The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WE APRIL 29, 1840,

government. So deeply was that idea rooted, and
so generally does it still prevail among many, whose,
respect for religion itself may very fairly admit of a
doubt, that they regard it with a kind of supersti-
tious awe, and think it a subject which it is neither
fit nor safe to discuss. This feeling is artfully en-
couraged by those whose obvious interest it is to
perpetuate the ancient system. These men are
wolves in sheep's clothing, and with wolf-like fero-
city they assail all who question the justice or pro-
priety of connecting the Church of CHRIST with
the civil government---wh• condemn that spirit of
pride and insolence which such a system produces
among the ministers of religion—who venture to

affirm that Christianity would become more re-
spected, more pure, and more generally useful,
were it entirely separated from civil establish-
ments. For such parsons there is no term of re-
proach too severe—they are denounced as unprin-
cipled demagogues and infidels, equally the enemies
of the throne and of the altar !

In such circumstances can any one ask what
course he ought to pursue ? Is it consistent with
the duty of Christian men, desirous that Chris-
tianity should be purged of all those worldly cor-
ruptions which have defaced its beauty and les-
sened its influence—is it consistent with the duty
of such men to abstain from every expression of dis-
like to systems, or opinions, or practices, which
they conscientiously believe to be prejudicial to the
interests of true religion, and not only so, but to
their own temporal interests and those of their fel-
low-men ? Who shall counsel such a timid, time-
serving policy as this ? Not surely those who
pretend to glory in the struggles of the Reforma-
tion. Where would that memorable event have
been, if men had not been bold enough to speak
their minds—aye, and to give still more con-
vincing evidence of the faith that was in them ?
For our own part, we shall never cease to condemn
with the utmost freedom, and with all the energy
of which we are capable, every mixture of worldly
power and worldly policy with religion, by which
Christianity is disfigured, whether it come under the
name of Popery, or Prelacy, or Presbytery, or what-
ever other name it assume. This we shall do, from
an unalterable persuasion that we are thereby
serving a cause which neither needs nor desires the
support of the civil magistraLe, and which, if it
cannot stand and flourish upon the solid ground of
its own excellence, cannot stand and flourish at all.

It is a common cry among the defenders of
ecclesiastical abuses, that those who attack these
abuses do so from interested or still more objec-
tionable motives. The organs of the Church and
State party are continually proclaiming that the
Dissenters, who, they say, are for ever railing
against the corruptions both of Church and State,
arc themselves the most designing and ambitious of
men. We will not say, in answer to this charge,
that Dissenters are less desirous of wealth and power,
or that they would be more moderate in the use of
them, than Churchmen. We will not say that their
ministers would be more humble, or more attentive
to the duties of their office if they were dignitaries

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of a splendid hierarchy, than those who now are

so. We will go still farther, and say, that if the
men who are ministers among the Dissenters were
ministers in an Establishment, they would be as
active i,t defending ecclesiastical power and abuse
as they are now in attacking these things.
It is truly wonderful to see how the distinction
between men and principles is confounded. Priests
of every denomination have been, and always will
be, the same in the same circumstances, and that
not because they are priests, but because they are
Were Dissenters priests or statesmen under
a civil establishment, they would be exactly what
other priests and other statesmen have been in si-
milar circumstances. This is the very reason why
no more power should be given to any description
of men than is absolutely necessary to the proper
discharge of the offices with which they are entrusted.
Because no power is necessary to answer the ends

men.

of Christianity but the power of reason and per.

suasion—becauee the use of every other power is
inconsistent with its nature and its views, there-

fore it is, that its ministers, as such, should possess
no civil power, civil character, or civil privileges,
but should be under the same protection, and
enjoy the same immunities, as all other members of
the State, receiving a compensation for their la-
bours as ministers in the voluntary contributions of
their congregations, and the approbation of their
own minds.

In the justice of this opinion we are fully borne
out by Scripture, by reason, and by experience.
We care not a straw for the mysteries and sub-
tleties of priests and politicians, who have too long
combined their efforts to gull and rob mankind.
Let these be thrown to the winds, and let the New
Testament be examined without regard to systems
and opinions •f human invention—let this be done,
and we defy the unbiassed inquirer to produce a
single passage in it recommending, in the most
distant manner, the incorporation of Christianity
with forms of civil government, or a single passage
to countenance that pride, and power, and luxury,
which the ministers of such incorporated churches
have so generally exhibited.

What has become of Dr. CHALMERS ? Are we
to have no lectures this summer, to reconcile a
backsliding Generation to the blessings of Epis-
copacy ? We learn from the Scotch Papers that
Bishop PHILPOTT'S Parliamentary declaration,
that he did not look upon the Kirk of Scotland as
a Protestant Church, has created a great stir
among the divines north of the Tweed ; but surely
Dr. CHALMERS, when he appeared as the ally of
the mitre, was no stranger to the religious intole•
ranee of the wearer? What Episcopacy was, long
after the Reformation was triumphant in England,
is written in the best and noblest blood of Scotland ;
and Dr. C FIALMERS isoneof the last men, we should
suspect of being ignorant of the fact that the cha-
racter of Episcopacy is unchanged and unchange-
able. When the Bishops had the power of perse-
cuting the people of Scotland for conscience' sake,
they exercised it to the utmost ; and in now tra-
(hieing the Kirk, they act, as far as the law will
allow them, upon the same principle. Among the
great body of English Dissenters, the agony
which Dr. CHALMERS and his friends are sup-
posed to have endured from such a noted instance
of Episcopal ingratitude, has excited no commis-
seration. Indeed, there is hardly a day in
which we do not receive sonic commu-
nication, written in a strain of triumph at the
discomfiture of the Scotch divines, who last
year were seized with such a violent admiration of
our Church Establisluncnt as to preach a crusade
against English Dissent.
We confess we are not sorry that the people
of Scotland have had an opportunity afforded them
of knowing exactly what the Bishops think of the
Kirk, after the assistance it has given them in the
persecution of Popery and Dissent, now for the
greater part of a century. It will remove the film of
prtjcdice from the eves of not a few of them ; and
we have little doubt that henceforth the Dis;scntm.q
Bi-
shops," or " No
body in England will be allowed to shout "
Bisholl:va sin"asiolti of publicscointeh n
eetili
without the dread of aigi
s-
.sion,ries in the Episcopalian interest.

The Paris Journals of Sunday contain no news
of interest. From Naples the latest accounts are
of the 14th, the date of the advises which we pub-

lished in TheiSun of Monday. The French Sul
phur Company have published a defence of their
monopoly. According to which, as a matter of
course, Great Britain is altogether in the wrong in
supposing that she has sustained any injury from
Naples. _ .

The marriage of the Duke DE NEMOURS with
the Princess VICTORIA of Saxe Coburg Kohary
was celebrated on Monday at St. Cloud. In the
Chamber of Deputies on Monday, the Bill for an
extraordinary credit of 1,500,000 francs for the
expenses of the blockade of Buenos Ayres was
adopted by a large majority t--
On the 19th Cabrera was at Mora, still very ill. For-
cede], Moren-Benets, and Palillos :are with him. It ap-
pears that Llangostera has fallen into disgrace.
The Christinos have undertaken nothing since the cap-
ture of Aliaga. The Carlists are erecting fortifications
on the Ebro, between Mora and Forlorn.
A report has been spread at Bayonne that the division
of Aspires had been defeated by the Carlists of Catalonia,
near the hermitage of Milagro, in the direction of Solsona.
The loss of Aliaga will be a severe! blow to the Car-
lists. It was one of their most formidable bulwarks, and
the faint resistance made by the Governor is a proof of
the demoralization of the Carlists. By the advantages of
its position between two small rivers, on the summit of a
steep rock, inaccessible on the north, and defended ou
the south by the village which covers the foot of it,
protected by grounds, intersected by precipices, and
covered with enormous bare and inaccessible rocks,
the Castle of Aliaga might check a numerous army.
But the fatality which hangs ever the Carlists did not
permit them to profit by those fortifications which Cabrera
but a few months ago considered as the palladium of his
army. The Muniteur of the 27th has no official part.—
Le ConstitutionneL
The Duke of Devonshire suddenly left Paris for London
on Sunday last. Lord Leveson Gower had arrived in that
city. The Earl of Ranfurly, who had for some years re-
sided in the Place Vendome, Paris, expired on Sunday, in
the Stith year of his age.
NAPLES.—A recent letter: from Rome, published by
a Lyons paper, contains the following :—" An English
steamer has returned from Naples to Malta to demand
from Mr. Temple the definitive answer of the King to the
note of Lord Palmerston. Apprised of this fact the King
started in all haste for Castlemare, and the English envoy
had no one with whom he could communicate at the
palace. The steamer was obliged to go back to Malta
without bearing to the English Admiral the desired intor-
mettbn, The first act of English hostility will probably
be the seizing of the Neapolitan fleet, which is at this
moment out of port. The fleet consists of 12 sail, among
which are the Vesuvius, of 82 guns; the Parthenope, of
60 ; the Isabella of 48; and the Urania, of 46."

MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE
DUKE DE NEMOURS.
ST. CLOUD, APRIL 27.
Saturday, !he 25th, witnessed the arrival of the Princess
Victoria of Coburg Kohary, bride elect of the second son
:if King Louis Philippe. The Princess was accompanied
her father end brother, and had been preceded by her
uncle, his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The young
arid Royal bride is in her 20th year, sod remarkably hand-
some, possessing a countenance at once lovely and intel-
lecatiel, and a form both graceful and commanding. You
would expect that a Roy al Marriage would create in the
little town of St. Cloud a certain lively and animated bustle.
On the contrary, all is perfectly quiet and tranquil. The park
Is still,--not a sound, not a murmur is heard but the
twittering of birds,—hardlya stray lounger is seen in.
haling the fresh breeze of spring. In short the internal
appearance of the place and palace harmonises well with
the privacy with which it is intended that these royal nup-
tials arc to be celebrated. The Due de Nemours appears
in excellent spirits, and animated with all the joyful antici-
pations of a young bridegroom. His Royal Highness is
de4erveadly popular from his engaging manners, his frank
and open bearing, and justly estimated for the prowess he
gave prcof of at the taking of Constantine. His person
is tail and graceful, his complexion very fair, and he is now
in his twenty-sixth year. The marriage will be solemnised
this evening at nine o'clock, in the diapel of the palace ; the
religious part of the ceremony to be performed, it is be-
lieved, by his Eminence Cardinal do la Tour d'Auvergne,
Lii,hop of Arras, the civil ceremony having been previ-
ously gone through before Baron Pasquier, the Chan-
cellor. and the Duc Decnes, Grand Refereedaire, as
keepers of the regisily of the Royal Family. No strangers
are to be admitted, und, except the Ministers and the
grand officers of State, I believe that none, save the
inenabers of the two Royal Families to be allied, will
be present. •
Prince Ferdinand of Coburg Kohary, father to the
Peineesa Victoria, attracts attention from his fine martial
appearance. He is remarkably tall, and the rich Hunga-
rian uniform sets off his person to great advantage. He
vrai yesterday invested, by King Louis Philippe, with the
riband and star of the Legion d'Honneur.
To-morrow a fete will be given to the happy pair, at
Trianon ; but it is understood that all the festivities to
take place on this occasion arc to be perfectly private, so
that the persons who will be admitted to them may be con-
sidh•red as the "favoured few."

Friday, May I,bcing4;:Pbilip's day, the usual public
rej,,icings and fe&tivities will take place in the capital,
wiiere the marriage of the King's son does not seem to
create much sensation.

GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ILLUS-
TRIOUS FANIILY OF KOHARY.
Loess XIY. once said to the Duke of Chartres, his bre-
titer's son, " I have looked throughout Europe for a
Princess worthy of your hand, and I have found no one to
suit you but one of my own daughters." At that time the
Odeans breech was rated so high, that a marriage with
any Princess not of the blood of Louis XIV. would have
beets considered a mis-alliance.
In our days the Princes and Princesses of Orleans wed
with fourth-rate princely houses viz., those of Cuburg,
Schwerin, and Kohary.
Sixty years ago the Kohary family was not known.
The first was the son of a grazier and dealer in Hungarian
horses, and acquired vast wealth in his trade. He was
established in the town of 0-abrag, in the circle betond
the Theisse, in the county of Bekesch. He left his eldest
am, besides other considerable property, the lordships of
Szitnya, 3lurany, Belsgwor, Fulck, and many others, in
Austria. His great wealth enabled him to get created a
Prince, and to give weight to that rank by divers import-
ant offices, such as Chancellor of the Court, Private Coun-
cillor, Chamberlain, and First. Grand Master. The eldest
son of this individual was. Francis Joseph Kohary, who was
born in 1766, and who died in 1826.
The old horse-jockey, notwithstanding his desire to
enrich his son, was equally bent on illustrating his name,
and therefore decided that the title of Prince should be
attached to the name of Kohary. Thus, the name which
had been known for a long time but in the pasture lands
bordering on the Danube, in the Dresden market, and in
the fairs at Pesti], became a princely name about the
middle of the last century, and now cuts a figure in the
genealogical almanack published at Gotha.
The grazier horse-jockey had seven children. He made
a prince of the eldest, Francis Joseph, and married him
to Mary Antoinette, the daughter of Count Waldstein-
Wartenberg, in whose family poverty was far greater than
pride.
A daughter of the name of Antoinette issued horn this
union, and she became Princess and heiress of the house of
Kohary.
The Princes of' Coburg, who, previous to the restora-
tion, pos,:essed little but their swords, were not more dif-
ficult than the family of Waldstein-Wartenberg had been,
and Duke Ferdinand, the brother of the reigning Duke, of
King Leopold, and of the Duchess of Kent, married
Antoinette Kohary. This marriage bore issue Ferdinand
of Coburg Kohary, who married Queen Donna Maria,
and Princess Victoria Kohary, who is about to become
Duchess of Nemours-Kohary.
The other children of the horse-jockey Kohary have
not risen like the eldest son.
The second son married the landlady of an inn at Pres.
burg. and his son, at the present moment, is landlord of
the Ox Head Inn, in the Rathhaus-square.
The third married a natural daughter of Prince Ester-
hazy, and became steward of his castle of Eisenstadt.
The fourth, after having been for some time a non-com-
missioned officer in a regiment of Hungarian hussars, ob-
tained the situation a porter in the Protestant College at
Dribretzfn.
The fifth child was a daughter, who ran off with a
courier belonging to the Prince de Tour and Taxis, and
who obtained fur his sou the situation of postmaster at
Frankfort.
The sixth was a keeper in the forests belonging to
Count d'Appony, aid died without issue.
Finally, the last became a schoolmaster in a small vil-
lage on the borders of the Danube, between Raab and

Comora.
It is believed that the trip to Germany which the Duke
of slernours-Kohary and his consort intend to take after
their marriage, is for the purpose of visiting all the mem-
hers of the family of this young Princess, and that this was
the only step that could be devised to prevent their coming
to Paris to be present at the marriage ceremony. The
Palace of at. Cloud would, doubtless, have been too small
t t lodge all the
Kohary lr.dies and gentlemen who would
have thought it their duty to have come from the extremity
of Hungary and Austria' to witness the signature of the
inar!iagn settlement of their cousin and niece. A diplo-
matic negotiation was absolutely necessary to prevent this
inroad of the Kohary family ; it was found tiresome enough
not to be able to avoid that of the house of Coburg.—La
lfode.

THE WAR IN FRENCH AFRICA.
Extract of a Letter from Algiers, 18th inst., in the
Debols:_" The day before yesterday the Duke of Or-
4arts, accompanied by the Duke d'Aumale and Marshal
Vallee, and surrounded by a numerous body of general and
other officers, reviewed a considerable part of the troops in
the plain of Mustapha, and expressed his satisfaction at
their good order and di,cipline. Algiers sent ttut a large
portion of its inhabitants to view the interesting scene.
In the. evening the troops returned to their canton-
ments. Those of the camp at the Maison Caree,
•mtnediately on their return, received the deplor:ble
news, that during their absence an Arab chief, with a
consderable body of horse, as ailing himself of the moment
when tlse po-t was weakened, had made an inroad, and
carried off all the cattle into the interior. This depriva-
tion, at a time when meat is so dear, has greatly vexed
the Marshal, who has. it is said. (It termined to take a
signal revenge. At sunrise, yesterday, a large vacuum
WAS apparent in our roadstead, and we soon afterwards
learnt that the steamers Eupbrate, Grandeur, and Ramier,
were gone out with sealed instructions. It is reported
that they are sent with pre jectil s and ether ammunition
to I,rottet the second division in making its entrance Into
Dolly 5, which is to he its first operation. All the troops
have garie out to the plain. The Duke of Orleans set off
vcsterday with his staff for the camp at Bouffariek, the
lead quarters of the first division, of which he has the
eomitsaind. Before he left he again visited all the hospi-
tala. All the colonists who wt re captured by the bar-
bati,n3 when they made their last irruptions in the Mitidja

have not perished, Yesterday an Alsacian, who had been
carried into the harbour, came back, after having been se-
veral months kept prisoner by Ahd-el-Kader. He is said
to be the bearer of u letter from the Emir to the Marsia.l.
A few days ago several proclamations, addressed;by A bd.el-
Kader to our troops, were found near Douera and Bouffa-
rick. He promises such of our men as may desert to him
promotion, pay, lands, herds, and other tempations. It is,
however, somewhat inconsistent that the new Sultan,
while preaching a holy war for the extiumination of Chris-
tians, should engage to respect the religious creed of those
who may pass over to him. His absurd promises will pro-
duce no effect.