The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1841.

the priesthood in the new scheme of Colonial
Bishops to be appointed by the Bishops, though
endowed by voluntary subscription, the com-
plete ascendancy of the priesthood is secured.
We recollect that a project of this kind was
mooted four or five . years ago by Mr. Preben-
dary TOWNSIIEND, of Durham, who argued
stiffly for the Deans and Chapters taking the
election of Bishops into their own hands. We
are inclined to think that the Reverend Gentle-
man went so far as to urge his Ileverend brethren
not to mind the Royal authority, but to elect
their own Bishops in spite of a Ministry whom
it was the fashion, amongst the clergy, to stigma-
tise as the enemies of the Church of England.
But whether he went quite so far as this or not,
his admonitions. and the present conduct of the
clergy in constituting Bishoprics independently
of the Crown, are strong indications of the de-
termination of the priesthood to resume, if pos-
sible, their ancient ascendancy.
The Puseyite heresy has found much favour
with the priesthood, because it includes similar
principles of Church 'exaltation. With that its
professors make a display of sincerity and fer-
vour, and possess some learning-. That such a
poor and cunning mixture of worldly wisdom
and cloister enthusiasm should have been
palmed off on the people as religion by a large
number of the ministers of the Anglican Church,
is a forcible illustration of the complete degra-
dation of the Church, and of its ambitious pro-
jects. It will take up anything which promises
to secure its domination, and hence the success
of Puseyism, and the zeal with which the Bi-
'shops and their satellites promote the subscrip-
tion for establishing more Ilishopries in the
Colonies..

The whole of the French journals of Thursday
have reached us. They are still
soccupied with
the affair of Toulouse, upon which, however, thdy
throw no new light. The following letter from
our Paris correspondent, and the extracts which
accompany it, include whatever is of the least in-
terest in these papers :

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, AUGUST s.—The rumoured negotiations for a
Customs' Union between France and Belgium occupy the
public mind, and seem 'to be not altogether unfounded.
That overtures have been made long ago is certain, but
what progress has been effected in the conducting of them
is not so clear. The design of France is avowed, and
can deceive no one. It is that of indirectly extending
her frontier to the limits of demarcation between Hol-
land and Belgium, with the facility of seizing on the
whole territories of King Leopold the moment an Euro-
pean war should present a favourable opportunity. It
is possible, too, that this design may be considered as
an indirect method of regaining some of the influence lost
in Europe by France, from her conduct on the Eastern
Question. The opportunity for pushing on such a
negotiation is considered by the French Ministry as not
a bad one, when England, the most jealous of the'
neighbours of France, is likely to be distracted by a
change of Ministry ; and when Holland, amused
with the projected marriage of the Prince de Joinville
to the Princess Sophia of Orange, will not take alarm at
seeing the French Custom-house officers replace those of
Belgium under her very nose. It is possible, too, that
France may have received some inadvertent marks of
amity from Prussia and Austria which may have en-
couraged her to try the effect of a coup de diplomatique ;
and that on the whole she may expect to succeed in
wheedling the Belgians into this pretended alliance.
On the other hand, the interested opposition of certain
classes' of French manufacturers, coal owners, iron-
masters, &c., is thwarting the proposed scheme ; and it
is not unlikely may adjourn any further steps in it until
the next Session of the Chambers. The German
States are doing all in their power to prevent any union
of the kind from taking place ; and strong representa-
tions, as we have every reason to believe, have already
been made to the French Cabinet on the subject. The
strenuous opposition of England, Russia, and perhaps
Austria, will, it is to be hoped, nip this scheme in the bud,
or else France will, with a single stroke of the pen, gain
practical possession of the whole ofßelgium. How the Bel-
gians can deliberately, and with their eyes open, wish for
any closer union with a; despotic Government like that of
Louis Philippe, or with a generation of notoriously cor-
rupt statesmen, such as now alone compose the Cabinet
of the Tuileries, is inconceivable ; for the very first
effects of the Customs' Union would be the paralysing
of their own manufacturing industry and the annihila-
tion of that good will in Eastern and Central Europe
upon which the prosperity of Belgium so much depends.
On all these accounts the arrival of King Leopold at Pe-
ri., is. luolL ed for ward tcs with anxiety.

It is commonly believed that the Government has not
ordered the arrest of the late Mayor of Toulouse and his
deputies, as has been rumoured by the journals, though
it would no doubt do so, if it dared, and a great deal
more. The Messager, which is the Ministerial evening
paper, and the Moniteur, continue to publish daily tele-
graphic despatches from Toulouse, as if it was a place of
the utmost importance, and they thus show the alarm
felt. by the Government at the late disturbances.
The last accounts from Algiers show that General La-
moric:e:e's column was rather roughly handled on its
return to Oran from Mascara, the Arab enemy closing
with the men in good style, and when not attacking
them in due form, harassing them excessively from the
rear. The proportion of 800 sick out of about 4,000
men (the total force) is enormously large, and shows
the ravaging effects of the climate on European consti-
tutions. The Governor-General, in addressing the 17th
light infantry just before it embarked the other day for
France, observed that in Africa the corps had been " a
column of glory"—it was now going to be " a column of
order." A nice warning to the Parisians, that in case of
an emeute this regiment, which is to be quartered at
Courbevoie, near Neuilly, will be•rcady to show what a
razia is, in the true African fashion. The reign of for-
tifications, Bastillcs, and bayonets, is beginning here with
a vengeance !

The number of the families now at the waters of
Wiesbaden, is said by the Frankfort Journal to be
2,150 ; of whom 1,652 are Germans, and 498 foreigners.
The latter comprise 244 English, and 77 French families.
A shock of earthquake was felt at Holbeck, in Den-
mark, on the 15th ult., accompanied by a loud noise in
the air, similar to the discharge of artillery.
The formation of a new series of galleries at Ver-
sailles is talked of. They are to occupy the attic above
the Queen's apartments, facing the orangery, and,will
be a continuaton of rooms lately opened above the, Qa-
lerie des Batailles.

A woman named Marie Gervais died, a few days
ago, in the hospital at Montpellier, at the age ,of 110.
She was admitted there as a sempstress, in 1762, being
then 32 years old, and remained an inmate from that
time till her death.

During the last.month the number of passengers on
the Paris and Corbeil Railroad amounted to 86,285, car-
riages 62, horses 74, and the receipts 116,365 fr.
On the 15th inst., the 71st anniversary of the birth
of Napoleon, the dome of the Invalides is to be com-
pletely illuminated.
The Agrarn Gazette gives us the following some-
what astonishing story A short time since a. Turk,
who was known to have, gone to bathe in the Danube,
near Belgrade, did not return, and was missing for three
days. At the end of this time his body was discovered
among the rushes on the bank, and clinging by the arms
to the trunk of a tree, while his.lower limbs were fast in
the throat of an enormous fish, the silurus glanis, weigh-
ing three quintals (rather more than 500 weight) !"
The Company of the Messageries Royales has just
been' condemned by the tribunal of Pontoise to pay
25,000 fr. damages to a traveller, who was obliged to
have his right arm amputated last May, in consequence..
of injuries from the overturning of one of its diligences
in that town. The accident was proved to have been
owing to the imprudence of the postilion and conductor.
The Havre , Journal publishes the reports deli-
vered to the legal authorities of Leghorn and Naples,
by the captains of the Pollux and Montegibello re-
spectively, concerning the unfortunate shuck, which
ended in the sinking of the former vessel. The re-
ports state positively that each captain saw the light of
the other. long before, and that they were, with a proper
number of their crew, on the decks, endeavouring to
steer, clear of each other. The captain of the Pollux,
however, states that when, after the shock, he leaped on
board the Montegibello, he found no one on deck except
the steersman, and he was obliged to get the passengers.
from one ship to the other by means of his own crew, there
being none of the Montegibello's men to aid him. He
attributes all the fault to the Captain of that vessel.
This Journal states that the plan for raising the Pollux
has been suggested by a sailor, who has contracted to
carry it into execution, and consists in letting down
chain-cables, forming an oblong round the hull of the
vessel, and then warping them tight, by means of run-
ning-knots and capstans, worked on board a sufficient
number of lighters.. It is expected that, by this method,
the ship will be readily got up.
We learn from the Journal de la Meurthe, that on
Saturday last the dePot of powder at Liverdun, kept
there for blasting works in forming a canal, blew up,
killed five men, wounded many more, and did consider-
able damage. The cause of the accident is not stated.
A peasant of Romeyer, in the Drome, being ena-
moured of a young girl of the village, and driven to des-
peration by her refusal of him, and engaging herself to
be married to another, followed her into the fields a few
days ago, and there murdered her with his gun. Her
body was found nearly half consumed, the gun having
been discharged so close that the tire of the wadding had
caught her clothes. The man himself was found soon
after, a lifeless corpse, in a wood, half a league off, where
he had committed suicide with the same instrument.
_ A case which his been for some time before the
Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police, in which Messrs.
Monnier, Latte, and Baptiste, were prosecuted by M.
tal at a
Victor Hugo--M. Monnier for writing M. Latte for
publishing, and M. Baptiste, who is the he ai re
n, s
in
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fourllle Metz
acts,nd
'Director of the
called
Nancy,lf :cwrePece rforming an
Borgia, vi.
au imitation, and in great part a translation from Lu-
hoicphera was in
Lu-
crece Borgia, a drama in three acts, by M. Victor Hugo,
was decided yesterday. An excention made to the com-
petency of the tribunal, as regards M. Baptiste, was
allowed ; but judgment was given as follows against the
other two defendants, viz., each to pay a fine of 100 fr.,
their work !,0 be maimed, and NU future sAle probi-