The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

LITURILIF EVENING.
LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

RUSSJA AM) TURKEY.

Yesterday's Berlin Moniteur, in its account of the
affair of the 2nd, says that the Russian cavalry could
not act in consequence of the marshy nature of the
ground. Prince Gortschakoll had congratulated the
troops on the gallantry they displayed.
A despatch from Vienna states that the Turks,
having at first been driven out of Oltenitza, returned
to the charge, continued the action for twenty eight
hours, and remained masters of the field of battle.
The defeated Russians retired on Bucharest.
According to the last news received in Paris from
Constantinople, the Sultan has positively rejected all
the proposals for an arrangement which the diploma-
tists submitted to him.
The members of the Wallachian Council appointed
by Prince Stirbey, before his departure from the
principality, have paid their respects to Prince Gort
schakotf. The Prince addressed them with great
haughtiness, anti told them to be careful lest they
incurred displeasure of the Czar. He added, that
whoever was guilty of spreading false rumours would
be banged at once, and without trial.
Orders have been issued to transport all provisions,
AT., from the frontier at least six miles into the in-
terior.
The Augsburg Gazette had announced, on the
alleged authority of the British Consul at Thessa
Tunica, that great outrages had been perpetrated upon
the Christians, as many as fifteen hundred having, it
was added, been massacred by the Turks. The
New Prussian Gazette has Leen authorised by the
English Minister at Berlin to contradict that report,
no British agent in Thcssalonica being cognisant of
any such acts as were stated.
The French Government are stated, on good
authority, to have decided in council that 25,000 men
shall be sent to Turkey, if the Emperor of Russia
should persist in his course of aggression, or demand
pecuniary indemnity as the condition of his discon-
tinuing it. No order has, however, been given by
the Minister of War on the subject. The sending
or not sending the troops will depend partly on the
state of affairs on the Danube, and partly on the
despatches from General Baragusy D'Hilliers.

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA.
Sir Charles Hotham was selected by Lord :11almes-
bury, in 1852, for a special mission to the States
bordered by the river Plate, the chief object being to
conclude a treaty of commerce with the republic of
Paraguay. He was afterwards recalled by the pre-
sent Ministry, on the plea that in his hands the
mission (which meantime had been successfully ac-
complished) held out no prospect of success. In
announcing his appointment as Lieut.-Governor of
Victoria, the Ministerial Chronicle now finds reason
for a special eulogy of the discrimination evinced by
the Colonial Secretary in their treatment of this dis-
tinguished other. It says:—
" In no instance have that discernment and that strict
sense oqustice to the colonies which have marked the
Ministerial career of the Duke of Newcastle been unkre
..trongly exemplified than in the selection which he has
now made ; and whilst Sir Charles Hotham will thus
receive a new mark of distinction, and obtain a wide field
for the exertion of his talents, we feel justified in con-
gnitulating our distant fellow-conntryinen in the colony of
Victoria on the expected services of a governor who unites
within himself a rare combination of enterprise, zeal, and
discretion--qualitications which will be highly prized in a
community which has risen, both in numbers and wealth,
with unexampled rapidity, and which has become second
in importance to none of her Majesty's colonial posses.
sions."

CAPTAIN HASTINGS (brother Of Sir Thomas nest-
lings) has been appointed secretary to the Master-
General of the Ordnance, vice Lord Clarence Puget,
resigned.—Army Despatch.
Lrrrtne for officers and men serving on board the
Enterprise, Rattlesnake, and Plorer, in Behring
Straits, are to be sent to the Admiralty on or before
the JUth No ember.

THE PRESS.

Tus CAstrox Curs is about to be completed, under
the direction of Mr. S. Stuirke, with all its three
fronts finished as the wing lately built, using polished
granite shafts for the columns anti pilasters through
out. Mr. Belk has taken the contract, and has tin
dertaken to complete it early in MI Mr. Thomas
is to execute the carting of the exterior. The club
in the meantime will occupy the Duke of Bucking
ham's house enjoining, the present coffee-room of
the club being temporarily connected with it, so that
the members muy continue uninterruptedly to use
that room. —The Builder.
THE REV. Ma. MAURICE lax addressed a letter to
the council of King's College, which was read at
yesterday's meeting. The late professor enters into
some details respecting his dismissal by the princi
pal, and then appeals to the council to intneate in a
more formal amt definite shape the particular grounds
upon which his functions were so summarily super-
seded. He concludes tints :
•' I think it due to my own character as a clergyman.
to the interests of the college, and to the liberties of the
English 1:111M:1101W 1 should tall upon the council, if
they pronounce a theological sentence upon me at all, to
declare what article of our faith condemns my teaching.
I conjure them not to use any phrased in condemning me
which they would reject as loose and vague, if the property
or the life of a tt•llow•eitizen were in question. Whether I
have unsettled the faith of my pupils, liy giving an interpre-
tation of the a ord ' Eternal which I had maintained to be
true land especially important for students in divinity be.
fore I was asked to join the Theological department, the
after lives of those pupils must determine. But if I have
violated any law of the Church, that law can be at once
pointed out—the nature of the transgression can be defined
without any reference to possible tendencies and results.
It is this justice, and not any personal favour, Tin lord. tuid
gentlemen, which L now request at your hands.';
After reading this letter the council decided that it
was not necessary to enter further into the subject,
but declared the two chairs held by Mr. Maurice in
the college to be vacant.
THE ADMIRALTY Cotar.—The Daily News of this
morning gives prominence to the following significant
paragraph :
" A journal (the Timex), sonietinies used as a channel
for Ministerial purposes, gave yesterday the following curt
paraSn•aph :—' Henry Catlogan fiuthery, Esq., has been ape
pointed Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty• in the
place of Henry Birehtield Swabey, Eaq., who has resigned
that °dice.' It would have been well if the journal or its
informants had allowed the public to know why Mr. Swabey
has left the Admiralty Court. His departure from Ake is
an event about which the public is entitled to the fullest
information ; and the more so, as all reforms of the Colitis,
to one of which► Mr. Swabey was attached, have hitherto
been studiously refused. 'tin• present fitiveniment may
win golden opinions by a retOnnat ion of all the Courts that
sit in Doctors' Commons ; but meanwhile we ask for a
public explanation of the circumstances attending Mr.
Swabey's retirement. Why has NI r.lZiithery been appointed
Registrar of the High court of Admiralty In the ',love of
Henry Birchtleld Swabey, re.igned !''

CITY, Two oVlook.

Very little business is doing to-day. The Consol
Market is rather firtner,owing to the more favourable
Bank returns. The following are the closing prices:
Consols, 041; Spanish Three per Cents., 441 rit ;
ditto Deferred, 211 22 ; Mexican, 251 ; Birming-
hams, 1021 3; Leeds, 641 f ; Midland, 61 1; Great
; Nortberns, 201 rightons, 481 ; Dovers, 181 1 ;
South-Westerns, 361 71; North of France, 331 4 ;
Lyons, 151 1 pm.;
Strsabourgs, 37/ ; Russian,
112 114.