The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-12 00:00:00

that the Primitive Church had, without the admixture of
modern fancies and strange unedifying observances,
which have disfigured the simplicity of the Catholic
faith in the Church of Bonze."

This is quite edifying; the protestation against
the faith of others, expressed in the coarse lan-
guage of hatred, had made many weary with
this formulary of non-belief; but then the Trac-
tarians stepped in and showed that the protest-
ing system of hatred of others' faith, and the
formulary of non-belief, was not true religion.
There was a primitive Church, differing alike
from the too much faith of Rome, and the no

faith of protesting hatred, which has been re-
covered and lbunded by Dr. PusEY. Puseyism,
according to our Contemporary, is a new reli-
gion, neither Roman Catholicism nor Protes-
tantism, different from both and that new reli-
gion, while it still hypocritically wears the garb
of the Establishment of hatred, and is selfishly
nestled in its extorted wealth, is expected by its

authors to work the regeneration of the people.
But when such a correct description is now

given of the non-belief of Protestantism, by the
very men who, at the same time, laud it as hav-
ing heretofore been the salvation of the State,
with its strife and its hatreds, what must be our

enormous credulity if we can hope anything
from this new phasic which Dr. PUSEY would
give to non-belief and protesting hatred? The
other Tory authority, quoted first, tells us that
Dr. PUSEY and Dr. NEWMAN are leading men
astray by their sophistries, that the root of the
evil lies in the school logic which reigns su-
preme at Oxford,. and that the system of edu-
cation there adopted distorts and corrupts the
mind. The one convinces us that the whole
education of Oxford is a disgrace to the age, the
other that the established Protestantism, so long
honoured, is a system of hatred and a disgrace
to humanity. The cross fire of these two best
possible Tory instructors, one aiming at the
University and the other at the Protestantism
established at the Reformation, seems very
likely to blow up the whole system. Toryism
is condemned out of its own mouth. Truth is
extorted from it, and it curses its own creed.
We have long regretted, and so must every
well-wisher to his country and his kind, that the
University and the priesthood, which have so
much influence over the minds of our statesmen,
by controlling their education, should adhere to
doctrines so little in accordance with modern
knowledge. To regulate the affairs of the poli-
tical world by the' doctrines of either Pro-
testantism or Popery, is a rank absurdity. Yet
" protesting hatred against other mens' faith," is
the corner-stone of the instruction given by the
priesthood. It is an insult to the mighty genius
of England, to the calm and profound wisdom of
BACON, to the searching sagacity of LOCKE, to
the intrepid and far-going analysis of BERKELEY,
yet to retain the logic of ARISTOTLE, and. yet to
teach the mysticism of PLATO at our Univer-
sities. It is utterly impossible that men who
lived two thousand years ago can be of use as
guides in the present state of mankind. It is
utterly impossible, too, whatever may be
taught at the Universities, to prevent the events
which daily happen from making an appropriate
impression on the mind, and from teaching their
own lesson. It is utterly impossible, therefore,
to prevent the knowledge which experience
brings from being at variance with the teaching
of the priesthood, and of the Universities. Un-
fortunately, the latter, to a considerable extent,
mould and influence the minds of statesmen,
who read nature through -the darkened glasses,
with which they are hood-winked at College,
and wear during their lives. • Hence, between
them and society—between their legislation and
•he national wants—there is perpetual friction,
which at this moment threatens a vast social
conflagration.

The Paris Journals of Tuesday have reached
us, but they are wholly taken up with a Report of
the Minister of Commerce—a summary of which
we subjoin for the information of our commercial
readers. The Debats devotes no fewer than five
columns to the report of a speech of the
Procureur-General, M. DUPIN, in the Court
of Cassation, on the appointment of MM.
MESNARD and PATAILE to Judgeships in
that Court. Every affair in France calls for an
oration. The last sad debt which the French
pay to the dead is to spout nonsense over their

graves.
A collision between France and Spain is be-
coming daily more imminent. It was reported
in Paris that ESPARTERO would insist upon the
removal of Madame MUNOZ from Paris, and in
case of refusal, recal the Spanish Ambassador.
In the meantime France continues to increase
her military force on the frontier, and to send
ships of war to Spanish ports to protect French

resident?.
An affecting incident followed the death ol
the unfortunate General Don DIEGO LEON.
When the account of his being shot reached his
family, a maid-servant, who was much attached
to her master, went mad on hearing it.
As CHRISTINA MUNOZ was leaving the Church
of St. Philippe de Roule on Monday her Cham-
berlain dropped her purse, which a poor man
found, and delivered to her in her carriage. She
pressed him to keep it, which he refused
to do, or to accept any part of its con-
tents, or even to give his name. It is
gratifying to record such instances of rigid
honesty on the part of the poor. Were LOUIS
PHILIPPE and his Government only half as
honest as this poor man, what a prodigious re-
duction of taxes would take place in France I
The Minister of Commerce has just published the ge-
neral account of the rtade of France for 1840, from which
we make the following extracts :
" The foreign commerce of France during 1840 in-
creased in regular progression. The aggregate amount
was 2,063,000,000 f., being greater than in any pre-
ceding year. Of the two elements the imports have in-
creased in the greatest ratio ; at no previous period have
the imports reached 100,000,000 f., but this last year
they have exceeded that amount by 52,000,000 francs.
The export trade has exceeded that of 1839 by
only one per cent.,- but on comparing the aver-
age drawn from' the aggregate of the five preced-
ing years, the increase will be found equal to 12 per
cent. The special commerce of France—namely, the
produce she draws from foreign countries for her own
consumption, and those which she exports, as the fruits
of her own soil and industry—is comprised in the
2,063,000,000 f., and amounts to 1,442,000,000 f., viz., im-
ports 747,000,000 f., and exports 695,000,000 f. As in
the general trade, the increase of the special commerce
is shown both in the amount of the imports and
of the exports, but mere particularly in the former.
The comparison with. 1839 and with the average of
the five preceding years shows a result, in favour of
1840, of increases of 15 and 16 per cent. on the im-
ports, and of 13 and 14 per cent. on the exports.
In importation, the United States have assumed the first
rank, which, in 1839, was occupied by Sardinia. North
America stands for 17 per cent. of the whole, . and for
upwards of 118,000,000 francs for the articles for honie
consumption. Compared with 1839 and the general
average, 1840 presents for imported produce from the
United States, stn augmentation of 77 and 60 per cent.
on the general trade, and of 37 and 38 on the special
trade. This increase bears chiefly on cottons and wool.
Both categories show a progressive yearly increase
until 1840, when it amounted to 110,000,000 f., and
74,000,000 f., being in six years an increase of 30 and
31 per cent. The exports from Belgium were superior
to those of the preceding year, without reaching the
amount of 1838. After these three Powers those
of Sardinia, Switzerland, Spain, and Russia, follow
in order as to the importance of their impor-
tations into France. Her imports from Germany
have not followed the same progression. The
value of the merchandise brought in from thence, in
1835, was 57,000,00 f. ; in 1840, it amounted to only
54,000,000 f., a sum below the average of the five
last years. It is nevertheless to be observenhat, in
comparison to 1839, the imports, from this country
both general and special have increased. This has not
been the case with regard to Turkey, Norway, the
Dutch Indies, Chili, the French Colonies, Algiers, and
the French Factories in India. The value of the mer-
chandise brought from each of these sources has not
reached the sum of 1839. There has been on the contrary
aumnentations in the amount of imports from the Bri-
tist Indies, the Two Sicilies, Tuscany, the Hans Towns,
Austria, Brasil, Mexico, Hayti, Cuba, the States of
cent.,
which
i3teafiht
Barbary, Denmark, and Egypt. As to exports, there
xceed
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three times as much as in 1835. Among other countries
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Sardinia