The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

Wishing the spiritual atrllr,riti of tila Papal See ;" and
where lies the scene of this conspiracy ?—in the bosom
of our Established Church. The conspirators are the
Oxford Jesuits—the men that expelled Sir ROBERT
PEEL from the University—the supposed enemies of
every remnant of Popery. These are the men by
whom the most monstrous assumptions and super-
stitions of Rome are openly vindicated at Oxford from
Protestant pulpits and University chairs." These
are the men who are meanly endeavouring toyef-
feet within the Church, what Mr. SPEI4CER

more honestly attempts out of it,—" who devour
and desecrate the show-bread of Christ," and to whom

he " infamy of perjury, as identified with the viola-
ion of Protestant vows, is adhering in its most odious
'orm." Whal such a wide-spread conspiracy exists
;o overthrow the Protestant fai.h—when, in a few
fears, the wholeNifiblir youth, that one day must legis-
late for the ChurNillifill become imbued with the

most Jesuitical doctrin-etVLlkernost monstrous assump-
tions and superstitions of Itibme—unless this perjured
system be at once rooted up, what is the Arch-

bishop of CANTERBURY about, and the pious
Bishop of LONDON, and the `other great heads
of the Church who receive princelY‘iKomes for de-.
fending the purity of her doctrines ? When, a
tote for Church-rates was proposA, they met in con-
clave at Lambeth Palace, and hurried down to the
House of Lords in breathless haste to denounce the
plan as an attempt to undermine the Protestant faith.
Are we to infer from their silence now, from their
taking no steps to put down this horrible conspiracy,
that they are abettors of the conspirators, and that
Dr. PUSEY and his coadjutors are, with their consent,
preparing the way for acknowledging the POPE
as the head of the Church ? We must either
come to this conclusion, or to another, that they
grossly neglect their most sacred functions, and in
either case are totally unfit to be entrusted with the
guardianship of our reformed religion. And how comes
it that the daily organ of the pure reformed Church—
the incessant assailant of Popery—has filled page after
page with long extracts from the Quarterly Review,
and with loud denunciations of his own against the
Archbishop of COLOGNE and foreign Jesuits, while
we have had only one blast against the Oxford Je-
suists, and those abominable doctrines, compared with
which, according to his own admission, " the dangers
of Romanisrn sink into insignificance." The com-
plexion of the times, we confess, augurs ill, not only
for the purity of the English, but of the Scottish Es-
tablished Church. We, however, hope that late pro-
ceedings have opened the eyes of changeable theolo-
gians, and changeable politicians, but well-meaning
men, such as the Edinburgh Professor of Divinity,
the missionary who volunteered his services to
preach up Episcopacy in England, Dr. CIIAL•
MERS, and that he and many others now begin
to see that the old woman who denounced it as
" flat Popery," knew more -of its dangerous spirit
some two hundred years ago, than they knew of
it in 1838. If he has, however,. any doubts on the
subject, we think the following Jesuitical doctrine laid
down by Mr. GLADsToNE;;NiII fulqceonvince him.
When did O'CoN NEL t. or StrElL,..pr ouNtsuit, ever
advance a doctrine so' daisg,erous to the established
Church of Scotland as this—.“ livery ENtnicopal
Senator, although bound officially to fulfil the state
treaties with the Scottish Church, which stipulate
for her maintenance and extension, is iniperativelY
obliged as an individual to endeavour to restore the
Apostolical system," that is, says the Times--7" to
overturn her existing Church." We wish the Pro-
fes3or of Divinity joy of his present position, and his
new associates.

Twocheap, three-and-sixpenny Conservative dinners
took place on Friday last—one at Oldham, and the
other at Buckingham. The three shillings, we sup-
pose, was the charge made for the eating and drinking
part of the business ; and the odd sixpence was for the
privilege of hearing the speeches—which, considering
that only a few small Lords " gave tongue" at either
place, we cannot help looking on as a most extrava-
gant demand. We can understand a man being
charged sixpence—and gladly paying it too—for
the luxury of getting out of the way, when such an
orator as Lord FRANCIS EGERTON is about to indulge
in a long speech ; but we cannot understand his being
charged that sum for the privilege of listening to
his Lordship, especially when he waddles away in
such a sleepy, prolix style as he did last Friday at
Oldham. Not one ray of intelligence illumined his
speech on this occasion. He urged no argument—he
volunteered no suggestion—he threw out nothing from
which his party might be likely to derive a useful,
practical hint—but contented himself with abusing
Ministers, and expatiating on the highly impres-
sive and momentous fact that he was a martyr
in the sacred cause of Toryism, inasmuch as he
he had had all " his windows broken" for refusing to
illuminate during the Reform struggle I Such as was
Lord EGERTON at Oldham, was the Marquis of
CHANDOS at Buckingham, with this only difference,
that the latter did contrive to stammer out a few faint,
cautious common-places respecting , the Corn-laws,
though he did not venture to moot the subject till the
company had imbibed a sufficient quantity of tavern
wine to enable them to bear up against the infliction.
But if the Noble Marquis was thus tame, and barren
of all but the vaguest and tritest sophistry, in his ad-
dress to the Buckingham " thaw-bacons," not so those
twin stars—the Castor and Pollux of the High
Church galaxy—the Rev. Messrs. COKER and
MARS HAM, the former of whom proposed to tran-
quillize Canada by converting all the rebels to the
creed of uncompromising Protestantism ; while the
latter, resolved not to he outdone in absurdity, com-
pared Sir ROBERT PEEL, and the Conservative
Members of the House of Commons, to LEONIDAS
and his three hundred patriots I We have noticed
these Tory dinners—brief as our notice is—at far
greater length than they deserve; for at neither was
there any one argument urged which it would be pos-
sible to lay hold of, for the purposes of discussion.
All was "dull, flat, and barren," like the road from
Dan to Beersheba.

THE WEATHER, IN SCOTLAND.--On Thursday
we had anwher of those stormy clays alluded to in our last.
The wind was so high as to render it almost unsafe to walk
the streets, and the gusts were occasionally accompanied
by heavy mina. So boisterous was the see, too, that the
Kirkcaldy boat Irad to return to that port after basing been
a good way on its passage to Newha‘en, and the Dundee
mail could not be conveyed across the Fritii of Forth till
long after the usual period for its arrival. Toward Friday
morning, however, the wind fell, but was succeeded by a
eon,ii'erable fall of snow and sleet, which continued at
short interv,Os during the whole of yesterday.—Scotsman.

STATE OF TIIE NAVY.--One of our local Con-
temporaries has been labouring earnestly to prove that the
British Navy is now in a more effective condition than it
er has been, and as evidence of the fact has almost bodily
transferred the lists and rates of ships from the Navy List
to its own columns. We are disposed to rely rather in
Lord Minto's declaration on the subject, than on this nu-
merical detail, which after all might be but a mere show of
empty boxes. We cannot but regard the catalogue as ex-
tremely deceptive, more particularly after so many compe-
tent naval officers, who can have no possible motive for mis-
representation, have pronounced it to be so, and have
loudly pealed an alarm as to the inefficiency of the Navy.—
Devonpor t Independent.
MONTGOMERYSIIIRE.—The Chartists of Newton
and Llanidlocs held a public meeting at Caersws, on Christ-
mas-day, when the People's Charter was adopted unani-
mously, The yeomanry cavalry were called out, but nothing
occurred to require their serviccl.