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

ultramontane party, aad we may venture
to assume that he has been deliberately
selected for the efficient performance of
the ardurAis duty. In his pars 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 in'o 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
bath human and divine," * * " a work of
vengeance originated by temporal authority for the
purpose of gratifying its inordinate lute of pride and
spoliation." Tie says, "At the pulling down of the
Catholic hierarchy there was witnessed thoue,hout
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 ves=ela 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. Every where 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 Ultrantontanists
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 hinds 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 ; no* surplice has been either coveted or pur-
loined. The work of renovation has evidnoced itself
solely by the publication of an ecclesiastical ordon-
nance, and by the performance of religious cere-

monies."

And what may we thank for this singular mode-
ration ? Is 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 " Tne 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 Jolts 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-
depend( ace has crumbled away," they are "
pu-
sillanimous ;" " with scarcely more than one solitary
excep!ion, they have trampled under fiat 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
Cathc.lic hierarchy with territorial authority in
England.