Mail View Behavior

This might seem like a menial issue but it's important to me and a solution would help me continue with the same productivity as mail in previous OSX Updates.
Here's the way it used to work.  In the message viewer, If I had a message highlighted, it was show up in the main window.  When I delete the message, it the rest of the messages would move up, so the next message would be highlighted.   The effiency of this, is that when I am sifting through unwanted emails, I can click the delete button and without having to move, I can decide whether the next message gets deleted or saved. 
The way it now works, after deleting a message, the previous email (already evaluated) get's hightlighted, so I then have to either use the arrow key or the mouse/trackpad to select the "next" message again to decided whether to keep or trash it.
Another reason this becomes frustrating is this... should I decided to mark the first message as unread so that I can be sure to tend to it in the future... because mail now automatically moves the higghlighted message to the previous message, it marks the "unread" message as "read"
Is there any way to change this?  I tried setting the view as "by date" bothe acsending and decsending and mail acts in the same manner. 
Anyone find the new behavior challenging or know of a way to fix it.  I like the new mail app overall but this little change I am having difficulty getting used to.

Sorry....that was the wrong question to the wrong comment....

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