The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-06 00:00:00

BURTON.

Mr. HERRIES was for delay till the Canada
Parliament had assembled.

Lord J. RUSSELL eulogised the liberal policy
of Mr. Husiossox and Mr. PITT, and spoke
strongly against that vicious system which seeks
the advantage of the few at the expense of the

many.
Mr. VILLIERS expressed his satisfaction at the
resolutions, and justified the proceedings of the
Import Duties Committee.

On this subject a brief contention took place
between Mr. BINGHAM BARING, who was more
unmannerly than- discreet, and Mr. VILLIERS,
which ended in much calling to order and mu-
tual explanation.

A good deal of conversation took place on the
Import Duties Committee, and on what had been
said elsewhere. Though the CHAIRMAN stated
that it was irrelevant, the subject interested
the Members more than the Colonial Duties, and
they followed the bent of their inclinations.

The resolutions were agreed to.
Mr. LABOUCHERE stated that they were to
come into operation on the Ist of January, 1842.
The Criminal Justice in Boroughs Bill, re-
lating to Manchester, Bolton, and' Birmingham,
was put into Committee after some opposition
and a division, but was not passed through the
Committee.

At One o'Clock the House adjourned.

Accortling to the Oxford Chronicle, the Pusey-
ite controversy rages furiously in that city. That
journal contains several letters on the subject,
and it enumerates no fewer than four pamphlets,
which have appeared since its last publication.
Such clever, oily, and slippery priests as the Pusey-
ites, who are the very perfection of priestcraft,
and whose great object it is to effect an alteration
in the Church without going through the horrors
of an ejectment, they having no inclination
whatever for poverty or martyrdom, are not
long to be silenced by a Bishop's frown, however
obsequiously they may bow and bend before
him. If the " Tracts for the Times" are to be
discontinued, to avoid scandal, the opinions of
the Tractarians will be sent forth by some other
means, and as long as the public will attend to
the controversy, there will be no want of mate-
rials to keep it alive.
In fact, a regular schism is growing up in the
Church, and neither side will want advocates.
Dr.-HOOK, the Vicar of Leeds, a great Puseyite,
has written a letter to the Bishop of RIPON, in
which he points out that the Low-Church party
have been the assailants in the case of the Pu-
seyites, and he advocates the formation of a
High-Church party of priests, to resist the Low-
Church party of priests. The Morning Post
takes Up the cudgels for Dr. HOOK and his party,
and while it extols the High-Church priests as
possessed of the virtues of angels, it accuses the
Low-Church priests as animated by envy, bit-
terness, hatred, and malignity. The Standard
is ranged with the Low-Church priests. " They
have sent forth," says the Post, " the ar-
rows of bitter words; lying and slander-
ing they have sent forth plenteously." There
is no reason why the High-Church priests
should bear contumely with patience. They are
all extremely righteous and holy, and such men
never yet lay down peaceably to be trodden on.
Duty, not to themselves, but to the great cause
they defend, forbids it. In the presence of a Whig
Bishop, as they hope ere long to exercise episco-
pal authority, they may appear meek and hum-
ble ; but why should great writers, profound theo-
logians, and eloquent preachers like them, each
of whom feels and knows that he is far wiser and
better than the Bishop he submits to, allow his
great light to be hidden under an Episcopalian
bushel ? They are said to have taken away
the congregations from the Low-Church priests,
and to have destroyed all the profits of au-
thorship by which many Low-Church priests
were enriched before the commencement of
Puseyism. Many of them feel and know that
it is only necessary for the Tories to be in office,
with that promising young man Mr. GLADSTONE
as Under Secretary of State, to have mitres
showered on them, if they will accept them, as
fast as they become vacant. Standing so prodi-
giously high, at least in their own estimation
and the estimation of their followers, it is not at
all likely that the High-Church priests will suc-
cumb and acknowledge the superiority of their
Low-Church assailan t 3.
They are supported, too, it appears, by some
high functionaries. It was some time ago stated
that the Puseyites were in possession of docu-
ments which would prevent the Bishops from at-
tacking them. The Oxford Chronicle states :
While the press is thus active, and increasing interest ex-
cited through the country, nothing is yet done authoratively_
no official movement has yet been made to counteract the
acknowledged evil, or to assert the Protestantism of the
Church and University. The very extent of the mischief
seems to prevent the application of a remedy; and we have
reason to believe that " Most Reverend," and " Right Reve-
rend," and " Very Reverend" persons are labouring privately
to " hush up" and smother the matter; we have before stated
facts which led us to express the opinion that this would be the
course taken ; the Archbishop of Canterbury's Chaplain
having originated the Tracts, and his present Chaplain and
Librarian being their defenders, the inference is obvious :
beside this, we are bold to say that the Archbishop. having
been misled by members of the Tractite party several years
since, became instrumental to their purposes, and the means of
nursing them into strength and audacity : it is now very well
known that this party, then working in secret, wickedly as-
ailed Dr. Hampden because he was not of them ; that by
their machinations many were induced inadvertently to join in
the unfounded, and, in part, mere wanton clamour against that
eminent Divine, and, that when this great injustice and _..jury
bewas
l edsosennee tdo sought to
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secret junta, even denied him the upon by the
and examination. We are far fro- justice ri a hearing
Archbishop wittingly entered . intending to say. that the
tites : the position heldbhoi
-,hre by Dr. Pasty, Mr. Newman, *WI
into the schemes of the Trac-
advantage,
others, of itself gave -
power
and to and opportunityth tomrry out
any design with.
members of the Episcopal is to
._e traced their !n-
-nperho,maunidgetdhethraromuigfli;
fluence upo;
catioh.l'oy which their opinions have been
thq press and from the pulpit.
What, then, it' the Spiritual Head' of the
Church should be a Puseyite ? It seems very
natural that he and the rest of the Prelates having
a strong conviction—growing from the delight
which the large revenues of the Church afford
them—that the Church is essential to the welfare
of mankind, and witnessing its declining in..
fluence, should readily lend an ear to any set of
priests who propounded a means of re-establish-
ing it in public favour, while its revenues
and its power should be increased. It is very
likely, therefore, that the Most Reverend Pre-
late, and several other Prelates, have
secretly cherished and favoured the High

Church priests, and have encouraged them in
their exertions to gain for the Church of Eng-
land all the power that ever was possessed over
the hearts, minds, and consciences of men, by the
Church of Rome. They will not bear, if such
have been the case, now to be slighted and now
to be disparaged. They accuse, therefore, the
Low-Church priests of being guilty of all manner
of theological vices, and they will continue to at-
tack them with all the vigour and rancour for
which theological controversialists have always
been famous.
The public seem-to us to be more deeply inte-
rested in the inferences from this controversy
than in the controversy itself. One of them is,
that as there are Low-Church and High-Church
priests and parties, there must be a Low-Church
truth and a High-Church truth, a High-Church
creed and a Low-Church creed, otherwise- them
would be no dispute between the parsonS. In ad,.
dition, then, to. Romanism, Presbyterianism, Lu-
theranism, ,Arminianism, Wesleyism, &c., there
are also Low-Churchism and High-Churchism,