The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-01 00:00:00

ties. Of the four orators, who occupied seven
hours in speaking, three were Irishmen ; and only
one of those three, Mr. INI‘NEILE, of Liverpool,
has any local connection with either of the coun-
ties. Dr. O'SULLIVAN and Dr. COOKE, came
express from Ireland, and they, with the Rev.
Mr. STOWELL, of Salford, were the orators of the
Great South Lancashire and Cheshire Protestant
Meeting. The respectable clergy kept aloof from
the mountebanks. The respectable people despised
them. Manchester is too shrewd and worldly. a
place to tolerate a revival by the instrumentality of
one or two wild Irish ranters ; and the Rev. Mr.
STOWELL could justly complain that the merchants
and manufacturers would not " spare a little time
from their sordid counting-houses and mercenary
gains," to swell the
gaping congregation that lis-
tened to the turgid bombast of O'SuLuvAN, and
the malignant sputter of Mr. ST'OWELL.
This Reverend Gentlemen, so called from pre-
tending to teach the merciful and kind and saving
doctrine of Christianity, so totally forgot the
charity recommended by the Master he acknow-
ledges in word, and scorns by his actions, as to
utter the following denunciation, more worthy of a
Pope of the fourteenth than of a Protestant Mi-
nister of the nineteenth century :
Surely it was high time for Manchester to stand up for
the high principle, that he cannot be a fit Legislator for
this country that is not a sound Christian man, when
Manchester was disgraced by Lending two Socinian Mem-
bers to Parliament.—(kplause.) Now our veritable and
gentlemen opposition papers would assuredly represent
him as agitateg for Sir G. Murray ; but he neither spoke
a word for him, nor would he, if he could, have influenced
a vote. He did not find fault with Mr. Phillips and Mr.
Greg for their political views; they hai as much right to
hold them as he had to hold his own ; but, without doubt,
the man that held the doctrines they held, in their fulness
an i knowingly, should perish everlastingly. He ( Mr.
Stowell) was not afraid or ashamed of the Athanasian
Creed. But he had to do with their principles as religious
men, when they came to be public men; and he would
say, that a Socinian was not a proper Representative qf a
Christian community, because he denied' the very funda-
mental principle of the Christian system, tho deity of the
Lord Jesus Christ; and he could not but mcurn and
marvel, that there should have been found so many ortho-
dox men, that could so blind their judgment, and hoodwink
their conscience as to vote for a Socinian, when they them-
selves believed that be held fatal error.

'Who gave it to him to set bounds to the mercies
of the ALMIGHTY? What authority has he or
any priest for asserting that unless a man believe
just as he believes that man shall perish everlast-
ingly ? "In my father's house there are many
mansions," is the language of his Master; " Judge
not, lest ye be judged," is the admonition of his
teacher ; but he dogmatically pronounces a con;
demnation on his fellow-men, and limits the bene-
volence of the ever-living Goy. Not content, too,
with damning men everlastingly, the Reverend Mr.
STOWELL would punish them in this life. He
would exclude them from the highest of all earthly
honours—the approbation of their fellow-men. Mr.
GREG and Mr. PHILLIPS, though they are inti-
mately acquainted with the trade of Manchester,
know all the legislative wants of their townsmen,
are stored with political knowledge, and are
blessed with fortune—the approving gift of
that merciful GoD, whose goodness this
politico-religious fanatic limits—are not fit,
according to him, to represent the Christian
community of Manchester. It is a happiness for
England that the half-savages from the sister
island, and the kindred savages whom superstition
nurses into all uncharitableness, have not sufficient
influence to lure the men of Manchester from their
counting-howses:to hearken unto such denunciations
as those which Mr. STOWELL hurled forth
against some of the most estimable and valuable
of our citizens.

It must not be forgotten that to this class of fa-
natics the Tories are looking to be restored to office.
The meetings of the so-called Protestants have all
a political object. Mr. O'SULLIVAN'S speech was
one continued attack on Lord MELBOURNE'S Go-
vernment. The great aim of all the proceedings
of file great Protestant Associations is to calum-
niate the ‘Vhigs,
,and influence public opinion
against them. Happily, as the number of persons
present at their meetings proves, their will far sur.
passes their power. They make more noise and
foam than Messrs. O'CONNOR, HA RNEy, and Co.,
and are more impotent. We do not know, how-
ever, that Sir ROBERT PEEL and his friends should
not rejoice in their powerlessness. Mr. STowELL
gave a list of the persons fit to form a Protestant
Ministry, and to he placed around the QUEEN, and
LYNnuunsT, and WELLINGTON are ex-
' eluded. They are not pure enough for the Court.
The saintly RODEN, the meek Lord STANLEY,
the temperate Lord ASHLEY, the brilliant Lord
SANDON, are Mr. STO WELL'S political heroes. If
PEEL and WELLINGTON come in, it must be by
forsaking their Liberal heresy. Thus spake the
Rev. Mr. STOWELL of the great Tory leaders, and
of that great Liberal act of theirs, which, coming in
time, saved this country from revolution, and con-
firmed to the Rev. Mr. STOWELL the privilege of
virtuperating the religion of other men, without run-
ning the risk of getting knocked on the head. Thus
spake Mr. STOWELL

If the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel came
to place to-morrow, if they did not tack round, and instead
of sacrificing Protestantism, instead of mutilating it more
and more (for they bad made a sad rent in it), show that
they had learned wisdom from their disastrous, betrayal he
would not call it ; they did it in ignorance. In the unsus-
pecting honesty of their hearts, they could not believe there
was such roguery and rascality on earth, under the mask of
religion, to be found on the fair face of this fallen world,
as they bad found under the mask of Popery. They had
been scattered at that time, and they were only just now
beginning to gather again ; and he hoped they would
rally round the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Pc el,
and he was sure those leaders had repented, though he was
no father-confessor ; and he hoped that, if they were again
brought into power and place, they would not only repent,
but " bring forth fruits meet for repentance." He trusted
that Wellington and Peel would make it one of tl:e first
measures of their .iVministration to come forward and
say,." Protestants of England, either you must repeal the
Roman Catholic Relief Bill, or it will destroy the Pro-
testant Constitution and Protestantism with it. However
it might to some seem madness to do so, he believed that
either we must get rid of the Roman Catliclics from a
power they never ought to have had, or they will get rid
of us from power, and place, and Church, and liberty.
Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Protestant friends, whose
contemptible crusade against their Catholic coun-
trymen he has silently encouraged, will not sup-
port him, therefore, unless he again eat dirt—more
dirt. That such politico-religious fanatics as this
Mr. STOWELL have not much power in sober
England, whatever they may have in Ireland, or in
Scotland, should gratify even the Tories. No•
thing would they tolerate but their own
narrow, selfish creed, and partial views ; and a
Government, founded on a comprcmise of the
conflicting interests and opinions of men of different
creeds, occupations, and pursuits, would be on
their principles an utter impossibility. The Saxon
stability of the national character will now be of great
service, for if Englishmen could be wrought on as
the Irish orators of difFerent classes and creeds
work on their countrymen—if the bulk of the
people were not already, wiser than their pretended
teachers, the whole nation would be driven into
stark staring madness. Just think, reader, for one
moment, what a people we should be were we all what
the O'CoNNoRs, the IVI‘NEILEs, the O'SULLI-
VANS, the PHILLPOTTS, the STowEr,Ls, and the
BURNES would make us, and bless your stars that
the influence of such raving fanatics is very small.

The arrivals from New York yesterday are not
likely to give increased confidence to the holders of
.A.iterican securities. They bring news of some iner-
drams so entangled with their business or other
edgagements as to find it necessary to suspend pay-
ments. One day brought kith five occurrences of
thi3 kind. Such shakiness lvill not facilitate the
exportation of bullion to meet the engagernent „f
the United States Bank. It is not merely the cur-
rency, however, which is at present threatened,
though we are assured that the Bank of England
has its one pound notes prepared, and
i looks for-
ward without apprehension, because it s sure the
Government will, at the first appearance of danger,
issue an Order in Council to prohibit the payment of
its, notes in gold—it is not merely the currency
whlgh is endangered, but the general credit of so-
ciety' bringing in its train a series of social calami-
ties.-. A commercial ccnvulsion in the present state
of political opinions, when the masses think them-
selves seriously arrieved, and are opposed both to
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