The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.

FROM where Brent Knoll lifts its turfed slopes
above the marshes of Somersetahire and the tawny
waters of the Severn sea, Archdeacon DcrrisoN
sends a Christmas giNeting to the " Cathedral
" Church of Christ, in Oxford." It would be
doing him au injustice not to admit that his mes•
sage shows little trace of any tame or superstitious
acquiescence in the traditional associations of the
coming season. Neither peace on earth nor
goodwill towards men has much to do with the
present temper of the Archdeacon of TAUNTON.
To him the closing year brings with it one of those
duties which everyone admits to be painful, and
almost everyone takes a virtuous pleasure in dis-
charging—the duty of telling a friend he is in the
wrong. Why this obligation should be laid upon
him at this moment, considering that the crime by
which it was created is more than a year old,
and has already formed a frequent text for the
politico-theological discourses with which Mr.
DENISON is wont to improve the passing months,
it is very hard to divine. We can only suppose
that in the dulness of the season his mind, driven
back upon itself, reverts unbidden to that scene of
past triumphs and future contests, the theatre at
Oxford ; and ho cannot think of the Greek Pro-
fessorship without feeling himself constrained to
discharge an accusation at Dr. PUSET. Archdeacon
DENISON has no longer any faith in Dr. PUSEy—
nay, we may almost say be has no longer any
faith in human nature. Dr. Prsrv's iniquity is
of so deep a dye that his former friend feels his
mental retina discoloured by merely looking at it.
The spectacle of a High Churchman proposing the
endowment of a Professorial Chair while that
chair is held by Mr. JowErr has left him with an
eye to which all order festers, all things here are
out of joint ; it has forced him to say, " with
" deep regret and bitter pain, that of all things
" which have occurred in our time to shake our
" faith and confidence in men, nothing has occurred
"to compare with this act of EDWAZD Bocvsais
" PUSEY."

GEORGE ANTONY Demisox is a remarkable
instance of the injurious moral influence
of a career of theological partisanahip.
He is, we believe, by nature an emi-
nently honest man, and an eminently clear-
headed man ; and yet in the question of the endow-
ment of the Greek Professorship he refuses per
to do an act of simple justice, and be
mixes up in hopeless confusion two absolutely
different issues. The question which has already
been submitted once, and we hope will be sub-
mitted again, to the decision of the Oxford Con-
vocation, has no more to do with the theological opi-
nions of Mr..lowrrr than with those of the Grand
Lama. Whether his writings be heretical or
orthodox is not the point on which the University
has to pronounce ; it is only concerned with the far
simpler issue, whether the labourer is worthy of his
hire. Nobody denies that Professor Jowarr does
his work, nobody has any fault to find with the
quality of his work—the only reason alleged by
the great majority of those who refuse to assign
him any salary for the course they
have taken is, that be holds heretical opi-
nions. I Suppose he does. What, weak—and shall
probably have to ask often enough again before we
succeed in getting an answer—has that to do with
the matter ? It may be • good ground why the
Crown ought not to have appointed him ; it may
be • good ground why the University should take
legal steps to have him removed ; but it cannot be
a good ground for not paying him now that he has
been appointed, and so long as he is not removed.
If the opposition to the proposed statute means
anything, it means that in the judgment of the
University Mr. Jowtrr is orthodox enough to be
• professor, but not orthodox enough to deserve
3601. a year. It is nothing to the purpose to say
that the University does not withhold an income
which has been paid heretofore, but only declines
to create • new endowment. Technically, of
course, this is 6o ; but the real question which has
to be answered by every man who wishes to see
justice done, apart from theological considerations
of any kind whatsoever, is this—Would the en-
dowment of the Greek chair have been voted if the