The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-10 00:00:00

TBE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 18

establish their reputation as seers ; and in the next, it
would lead to the sale of many of the plantations at
brie-sixth their real value, and so transform them from
agents to principals, as they would not fail to be the
purchasers. That such is their policy cannot, we
think, be doubted for a moment by those who will
take the trouble to peruse a letter addressed by Seven
Baptist Missionaries, long resident in Jamaica, to
Lord GLENELG, which will he found in another
part of The Sun. These Missionaries, we are
assured, are men of irreproachable lives, of
indefatigable Christian zeal, and of conversa.
tion becoming persons whose sacred office it is to
preach the gospel of peace. That their representa-
tion will produce a powerful effect upon the minds of
the people of this country, we feel as confident as
we do that our gracious Queen will concede any boon
in her royal gift, necessary to the welfare of her
coloured subjects.

The Reverend Mr. BREEKS, and his Reverend
Brethren who have aided and assisted him in bringing
the case of MARY WOOLFREY into the Ecclesiasti-
cal Court, seem likely to repent of their proceedings.
A correspondent of the Chronicle, who writes from
Windsor, informs the public tha,t in Sr. George's
Chapel, Windsor, solemn obits are performed the
Sundays before the four q•;arter days, when the souls
of the founders are prayed for, and .when all those
connected with that expensive establishment are fined
if they do not attend. Will Mr. BREEKS, or the
Bishop of WINCHESTER, or the Rev. Dr. DEAL-
TRY, cite all those who arc guilty of this violation of
the canons of the Church, to answer in the Court of
Arches on matters touching their souls' health ? If
they punish the poor widow, and allow the assistants
in the service at Windsor to go unpunished for dese-
crating that Protestant cathedral by a quarterly revival
of the doctrines of Popery, what will the world think
of their impartiality ? We humbly recommend the
Rev. Mr. BREEKS to withdraw the case from the

Court of Arches, and from the public notice as soo

as possible.

We much pleasure in directing attention to an ad-
vertisement in our columns of this day, announcing
that the " United Mercantile and Traveller's Associa-
tion"—the formation of which was so repeatedly re-
commended in The Sun—is in such a state of com-
pleteness, as to be able to fix the 19th instant for
the granting of annuities, and the effecting of
all the important business of such an Association.
Travellers, warehousemen, and mercantile clerks, have
been too long destitute of the means of providing
against the wants consequent upon sickness and old
age ; it is greatly to the credit of the principal mer-
chants and Magistrates of the City of London, to be
found at the head of a Society for the remedying the
condition of a most meritorious, though hitherto
neglected class of adjuncts to the mercantile. body.

The Times of this morning contains an excellent
practical illustration of the wisdom of that liberal and
conceding policy which is professed by the Whigs,
which that Journal, from stupid ignorance or more cul-
pable malevolence, daily vituperates, while it defends
the opposite, arbitrary, coercive, and self-willed policy
adopted by the Tories. The article which we insert
amongst our extracts from the Journals shows that
there exists great differences amongst the Catholic
priests of Ireland. Dr. M‘HALE, the Catholic
PHILLPOTTS, is at issue with Dr. MURRAY, the
Catholic BLOOMFIELD, and the former has found
in the Rev. Mr. THADDEUS O'MA LLEY, another
Catholic priest, a far more vigorous antagonist than
PHILLPOTTS found in the too amiable Mr. HEAD.
These, however, are not the only schisms and disputes
which exist amongst the Catholic priesthood. Those
educated abroad differ essentially from those educated
at Alaynooth ; and within the last year or two, besides
the case of Mr. MULHOLLAND, several disputes
amongst the Catholic priests have been made pub-
lic. The Times of this day contains, also, a
letter from the Rev. Mr. DAVERNE, a Catholic
priest, being the third in which that gentle-
man has vehemently attacked Mr. O'CoNNELL,
and in which he says that he has been appealed to on
the ground of pure policy, not to make the differences
which exist among the Catholics known to the public.
He also implies that he does not stand atone of the
Catholic Clergy in condemning Mr. O'CoNNELL's
policy. Here then is a very important fact, which
may serve to allay the apprehensions of Protestant
bigots, and disarm would-be Protestant tyrants. The
Catholics of Ireland, formerly so united in conse-
quence of the oppression exercised towards them, are
now divided, and are pursuing different political and
religious objects by different means. What has
brought this about? The Times answers in the lan-
guage of the Rev. Mr. O'MALLEY :
" Romanism was beset by dangers from which it is now ab-
solutely and entirely exempted, to wit-Ist. The proselyting
spirit by which the educational system of that day, carried on
by the well-known Kildare-street Society, was supposed to be
directed, and which is now altogether given up. 2d. The
depressed state of the Roman Catholic body in 1826, before
the passing of the Relief Bill, as compared with their present
state, when, according to the frank and manly description of
Mr. O'Malley, they are "an emancipated people, admitted to
the very sanctuary of tha Constitution, and possessed of every
means and facility of detecting every covert act, as well as
defeating every open assault, of the enemies of our fathers'
faith." These, be it remembered, are the words of an able,
well-informed, scholar-like, and in mind, whatever he may be
in station, independent Roman Catholic priest. He tells his
Roman Catholic brethren that their condition differs funda-
mentally from what it was before " emancipation."
The language of the Rev. Mr. DAVERNE, is
Precisely similar. He says, writing to Mr. O'CON-
NELL

" In our enslaved state under the penal laws, when we were
robbed of our properties and our franchise together, and had
no choice between abject petitioning and the sword, I could
understand the course you are pursuing. But what, Sir, are
year now afraid of ? We enjoy, at least, the protection of the
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concession made from time to time to the Catho-
lics, have inspired these two gentlemen, and
probably others, with their resolution to
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schemes of Mr. O'CONNELL. The power, then, of the
priest and the demagogue, which was nursed into
frightful greatness by the coercive policy of the Tories,
has been much weakened if not stricken to pieces by
the mild and graceful policy of concession, always pro-
fessed, if not always followed up by the Whig,
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plainly separated the great mass of the middle classes
from the Chartists, and has deprived the latter of every
leader and nearly all assistance, which even the popu.
lace used to obtain from the middle and upper classes.
There is no BURDETT amongst them to lend them a
momentary weight by his name and fortune, after-
wards to desert and betray them. So we doubt
whether the Dissenters be so united and so for-
midable to all opponents since the Repeal of the Test
Act as they were before. The diminution of their
power and the relaxation of their union, with other
favourable circumstances, have operated advantageously
too, by dissolving some of the cement of the Esta-
blished priesthood. Dr. PUSEY and Co. are at war with
Dr. HAMPDEN and Co. Drs. MA 1, TBY and STANLEY
are assailed by all that yet lingers in the Church of un-
,Alaritableness and bigotry, and Dr. HOWLEY is a
;reat deal too meek to secure the approbation, or to

escape the sarcasm of Dr. Prifm.the PoTcatTsho
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septets were cordially united, if

one body—or if the endowed clergy were, as in thi
olden times, animated by one spirit, we should trem
ble for the religious and political liberty off' the t our

try. The policy of concession, which is so much de-
rided by the Thites, has broken all these formidable
religious bodies into a multitude of cliques, gild ensured
mental independence and public safety.

The Paris Journals of Thursday do not contain a
syllable of domestic news of any interest, with the
exception of a Royal Ordonnance, convoking the meet-
ing the Chambers on the 17th of December. The
question of Electoral Reform takes precedence of all
others in the columns of the Liberal Journals. There
is no doubt but that the demand of the National
Guards to be included among the electoral body will,
if persevered in with firmness, throw a great and dan-
gerous stumbling-block in the way of the Ministry.
Had the Ministers the magnanimity to concede to the
wishes of the Reformers in time, the solution of the
question would be equally popular and safe ; but it is
the fatality of weak 'Governments, by the refusal of
just concessions, to provoke the enforcing of the most
outrageous demands. What would purchase the grati-
tude of a nation, if conceded one year, often excites
derision when withheld to the next. The perfection
of statesmanship consists in appearing to lead the
'people, by always anticipating that expression of the
popular will which reduces compliance on the part of
a Ministry to the meagreness of a necessary, or rather
inevitable act. Another question which will give Mi-
nisters some trouble is the reduction of the Five per
Cents. A rumour prevailed on the Bourse on Thurs-
day, to the effect that the KING had consented to the
reduction of the interest, and that a paragraph in the
forthcoming Royal Speech would recommend the mea-
sure to the Chambers, which had the effect of pro-
ducing a decline in the prices of that description of
Stock. Such a rumour, however, is more likely to be
ill than well fountled.