The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-03 00:00:00

ETON COLLEGE.

A report has prevailed for some days without contradiction
that Dr. Hodgson, the Provost of Eton, has refused to admit
into that establishment the sons of Count Bathyany, a Hun-
garian nobleman, because they are Roman Catholics. The
people, on the Continent must be lost in wonder at our fully.
43ur priests and professors exclude Catholics from our Uni-
versities and schools, where Popery is rampant ' • our bigots,
and they are many, would pull down Maynooth College. be-
cause the Catholic faith is taught in that humble establish-
ment at an expense of 8,0001. a year, while it costs at Oxford
and Cambridge fifty times that sum, stolen, too, from that Church
which the Puseyites now revere as the model of their faith
and doctrines. All this is done under the hypocritical pretence of
preserving the purity of the Protestant Church, and bringing
the scattered flocks into one fold ; yet there is no country on
the face of the earth where there are-such swarms of religion-
ists. We have seven millions of Catholics, and they are daily
increasing ; we have Irvingites, and Moronites, and Pusey-
ites, and Johannah Southeotites ; we have Ranters, and
Jumpers, and Quakers, Socialists and Anti-Socialists, Uni-
tari ns, Trinitarians, and Every-thing-arians, to the number
of some seventy or eighty different sects, all in open 'hostility
to this paragon of perfection.

FOUR
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FRANCE AND THE POWERS —Yester-
day, at three o'clock, a diplomivic conference took place,
in reference to the rn gc,tbeions now in progress, with a
view to effect an amicable arrangement of the differences
that bay,: lately suni.ted between the French Govern-
ment and the other glext European Powers.—Morning
Paper.
DREADFUL MURDER.—On Tuesday morn-
ing the body of an Italian organ-player was discovered
near Laid Ely's gate, on the Dodder, shockingly mur-
de.ed. His throat wds nearly cut across, two stabs in the
jugular, a la-ge cut on the forehead, and a deep cut on the
top of the head.—Dublin Evening Mail.
ABSENT M.P.—lt will be recollected that Mr.
O'Connell recently complained of the absence of the Hon.
Col. Fitz Gibbon, second son of the celebrated Chancellor,
Lord Clare. The Independent Club of the County Lime..
rick, following in the same track, has passed a resolution
conveying a sufficiently intelligible hint to the Gallant
Colonel, that if his health permit, his constituents expect
he will either perform his Parliamentary duties, or resign
his seat to an efficient Representative.
Our readers are aware that a boring has been
carried on for several years in the yard of the abattoir at
Grenelle, with the hopes of obtaining a perpetual supply
of water. On Friday afternoon the boring instrument,
after attaining the enormous depth of 560 metres (1,837
English feet), reached the water, which immediately
sprung up in abundance front the top of the bore. The
water, as was expected, is warm, the heat having been
observed to increase gradually as the bore was carried
lower. This operation which has cost the city of Paris
160,000 f., resolves a highly interesting problem of prac-
tical geology, and confers high honour on the engineers
and men of science under whose patient superintendence
it bas been conducted,—Galiynam.