THE DEAN OF YORK.
Selby Parsonage.
In—Both you and your correspondent "M." seem to write on supposition, that when a deanery falls vacant, the word and question ought to be—" Here is a good thing, whom must we reward with it ?" Says your correspondent—" reward Dr. Hook of Leeds "—that is to say—" take the right man from the right place." No one else could do so much at Leeds as Dr. Hook. Nowhere else could he do so much as there. Yet your correspondent would take the great man from his great work. May I, Sir, suggest some reprints from Thomas Carlyle on " Reward "?
Surely the right word and question are—" Here is a great opportunity, how may most be made of it ? "—which, perhaps, on the late occasion, could scarcely have been answered better than with Mr. Duncombe. God, who gives to different men different talents, has, it seems, given him the very powerful and responsible talent of twelve thousand a year. A position was wanted from which to wield it effectually. Probably few could have been found more suitable than the Deanery of York.
F. W. HARPER.
[We give insertion to this note from a feelin„,9 that, in so flagrant a case as the appointment of Mr. Duncombe, anybody who thinks he has a word to say in behalf of that "ill-used" clergyman, should be heard. But we are really in doubt whether the above defence is ironical or serious.—En.]
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