The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

A TREATISE ON THE DIFFERENTIAL
CALCULUS; with its Application to Plane
Curves, to Curved Surfaces, and to Curves of
Double Curvature. By Thomas Miller, M.A.,
FR.S.E., Rector of the Academy of Perth.
M‘ Lachlan and Steuart, Edinburgh.
" Can anything good come out of Galilee ?" so
speaks the sneering Pharisee. Can any mathemati-
cian exist beyond the Solway ? has been too apt to be
the taunt of the savans of Cambridge. Here, indeed,
is an opusculum from a Scotch Rector of a Scotch
Academy. Denude it of the title-page, and assuredly
it will pass muster for the produce of the Cam, and
not the Tay. Those best able to judge of the rich
pages have expressed no
Isitnocreerstwaihnicohpianrieonhoidf itnhtebehsiegh
powers of the learned
author, and the value of the present contribution
which he has made to the exact sciences. We hope
that the scientific world may hear again of the mai
torious author in this walk, which appears to be one
where he is quite at home, and where he makes sport
and play with the power of figures, which causes our
cranium to spin even to behold. We know that the
giants of the north acknowledge this babe to be of
their kindred and race; so it may be still said of the
land of the Admirable Crichton, " there are giants in
these days. .

ACCIDENT AT SEA TO THE MAIL SCREW;STEAMER
THE QUEEN. OF ME SOUTH.—This morning information
having bee❑ received at the General Post-office that the
above vessel, which sailed from Plymouth on the 15th inst.,
with mails for the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon,
India, Ascension, Sierra Leone, and Cape de Verd, had sus-
tained damage at sea, and had been obliged to put back to
Plymouth fur repairs, the Postmaster-General has issued a
notice that, in all probability, letters, &c., for the above_
mentioned places will be in time to be krwarded, if posted
this evening.

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The rate of money in the Stock ExChange is
as low as from 1 to 1 a per cent., and out of doors it is almost
impossible to obtain any allowance whatever for deposits at
call. At the same time there is every prospect of a steady
increase of the supply. It is expected that the Bank ac-
counts for the week ending the 12th instant will show a
farther increase in the bullion of about 300,0001., and since
that date there have been numerous arrivals, which must
greatly influence the next return. These include 225,0001.
from Sydney by the Blackwell, which was announced yes,-
terday, in addition to about 150,0001. previously received
from Australia by the Vimiera and other vessels, 06,000/.
from Brazil, and SO,OOO/. from New York, making an aggre-
gate of considerably more than half a million.. There have
been no further arrivals from Rusia, but ' additional sums
are expected, and the last quotation of the rate Of exchange
at New York indicates that shipments from that side also are
now likely to continue with renewed steadiness, although ttie
two next packets, the Humboldt and the Cambria, owing to
the former merely calling. at Southampton, and, the latter
starting from Boston, will bring less than if their passages
were to be from New York to Liverpool direct.
• GREAT CONFLAGRATION NEAR THE ST. KATHA
nixes Dock.—Last night, at .a few minutes before nine
o'clock, a fire, attended with great destruction of property,
broke out in the extensive premises belong to Messrs. Hub-
bock and Sons, wholesale oil and colourmen, carrying on bu-
siness at No. 114, Upper East Smithfield, ,immediately
facing the principal warehouses of the St. Katherine's Dock.
The premises in question were three floors bight, and upwards
of 100 feet deep. Several engines were soon on the spot.
Under the personal directions of Messrs. Fogo, Jackson, and
Connorton, the various firemen went to work in an admirable
manner; at the same time two branches wore brought to
bear on the flames from the St. Katharine's Dock. The men,
however, had not been many minutes at work when a tre-
men Cons explosion occurred, caused, it is supposed, by the
bursting of barrels of spirits of turpentine, which made the
front wall part at one end, and it was feared that the same
would fall. In spite of the torrents of water thrown upon the
flames, they were far from being extinguished 'at midnight;
but the firemen had happily succeeded by that time in get-
ting what is technically termed theimastery over the fearful
element, so that no further destruction of property was ap-
prehended. The total loss must be very considerable—at a
moderate calculation reaching to several thouiand pounds
sterling. Mr. Hubbock was at Blackwall, dining with some
friends at the Plough, when the disaster occurred. It is un-
derstood that the loss will be partially covered by an insu-
rance in the Sun Fire-office.

OUR RACING PROPHECY.—If the betting offices
are not put down before next year, we should suggest some-
thing like the following as a programme, for the next Cup
day at Ascot :—The Footman's Plate—of three dozen spoons
and half a dozen forks, by subscription of a spoon or a fork
each. Every subscriber to remove the initials and crest, or
forfeit Is. The Tradesmen's Cup—by subscription of half-
a-crown each from their masters' tills by the London shop-
men. The Butchers' Stakes—of one hundred pounds, open
to all the metropolitan butchers' boys. The betting will be
limited to the betting-offices, and the final settling will take
place at one of the penal settlements.—Puncli.
The Royal Botanic Society, Regent's-park, gave
yesterday an additional fete, as some recompense to those
who were deprived by the rain of the pleasure: of visiting
the gardens on the 9th instant. The chief floral attraction
of the day was the collection of American plants, chiefly
rhododendrons, collected under one vast tent. These offered
at one views a mass of really magnificent blossoms, such as
is seldom seen in this country on one spelt. The most beau-
tiful of these were from the grounds of Messrs. Waterer.
Three military bands lent an additional attraction to the, fete.
THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ROCHESTER AND MR.
WHISTON.—The hearing of the appeal in this case is to
be resumed at Doctors'-commons on Friday next, the 18th
instant.

CAEE Or POISONING AT WIGAN.-4 man named
John Nicholls, a collier, living in Wigan, and a portion of
his family, have been poisoned by eating some cakes which
the unfortunate man stated that he had picked up acciden-
tally in the street. Several persons who partook of the cakes
suffered severely from illness, and Nicholls and a child, about
four years old, the son of a neighbour, died from the effects
of the poison, which is supposed by the medical gentlemen
who examined the cake to be arsenic. Nicholls, shortly ba-
fore his death, expressed his belief, that the, poisoned cakes
were placed in the street through which he was in the habit
of ploceeding to his work by a wqman now callcd Bet Brash,
whom he had married 18 years ago, but frOm whom he had
been separated for upwards of 10 years. This woman and
a man with whom she has been cohabiting were subse-
quently crested, and are detained in custody pending the
coroner's inquest.

THE PROGRESS or Locomorloiv.—lt is' understood''
that a contract has been entered into by the directors of
the London and North-Western Railway-Company with
Messrs. Fairbaira, of Manchester, for tho construction of
a: number of " express-train " engines, which have been
designed by the company's locomotive engineer, for the
attainment speed.F .Ibt
.is fully expected that thesee
atthave und rOk
Messrs. air aime , en to coat-
engines,
months, will run from Eustonn-square to Bir-
plete in four .
a.inmenwthotefh_
Cue& of 113 miles, .with loaded, trains, in two
miugharn, adis I
therefore, unreasonable ,to 'anticipate
hours; and itis not,
of
852,
the important manufacturing
that, before the close. 1
i A tricts of South Lanc.ashlre, will be
and cotnmercia. -is
e , of three -and-a-half hours of
'thin' an easy journ 3
brought withinti
the metropolis.
Aqvices frOm Odessa, of the 4L,h instant, state that
supplies froru‘thitnterior, and
notwithstanding an increase of
the price of vOteat was
the expectation• of large arrivals, . ,
seeking freight
Ships still s
well maintained. ' The number of s
was the cause of this continued firmness.
• ' .
firmne d
e to the
Activecontinue to be -m
representations .a
Government on the expediency of correcting the present
ex-
cise regulations, which virtually eneourage the' adulteration
ter.
of coffee with chicory', and expectations scoilsCtr to be ent
d.
rained that the requisite measures will at length Ile adop e
The parties urging the questiup. reresent that they do not
wis;h a revival of the prohibition against sale' of chicory
the . • but
by grocers to customers who may uesire to PAVlt'ose it,
simply the adoption of a system that shall' rion4alise the
practice of vending of pas article for the other, . ' 1- - .

AME RICAN NE WS.

LIVIRPOOL, WLDNI SDAY.

Ly the -OF the screw steamship Great Britain,
..-A-latthotes commander, we have ndvie,:s- from New
Yot•it.-te the st4.infl.-.-She:has a small ninc.arrit of aveeig
en-lreight.-; She sailed in company with the steamship
Humboldt,. for Southampton, eh,. T.o steswers had
arrived at New York, with adVices from C.difornia to
the 6th ult„ and nearly 2,000,000 dolls. in specie on
freight. The accounts trout the mines were very meagre,.
but not tiefavotirable. Great excitement prevailed along
the banks of the-American river in regard to the Chi-
nese, and daily expulsions are taking place. There
was little doing inAhe Stock or . Money Markel. The
dry goods Market was very brisk.
The Crescent City hod arrived at New York with
liter advises from the Paeitic and lift,st Audios, 'stud
1,500 000 dolls: in • Oust: The advice; from the
VI/ cat lodes 470 VOid of inierect.

From Guayaquil our advicec extend to the Ist ult.
That city had not.been assaulted by General-Flores up
to that date. Tire GOVeillinout of Ecusdor bud made
extensive arrangements to repel any attack, end it was
thought he could not succeed.
Late advices front Texas represent that frontier as
being in a most deplor.tbl9
-The Baltimore-Democratic Convention bad been sit-
ting four days, but no indication of a nomination was
apparent.
There was no riuseiti,al alteration to•notice in the New
York Stock or Money Marke.. Money on call could be
preaured at 3 per cent. Exchange was in good de-
'mind—Bids on London, 1101 to 11q; Paris 5 15 to
5 171. . .
The cotton-market was &rested. Prices had declined
ie. to ie. per lb. since last advice.
No change to notice in hreadstuffs
Eighty tons of-Scotch pig iron had been sold at dolls.
19 75, usual credit.
The tobacco-market was firm.

Freights to London and Liverpool dull.
The seem-ship Lima had arrived at Panama from
Valparaiso with advices to the 30th of April, and
dolls. 600,000 in specie. Nothing of importance had
tran,pired since lest advice 9. The commercial accounts
continued extremely flatterioz.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Arrived at New York—The State Rights, from Liver-
pool; Reliance, from Galvvay ; Herald from Grenock;
Queen of the Ocean, from Bristol; and W. B. Layton
and Richmond, from Calais.
Arrived at Baltiinore—The Adler, from Bremen.
Arrived at New Orleans—The Leibnitz, from Ham-
burgh; Naomi, from Bremen; Globe, from Havre;
Bhurtnoor, froth Liverpool; and General Berry, from
Cardiff._
_ _ .

Arrivt d ta.t, Boston—The Plato, from Messing; Swift,
from Cork; Sun, from Sunderland; and Alpha, from
Havre.

Arrived at Portland—The Trial, from London.

ARRIVAL OF THE HUMBOLDT.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The United States mail steam-ship Humboldt, Cap-
D. Lines, has arrived off Cowes, after a passage of
eleven days from New York, the quickest yet made by
this line. She brings specie value 400,000 dolls. for
Havre, and 306,600 dolls, for London; 143 passengers
for Havre and a few for Southampton. The Great Bri-
tain sailed from New York on the sth inst., the same
day as the Humboldt.
The Democratic Convention had been in session for
four days at Baltimore, but no nomination had yet been
made; 33 ballotings had also taken place. General Cass
was thought to have the first chance.
The advises from Guayaquil to the Ist of May state
that General Flores had not yet attacked Ecuador, but
was preparing to commence active operations. The Go-
vernment had made extensive preparations to repel the
attack, and the issue was very doubtful. It is stated
that some of Flores' men were deserting him. One
British and one American ship-of-war were at Guaya-
quil, and had offered their services to the Ecuador Go-
vernment. Ecuador was in a disturbed state, and war
was likely to be declared against Peru, the President
declaring in a proclamation that after defeating Flores
he would march to inflict exemplary punishment on
Peru.

The steam-ship Lima arrived at Panama on the 18th
ult., with 600,000 dolls, in specie, destined for England.
The steam-ship United States and others had arrived
at New York, with 18 days' later news from California,
and 1,500,000 dolls. in gold dust.
Dates from San Francisco are to the 6th of May. The
total shipments of gold in the month of April were close
upon 3,500,000 dolls. In March rather over 23500,000
were shipped. •

The Californian news is not of much importance.
Mining was being berried on with energy and with in
creasing success. The 'Herald states that affairs were
beginning to be more settled and substantial, and wages
approximating
more closely to the rates current in the
Atlantic States. A Bill to exclude the Chinese had ex-
cited great discussion in the Legislature. The arrivals
of persons from all parts of the world at San Francisco
were at the ascertained rate of 84,000 per annum; 2,500
had arrived from China in April. Some miners at
Marysville had met and passed resolutions that no
Chinese should hold any mining
claim after the Ist
of May.
At New York there were no material alterations in
the money and stock markets. Good stocks were in re-
quese for investment by home and European capitalists,
but speculative stocks were neglected. There was agood
demand for sterlieg exchanges, the quotations being
110 to 1107, with sales at 1101; Pario, sf. 15c. to sr.
17e. Hook yon corn had been placed at 37 per cent.
The cotton market was unsettled, and furthjr depressed
by the accounts from this side received by the Asia.
Quotations for this staple are generally ie. to ie. below
the last advicos.
Mar het for breadstuffs without much variation.
Telegraphic accounts from New Orleans of the 4th
inst. state that cattea had declined 4-c. owing to the
Asia's not having any news.
An attempt to siez3 a large quantity of California
gold dust, brought by the steamer Winfield Scott to
Panama, was made on the 22d ult. When the boat
containing the, treasure landed at the mole a party of
natives surrounded it and endeavoured to secure the
gold. A severe struggle ensued, but tho marauders
were ultimately beaten off. A trunk containing• 12,000
&liars was afterwards stolen between Panama and
Cruces.
Dates from Jamaica to the 29:h ult. contain no news
of importance.
Accounts from Valparaiso to the 26th of April state
that business was pretty active. Buyers from the north
and south provinces had appeared in the market and
mad
fo
made corrzevi
idieiraa.bln p arc h se d • and a fair trade had born
done
The accounts from the mining districts wore extremely
fluttering.

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THEATRE.
Mr. Buckstnne's benefit last evening was signalised
by the production of a five act comedy from his own
pen, entitled The Foundlings, and partly compiled from
a French drama, which again was founded on Marryait's
sell-known novel, " Japhet in Search of a Father." The
plot is briefly this:—Two foundlings, Edward Jacks=
and Timothy Dixon, found together in a basket, grow
up very different individuals—the first becoming a hard•
working barrister, the second an idle, good-hearted
scapegrace, whose only pursuit is attempting to find out
the parentage of his friend the barrister, whom he looks
upon as a brother, but still, is a comic spirit of self-de-
preciation, is quite certain of finding him out to be the
stolen heir of a lord—while he is indignant at the notion
of such good luck falling to himself. At length,
by means of an advertisement, he gains a clue
in an introduction to an admirably conceived
personage, MeleSlt in, who is a returned and
reformed convict, having given up rascality, because,
looking philosophically at it, he finds it does not pay,
and who tells the story of his own villanies as if they
were the most praiseworthy actions in the world. This
Moleskin, for a bribe—the sum to be obtained by Dixon
by submitting hie leg to the bite of a mad dog in order
to test the specific of a medical enthusiast—reveals to
Dixon that he is the stolen heir of a noble house, while
the barrister is merely the son of an ignoble accomplice
of his own.. Dixon is horrified at the news of his eleva-
tion, and engages Moleskin to give his evidence in favour
of the barrister instead of him. Now the former is be-
trothed to Esther, the apparent niece of Mrs. Armitage,
one of his clients. The real relationship between the
ladies, however—that of mother and daughter—is only
revealed upon the discovery of a long-lost marriage cer-
tificate, which enables the mamma to proclaim it. The
barrister's pretended noble birth is revealed at the
same time, and the pair are horrified at finding
themselves half brother and sister. Now comes
Dixon's display of devotion. Rather than that
his companion of the basket should be condemned
to celibacy, he calls upon Moleskin to proclaim the truth,
and magnanimously consents to be a. lord in the cause of
friendship. All this seems slight and bare enough, but
it tomes out very effectively in the acting. The doctor,
with his mad dog, makes no little fun, and there is some
good equivoque when Buckatone mysteriously interro-
gates the mother of the quasi niece upon the birth of
the latter—the gentleman all the while thinking of the
barrister, the lady of her daughter. The character of
Moleskin. too, is richly comic, and Keeley did it full
justice. His costume of rusty black, with high-lows
brushed to the extreme of polish, and baggy but decent
gloves, and the snuffle and twang with which he ad-
dressee his " cho- ristian friend," were all perfect; nor less
so was the stolid, unctuous impudence with which
the rogue, who is hypocrite and no hypocrite, gives
the tale of his sins and their punishment with
the resigned pathos of a martyr. Mr. Buckatone also•
achieved a finishing individuality in Dixon. A light-
hearted, honest, careless scapegrace, all fidget and
affection, was never better represented. Between
them they poesescd the entire stock of character of the
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clamations.-

HOP INTELLIGENCt.—About Maidstone the biting
are still progresSing most favourably, and there is no per-
ceptible-increase of fly. The hops in Mereworth bear a most
luxuriant appearance. They have, however, had a tre-
rnenclous soaking, and dry hot weather it now indispensably
required. We have still a few flies. Generally speaking,
the bine continues growing very fast.—Soua-A'astern
gazette; •

• ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIONS.
(From the Morning Herald.)
"We are here" (on tee Ministerial benches), said
Mr. Disraeli a eh.ort time since, " to carry out iu prac-
tic ) the principles we formerly professed when we sat on
1 the Opposition benches." Every one can see that this
iis the only honoureble course of action. Th 3 great
object with the Whiga and their Bowsptpers evieeetly
is, to show that the present Ministry do
their former principlee —an object, in which, we
are happy to say, they nave hitherto singnally failed.
.thy, they do more then fail. Every now and then
not act out
they let the fact escape, that chile they assume
straighttoreurd and h nourable conduct to be the duty
of the Government, their real feeling is Lxactly the re-
verse; and that the main premed of their admiration for
Sir Robert Peel is, that he did not, when in office, ce.rry
out the principles he professed when in opposition. To
Ehow that we do not misrepresent them, let us quote a
a title peragraph ' from tiie ettly remaining Whig daily
journal, as :Ye tied it in yeeterday's oehanne. It runs
thus:—
" in 1841 te nev''"crnment accepted office almost
as urn quivocally as the hope and promise of the high
Church as of Protection. But Sir Robert Peel refused
to purchase an hour's popularity by ono con-
cession to the demon of religious bigotry.
The late Lord Wharteliffe, es President of the
G
Council, took up the wink already eketched in out-
line by Lord Lansdowne, tied soon astonished his
friends by es luminous an exposition of secular
education as could have fallen from the lips of Lord John
Russi 11 himself. Not one of the working st ,ff 01 the
Committee Education were di elated. We believe we
are borne out in saying that Sir Robert Peel's Govern-
ment did not make a single
alteration in the plan ori-
ginally intiodriced by Lord /Melbourne."
This is a true repre-entation. But it is imperfect. It
ought to be greatly enlarged. When Sir Robert Peel
was bidding for dines. from 1835 to 1841, ho was ernie
I
nently Protestent, .Proteetionist, and devoted to the
Church.t was Sir Robert Peel who,
when receiving a
denutation from the Church of Scotland, in March, 1838,
said:—" It is hi:via:Ode to look at the progress Popery
is now making, and the efforts it is putting forth, without
anxiety and alarm. The reestablishment of the order
of the Jesuits, and the increase of Popish chapelsy,
and seminaries in our own country, show us too
clearly what we have to dread. And lam per-
we shall again have to determine the
suaded that we shall, ere long, see astruggle arise, in which
question whether
Popery or Protestantism is to have the ascendancy."
Who that listened to these words could have imagined
that this same statesman, when raised to Power' would
first, by the Charitable Trusts Bia, give to Rornish pre-
lates a legal rank and standing in Ireland, and then, by
the Maynooth Endowment Actovould enlarge and extend
those " Popiah seminaries," which he had pretended to
dread ? In like manner it was Sir Robert Peel who, in
virtuous indignation at the Whigs, when, in May, 1841,
they proposed to repeal the corn-laws end to impose in
lieu thereof a fixed duty, brought forth his vote of
e want of confidence," and hurled them from power.
And it was the same Sir Robert Peel who in four years
after, ;proposed a total repeal of the corn!laws
without
the equivalent of any duty whatever. And lastly,
the Globe says truly, that he served the Church
as he served all others. In 1840 he proposed
to vote an address to the Queen, pledging Parlia-
ment to provide, out of the public revenues,
means for Church extension. In 1842, being then in
power, he substituted for this proposal one to enable the
Church to borrow some of her own money! And, as the
Globe says, after having, in 1839, fought desperately
against the Lansdowne and Shuttleworth schemes of
education, he took office in 1841, and never made the
slightest change in the plans which he had previously
condemned! Such was Sir Robert Peel. It did not ap-
pear to him to be at all necessary
" to carr out, when
in power the principles ho had professed in OPP"i-
time. ' And for not doing so, the Whig journalist
lauds him! The present Government will not imitate
Sir Robert Peel. This the Globe itself admits, though
y
in the most spiteful phrases. It says, after describing Sir
R. Peel's desertion of his own professions:—
" Lord Derby takes office in 1852, and his first step is
to angle for clerical votes by the most unwise concession
that could at the present moment be demanded by the
most turbulent and mischievous section of the Church of
England." .
In other words, Lord Derby professed, when in oppo-
sition, to be . a friend of the Church; and now,
when in power, he will endeavour to act as her
friend. And, while we are writing; a fresh
proof of the sincerity of the present Government
comes before us. The London Gazette, of last even-
ing, contains the following proclamation :--
VICTORIA R.—Whereas by the Act of Parliament, passed
in the tenth year of the reign of hislate Majesty King
George the Fourth, for the relief of his Majesty's Roman
Catholic subjects, it is enacted that
no Roman Catholic
ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of
the religious
orders, communities, or societies of the Church of
Rome, hound by monastic or religious vows, should
exercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roman
Catholic Religion, or wear the habits of his order, save
within the usual places of Worship of the Roman Catholic
Religion, or in private houses: And whereas it has been
represented to Us, that Roman Catholic ecclesiastics, wear-
ing the habits of their orders, have exercised the
rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Religion
in highways and places of public resort, with many
persons in ceremonial dresses, bearing banners and
objects, or symbols, of their Worship, in proeession,
great scandal arid annoyance of large numbers of Our people,
and to the manifest danger of. the public peace; And
whereas it has been represented to Us that such vioalation of
the law has been committed near places of public Worship dur-
ing the time of Divine Service, and in such a manner
as to disturb the congregations assembled therein :
We have, therefore, thought it Our bounden
duty, by and with, the advice of Our Privy
oaft Otearcilafvlnpalace, to the
Council, to issue this Our. Royal Proclamation, solemnly
warning all those whom it may concern, that, whilst We
are resolved to protect Our Roman Catholic subjects in
the undisturbed enjoyment
the ptinishments attending the iotation of
religious freedom, w
- e are determined to prevent •
and repress the corntnission of all such offences as
aforesaid, whereby the offenders may draw upon themselves
their
dominions
may legal
be
endangered.
laws, and
the laws,
and
theGpiveeanceaatnoduareccuoruirtt3:
day of June, in the year 0e obur-Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-two, and in the fifteenth year of Our
reign. e the QUEEN.
Gm:, say This is an act by which the r-,
--e oeovernment, in the imme-
diate prospect of an election dares to offend a large
class of religionists. Ave ethis fitteetith
heed not say, that Sir Robert
Peel, in his whole life, never once was guilty of such a
piece of manhood. And what earnest Protestants ought
to do, is, to take care that those who mean honestly to
carry out the laws, do not Weer for their manliness and '
sincerity in so doing.
Yesterday, in the [louse or Comment, the Ham Mem-
ber fOr Athlone thought proper to make a paragraph in
the Morning Herald, in
- part at least the ground of an
attack upon her Majeet3,o3 ministers. The paragraph
which Mr. Keogh selected as thebect of this proceed-
ing was one in which we
gave the
credit for issu-
ing the recent proclamation, and " daring to offend by
the act a largo class of religionists." Mr. Keogh seined
upon the expression's ofeend~,
fore, we admitted that the
act and
one that ought to
offend. We do not complain that Mr. K.eogh suculd
make the most of the expresiaon But surely he did
not really misunderstand tie, We *were contrastieg the
manly boldness that vindicated the lel with the
cowardly compromise that shrinks from enforcing it
whenever it comes in contact with any inconvenient pre-
oneices. We never thought that the proclamation was
that ought to
give
offence to an e rational or candid
Roman Catholic. Wo are De,rfen,l: certain it has not
eiien the slightest offence to Mr Kee h. But WO knew,
as the Ministers knoW, that it
was
ang
act which might
easily be used to enlist ae
t,ai:
net them the religious
prejudices of the ignorant and the bigotted, and we
did give, and do still,
eu. ref
inisters credit for the
courage and detertninetion with which they ven-
tured to disregard this. Had Mr. Keogh honoured
us by reading the entire of the passage in its con-
text, he would have seen that the-
iv articular expres-
sion at which ho cavils
as'
; 'tl troop in the nature of
a quotation from a journal to which we were replying.
Mr. Keogh, however, did
good service is calling up the
Home Secretary to give an P
--tplanation on the subject of
the proclamation which, while •it
must elevate Ministers
in the opinion of every Protesta.nt removes, at the same
time, every cause of complaint from the Boman Catholics.
This proclamation was (3ertaiul-- y not issued without
abundant reason. It appears that in England a preces-
sion went along with images and cruci-
ft It was openly stated that it was intended -
xes.
the country t gene:
rally .throughout
The instance that has actually' oec
tarred was one of 150
.-4he banners and emblems of the Romish wor-
ship
paraded with ostentatious fixes,
cruci
ship were .
th lolls pomp-
forms of the Saviour and notvirgin—were
carried along
the highWaYs• We
that these wish. to 4g offend," but we.
t help saying' ese emblems of worship are
cannot
excite the strongest Were feeling in the
minas . of Protestants.
than
the matter to rest
upon no higher groundsnk thatt atnh• the danger to the
ere tbi
public peace, this danger is amply
justify the prevention sufficient to
There are multitudes. of Protestants in every.
tions.
who, rightly or wrongly, district in England . believe that
metres is not
the worship of these ifrel, merely a ceremonial
their
of a religiorediffering , but is an act dis-
honouring
-Could any I,(l)iwelii
to God.
honour
with due re-
gard to the public peace,be excited whit:ll'3n? of religion,
permit the feelings to h these unwise ex-
hibitionslculatehappyke? ad
were ca
Mr. Walpole,
did not, we are to say, rest his defence
however,
proclamation merely upon the
of the h.B©
of the
the public pe
necessity of preserving
that Miniitearcse. He took the
higher ground of saying. could not permit
violation of th
and fiscfrant vto o law. The duty
all ()Pen 'of a free People is to *
of the Sovereign °Volvo the law'
Minister is to
The deity of an honestletthe feelings of the vleo
his Sove-
reign to do so.
ever
6Protestants who.,
be
object to these
; processionshthe protection of
the
uareilsonabtes
they hairo a rig-3o law, as it I.:
such toossions would be •
To permit precessions '
.tu trutb, praeti
?
or the Sovereign a dispeneina power.
cally to claim
mistaken in su • ' - 6
Mr. Keogh is utterly supposing that the law
The truth is that the beau
has been dormant. aw has -
Processions are '
' 'dly obeyed. Those.Pboth new in Bag
rip
d• Tne attempt now tt.o
land and Irelan . to make
Queen's hieheeey the t,scene of an
ovation
for the Ron
b s but thefollowing n al
wish ecclesiastics i
~ _ n _
a__.,roaT Catholic
of the Pap
bull that declared Luglaolde, le
upon thel Gatholie country:
It is another " litgresnsaltionalfeelit rational faith, red
f
' another insult to the
public thoroughfar;tts thehe elevatiiono
the Host in the
of Bomb is emphanc
the
as-
sertion that the Churchot abidero say dominantwhethe in
formed
We are a r this
country.l. te eligions
of the contemp a Pageants, but surd
a part
the processions had been - d this
0 that if , Permitted we are been long wanting, Every right-
• would not have
Catholic must feel indebted Mt'
minded Roman
eted the his
• nister who has Pr(teof mysteries of ,
the indignity the unseeing
creed from
he their public parade Would
squabbles to which
I have e d No.
most unquestionably xpose them.