The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT of th,

Le PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Times labours under an access of Protestantism.
The declaration of Queen Victoria to her assembled 1
Councillors is not only alarming, but contrary to prece- '
dent ; for her grandfather, on announcing his intention to
marry, made his consort's attachment to Protestantism
a prominent part of his speech. " The active and
eventful war," says our Contemporary, " then in
the course of being carried on, was not a war for
any religious objects ; but one of ambition and tem-
poral policy ; but still the nation felt for the inte-
rests of Protestantism." This is true. And we
may add, that all wars in which religion was put
forward even as a pretext had ceased long before
George 111. was born ; though some legislation went on,
and much was impeded, in the name of religion, but
from motives of " ambition and temporal policy." It
is not for us to say why Ministers omitted a matter of
such grave importance ; but perhaps they will be
obliged to gratify the public curiosity ; for the
Times declares that they " must not expect to
pass off at no heavier cost that of half a
dozen fugitive paragraphs of animadversion in the
public press." What their punishment will be the
Times leaves people to conjecture. Perhaps impeach-
ment. Perhaps an entire column per diem for the next
month. Without in the least undervaluing the Act o
Settlement, which was a good and perhaps a ne-f
cessary security when it was passed, we think that
the danger of its being violated was not so great
as to render any particular mention of it desirable.
At the accession of George the Third, the Pope
and Pretender (not to mention a third personage)
were more formidable than they are now ; and were
feared even beyond the nursery. At present,
notwithstanding the bluster of a few Orange news-
papers, nobody looks upon Popery as anything more
than a watchword used by the most violent leaders of
faction, to impose upon the most ignorant portion of
their followers. In 1761, penal laws and disabi
lities oppressed and annoyed the Catholic sub-
jects of the Crown. These have been gradually re-
moved ; and under the happy auspices of Sir R. Peel
and the Duke of Wellington the great act was done
for which the bigots will never forgive them, although
they still affect to regard them as their leaders. When
the Spanish Armada was on its way to England,
there might be some reason for stationing soldiers
and artillery in Smithfield, and for reminding good
Protestants of what had been done there. At present
such topics are appropriate for Guy Fawkes sermons,
but for nothing higher ; and we apprehend that any
obtrusive mention of Protestantism in the Royal Speech
would have beery as impertinent as moving the gun and
mortar from St. James's Park, or Queen Elizabeth's
pocket pistol from the Tower, to Smithfield on the fifth
of November.

(From the Courier.)
The Spectator semi-officially announces a resuscita
Jon of Lend Durham on the public scene, whom late
accounts from the north represented almost hors de
combat from ill health. At least we gather so much
from the tenor of an article on the Canada question,
in which the spur is applied, with a gentle and friendly
indisposition to wound, to his Lordship, on the score of
being " infected" with " timidity." For our own parts
we shall be greatly rejoiced at such a state of
convalescence as shall enable him to travel South
and practically redeem a portion only of those
mighty pledges and denunciations thundered forth
amidst such a flourish of drums, trumpets,
and salvos of artillery on both sides of the
Atlantic in the way of parting adieus and greet-
ings home. We are by no means more apprehensive
about Lord Durham's future performances than dis-
appointed in his past failures, which were no small
source of annoyance to our able Contemporary at the
time, as they have been since. The fact is, that Lord
Durham is a bold rider of that sort who never attempt a
five barred g.tte until it has been cleared, and the way
shown, by adozen horsemen bolder still ; and although
he may come in with others at the death, he is never so
first and foremost as to be entitled to the brush. Under
Lord Brougham's protection he pulled through fairly
enough in both Houses, but we do not think the Dur-
ham dilly, with one inside passenger alone, and a few out-
siders more drag than value, will long keep the road.
There is an old score to be wiped off at the bar where
Lord Brougham takes the toll ; and a more formidable
Cetberus of a gatekeeper cannot well be affronted. A
sop cannot appease, even had Lord Durham one to offer,
which he Las not, nor with the potent Treasury at com-
mand could have ; for Lord Brougham cannot forget,
much less forgive, the Parthian onslaught of his ever-
flying, never tangible assailant. The Durham campaign
will therefore be a flash in the pan, and no more.
(From the Standard.)
A correspondent has favoured us with a leng ar•
title, detailing the history of the person who is said
to be the conductor of the " Church Magazine." As
we learn from this article that the gentleman in ques-
tion has been in the habit of abusing the Standard in
the various newspapers, magazines, &c., that have
perished or been brought to extremity in his hands,
we must decline any more particular allusion .to him
than is necessary to acquit the Church of accrediting
him or being influenced by him. The truth, how-
ever, is, that this gentleman's history during the last
three or four years, constitutes a complete proof that
the Church disowns his opinions—every publication
to which he has put his hand within the period in
question has died from inanition, or been saved from
that fate by passing under another management. Now,
such being the case, we can scarcely think it necessary
that the several orders of the clergy should as-
semble in Synod to condemn the doctrine of
the " Church Magazine," a course that the
Globe seems to point out as indispensable.
We believe that, as regards the Wesleyans, hut
one feeling and one opinion pr,evails with 99 out of
every 100 Churchmen. We regret their separation,
but their conduct proves that our regret must he asso-
ciated with respect. When the Apostle says, " When
you make divisions are you not carnal ?"—he by no
means intimates that all divisions are necessarily the
result of a worldly temper. He knew too well, that
in the sacred college of the Apostles themselves there
had been conscientious divisions. He merely appeals
to the consciences of those whom he interrogates—
calling upon them to try their motives, and if they find
these motives carnal, as envy, anger, strife, cupidity,
or the contrary, so to judge of the guilt or innocence of
the separation. Now, the Wesleyans have given the
best proof that they are not carnal in their separation,
by an acknowledgment of the merits of the Church
from which they have slightly separated, and by
co-operating heartily and affectionately with it in de-
fence of our common Protestantism ; they have adopted
Quintilian's sound advice—" Ne studio qui aniare
nondum possint oderint." The carnal, that is the cor-
rupt Separatists, prove their corrupt motives by hatred
to the Church, and by their friendship with Popery.
Churchmen know how to distinguish between them and
conscientious Separatists, such as the Wesleyans.

BRUTALITY OF A SEA CAPTAIN.—John
Blagdon, of the brig Woodman, was brouzlit before the
North Shields Magistrates, by James Donald, his ap-
prentice. It appeared that in September, 1838, the
Captain had most brutally treated the complainant in
America, lashed the flesh off his back, and knocked out
his hip, by which he is rendered a cripple for life. The
Magistrates, thanks to the equitable laws, could not do
more than exact a pecuniary mulct off the brute ; they,
therefore, fined him 51., and ordered the boy's wages to
be paid up to the present time.—Northern Liberator
CRIME IN SUSSEX.—There was a deplorable
xhibition of c rime and depravity at the sessions just
concluded at Lewes. Eight men were charged on no
less than nineteen indictments, with sheep-stealing and
other felonies. One of these, named Heasman, who
made the first disclosures that led to the apprehension
of the gang, was admitted as Queen's evidence, and the
coolness with which he narrated the circumstances that
criminated his companions, evidenced a most fearful
state of moral turpitude. The amount of property
which he had been concerned in destroying during the
last three or four years, it would not be easy to calcu-
late. We understand that be has confessed to the com-
mittal of between twenty and thirty different felonies,
and, according to his own evidence, he seems to have
proceeded about them as if ordinary affairs of business.
The whole eight lived at Barcombe, and some had borne
previous good characters. Most of them were in the re-
ceipt
of
appre-
hension had 1001. in cash in his house, besides owning
good wages, and one at the time of his a
cottage.—Brighton Herald.
CHARTIST ORGANIZATION.--There is little
doubt that the Chartist leaders in several districts
around Manchester have recently been at no small pains
but who, we are happy to say, constitute
a small to maintain, or to reanimate, the organization which
had formed amongst their followers, previously
to their ever-to-be-lamented, national holiday experi-
ment. At present, those who yet remain with them
por-
tion of the working classes) are formed into districts,
companies, and sections, with each an officer, much
the same in name and functions as those lately exposed
by the movement in Wales. That these deluded people
are generally armed, there is not the least doubt ; and
that they expected to have been called on to use their
arms, is as certain. When Feargus O'Connor, twelve
months ago, pledged them his solemn word that on
the 29th of September last the Charter should be the
law of the land, his foolish hearers never doubted, that.
he would at all events make some attempt to obtain
what he promised ; and they prepared in good earnest to
assist him. Many of them have since been satisfied
that his sole object was to keep up agitation for his
own advantage, and they have consequently deserted
the Chartist ranks.—Manchester Guardian.
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—
We are gratified to learn that the traffic of the Com-
pany from the Ist of January to the 26th of October,
in the present year, has been 65,7491. 15s. 7d. ; and for
the parallel period in 1838 it was 48,027/. 6s. 6d. ;
giving an increase during ten months of 17,7221.95. l d.
—Carlisle Journal.