The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

Ex .ceivc, this s-r.n,,.;v11.7.t sullen .H
The United Stales Marshal at New York has received
peremptory orders to prevent the departure of any
expedition from that city, and as the sailing of the
Baltimore expedition is "contingent on the character
of the next advises from Lorzz," we think that we
can venture to affirm that there is no chance whatever
of its putting to sea for the present. Had the United
States Government exhibited, during the first week in
August, one-tenth part of the activity which they
have exhibited during the last week of that month,
they would have saved the lives of at least 500
American citizens.

So the new Papal Offence—or Defence—Associa-
tion is not dead after all, notwithstanding the sur-
mises of some of cur Contemporaries, that it had un-
timely given up the ghost. It slumbered, but
exhaled not ; dozed, but hath not defunged. It is
now announced, by a Dublin organ of note, that the
rules of this politico-theological fungus have received
the sanction of the Right Reverend Doctors Faun
CULLEN, MICHAEL SLATTEEY, and JOHN M'HALE,
illegally styled "the Primate, and the Archbishops
of Cashel and Tuam." The first meeting of this said
association is to be duly fixed by the com-
mittee thereof at the time of the adoption of the
rules, and the 14th of October is, we are informed,
the day determined on. Thus, " The Great Irish
Exhibition" opens immediately after the closing of that
of the Industry of all Nations, but whether it will suc-
cessfully " draw," tending to the profit as well as
the pleasure of its promoters, is a matter yet to be
seen. That there will be some " big talk," some
"very bitter words" eructated, we have not the re-
motest doubt, but where is there a master mind
among the Irish " patriots" of to-day to guide the
helm ? Only fancy any one member of the Pores
brass-band setting himself up .as the successor of
DANIEL O'CONNELL ! 0, braying quadruped, seek
not to masquerade in the hide of the dead lion !
Meanwhile we are refreshed by an exposition of
the views entertained concerning the national system
of education by Doctor CULLEN, which has been
given to the world after a delay of many days by
some section of the corporation of Drogheda, who had
requested the opinion of the titular primate as to the
national schools. The reverend writer abstains from
pronouncing expressly either an approbation or con-
demnation of these schools, but his idea of " mixed
education" may be judged of from the following pa-
ragraph of his epistle :—" Some of these schools work
practically well, and whilst visiting this diocese I was
happy to find the children who fr. quent them well in-
structed in their religion. But these are not mixed
schools; the managers, the teachers, the children,
are, I may say, all Catholics—the spirit of the
schools is Catholic." So that, provided the school
be purely Roman Catholic in its constitution and
members, there ca 03 03 objection to education,
and then we are solemnlyi nformed that the Rom an
Catholic Church " has been the instructress
and civiliser of all the nations of the earth ;'
that " every noble and useful institution that
we possess has originated with her," and that "to
her are due the preservation of the arts and sciences
in ages of darkness, and their revival and diffusion at
a later period." We confess this comprehensive
glorification so takes away our breath that we commit
it to the consideration of the reader without a word
of comment. Dr. CULLEN, however, lets us know
his views on the system of national education, as
conducted according to the spirit and principles of
its founders, in no insignificant or obscure terms when
he says of the schools :—" The object of such estab-
lishments appears to be the development of mixed educa-
tion. Protestant, Presbyterian, and Catholic teachers
are to be united in them, and children of every de-
nomination are invited to attend them, and thus a
mixture is compounded that is anything rather than
Catholic. Neither the Catholic clergy nor any other
Catholic body has any control over the appointment
or removal of masters or mistresses, or over their
teaching in the schools. The whole system tends to
inspire children with the absurd idea that all religions
are equally good, and it is thus hostile to truth,
which is one and exclusive in its nature ;" whereas,
" we believe that there is but one true faith, without
which it is impossible to please God ; one true
Church, out of which there is no salvation. Any
teaching that is hostile to these doctrines, or tends to
weaken them in the minds of youth, we must consider
as unsuited for Catholics, and worthy of our reproba-
tion." And the knowledge "not encouraged by the
Church," in other words, any system of teaching not
exclusively in the hands and under the direction of the
Roman Cathalic priesthood is to be esteemed " god-
less education," as " earthly, sensual, devilish." Po or
Ireland I The learning, civilization, and prosperity of
the southern peninsula of Europe are deemed to be
your happy and appropriate lot by the members of
the same order who have bountifully "instructed and
civilized" the flourishing and intellectually-cultivated
dwellers on the banks of the Tagus and the Tiber.
To the most infelicitous and ill-timed appointment
of Dr. CULLEN to the Roman Catholic Primacy
we owe the present attempted perpetuation of Igno-
rance in Ireland. The subject is really too
disheartening to dwell upon ; but it may not be unin-
teresting to our perusers to learn the way in which
this ill-starred business was managed at Rome. We,
therefore, shall rest content with appending a brief
history of the intrigues which produced so unhappy
an issue, as supplied by a clever Contemporary, the
Anglo•Celt:—

" During the lifetime of the late Primate Orally, his
influence, united to that of Archbishop Murray, kept
the Ultramontanists in check. The appointment of a
successor to Archbishop Crolly became matter of the
last importance to the Ultramontane party. According
to the caurse of election, the bishops or the province
and the parish priests of the vacant diocese were to
recommend three names to the Holy See, from whom
they were to select a successor. It was no secret that
Dr. Dixon was the favourite. He is a moderate man,
of the Tratriontane party, and supports the Queen's col-
leges. Hence the objection of the Ultrausontanists to
him. He had a majority of the bishops, which was
only to be got rid of by an intrigue with the priests,
which was successful. The two bodies differed in
the order in which they recommended the candidates to
Home. The Holy See, therefore, referred the matter
back to the three remaining archbishops to report upon.
Of these Dr. laNlale • was the oriatual and unbending
opponent of the colleges; Archbishop Murray as deter-
mined a supporter of them and of the liberties of the
Irish Courch; Archbishop Slattery sided with Dr.
&Male; Dr. Murray, consequently, stood alone, his in-
fluence at Rome, too, had been considerably weakened
by the misrepresentations of his motives and condact
made by his opponents; among the rest, a pamphlet by
two of the Ultramontane bishops, containing the Nike:,
calumnies, was extensively circulated there, while here
he was publicly described, by rersons calling themselves
Christian bishops, in language unfit to be applied save
to one foredoomed to damnation. The report of the
archbishops went over to Rome with a suggestion of the
majority that as there were differences between the parties
as to the merits of the candidates it was a fit opportunity to
exercise authority and name a person not on the list. Rome
accordingly appointed Doctor Cullen, their president of the
Irish college there—an appointment the most objection-
able that could be made to the Tramontane party here.
He was known to be the private correspondent and
agent at Rome of the Absolutists here, and the medium
of communication between them and the Roman autho-
rities. His experience of Ireland was limited to the
short period of his boyhood. He was sent to Rome at
fourteen years of age, and received his ecclesiastical
education there. Upon questions of church government
and of discipline he was supposed to hold very absolute
doctrines. Such was not, in the opinion of many, the
person to pat at the head of the Irish Church at the
present moment, over the heads of the entire ecclesias-
tical authorities of the country He was sent, too, with
the authorities of Legate, one of which is power to call
together in Synod the bishops of the kingdom. Hence
arose the Thurles Synod, whose decrees, although held
upwards of two years since, have not been published."

Thus was secured the triumph of bigotry, of il-
liberalism, of obscurantism, of "the darkness that
way be felt "—in a word, of ULTRAMONTANISM.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATREHiS Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge honoured her Majesty's Theatre with
his presence on Saturday evening. Amongst the company
we also noticed the Marquis of Douro, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, the Viscount Emlyn, Sir George Wombwell, Bsrt.,
General the Hon. U. Cavendish, the Hon. James Mac-
donald, Sec.
EXTRAORDINARY Low TlDE.—Yesterday morning
the excursionists above bridge were greatly inconvenienced
not only by the density of the fog, but likewise in cense.
quence of the lowness of the water in the river. The boats
which started at an early hour from the various piers below
Blackfriars for Putney, Richmond, Twickenham, and Hamp-
ton, experienced considerable delay in passing some portions
of the river, which it was possible, in many places, at ex-
treme low water, to ford. The down river boats to Green-
wich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Sheerness, &C., were obliged to
slacken their speed considerably, owing to the fog that pre-
vailed the whole of the forenoon.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—ThP British any'North
American
steam-ship
Africa, Ryrie commander,
sailed r 31. to-day, with the usual
tetitcrtum royalthe miearisley
at
l
mails, a large freight, and 156 passengers. The United
States mail steam-ship Baltic, Comstock commander, will
sail from Liverpool on Wednesday next for New York with
mails, &c.