The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-22 00:00:00

WOOLWICH, OCT. 21.

Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun returned from Scot-
land on Friday evening, having proceeded north on the
2d instant, on two months' leave of absence. This gal-
lant soldier will obtain the local rank of Colonel, and
undertake the command of the Royal Artillery when
he arrives in Syria. H
He has been engaged since his
return to Head-quarters in inspecting and inquiring intothe character and qualifications of the men who are to
accompany him on this arduous enterprise. Three
non-commissioned officers and seventeen men were ex
mitred by the surgeons of the Hospital on Saturday,
and several who had offered their services were rejected
as those only who are considered the very best men in
the service will be selected for the expedition.
Major Key's company, consisting of eighty-two men,
left Woolwich on Monday morning to proceed by the
Liverpool Railway to relieve Major Palmer's com-
pany from Ireland. The latter company will also be
conveyed by the railway on their progress to Woolwich.
The Rhadamanthus steam frigate, Commander A
Wakefield, arrived yesterday at Woolwich from Malta.
She left the latter station on Sept. 30.
The Hecate, steam frigate, formerly commanded by
Lieutenant Blount, has been refitted at Chatham, and
being now ready for sea, she has been ordered round to
Woolwich, where she will arrive this afternoon, having
been commissioned by Commander Ward. Captain
James's Company of the Royal Artillery will embark
immediately on board for Malta, and she will proceed
direct for the Mediterranean. A detachment of the
Royal Sappers and Miners have been for several days
under orders at Woolwich for Syria, and it is expected
they will proceed with this vessel. They are taking
out with them a large quantity of stores and imple-
ments used in the construction of fortifications.

GIBRALTAIL—By private letters from this garrison,
it appears the greatest activity prevails, and all the out-
posts are in course of being strengthened, and other
exertions are in progress, extending farther from the
rock than have ever been used on any former occasion.

THE POPERY IN THE CHURCH_

(From the Somerset County Gazette.)
This paper was the first to call public attention to
the rise and growth of Popery in the Church ; our
statements were received at first with incredulity, then
with surprise, and finally with alarm. For a long time
we were alone among the periodical press, striving to
waken Protestants of all denominations, but more es-
pecially the slumbering ProtestaneChurchmen, to the
danger that impended over them from a quarter where
they least expected it. Very skillfully the Church Pa-
pists had contrived to cover their own designs under a
pretended horror of Roman Popery ; they formed
Protestant Associations, held meetings at Exeter
Hall and in the large towns of the empire, for the
purpose of kindling a persecution against the
Roman Catholics, and throwing dust into the
eyesofthtey were themselvesehdeluded do
public, tha4. And yettheymight
not
see whatall

doctrines,
the while, in the very heat of this crusade, and
wader cover of their own smoke, they were busily
engaged in erecting a Popery of their own, infinitely
more hideous than the one they were denouncing, and
poisoning at its very sources the national Protestant
Oax fsocrind ,i
ntahrey nurseryfor t
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it'll
instilling
l e rogfy , was con
religious and political, the most degrading that aver
were invented by man seeking to brutalize his fellow
man ; mind was prostrated by this creed that the
vetted Church.
into
teachers of it might be enabled thus to enslave the body
and pick the pocket. Pretensions the most monstrous
and audacious pretensions to divine authority
through apostolical succession—to miraculous powers
and sovereign rights, were set up by some
of
her clergy on behalf of the Church, and in ail
things, in creed, in ceremonial, in sacrament, in
temporal and spiritual pride, she was sought to be
brought back to the model of the Church of Rome
Unexpected success attended the efforts of the first ro-. p
pagators of this hideous heresy ; hosts of the young
clergy were imbued with a lively zeal in behalf of their
doc-
trines so flattering to vanity--doctrines which
made them as gods.....and constituted them the masters
of the souls and bodies of all the rest of their fellow men.
Presently their creed. was spread abroad it was
preached from the pulpits of the Protestant Church—
it was proclaimed in books and pamphlets without num-
ber—it was embraced by many men of influence, whose
despotic notions it flattered ; more than half the
clergy at length becamdeheooonvlerts to it ; it has grown,
it is growing dad,' a d with r
destruction and Protestantism in
the Church is threatened by the hands
Appoinand paid by
of those who are the State spe-
cially to spread her influence and protect her from as-
sailants, shown in
We have alreadY
the P several articles how
s'owly and cunningly .t Po in the Church has
developed itself. Fearing
ofo ita arm and offend by too
open a confession at first
by s. ultimate designs, it be-
gan its backward marchvet almost imperceptible de-
grees. But success' hgawer courage : one by one its
secret articles of fait e evolved, until at length it
boldly threw off the mask,itsand in its chief organ,
which is also the organ of
congenial ally, Toryism,
wrier& Review, it
we mean the Qproclaimed in so
that the very name of Protestantism
many 'words
ought to be abolished among 05.,,
A vast number of facts, collected from the publica-
tions of the Church Papists, and illustrative of their
doctrines and intentions, have been already given to our
readers in former articles ; but since we last touched
upon it, several others have come c to hand no Irsi
manifesting the steady progress of this awful heresy
possession, entire
towards the and ultimate revo-
lutionizing of the Protestant Church, and prov-
ing its increased boldness with increasing power.
Some of them we now proceed to publish, hoping
that the continual call of the alarum will sooner
or later arouse the Protestant Churchmen from their
lethargy, and impel them to demand with one voice that
the national Protestant Church shall not be betrayed
by her owe clergy, and that those who minister at bar
altars shall quit her covitnuniork and flee emoluments

if they cannot conform to her Protestant creed and
ritual. This it is their bounden duty to do, and should
they shrink from the trial, on them will rest the respon-
sibility of dangers which they might have arrested, but
would not.

Three or four weeks ago we extracted from the
communication of a correspondent of one of our pro-
vincial Contemporaries, an account of his visit to a
Church in the metropolis, in which he was surprised to
find that the incumbent had adopted all the forms sug•
gested in the Oxford Tracts, and so like were they to
those of the Roman Catholic Churches, that he could
scarce believe but he bad been suddenly transported
into one of them. The preacher entered the Church
followed by a number of little boys in surplices, two of
whom carried the tail of his own surplice—he proceeded
to the altar, which contained a beautiful picture of our
Saviour and the Virgin Mary, and before it burned
large wax lights. He read the prayers from the steps
of the altar, turning his face from the people ; the bread
and wine were lifted at consecration, he folded his arms
in the form of a cross as he bowed to the altar, and,
with very slight exceptions indeed, be followed the
forms of the Roman Catholic Church in the conduct of
the whole service.
Now we ask all Protestant Churchmen whether the
ceremonies we have described be or be not those of their
Church ? If they be, then they, as sincere Protestants,
ought to quit it ; if they be not, then the clergyman
who adopts them ought to be expelled from the shrine
he is betraying. From this dilemma there is no escape.

SINGULAR THEFTS BY A LADY.

On Thursday last a lady drove up to one of our
most respectable hotels in Glasgow, having just arrived,
as she intimated, by one of the coaches from Edinburgh.
She asked for a Sir John Ferguson, seemed disap-
pointed that he was not at the inn to meet her, and,
having taken a bed-room and parlor, remained all night.
She made some inquiries in reference to Lord Kelburne,
to whom, she said, she was about to pay a visit, and on
Friday left the Hotel, and entered one of the Paisley
Railway omnibuses, with the view, as she stated, of go-
ing by railway, information having been given her, she
alleged, that that was the best mode of reaching his
Lordship's residence. Here it is necessary to state that
on Friday morning a gentleman who slept in the inn
discovered that, during the night his pocket had been
picked of 121., 71. of which were in notes, and 51. in
sovereigns. The notes had been wrapped up in
a 20/. note ; but, i►s the latter had a mark upon
it which might have led to detection, it was left be-
hind by the thief; and in the place of the five sove-
reigns some silver was substituted. In a room on the
,flat above, another:gentleman had a .5/. Bank of England
note taken from his pocket and three sovereigns from a
purse, into which, in lieu of the sovereigns, 3s. had been
dropped. These mysterious thefts created " quite a sen-
sation" in the hotel ; no one dreamed of blaming a lady,
who expected a visit from Sir John Ferguson, and was
on terms of intimacy with my Lord Kelburne—the gen-
tlemen who slept in the inn could not for a moment be
supposed guilty of theft—and, as we believe is very
usual under similar circumstances, suspicion began to be
directed tower& one or other of the servants. Towards
the evening information of the thefts was left at the Po-
lice-office, and Captain Miller made a personal investi-
gation into the matter. Having ascertained that a lady
had slept in the inn, and finding from inquiry that this
very lady, who was supposed to be on a visit at Lord
Kelburne's, had taken up her residence at another re-
spectable inn in the city, he began to see his way some-
what clearly in the affair. He ascertained that the lady
had gone to the second hotel about
.two hours after she
left the first one, so that it was rendered doubtful
whether she had gene by the railway at all, as she
had stated to be her intention, and, at all events, certain
that she had not paid a visit to Lord Kelburne. At
the second hotel she had also ordered a parlour and
bed-room, and intimated her intention of remaining
over the night. She sent one of the waiters to take
an inside seat in the six o'clock morning coach to Ed-
inburgh, and directed a noddy to be in waiting to con-
vey her to the coach at the proper hour on Saturday
morning. Having ascertained these particulars, Capt.
Miller adopted two precautionary measures to secure
the detection and apprehension of the lady, should she
turn out to be the thief. He wrote to the Edinburgh
police, intimating that a female might probably arrive
in that city by the six o'clock coach, strongly suspected
of theft, and requesting them to pay her a little atten-
tion. His next precaution was to place one of his offi-
cers in a bed-room adjoining that of the lady, with in-
junctions to watch her motions ; and here begins a
part of our story which cannot fail to excite the
amusement of our readers. About eleven o'clock
at night the police officer went to bed, accompanied by
one of the innkeepers's sons, both having received strict
injunctions from the superintendent not to sleep
nor to speak, but wakefully to be on their guard, ready
to detect the lady in the adjoining bedroom should she
during the night intrude for the purpose of inquiring too
curiously into the contents of their pockets. The
watchers obeyed most religiously these instructions till
about half-past three or four in the morning, when, wea-
ried with their long vigils, they both fell into a profound
sleep. At half-past six o'clock they awoke ; the lady
was half an hour gone ; and, on the policeman drawing
on his unmentionables, he discovered, to his astonishment
and mortification, that while he slept he had been
robbed of two pounds 1 The innkeeper's son, on dipping
into bis pockets, made a similar discovery ; he had been
robbed of all the money they contained, which, fortu-
nately, was only a few shillings. In another room a
gentleman bad had 71. in notes abstracted from his
pocket-book, and their place supplied by a number of
small papers, accounts, and the like, which had been
taken from one of his pockets ; some loose silver had
likewise been stolen from the table of another bed-room,
on which, however, a gold watch was allowed to remain
untouched. The female, who has been already so often
referred to, left the hotel shortly before six in a noddy.
having previously partaken of a glass of wine, and
at six precisely left town by the Edinburgh coach. The
police officer thus awoke just half an hour too late to
find the lady, while his misbehaviour had entirely de-
feated the admirable scheme of the superintendent for
detecting the thief. As soon as practicable the female
was followed to Edinburgh ; but it appears that though
the Edinburgh police, in terms of Captain Miller's let-
ter, were waiting at the coach by which she arrived,
she escaped their hands, their suspicion having fallen
upon another passenger ; and so far as we have heard
she has not yet been apprehended. In all likelihood,
however, she will soon be discovered.

•
(PURTHER PARTICULARS.
The lady who forms the subject of the above nar-
rative, it was feared, had totally eluded the well-di-
rected cfforrs of the Glasgow and Edinburgh police,
hut from a communication received by Captain Miller
yesterday (Monday), it appears that a female calling
herself Jane Petrisci, or Harris, and answering the de-
scription given to the officers, was apprehended in a
lodging-house at Edinburgh about two o'clock that
morning, with about 501. in notes and sovereigns in her
possession. The Glasgow officer, though he some-
what bungled the business by falling asleep along
with the inkeeper's son who undertook to keep watch
in the same recumbent posture, had the precaution to
ma k the money which he put into his pocket as a bait
to the thief, and his quondam bed-fellow did the same.
This turns out a most fortunate matter, for among the
money found in the possession of Jane Patrisci, orH arris,
were the identical notes and the one shilling and six-
pence which were marked. The arrival of the prisoner
is expected to-day, when she will be examined. She is
said to be a woman about thirty years of age, of exqui-
site manners, and ladylike appearance. The superin-
tendents of police, both in Glasgow and Edinburgh,
deserve the highest commendations for having suc-
ceeded in well-concerted measures for the detection of
such a dangerous and most impudent system of thieving.
We should think that, when the circumstances arc
made known, gentlemen will take the precaution, even
in the most respectable hotels, to lock their bed-room
doors when they retire to rest.—Glasgow Courier.

DEATH OF LADY DAVIS.—Her Ladyship
died at Bath on Friday last, at the advanced age of 85.
The deceased lady was widow of the late Sir John Brew, r
Davis, Knight.
PEDESTRIANISM EXTRAORDINARY.—About
eight o'clock in the morning two divines left their homes
for a walk to Scale-hill, from whence they wandered on
until they came to Buttermere ; they then crossed the
rugged mountains into Borrowdale, and proceeded down
to Keswick, and afterwards returned home the same even-
ing, having travelled, it is computed, not less than sixty
miles 1 What says Captain Barclay to this? Consider-
ing the mountainous district over which they passed, and
the distance they travelled ere they reached their homes,
we are not aware that this feat does not stand unparalleled
in the annals of modern pedestrianism.—Cumberland
Pacquet.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT CHATHAM.--.
SEVEN LIVES LosT.--On Monday evening a fearful acci-
dent happened in the Medway, near Chatham, by which
seven men perished. It appeared that a party of lumpers,
16 in number, had been at work on board a merchant ship
in the river, and about seven o'clock they all got into a
skiff for the purpose of returning to the shore. It was
then blowing a gale from the north-west, and the water
was very rough, while the boat was not at all adapted for
a heavy sea, or to carry so many persons. On nearing a
vessel close in shore, over which the party intended to go
for the purpose of stepping from the ship to the shore,
a wave rolled in, and in rebounding from the ship
struck the boat, and the men becoming alarmed all got up
and made a rush to get ashore, but ere one of them could
reach the land the boat capsized, and immersed the whole
party in the stream. A distressing scene ensued the
parties clung to each other and began struggling in the
water, and before any assistance could reach them, seven
of them perished. Some of the survivors managed to swim
ashore, and ethers were picked up by a fishing boat. 114a-
sures were immediately taken to recover the drowning
men, but, owing to the boisterous state of the weather,
without effect. On Tuesday and yesterday the bodies of
six of the unfortunate men were recovered and taken
ashore. We understand that all the poor fellows have
left wives and families to deplore their loss. The affair
has excited a great sensation at Chatham and the surround-
ing neighbourhood. The people in the boat did not under-
. stand the rral.gercont of it, and it was not capable of car-
rying moR. than eight persons in safety.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, 0cT.21,

DAVIS'S BANKRUPTCY.

The bankrupt carried on business at Knightsbridge
as a grocer, and has appeared for examination before the
Court on several occasions, his accounts being unsatis-
factory to his assignees. 'Fo-day.he made another ap-
pearance with an amended account, but it was objected
to, and when he was called upon to explain, he was un-
able to do so. The principal obj:.etion was to his house-
hold and private expenses.
The Court ordered an adjournment sine die. When
the bankrupt had furnished such an account as he thought
would satisfy his assignees, he would come before the
Court on pitying the usual fees ; that is, at his own ex-
pense he must have a sitting.