The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-09 00:00:00

on this!" Yonder, in the North, the con-

quest, as we have seen, was the conquest of a
province. In the South it was the conquest,
not of a province, but of the whole of
the kingdom of the Two S'icilies! And it was a
conquest as it were by one man, by one grand and
glorious reputation. It was the renewal upon a
more colossal scale of the famous feat of arms
boasted of by CORIOLANUS. GARIBALDI might have
said at the close of his campaign, " Alone I did it
—I fluttered your Volscians at Corioli." And for
the gift of the Neapolitan kingdom in its entirety
to his Majesty King VICTOR EMMANUEL, General
GARIBALDI, unlike the imperial liberator (!) in the
North received nothing whatever in the shape of a
consideration. On the contrary, when at the end
of his marvellous achievements there in the south
of the Roman peninsula, the veritable liberatcr, the
liberator of Italy returned to his little island home
at Caprera—his own native land, Savoy, had
been shamefully sold to the other " libera-
tor" (save the mark !) the French EMPEROR !
And now that GARIBALDI has been more recently
deluded into plating reliance upon the good faith of
that nominee more of a clique than of the nation,
Signor RATAZZI—the latter, when the pear of his
intrigue seems to him ripe, grasps it for his own
selfish enjoyment, and warns away from the ban-
quet the man of men among all the chiefs of the Ita-
lian cauee—GARIBALDI ! GARIBALDI'S letter to the
Chambers, in which the deceit practised upon
him is bluntly explained, will be found
in another part of our impression of this evening.
It is, in truth, a remarkable document. It has been
sneered at as a sort of arrogant Russian ukase or
haughty Spanish pronunciamento. It is insinuated
that it reads more like the production of MAZZINI
than Of GARTB ALDI." There, however, in our columns
this evening; iti the reflected form of a litrral tranS-
laticn,. are the writer's ipsissiina verba. Let any
dispassionate observer read them, and then say
whether they do or do not read like the truthful
outpourings of that great and honest heart ? GARI-
BALDI'S letter, in effect, speaks for itself. It is
a fatal reproach to RATAZZl—clever, consummately
clever and adroit though the Minister's speech,
explaining it away for the time being, has proved.
" Cast but mine innocence into the scale," exclaims
the heroine of Sir WALTER SCOTT'S most chivalric
story, " Cast but mine innocence into the scale, and
the glove of silk shall outway the glove of iron!"
In the face of Europe, in the presence of all
;;he civilised races, GARIBALDI might yet more
forcibly cry out, placing his sword like CAMILLUS
in the Balance of Public Opinion, " Cast but mine
honesty into the scale, and the iron blade shall
outweigh the golden sceptres"—even though the
latter were those two bran-new gewgaws, the Impe-
perial bauble of NAPOLEON 111. and the Royal bauble
Of VICTOR EMMANUEL 11,

Times are mended since imprisonment, banish-
ment, and even the stake, awaited the heretic. Mr
ISIDORE HEATH loses indeed "that whereby he
lives" to the amount of £6OO or £7OO a-year; but
he does not lose his life forthwith, and perhaps he
may have, or may find, another " whereby" to live.
All will compasiouately hope, at least, that this
may be the case. Mr. HEATH as a clergyman was
altogether an Englishman. He would let his law-
yers fight for him as long as they could, for he had
probably come to the sincere belief that he was as
free to contradict the articles, and so forth, he had
signed,as any lay gentleman who had not signed them
But when called on by the Court to "revoke" or be
deprived, he had, unlike Mr. WALPOLE the other
night, nothing to revoke, not he. He had published
what he really thought, and was not the man
withdraw it though he saw £7OO a year of good
L lawful money slipping from his grasp. All honour
to such men, be they in what line of life they rosy
—the men whom no penalties or losses will keep
from publishing their convictions, and abiding by
what they have published. From the Atheist to
straitest sect of Evangelicals,: we respect from our
hearts the man who dares to think, and to bear the
consequences of thinking aloud.
We cannot, on the other hand, accuse our courts
of persecution. The whole affair of a clergyman's
position and duties is one of simple contract with
the State. Whether it were right or wrong, the
TUDORS and STUARTS with their Parliaments con-
structed a Christian church after their own notions.
Every part and pinnacle of it they made a
part of the statute law of the land. There
is no such thing as a national Church or an Esta-
blished Church, apart from the statutes which
create it, and the prayer-book with the articles, and
all in it, are declared' to be a part of the Act of
Uniformity to be construed with it, and the book
was actually appended to the Act. So long, there-
fore, as our judges shall not desert their province,

and become lawmakers instead of administrators
of the law. we cannot charge them with persecu-
iion in deciding according to the statute law of th,e
land. Mr. Ismoßi HEATH and-all other clergymen
voluntarily pledged themselves to believe in every
part-of the Prayer Book to the letter, to conform
entirely to it, and to teach and preach no other
doctrine.

We need not describe again Mr. HEATH'S peculiar
notions., They were ;plainly in contravention of

the doctrines, and: the boOk to which he: had

pledged his conformity. His notions, whatever
their abstract truth or falsehood, were undeniably,
net only different 'from, but: contradictory to those
of his professed creed. The- recital of the points.
of Contradiction in Mr. HEATH'S publiShed sermons,
by Lord CRANWORTH, were sufficient to move a
,smile, by their obvious contrariety with the
book of Common Prayer, , combined • with
the apparent 'simplicity of their author in
asking to be Shown wherein he is in error, declaring
that if he differs from the articles and formularies
it'is "Unwittingly." The impression .produced on
our minds is, that it is a case of intellectual liana:
cination,it not being easy to see how any thoroughly
sound mind could fail to perceive the contradictions
pointed out by Lord CRANWORTH.
The wider question—what subscription, what,
, diversities of doctrine, a national church ought to
require is one likely to be a good deal discussed in
our times. We shall- soon hear from Dr. LUSH-
INGTON his decision on the " Essays and Reviews,"
'and :it will be seen whether adroitness in state-
ment can' cover' divergence , from the real creeds
of. the Church, as great as that of Mr. HEATH
himself. The whole difficulty of the case lies
here, that a State Church ought to be a
National
.Church, and a National Church it
cannot be, in any fair sense of the phrase, or even
in equity towards all, who are equally subjects, un-
less it coMprehends all the diverSities of creed and
worship to be found in the nation. Such has been the
opinion of 'some of the ablest men in the Church,
both in ancient and modern times, and it obViously
points in the direction of abolishing the TUDOR and
STUART Acts of Ueiformity, and delivering the.
thought and belief of the nineteenth century from,
the fetters forged for .it by the Legislature of the
seventeenth. .

A letter received in Paris on Saturday from
Brussels says that the health of the King of the Belgians
is in by no means a saiisiactcry state. It is certain that
Dr. Civiale has again left Paris to attend his Majesty, hay;
lug been summoned !), s:telegraphic despatch.