The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-31 00:00:00

E VENING S V

ACTISTS, LAUDISTS, SACUE-
VERELIBTS.
(CORRESPONDENT OP TUE BRIGHTON GUARDIAN.)
About the year 1330 a small number of clergymen,
at their meetings in the Common Room of Christ Col-
lege, Oxford, entered into an agreement to employ
whatsoever literary power they might possess, or could
in any way bring into aid, for the special purpose of de-
crying and discarding that system of religious faith and
practice, which, since the days of Queen Elizabeth, I.lts
been called Protestant.
Dr. Pusey, Professor of Hebrew, was I believe, the
first to make a public declaration' in an Oxford pulpit.
of his abhorrence of the name of Protestant. The wri-
tings of a young enthusiast, named Froude, were then
published by the Associated Anti-Protestants, expres-
sive of their wishes, but with a view of feeling their way
with the public, lest a sudden declaration of open war
on the Established Church and on those opinions and
sentiments in wbich Dissenters and Churchmen com-
monly unite, should excite alarm and promote revulsion.
Pamphlets were published in rapid succession, all con-
demning the character of manners of the present times,.
and all uniting in wholly attributing such evil to a gene-
ral relaxation of submission to the Church and the
clergy, and all claiming unconditional reverence for the
Church, and obedience to its canons, and subjection
at all times, and under all circumstances, to the clergy,
as the heavenly-endowed successors of the Apostles,
vested with full spiritual authority, with full powers to
discern spirits, to bear the keys of heaven and of hell.
and to open and to close the gates of salvation or damna-
tion, according to their decision—all requiring a returis
to all the rites, forms, and ceremonial practices of the,
Church of Rome, not expressly forbidden by Act of Parlia-
ment —all advocating opinions of ancient usages, candies on:.
altars, holy water at church doors, crossing of breasts and.
foreheads, genuflexions, confessions to obtain absolution,
with tables of fees forsuch offices; invocations of saints for
heavenly intercession, prayers for the dead to obtain re-
demption from purgatory—all utterance of prayer to be
delivered with faces turned to the east, especially by
priests or deacons, and in churches—in fact, all forms
of ritual observed in Romish churches and chapels.
Prayers for. special or paramount protection addressed to
the Virgin are, I believe, omitted, and prayers for the
Pope of Rome which declare his temporal supremacy.
(See Dr.lViseman's " Invitations to a full avowal of entire
return to the Bosom of the Antient (i.e. Burnish)
Church." See also " Introductions to Rev. Dr. Arnold's
Sermons on Christian Life, its Course, its Hindrances,
and its Helps," preached at Rugby, 1841.)
The pride of young divines, at Oxford and elsewhere,
is flattered and fostered by the carefully-instilled tutorial
persuasion that, by -the imposition of hands in ordina-
tion, they have been invested with Apostolic dignity,
authosity, and power, superior to those of allothermorta.s,
whatever be their station in society ; and the result, as
might be expected, is especially manifest in their con-
versation and address, by an assumed air of pomposity,
ofdogmatic assurance, end of coarse insolence, modi-
fied, indeed, in some degree, according to the grade in
..r.nciety" in which Choy isays.nwpwei.i.-.1.c.. ityac!,'
but warranting an expectation, to the rising generation,
of a rank harvest of Wolseys and of Bonners—of relent-
less partisans, but not of humble Christians.

GARDENS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC SO-
CI Vl' Y, REGENT'S -PA R R.—Yesterday a promenade took
place at these gardens, which was numerously attended
by the members and their friends. Amongst the CA,M-
puny present were the Earl and Countess of Surrey,
the Ladies Howard, Lord Bernard Howard, Lord Burg-
hcrsh, Lord Egerton, Lord Gower, Lord Morpeth, Lord
Blaney, Countess Powlett, Countess de Grey, Sir G. T.
T. Staunton, Colonel C vendish, Lady Lewis, the
Turkish Ambassador anclltuite, Countess de Courcy,
Lord Ilinton, Hon. Mr Awlett, Colonel Bailey, Lord
Henry Lennox, and Lady Hammond. Great satisfaction
was universally expressed at the rapid progress which has
been made in the laying out of the grounds. The orna-
mental portion, which is just completed, as well as the
new American garden, attracted much of the attention
of the visitors. Previously to the promenade, the annual
general meeting of the fellows took place. The report
of the Council for the past year gave general satisfac-
tion, and several new members were elected. It being
the anniversary of the Society, a ballot took place for
the President and Council for the year ensuing, and the
following were elected :—President : The Earl of Sur-
rey. Council: The Duke of Norfolk, the Duke
of Richmond, the Marquis of Northampton, the Mar-
quis of Normanby, the Earl of Albemarle, Sir G. Staun-
ton, Sir E. Kerrison, H. T. Hope, Esq., T. Wyse, Esq.,
B. B. Cabbell, Esq., Sir B. Camas, llClarke, Esq., C.
Deane, Esq., J. Disney, Esq., F. J. Farre, M.D., J. P.
Fearon, Esq., Sir J. L. Goldsmid, .Bart., and several
others.
On Monday morning, about twelve o'clock, as
one of the Vauxhall steamers was passing through
Westminster-bridge, on the Surrey side, the motion of
the paddles caused the body of a man to float to the sur-
face of the water. It was conveyed to the bone-house of
St. John's Church, Waterloo-road. The deceased is a
man about 40 years of age, and was dressed in a blue
coat, black trousers, and dark waistcoat. His linen was
marked "H. W., 3." In his pocket were seven small
keys on a ring, half-a-crown in silver, and fourpence in
copper, besides three loose keys, one of which was a
room-door key. In the fob of his trousers was a bill fur
a public-house scorce amounting to 135., and made out in
the name of " Mr. Whitfield to S. Butter." The body,
from its decomposed state, had evidently been in the
water for some time.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.--Shortly before 11
o'clock on Wednesday night a cab drove up
to the London
Hospital, Mile-end-road, in which were seated two men,
of respectable appearance,
who proved to be Italians, and
after inquiring if they could see the surgeons, they said
that they had brought a friend of theirs, who had e-
mired some violent injuries in an affray which had taken
place a short time before. The sufferer, who al peared
to be a
young man, about twenty-five years of age, also
an Italian, was carried into the hospital, and the houte-sur-
of the pupils immediately attended him. lie
gene and two
tion
that his skull was fractured, both his legs broken, end
was quite insensible, and it was discovered upon examina-
tion
deep. This unfortunate man received every surgical that there wls a wound just below his hip full an inch and a
that
as-
sistance at the hospital, and was then put to bed. The par-
tiescompany, somewhere in Fetter-lane, with same of their coun-
trymen, and a dispute arising between them, was followed by
blows, and that one of the party stabbed their friend with
a dirk, which inflicted the wound on his hip, and afterwards
knscked him down, and used him most brutally. When
asked if they had not called the assistance of the police, they
said they had not, but that they had managed to get the un-
fortunate man out of the house. They gave their names and
addresses.

AFFLICTIVE VISITATION.—At the late meet-
ing of the British Association, at Plyniouth, Dr. Fowler
gave an account of a young woman, now in Rotherhitho
Workhouse, who has the threefold infirmity of being
deaf, dumb, and blind. The unfortunate individual, who
is about twenty years of age, was born deaf and dumb,
and blinded by small-pox Ni hen about three years old.
She does not hear the loudest efforts of the voice, but
starts on a poker, hung by a string against her
ear, being struck against a grate. Touch is the
only sense by which others can communicate wits
her, or which she employs in examining objects
and persons ; and though she possesses both taste
and smell, she never appears to have used them. Until
within two or three years since, her existence appeared
to be merely animal, but then a marked difference took
place in :her habits, and she became as attentive to her
dress and personal decorum as any other girl of her ac,e.
She feels ha- way without a guide to every part of the
workhouse, recognizes all its inmates by the feel of their
hands, makes her bed, end sews, not only plain ivork,
lout even the more intricate parts of dress. She is very
tenacious of what she deems her own, and was much
pleased with a shilling which was put into her hand,
smiling, curtseying, and fueling it eagerly for some
time after.

A few days ago, two Custom-housibfficers of
Spichern (Moselle), whilst lying in ambush, saw five
smugglers attempting to cross the line of Customs ; hut,
as the orders to Custom-house Officers are not to fire
until they have been fired upon, they could only collar
each a smuggler. One of these instantly stabbed the
man who had seized him, and then did the same to the
other officer' The two officers having fallen to the
ground bathed in blood, the smugglers escaped. One of
the officers died almost immediately, and the life of the
other is despaired of.

THE BANK OF FLANDERS:
By a decree of the King of the Belgians of the .I.s irst., the Bank of Flanders has received the Royal au-
thority and approbation of its statutes. They are in. effect as follow
The. capital of the Bank is to be ten millions
of francs, and the direction is to be in the hands.
of a President and four Managers, one of whom is
to act as Vice-President. The President named be
the statutes is Mr. Moses-Asher Goldsmith ;
the four Managers are M. Albert Von Hoobrouck
de Fiennes, member of the Chamber of the Represen-
tatives, who is to act as Vice-President ; M. de
Naeyer and M. de illeuleineestre, bankers of Ghent,
and M. Petters, formerly Director of the Society of
Commerce of that city. There is also to be a Commit-
tee of supervision, consisting of seven shareholders and
a government commissioner. The latter is to be M.
Chitti, formerly Secretary of the Banque Fonciere. The
duration of the society is fixed at 25 years from the day
of the Royal approbation, but it may be prolonged for
any time by a general' meeting of the shareholders
convened for that purpose. This resolution must be
by a majority of three-fourths of the members pro-
sent, holding, at least, three-fourths of the share;
taken up, and must be approved of by the King. The
society is to be dissolved in the event of a loss ex-
ceeding the tenth of the capital, if three-fourths
of the shareholders holding three 'fourths of the shares
should demand the dissolution. The seat of the society is
fixed at Ghent, I:nit it may, with the authority of the Go-
vernment establish branches wherever its interest n:ay re-
quire. The society is to have power to issue bank-notes, i,Ny-
-I,h/e to bearer at sight. The amount of the notes, ca Icti!a to:3
aLlording to the real capital of the society, is to,befixed by
:he managers under the approbation of the Government:
i:he total capital is divided into 10,000 shares, of I,COOf.
ette:l ; the society will, however, commence its opera-
tions as soon as 5,000 shall have been disposed of If
the desolopernent of business shall require it, the social
caipthitai the by a resolution of the general assembly, and
w
thority of the Government, be increased
mai;
to 20,000 share:: of I,ooof. each, The payments shall be
made to the society in the follow-jig manner :-10 per
cent. within twertlty days from the date of the Royal
grant ; 10 per cent at the end of each of the three fol-
lowing months, and the remainder acwrding as the de-
mand of the Company may require if; on a call being
made to that effect by the Administratioi'.. The Com-
pany cannot take part in any conimercial .or industrial
operations, nor enter into any-.kind of bissine.s 3 except in
gold or silver. In every other respect it is to be conducted
on the same principles as ordinary banks."
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