The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-13 00:00:00

received considerable injury in her topsides and paddle- equal share of sefferirg en all the rest of the world
boxes, the greater portion of the port paddle-box within their reach.
being washed away. Her qualiies as a sea boat are HER ALD.—The University of Oxford yesterday did
sockets of most favourab;y by her commander, its best to supply the great vacuum caused by the death
The Tartarus passed a barque with loss of fore- of Wellington. That seat was highly coveted, and much
mast, a considerable quantity of wrecka e and a large spleen and envy has been expended in the columns of
ship's rudder. Her made good forth
defects are to be - -
the Morning Chronicle, and other Tractarian journals,
with, that it should be filled by the Earl of Derby. Any-
Her Majesty's ship Aigle, 26, passed down the
thing that man could do, they would have undertaken
Medway yesterday morning, at 8 A.m in tow of the
to defeat the Premier. But the only thing that was
~ in ther owr was to a e, and b de-
Adder and African steamers, en route to Woolwich, featedi thepmseelves. Andstart that sort ofcandidat 'enterprisee they
where she is to be stationed as a depor, for coal for the could not persuade themselves to enter on. A
use of her .Mjesty s vessels. The Aigle when foolish maundering was set up at last about
launched, 50 years since, was a 46 -gun frigate, of lan alleged ‘, precipitancy." The Vice-Chancellor
990 tons, end was subsequently raised to a corvette, showed that there had been none. The former
Her Majesty's screw line•of-battle ship Agesnems precedents of vacancies Occurring in the long vaca-
tion made it clear that it had been usual to fill up
non, 90, Captain Sir Thomas lylaitland, will be token
into dock to-day to have her copper examined. The the chair in the following month. Four weeks elapsed
between the death of the late Chancellor and the else-
caisson at the stern of the middle dock was removed lion of the present one. In what other roq in Church
or State, would this be called precipitate But, if the
yesterday. On the Agarne.mnon being placed in the
must be told, this complaining of the Tractarians
dock, the gates thereof, owing to her grea.t length, truth
will be left open, extra bl eke will be laid in. the is the sheerest hypocrisy. They have exclaimed about
Lord Derby's friends; but they
space between the gates and the caisson sunk in its the indecent haste of
the first to commence I They have
groove, by which the dimensions of the dock length-
ethemselees Were
eeatmed ngainst the ineufficiency of Lord Derby's
ways will be considerably increased.
pretensions; yet they themselves The Goodwill lighter, Partrick master, has arrived
pose a candidate,h emselves were anxious to pro-
qualifications they dared not,
ewitZtehecomhparison with Lord Derby's.
from Pembroke, laden with stores for the dockyard.
on reflection, hri
She is ordered to return with iron ballast, 1,000 tons se
1. every possible Way
good grace they keep up a
noise, up to the 'very end of the
have
been beaten ; but, in-
of which are required at that port for the public stead of submitting with ye
services. snarling end sneering
any set of men The barque Hondurest Palo master, from Sierra chapter A more discreditable exhibition, on the
Leone, laden with African teak, for the use of the whole, we never yet saw made by
what-
dockyard, will be taken into the discharging basin to- ever.
day to deliver her cargo. l'OST.—Among Englishmen of sufficient education to
read a newspaper, and of common sense enough to put
a plain meaning on simple facts, there has long been but
one opinion as to the dishonest and disloyal course of
the Romish priesthood in their late, and still-continued,
attempts to increase their own power in this country—.
by bitter hostility to the Established Church, by defi-
ance or evasion of the law, and by strenuous opposition
to all progress in enlightened opinion and true know-
ledge. In iteland especially, where Rome bad tho
strongest material at hand, and the readiest tools to work
with, the dullest power of sight, and the laziest habits
of inference, must have had forced on them both the ob-
jects and the intentions of that desperate and
unscrupulous body which is, unhappily, so largely
represented in the present Parliament. The asso-
ciation, the professions, the appeals and the threats of
the friends of religious equality, as it is interpreted by
Rome and understood in Ireland, were hardly
needed to show that the great Parliamentary effort of
the day was to be the robbery of the Established
Church, and that no pains would bo spared to organize
the burglary, and to secure efficient accomplices. The
speech of Mr. Bright at Belfast, which we lately
noticed, is only one of the signs of the utter want of
conscience or decent consistency by which the two chief
enemies of our Church are characterised. If Mr. Bright,
and " those who think with him," know anything at all,
they know that the power of the Church of Rome
cannot be put forward one hair's breadth without
forcing backward, in a tenfold degree, all that the
Progress Party—the self-styled Liberals—pretend such
anxiety to advance. If they can see anything at all,
they must see that the maintenance of priestly influence
involves the extinction of that free suffrage of the
people—that legitimate and open system of re-
presentation which they profess to long for
with such eagerness. Dr. Mellale need hardly fear
Mr. Grote. The cunningest perfection of the ballot-
box would be but a flimsy screen between the votes of
the people and those keen eyes and bitter tongues which
watch and drive into the chosen path the harassed flock
of Papacy. All this, and more, the so-called liberal
enemies of the Church of England know right well.
But they well know also that, without the Irish vote to
swell their numbers, they cannot show, on any one ques-
tion that can be raised, any but the weakest and most
meagre front in the new Houseof Commons. Therefore,
if the Member for Manchester is to be accepted as the
mouthpiece of the party for which he speaks, they are
now driven, by their desperate condition, to confess their
readiness to sell, for the practical substantial price of a
few votes, all their fine-sounding professed principles of
progress in education, advancement in constitutional
liberty, true freedom in religious opinion. Against all
these things, in Ireland, and wherever its foot is set, the
Papacy has sworn with its whole faith, and will contend
with its full strength. It is easy, and may not be un-
profitable, to take by this standard the measure of the
honesty of Liberal professions, and of the uprightness
of Radical practice. If any one be found hardy
enough to deny how completely the religious equality
of Romish priests and Irish members is in reality iden-
tified with religious tyranny, we would recommend to
his notice a singular correspondence which will be found,
in another part of our paper, between Sir Culling Eard-
ley Eardley and Mr. Lucas, the member whom the
priesthood, assembled in council, commanded the people
of Meath to return as their representative. We do not
propose to discuss here the system and the laws of the
wretched Government under which the Madiais have
been cruelly sentenced ; neither shall we examine the
propriety and advantage of such remonstrances with Fo-
reign Powers, on their internal arrangements and judi-
cial practice, us are projected by the body on whose part
Sir Culling Eardley has very fairly and logically invited
the co-operation of Mr. Lucas, as the foreman and agent
of the friends of religious equality. The ew from which
these poor people are suffering is that of the Church which
is supreme over Tuscan imbecility, and whose supre-
macy, wherever it may be established, involves the
same degree of bigotry and oppression. Where that
most imperious and tyrannical of institutions has suc-
ceeded in shaping the judieitil power to its bad ends, we
see how it deals with religious ( qnality. It treats the
open profession of tenets d.ffering from its own with
the strong r.ed effective argument of eh nunciation as a
crime against the State, and stops the free progress of
edverse opinions by the short way of the prison or the
galleys. With us it happens that this cannot be done.
But is t it not be forgotten that, whatever the Romish
Church can do to punish and torture all who would
struggle out of its fetters, it does as firmly and unscru-
pulously in Ireland as in Italy. It cannot obtain
sentence of imprissnment by law against those whom
it hates, for hearing and preaching what they firmly
and conscientiously believe; but it can and does pro-
nounce its own heavy sentence against them, not only
for religious but for political disobedience. By the
power which ignorance gives to the servants of
lisme, that Church can and does condemn its victims in
Ireland to moral tortures as heavy as man can bear.
The worst dungeon that can be the lot of the Madiais is
often, we fear, surpassed in protracted misery and horror
by the atmosphere of persecution with which a poor
wretch is surrounded, whose rashness in thinking and
acting for himself may have drawn down on him the
wrath of a Romish priest, thundered from the altar of an
Irish chapel. This Church, which so sternly and fiercely
punishes all attempts at proselytising within the sphere of
its own dominion, is, be it remembered, the most uncom-
promising, the most unwearied, the boldest, as well 55
the most insidious of encroaching foes wherever the
dominion is with others, and its object is to
proselytise
for itself. In this kingdom, where Roman Catholicismis, thank heaven, so greatly in the minority, we know
and see daily how strenuously its ministers and
• • •
emissa-
ries pursue the work which, where the Church has the
power, it visits with such cruel penalties—the extreme
of judicial persecution, where the Government. and the
f
law are its slaves—the full weight o moral vengeance,
where a carefully maintained ignorance perpetuates the
servitude, and ensures the obedience of a wretched
people. It is by this priesthood that the Member for
Mcatb, and those who act with him, have been no-
minated. It is as the agents of a Church existing on
such practices that they are returned to Parliament, to
harangue, intrigue, and bully for what they call reli-
gious equality. We can recognise them in no ether ca-
pacity. It they try to impose on us as Reformers, we shall
know that the pretence is as thin as the burglar's crepe,
and shall be at no loss to say what lies under it. Let
them by all means combine with the Manchester school.
Let that body incur the last disgrace of uniting their
fervour for liberty of every kind with the friends and
servants of the bitterest and most absolute tyranny that
ever enslaved men's minds. Let this happy combing'
lion raise the cry of religious equality, and attempt, in
concert, the robbery of our Church; and, unlessl
com-
mon sense and common justice have died
m lawes the most
ay in Eng-
land, we look to their bringing on themselves
ever been
signal exposure and utter disgrace that
impudent sham. The
justly inflicted on ts wicked undb
day has long been gone by for t
..eosmueaeneis2smfuli
nc
Ireland,bit exhibition
of the rapacity and bigotrya of It
suffering faith; and the
ssedwhueciis the true objects and
under the guise of oppressed
time is fast approachinghceser
alliesschool will be equally ap-
parentwhom Mr. Bright is
anxious to
ppattrnecnitplewsitohf those of Manchester
hthet

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Buzzard, G, steam-sloop, Comma❑der noble, left
Quebec, Sept. 23, to join the squadron in the Gulf.
Alarm, 26, Captain Ramsay, and Sappho, 12,
Commander Hon. A. Cochrane, left Halifax, Sept.
26, for England, to be paid off.