KING'S COLLEGE.
THERE seems to exist something like a wish in its high Tory friends to put clown this incipient institution. Why they should not only abandon it themselves, but endeavour to persuade others to aban- don it, at a moment when, according to their own showing, the Church is in imminent danger, it would puzzle wiser heads than ours to determine. If the Bishop of Loarnoar be a suspicious, or Mr. HENRY COLERIDGE an inefficient officer, why not change them ? Their appointment and dismissal lie with the subscribers. If the site chosen for the building be inconvenient, call a. meeting and determine on another. But do not, like over-indulged children, find fault without knowing where the fault lies, or, if informed on that head, without seeking for a remedy. We think the King's College would be greatly useful, for two reasons ;—it would stimulate the London University to increased exertion ; and it would supply what that seminary necessarily de- nies, a respectable education for the children of those who think that the peculiarities of the Episcopal Church form an essential part of it. What would these malecontents be at ? They have described the London University as a place where irreligion is to be taught,—a base and stupid imputation, but believed by fools, as what base and stupid thing is not ? Are they prepared—so be- lieving—to support the London University, and, in their vain terror of Romanism, to fly from religion altogether ?. Even, if they were so bent, the withdrawing of their subscriptions, we should say, would be a shabby affair. Many have been induced by the example of such men as Lord WINCHILSEA to put clown their names as subscribers, whose fears and fancies are not so strong as his. By
such men, his conduct and that of his friends will not unplausibly be attributed to a regard for their purses rather than their prima ples. We would have them think of this, and if they will play the fool, play it handsomely.
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