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THE GREAT ECCLESIASTICAL

, HULLABALOO.
,
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
The " Reverend John Cuccuaing, D.D." is at present
the fashionable champion of "cur Zion." He is a
minister of the Scotch Kirk, and is—or at least he has
sworn thet he rigid Calvenist, and teacher of the
Confession of • Faith of the Westminster Assembly of
Divines: • As the ostensible followers of John Calvin are
themselves not very versant in, their master's creed, it
may he observed parenthetically that that chosen vessel
burnt Servetus on a pile of green wood to prolong his
sufferings for denying the doctrine of the Trinity, just
as the Catholics were burnt at Smithfield as the "dawn
of the Reformation," and the Unitarians in the reign of
Edward VI.; and that he converted Geneva into a ter-
restrial pandemonium of the gloomiest priestly tyranny,
confiscation, persecution, inquisition, and murder. His
followers in Scotland hanged a college youth of eigh-
teen at the Grassmarket of Edinburgh for professing
Unitarianism, and but for the firmness of Cromwell
and the Independents would have imposed Presbyterian-
ism upon England as the national religion. The digest
of his doctrines, as contained in the Confession of
Faith, combines the rank fatalism of Mehemet with,
the mystic theological metaphysics of Platonism,
declaring that God ' has- predestined (cap. iii.,
secs. 4,5, and 7) " a number, so certain and definite, that
it cannot be either increased or diminished," "unto
everlasting glory," " without any foresight of faith or
good .works, or any perseverance in any of them, or any
other thing in the creature as conditions ' and causes
moving hire thereunto, and all to the praise of his
glorious grace," while " the rest of mankind God was
plenty.f' " to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonour
and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious
justice !" It continues (cap. x., sec, 4), " men not pro-
fessing the Christian religion cannot be saved in any
other way whatever, be they ever so diligent to frame
their lives according to the light of nature, and the law
of that religion they do profess; and to assert and main-
tain that they may, is very pernicious, and to be detested."
Then follows the Trinity of the Platonists—" three per-
sons of one substance, power, and eternity." " The
Father is of none, neither begotten nor proceeding; the
Sen is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy
Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the
Son." Such are a few flowers of the faith established
by law, and for which English, Irish, and Scotch are
yearly taxed in tithes and grants from the public exche-
quer; and it is this creed which has been fastened routsd
our necks, not by a living Pontiff, who might change it
according to the progress of opinion, but by three hundred
dead Popes, sitting at Westminster two hundred and seven
years ago, and that so effectually that every minister
must make oath to the whole of it, and every farthing of
Church property and ecclesiastical taxes is appropriated
to it, to the utter exclusion of every modification, under
penalty of deprivation of membership and degradation
from office. This is Dr. Cutnming's reliigion, round
which he calls es to rally. Let Dudith, the Reformer
and contemporary of Calvin and Lin her, describe the
ecclesiastical principles of the Doctor's Genevan mas-
ter:—" Now that the Calvinists have buret Servetus,
and beheaded Gentilis, and murdered many others, and
banished &nerd Ochin, with his wife aed children, from
your city in the depth of a sharp winter; now that the
Lutherans have expelled Lasco, with the congregation
of foreigners that came out of England with him, in
an extremely rigorous season of the year; hevine done
a great many such exploits, I ask, how shall we meet
the Papists? With what face shall we tax them with
cruelty ?" " When you talk of your Augsburg Confes-
sion, and your Helvetic Creed, and your unanimity, and
your fundementel truths, I keep thinking of the sixth
commandment—' Thou shalt not kill. " We need
scarcely remind cur readers that " black Prelacy," as the
Covenanters termed the Church of England, was held in
greater detestatlen by the Scotch than Popery, and with
greater reason, because the bloody atrocities which the
Lutherans committed on the Scottish people, their
wholesale murders, their endless confiscations, tortures
for confession, and selling of Christians to the planta-
tions, sparing neither age nor sex, are not exceeded for
horrible cruelty by the annals of the Inquisition. It is
scarcely necessary to add that the English and Scotch
Acts of Parliament passed since the Reformation, by
Lutherans and Calvinists, are filled with every variety
of provision for the persecution of dissent—that the de-
nial of the doctrine of the Trinity was under their re-
gime a capital offence—and that the Puritans in America
declared the offence of Quakerism to be punishable with
death, and persecuted each other more bitterly than
they did the Papists. Now this Dr. Cumming, who
unites in his person the characters of Calvinist, Dissen-
ter, high Tory, chaplain in ordinary to Lord and Lady
John Russell, and chaplain extraordinary to the Queen,
has been effusing his zeal for the Hanoverian succession
at the Hanover-square Rooms. He calls upon all
loyal subjects to eschew the Papal heterodoxy, and
to rally round his Boxy, " the Establish Churches of
England and Scotland." The better to whip up his
hearers to the spirit of the day, he treats them to a
few Popish curses, which we are informed so shocked
them, that they rendered inaudible by their groans his
further enunciation of them. But to say nothing of the
first curse in the beginning of Genesis, and the last one,
which winds up the Revelations—to pass over the Qui-
cunque vult of the Book of Common Prayer, which di-
recta that this most Christian people shall declare on 14
feasts and Saints' days yearly, that whosoever will be
saved must " bold the Catholic (i. e., Church of Eng-
land) faith—which •faith, except every one do keep
whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish ever-
lastingly ! "—and merely to glance at the Coimnination
Service, which directs the faithful, " with their own
mouths," to pronounce ten curses, and say "Amen "
to them all—it might have just occurred to the Doctor
that the forms of excommunication, ..ehich are just so
many canons of cursing, are not confined to the Church
of Rome, but aro common to the Churches of England
and Scotland, and are by no means unfrequent in the
spiritual Courts of either country. Indeed, the Protes-
t int Peter might have remembered that, in his own
Church, Ralph Erskine, jun., ascended the pulpit of
Ebenezer Erskine, sen., declared the charge vacant, ex-
communicated his own father, and then, with much
godly complacency, handed the old gentleman over to
the Devil ! "as a heathen man and a pub.
heats." This squeamishness on the subject of
cursing seems not altogether to consist with the or-
thodoxy of pious men, who believe, with that Cal-
vinistic burning and shining light, Jonathan Ed-
wards, that " there are infants in hell a span long,"
—with the American President, that "bodies which
shall have been burning and roasting in glowing flames
shall not he consumed, but will remain to roast through
an eternity yet"—with the devout Boston, that " the
godly wife shall applaud the condemnation of her un-
godly husband; the godly husband shall say Amen' to
the damnation of her who lay in his bosom—the godly
parents shall say Hallelujah,' at the passing of the
sentence against their ungodly child; and the godly child
shall from his heart approve the damnation of his wicked
parents, of the father that begot him, find of the mother
who bore him !" or with Isaac Watts that

" Tempests of angry fire shall roll
To blast the rebel worm ;
And beat upon his naked soul,
In one eternal storm !"
This is the religion, end the fruits of the religion, which
the Saxon people of the greatest and most intelligent
nation in the world, are, in the latter half of this 19th
century, now hounded on to prop up, strengthen, and
glorify, and to help to defend against the mere moral,
mental, and spiritual appeals of men who come among
us, n ither with the arms of carnal power, the sword of
the Civil Magistrate, the brute force of the law, nor
the powers of the Constitution, on behalf of a faith
which, if they devoutly believe, they are ballad to pro-
pagwe ; and in doing which, aggressively, they are only
following the example of the Established Churches,
which spend vast sums every year in doing their, little
possible to convert to EpisCopacy and Presbs tory all the
renegade Jews and loose Popish fish they can catch or
bribe into hypocrisy. And after a fair and candid com-
parison of the Ilobson's choice of theologies which are
presented to us, it is not very clear that there is a pin to
choose between them. It is very easy for rampant Act-
of-Parliament•Christians to talk of the " superstitions"
and " mummeries" of Popery, and to scoff at their " wafer
god." But the doctrine of Consubstantiation, forming
the 28th section of the 39 Articles, consecrates the
Eucharist, and declares the " real presence" in the ele-
ments spiritually, to the very same effect as the more
consistent Popish doctrine of Transubstantiation declares
the real presence therein naturally. Both churches
equally assign exclusive power and efficacy of adminis-
tration to the priesthood; and it remains for nicer ca-
suists than ourselves to explain the difference
.betwixt
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glican extreme
clergy unctiono
f carryinga nd h e
the
consecratedevery-day practice
elements of t
bed-side of the dying, and there communicating with the
parting churchman, in the face, by the way, of the canon
which directs that the Sacrament is not' to be
" carried about"—and of the Confession of Faith
(cap. 29, sec. 4) of the Learned Doctor, which
declares the two practices to be identical, and
avers that " Private masses, or receiving the
Sacrament by a priest, or any other, alone," " are all
contrary to the nature of this sacrament, and to the in-
stitution of Christ." Let us hear no more, then, about
" wafer gods" from professors of that doctrine of
" eternal procession " which Dr. Clarke called " eternal
nonsense "—or of the Trinity, which even Luther said
" sounds oddly, and is a human invention "--and with
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must," he says, " believe three
to be one, and one to be three ; a Father not to be older
than his Son, a Son to be equal with his Father, and
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one proceeding from both to be equal to both—he must
believe three persons in one nature, and two natures in
one person—a Virgin to be the Mother of a Son, and
that very Son of her'e to be her Maker—he must be-
lieve him to have been shut up in a narrow room, whom
heaven and earth could not contain; and to have been
horn in time, who was end is from everlasting—he
must believe hint to have been a weak child, carried in
arms, who is Almighty; 'and him once .0 'have died,
who alone has life,and immortality in himself." Not to

speak of 14 Churchmen, let those who scoff at " wafer
gods" tur❑ to Bishop Jeremy Taylor, and read his me-
ditations o 5 the humility of God, who, although he
could have come into the world in a moment, " did not
prevent the period of nature, nor break the laws of the
womb, and ante-date his own sanctions." He stayed
nine months,!and then brake forth!" end, while he was
" the King of Heaven and Earth, was fed with a little
breast milk!!!" Or let those Dissenters who are con-
tent to swell the shout of parish platforms—" the wor-
thy rector in the chair"—sing a little smaller their
sneers at the Catholic creed, until they are reminded
that 1)r. Isaac Watts declar« s, " There is nothing among
all the ancient fables or later romances, that two such
extremes united in them, as the Eternal God becoming
an infant of days—the possessor of the palace of heaven
laid to sleep in v. manger—agonies of sorrow loading the
soul of him who was God over all the blessed for ever,
and the Sovereign of life stretching his arms on a cross,
bleeding and expiring!!!" Is it seemly, or even prudent,
for the professors of such "mysteries of godliness" to talk
of " wafer gods," " mummeries, ' or " superstition?" We do
not concern our:elves with the truth or Scripture war-
rant of these doctrines. Let those who believe them
honestly and zealously profess them, and abstain from
taxing those for their propagation who do not believe
them. But let it at act be conceded that there is no-
thing more intrinsically or logically extravagant in the
doctrine of the real presence, thaii in that which we have
described, not in our ow❑ words, but in those of articles,
confessions, liturgies, chancellors, bishops, and orthodox
divinei. '‘‘ My good friend," said the little Frenchman
in Dumfries to a Prisbyteriarr "if you can be-
lieve that he who is begotten is as old as he who begets,
and he who proceeds is co-equal and co-eternal with him
from whom he comes, you may swallow transubstantia-
tion into the bargain."
" A heretic blast has come out of the West,
That what is not sense must be nonsense."

Believers in mysteries should have a syrupaThy with each
other's creeds. None of them can afford to play with
fire. They cannot safely jeer even at Pcdrillo, who
'Only wished the Three were four,
In order that he might believe so much the more."
Their security lies i❑ leaving each other alone, and in
essuring the profane that
•' Tho' your heart's like a child,
And your life's like the new-driven snaw,
Still that will not save ye,
Auld Satan will have ye,
For preaching that three's one and twa'."

Dr. Cumming, indeed, assures the Times that, " like
two meu-of-war, the two Churches are side by side—
inshed to each other—and one or other. must go down.
I have no doubt which it will be." We pass over the
militant nature of the simile, as being characteristically
clerical. We accept it, and might suggest that there is
an alternaqve not uncommon in naval engagements
which the Reverend Commodore seems to have over-
looked, and that is, that both ships may go down, " to
the irreparable loss of many rising young men." We
have only space left to think Mr. Benjamin Hawes for
his manly and intrepid letter to the Morning Chronicle,
and the moral courage which suetains him to bear testi-
mony to the virtues of Cardinal 1k isemen. It was that
independence which led him to establish 0, society in
London for the repeal of the corn-laws, long before Man-
chester aroused itself to their iniquity. The same free
spirit, we leer, lost hiss the represenerion of Lembeth,
and we trust this latest matifastation of it will show hi,.
former convituents what a Member they have lost, and
where they should he,k for their next choice.

MR. R. HAWES AND CARDINAL WISEITAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

Sir,—lu your paper cf t)-day you insert a letter,
signed "A. B. C." in which the following passage
occurs:—

'Can Lord John Russell be sincere in his new-born
zeal against the mummeries of Superstition,' when he
allows one of his subordinates, Mr. Benj,imin Hawes,
M.P., to attend a 'superstitious' meeting of ' Catholics of
the London district,' at the Thatched House Tavern,'
for the purpose of supporting the following resolution,
as advertised in the public papers of the 16th August
last:—"That it is the duty of Catholics, agreeably to
the practice of Catholic countries in like cases, to meet
the expenditure attendant on the promotion of the
Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman to the rank of a prince of the
Church!' "
And the writer concludes:—

" Let me ask his Lordship if it is true that his Under
Secretary for the Colonies, besides publicly speaking at
the above-mentioned meeting in support of the resolution
I have quoted, has actually subscribed 101. towards pro-
curing one of those said mummeries,' a cardinal's hat,
fur Dr. Wiseman?"

I am not sorry that your correspondent gives me the
opportunity of stating publicly my reasons for attending
a meeting of the "Catholics of the London district," and
for taking any part whatever in the proceedings, and
stating also what I did upon that occasion.
I have long enjoyed the friendship of Cardinal Wise-
man, and I hope long to enjoy it. Upon his being cre-
ated a cardinal, and leaving England. under the expec-
tation of residing abroad for many years (which to my
knowledge was Dr. Wiseman's expectation), a common
friend of his and mine called upon me, and informed me
that Dr. Wiseman's friends intended to offer him some
mark of their regard and respect. My reply was, that
upon every personal consideration I should be happy to
join, if my doing so as a Protestant, and upon private
and personal grounds only, would be acceptable to Roman
Catholics.

I was subsequently invited to the meeting, and I at-
tended it. But, finding that the address of Dr. Wiseman
was such as I could not, as a Protestant, sign, and that
the resolutions were also such as none but Roman
Catholics could support, I was obliged to state the
grounds alone upon which I attended the meeting, and to
say, that if I could be permitted to show the respect I
entortsin.d, as a Protestant, for Dr. Wiseman, as a most
excellent, charitable, and learned prelate of the Roman
Catholic Churco, I was ready to do so; but that it was
impossible fix me to concur in the address, or the resolu-
tiow., for very obvious reasons.
The meeting unanimously acquiesced in my view, and
I contributed my mit.3 of r,spect to even the prelate of a
rival Church, whose worth and excellence I knew and
admired, and whose friendship I think it an honour to
possess.
I, however, joined in no address, nor did I second or
support any resolution; nor was I aware until very re-
cently that it had been publicly asserted that I had
done so.

For the part I took on that occasion, and for the mo-
tives which +tainted me, I shall not even condescend to a
f 3
vindication. Nor shall I,
.from any fear of being mis-
Lid;t orsts'h)°adt.eaio the bltemy a mtration of good men, or my de-
sire of good works, whether
Roman Cativlie or Protestant. Charity is still, I hope,
a virtue prize;! by lulth.
I am, air, your obedient servant,
B. HAWES.

9, gven.,stpo.res Westminster, Nov. 12.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT ST. BAR-
NABAS CIIURCII, prim-co.
A Feene of the 'mitt extraordinary character, calcu-
lated to create comideraMe alarm and excitement, took
placo yesteray, during. morning Fervice, at the recently
erected church of St. Bartiabas,, Pimlie.), an which Prin.'
said to prevail.
6iples and practices having 'lta affinity to Rornanism are

_ .
In consequence of some attempt to interrupt
Divine service on the previous Sunday, and there being
apprehensions that the congregation might be disturbed
very intelligpnt officer ef th
or a breach of the p
-an B division, and two or
';'stoe committed, Sergeant Loom, a
three constitutes under him, the whole being in plain
clothes, were placed itif the church previous to the com-
mencement of morning service. The sittings being all
filled, the church-doors were closed, and a few minutes
afterwards a well-dressed man was seen to le sve by one
of the side-doers in Church-street, between which and
the street there is a small court-yard or space opening
into the thoroughfare by a door in a stone
wall, the latter of which the person who quitted
the edifice left open. There is every reason to be-
lieve that the scene that almost instantly followed was
premeditated. The stranger bad scarcely left the
building five minutes when a loud shouting and yelling
with the clamour of many voices was beard inside the
sacred edifice, and Sergeant Loom and his men rashed
out by the door the stranger had taken, and by dint of
great personal activit favoured by thq position of the
entrance, succeeded iny, preventing an attack upon the
church, the consequences of which it would be difficult
! to contem
P.ale, until the arrival of a large party of the
police. Upon the se
church with his men he found that some half dozen
of a mob of nearly two hundred had
first
td
issuing
be-
fore spoken of into the space between that and the church,
e ner th
e from
door the
church
t e
when, by a most determined effort, they succeeded in
closing the outer door, and thus separating those who
had entered from the main body, amidst the cries of
`• We'll' have no Popery," "Down with the church—.
break the door open," and such like exclamations.
The five persons who had entered as described, re-
treated over the stone wall upon finding the rest of
the party cut off, and the crowd increased momen-
tarily until the arrival of Inspector Cumming of the B
division, who was upon the
ground within a few
minutes, with a small party of men, immediately fol-
lowed by Mr. Russell, the Superintendent;of the division,
with a great body of constables. At this time the mob
the lowest description. There
must have numbered very nearly a tousand, and con-
sisted of a vast number of well-drehssed persons, the
cadamount
wasa
gers; beingvery
ra tstrong
n,
madeo th e
r others
feelingpofbymanifested by many of theastrong gathering of 'thieves,
better cl.td persons pre.,ent against the proceedings at
St. Barnabas, and it required the exercise of considerable
firmness and muscular power on the part of the police
to prevent a most serious disturbance, which was fortu-
nately averted by the
calm and proper discharge of their
duty. Several gentlemen were amongst those who urged
the crowd to break open the church doors, amidst the
cries of " We'll have no such mumm'ry! Down with it;
it's a disgrace to the neighbourhood!" By dint of per-
suasion and force the vast assemblage, which was such
as necessarily to cause much anxiety for the safety of the
congregation and the neighbourhood, was, with the ex-
ception of one person who WAS captured, dispersed.
Mr. Commissioner Mayne was in attendance shortly
after the commencement of the disturbance, and again
in the afterneon, dut'ing ihe whole of which time Super-
intendent Russell and his 113611 were upon the spot, it

being apprehended that their presence might be neces-
sary in consequence of the general excitement that pre-
vailed. Nothing, however, subsequently occurred.

THE FIRES IN BERMONDSEY.
The official report of the damages, as supplied to the
fire-office, describes the loss of property on Mr. Ealon's
premises as follows:—" Two large bark stores, leather
warehouse, mills, workshops, drying-houses, beam and
engine-house, consumed. The bark insured in the Atlas
fur 4,000 L, building in County for 3,5001., and stock of
leather f 5,0001. in Sun.

" Warehouse used as a workshop by Mr. Carpenter,
leather-dresser, burned down. _ _ _

" End of barn belonging to Smith and Co., consider-
ably damaged.
" Mr. Hacker, tanner; premises slightly damaged.
Mr. Hooper, tanner; part of premises slightly
damaged—insured."
Mr. Eason's loss will far exceed the amount of insur-
ance effected upon his premises. I❑ addition to his
heavy stock of bark, there wore not fewer than 3,000
butts of leather, of the value of 2/. each butt, in the
warehouse, besides a numerous stock of skins undergoing
the process of tanning; forming a loss of from 20,000 L
to 25,0001.

It is somewhat remarkable that the same premises
were burned down on the morning of Saturday, the 3d
of September, 1844, and that the buildings which escaped
destruction on that occasion were • preserved in this in-
stance.

Another fire happened shortly before midnight on
the premises of Mr. J. Harrison, a leather-dresser, No.
17, Crimscott-street, Bermondsey. The building was
about 120 feet long, and was also occupied by Mr. A.
Wilcoxsan, a paper-stainer, and Mr. B. Spiller, a che-
mist. The flames continued to rage for hours, and were
not extinguished until a vast deal of damage was done,
which is thus officially returned by Mr. Superintendent
Braidwood :

Mr. Harrison, leather-dresser, timber building, used
as workshops, all but destroyed. Contents insured in
the Atlas Fire-office; the premises nut insured. Mr.
Wilcoxson, piper-stainer; contents destroyed. Insu-
rance- not known. Mr. R. Spiller, chemist; contents
damaged by water and removal, and roof broken. Not
insured. No. 12, Crimscott-street—Mr. J. Groom-
bridge, builder; some window-glass broken, and furni-
ture damaged by removal. Insured in the Sun Fire-
office. Willow-walk, Bermondsey—Mr. E. Pugh, tan-
ner; stabling damaged by fire, roof by breakage, and
stock by removal. Insured in the Sun Fire-office. Tho
cause of the fire unknown."

[PRICE SD.

them safely in the lock-up, Mr. Shepley 11ving stated
that he believed one was the man who struck him,
but he was too ill to give a positive answer. They
were brought before the magistrates on Thursday
morning, but as Mr. Shepley was unable to leave his
bed.they were remanded until the following Saturday.
On Saturday they were again brought up, but Mr.
Shepley not being able to swear to the men, and it
having been proved that these men had been expelled
from another building about the same time that Mr.
Shepley was attacked, they were set at liberty, after
a strong reprimand from the magistrates for their
vagabond course of life.

PHENOMENA OF DEATH.
(From the Quarterly Review.)
To be shot dead is one of the easiest modes of ter-
minating life ; yet, rapid as it is, the body has leisure
to feel and time to reflect. On the first attempt by
one of the frantic adherents of Spain to assassinate
William, Prince of Orange, who took the lead in the
revolt of the Netherlands, the ball passed through
the bones of his face, and brought him to
the ground. In the instant that preceded stupefac
tion, he was able to frame the notion that the ceiling
of the room had fallen and crushed him. The cannon
shot which plunged into the brain of Charles XII. did
not prevent him from seizing his sword by the hilt.
The idea of an attack and the necessity for de-
fence was impressed upon him by a blow which
we should have supposed too tremendous to leave
an interval for thought. But it by no means follows
that the infliction of fatal violence is accompanied by
a pang. From what is known of the first effect of
gunshot wounds, it is probable that the impression is
rather stunning than acute. Unless death be imme-
diate, the pain is as varied as the nature of the injuries,
and these are past counting up. But there is nothing
singular in the dying sensations, though Lord
Byron remarked the physiological peculiarity, that the
expression is invariably that of langour, while in death
from a stab the countenance reflects the traits of
natural character—of gentleness or ferocity—to the
last breath. Some of these cases are of interest,
to show with what slight disturbance life may go
on under mortal wound till it suddenly comes to a
final stop. A foot soldier at Waterloo, pierced by a
musket ball in the hip, begged water from a trooper
who chanced to possess a canteen of beer. The
wounded man drank, returned his heartiest thanks,
mentioned that his regiment was nearly exterminated,
and having proceeded a dozen yards in his way to
the rear, fell to the earth, and with one convulsive
movement of his limbs concluded his career.
" Yet his voice," says the trooper, who himself tells
the story, "gave scarcely the smallest sign of weak-
ness." Captain Basil Hall, who in his early youth
was present at the Battle of Corunna, has singled out
from the confusion which consigns to oblivion the
woes and gallantry of war, another instance ex-
tremely similar, which occurred on that occasion.
An old officer, who was shot in the head, arrived pale
and faint at the temporary hospital, and begged the
surgeon to look at his wound, which was pronounced
to be mortal. "Indeed I feared so," he responded
with impeded utterance, "and yet I should like very
much to live a little longer, if it were possible." He
laid his sword upon a stone at his side, "as gently,"
says Hall, " as if its steel had been turned to glass,
and almost immediately sunk dead upon the turf."

PRESENTATION OF THE DAHOMAN
PRINCESS TO TH E QUEEN.
It was stated in the papers, a short time since, that
Captain Forbes, of her Majesty's ship Bonetta, had
brought with him to this country a young African
Princess, presented to him by the King of Dahomey,
and that her Majesty, having been informed of the
circumstance, had graciously signified her intention of
taking charge of the child. Her Majesty having ap-
pointed Saturday last for the presentation of the
Princess, Captain Forbes, accompanied by his interest-
ing charge, attended at Windsor Castle for 'that pur-
pose, when the young Princess, who is not more than
8 years of age, was presented to the Queen and the
Prince Consort, in the presence of the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, and other members of the royal
family, and several of the royal household. The cir-
cumstances connected with the possession of the black
Princess by Captain Forbes are curious. It appears
that the gallant captain (who is son of Captain
Forbes, of Winkfield-place, near Windsor) had been
engaged in negotiating a treaty with the King of
Dahomey (whose territories are situated in the inte-
rior of Africa), having for its object the putting a
termination to the export of slaves from that king-
dom. This interesting child, considered to be of high
rank, had been captured by the King from a neigh-
bouring ruler, with whom he had been at war, and
had been detained as a close prisoner, not having been
disposed of (as is the custom of his Dahoman Majesty
with captives of inferior rank) to the Portuguese and
Brazilian slave dealers. She had been closely con-
fined for nearly two years, when she!was presented (as
a mark of the highest respect and as an especial favour)
to Captain Forbes by the King. After the formal pre-
sentation of the little Princess to her Majesty at
Windsor, she returned with Captain Forbes to Wink-
field-place, where she will remain until the necessary
arrangements are made for her future education under
the auspices of her Majesty. Since her arrival in this
country she has made considerable progress in the
study of the English language, and manifests great
musical talent, and intelligence of no common order
Her hair is short, black, and curling, strongly indicae
tive of her African birth ; while her features ar.
pleasing and 'handsome, and her manners and con
duct most mild and affectionate to all about her.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH

AUSTRALIA.

The following letter has been addressed to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer by the Association
for the Promotion of Steam Communication with
Australia :

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER.

Sir,—l am instructed by the Committee of the
Association to enclose for your information an ex-
tract from the Maitland Mercury, an Australian
newspaper, recently transmitted to them, containing
the notice of a motion which was about to be made
in the Legislative Council of New South Wales, on
the subject of steam communication.
The tenor of the proposed resolution is regarded by
the committee as but another evidence of that deep
feeling of discontent which has bee❑ long anticipated,
and represented to you as the result of the delay which
has been allowed to prevail in the completion of ar-
rangements for carrying out a measure involving
large colonial as well as imperial interests—a measure
so repeatedly promised, but so long withheld.
The committee would now respectfully remind you
of the important fact that the Australian mail packet
service was, early in the year 1848, discontinued, upon
the express ground that the Lords of the Amirelty
were then actually making arrangements to supply
its place by steam communication. Tne Australian
colonies have, in consequence, been ever since exposed
to all the injury and inconvenience arising from the
want of means of certain communication with
Great Britain at stated periods : and they have,
moreover, been deprived of the valuable privilege of
transmitting and receiving newspapers free of post •
age ; so that the committee are informed the charge
on London journals amounts to more than half their
cost-price here, whilst the postage to England of the
Sydney Morning Herald exceeds by one-third the
price at which tnat paper is published and circulated
in New South Wales.

The committee feel it ought to be scarcely neces-
sary to press circumstances so injurious to the Aus-
tralian colonies further upon your notice. It is their
duty, however, to place prominently before you this
fact of the discontinuance of the Australian sailing
packets in 1848, and to state their expectation that
the pledge then given by the Executive, that steam-
vessels would be immediately substituted, will be
now promptly carried out.
The committee finally submit that it must be con-
sidered a great hardship upon the community more
immediately affected, that the pledge to which they
allude should remain so long unredeemed, notwith-
standing the fact that they have contributed to
the imperial postal revenue a aum more than suffi-
cient to defray the expense of the service in question,
and twice as much as the inhabitants of the West
Indian Wands, to whom steam communication was
conceded ten years ago.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) T. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
6, Charing•cross, Nov. 13.

THE AUTHOR OF " ROCKINGRAM."—Great in—
terest has been excited by the announcement of a new novel
entitled "Love and Ambition," from the pen of the author
of " Rockingham." On the appearance of that remarkable
work, it was attributed, it will be remembered, to a well-
known and distinguished nobleman, a relation of Lord
Foley, and a diplomatist of the highest rank. The author-
ship will probably be now avowed, as the success of "Rock-
ingham has been placed beyond a doubt. "That work
abounds (remarks the Quarterly Review) in interest, and we
should be at a loss to name another recent novel that shows
anything like the same power of painting strong passion. It
is a book which, from internal evidence, must have been
written by a person constantly mingling in the highest Eng-
lish society."

PROPOSED REMOVAL OF SMITH-

FIELD-MARKET.

(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Mr. Editor,—ln my former letters on the above
subject, I gave the substance of the Report made by
the Commissioners appointed by the Government to
inquire into the matter, together with some extracts
from the evidence on which that report was founded.
I have now to request the attention of your readers
to the plan proposed by Mr—Bunning for the en-
largement of the present market, or rather its partial
removal from its present site. With the particulars
of this plan, I believe the public in general are but
little acquainted. The parties who are clamouring
for the abolition of the cattle market in Smithfield,
have carefully avoided all allusion to it, perhaps from
a conviction that its adoption would remedy to the
greatest possible extent all the evils of which they
complain. That only one great metropolitan cattle
market can exist, is admitted by all parties, and that
it should be as near as possible to the railway termini,
the bridges, especially Blackfriars, &c. Bearing this
in mind, dr. Bunning has suggested a plan by which
all, or nearly all, the inconveniences attendant upon
the existing state of the live and dead meat market,
together with those inseparably connected with the
manner in which the slaughtering of cattle is at pre-
sent conducted, will be effectually remedied, quite as
effectually, at all events, as by the removal of the
cattle market either to Islington or any other spot on
the outskirts of the metropolis. With regard to the
expense likely to be attendant on the adoption of the
plan of Mr. Bunning, the Civic authorities have caused
estimates to be prepared, and, being perfectly satis-
fied as to the practicability and utility of it, they are
willing to raise the necessary funds for the purpose of
carrying it out, and I think that, when the public in
general thoroughly understand what that plan is, and
are made fully acquainted with its advantages, they
will no longer join in the clamour of interested par-
ties for the total abolition of Smithfield-market. By
the plan of Mr. Bunning, it is proposed to clear eight
acres and a quarter, extending westward and north-
ward, from the present site of Smithfield, upon an in-
clined plane of one in the hundred—the bullocks on
the south side, and the sheep in pens on the north side,
upon a regular hanging level, one entrance to be pro-
vided at the south-east side. A new street is intended to
be cut from Holborn-hill to Long-lane, and it would
be a very desirable thing to do when the market should
be removed from this space. By this arrangement, the
cattle will be entirely taken out of the thoroughfares,
and enclosed ; in fact, the market could be locked up.
Cattle coming down Long-lane would enter the
market at this point immediately opposite St.
Bartholomew's Hospital; and they would go
down the inclined plane to the tier, and the
cheep also. There will be another entrance from St.
John-street, and also an entrance from Cow Cross-
street, one from Turnmill •street, one from the centre,
and one at the extreme southern point, so that the
cattle and sheep having to pass over Blackfriars-
bridge, and which they do in considerable numbers,
would go in this direction through Farringdon-street.
On the upper level will be provided space on one side
for the pig market, and on the other side for the calf
market. From one side round by the east to the
other side, there will be a series of arches thirty-two
feet in depth, the light coming into them from the
area ; these will be formed into layers for the cattle
unsold on the Monday's market, so that instead of
driving them any distance from the market, and re-
turning again, they would remain there till the next
market-day to be sold ; those layers it is proposed to
ventilate by means of a disc driving the air through
the whole of the cells by underground drains. There
would be no difficulty in that, because the air could
be blown out immediately through all the openings
then at the base of the cattle market it is proposed
to put the dead meat market. The plan shows the
various entrances, the houses surrounding the market,
and the shops in the interior. Attached to these
markets it is proposed to arrange slaughter-houses
upon this spot. It is considered that about 1,000
bullocks and about 5,000 sheep a week are
slaughtered at the present moment, and the
plan provides for that number. Well venti-
lated slaughter-houses could be arranged on this site
to any extent, without displacing valuable property.
Such is the plan proposed by Mr. Bunning, and which
has been approved of by the Markets Improvement
Committee. It appears to me that, by the adoption
of this plan, all the alleged evils connected with the
existing market will be removed, with the exception
of driving cattle through the streets, and that, it is ad-
mitted by all parties, even by the Commissioners
themselves, cannot be remedied altogether, but may
be very considerably mitigated by the closing of the
market at an earlier hour than at present, the Act of
Parliament now in force declaring that it shall be kept
open until three o'clock in the afternoon. With re-
ference to the proposed regulations of the new market,
it is proposed that no public thoroughfares shall be
permitted within the market, by which regulation the
whole area will be devoted uninterruptedly to the pur-
poses of the market, and the thoroughfares and foot-
ways adjacent rendered free from danger and annoy-
ance by the market traffic. The market is intended
to be enclosed, and will, therefore, be capable of being
shut up at any hour, as may be found requisite,
to regulate the passing of cattle through the public
streets. The different parts of the market are to he com-
modiously arranged, the cattle being in one part, the
sheep in another, the pigs and calves in a third, and all
seen at one view. The dead meat market, now cramped in
the small space occupied by Newgate-market, and
being the cause of the obstructions in the great
thoroughfare of Newgate-street, will be placed close to
the live meat-market, in a locality where it may be
enlarged to any necessary extent. Slaughter-houses,
capable of proper and easy control and inspection, and
also of extension, if necessary, will be in the imme-
diate vicinity, as they should be, of the live and dead
meat-markets, whereby the three kinds of business
will be carried on less expensively, and the streets less
encumbered with cattle, and carts passing and re -
passing through the same. A great improvement
in the adjoining approaches will be effected, as
well as a new line of communication made both east-
ward and westward ; and lastly, it is proposed to levy
a regulation toll, which will effectually oblige both
buyer and seller to close their transactions at an early
lama leaving the streets free from interruption during
the hours of general business. With reference to this
plan of Mr. Bunning, the two Commissioners who
dissent from the report of the other five say, that,
after having carefully examined and considered it,
and inspected the models, &c., they appear to be con-
ceived in a liberal and comprehensive spirit, and pre-
pared with a sincere view of removing the existing
evils, and framed with much practical skill and in-
genuity in their arrangements, after a deliberation
and a careful consideration of the circumstances of
the case. In their opinion the adoption of the plan
would effect a great public improvement and decided
amelioration in the approaches to both the proposed
markets, in the accommodation for the sale of the
live animals in Smithfield, and the dead meat, as well
as improved facilities for the traffic and trade of Lon-
don generally, and they, therefore, advise its adop-
tion, &c. With regard to the space that will be
afforded by the proposed plan, it may be observed that
it will provide accommodation for a greater number of
cattle than had been suggested by parties who are con-
nected with the trade as likely under any ordinary cir-
cumstances, to be brought for sale, while the area pro-
posed to be used for the market is nearly double the
extent of the present market area, and it is capable of
much greater extension, if necessary, at any future
time. What are termed " ring droves," and to which
sa many objections have been made, will be abolished
altogether, as the proposed site will allow of sufficient
space for tying all the cattle to rails. At the present
time only 2,750 can be tied to rails, but the proposed
alteration will provide accommodation for 5,000,
which is the maximum number exposed in Smith-
field. The accommodation for sheep also, on the
new plan, will be sufficient for the largest number
that ever has been brought to Smithfield for sale.
Another advantage is, that the area of the market
will be more compact than it is at present, and will
not at all interfere with the public roads, and the
principal inconveniences of the present market, which
it is admitted are caused by a want of apace, will be
altogether obviated. CENBORI UB.