The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-19 00:00:00

While the Clergy o the Protestant Church
rested satisfied with abusing the Catholic faith,
and professing abhorrence of its doctrines, the
teachers of the rival creed, greatly to their praise,
took little notice of their wicked revilings.
Though they hiied religious and political en-
thusiasts, or renegade Catholics, to range over
the country, sowing enmity and discord amongst
the religious classes, the Catholic prelates and
priests, as well as the laity in general, looked
upon these firebrands rather with pity than anger;
but the case has become altered since a new
sect sprung up in the English Church, who, while
they still abuse the Catholics, have the effron-
tery to profess openly their indisputable doc-
trines. One Catholic Prelate has discussed the
subject with his usual ability, and we have before
us a pamphlet, written in somewhat the same
strain, by an English Catholic layman, and pub-
lished. by RIDGWAY, in the shape of a letter ad-
dressed to the Rev. J. H. NEWMAN, author of
No. 90 in the " Tracts for the Times." The
writer, who displays great skill and close reason-
ing, complains justly of the irruption of PUSEY,
NEWMAN, and Co., into their sacred territory,
while they still abuse it, calling the " water naught,
and the ground barren," and then, by comparing
the tenets of the intruders, with the decrees of
the Council of Trent, universally received in the
Roman Catholic Church as the anthoritative
enunciation of the orthodox belief and practice,
proves that the Puseyites are in every respect,
except one—charity—as good Catholics as the
Pope of ROME and Dr. MURRAY. " Rely upon
it," says the writer, " there is no use in endea-
vouring to conceal, either from yourself or others,
the undoubted fact, that from the moment when
you admit the doctrines and authority of the
Council of Trent, you are, in belief, as complete
a Roman Catholic as the Archbishop of PARIS,
or Dr. MURRAY himself, and, as far as faith is
concerned, satisfy every term of the definition
with most philosophical and logical nicety." He,
therefore, has just ground for this indignant ap-
peal. "We have a right to complain, and we
do complain, that in order to screen yourself in
the adoption of our tenets, from the obloquy
and ruin that your profession of them, as ours,
would undoubtedly entail upon you, you deli-
berately distort and misrepresent our faith and
practice ; that in order to avert the impending
storm of Protestant ire from your own devoted
head, you erect a counterfeit image of Roman-
ism,' to serve as an ecclesiatical lightning con-
ductor, and thus secure to yourself the undis-
turbed enjoyment of that very orthodoxy, which,
in us, you would gladly see reprobated, and
perhaps punished as heresy and dissent."
He does not, however, confine himself to mere
assertions, but convicts the Puseyite, from his
own words, of distorting some of the tenets of the
Roman Catholic in order to make the real tenets
his own, and adopting others root and branch.
Mr. NEWMAN, for instance, rejects the Bible as
a rule of faith, and stands up manfully for the
infallibility of General Councils. These are his
words :—" In the sense in which it is commonly
understood at this day, Scripture is not, on Angli-
can principles; the rule of faith." This certainly
is sufficiently Jesuitical, but it is surpassed by
the following :
General Councils may err
case it is promised as a matter of express supernatural
privilege, that they shall not err--a case which is teyond
the scope of this article, or, at any rate, beside its deter-
mination. Such a promise, however, does exist in cases
where General Councils are not only gathered together
according to the commandment and will of Princes, but
in the name of Christ, according to our Lord's promise.
While Councils are a thing of earth,
their infallibility of course is not guaranteed; when they
are a thing of heaven their deliberations are over-ruled,
and their decrees authoritative. In such cases they are
Catholic Councils.

By the arrival of the Braganza steamer at
Falmouth on Saturday evening from the Tagus,
we have received advices from Lisbon of the
12th inst. No change has taken place in the
Cabinet. It was reported in political and com-
mercial circles that the Government was anxious
to conclude the long-pending treaty of commerce
with England.

The Finance Minister, Baron ToJAL, refused
the terms upon which the Bank of Lisbon offered
to advance money to meet the demands on the
Treasury; adding, that rather than make such
a bad bargain fbr the country, he would issue
Treasury Paper, which would be received at its
full nominal value in liquidation uof all Govern-
ment taxes.

The ex-Minister Baron SABROSA died suddenly
from an attack of apoplexy. He was buried with
military honours.

Social and physical improvements are of slow
growth in Portugal and Spain. We are there-
fore not much surprised to learn that little has
been yet done to improve the physical and moral
condition of the people. No efforts appear to be
making to extend education, to cultivate regular
habits of industry, and to popularize a better
system of agriculture. The Government clings
with fatal tenacity to the old system of restric-
tions upon commerce, ignorant of the great
truth, that, in the arithmetic of taxation, two
and two, instead of making four, do not always
make one. But the Portuguese Government never
dreams of inquiring into the effect of taxation
upon consumption. The consequence necessarily
is, that every fresh impost, instead of increasing
the public revenue, actually diminishes it.
The French Minister at the Court of Lisbon,
M. de VARENNES, was about to return to France,
having obtained leave of absence from his Go-
vernment. There is very little for diplomatists
to shake their sage'heads about in Portugal.

Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 10th
instant, have reached us. Their contents arc of
no importance. On the previous day (Good
Friday) the Duke of VICTORY performed his de-
votions in all the churches of the city in succes-
sion, and at each of them he presented 31. 4s. to
be distributed among the poor. A Bill to ena-
ble the Government to collect the taxes till the
Budget could be regularly brought forward was
presented to the Chamber of Deputies by the
President of the Council. The Five per Cents.
were done on the Bourse at 25 11-16 for cash,
and at 26 7-16 at 60 days.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday
.ave all reached us. The extraordinary credits
for 1841, amounting in all to two hundred mil-
lions of francs, were voted on Thursday, by a
majority of 195 against 57. On Friday the
question of the occupancy of Algiers by France
was brought forward, but as M. GUIZOT stated
that a campaign was about to be undertaken
against ABD-EL-KADER the Chamber came to
no vote upon it. As, according to M. THIERS,
France cannot live without a passion, she can
indulge in few hobbies less dangerous to the
repose of Europe than in wasting her energies in
acquiring an extension of her sterile conquests in
Africa.
Galignani's Messenger states that the Cham-
bers will not be dissolved. The question was
mooted at a Cabinet Council, when the majority
of the Ministers declared themselves opposed to
a dissolution. We certainly cannot discover any
grounds of complaint against the Chamber of
Deputies, as at present constituted, on the part
of a French Minister. The majority are always
ready to vote whatever way the Cabinet thinks
proper. They never trouble themselves about
principle, or consistency, or anything of the
sort. If they want to see, or hear, or decide
upon any question, they employ the eyes,
ears, and understanding of the Minister
of Public Works, by which they save
themselves a great deal of trouble, and establish
a claim to be remembered when there happens
to be a job in the way. With tools so pliable,
what Minister could find in his heart to be out of
humour ?
In the course of the debate on the Enlistment
Bill on Friday M. CORRI proposed that the chil-
dren of foreigners born in France should be
liable to the conscription. MM. GUIZOT and
ODILLON BARROT opposed this as unjust and illi-
beral, and the motion was consequently rejected.
The Duke of Orleans has returned to Paris from St. Omer.
It is said," says Galignaui, that eight creations of Peers
will be made at the christening of the Comte de Paris, and
that a further nomination to the Upper Chamber will be made,
principally among Deputies, at the end of the se,sion. Among
the names for the first list those of Admiral Mackau, General
Barrois, M. Target, and M. Horace Vernet are mentioned."
Another petition of the French residing at Monte Video is
to be reported on to-morrow in the Chamber of Deputies. The
object of it is to obtain some means for the protection of our
countrymen, who having withdrawn from the tyrant!), and the
vengeance of Rosas, are now in danger of feeling their effect in
consequence of the enterprises of the Dictator.
It cannot be denied that the treaty concluded by Admiral
Mackau has the political rwer and the confidence of Rosas.
Being relieved from,the bckade, he has been able to turn all
his forces against Lav,ille arid having this moment nothing to
fear from' his adversary, he is going to divide his efforts against
Monte Video, and the Oriental Republic. In this conjunction
the ti,ooo Frenchmen settled in that republic are exposed to the
greatest danger: the blood of Varangot, one of their country-
men, who was assassinated at Buenos Ayres, under the eyes of
Admiral Mackau, during the negotiation, warns them that
their only chance of safety is in the effectual protection of their
Government.

Why, every Christian sect puts in the same claim,
from the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland to the wildest sect of fanatics. They
all proclaim loudly that whatever they do is done
by Divine authority, and should the Puseyites be
successful in gaining over the great body of the
people of England to their doctrines, we should
speedily be commanded to obey their edicts
issued from Westminster in the name of CHRIST.
As regards " transubstantiation," too, Mr. NE W-
MAN is a Catholic to the back bone. His expressions
on this head, as on most others, abound with
mysticism, for what purpose he knows best ; but
as to the fact the following quotation leaves no
doubt :

It seems, however, that you think the 28th article does
not deny " every kind of change," from which I think I
am fairly led to imply that you believe some change does
take place in the sacred elements by the effect of the
words of consecration. At p. b 5, you say, " The body
and blood of Christ may be really, literally present in the
holy Eucharist, yet not having become present by local
passage, may still literally and really be on God's right
hand." Again, p. 56, " Now this is what the Catholic
Church seems to bold concerning our Lord's presence in
the Sacrament, that he then personally and bodily is with
us in the way an object is which we call present. How he
is so we know not," &c. At p. 58, we have these words :
" Let them but believe and act on the truth, that the con-
secrated bread is Christ's body, as he says."
For the other points of nominal distinction be-
tween the parties, we must refer our Protestant
readers to the pamphlet itself, in which they
will find, to their sorrow, that there are in the
Established Church a numerous sect of teachers
entertaining doctrines alike subversive of the re-
formed faith, and civil and religious liberty. The
following quotation from the pamphlet, we trust,
will not be without its effects on those who
malign others less guilty than themselves:—
We can easily disregard the taunts of the infidel, the
sneers of the Deist, or the shallow arguments of the Soci-
nian, when directed against our orthodox faith ; but we
may be allowed to feel, and we are called upon emphati-
cally to express a just indignation, when we find those very
men whose theological researches have brought them
round, most reluctantly, to a belief nearly identical with our
own, eschewing our spiritual fellowship as if it were con-
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Ice our observations on the Nottingham
election were written, which appear elsewhere,
we have seen the report of the proceedings of s friends at Nottingharn, and we
thisEil' day's Times.
shMpaerve.ecWhs eAeni'lloTt a word is said about th Corn-laws.
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inedsteishtrious cl.r.c•ses is dwelt
In the Times
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"necessity ArcArc lidea connoofwLimE
bourer to eke out his scanty subsistence by all the
means in his power,forcesparents t o take theirboY
away from school if they can get any employ_
ment for them," &e. The Times then proves to
us that the agricultural labourer is just as badly
off under this Corn-law as the manufacturing
labourer ; but yet the Times, exactly like
Mr. WALTER, does not say one; word against
the Corn-law. It harps, like. him, on the ,
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Will M. Guizot grant their protection to the Oriental Re-
public which, during the long ,blovkade of the river Plate,
afforded to our Admiral all kinds of good offices? WI! he
grant it to the French, whose interests are blended with these
of Monte Video, and whom the enterprises of "Roses threaten
with spoliation, death, or banishment?
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so critical a situation.

sert that they could not possibly do worse than Poor-law, which has no effect whatever in
the enfranchised. Indeed it is the opinion of lowering the wages of the labourer, or in depriv-
the Morning Chronicle, heretofore the ad- ing the industrious man of employment and food.
vocate for a more restricted and more re- So engaged are both the Journal and Mr.
spectable franchise, that the remedy for the WALTER with the Poor-law—which, though as
corruption is to enlarge the constituencies I much a Tory measure as a Whig measure,
or purify the respectables by an inlusion of they use exclusively against the Whigs—
the lower classes. At any rate these circum- that they have not a word to say against the
stances furnish a valid argument against re- tax on the poor man's bread. At the meeting at
stricting the franchise to a few, and against Nottingham a Mr. WHITEHEAD, who called
allowing none but wealthy persons to be repre- himself a Radical, vouched for- Mr. WALTER
sentatives. Nothing worse could possibly result that he had voted for a repeal of the Corn-law,
from extending the suffrage, than the corruption and is ready to do so again. But that assertion
of the present electors and the present repre- is contradicted by the careful silence, on this
sentatives.
v
The state of the representation, however, gives vital question, to the people of Nottingham, of
rise to still more serious considerations. the Times and Mr. WALTER. Their conduct is
non-represented are required to obey laws which
The much more significant than Mr. WHITEHEAD
they have no share in enacting. When they see words and till we see a direct change in the po-
litics of the Times, and till we have a distinct
these cases of bribery, what must they think,
declaration by Mr. WALTER, we shall say that
what must they say—as the electors act for them
both the Journal and Mr. WALTER have imitated
as well as themselves—but that they are sold to
the highest bidder ? If they doubt the wisdom the words and adopted the opinions of Lord
of laws proceeding from such a source—if they ASHBURTON on this subject.
refuse to be thus bought and sold, by refusing to
render that obedience which is the main consi-
deration in the purchase, what honest, what
sensible men would say they are to blame ? How
can pure water flow from a polluted source,
or who can give force to laws which spring
from a bribed constituency and a corrupt House
of Commons? The bribery avowed at Ipswich,
and asserted in other cases, taints the Ark of the
Constitution. It is no light matter, for it im-
peaches all the acts of the House of Commons,
and endangers the supremacy of the law.

The Austrian Observer of the 10th inst., which
we have just received, contains the following im-
portant announcement:—
News received by express from Constantinople, dated the
29th ult., announces that the present Minister for Foreign
Affairs, Reschid Pacha, has been dismissed from this post by
the Sultan, and replaced by Rifaat Bey, formerly Ambassador
of the Sublime Porte at the Court of Vienna, who has been
named Pacha and Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Minister
of Commerce, Fethi Achmed Pacha, is also replaced by the
present Capitan Pacha, said Pacha, brother-in-law of the Sul-
tan. Tapir Pacha is appointed Capitan Pacha, Great Admiral.
The dismissal of RESCHID PACHA prepares the
way for the amicable settlement of the Eastern
question, as RIFAAT BEY is known to be favour-
able to a modification of the firman for establish-
ing MEHEMET ALI in the hereditary government
of Egypt. RESCHID PACHA hated the VICEROY
as cordially as Lord PONSONBY himself, whose
rumoured recal broke the only prop upon which
the Foreign Minister could lean for support, op-
posed as he was by the united influence of
Austria and" Russia. Private advices state that
before taking office RIFAAT BEY pledged himself
to Baron STURMER, the Austrian Internuncio, to
concede every claim made by the VICEROY in his
remonstrance to the SULTAN. This is well so
far. In a European sense the downfall of any
Cabinet was desirable which threatened a re-
newal of hostilities between the SULTAN and his
vassal. But as regards the internal administra-
tion of Turkey the change in the Ministry is un-
fortunate. RESCHID PACHA was the advocate of
reform on the most extensive scale, and in all
truth reform is much wanted in Turkey.