MACB.ETII, etptid StiMcserAnE.
HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE trembles in all his joints every time a double knock comes to the door of his chambers. He rejoiced, 'doubtless, in the affair at Battersea, as well calculated to keep he- sitating subscribers to their ranks, the dread of th Doke acting as a counterbalance to the dread of the Pope. To. al .4Vpstonieseos.'s withdrawal was so sharply followed up, that it wits • r61Vgoliable-th suppose it would meet with few imitators: "It is astonishing, how- ever, how readily an example of running. away is followed. First came Mr. QUINTIN DICK, " for self and brother"—his letter smacking of the good old counter phraseology, as was natural— one eye directed to the safety of the, Church, and the other to the Borough of Mahlon, all in the way of business ; and now comes Mr. HUGHES HUGHES. Another, and another, and another ! Lord • WINCHILSEA objected chiefly to the Duke of WELLINGTON; Mr. QUINTIN DICK, for self and brother, ditto; Mr. HUGHES HUGHES—we have the same pleasure in writing the sweet itera- tion as the old Vicar of Wakefield lied in writing Miss Caro- lina Wilhelmina Amelia—enters into the question at large, and argues it as learnedly as the ex-Attorney-General would. Five out of nine of the Governors are to hold civil offices, and four of these may be Catholics ! eego the College ought to be abandoned. The main object of the institution was to oppose the London 'University, by preventing, in some degree, the spread of irreligion, infidelity, and error ; but the passing of the Catholic Bill has rendered opposition to the London University, &c. impossible ; ergo the College ought to be abandoned. It has been deemed essential to legislate against the introduction of Papists into Winchester, Westminster, and Eton Schools; • to a no such precaution has been exercised in argued to the King's College : ergo it ought to be abandoned. Mr. elIocof HUGHES knows that Lord LYNDHURST is Chancellor, that Mr. PEEL is Home Secretary, that Dr. COPLESTONE is Dean of St. Paul's, and Mr. Alderman THOMPSON Lord Mayor of London ; and he . knows moreover—what no man besides, from Adam inclusive, ever knew before—who may be their successors ; ergo King's College ought to be abandoned. Besides, the Bishop of LANDAWS sermon is riot the Bishop of LANDAFVS speech ; the Bishop of Oxford has declared that Roman Catholics are not idolaters ; and the east wing of Somerset House, if ever it be founded, must be founded on a sand-bank ;—for these and for all the reasons *before assigned the College must be abandoned ! For its orthodoxy we have trembled ever since Lord WINCHILSEA published his doubts ; cur worst fears are now confirmed. Ve see the institution must go down : first the aristocracy (Lord WiNconsgA), secondly the commercial interest f" Mr. Q. DICK brollier-j, and lastly the intellect of the community Mr. t'Giffis IluciffEs), has left it.
Mr. COLERIDGE may shut shop whets he likes : Somerset House will not be completed in our days !
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