The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

A NEW ROMISH MIRACL.

THE FALL OF LORD PALMERSTON.
The Univers has an article on the retirement of
Lord Palmerston, which is worth reading, if it be
only as a curiosity in the Paris press. The Univers

says :
"The following is a fact which evidently shows the
hand of God in the fall of Lord Palmerston. When
that blind enemy of society fell, he had just addressed
a note to the Protestant Governments of Germany,
urging them to persecute Catholicism. The pa-
tience of God has just been exhausted by this last
attack. This act, joined to many other similar ones,
shows that Lord Palmerston was not a simple poli-
tical agitator of the pseudo-liberal school, but an
implacable follower of Luther, a Protestant logician,
a zealous sectarian, and the most formidable kind of
revolutionist. His object, in seeking to revlutionize
Italy, was for the purpose of putting down Papacy ;
be favoured Kossuth and revolt in Hungary with the
hope of seeing a Catholic empire disappear, and a new
Protestant state rise in its place. His sectarian
hatred and his liberalism in this instance got the bet-
ter of his patriotism ; for it is necessary that Austria
should be powerful, in order to protect Eastern and
Western. Europe against Russia ; in making this
threefold attack against Austria, in Germany, in
Italy, and in Hungary, Lord Palmerston
inflicted a serious injury on the interests both
of his country and ours. Whilst he turned his di-
plomacy against Catholicism, and flattered himself
with sooner or later bringing about the downfal of
the Roman Church, another Englishman, exchanging
the illustrious name of the Spencers for that of
Brother Ignatius, travelled through Europe, preach-
ing against Anglican Protestantism ; with naked feet,
and clad in a rough habit, he unceasingly collected
spiritual alms ; he armed himself with Pontifical in-
dulgences, pious signs and mortitications, in order
to oppose the omnipotent Minister. Lord Palmers-
ton has been overthrown, and in his fate we may
see a prognostic of the destiny of Protestantism; that
heresy is nowhere so tenacious as in England; that
country is its fortress, and, nevertheless, it is there
morally! ruined both by those who support it and by
those who abandon it. The abortion of Parliamen-
tarianism, the confusion of false knowledge, the bank-
ruptcy, and the stifling of the spirit of discussion,
the restoration of good sense and of authority—all
this Catholic movement of the continent will hasten
the destruction of Anglicanism. The power of Eng-
land will be even soon shaken if she does not
promptly get out of the democratic current into which
Pee!, Russell, and Palmerston have thrown her. We
hope that England, while returning to the true faith,
will preserve her noble institutions, her opulence,aand
her power. But if, through her own fault, she should
be deprived of these in a few years, the Catholics
would console themselves by thinking that the nets
spread by the fishermen of souls, Brother Ignatius
and P. Newman, would be the sooner filled. The re-
membrance of the multitude of saints brought to life
by England persuades us that the daughtor of so many
prayers will never perish in her delusion."

DEATH OF THE NESTOR OF THE
PRENCH PRESS.

A person has lately died in Paris whose history is
indeed a curious one. This person is M. Breton,
who was one of the principal reporters of the Moni-
teur and Journal des Debats fur more than 3.; years.
His occupation as a reporter began, however, long
before 1816. M. Breton reported the Legislative de-
bates of all the Assemblies of the first revolution, and
was attached to the corps of stenographs so early as
the 26th August, 1790. During the Convention he
had for colleagues with him in the reporter's gallery
two young women, who, it is believed, afterwards
perished by the guillotine. He was present when
General Bonaparte dissolved the Legislative bodies
during his coup d' itat of the Bth Brumaire, and, in the
confusion of the moment the General trod on
his foot as he was leaving the hall of debate. He
continued at his task during the whole period of
the Restoration, saw Manuel expelled from the
Chamber of Deputies, and witnessed all thatimme-
diately preceded, accompanied, and followed the fall
of the dynasty of the elder Bourbons. He was still,
invaded
by ever, at his post when the Chamber was
by the mob on the 24th February, 1848, and was
present at the last debate of the Assembly dissolved
by the decrees of the 2d December. In 1825 he
founded, with MM. Darmaing, Ledru, and Lambert,
the Gazette des Tribunaux, of which he was the prin-
cipal proprietor. M. Breton was a distinguished phi-
lologist ; knew nearly all the languages of Europe.
He was attached as sworn translator to the Tribunal
of the Seine, and was frequently entrusted as such
withimportant and confidential missions. Few men
of the present age have witnessed so many interesting
events as M. Breton. His being an eye and ear-wit-
ness of all the terrible proceedinga of the Assemblies
of the first revolution would alone give value to the
memoirs which it is stated he has left, sod which it
is added, will soon appear in feuilletons of one of 'the
Paris morning papers.