GOOD THINGS IN THE GIFT OF THE PREMIER. AIORNING Jones:at—The
Prime Minister has, at this moment, at his dis- posal, two deaneries, a canonry of Windsor, and (as it is asserted) the large living of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. These are large "timings" to keep, we will venture to affirm, nearer one hundred than half a hundred, of eager anti confident candidates in a state of agonizing suspense. Why " the living" is to be given (or, it may be, is already given) to the brother of my Lord Grey, it is difficult to conjecture, since that gentleman's professional tenets have not a slight dash in them of the evangelical or methodistical persuasion. Such a successor to Bishops Meet and Blomfield is most amazingly out of the ordi- nary course of things' unless the Premier have worked himself up to the per- enasion that he will have the voice of my Lord Grey in the Upper House, This may or may not be, although we think that the flock of St. Botolph's ought not to hear the voice of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Grey in Bishopsgate church. Such a magnificent vital piece of preferment should be given to an able, eloquent, orthodox clergyman—in every sense of those expressions. But all these "good things" (we hear) are yet undisposed of; and nearly two months have elapsed since they became at the Minister's disposal. Why is this ? Where is the far-famed decision of the first Captain of his age ? Would my Lord Liverpool have evinced such hesitation and apparent vaccilla- Cott ? Grant, if you please, that Professor Gaisford prefers a canonry at Christ Church to the Deanery of Norwich (and we delight to record this proof of his filial affection for alma wader), and that Dr. Woodcock, on com- ing down to reconnoitre the said deanery, preferred "his birth," as a Christ Church canon, to a large rambling house, with attendant repairs and taxes, &c., still, we ask, is there no other man—no "deter digniori" clergyman throughout these realms—fitted for the appointment of the Dean of Norwich ? Be the reasons what they may, the continuance of this deanery in abeyance is, to speak the least harshly, as reprehensible as unprecedented. Archdeacon Wrangliam, we conclude, is secretly sighing for the deanery of Ripon—but my Lord Dudley's "occupation's gone !" As to the canonry of Windsor, be the successor who he may, he will have ample work on his hands in imitating the worth, the virtues, the Christian meekness, and manifold excellencies of his predecessor. Dr. Chatnpigny (we are not sure that we spell his name rightly), in more than one important instance which it is in our power to mention, proved himself, indeed, worthy of being numbered among the brightest examples of his profession. 0, si SIC omnes !
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