reign. 1t was six feet four inches across
and four feet high, and surmuunted by
crown, which is believed to be the