The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-26 00:00:00

tati-nokij of facts 'which have been brought to my know-
ledge) attempts have been 'wade recently, in this place, by
ministers of the Established Church, to enforce thiS very
practice on those under their influence."

The Oxford Chronicle confirms this, and adds
that a Protestant clergyman not resident in the
College, has urged the. adoption of auricular
confession by his, family, male and female; and
that it is quite common among the Newmanites
of the University. Thus seduced by the clergy,
numbers of people are becoming essentially
Roman Catholics without knowing it. The mis-
chief is done, not by the open converts to Roman-
ism, but by pretending Protestants, whose ac-
commodating consciences allow them to eat the
bread of an Establishment which they are
covertly seeking to overthrow. The results to
which Puseyism was leading its professors, was
clearly and explicitly pointed out to the clergy
of the diocese of Chester, by their eminent Pre-
late, in his charge of 1838. " Many subjects,"
said Dr. SUMNER) " present themselves, towards
which I might be tempted to direct your
thoughts. One more especially concerns the
Church at present, because it is daily assuming
a more serious and alarming aspect, and threat-
ens a revival of the worst errors of the Romish
system. Under the specious pretence of defer-
ence to antiquity and respect for primitive
models, the foundations of our Protestant
Church are undermined by men who dwell
within her walls, and those who sit in the Re-
formers' seat are traducing the Reformation.
It is again becoming matter of question whether

the Bible is sufficient to make men wise unto
salvation—the main article of our national con-
fession, justification by faith, is both openly and
covertly assailed, and the stewards of the mys-

teries of Gm) are instructed to reserve the truths
which they have been ordained to dispense, and
to hide under a bushel those doctrines which

the Apostles were commanded to preach to every
creature."

It is the duty of the priesthood not to lose a
moment in endeavouring to counteraetthe efforts
of the Puseyites to restore the spiritual domina-
tion of the Papal See in England. This is only

to be done by labouring to enlighten the people;
by the exercise of constant benevolence and
charity; by visiting them in sickness; by re-
lieving them in distress; and by taking an active,
kindly interest in all that tends to promote their
welfare. At present the Church is felt by the
poor to be a curse, not a blessing. They are
crushed by the weight of its support, and hardly
ever communicate with its ministers, save
through the harassing medium of a tithe col-

lector: Hence the apathy with which the
humbler, classes regard the threatened downfal
of an Establishment, to uphold which their an-
cestors would have died in the field or perished
at the stake. Catholicism would not make a
convert in England once in a century, if the
clergy of the Establishment only performed
those duties which at their ordination they so-
lemnly swear to perform.

The manner in which the chief organ of the
Ministers yesterday abused the Chartists, calling
the " generality of them" " rank, incorrigible
scoundrels," is an index to the manner in which
the Tories are preparing, by means of their new
barracks in the manufacturing districts, to treat
the Chartists. They will no longer be allowed
to hold their conventions, and intrude into
public meetings. They must no more
think of . assembling in the Bull-ring, or
of rallying round the defeated candidate
for Nottingham, standing on hostility to
the New Poor-law. Heavy as was the hand of
the Whigs on them, they will now find that the
hand of their late allies, the Tories, will crush
them as with the foot of an elephant.
The Chartists will also admire the morality of
the Tories. Their political opinions make them
scoundrels; and, according to the Times, an aspi-
ration for liberty is a grave moral offence, like
forging Exchequer bills. If the Tories remain in
office, they will destroy, with liberty, all moral
distinctions. They are, however, consistent, for
it is necessary to obliterate the distinction be-
tween right and wrong to preserve their power.
To carry out the Ministerial views, the Times
borrowed from the French Tory papers a
long diatribe against the Secret Societies of
France, to terrify the upper classes here against
those " rank, incorrigible scoundrels," the Char-
tists. The Tories make bitter complaints against
Mr. O'CONNELL for receiving assistance from
Republican America, but they invoke all the aid
they can from despotic France. Independent of
the notorious Holy Alliance, which was never
put an end to, and which is now tacitly revived,
there is a combination of all the Governments
of Europe to act against the people. The
growth of freedom in Spain or in England
is looked on by them with great abhorrence, and
they are always ready; like Louis PHILIPPE in
Spain, to check and stint it wherever they have
the means. Their Press comes to their help,
and thus we have the exaggerated, partial, and
distortad view given by the French official
authorities of secret societies, adopted on the
same day that the Chartists are described as
" generally rank incorrigible scoundrels."
If the populace in both countries were well
provided for, there might, perhaps, be some
justice in the vituperation; but when they are in
both countries in a most wretched condition, and
have many just causes for discontent—when
England is almost threatened with a servile in-
surrection, it seems to us alike impolitic and un-
just to exasperate the populace in both countries
by a similar treatment. Communications have
already taken place between the trades of Eng-
land and the trades of France, and if the people
are denounced by their respective Governments
as common foes, it is to be apprehended that they
will endeavour to make cause against them both.

We refer with pleasure to the public meeting
lately held at Leeds, and the presentation of a
handsome service of plate to the late Member
for the Borough, Mr. BAINES. In all the testi-
monies borne by the several speakers at this
meeting to the ex-Member, we cordially concur;
for no man has ever paid more diligent attention
to his Parliamentary duties, or advocated liberal
measures with more undeviating skill, boldness,
and sincerity. It must be highly gratifying to
Mr. BAINES to find his past labours thus appre-
ciated by his fellow-townsmen, now that he is in
the decline of life, and his work is well nigh done.
Ever since his first entrance on public life, now
forty years ago, he has advocated the principles
of Liberal and substantial Reform, with a steady
perseverance, that few have equalled, and none
have surpassed.

From Madrid we have advices of the 17th
inst. They bring no news of any interest.
France had ordered her vessels of war to retire
from the Spanish coast, so that there are no lon-
ger any suspicions entertained of the firmness of
ESPARTERO, who is now at Barcelona.
Madrid Bourse of the 17th.—Five per Cents.
28/ for cash i 29 at 60 days.

The French Journals of Wednesday announce
with an air of triumph the acquittal of the N-a
tional by a Jury for an alleged libel upon the
Government. Nothing can be more preposterous
than the conduct of the Government in autho-
rising prosecutions of the press in cases where
an acquittal is within the limits of a possibility.
By so doing it degrades itself, and draw's down
ridicule upon the Royal authority.
But the 'acquittal of the National cannot be
considered the triumph of the press in a country
where such an outrage as the following narrative
exhibits, can with impunity be inflicted upon a
public writer
' The responsible editor of the Revelateur of Montpel-
loiffere,n:•e who had been condemned to imprisonment for an
against the laws ou the press,
Yontp
a letter to that journal containing the following
statement. lie says that on the 9th instant, when
about to has addressed
proceed from Nismes to the prison at
.
the geellier, he was
gendarmerie, by whom he was brutally haridled,
arrested and handed over to
and thrust into prison in that town. Whilst in prison
at Nismes, he wroto to the Proeureuidu Roi, requesting
to be allowed.to proceed to Montpellier in a carriage, at
his own expense, and offering also to
pay the expenses of