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

THE KING'S COLLEGE AND
MR. MA U.RICE.

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The following letter his been addressed by Mr.
Maurice to the Council of King's College, and laid
before them at their meeting yesterday :

TO THE COUNCIL OF KING'S COLLEGE.

21, Quiteu.square, Bloomsbury, Nov. 7. 1853.

My Lords and Gentlemen,—l have received from the
Secretary of King's College a copy of certain resolutions
respecting ate which were adopttd at the last meeting of
the council.

ender ordinary circumstances it would be my duty at
once to resign °Sees which the legislative body of the
college has declared that I cannot hold without serious
detriment to its usefulness.

But the council is aware, and the public is now also
aware, that certain definite charges have been brought
against me by the Principal, upon the strength of which
be asked that I should be excluded from my profemonhip.i
Them charges amounted to a declaration that I bad de-
parted fram the orthodox faith. Ha alleged, as his reasons
for this grave charge, that I did not accept a meaning of
the word "Eternal" which he considered to be the only
right one, and that I refused to draw certain consequences
from that meaning, or to pronoun*, an opinion upon •
subject on which the Articles of the Church of England
have not pronounced one.

The decision of the council, as ft avowedly takes cogni•
sauce of the opinions which I expressed on this subject in
my " Theological Essays " and in my correspondence with
the Principal, can be understood to amount to nothing leas
than a condemnation of me upon the grounds which are

expressed in the Principal's letter. The conned must be
deemed to ;have socepted the propositions In that letter,
and to require that all its professors should accept them
likewise.

The Principal evidently shine in this opinion. When I
wrote to inquire whether my lectures were to be continued
till my SUCCSOWS were appointed, he answered that I had
better discontinue them from the day on which the resolu-
tions of the council were plastid. He pronounced this de-
cision though he ►ad officially commanded me to be pre-
sent at the opening of the term and to commence my usual
courses, retracting an unofficial letter in which he had re-
commended me to ask fur leave of absence. I submit that
a person ordinarily so courteous to the proleuors of the
college, and so tender of the intercsta of the students,
would not have thus summarily suspended a teacher whom,
with a full knowledge of his opinions, he had invited to be
a lecturer in the theological department, and whoa had
served the college in the other department for thirteen
years—that he would not have interrupted the studies of
the term, and forced me to break an implicit engagement
with those who are taking part in them—if he had not be-
lieved that he was executing an ecclesiastical sentence upon
a convicted heretic.

I cannot, my lords and gentlemen, believe that, great as
are the privileges which the right reverend beach has eon-
ceded to the Principal of King's College, their lordships,
the bishops, ever intended to give him an authority supe-
rior to their own, superior to that of the articles by which
they are bound ; I cannot think that they wished to con-
stPute him and the council arbiters of the theology of the
English chunk. Such • claim would be as alarming, I
apprehend, to the public as to oar ecclesiastical rulers. If
some parents lees been suspicious of the influence which I
might ezereim over their sone, I believe that there arc few
parents in England who will not complain that the college
has departed from its original principle, when it gives such
a scope to the private judgment of its chief officer, or
even to the judgment of the body which manages its
affairs.

I think it dm, then, to my own character u a clergyman,
to the interests of the oollep, and to the liberties of the
English church, that I should call upon the council, if 11
they prenonnes a theological sentence upon me at all, to
declare w►at article of oar faith condemns my teaching.
I conjure them not to tees any phrases in condemning me
which they wield reject as loom and vague, if the property
or the life of a fellow-citizen were in question. Whether I
have unsettled the faith of my pupils, by giving an inter• i
pretation of the word " Eternal" which I had maintained to be
true (and especially important for students in Divinity) be.
fore I was asked to join the Theological department, the
after lives ethane pupils must determine. But if I have
violated say law of the church, that law can be at ones
pointed out—the nature of the transgression can be defined
without any reference to possible tendencies sad results. it
is this justice, and not say personal favour, my lords and
gentlemen, which I now request at your hands.
I have the honour to be, my lords and gentleman,
Your obedient servant,
T. D. Ileum&

P.S. I hare requested the Secretary to lay before the
cenocil some copies of my letter to the Principal, to which
I have added some notes. I would respectfully call the
attention of the council to the Note 8., page 31, of the
pamphlet.

- After reading this letter the council decided that
they did not think it necessary to enter further into
the subject, and declared the two chairs held by Mr.
Maurice in the college to be vacant.

LETTERS FOR ARCTIC SHlM—Letters for officers,
seamen, end marines serving on board the Enter-
prise, Rattlesnake, and Plover, in Bebring Straits,
are to be sent to the Admiralty on or before the 30th
November.

LATEST FROM ABROAD.

MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF

RUSSIA.
(TRANSLATID raox THI AVSSIAN.)

We, Nicola. 1., Emperor and Autocrat of all the
Russias, King of Poland, &c., publicly proclaim:
By our manifesto, given the 14th day of June, of
the current year, we made known to our well-beloved
and faithful subjects the causes which moved us to
demand of the Porte a firm (secure) guaranteo for
the future of the sacred rights of the orthodox
elaurch.
We also informed them that all our endeavours to
incline the Porte, by measures of friendly persna-
sios, to a feeling of justice, and to a conscientious
observance of treaties, remained unavailing; in conse-
quence of which we recognised the necessity of
moving our armies into the Danubian principalities
Nevertheless in taking this step we still preserved
the hope that the Porte, in acknowledgment of its
errors, would decide on carrying out our just de-
mands.

Our expectations have been dispppointed. In
vain even have the principal European Powers en-
deavoured by their exhortations to shake the obdurate
obstinacy of the Turk;sh government.
To the pacific efforts of Europe, to our long
forbearance, she has answered by a declaration of
war, and a proclamation full of lying denunciations
against Russia. Finally, receiving into the ranks of
her armies the seditious of all nations, the Porte has
already commenced warlike movements on the
Danube. Russia is called forth to the contest; it
remains only for her, placing her trust in God, to
have recourse to force of arms, that she may compel
the Porte to an observance of treaties, and satisfac-
tion for the insults with which she has answered our
most moderate demands, and our just solicitude for
the defence in the East of that orthodox faith which
is professed by the Russian people.
We are firmly persuaded that our faithful subjects
will unite with us in fervent prayer to the Almighty
that his right hand may bleu the arms we raise in
a holy and just cause—a cause which has always
found zealous defenders in our blessed ancestors.

" Lord, in Thee have I put toy trust, let me never be
confounded."

Given at Tsarskce Selo, this 20th day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1833, and of our reign the
28th. (Signed) NICOLAS.

Nov. 5.

Fresh military levies are being raised in Egypt.
The son of Abbas Pacha hu been named Minister of
War.

BUCHAREST, 0cr.31.

The governing council of Boyards appointed by
the Hospodar has been cautioned by Gortschakoff
not to doanything to provoke the anger of the Czar.
Persons spreading false rumours are to be hanged
off hand, and without trial.

VIENNA, TUURSDLY EvElmo

The following conditions are insisted on in an
ultimatum presented by Omer Pacha to Prince
Gortachakoff:

1 "All the strong places in the Principalities to be
given into the hands of the Turks immediately; the
complete evacuation of the Principalities as speedily
as possible, and a guarantee of all the Powers against
similar invasion."

Prince Ghika arrived at Czernowitz on the 4th,
and will remain there for a time, to watch the pro-
gress of events.
The Bourse to-day has closed at the following
prices:—Five per Cent. Nietalliques, 92 9-16. Ex-
change on London, 11.8. Bank Shares, 1,318.

BERLIN, Nov. 8.
The 'frets:: Zeitung contains a denial by the
British Minister of the statements of the Augsburg
Gazette respecting cruelties alleged to have been prac-
ised by the Turks on Christians at Constantinople.

It is stated, on good authority, that the French
government has decided in council that 25,000 men
shall be sent to Turkey, if the Emperor of Russia
should persist in a course of aggression, or demand
pecuniary indemnity as the condition of his discon-
tinuing it. No order has been given by the Minister
of War on the subject. The sending or not sending
of a body of troops will depend partly on the state of
affairs on the Danube, and partly on the despatches
from General Baraguay d'Hillien. It will be only
when pacific means shall be no longer availing that
it will make still more open manifestations than the
sending of the fleet through the Dardanelles.