The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-05 00:00:00

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t;t4ltial4o4 00A:sitar. Ziataltaet, - tte tiotettit'ti
(jailed upon for enerillees, orrhr that the Queen*
Government may be carried ca;. but, if Free-tradkrs are
entitled to demolish a .frcettrading Administration for
the sake of a cliasyllahleot .'r.otntienist may fairly ask
leave to discharge a Compulsory. duty without being
driven to a preliminary declaration that his. party is
designated from a blander.—Tirnes.

DISCOVERY OF -THE. SALLYPORT OP
WINDSOR CASTLE. •

Extensive improvement's have for several months past
been in active operation at Windeor Castle under the di-
rection of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, who, after a period of 28 years from the come
meneeineut of negotiations, have succeeded in mom.
pushing the purchase of all the houses on the Castle side
of Thernes-street, between Henry. \rift's Gateway
on
Castle-hill and the bottom of the Hundred Steps. Those
houses have been removed, the street is widened an 4
improved, and the most ancient pert of the ',Castle now
abuts in the town, towering makatkally gbeve thohnilde
ings which surround it, with that same protective app, Y.
ante whew in RI.; 93 past the fieit huts of Wiadsor wore
rained temeath its walls for sbeleir and sceority,
`lnc workmen ergaged in levelling the ground hetweet
the Carter Tower cad the OM BOtry•Toteer, known as
Ca!,at's Tower, discovered at about six feetbelew
the surhiec si se'etertaneau pessast', cue through the
chalk rock on which the Castle is built. The filth stet
rubbish ere now being got out, and many cart toads have
been taken away. The passage is six feet wide and tea
feet high, the sides are built of sound masonry, and it
is arched over with massive stonework. At present it
has beerstraced to one of the minor canons' hotfies itt
the flernshee cloisters, adjoining Juline Cassltif3
ToWer, Where the entrance is bricked up; from this
Tart there is a grackle' descent into Thattier-street;
from thence 'it appears to pass under the houses in the
direction of the river Thames, but this end has nisi
yet been explored. Hundreds of persons have already
descended into the passage, and it is conjectured then
this is the ancient sallyport from •tho castle, amide
as a means of escape in case of siege or invasiose
and that it passes under the river to Burnham Abbey,
which is about uthree miles distant, where there is •
come g passeaeyepreeeedingein. a .direct line So
Windsor. It is excected that if this excavation is fur..
Cher traced from beneath the cloisters, this passage will
be found to communicate with one in the quadrangle of
the castle, which, it will be remembered, was discovered
a few years ago, leading under the eastern part of the
castle, in the direction of Old Windsor, and, in all pro.
bability, to the ancient castle of Old Windsor, which was
known to have been built there by the Romans, and oc-
cupied by William the Conqueror at the time when he
built Windsor Castle as a hunting seat. which, according
to " Doomsday Book," was completed in 1086, and it is
very remarkable that although history furnishes indis-
putable proof of there being a castle at Old Windsor, and
of its being occupied by Saxon princes, as well as by
William the Conqueror, that there are to be found no
traces of it at the present day, although Roman solids
have been discovered and Saxon urns dug up within a
short distance of that neighbourhood. It is to be hoped
the Dean and Canons of Windsor, or the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, will continue the exploration or
this extraordinary passage, which has created so much
interest among the curious who have already visited it.
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AN I-TRAC ['ARIAN LECTURES.
Last evening the Rev. J. E. Gladstone Incumbent of
Long-acre Episcopal Chapel, against whom the Bishop
of London has ?lately instituted legal proceedings, de-
livered at the Freemason's-hall the first of a series of
lectures upon tractarianism. The meeting was large
and respectable, and was pre.ided over by Dr. Clarke.
The LEcrunna, in commencing his discourse, the
subject of which war, " Wbat is traetarianism," dwelt
upon the great blessings and priviliges enjoyed by Eng-
lishmen, aid a.ked to what they ought to be attributed?
It was to the fact that hitherto, since the time of the re-
formation—though they had, alas! given up much—
though they bad, alas 1 been betrayed often, but, thank
God, they could still say—it was to Protestant ascen-
dancy. Then the question arose, was that Protestant
ascendancy in peril ? and to that he answered, yes.
(Cheers.) What had placed it in that peril ? The
Papal aggressions had dons so most feartuily.—(flear,
hear.) He was trampled in the dust when he thought
of it ; but he must avow that they were weak. The
people of England had declared as one man, that—
" No Italian priest
Should tithe and toll in their domieions."
They had passed a law that it should not be, but they
had satisfied themselves with passing that law, and had
allowed it to be broken as if it had never been made.—
(Cheers.) It it was needful to pats that law at all, it
was needful to see that it was put in active and deter-
mined operation.—(Hear, hear.) The result of their
not having done so had been most perilous to the mo-
rality of the country, as Popery was wherever it went.
—(Cheers.) Every thief and every murderer might
justly say, "You have no right to punish me, for there
are as great and greater breakers of the law than I, and.
yet you novcr attempt to punish them."—(Hear.) If,
then, Papal aggression were perilous to Protestant as.
eeney in Englund, what was it that had given force to
them? His answer was—tractarianisan—(Lond eheers.)
And, mark what had been the result. The late Prime
Minister, in introducing the new Reform Bill, said the%
allowing the truth of- what was said by the Exeter
-Had orators (no called-by way of -ineerT—irdmittinv—
(as Lord John Russell had admitted)—that it
was true they could not bind Roman Catholics
in anything that effected ecclesiastical utility.
even by ate oath—they must not do in the
British House of Commons as they did in the
civil courts, where they tried false witnesses, and
punished them for perjury; bat that instead of making
them keep the law, they must abolish the law and leave
them no oath to rake. Such a state of things was fear
ful to ‘'coutemplate.—(Cheers ) But if he was asked
what seas the cause of this; be would say again, tracts-
rianism.—(Cheers.) The question cf " What is tracts-
rianism?" therefore, became one of the deepest, the
most solemn, and the most abiding importance; and, in
answering it, he should speak of it under four heads:—
First of all, in answer to the question, " What is tree-
turianistu ?" be said it was an hideous embodiment of
false doctrine; secondly, that it was a hateful combina-
tion of idolatrous worship; thirdly, that it was a dis-
gusting exhibition of chicanery and deceit ; and,
fourthly, that. it was a Wicked, unscriptural, and un-
godly conspiracy, to confine the intellect and to enslave
the souls of free Englishman, and to crash them beneath
the Juggernaut of episcopal tyranny and spiritual
de —(Leng and continued cheering.) The Rey.
Gentlemansptism.
then read a number of extracts from Tract
90, for the purpose of substantiating his first charge
and observed that if the Queen were to turn a Papist
she would by the Constitution cease to be Queen; and
in like manner if a bishop turn Papist he was no longer
a bishop, and he would give him no allegiance whatever.
—(Cheers.) It was a strong circumstance against the
Bishop of London that two of his examining chaplains,
well what tractarianism meant;
Mr. Allies—or, as he had been called, Mr. All-lies--
laugh!er)—and Mr. Dodsworth, had gone over
pwkhner her(ralft'cr.tlyGladatane) went to see him, his
to Rome.—(Cheers.) It was quite clear, then, that his
asnot.(an thetserth)e
ealiknist•
On a report,
said, e You called me a tractarian, and an abettor of
aLalinoty)drr ddsissehhetiihp
t,
earfv after ahofitiegr
though
e he
attach,
dn
ot say groundedthat
(the
Right
tree
id
tarianism.” Ho (Mr. Gladstone) ,had never called him
Lordship
phrase you
called it." Why, did not every body
meant? Did not his Lordsqip know an" what it
(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Gladstone)wh it
meant 7—
R9v.
added—"Pr ate)
Tractarianiam—thatw
ship's permission to speak he had his Lord-
liked of him any-
where except in the pulp•t. (L 1 auehter )He considered
however that it was his dut *
his duty—if all the bishops
the
the world proved false to
—nether less nor more than
their oaths, and betrayed interests of the Church, to
speak them against from
Reformation
was the pulpit.—(Cheers.) The
and won in the pulpit, and by God's grace
assistance he for one
would defend it from the pulpit.
—(Enthusiastic
applause.)
With respect to his second
charge, Mr. Gladstone declared that the crosses, the
painted glass, and the • •
paintings which the Tractarians
_had introduced into their churches were idolatrous; end
he warned the bishops to remember that for sanctioning
such practices an archbishop had once been impeached,
tried, condemned, and executed.—(Cheers.) God forbid
that the like should happen again. Ho did not pretend
to prophecy, but he had studied God's Word, and
that made men apt to discern the signs of the times;
and it was his firm conviction that it they encouraged
Treetarianism the bishops would ere long be tumbled
off their seats at the least.—(reoud and pro-
longed applause.) As to the third charge, Mr. Glad-
stone instanced the alleged conversion f the Rev.
J. H. Pollen, the senior proctor of the University of
Oxford. There appeared a denial of that from Mr. Pol-
len, but the editor appended to his letter a statement that
the information had been received from Mr. Oakley.
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gladstone) was, therefore, fully
convinced that Mr. Pollen had gone over in his heart
end besides the contradiction was signed "John Pollen,'
and not "...John H. Pollen," as Mr. Pollen used to sign
his name.—(Bear, hear.) Again, the Bishop of London
lately went to re-open Spitalfields Church, and he was
informed that there was a atone altar which had been
pronounced to be illegal. His Lordship declared that it
was a moveable table, but the fact was that though it
stood upon castors there was a beading to hide them, and
so it was a stone altar for all that.—(Hear, hear.) Upon
the fourth head the Reverend Lecturer pointed to himself
as an example. The Bishop could not do him any in-
jury—God would prevent him from doing that—but it
The Bishop had sent a man
was their own question. e
into his church on s Sunda?' morning a quarter of an
hour before service to inhibit him from preaching or
ainainistering the sacrament. Had he obeyed, his people
would have been sent home again. Was not that the
most grinding an-
A oppressive tyranny that a man could
d
wield? His flock • -
weal have had to have gone to the
f se. Martin s-in-the-Fields, where parish church o I they
have heard a bit of
might, whop., baptismal regenerne
tioll.—(Licar' bear.)Nor was this all. There was
confirmation coming on, and their children would not
be allowed to be prepared by the minister in whom they
bad
„esteem-, but must ho instructed by the vicar of
the prise; and the same thing would epply to the other
of religion. They would thus have
rites an interdict,
and weeping, and lamentation. and woe; for their chil-
dren might not be baptised, their daughters might not
be married, and their dead might not be buried, unless
by Popish wolves in sheeps clothing, whom they sta•
horned.—(Loud cheers.) The lecturer concluded by
praying that God would drive out and destroy that cursed
thing called Tractarianiam, and sat down amidst load
cheers.
A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the
meeting broke up after singing tile Doxology.

Sir Charles Napier had an interview with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
The Hon. F. 11. F. Berkeley, M.P., had also au intcr-
view with the Right lion, Gentleman.

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