The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 16 1841.

intended to enlist in its support the great bulk of
I the honest English Dissenters. The present
' version of the New Testament and the Bishops
cannot command co-ordinate reverence from the
same believer. To be guided by the Bible is to
give up the law-constituted Bishop, and much of
what is adhered to most tenaciously by the law-
established Church. We, of course, allude par-
ticularly to those secular advantages which the
State confers upon the Bishops and the Church,
and which the Bishops claims to be part and
parcel of religion.
We are every day hearing of the want of new
churches, and of new Bishops, but never of the
want of Dissenting Ministers and places of wor-
ship. This shows that it is within the Established
Church the least true religion is to be found.
When the Dissenter wants a church or a teacher,
he provides both in silence ; but the Protestant
of the law-established sect looks to Parliament
and the pockets of his neighbours for the requi-
site supply of spiritual consolation. Of the two,
who is the more combined with the Gospel
spirit—the believer who builds his own church
and pays his own teacher; or he who compels
his unbelieving neighbours to do these things
for him? Of the teachers who is the wore
apostolical—he who leaves his hire to be
regulated by the recipients of his labour,
by the voluntary attendants upon his
ministry ; or lie who never opens his mouth
till he has stipulated for a fixed compulsory re-
ward, to which the absent objects of his bitter-
est contumely must contribute equally with his
bearers? As those Journals which call them-
selves the friends of the Church, have taken
the field against Dissenters, under the auspices
of PEEL and the Tories, it becomes imperative
upon uF, as friends of the people, to unmask
their hypocrisy, and place the object of their
championship in a proper light before the
country. We have said that there is no want
of religion in England. Before we have done
with this question we hope to be able to demon-
strate that there is too much of it, and too deeply
rooted in the hearts of the people, for the Tories
to hope to enlist them under the banners of
Church and State Episcopacy, with its countless
abuses.

The manifesto of the Spanish Government,
in answer to the Papal allocution, is a most
impressive document. If it find a ready re-
sponse in the hearts of the Spanish people,
the wind-enslaving sceptre of Rome is for ever
broken in the Peninsula. It strips the Papacy
of the hypocritical mask under the guise of
which rebellion was fostered in Spain,—it makes
known the pains taken by the POPE to conceal
from the people the crimes of the Spanish
clergy, by invoking restrictions upon the freedom
of the press—and it defines those limits between
the temporal and the spiritual power which, if
rigidly a dhered to by the Spanish Government,
will effectually check future irregular4ies from
preposterous pretensions on the part of the Holy
See. In fact, it completely turns the tables
upon the POPE, whom it proves "to have
aided and encouraged all the attempts
of Don CARLOS upon the crown of Queen ISA-
BELLA and the liberties of the Spanish people.
While ESPARTERO describes the allocution as a
" new brand" cast by the Father of the Faithful
upon the half-extinguished flame of civil strife,
he reminds his Holiness, with caustic severity,
that the " times of odious memory" are no more,
when a menace from the Vatican could " shake
the earth." If the Consistory at Rome was not
composed of bigots, whose fanatical zeal denied
them the exercise of common sense, they would
have long since discovered, and have impressed
upon the POPE, the still more disagreeable but sa-
lutary fact, that the times have gone by when
Rome could with impunity menace any Govern-
ment. The power of the POPE rests upon associa-
dons and recollections, which disappear iu
the attempt to test their potency. When
challenged, the wrath of Rome becomes
either a phantom or a grotesque absurdity. An
old pedagogue threatening full-grown men with
the chaStisements which he inflicted upon them
when children under his tuition, would cut as for-
midable a figure as the Bishop of ROME threaten-
ing the nations of Europe in the nineteenth cen-
tury with those thunders of the Vatican which so
terrified them in the fourteenth and fifteenth.

ESPARTERO can render no service to Spain
more important than that of subjecting the eccle-
siastical to the civil power. The Spanish Church
stands in need of a complete reform, and the
present is an excellent occasion for beginning
this good work. Four-fifths of the clergy
are men either ofimmoral lives or so scandalously
ignorant as to be scarcely qualified to perform
their priestly functions. Many who daily read
their breviaries could as easily fly as they could
translate their diurnal recitations. Instances of
such ignorance are indeed quite common in
Spain. These men are, naturally enough, the
sworn foes of a free press, and of every plan of
popular education. They have sense enough to
know that even the inviolable sanctity with
which, in the opinion of all orthodox Roman
Catholics, ordination has invested their persons,
would not save them from contempt and
ridicule were the simplest elements of literary
knowledge accessible to the whole of the people
of Spain. Heresy in the mouths of these persons
means a knowledge of the arts of reading and
writing, and this, like the "No Popery" cry in
England, is sure to be raised by the fanatics
against the REGENT for having entered the lists
of controversy with the POPE. If then the
public voice of Spain support ESPARTERO in
issuing the manifesto, of which a portion is given
in another column, there is an end, as we before
observed, of the Papal power in the Peninsula.

In Saturday's Sun we anticipated most of the
news in the Paris Journals of Thursday. The
following additional extracts from them are suffi-
ciently interesting to claim a place in our co-
lumns :

The Gazette de France publishes the following ex-
tract of a letter from the Duke de Fitz-James, relative to
the accident of the Duke de Bordeaux, dated Kirchberg,
3d inst. :—" It was on the 28th ult., between three and
four in the afternoon, at two leagues from Kirchberg,
near Schrems, that the accident occurred. The Prince
was riding a young horse, which he had purchased in
Bohemia; a waggon drawn by oxen was going by,
and the horse refused to advance. M. de Locmaria
wished to pass first before the Prince, thinking that the
other horse would then follow him ; but Henri de
France would-not allow it, as being a bad lesson to teach
the animal, and at the same moment dug his spurs into
the horse's sides. The animal reared straight up, turned
over, and fell with all his weight on the Prince, who
still held the bridle, and had not given up his seat.
The Duke tried to get up, but the left thigh was
broken in the upper part. Henri de Bourbon then des-
patched M. de Forests, one of the persons accompanying
him, to fetch assistance from Kirchberg. Notwithstand-
ing the pain he suffered, he retained all his presence of
mind, and recommendedthe messenger to say nothing that
would frighten his aunt and his sister. M. de Foresta,
who was much alarmed, turned pale. "fake care whatyou
do,' said the Prince, good-naturdly, and do not go into
the chateau with such a face as that.' The Duke re-
of that time assistance came, and the Prince was
mained lying on the ground for two hours. At the end
placed on a kind of waggon, the only vehicle for
which the roads round Kirchberg are practicable ; but
such was the bad state of these roads, that the cortege
did not arrive at Kirchberg till nine at night. Dur-
ing all this time the sufferings of the Prince may be
conceived ; but not a single cry of pain escaped him.
The only thought that occupied him was the dis-
tress he should occasion to the Royal Family. His first
word to Dr. Bougon was, Is it not so, Doctor ? I shall
be able to ride again?' fhe Doctor having tranquillized
him on this point, his Royal Ilighness showed much sa-
tisfaction. Dr. Bougon immediately sent off for one of
the first surgeons of Vienna, but it was only after a
lapse of 36 hours that he could reach Kirchberg, and re-
duce the fracture. This surgeon has formally declared
that the accident will have no serious consequences, and
that the Prince will not be lame from it."
The Moniteur Parisien, on the other hand, says :
" The first assistance given to the Prince was not skil-
fully directed : the most simple precautions were neg-
lected, and several hours elapsed before the aid of a pro-
fessional man could be obtained. The medical attendants
of the Prince found the swelling a considerable one, and
discovered that the neck of the femur had been fractured:
the state of the Prince offered to danger, but it was
thought he would remain lame for the rest of his life.
and perhaps would never be able to walk without
crutches. This information is furnished us by a person
who witnessed the accident, was present at the visit of
the surgeons, and heard from them their opinion."
The Prince Royal of Bavaria has arrived at Ems,
which is this year a place of very fashionable resort,

The King of Hanover, as we have already mentioned,
with a numerous suite, amongst whom is Prince Ber-
nard de Solms, President of the Hanoverian Council of
State, the reigning Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, M. de Bou-
tenief, the Russian Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte,
and Count de Chotek, one of the most distinguished No-
blemen of Bohemia, are also amongst the visitors.
The King and Queen, with the Minister of Marine,
and a numerous suite, went on Tuesday to Treport, with
the intention of taking a short sail; but the weather was
unfavourable, and after remaining a short time on board
the Royal yacht their Majesties came ashore. In the
evening their Majesties received the Sub-Prefect of
Dieppe, the Mayor of Eu, and other authorities.
The Minister of Marine has set out for Eu.

The Courrier Francais says—" We have received ac-
counts from Tunis, confirming the reports of the unhealthy
state of the crews of the division of M. Leroy. The
Montebello and Neptune of the line, and the Andromeda
frigate, anchored off Tunis, had as many as 400 sick,
owing to the excessive heat. The Phaeton packet had
landed 100 of them at Bona, where they are no
better than they were on board. If this state of
things should continue, the division must be recalled.
The squadron of Admiral Hugon is to visit Algiers for
a week, and then to return to Toulon, where it is ex-
pected between the 15th and 20th of this month. The
division of Admiral Lasusse is to remain at Smyrna
and the roads of Ourlac, in order to be at hand to re-
ceive despatches from France, Constantinople, and
Alexandria."

The French hospital at Port Mallon is now so full,
as a correspondent of the Commerce writes from Algiers,
that the invalids are ordered to be sent to Toulon and
Marseilles.

The letters from Algiers of the 2d of this month,
are more favourable to General Bugeaud. "Everything,"
says one of our Correspondents, " indicates that it is
at length determined to do something for the column.
We learn that the 58th Regiment has marched this
morning to the plains of Staoueli, where battalions
belonging to different corps will be assembled
at the same time. We are assured that these
troops are to be permanently stationed there. The
Phare steamer is gone to land on the shore near
Staoucli, a great number of block houses, which it has
taken on board at Algiers, and some of which are to be
placed on the banks of the Chin.. For some days past
a great number of inhabitants of Mahon have arrived
at Algiers. The hospital at Mahon being now
crowded, most of the sick and wounded of the
army in Africa will be conveyed, till further orders, to
Marseilles or Toulon. - The steamers fitted up as hos-
pitals are very useful,' since the return of the expedi-
tionary army. Other steamers serve to keep up the
communication with our naval stations. Thus the Phae-
ton arrived on the 23d of July at Bona, being sent by
Capt. Leroy, who commands the squadron off Tunis. The
Phaeton had a great number of sick on board, and reports
that the crews of the Montebello and the Neptune of
the line, and of the Andromede frigate, had more than
400 sick, owing to the great heat, and the wind blowing
from the Desert. When the Cerbere left Oran on the
Ist of August, the column of General Lamoriciere had
just returnel; it was between 5,000 and 6,000 strong, and
had left Mostaganem on the 26th of July. The Gene-
ral wished to bring the enemy to action, who was said
to be in force on the Eonte, but the Arabs would not
engage with our troops. The column then proceeded
to Oran, where it arrived on the lit of August, afte
some trifling actions with the enemy, who as soon as
they saw that the column resumed its march incessantly
harrassed Nie rear-guard.—Le Commerce.
BOURSE—PARIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12.

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