The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-03 00:00:00

ultramontane party, and we may venture
to assume that he has been deliberately
.elected for the efficient performance of
the arduous duty. In his pages we see the best ar-
guments that can be put forward, not as apo'ogies for
the act of the PONTIFF, but as assertions of his un
questionable right to parcel out the English soil into
districts, and invest the creatures of his own selection
with territorial authority in this country. He, how-
ever, goes a little too far. He endeavours to
carry the war into the enemy's camp,
and heaps unmitigated abuse on everything
that is Protestant in this kingdom. The expulsion of
the Roman Catholic hierarchy in 1559, and the recog-
nition of the Church of England as the national reli-
gion, he regards as an "enormous violation of laws
'nth human and divine," * * * " a work of
vengeance originated by temporal authority fur the
purpose of gratifying its inordinate lusts of pride and
spoliation." He says, "At the pulling down of the
Catholic hierarchy there was witnessed thoughout
England one of those disastrous spectacles exhibited
when the chief powers of a State instead of being the
protectors become the robbers and ravagers of the
community. The sacred edifices were given over to
the services of a newly-invented ritual. The conse-
crated vessels were melted down into bullion to
fill the coffers of an administration flourishing
amid the spoils of sacrilege. The lands
of the ancient Church were forfeited to the Crown
and its accomplices. The monasteries were taken
one by one from their rightful owners, and bestowed
as tokens of the royal favour upon placemen and
parasites. Everywhere was visible the effect of that
calamitous ambition which set at defiance the rights
of property, and cast to the four winds the impre-
scriptible privileges of religion."

From the foregoing extract the opinions of
the author are clearly perceived. He looks upon the
Church of England as a modern innovation—
its ministers as usurpers and robbers of the in-
heritance of the Roman Catholic clergy, who
are to be dispossessed whenever the fitting time may
arrive for that purpose, whenever the Ultramontanists
may have sufficient power to carry their earnest de-
sires into execution. At present " might" has over-
come "right," but it will not always be so; the day of
reckoning is manifestly approaching, when the
Bishops and ministers of the Church will
have to set their houses in order and surrender their
possessions to the lawful owners; and the act of the
PONTIFF he looks upon as one much required, in
order to give legitimate claimants to the property of
the ancient church."

He contrasts the proceedings on what he terms
" the building up again" of the Catholic hierarchy
with those which occurred on its " pulling down."
He says, "No such flagrant acts of injustice are
witnessed. No church lands are seized, no chalices
or sacramental baskets are broken in pieces over the
smelting-pot. No revenues are unlawfully appro-
priated. No deanery is encroached upon. No ad-
vowson is disputed. Not an acre of ground ; not a
tithe ; notia surplice has been either coveted or pur-
loined. The work of renovation has evidenced itself
solely by the publication of an ecclesiastical ordon-
nance, and by the performance of religious cue-
monies."

And what may we thank for this singular mode-
ration ? 13 it the power or the will that was wanting
to do all these things ? How deeply grateful should
we be to the PONTIFF for his tender consideration
for our prejudices. We may, in our ignorance, not
be aware of these things, but "The Journalist" is
resolved that we shall be fully enlightened on the
subject.
We have heard of instructions to counsel which
only said " We have no defence—abuse the opposite
attorney." The champion of the Vatican seems to
have received a somewhat similar brief, for he
is unmeasured in his vituperation of all
persons and classes who oppose his views. The me-
mory of Queen ELIZABETH is assailed with the
utmost virulence, and obsolete calumnies revived in
all their unmitigated atrocity. Lord Jour; RUSSELL,
too, comes in for a fair share of reproach; but it is
on his brethren of the press that " The Journalist"
pours forth the vials, of his wrath. They are
.no
longer " the leaders, but the slaves of public
opinion—the helots of bigotry, the bonds-
men of the rabble." Their " claim to in-
dependence has crumbled away," they are " pu-
sillanimous ;" " with scarcely more than one solitary
exception, they have trampled under fisot every
possible consideration except that of pandering to the
more despicable predilections of the community."
We can afford to smile at this torrent of vitupera-
tion, which only proves the weakness of the writer's
cause, and the singular unanimity by which the
press and the public were actuated. We commend
this able but mischievous pamphlet to the
Protestant community, that they may discover the
real sentiments of the advocates and supporters of the
recent act of the PONTIFF in establishing a Roman
Catholic hierarchy with territorial authority in
England.

THE FRENCH REPUBUC:

We have received such of the Paris journals as
were published yesterday, but as New Year's Day is
always observed as a holiday in France, the greater
number of the newspaper-offices were cloned.

It appears that the PRESIDENT rode through Paris
on New Year's Day, and was very well received.
The official Jfoniteur was not published yesterday,
but the following, which appears in the Constitutionnel,
may be considered the official account from the E1y56,-;
of the scene which occurred between MM. BONA..
PART/I and DUPIN, on the presentation of the depu-
tation of the Assembly to the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public. After a few introductory observations, the
Constitutionnel thus reports the conversation :

" M. Dnpin—Monsiehr le President,ib;i;gyou the
sincere wiihes of th• Bureau—

" The President of the Republic (interrupting him)—
Monsieur le President, I receive the wishes which you
bring me, and I doubt not that they are sincere. It is
important that the good harmony of the powers should
not be diturbed in the times of difficulty through which
we have to pass.
" M. Dupin—All the acts of the Assembly, all those
of the Bureau, are inspired by a deep attachment fur
your person, and the warmest desire to preserve a good
understanding batween the two powers of the State.
" The President of the Republic—I am willing to be-
lieve it, Monsieur le President, since you tell me so.
You and I, each, within the limits of our attributions,
ought to attach ourselves to making the laws of the
country, and the authority given us by the constitution
respected, without one power encroaching on the
other. Ido nut care about the prorogution of my
powers, but am anxious when I deliver up to the people
the power which I have received from it to return it
intact and respected. My conviction is that Fiance &-
sires peace and order, and it will consider that of the
two powers which should attack the other as in the
wrong.

" AI. Dupin—lt has always been so in our country.
You may rely upon the sentiments which I express to
you.

" The President of the Republic—lt is fortunate that
there are epochs which separate, as it were, the past
from the future. One era has just finished—another
commences. Let us hope!"
The Dibats says it shall not report the proceedings
which occurred until it shall be better instructed ;
and as the Dibats is the organ of the Orleanist Bur-
graves, we may expect to see M. DUPIN'S version of the
matter in that journal. Of one fact there can be no
doubt, the PRESIDENT of the Republic snubbed the
representatives of the people ; and in commenting on
this fact the Presse reminds its readers that the last
instance on record of a similar insult being offered
to the representatives of the nation was just before
the revolution of 1830, when CiI.tRLES X. made use
of severe and even threatening words to M. ROYER-
COLLLRD. "A few days afterwards," adds the
Presse, " CHARLES X. was expiating on a foreign
soil and in an eternal exile the misfortune of having
spoken as a master before a free people."
The following is the prods verbal of the liberation
of M. Meuouis from the prison of Clichy :
" In the year 1850, the 28th of December, at half-past
seven o'clock in the evenine, M. Base, member of the
National Assembly, presented himself and showed
us-
-Ist, An extract from the minut's of the sitting. de-
claring that M. de Larochejaquelein having addressed
interpellations to the Minister of Justice concerning
the arrest of M. Mauguin, a member of the
Assembly, the Assembly, after having heard the
Minister and UM. de Vatimesnil and Labouiie, adopted
an order of the day motive, p-oposed by M. do Ler,,ebe.
jaquelein. 2dly, An order from tf,e President of the
Assembly, thus worded—' The nesidknt of the Na-
tional Asst mb!y, looking at the order of the day adopted
by the National Assembly, to have M. Msugutn, repre-
sentative of the people, unduly arrested, immediatery
set at liberty, delegates to M. the questor of Lie
Assembly, all power, even that of demanding the public
force, if necessary, to effect his being set at I,nerty.
Dupin. Half-past six in the evening, Dec. 28, 1850?
Baze then called on the greffier, whose name is be-
low, in the absence of the director of tho triton, to at
once set M. Mauguin at liberty, declaring that, in case
of refusal, he would call in the armed force and break
in the doors;' to which the greffier replied, that in pre-