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

don for Coquimbo, put in here on the 6th of November,
leaky, and with pumps damaged.
LANDSORONA, DEC. 10.—The Minuet, from Hartle-
pool, arrived here to-day, after being on shore near Ler-
haven, and at the entrance of this port, but has not re-
ceived any particular damage.
BERGEN, DEC. 16.—The Torza, hence for Altona,
has put back very leaky, having been on shore in the
river.

ELSINORE, DEC. 24.—The Solid, of Grinastadt, from
Memel for Sutton, put i❑ here Dec. 22, leaky is her up-
per works, &c., will repair.
CHRISTIANSAND, DEC. 18.—The Andress, from Ske-
leftea for London, has put into Lillesand leaky, and must
discharge her cargo.
The Golden Eagle, from Bahia, passed Falmouth Nov.
7, bound for Hamburgh, and has not since been heard of.
A large quantity of square timber was passed Dec. 19,
in lat. 46 N., long. 32 W.
The Johanna and Heinrech, from London for Stettin,
which put into Kleven Nov. 25, leaky, has discharged
part of her cargo in a damaged state, which will bo sold.
GRAVESEND, DEC. 31.—Wind W., fresh, with thick
misty weather.
Arrived—Pantura, from Terceira ; Claret, from Bor-
deaux; Dublin and the Favourite, from New York;
Great Britain, from Galatz; Charles and the Transit,
from Sydney, Nova Scotia; Cloud, from Quebec; Cy-
prus, from Montreal; Orion, from Charente; Boadicea,
from Jaffa; Marion Ann, from Riga; Bombay, from
Singapore; Stadt Dordrecht, from Dordt; Tiger and
Frithjof, from Hamburgh; Alliance and Courier,
from Guernsey; Sarah, from Catania; Governor Har-
court, from Honduras; Persian, from Quebec; Brazilian,
from Valparaiso; Bolivar, from St. Vincent's; Eveline,
from Smyrna; Rover, from Guernsey; Salcombe Castle,
from Patras.

Sailed—llargaretta, fur Hamburgh; Lady Hilda, for
Hamburgh; Corsair's B 1 ide, for St. Helena; Earl of
Auckland, for Rotterdam; Emerald, for Boulogne; Wil-
berforce, for Havre; Jules and Marie, for Constanti-
nople; Charles Brook, for St. Vincent's.
VESSELS SPOIEN WITH.

Tomatin, from Greenock for the Mauritius, Oct. 4, in
lat. 13 N., long. 26 —.
Nederward, from Java for Rotterdam, Nov. 12, in lat.
9 S., long. 13 W.
John Walker barque, from Liverpool, Oct. 19, in lat.
26 N., long. 19 W.
Earl of Liverpool barque, from Islay for Liverpool,
Oct. 19.

Camilla brig, steering S.W., Nor. 24, in lat 4 S., long.
31 W.

Britannia brig, steering S., Nov. 27, in lat. 4 N., long.
29 W.

Fairy Queen barque, of and for Dublin, from Calcutta,
Dec. 12, in lat. 29 N., long. 42 W.
Liverpool ship, steering to the west, Dec. 26, in lat. 49
N.. long. 128 W.

Meg Merrilies, from Manilla for Liverpool, Oct. 31, in
lat 32 S., long. 35 E.
Lord Dalhousie, from Calcutta for London, Oct. 31, in
lat. 31 S., long. 40 E.
Athenian, from Madras for London, Nov. 17, in lat.
17, long. 4.
Serinus, from Calcutta for London,Nov.ov 17
•

Maria Bruce, from the Mauritius for Cork, Nov. 28, on
the Line, in long. 20.
Saurnan, from Batavia for Rotterdam, Dec. 1, in lat.
N., long. 23.
Isabel Newton, from London, bound S.W., Dec. 2, in
lat. 6.

Bahia, from Rio Janeiro for Havre, Dec. 13, in lat. 28,
long. 44.
Blorenge, from Calcutta for London, Dec. 17, in lat.
36, long. 33.
Steadfast, from Calcutta for London, Dec. 18, in lat 37,
long. 33.
Terpsichore, from the Mauritius for Cork, Dec. 5, in
lat. 13 N., long. 28 W.

THE CHURCH'S YEAR, 1850.
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Mr. Editor,—" The old year lies a-dying." His hours
are numbered. When we meet again, next week, he
will be gone. The clergyman of the parish is preparing
his funeral sermon; the only funeral that brings no fee.
Kind-hearted people will soon be wishing one another
joy of his successor. The chroniclers of the time are
drawing his character. He cannot remonstrate, how-
ever much he may be abused. His place in history is
fixed for good or evil. Off must he pack to join " the
years beyond the flood." What shall we say of him?
How strike the balance of his accounts? Some rough
computation we may make; but the season for a full and
accurate estimate is not yet. That will only come to our
children; perhaps our children's children. The old year
has been prolific. The Registrar-General already reports
a large surplus of births. There is also a great multiplica-
tion of marriages. Sore tidings for the departing year to
carry to the shade of Malthus. It will disturb him even
in Paradise, if lie be there. How all these human pro-
ductions will turn out is a ticklish question. They should
be very good indeed to overbalance the deaths, in any
other respect save that of number. Ido not refer to our
fat friend, " the good Duke of Cambridge." Other ani-
mals can be fed up in that same stye. We have a rising
crop, and the soil is fertile. But the year has struck
down two of our greatest men; our first of statesmen
and our first of poets. It has spared:neither the civic
wreath nor the laurel crown. Long will the name of
Wordsworth mark an era in our poetical literature, and
that of Peel in our commercial legislation. We honour
their memories in that proportion which the English
mind assigns to the poetical and the practical; the latter
by a large vote, the former by a little subscription. And
in due time we shall do the like by the bards and legis-
lators whom the year has ushered into the light and
left crying in their cradles. " Some must watch while
some must sleep; thus runs the world away."
There is one thing about the poor old year which I
wish particularly to notice; and that is, that he was a
very oburchified year. The rest of his character and
doings I leave to other hands. They will no doubt be
treated fully and impartially. It is only with this one
point that lat present concern myself. Eighteen hun-
dred and fifty was all for the Church. lie was keen in
controversy from the first, and worked himself up, at last,
into a spiritual agitation. He began with Mr. Gorham,
and he ended with Cardinal Wiseman. Ile let the per-
secuted clergyman out of jail, and he brought back the
runaway Pope into the Vatican. With ono hand he made
a blaze of Guy Faux, and with the other strewed squibs
and crackers under the bench of bishops. He discovered
that " the Bible alone is the religion of Protestants," and
so he seized it from Dissenters in payment of Church
Rates. In obedience to the Jewish code, he forbade the
banns between a widower and his deceased wife's sister;
and in defiance of the Christian code he kept the Jew out
of his civil right to sit in Parliament. When young, ho
lit candles in churches on Sunday mornings; and when
old he kicked out oven the candlesticks. He turned
congregations into mobs, and clergymen into dema-
gogues, and excited religious riots, in which the heads
of some were broken that the souls of others might be
saved. In short, he has been what probably his son and
heir will call most damnably devout. Ile goes to his
grave in the odour of sanctity; bury him in St. Mar-
garet's, the crammed yard is not closed; and his last
will and testament, in the form of petition or address,
appoints the State his executor duly to pay some little
legacy of persecution.
Glory had its year when Wellington reaped his laurels
on the bloody plain of Waterloo; religious liberty had
its year when it was recognised by the Legislature that
Catholics are men and Christians; commerce had its
year when Peel abolished the corn-laws, and made free-
trade the national policy; and revolution had its year,
when thrones were tumbling about all over Europe only
to be steadied again, for a brief while, by the props of
bayonet and cannon; but all these years were orderly
compared with the folly, fanaticism, and furor of our
poor departing Church's year. They excited passions,
indeed; but the passions had worthy purposes, and were
not mad with theological bitterness. A year in church
seems as fatal to reason as a year in solitary confine-
ment. The odium theologicum has always been a poison
plant, and "we have eaten of the insane root." Of the
restoration of the Protestant hierarchy in this country it
was said by a poet, " Now universal England getteth
drunk;" of the restoration of the Romish hierarchy, it
may almost be said that now universal England getteth
mad, and needeth a strait jacket.
The old year will have saddled us with many mis-
chiefs, in consequence of his religious turn of mind.
We should have been left in a pleasanter condition, had
he been of a different way of thinking. Heats and ani-
mosities are enkindled that will not, and cannot, all at
once subside. There is bad blood in many neighbour-
hoods. People have learned to quarrel in the spirit
which a divine described as that of " due Christian ani-
mosity." We do not shako hands with a man heartily
after assisting to burn him in effigy. We oall''etexf!
on earth " tho song of angels, and chant it to thetune
of " Britons, strike home ; revenge yo
ur. eo. t y _
wrongs." There is alienation amongst frit,
the cu
cs u
Christmaspanodf
families. Bitterness has been shed
F3isnntyo ath.
heat
e been
blessing which should have crowned
dinner. The professional preachers of peace.
yeaprfaa
cgorueenttiy7b.utAa con-
tested so violent that from the reaction of, their will come
coldness into many a New
peace
erit of a nation. If
election disturbs the
reli-
gious contest ruffles the
years have their mission, let us hope that of the new
comer will be to allay this effervescence,
and make
Catholic and Protestant bail fellow well met all the
countryo-er.
There mixture of good and bad in another thing
done by the old year which the new may serve to adjust
and make their proportions evident. The Church has
been brought into contempt, even in its rampant success.
This Protestant Episcopacy, with clamorous multitudes
at its back, mid the tythes in its pocket, and Papal Eu-
rope standing aghast at its vigour; what is it, as deve-
loped by events? A hollow combination of men sworn
to the same form of words, while their faiths are wide
as the poles asunder. The Church has been a Grecian
daughter to the old Papacy, and nourished her parent
with the richest milk of her bosom. Her Protestantism
has ploughed for three centuries only to grow a crop of
Papists. Her seeming unity is the amalgamation of
theological factions denying to each other any knowledge
of the way of salvation. Half the Church damns the
other half. Bishops admonish churchwardens to look
out for fatal heresies in the discourses of their appointed
pastors, set over them to guide to heaves.
The Evangelicals and the TrActaritlng 011 face