The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-30 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1851

The most attractive event which has excited public
attention within the last few days has been, perhaps,
the signal " whipping" dealt to the crack yachts of the
"Britishers" by Commodore STEPHENS'S invincible
"America." She first of all carried off the Royal
Yacht Squadron Cup in prime style, and has subse-
quently clinched her triumph by running away from
Mr. STEPHENSON'S " Titania." In the friendly con-
test our yachtsmen have been fairly and soundly
beaten, and have learned that a new leaf must be
turned over if they wish to keep up a first-rate nau-
tical character in future. We wish the Gallant
Commodore and his crew joy of their well-
earned laurels, and hope that the lesson
they have read our friends at Cowes will
not be thrown away. Fas est et ab ,poste doceri
is a respectable adage, and still less should instruction
be disregarded when emanating from a source which
may it never be our lot to regard otherwise than as
an amicable competitor in the arts of civilization and
peace.
The progress of our Gracious SOVEREIGN to her
annual visit to her Highland home has been marked
by those genuine and merited testimonies, of the affec-
tion of her subjects which are at once the safeguard
and the ornament of her constitutional throne. If
certain German potentates would strive to render
themselves equally entitled to the love of their
people, there would be no occasion for his
Majesty of PRUSSIA to go "starring" through
his dominions making discourteous and trashy
speeches, nor for the young Austrian KAISER. to en-
force the ordinary symbol of respect through the
interposition of the police in the streel,s of his own
capital.
The completion of the wondrous tube over the
Menai Straits has been celebrated by an honourable
entertainment, given nigh the scene of his stupen-
dous labours to the projector and corapleter of a
work which is the world's wonder. The difficulties

encountered and successfully overcome by Mr.
STEPHENSON have stamped him as the first in the
practical profession of the day, and the fruits of his
genius, most honourable to himself; have contributed
to the service and glory of his country.
Sundry railways have held their half-yearly
meetings, and on the whole their prospects appear
to be of a satisfactory and encouraging nature. That
of the Ristern Counties afforded a model of decorum,
which, remembering its tempestuous antecedents, is
not more marvellous than gratifying. Even though
the dividend was announced to be that negative quan-

City which a Hibernian humorist has defined to be
" a footless stocking without a leg," the hilarious
confidence pervading those to whom the name of
WADDINGTON is a tower of strength underwent no
eclipse nor diminution. And certainly, if every ap-
parent determination on the part of the tChairman to
develop the resources of the line, to reduce expendi-
ture, and to lay a straightforward statement of the
circumstances of the line before the shareholders be
worthy of their support, the Honourable Gentleman
may fairly lay claim to their favour.
The organs of the ultramontane Romanists are in
full cry. The cool devilry of the pious Univers is
a fair match for the frantic vulgarity of the Tablet.
The Irish brigade are cock-a-hoop at the ostentatious
priest-sanctified defiance of the law, and will, doubt-
less, should need be, make the Ulster Protestants go
down upon their marrow-bones. Give them rope
enough, however, and we shall all see the end of it.
There may be some fire, but there is a great deal—a
very great deal of smoke.
The metropolis still continues to be kept alive by
the influx of visitors from every quarter. Myriads
still daily frequent the Crystal Tabernacle
of Industrial Art. The grumblings of short-sighted
shopkeepers have long since died away. The
omnibuses drive a roaring trade—all the better
(for the time) for having clapped on an addi-
tional twenty-five per cent. on their passengers, a
" dodge" for which we trust their proprietors will
ultimately reap a due reward. To-night the two
great temples of the lyric drama terminate their
respective seasons. The galaxy of talent which Mr.
LUMLEY always contrives to secure has won the
golden opinions of the patrons of the one, and COSTA'S
unrivalled orchestra has made wealth flow in amain
to the treasury of its younger rival. Ostriches,
balloons, chariot races, hurdle races, mailed warriors,
&c., &c., delight the gaze of innumerable multitudes
at the Hippodrome. Vauxhall sends up its aerial
voyages by dozens, to the ecstacy of legions.
At the Surrey Gardens, " thick as leaves in Vallam-
brosa " are gathered the votaries of the thrice-re-
nowned JULLIEN. Cremorne teems with a vespertine
population, swarming to enjoy its multifarious objects
of attraction, whilst the firmament is nightly rent
with explosions of pyrotechnic brilliancy from all
three. As to the theatres, of which there were such
doleful anticipations in the commencement of the
after •season, they are having " a glorious time of it."
Whether Green Bushes at the Adelpbi, or Ma-
zeppa at Astley's, has been performed the greatest
number of nights with literally " undiminished at-
tractions," we do not venture to determine. Mr.
CHARLES MATHEWS must by this have come to look
upon himself as a veritable monarch in fairy land,
and Mr. FLEXMOEE, at the Princess's, has probably
adopted the gait of all-fours as his ordinary
mode of locomotion; there being no apparent limit to
the public thirst for crowding to behold King
Charming and the Alhambra. In short, people are
enjoying themselves in London—money is being
spent here, and, in spite of all the grantings of the
malcontents, the Great Exhibition has done and is
doing good thereto.

There have been (thank Gon) no authentic symp-
toms of the visitation of the Asiatic cholera. There is
not the slightest additional prospect of the Thames being
converted from the functions of a great common
sewer. The iron apparition of the Duke on horse-
back at Hyde-park Corner, the fountains in Tra-
falgar•square, and the lion and unicorn in the front
of Buckingham Palace, still are where they ought
not to be, but whence we despair of ever seeing them
removed, and flung out of the sight of mankind. The
potato•rot in Ireland turns out to be a sham, and so
much for the last week of August, A. D. 1851.

It will be in the recollection of our readers that at
the Aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics of the
United Kingdom, held in the Rotunda at Dublin, on
Wednesday week, Dr. PAUL CULLEN held up the
Count MONTALAMBERT as the perfect pattern of what
a Roman Catholic legislator ought to be, and pro-
posed him as a model for the imitation of the REY-
nOLDSES, KEOGHS, and MOORES, who were around
him on the platform, and of all Roman Catholics who
might hereafter be returned to the House of Com-
mons. The same Dr. PAUL CULLEN, on the same oc-
casion, declared that wherever the Roman Catholic
Church held sway, there and there alone was to be
found true liberty, and that everywhere else
there was slavery. In commenting on this
speech we took the liberty of alluding to cer-
tain speeches of the Count DE MONTALAMBERT
in which he had advocated the re-establishment of
the Inquisition, and to the declaration which had ap-
peared in the Univers, the journal of the Count DE
MONTALAMBERT, that the time had arrived when
Protestantism must be extapated at the point of the
sword.
We have frequently heard it suggested that these
declarations were not to be construed literally, that

it would be unfair and unjust to iaEten on a man as

Islington assembled to consider the propriety of erect-
ing a memorial in Smithfield to the memory of the
martyr, ROBERT PEARCE, Esq., barrister-at-law,
who avowed himself a Roman Catholic, " protested
solemnly before GOD that it was no part of the Ro-
man Catholic faith that heretics should be persecuted."
We commend the attention of all those well-meaning
but credulous persons who are inclined to place im-
plicit reliance on the assertions of the CULLENS, the
WISEMANS, and the other sacerdotal despots, as to
the non-persecuting nature of the Romish Church,
more particularly do we commend to the special at-
tention of ROBERT PEARCE, Esq., barrister-at-law, to
whom we give Credit for implicitly believing that in
making the assertion he did, he was uttering
nothing but the truth, to the attention of the
educated portion of the Roman Catholic laity gene-
rally, the majority of whom are becoming every day
more and more aware of the deceptions systematically
practised on them by their priests, the following
article, which appears in the Univers of Wednesday
last :

"A heretic examined and convicted by the Church used
to be delivered over to the secular power and punished with
death. Nothing has ever appeared to us more natural, or
more necessary. More than 100,000 persona perished in
consequence of the heresy of Wicliffe; a still greater
number by that of John Huss; it would not be possible
to calculate the bloodshed caused by the heresy of Luther,
and it is not yet over. After three centuries we are at the
eve of a recommencement. The prompt repression of
the disciples of Luther, and a crusade against
Protestantism, would have spared Europe three
centuries of discord and of catastrophes in which
France and civilisation may perish. It was under
the influence of such reflections that I wrote the phrase
which has so excited the virtuous indignation of the Red
journals. Here it is:—'For my part,,l avowfrankly my re-
gret is not only that they did not sooner burn John Huss,
but that they did not equally burn Luther, and I regret
further that there had not been at the time some prince
sufficiently pious and politic to have made a crusade
against the Protestants.' Well, this paragraph might
have been better penned; but as I have the happiness to
belong to those who care little about mere forms of ex-
pression, I will not revoke it. I accept it as it is, and
with a certain satisfaction at finding myself faithful to my
opinions. That which I wrote in 1838 1 still! believe. Let
the Red philanthropists priat their declaration in any
sort of type they please, and as often as they please. Let
them add their commentaries, and place all to my ac-
count. The day that I cancel it, they will be justified
in holding the opinion of me which I hold of them.
(Signed) " Louis VEUILLOT."

M. LOUIS VEUILLOT, who signs the above atrocious
declaration, is the most intimate friend and associate
of the Count DE MONTALAMBERT, and it is generally
understood that the greater number of the articles
signed by M. VEUILLOT are dictated by the Count
DE MONTALAMBERT, the model legislator of Dr. PAUL
CULLEN. M. L. VEUILLOT has been the responsible
editor of the Univers from the moment that that
Journal was founded by the Count DE MON-
TALAMBERT, with the avowed object of
making it the organ of Ultramontanism and
Jesuitism all over the world. It was with the
Jesuits and clerical party, of which the Univers is
the organ, that Dr. CAHILL mixed exclusively during
his recent visit to France, and although we deny that
he spoke the sentiments of the French people, when
he declared—" There is not one Frenchman, or one
Frenchwoman, or one French child, who would not
dance with frantic joy at the glorious idea of having
au opportunity, before they die, of burying their
eager swords, and plunging their crimsoned French
steel into the inmost heart of every man bearing the
hated name of Englismau"—yet we believe that he
spoke the sentiments of every Ultramontanist of
every nation in the world, who would, we doubt not,
" bury their eager swords into the inmost heart of
every man bearing the hated name of Protestant."
These passages, published by authority in the Univers;
the declarations of reliance on foreign aid and assis-
tance so vauntingly made by Dr. CAHILL, and others of
the less cautious of the Ultramontanists; the visits
of Cardinal WISEMAN to Florence and Vienna before
his return to England from Rome ; the publication in
the Univers of the rescript making a new territorial
division of England, even before its arrival in Eng-
land, and the boast of the Univers that such rescript
was intended as an insult to, and a defiance of
Protestantism generally—all convince us that
this recent Popish aggression is not an isolated act,
but is to be considered as an overt act of the atrocious
conspiracy against the liberties of mankind organised
at Gaeta, of which the POPE is the ostensible, but the
Emperor of AUSTRIA the real head, of which the
King of NAPLES is the model ruler, and of which
the intruding hierarchy, the Ultramontane priests, the
Jesuits, and the friars, who have for some months
past swarmed in our public streets, masquerading
in absurd, filthy, and scarcely decent, costumes, are
in their respective degrees the agents. This extensive
organization can only be met by an organizat ion as
extensive. The war must be carried into the enemy's
camp. A merely religious defence association, con-
fining its operation solely to the United Kingdom, is
utterly inadequate to meet the danger. To do that
effectually we must form a great Anti-Papal Associ-
ation, which shall be ready to afford moral and mate-
rial assistance to all those who in any part of the
world are struggling to throw off the yoke of
the Papacy. Such a league might be organized
without difficulty, and its effect would be instantane-
ous and crushing ; we urge upon all true Liberals
the necessity of at once organizing it, and the POPE
and his co-conspirators will then find that instead of
Romanising England they have by their rash and ill-
judged proceedings Protestantised Rome.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
AUG. 28.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
Aug 22. Titania schooner, Robert Stephenson,
Eq., from Whitby.

SAILINGS.
Aug. 25. Osprey cutter, John Petre, Esq., for
Portsmouth, left for the season.
Aug. 27. Gauntlet cutter, William Peareth, Esq.,
Cowes Harbour, to lay up; Beatrice schooner, Sir
W. P. Carew, Bart., Torquay and other ports ;
Gipsy Queen schooner, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart.,
Torquay ; Pearl cutter, Marquis of Anglesey, Lon-
don, left for the season ; Bacchante cutter, Benjamin
Jones, Esq., Plymouth and Liverpool.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Alarm, Capricorn, Petrel, Drift, Wizard, Xarifa,
lone, Elizabeth, Dream, Water Lily, Erminia, Stella,
Brilliant, Constance, Lavrock, Mirage, Turquoise,
Eagle, Wyvern, Aurora, Susan, Seagull, Destiny,
Arrow, Ariel, Gondola, Cygnet, Talisman, Maritana,
Merlin, Lotus, Ripple, Flirt, Coquette, Titania, Gem,
Leslie, Frisk, Gulnare, Syren.
EFFECTS OF THE AMERICA'S VISIT.
The Marquis of Conyngham has directed White to
lengthen his beautiful yacht, the Constance, twelve
feet by the bows. She is to have an American stern ;
and the sight that White and the other yacht-builders
had of the America's, bottom, while in dock on Thurs-
day, will, we have no doubt, be turned to account.
A gentleman who has a yacht up in frame in Mr.
Joseph White's yard has had her drawn out eight
feet by the bows, and she is being Americanized; but,
as we have repeatedly before stated, the rig must be
attended to also, there must be no more puckering
and bagging of the sails. The America's are laced
to the booms, and stand as flat as a board, and so
must ours, if we intend to sail against her.
Report says that Mr. Steers, the American builder,
took home orders for three :yachts with him to New
York.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF SAXE-
COBURG KOHARY.
. _

A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna announces the
death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Kohary, elder
brother of the King of the Belgians, at six o'clock on
the morning of the 27th (Wednesday). His Royal
Highness Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, was born March 28, 1785, and was conse-
quently in his 66th year. He married the Princess
Antoinette de Kohary ; he was a general of cavalry
in the Austrian service, and colonel of the Bth Regi-
ment of Hussars. The deceased Prince has left issue
four children. The eldest, Prince Ferdinand, is the
husband of the Queen of Portugal ; the others are
Prince Augustus, husband of the Princess Clementine
of Orleans; the Duchess de Nemours ; and Prince
Leopold, major in the deceased's hussar regiment.
The late iiuke was brother to the Princess Anna,
Feodorowna, widow of the Grand Duke Constantine
of Russia ; to the King oft the Belgians, as above
sta
rtedei;gngainndto the Duchess of Kent ; also uncle to
the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and
to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.