The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-19 00:00:00

THE NEW POPERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU\'.
SlR,—Allow me to offer some remarks or, the letter of
•
An Anglo-Catholic" in your Paper of yesterday. He
writes in defence of Poses ism, and like the majorily of
those who abet that pernicious system, is exceedingly ill-
furnished with information as to tho opiniohs of the sect
in question, as well as of other bodies of religionists.
He charges the Baptist Lody (vulgarly and falsely
called " Anabaptists" by him), with refusing to acknow-
ledge as sincere Christians unbaptized persons; or at least
he says they would tatclude such from participating in the
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Now, Sir, it lc., altogether false that the Baptists do wet
consider and reedily acknowledge, that all who oelieve 'in the
Lord and S,zoiour Jesus (Joist, without excentwn, arc
really Chri,,ttans, whether connected with air. Established
Churches of knaiand or Scotland, Dissenting bodies, or
the Chur ch of Rome itself.
Nrit'eer do the majority of Baptist Churches exclude
frera'lsarticipating v:ith them in the Lord's Supper other
Co:miens, though in their view uobaptiled. And even
akth such churches as are governed upon the plan of bruit-
ing the communion to baptized indivie uais, they only fol.
how in the steps of the Churches of rt;ngland or Scotland,
.or the Independent or Methodist riissenters, who will re-
ceive none at the table of the 7-..ord but these whom they
imagine to have been previous
.y baptized.
An .‘ Anglo-Catholic's" assertion that the doctrine of
Apostolical succession ir. . held by many in the Church
who in other respects dr ffer from Dr. Pusey and the Oxford
tract writers, is cor;.?, t
—and most terribly were the Evan-
gelical haters of 7,Y ssent annoyed with Dr. Chalmers when
they berrowed
s eloquent tongue a year or two ago, to
prop up the
47;11ing cause of Establishments, in a course
of lectures
those lee e.t the Hanover-square Rooms, when in one of
xeres he pointedly denounced the doctrine of
AporettiF Asa succession.
circumstance, however, of the Clergy of the Angli.
484 jhurch being attached to a sentiment so well calm-
latr dto inspire the ignorant with reverence and submis-
si .an to their Bishops, Priests, and Deae•ms, doos not ten-
`ler it one whit the less impious or pernicious; and you
*will do good service to the cause of Scriptural religion, by
lbolding it up to the contempt it so richly aeserres, in
which you eery the enure: Church of Scotland, and all
Protestant Dissent:rs ith you.
An " Anglo- Cat)' oiic " tells you that the Puseyites
" are not politico-r eliginus agitators," and, therefore, not
"fair marks for vi our hostility." He advises you to expose
the M‘Gehees eitn d Staeells. But, Sir, these last are toe
hot and indier reet to du much mischief.
The form' .r are infinite ,y their superiors in cunning—
" quiet, re' ared students—men of peteonal piety and self-
denial" (7. s an Anglo Catholic describes them) at Oxford
--who e inoculating all the under-graduates with then
pestiletst heresies. These you must consider sacred_
your ho stility must not be directed against them. Really,
see .• Anglo-Catholic" is like his frienrs, not a little
cunnie g. He is evidently alarmed at the expose you have
gives from time to time of the Oxford theologians. He
w"0 I cajole you into silence. Du not listen to him.
We all uederstand the Rev. Messrs. M'Ghee and Corn-
_,P" y ; but very few are as yet aware of the insidious de-
lat ns of the " Anglo-Catholic" party, as they love to be
ta. tied. More shall be told of them anon.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A FRIEND TO CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS
Dec. 18. LIBERTY,

ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.—Her Majesty the
• Queen 'Dowager, wit 4 that liberality and ktuduess of
heart which ellaractorise all btr Actions, lias, in the most
benemteut spirit, uivim dir,:etions to her •fre.asurPr to for-
. wzird the sum of Mi. to the Secretary of the Mendicity
Society, in sit of the additional assistance which it distri.
but,vs at this 'season of the year to the suffering poor. Gra-
t°' tics of slats nature, arising from the spontatwous feeling
of lber lk:tajesty, afford proofs of the strongest kind of the
/Wrathy which the Queen Dowager has ever entertained
.trivards the indigent, and must necessarily endear her to
the hearts of the people.
Ihe Duke of Wellington's party, at Strathfield-
'aye, has broken utv.. His Grace will receive a large circle
next week at that xpleoo.ld scat.
The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham have
entertained a s',lect party atAvington House, Hants, during
the present vieek,
Lord aAit Lady Crofton have arrived at Mote
Park, !war Roscommon, after an absence of several months
in Scoftvid.
Tl.,e Duke and Duchess of Cleveland are daily
P te d in town, from Rat, y Castle, Durham. The
o
.ote Duke and Duchess lett that seat some days since,
a'4c) intended making sevo:al visits en route to town.
The Duke of Beaufort left Beaufort House on

JFriday to join the Duchess and family at Badminton.

The Countess of Clare is making a tour in Italy.
Her Ladyship returns to this country in the spring of
next year.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne
and Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice left Bowood Park, on Monday
• lae'r, for Bath, but have since returned.
Mr. Norman Macdonald, the Under-Secretary
for Ireland, left town on Tuesday last for Dublin.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—It iS ELM
un-
derstood that a French company, among whom are aeveral
of the principal Parisian performers, have engaged the
Princess's Theatre, and that the performances will cont-
inence ererly next year.
HA7ZMARKET THEATRE.—Amongst the many
distingrashed fashionables whom Sir E. Bulwer's new
Vat, of. Money has nightly attracted to the little theatre in
uhe rfavmarket have been the following :---Lord Anson,
the Ea;l of Pembroke, the Earl of Lichfield. Lord Ward,
-'4v rd Maidstone, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarcnce, the Baron
,d Baroness de Cetto, the Earl and Countess of Har-
rington, Lord Saye and Sele, Colonel Maberly, Mr. Ma-
. iierly, Miss Burdett Coutts, Lady Joddrall, Sir John
Leighton, Hon. Twisselton Fieno s, Captain Cholmeley,
Captain Buckley, J. R. Ives, Esq., -- Hay, Esq., A.
Perkins, Esq., Sic.
BYRON IN GREECE.—TO those who did not
personally know Bvren, it will appear extraordinary that
be could thus mix himself up with the politics of a country
where his sojourn had been but brief, and its continuance
the
still uncertain ; but those who were acquainted with
Ike extraord,.nary mobility of his mind, can easily imagine
quo kla he part'cipated is the feelings of three around
n
to.peuset"..i their cause, though his coalition with
121efh be attended with PO little risk to himself.
kiut eVf.,a while thus acting, Byron could laugh at and
ttel'telal's his own quixotism with more wit and humour than
coo, •
• 'ne called into play against it by others. With a
'e mpe rament that peculiarly exposed him to acts of chival-
• .4-1 rashness, Byron possessed so qeick a perception of the
ridiculous, that he could nut disguise flow himself the in-
'diet:tenon of many of his own proceedings; and white
Pursuing conduct that his sober judgment disapproved, he
Would, as if in atonement, indulge in a mockery of it,
sarcastic than that of those who wished to attack
Blessington's idler in Italy, Vol. 111.
THE couNlEss OF LEICESTER.—We are
lorry to hear very
ady 'a health,, mituvourable accounts of the state of this
arising out of the accident she lately met
with.
, Mx Stevenson, who married a daughter of the
4 °C Albemarle, left town on ‘Vednesday for Holkbam
a' accompanied by a surgeon of eminence.
Lord Normanby, whilst riding on horseback on
''llursday last, on the cliffs at Brighton, was thrown, but
fortunately without sustaining any ' notice.
His Lordship would have remounted ihnajud7iewnoortthb„n( loaded against it by Mr. George Robin; who happened
to be Nair a: the time. The accident occurred in eonse-
queneF of his horse having been touched by the wheels of
a carriage ; and, being a spirited one, and his Lordship
baring the use only of one hand (the consequence of a
former accident), he lost all control over the animal, and
so was thrown.
' The Earl and Countess of Lunn were to leave
Casticbar, county Mayo, on Tuesday last, and, after stay-
• ing a few days in Dublin, intended to come to Lalehain
for the remainder of the winter.
Admiral Tchitehakoff, who commanded a divi-
,
limn of the Russian Army when Napoleon invaded Russia,
a bas recently taken up his residence at Brighton.
Viscount St. Vincent is passing the winter at
14geordstore, Staffordshire.
POST-OFFICE.—AS no labelled letter destined
for abroad, of course, can pass through the:post-office, but
Must be paid for when posted, the crowds both at Lom-
bard-street and Charing-cross • are great. It is notorious
' that there is too frequently quite a disturbance at the bom-
bard-street office, in consequence of their being so few
Windows where letters are taken in that require to be paid,
and very many persons arc obliged, after waiting a long
Cline, to proceed to St. Martin's le- Grand. Some altera-
tion must be made in this particular.
MELTON MOWBRAY.—This sporting metro-
Polls is now becoming something worse—more even than
Was anticipated ; so large a muster of sporting noblemen
Cad gentlemen was never witnessed before Christmas.
A PLUMPER.—The Siamese twins Chang and
Rag, who live on an (state of their own in Wilks county,
• North Carolina, voted two votes the other day at the elec-
tion. They both voted Whig. —American Paper.
THE LATE OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPTED IN-
- cEattumusai TO KENSINGTON .GARDENS.—Notn ithstanding
the police as well as the officers of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests have been indefatigable in their endea-
ennrs to trace out the perpetrator of the gross outrage coin-
' Milted in Kennington-gardens on the night of Tuesday
last, when nearly a hundred of the young trees were cut
and mutilated so as to render them quite useless, and an
attempt was made to set fire to the thatched roof of the
• lodge at Buckhill gate, up to last evening no clue whatever
likely to lead to a discovery had been obtained. A man
who had been recently removed from the gardens by the
order of the Commiasioners and sent to the Grner. Park,
at first suspented, but from the ioqui ice which have
been made it app sr lii' is innocent. Tho C,,fmnb7onors
i of Weeds and Forests have otircd a reward of 251. fur the
discovery- of the perpetrator of the outrage:

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