The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

POPERY IN THE CHURCH.

Before we continue the evidence we have collected
of the practical consequences of this heresy upon the
social and political condition of the community, we
must present to our readers some further proofs that
have come to hand of its virtual identity with Popery ;
for this has been denied, even in the face of the multi-
tudinous facts we have already narrated, and the writ-
irgs of the Church Papists themselves.
We had omitted to mention the assimilation of all
their forms of worship to that of the Popish ritual. Few
Who had not witnessed them, would believe the extent
to which this has been carried. We will endeavour to
describe them as briefly as possible.
They contend, not as a matter of custom, but as a
matter of necessary observance, that the old supersti-
tious practice of building churches due east and west
should be adhered to. They place a crucifix upon the
altar. to which they bow ; they read the service from
the steps of the alter with their backs to the people ;
they wear almost all the robes of the Roman Catholic
Priests.

If you go into one of the Churches in London which
they have usurped, you will witness almost the entire
ceremony of mass, as performed in the Roman Catholic
ch apels ; candles burn before the altar ; the same form
of lifting and blessing the host is observed ; they make
the sign of the cross with their arms as they bow. If
any man doubt, let him make a point of going to one of
their churches the next time he visits London, and he
will witness all this done by clergymen of the Estab-
lishment, under the sanction of the State, and by
help of the public money. And yet there are persons
who deny that this heresy is at all like Popery. Why,
it is Popery itself.
Wo have seen how this direful heresy proposes to
establish itself upon the ruins of the Protestant Church,
and to prostrate the civil and religious liberties of the
country, by passing under the yoke of priestcraft the
minds of the people, through the medium of diocesan
schools and other contrivances for grasping the educa-
tion of youth, and so instilling their poison where it can
blight the whole being. From their organ, the Quar-
terly Review, we have convicted the Church Papists of
these designs, of these hopes, of these actual endea-
vours. Let us now see how it is already influencing
their actions and imbuing their thoughts.
Any man at all equyersant with what is passing in
the world must have noticed that within the last five
or six years there has grown up and spread in this
country a spirit of intolerance—nay, a spirit of perse-
cution such as has not been witnessed for a long
period, and which it was hoped had been wholly de-
stroyed by the more enlightened character and more
humane features of the times. Precisely as our laws
have become more liberal, and practically abolished all
distinctions between men on account of difference of
religious creed, that portion of the Church which has
lapsed into Popery his become more persecuting and
intolerant ; and if the criminal apathy of the people
should give the power of the State into its hands, it is
certain that both civil and religious liberty would be
subject to a fiercer persecution than has been seen in
this country since the days of the bloody Mary. For
if a sect or a party could preach or teach such atro-
cious doctrines, and counsel such persecutions when
out of power, what would they not do were power
given them to work their wicked wills ? History will
answer for us.

The Quarterly Review recommends persecution by
individuals, since the sect, as a sect, is yet weak. If
they cannot yet destroy dissent by penal lawi, and ex-
terminate the Methodists by statute, they can do a
good deal in their private capacities towards attain-
ing this consummation, su devoutly to be wished.
They can refuse to employ and to deal with a Dissen-
ter ; " starve them into submission," argues the Quar-
terly Review, the acknowledged organ of Toryism and
Church Popery.
it is ia pursuance of this atrocious policy, so deli-
berately recommended by the Quarterly Review, that
they have begun by throwing into dungeons several
persons for non-paynient of some trifling Church-rates.
The case of poor John Thorogood will at once occur to
every reader. Here is a man subjected to imprison-
ment for life—that is, a punishment greater than would
he inflicted upon any but the worst class of felons,
merely because be will not submit to pay five shillings
and
sixpence towards a Church from which he consci-
entiously dissents—towards the propagation of the
heresy. we have been describing ; that Church being
together I Truly this is persecution ; thiB is
days. The
rbryheainnyqutihsiitnign
richer than nil the Christian churches in the world put
unsu--
to a slow death, scarcely John Thorogood isrecorded of Popery in its worst
itself went but one step further.
subjected to a lingering torture and
Ac-
cording to the doctrines of
system
ore merciful than the rack
and the faggot. But only a beginning.
the C!:urch Papsts, the
and the gaols are to be filldQuarterly Review and
County
atzoetteb.e carried out,
with such victims for con-
science sake.—Somerset Co,

SUDDEN DEATH --We are sorry to learn from
a private friend that Mrs. Thomson, widow of the late Doctor
n urgh, diet yesterday
oTni-)thies°cno'asotf oSft.CGheesohrigreels syClhiiilthreehr'sh%dihad gone for the benefit
of her health. tier death was as sudden as tha of her
i
tinguished and lamented husband. She dropped down (is
and
died in a moment.—Dumfries Herald of Thursday.
OPENING OF TIIE PRESTON AND WYRE
RAILWAY.—THE TOWN AND PORT OF FLEETWOOD. On
Wednesday last, the Directors and a very numerous party of
their friends, the Shareholders and others, opened this rail-
way in due form a,-,d with the customary modes of rejoicing on
such occasions, preparatory to its being opened to the public,
on the following day.—Manchester Paper.

I
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I Pease-
-
Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to S. a. to S. a. to 3. S. 3.
Abingdon (.6 79 30 39 il6 26 40 50 '44 46
And0ver......., 52 72 30 33 29 33 -- --1
Banbury 30 40 25 32
Basingstoke— 6•3 77 29 35 28 33 47 5, 40 46
Zitenrester ... 67 72 32 33 29 35 40 42 .
Coventry..... 73 45 25 38 46 40
Gav entry —. (58 72 38 44 28 34 30 44 30
Herby......... 50 76 33 36 32 33 49 50 —.—
Ho wd en 72 24 40 42
Hungerford_ 54 80 32 40 25 33 36 40 37 42
Malton ..., 68 76 35 38 2.2 33
Mait.lenhead— 58 80 35 48 25 34 37 46
Nottingham 56 75 29 43 27 32 45 50 40 64
Wantage ..... t:8 80 30 40 22 28 36 46
Warwick..... 32 40 30 35 --
Worcaster 70 36 29 43 40
York .......... 40 80 32 46 22 30 _.
Par Bush el. s.d. a. *l.l S. ~I. s. d. s.d. s. 0. s. d, s, 0, s. 4. s. d
BirmingB.o 80 961 3 9 59 40 4 9 5 6 681 6 0 7 0
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—JuIy 15.
Wheat. Barley. eja Oats. 37 d Pessr.
First
Sasond 723* 0 lid.
40'. 0 * 345. 0 * 50;.47 00. 47' •
['bird
Average price of Wheat 3l. 103. 61.
PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C.
Beef, per lb. ........ Os. 54. to Os.7d. Freshßutter, 11s. s. Mi. to Is. Od.
Mutton. ...... 0 5 0 / Salt Ditto,...--- 0 10 011
Veal ......... 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per es; t... 84 0 90 0

0 6 0 9 Ditto, per cwt.. 0 90 0
0 4 0 7 Eggs, per dos. ft 4 0 0
Lamb, pm- qr. -- 2 6 5 0 OatStraw(kp!.)— 9 0 12 6
Callow. 0 45 0 Wheat Ditto„— 8 6 9 0
Quartern L0af,..,,, 0 91, 010 Barley Ditto __ 7 8 6
l'otatoes.l4lb. -- 1 0 0 0 Hay, 1 3 1 4
EDINLURGH MEAL MARKET.—JuIy 14.

Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp.
First Oatmeal
Second ditto....
Barleymer.l.
Paasense,ll I 1,1

Per Stone of 1410. imp.
First Oatmeal £0 2
Second ditto
Barlepsical ...., 0 1 I@
_ . Peascmcal 0 1 S
325. to 525. per sack.

Pot Barley from

CORNWALL MARKETS.
(Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel)

Wheat.

s. d. tot. d.
Truro... ....... 0 p 0
deb:tone
St. Austell — 0 9 0
godnain ......... 0 7 9
iskeard
Launceston
Camelford
Penaancc• ••••••••• I 6 8 7 4

s. d. to s. d. ; s. d. to a.
—O4O 0 5 3
—O4O 0 3 0
0 4 0 5 10
—044 0 3 0
3943 0 3 0
-03 D- 0 3 0
3 4 5• Q 8 3 4
—054 L 3 4

Earle:

Oats.

The harvest commenced in the neighbourhood
of Exeter on Wednesday, the lit instant, a field of oats being
that day cut in the patish of Kenton.— Plymouth Journal.
THE LEANDER CLUB.--011 Saturday the gen-
tlemen of the Leander Club, the oldest and most popular upon
the•ThLmes, had their anntial trial amongst themselves on Satur-
day, in an oars wager from Westminster to Putney. It was a
friendly, comfortable thing, and was prettily rowed, eight of
the gentlemen who had been lotted together starting in four
wherries. Mr. Bullock and Mr. Jenkins arrived first at Put-
1-2u-bridge ; Mr. Ommaney and Mr. J. Bullock second ; and
. Layton and his partner third.