The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

parison between the Anglican and French
Churches :
" I said that the Anglican Church inspired respect, but
neither sympathy nor love, for it wanted heart. It is
impossible not to admire the dignity and profound
gravity of English manners, almost the melancholy of
those inspired by religion. The Anglican Church forms
the character, the Roman Church the heart. The
former makes great citizens, the latter great men.
I consider the Anglican Church under its political, not
its dogmatical aspect. The Anglican Church was con-
solidated by a political revolution, and hence it be-
came a national institution. So that it is patriotic to be
Protestant ; and the nation is religious because its reli-
gion is national. The influence of England throughout
the world is crippled by its religious propaganda. And
in the. evangelical Church at Jerusalem, England has
raised a standard more dangerous than its armies and its
fleets.
" With respect to Roinanism, we have long heard
of religious resuscitation. When we look for it,
what do we see in those little gilded churches, so
well warmed and carpeted, where saints and martyrs
are dressed in the fashion, where the credo is sung
to a waltz tune, and the elevation takes place to
the tune of a country dance ? It we go to a ser-
mon, we hear the preacher address his congregation as
Messieurs, not as his dear brethren; he talks of the
Christ and of the Virgin Mary as Marie. They seek
to secularise the Divinity. Do they speak of Christian
morality ? Oh, no----but of Pythagoras, Epicurus, and
Spinosa. And when we escape from church to our
journal we find the preacher there already, presenting
a note, stating how the Abbe N- preached to-day
to a large congregation, and made the most profound
impression."

The following extracts include the miscella-
neous news in the Paris Journals of Tuesday :
The Univers contradicts the article in the Gazette de
Dauphine, announcing that the Pope had had an apo-
plectic fit, on the authority of a letter from Rome, written
by M. Boricelli, the Camerlingo of the Pope.
" Our readers must be informed that there is no
Roman Prelate named Boricelli, there is no such officer
as that of Camerlingo at the Chamber of his Holiness;
there is a Camerlingo, but he is a Cardinal. Lastly we
have letters from Rome of the 10th, at which time his
Holiness was in excellent health."

A letter from Port Mahon, in the Catolico of Madrid,
states that the British Consul in that port has recently
been converted to the Catholic Faith.
The Memorial of Pau relates that, between eleven and
twelve o'clock on Thursday night last, an English
family, living in one of the finest houses of the Rue du
College, in that town, were alarmed by the attempt of a
person wrapped in a handsome cloak, and believed to be
a man of fashion, to get into the house. The cries of a
female servant, who it seems first saw him, alarmed the
household, and compelled the invader to make his re-
treat. He deterred the domestics from pursuing him,
by presenting what they in their fright fancied to be a
pistol, but which, it is believed, was only the barrel of a
great door-key.
M. Domenico Menozzi, a celebrated Italian scene-
painter, died a short time since at Milan.
A few days ago, an Antwerp journal states, a wager
was laid by two butchers of the village of Borgerhout, as
to the comparative strength of their dogs. One of them
was harnessed to a cart containing 15 hectolitres of coals
(about 2,4001b5. English), which it drew with ease from
the canal to the village.
On the 17th inst., says a Liege journal, as an inhabi-
tant of that town was putting on the leather cover of his
fowling-piece, which was loaded, in order to go on a
shooting excursion, the gun went off, and the charge
entered the body of his wife. On the 18th she was still
living, but no hope was entertained of her recovery.
A young mantua-maker, of the Rue St. Mery, having
fallen desperately in love with a gentleman who happens
to have been born in the same place as herself, the silly
girl, at a loss how to communicate her passion to its ob-
ject, and excite a reciprocity, consulted a friend, a bas-
ket-woman of the Rue Marivaux, who introduced her to
a soi-disante witch, and the latter at once promised to
render the fates propitious on receiving 350 f., the amount
of the savings known to have been made by the semp-
tress out of her earnings. This money was to undergo,
it was said, some process of alchemy, and the residuum
was next day presented to the poor girl in a small piece
of iron, which she was to throw into the river, repeating
5 Paters and 5 Ayes. This was done, but the gentleman's
heart still remained callous, and the love-sick damsel be-
came more and more impatient. The sorceress then en-
joined her to make the proof of the Gospel of St. John
as absolutely infallible. This was to be done by the weak-
minded creature, holding a key suspended by a thread
while the cunning witch read aloud the whole Gospel,
and if the key turned the charm would be successful.
The key, however, remained as inflexible as the iron
heart of the beloved object. Other cabalistic tricks were
tried, but all equally in vain. At length the girl be-
came convinced of her having been duped, and applied
to a Commissary of Police, who has sent the two con-
federates, the witch and the basket-woman, to be tried
for fraud.

We learn that the attempt made upon the life of the
portress in the Rue des Tournelles, a few days since, was
not a deliberate act, but -committed by a lunatic. The
young man had, for three weeks before, exhibited un-
equivocal proofs of insanity, reproaching his mother-in-
law with being in league with traitors to give him un-
wholesome victuals, and, at other times, pretending that
there were plots to suffocate him. As he had lucid inter-
vals, the good woman would not have put him under con-
straint, but he is now placed in a Maison de Sante. His
father's admission into Bicetre was on account of the
same malady.
Two men were suffocated the day before yesterday in
a well at Aubervilliers, near St. Denis, into which they
had descended for the purpose of cleaning it, without
taking proper precautions beforehand to ascertain the
state of the air at the bottom of the shaft.
_ _

The Moniteur Parisien states from Carthagena, 24th
ult., that a Spanish coast-guard vessel having captured
a small English trading vessel in a situation near the
coast prohibited by the Custom-house regulations, and
the master of the English vessel having declared this
to the captain of an English brig of war then in the
port "(the same who on a former occasion rescued an
English vessel which had been seized by the autho-
rities), the latter waited on the Governor, and de-
manded the restitution of the captured vessel. This,
however, was refused, and the prize was retained. The
account adds that on an investigation it was proved,
notwithstanding the assertion of the captain of the brig
to the contrary, that the vessel which was seized was in
the act of landing contraband goods when she was taken.
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RAILWAY SHARES.
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Rouen 455 ... 457 59 ... 455 ... 457 '0
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Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cmt lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92
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Loan of City, 1'332, 4 per Cent. 97
Society of Commerce, 43i per Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...m 7434
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AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--ViEnna, DEC.H.
Frye per Coat.. Metalliques
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Three par Cents.
Bank Shares l6ll
...411gemeine ZeitURIL, Dec. 17.

CHRISTMAS EVE AND THE NEW POLICE ACT.—
For the information of all concerned, it may be
necessary to state that no rejoicings will be
allowed in public-houses after twelve o'clock on
Friday night; but people may drink as much as
they like at home. The police have orders to
see that all public-houses are closed as on Satur-
day nights.

ELECTION OF COMMON COUN-
CILMEN.-(TH IS DAY.)
LANGBOURNEIWARD.—FINAL CLOSE OF THE
POLL.
This day, at twelve o'clock, the poll for the above ward
finally closed, when the numbers were as follow :
Stubbings (Deputy) ... 71 Unwin
Adamson
Snelling 6B Collinson
noward 73 Dixon

The first eight gentlemei
elected, and a vote of thank:
John Key, the wardmote set

*`Nicholson (L.)
,n were then declared duly
;s having been given to Sir
parated.

THE MARKETS.-(T HIS DAY).
COLONIAL MARKET.
There was little business done, but prices were sus-
tained for most articles. The imports were fair.
TEA MARKET.
The biddings were languid at the public sales, and
but a small part sold, at barely former rates. Company's
Congou Is. 84d. cash; Is. B#d. was the lowest rate of
free trade Congou, cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
A good demand for Russian Tallow, both on the spot
and for delivery up to the end of the year at 48s. to
48s. 6d. per cwt.

METAL MARKET.
Speller in good request at 401. on the spot. Lead sold
steadily. British Pig at 191. 15s. per ton. Iron steady
at former rates.

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
&over 31. to 51. 135.;
Hay, 21. to 41. Bs.goTodhaetmthaerkfoeltlowwiansg uoodteartaitoenl
sy: u and the trade

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND NARROW ESCAPE
01 TILE INMATES. —Yesterday morning, at five o'clock,
a destructive fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Smith,
watch and clock maker, St. John-square, Clerkenwell,
which entirely destroyed the stock, furniture, and pre-
mises. The inmates were removed just in time with only
their night dresses on. The fire commenced in the shop,
but in what manner it originated no idea can be formed.
On Monday last,
the Marquis of Salisbury was
elected Chairman of the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions,
in the room of Lord Daere; resigned.