The Wilmingtonian., 1886-03-13
Badeau's Letters.

and inexact in his Grant "reminiscences and
history, as he only too apparently is in the
matter of h London Letters addressed to
the Philadelphia Press, his facts and asser-
tions must be taken daily with an ever pres
ent grano sails from the literary dinner-ta-
BILE.
There is large amolnt of nexact,tude
and careless assertion, if not ignorance of
English manners and customs and social life
displayed misstatements are made in regard
to constitutional and historical questions,
and this so repeatedly, that any reader pos
sessed of ordinary information upon the
topics referred to cannot fail but recognize
in the General a smatterer, or, one who, with
limited Information upon the subjects taken
np, has failed in obtaining that proper know
ledge commonly necessary to be possessed of
when addressing clientele such as the read
ers of the Philadelphia Press may be pre-
ouilcl W COlsblbulS.
The letters are attractive and interesting
despite their ignorance and oft vulgarity.
But tue omnivorous reader Phlistine that
he is, would, on choice, prefer facts to mex
acttude or even spiciness.
In last Sundays Press Mr.. Badeau says
when speaking of the class of men elevated
to the bishops bench in the House of Lords.
"The Bishop of Exeter, like the late
Bishop of Manchester, has adorned his place,
though the appointment of each was bitter
ly opposed. The Bishop of Gloucester is
eloquent, but both are partisans, and Lid
don, like Stanley and Mlman, has remained
unconsecrated, while crowd ofhis interiors
received the mitre which he deserved.
The Queen, it was said, repeatedly urged
the elevation of Dean Stanley to the bishops
bench, but had not sufficient Influence to
carry her point The story may not be true,
for Gladstone certainly was Stanley friend,
and the Dean probably preferred his inde-
pendence and the life of Loudon society, in
which he was a brilliant figure, to the pre-
cedence and responsibility of episcopacy aud
exile to the provinces for half of every year.
More than once heard him boast that as
Dean of Westminster he was subject to no
diocesan. If it had been otherwise he
might perhaps have aspired to see, for the
deans often quarrel with their bishops,
especially alb ,ut the control of the cathed-
rails"
The facts are othe Is agard to DSan
Stanley. Il is remarkabl th9 General Ba-
deau did not credit the people of Philadel-
phia with more exlct knowledge of Dean
Stanley record upon the subject of his Gle
walton to the episcopacy. During his recent
visit here, and also on a previous occasin, the
stood as matter of record that Dean Stan
ley had distinctly refused the bishopric of
London, and that other sees had been offered
repeatedly to him by both Tory and Liberal
premiers. That Victoria's repeated pressure
of such honors upon the great dean had
been as regularly refused. All this is
known in Philadelphia as ordinary informa,
ton gathered from different directions, both
direct from the dean himself and his numer-
GUS hosts in the CiCy of bro therly love
General Bldeau seems not to be aware that
Dean Stanley stood for fifteen years in dir:
ect succession, both epscopally, in literar!
standing, and as au ecclesiastic, for eleva-
t on to the bishops bench, and it was wei
known naught but his own iud ference tC
to the distinction, similar to Gladstone's tt
barony to-day, precluded him from being
spiritual "my lord"
Again in the following paragraph Mr.
Badeau is equally unsuccessful in his asser
| blOuSs llS says
"The story was also current at Que tim
that the canon who gave up princess t
Lord Lorne was to be rewarded for his sacri
flee with a bishopric and many diatrlb'
was pointed with the taunt of so discred
table bargain"
Most people know that Canon Duckwortt
is the cleric referred to even if the Genera
has forgotten his name. The plain facts ar
that it was for his suave doclity in this mat
ter with Princess Louise that the Rev Mr.
Duckworth received his canonry, bishop
ric was never in the question.
General Badeau continues, in the same al
ticle "One blshopric has seat in the Hous
of Lords attached to it, another is without
this distinction and though every bishop il
by courtesy styled Ny Lord, and none o
them dsclaim the title, only certain fortu
nate ones aIe in reality peers of the realm
None Of the bishnprics recently created cou
fer this coveted temporal dignity; and o
late years, in order to restrict the number 0
, spiritual aristpcrats only some two dozen {
the most important prelates ave allowed