The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-09 00:00:00

TIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1850,

MAGAZINES, Sec —(CON TIN UED.)
DUBLIN UNIVERS.ITY.
The charming little tale of " Grace Kenuedy" is
brought to a conclusion. The story ceer.nenced in
the coil, dreary bog, continued at happy Fairport, is
finished at the Abbey, and poor little Grace, ressaued
from ignorance, vice, and poverty, is left a great and
rich heiress. The account of Charles Burton's re-
visiting the home of his childhood is one of the most
beautifully simple and touching descriptions we ever
remember to have perused. " The IllveCe Vial" pro-
gresses in interest; it smacks of Germ;in dial;lerie, and
promises a thrilling climax. In " Maurice Tierney"
the landing of the French expedition, under Hum-
bert, in the bay of Killala, and their cheerless recep-
tion by the wretched peasantry, is graphically told.
We hazard a guess at the author of " Maurice Tier-
ney" from the circumstance of finding, within the
Broils of it single page, " we all broke into a hearty
roar of laughter," " the speaker breaking into a
heart}.. litugh," " they buret out into a roar of
laughter." Tale vile and vapid " roar ef laughter" is
a perpstuallj -recurring nuisance in the generally
clever and blusterous pages of that, popular rattler,
Harry Lorrequer. We pray hint, in a friendly
spirit, to drop the sarry and disfiguring trick for the
future. It has become "too bed." Goethe's Dramatic
fregenent, " Prometheus," is well rendered. The
translator has creditably succeeded in his attempt to
follow the rhythm, and at the sante time to preserve
" the simplicity aid concise energy of the original,
which has ell the effect of exquisitely-chiselled sculp-
ture standing against a crisp clear sky." A memoir,
illustrated by a portrait, of the charming Irish
prima donna, Catherine Hayes, gives a very
interesting summary of the successful career
of that gifted and. amiable lady from the time when
her beautifully clear and silvery mellow voice was
first artistically moulded by Signor Sapio, until, after
the additional tuition of Garcia and Felice Ronconi,
she burst upon the musical world with signal bril-
liancy in her (tibia at Marseilles, in May, 1845, took
Milan by storm in the same year, being called, on the
falling of the curtain, on the occasion of her
first appearance there in the Linda di Chamouni,
no less than TWELVE times before it—in Venice
excited a delirious furore—left the land of song
loaded with laurels, and achieved a triumphant suc-
cess in London. Of " The Pearl of the Theatre,"
the flattering designation which her touching por-
traiture of Desdemona won for her from the Milanese,
her biographer happily remarks, after noting "that
beautiful shake, clear, thrilling, and brilliant," with
which she is gifted,
" Pronounced second only to Jenny Lind by the
coldest and severest critics in the world—described by
one of their cautious organs as certainly the sweetest,
the most graceful, and the most interestinss, representa-
tive' of Lucia on the stage--her professional triumphs
have been as brilliant as her private life has been pure
and amiable. If to Grisi and Adelaide Kemble it has
been given to astonish by the sublime grandeur of their
tragic acting, the passion and the thrilling beauty of
their vocalism ; if to Alboni, mighty in all the mean-
ing of the word, be granted amazing attributes of power,
and a voice organ-like in blended depth and sweetness;
if to Sontag be confided the charm of pure and delicate
expression, wedded to delicious floridness of flete-like
execution; if to Jenny Lind, greater than ail, the queen
of song, be given that purely beautiful perfection of
vocal melody—that true sunshine spoken,' blending
light, and loveliness, and feeling, which never till her
advent came from human throat,—to Catherine Hayes
have descended the deep sensibility, the mournful pathos,
the heart-speaking expression which characterise her
native music.
" As an actress, too, Miss Hayes, during her career,
has displayed dramatic genius of the highest order, re-
pudiating the idea, to a great extent still existing, that
in opera the interpretation of the music alone was the
essential of success. What, for instance, can be more
true to nature than her Amine, so full of innocent and
joyous animation in the earlier scenes. so painfully
real in the after-abandoment to grief, so tender
in love, so touching in sorrow, so purely simple
throughout? Then her Linda—is not the madness
of that love-lore girl painfully real? Was ever sorrow
expressed in more plaintive utterance, more moving
action? Her Lucia, too, is it not an exquisitely
original conception, truthfully carried out? And
even her Norma, a pert for which the soft and
gentle attributes of her nature render her almost
tierce is it not still a grand and moving perform-
ance, a fine portraiture of the woman, not, as is that of
Grisi, of the fiend?"
The "Rummage Review" among the poets of the
season is very clever, but .caustic, and frequently
hypercritical. Bailey is tomahawked, yet scarcely
so much by fair criticism as malignant banter. One
sentence is legitimately severe. " His Festus' had ex-
hausted the storehouse of pretentious inanities and
imposing no-meanings. He has been left to construct
his Angel World' of inanities which make no pre-
tence to substance, and of no-meanings destitute of
any cloak of imposingness." Finding W. G. T.
Barter's rubbishing abortion, 'yclept "The first Iliad
of Homer," thrust among decent company, that
worthy is dismissed with a single salutation—" Oh !
Barter, Barter, in the circle of the currency the coin
exists not minute enough to represent your value in
exchange." Charles Mackay receives high and de-
served honour from the hands of the reviewer, who
after quoting his " Procrastination," the " Plea for our
Physical Life," and " You and I," truly and felici-
tously remarks, " In bidding good-bye and God
speed to this fine-hearted, honest fellow, who preaches
homilies of humanity with equal sweetness and
boldness"—
" Charles Mackay is not so delicate a poet as Long-
fellow, nor rerhaps so profouud; but what he says is
slid off-hand, and comes fresh from a good heart.
Where the other loiters gracefully over the expression of
a sentiment, Mackay has it expressed, and is gone on to
the expression of a new one, without giving you time to
consider whether the emotions you experience have been
excited by graceful or ungraceful diction. The emotions
are sprightly, animating, and humane ; and, like good
wine drunk in the twilight, give you enough of enjoy-
ment without having regard to the fashion of the vehicle.
Every now and then, indeed, you are charmed with a
simplicity, a grace, and kindliness not unworthy of Be-
ranger. Like Beranger, he is most happy in his least
ambitious moments. Uttering the genial sentiments of
the honest fellow of every-day life, he is as good as can be;
communicating the emotions excited in a poetic tempera-
ment by the lovely and beautiful, he is very good; strain-
ing at the grand aspirations of the philosophical poet, he
is good only sub modo, and fails to get into the upper
region, where great spirits alone can expatiate with dig-
nity and freedom. It is a shallow but a clear stream of
song; a beneficent visitant of the meadows and pastures;
delightful company for the wayfarer; making merry
with the mill-wheel and prattling sweetly to the
loiterers on the rustic bridge; but it is not cal-
culated to float navies, or even to bear
any very heavily -laden barge of philosophy.
Let us, however, in his own spirit of enjoyment, make
the most of it, The masses of England stood much in
need of some such cheerful monitor. It is not surprising
that these poems, fulfilling so well the conditions of
cheerfulness, generosity, and independence, should have
become very eminent popular favourites; may they long
continue so. A people among whom Charles Mackay
is a popular writer, must possess largely the elements of
greatness and the reality of goodness. Their visions of
democratic perfection may be somewhat exalted and
cloudy, but their practice in the daily walks of life can
hardly be other than kind, honest, and independent."
Mrs. Sandback's " Aurora" just passes muster ; small
reverence is paid to the resuscitation of " The Poetical
Works of John Struthers ;" considerable applause is
given to Mr. Michell's elegant poem " The Ruins of
Many Lands ;" whilst " Wild Flowers from Ger-
many" and " The Wrongs of Poland" are severally
dismissed with a summary kick. On the single fault
discernable in William Charles Kent's " Aletheia,"
namely, an overcrowded parade of mythological per-
sonages, this searching critic harps rather captiously;
hut he takes occasion to afford in several paragraphs
the tribute of deserved and valuable commendation to
that glowing and remarkable production of cultivated
genius :
"It is Lempriere's dictionary in verse; yet the subject
is warmed and enriched by a vigorous genius into a
series of beautiful and apposite pictures. The succession
of similar forms is far too long, and the panoramic pa-
geant soon palls on the eye; but, if we examine the parts
separately, we must own that the pictures are individu-
ally full of colour, full of body, full—to/go to another
class of alas ration—of succulence. Keats himself has
not fancied more delicious images than meet us in many of
the stanzas. How rich is the introduction. Again, in
the polytheism of the woods and glades, how rich and
full of succulence,--
Light waves the linden, where beneath the rind
n image symbolic temple
Philyra's passion pulsates with the sap,' Sze,
oAfgtahien'Greenbtuiilledignogd is, how spination t
are are his architectural
solecisms."
And in the full tide of admiration he then quotes
eight of the grandly musical stanzas of this noble and
vivid lay. Allingham is the reviewer's prime favou-
rite, and the extracts given from his poem of " The
Music Master " justify his warm praise :
" He has told, in a strain of almost blameless simpli-
city and sweetness, one of the most pathetic love-tales
in the language. The versification is rot unworthy of
the ear of a Goldsmith; the diction and method such
as Leigh Hunt, to whom the poem is dedicated, might
ght
have been well satisfied with in his happiest hours.
cannot pass the name of Leigh Hunt without pausing to
waft him an affectionate remembrance. The school of
literature which has sprung up from the germs he
planted has its weaknesses,
its fopperies, per haps its
dangers; but the Dielssnses, Tcnn) sons, Broweings,
and the rest of the fine flock whom he may call his
children, are good and genial souls, from whose fame the
old man may derive a just and honourable addition to
his own. Mr. Aliingham is the last of the distinguished
band who have owed their first appreciation to the
kindly and discerning instincts of Leigh Hunt."
This is good and true, but what ere we to think of
the following paragraph but as " a puff damnable ?''
We have never seen the work in question, but are
willing on this authority to pronounce it " devilish
clever.' , 'Thug spesketh Rhedamanthus :
" We bid Mr. Allinghatrs welcome to the company of
poets pure and good. Alas! that we c,uld say the same
for him whose dark, wicked, product of heavetily facul-
ties perverted still remains on the table. We will not
now take up Goethe, a New Pantomime,' by Edward
lienealy. We have preferred to deal with men of, per-

hips, less abifity—fer this is a man of the greatest abi-
lity—whorre we can ret,peet for their intention, while we
blame their fault:, of exceutino. We could not mix up
sorrow and indignation wiril t,l7c temper of mind in which
the - Music Master' of Allintzimm has left us; nor would
we diminish the value of zuch conamcndations
as we have been able to besww, by casting them into
the shade by the expression of uLqualitied ustonisnment
which we could not restrain at the frequent bursts of
power, splendour, and wit, which illumine this brilliant
but detesti.blo per.formuLco. Another time, and in
another frame of mind, we may return to 'Goethe, a
New Pantomime.'"

We trust our friend, "the Rummager," may speedily
get over his fright, and favour his readers with the
production of his parturient mountain concerning
" the brilliant but detestable performance " of .11:1r.
Kenealy. Jonathan Freke Slingsby contributes a
capital " Snap-apple Night," being the narration of a
visit to his uncle Saul, 'a worthy bachelor, who " owed
his safety to the immensity of his philog-yny," and
whose '' fine olii'mantion—none of your gingerbread
things that you sec at Kingstown and Dalkey, with
their gabLs and gazalws, and little windows stuck
in all sorts of queer places in tiiu roof; young Eliza-
bethans, just come from nurse, their white
shining laces, and flaring green-painted doors, but a
noble square pile of solid masonry," is the scene of the
festivities oF a happy gathering to cultivate the sports
of Halloween, such as snapping apples, burning nuts,
dancing, singing songs, and telling stories, &C. lie
loveth the joyous jig,—
" There's footing fur you ? Talk of polkas and
mazurkas, b,leres or tarantulas, (pl.:thine or cotil-
lion, I aver there is lioching in the world
to (Anal an Irish jig, in the way of saltation.
Murk with what exquisite accuracy the time of the air
is kept by the beat of the foot, the swing of the body,
the motion of the hands, and the snap of the fingers.
How they humour the tune,' giving expression to
every change and tone of sentiment. With what an
air of bold gallantry, mingled with coaxing drollery,
the young man flings his arms about the girl, as be
twirls her round till her tiny feet are well nigh lifted eff
the ground. How coquettishly she disengages herself,
and with a look half shy, half sly, retreats as he ad-
vances. How disdainfully she flounces round, while,
imitating her example, be turns on his heel with a
nonchalant air that would do credit to one of your first-
rate town puppies. I aver, my dear Antony, that an
Irish jig is the perfection of dancing, the poetry of
motion, the drama of the feet; and if you cars show me
anything to compare with it, either in lordly saloons,
or on village green sward, then will I burn my quill,
break my yre, and retire into a monastery of Trappists
for the rest of my life."

And a pretty monk you'd make ! Lombard-street to
a China orange, Jonathan, but you can yourself
" welt the floor" with no inconsiderable kudos. The
songs are, of course, good ; " Mary of the Curls" is
very sweet and flowing, but the concluding one with
the chorus is worthy of Moore. Two able papers,
each full of sterling stuff, complete the present num-
ber. "Recent Political Economists," a masterly
recension of "Burton's Political and Social Econo-
my," and "Three Lectures on the Principles of
Taxation, delivered at Queen's College, Galway," by
the professor of jurisprudence and political
economy in that establistnent, a talented and
learned gentleman, Denis Caulfield Heron. The other,
" Modern Art—its Prospects and Pioneers" is well
worthy perusal, ably analyzing the recent works of
Fergusson, who assumes for the science of esthetics a
place only second to Ethics, and goes to the extent of
placing Gastronomy and Perfumery in the category
of fine arts resulting from the senses, as directly as
Eumorphics and Euchromatics—oi Twining, of
Purdie, and Garbett. We can only extract one short
sentence from this interesting and suggestive paper :
" Of all the Fine Arts we should say that Sculpture
is the least and Architecture the most degenerated,
whilst Painting, curtailed of its phonetic importance
from many causes, fluctuates between the meretri-
ciousness of colour, the exaggeration of power, and
mere execution exhibited in the meanness of minute
details." And it is even so, we swear by Trafalgar-
square ! In conclusion, let us ask where is the pen of
Carleton? It cannot be that he has ejaculated,
" Ingrata Maga, non niea guidem scripta habebis,"
Yet is the absence of the great delineator of Irish
character, faithful, vivid, and unexaggerating, from
the pages of the Dublin University much to be de-
plored. Radiant as is " the lone star" of Ireland, it
would shine more " excellently bright" were its bril-
liancy augmented by the richness of the Irish Scott.

AINSWORTITS.
On its first appearance we noticed the principal
features of Mr. Ainsworth's richly-coloured romance
"The Lancashire Witches," a work in which the ter-
rible and fascinating characteristics of his Salvator
Rosa-like pencil are so conspicuously displayed. A
monthly instalment of this enthralling narrative forms
the principal feature in Ainsworth's Magazine at the
present time. Second in attraction are the admirable
sketches of E. P. Rowsell—" Professional:Men"—the
Barrister being the subject of the present number.
" Drafts from Memory on the Banks of Holland," by
Mrs. White, is the happy title of an amusing re-
miniscence of a tour " Jacob van der Nees," is con-
cluded.

PAPAL AGGRESSION,

The following later has I,_&t:n addressed to the
Lord-Lieutepant of the county of Buckingham by
r.

"My Lord,—l have received numerous appeals
from my constituents requesting that I would co-
operate with them in addressing your Lordship to
call a meeting of the county, in order that we may
express our reprobation of the recent assault of the
Court of Rome on the prerogatives of our Sovereign
end the liberties of her subjects.
" I think it very desirable that a meeting of the
county should be called for that purpose, but, as far
as I can gather from what reaches me, great misap-
prehension is afloat respecting the circumstances which
now so violently, but so justly, excite the indignation
of the country..
" Men are called upon to combine to prevent fo-
reign interference with the prerogatives of the Queen,
and to resist jurisdiction by the Pope-in her MvjGsty's
dominions.

"But I have always under-food that, when the
present Lord-Lieutenant arrived in his Viceroyalty,
he gathered together the Romish bishops of Ireland,
addressed them as nobii,s, sought their counsel, and
courted their favour. O❑ the visit of her Majesty to
that kingdom the same prelates were presented to the
Queen as if they were nobles, and precedence was
given them over the nobility end dignitaries of the
National Church ; and it -was only the other day, as
I believe, that the Government offered the office of
Visitor to the Queen's Colleges to Dr. Cullen, the
Pope's delegktte, and pseudo Archbishop of Armagh,
and to Dr. the pseudo Archbishop of Tuam.
"What wonder, then, that his Holiness should deem
himself at liberty to apportion England into dioceses,
to be ruled over by his bishops! And, why, instead
of supposing he was taking a step ' insolent and
should he not have assumed he was acting in
strict conformity with the_ wishes of her Majesty's
Government ?

"The fact is, that the whole question has been sur-
rendered, and decided in favour of the Pope, by the
present Government; and the Ministers, who recog•
nised the pseudo Archbishop of Tuam as a peer and
a prelate, cannot object to the appointment of a pseudo
Archbishop of Westminster, even though he be a
cardinal. On the contrary, the loftier dignity should,
according to their table of precedence, rather invest
his Eminence with a still higher patent of nobility,
and permit him to take the wall of his Grace of Can-
terbury and the highest nobles of the land.
"The policy of the present Government is, that
there shall be no distinction between England and Ire-
land. I am, therefore, rather surprised that the Cabi-
net are so ' indignant,' as a certain letter with which
we have just been favoured informs us they are.
"I have made these observations in order that, if
the county meets, the people of Buckinghamshire may
understand that the question on which they will have
to decide is of a graver, deeper, and more compre-
hensive character than, in the heat of their laudable
emotion, they may perhaps suppose.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
"Your faithful servant,
"B. DISRAELI.

Hughendon Manor, Nov. 8."

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

DEPUTATION TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
Yesterday, at one o'clock, the deputation appointed
to present to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell the
vote of thanks unanimously agreed to by the Court of
Common Council, consisting of Alderman Sir Peter
Laurie, Mr. Alderman Wilson, Mr. Blake, the mover,
and Mr. Bennoch, the seconder of the address, to-
gether with Mr. Richard Taylor, and Mr. John
Wood, accompanied by the Remembrancer, waited by
appointment upon his Lordship, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
The deputation having been severally introduced to
his Lordship, by whom they were most warmly and
courteously received,
Mr. BLAKE spoke as follows :—May it please your
Lordship, we are deputed by the Corporation of
London, in common council assembled, to present
to you the copy of a resolution adopted yester-
day at a full Court, after having heard read your late
letter to the Lord Bishop of Durham. To say that this
resolution was unanimously adopted—to say that the
standing orders of the court, prohibiting the intro-
duction of any new subject not contained in the
paper of business were as unanimously suspended,
would but faintly describe the degree of enthusiasm
with which it was carried. Whilst we sincerely pray
that your Lordship may be spared for many years to
an admiring people to maintain those principles you
have so nobly and eloquently enunciated, we feel both
proud and happy of being the medium of comtnuni•
cating on the part of the corporation of London the
expression of sentiments in which we so cordially and
heartily concur.
Mr. BLAKE then read the address, which was as
follows :

"Resolved unanimously, that this Court has read
with feelings of the highest gratification the timely
and admirable letter addressed to the Right Rev, the
Lord Bishop of Durham by the Right Hon. the
Lord John Russell, arid entirely and heartily ap-
proves the principles therein expressed, and his de-
termination to maintain unimpaired the great consti-
tutional doctrine that 'no foreign prince or poten-
tate will be permitted to fasten his fetters upon a
nation which has i o long and so nobly vindicated
its rights to freedom of opinion, civil, political, and
religious.'"

And, " That the corCial and sincere thanks of this
Court be presented to his Lordship, not only as one
of the Representatives of this City in Parliament, but
as the Prime Minister of the Crown and the organ of
her Majesty's Government, for such a declaration of
opinion as must re-assure all her Majesty's subjects
of the unabated desire of those in power to uphold in
its integrity the religious freedom of the British
empire:'

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply, thanked the depu-
tation most heartily for the address which had just
been read. .He observed that he felt most grateful
tor the sentiments of confidence which were expressed
therein. His Lordship further remarked that it was
at all times gratifying to him to receive the thanks
of the Lord Mayor, the corporation, and the citizens
of London. The approbation of such an important
body was most valuable ; and, indeed, if it were not
for such support from those who represented the
people, it would be be impossible to give full effect
to the opinions of the Government.
The deputation then withdrew, much gratified
with the cordial reception they had met with from
the Noble Lord.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER ON THE
ROMISU
AGGRESSION,
The Bishop of Exeter has issued the following
reply to an address from the laity of the parish of
Trinity, Exeter, presented to him on Thursday last :
"Brother Christians and Brother Churchmen,—L
receive with great satisfaction the address which has
just been read to me.
" The recent act of the Bishop of Rome, affecting,
in direct contradiction to the canons of the Catholic
Church, to place bishops in this land, which is through-
out already occupied by
an episcopate nearly as an-
cient as that of Rome itself, cannot fail to have ex-
cited, in every faithful member of Christ's Church
amongst us, a feeling of indignation at its presump-
tion, and a firmer resolution than ever to resist the un-
righteous and uncatholic spirit which has prompted it.
" Whether this act be, indeed, as you designate it,
an 'aggression on the constitutional rights and sove-
has in-
troduced,reignty of the Crown of England,' after all the change. s
in our constitution which modern legislationlf it be, it is
manifestly the duty of the advisers of the Queen to
take steps to vindicate the outraged rights and honour
of their Roysl Mistress.
" But, perhaps, there is too much
reason to fear
I do not presume to say•
that the innovations which have been made within the
last few years in our fundamental laws have, in truth,
removed all impediments to the intrusion of such bulls
from Rome as that which is the subject of our present
complaint. If this shall prove to be the case, it will
become the people of England to blame their own
culpable disregard of their highest interests, in spite
than
fawn atroniinngdsulrgeepeinatefudrivioupsr,eshsnetd
idulepon
them, rather
invective,
against
tshoelawragreylyatdovehrissaorywnwhobasit ray ; it is a branch of
turned their imprudence
" Be this, however, as account.
the subject on which it does not become me here to
dwell. In Parliament, so long as it shall please God
to give me strength to go thither, my voice shall ever
be raised—as it always hitherto has been raised—
however feebly and ineffectually—to assert the an-
cient principles of the English law—principles which,
so long as they were permitted to retain their force,
were the security alike of the majesty of the Crown
and the best interests of the people.
"But, out of Parliament, my duties are of a spi-
ritual character. When called on, therefore, as I now
am, to address a highly valued portion of Christ's
flock, over which Ile has constituted me the pastor, I
would confine myself to the religious aspect of the
case before me. Looking at it thus, I cannot but in-
vite you to discern in the present occurrence a new
proof of the wise dispensations of God's Providence,
overruling all the designs of men, and all the events
in life, to the accomplishment of His own blessed
purposes for the ultimate good of His Church—and a
ion empowering
from with
the
his
Apostles,
those autho-
rity call on us to use faithfully, and thankfully, the
great blessing which Ile has bestowed on this favoured
land, by planting in it a true branch of that Church,
raintdy,plaincinugnohvreorkeitn cc
, and
ess
those, of whom the great Apostle of the Gentiles
himself has commanded all Christians 'so to account,
as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the myste•
ries of God.'
" Human policy may
be at a loss in dealing wisely
and effectually with the out-breakings of Papal pre-
sumption, backed, as it is, by a powerful and pam-
pered party, which has hitherto been suffered to pre-

serve its course almost without control. But there
is one simple and sure way of snuring ourselves
against all our dangers. Be we faithful to our own
_Apostolic Church—be we in earnest, NI hen we cell
ourselves churchmen—be we sincere in shov.ing forth
our sense of the value of that holy ordinance, which,
by God's bounty, we enjoy—your Bishop, feeling, as
he ought, the awful force of those special obligations,
which he incurred when admitted to his sacred office
—the people testifying their reverence for that office
—God's ordinance, I repeat, for their edification, not,
indeed, by a blind and unreflecting, but by a ready, a
dutiful, a confiding spirit of attachment to him who
bears it. And then, I will not say we may laugh to
scorn—for scorn is not a feeling which ever becomes
a Christian—but we may view with calm reliance on
an arm more powerful than man's, uplifted fur our
protection, the most daring displays of Roman ambi-
tion, revelling in the proud assurance of legal impu-
nity—if our laws do indeed permit such doings to
pass with impunity.
" Meanwhile, 1 must not omit one consideration
which forcibly impresses itself upon mo. Far be it
from us to •f,iget the demand of Christian charity,
that we f rfjoice, not in iniquity,'—still, we may re-
joice, thankfully rejoice, in hoping that this shame-
less demonstration of the true character of Papal
Rotas—will do much in' awakening to a better, a
more truthful mind, those amongst us who, feeling
with distempered acuteness the fancied, or the real,
deficiencies of our own system, may have been
tempted to look with too much complacency to a
Catholicquarter which henceforth
nihesitatetoregai n
regard
acsoinsite
most schismatical.
noisma true,tical.
" In conclusion accept—what is worthless, indeed,
to all who deem it worthless—but what will never
be lightly valued by any who regard it as it is, the
voice of one who speaks—be he himself as unworthy as
he may—with the authority of Goci's appointed mi-
nister—accept your Bishop's blessing. The Lord
bless you, and keep you! The Lord make his face
to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you! The
Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you
peace—together with the spirit of peace—both now
and evermore !"

PROPOSED REMOVAL OF SMITH-
' I FIELD MARKET.
(From the Werkly Dispatch )
Mr. Editor,—ln my letter of last week on the
above subject I promised to lay before your readers
some extracts from the R-,port of the Commissioners
appointed by her Majesty to make inquiries relating
to Smithfield-market, and I now proceed to redeem
that pledge. Like the resolutions adopted by the
Committee of the House of Commons, it blows hot
and cold. With regard to the position of the mar-
ket, they (the Commissioners) admit the advantages
of its central situation and means of access, which,
they add, offer conveniences to the buyers scattered
over the whole of the metropolis, as well as for the
transaction of all the details of general business.
The close proximity of Newgate-market is another
great convenience, and one which many butchers of
extensive trade consider indispensable to the tran,ac-
tion of their business. The Post-office, the Bank of
England, and Lombard-street, where the chief part
of tie country banking business is carried on, are
within a few inioutes' walk of the market, and from
the large ready-money transactions connected with it,
the necessity fir picmptly cashing the cheques in
which the payments are made, and tnaktog the
remittances to the gnzler, form other grounds
upon which the advantages of the present site
are maintained. It is alleged by many of
the butchers, that the retention of the market
in c central part of the metropolis is essential to their
trade, inasmuch as the necessity of conveying tie
animals from a distance would otherwise imps de their
business. Such are the advantages of the present
site, as admitted even by the Commissioners them-
selves, and will be considered by all impartial disin-
terested persons as strong reasons for the continuance
of the market where it is now held ; but in the very
page of the Report which contains this admission,
there is the following passage :—" Within one fur-
long (220 yards) of the market, subject to all its an-
noyances, the noise of the dogs, of the cattle, and of
their drovers, as well as the filth and disturbance
caused by the collection and dispersion of this large
number of animals, are placed the Hospital of Saint
Bartholomew, the great Gaol of Newgate, Giltspur-
street Prison, the Central Criminal Court, St. Paul's
Cathedral, the Post-office, &c. ; in short, all those
establishments from which it seems important to the
public interests and good order that a large market
for cattle should be far removed." Now every person
at all acquainted with the locality is well aware of
the fact, that although a portion of the building called
St. Bartholomew's Hospital fronts Smithfield-market,
yet the whole of the wards for the reception of pa-
tients are so for in the rear that it is quite impossible
for any of them to be disturbed by the noise of the
dogs, cattle, &c.; but in these days of mock philan-
thropy those who have no sympathy to bestow on
the afflicted and suffering poor may, nevertheless,
feel extreme anxiety that the quiet and comfort of our
criminal population should not be in the slightest de-
gree disturbed, and, accordingly, the proximity of the
market to the great Gaol of Newgate and Giltipur-
street Compter, is alleged as a ground for its removal,
as the noise of the dogs is likely to disturb the pri-
soners when at their devotions. I fancy most of the
prisoners would be very glad to be where they could
hear the noise a little better. But the market is also
said to be too near St. Paul's Cathedral, and perhaps
an occasional stray ox may have prevented some old
woman from crossing the churchyard, and entering
the Cathedral, and thus deprived the Dean and Chap-
ter of twopence, a sum which those reverend and
under-paid functionaries can ill afford to lose. Last,
but not least, the market is said to be so near the
Mansion diouse. Nothing, however, is said about
Guildhall or the Court or Bankruptcy, to which the
removal of the market will drive several industrious
citizens, who are now getting a respectable living.
The Report goes on to say that the inadequacy of the
space of the present market is attested by all the wit-
nesses whom they examined on the subject; but this
inconvenience will be completely removed by the
plan proposed by Mr. Bunning. The next point in
the Report worthy of notice is the allegation that has
been so frequently made by the promoters of tbe Isling-
ton Cattle Market scheme, viz., the deterioration in
the flesh of the animals caused by the treatment they
receive in driving them to Smithfield, and in the
market itself. Statements on this subject were made
before the Committee of the House of Commons, and
were repeated before the Commissioners, who, how-
ever, say that, although the opinions were those of
practical men, yet the data upon which they founded
their calculations were in the opinion of the Com-
missioners too conjectural to be received with much
reliance. Much has been said about the injury to the
health of the inhabitants of Smithfield from the hold-
ing of a live cattle market there. It does not appear
that the parties who are the most interested have made
any complaint on the subject, and even the Commis-
sioners admit that the appropriation of Smithfield to
the uses of a market for live stock on two days of the
week is not productive of insalubrity to the neigh-
bourhood to any appreciable extent. But the greatest
alleged nuisance connected with the continuance of a
live cattle market in Smithfield is the driving of
cattle, sheep, &c., through the streets of the
I metropolis, and this, they admit in their re-
' port, cannot be remedied by removing it "to
the outskirts of the metropolis, with a conve-
nient access to the different railways," because,
although the live stock would reach it without ma-
terial inconvenience to the public, yet, in order that
they should be distributed from the market among
the different private slaughter-houses throughout the
town, it would he necessary that they should be
driven through the streets. They, however, concur
with the Markets' Improvement Committee in think-
ing that "restrictions upon driving animals within
certain hours of the day should be imposediby a
general enactment," which can surely be done with-
out the removal of the cattle market from Smithfield,
and thus the only inconvenience of which the public
have ever complained will be got rid of. In con-
cluding their Report the Commissioners say that, " al-
though they believe their recommendation for the re-
moval of the Smithfield Cattle-market to be impera-
tively demanded by considerations of public
convenience, they are not unmindful of the
loss of custom which the measure would
entail upon certain classes of retail dealers
resident in ..that neighbourhood. It is with sincere
regret that they recommended any change which
would be attended even with partial and temporary
loss of trade to certain individuals." It is very kind
of the Commissioners to make any allusion to the

trifling circumstance that the removal of the cattle-
market will deprive many hundred persons of their
present means of existence, for it is not denied that
if the market should be removed nearly the whole of
the inhabitants of Smithfisld may shut up their shops
as soon as they please ; but the Commissioners kindly
assure the parties that " the removal of the cattle-
market from Smithfield is, in their judgment, likely
upon the whole, ultimately to enhance rather than
lower the sales of property in that pert of the City,
inasmuch as its existence in that position operates as
a discouragement to the residence of persons whose
business is not immediately connected with the mar-
ket and its frequenters." The Commissioners care
not what becomes of the present occupiers of houses
in Smithfield, so long as the nuisance of which they
complain is removed ; that is a matter which they
leave the parties interested to settle among themselves.
Honest, industrious citizens may, at their suggestion,
be deprived of the means of existence, with the conso-
latory assurance that " local diminutions of mercantile
profit are the necessary, though undesigned conse-
quences, of all extensive improvements which alter
existing traffic and communication." I have already
stated that two of the Commissioners refused to sign
this report. I shall notice their dissent, and some of
the evidence adduced in a future letter.
CEMORIUS.