The Gazette of last night announces that the Reverend Francis
Hodgson has been appointed to the Archdeaconry of Derby, vacant by Dr. Butler's promotion to the see of Lichfield and Coventry.
The Christian Examiner states, that one of the Reverend Charles Simeon's competitors at the sale of the advowson of the rectory of Bath, and vicarage of Lyneombe and Widcombe, was Dr. Baines, now Roman Catholic Bishop, resident at Bath ! Standard. [ Well— the law allows a Catholic to present to Protestant livings. It is a part of the system which it is sacrilege to touch.] At a dinner lately given by the South Bucks Conservative Associa. tion, Dr. Hawtrey, Head Master of Eton School, delivered a Tory harangue, in which he not only answered for his own Conservatism, but assured the company that the Eton lads were also true Conserva- tives—he " saw among them only one spirit of loyalty and Conserve - tism ;" and he added, that their opinions could only be derived from home, though he was supposed to have under his care the sons of parents of every possible difference of political opinion. This was no doubt cheering intelligence to the Tories ; but, if correct, it only proves that the schism between the higher and the other classes of society is likely to endure and to become wider than ever, most assuredly to the disad- vantage of the higher. But it is really of little importance what these half-fledged politicians may think. As Pope says,
" Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes; Tenets with hooks, and principles with times."
Fox was bred a Tory and Pitt a Whig.
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