The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

CRICKET.

TUE GENTLEMEN OF SURREY V. TEE GENTLEMEN
OF SUSSEX.—For the first time the gentlemen of these
two great cricketing counties met in friendly contest,
and fought during the two last days of the past week.
The final score was as follows•.—Sussex—First innings
101; ditto, second innings, 73. Surrey—First innings,
142; second innings, 33. And so Surrey won by two
wickets.

ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF NEWARK.
AND DISTRICT.—This match was brought to a conclusion
at Newark, on Saturday evening. The ultimate scorn
stood thus, whereby the Eleven were defeated by 15
runs:—Newark—First innings, 135; second innings, 70.
The Eleven of England—First innings, 87; second in-
nings, 103.

111 RS. lIARRIET LEE.
Our obituary notices the death of a remarkable person,
Mrs. Harriet Leo, at the very advanced age of ninety-
four. Much of the literature of the last century is pass-
ing away ; but the gathering time will comp when the
works of two sisters, Mrs. Sophia and Mrs. Harriet Lee,
will be in the selection for perpetual preservation. Those
names will bo conspicuous among the " celebrated wo-
men of England." They are, perhaps, better known
as the authors of the " Canterbury Tales." The tale of
" Kreutzner," by Mrs. H. Leo, inspired the genius of
Byron. Ile formed from it his tragedy of Werner, and
in its preface acknowledged that " the germ of much
that he had written was discernible in that popular ro-
mance." It must be for other hands to distribute to.
rks—in
each sister her own share of their popular
tragedy, comedy, and more particularly in tb"!:",,Ciannk-
terbury Tales; upon which latter chiefly
ti think
their united fame will rest. Those whose
her re-
it was to know Mrs. 11. Lee, and to
enjoy
ee in her
markable conversational powers, could,
her vigorous
clear depth of judgment and intellect, gratification
genius without
f ility of arrange-
and comprehensive memory, n
client, that combination of the gifts6d, °f have been oala not
which the tale of " Kreutzner
the age in which tho
modern literature and art
ten. The wider field of ino.rnete"olc
rtcoommunion of friendship
can scarcely admit of that I
recently lamented the loss
of Porter, who died in our city,
osa
among authors which belonged
sisters wrote. Mrs. 1.
consider to have been rich in t
of one of these,
cersons. More eminent friends she
mourned John Kenabl c m e
whichresidence
ocfa
eminentn nsoi dtMdboui
nata
sipn
the elder portion of this Ice ble mourned years ago,
family—Mrs' s the friend and correspondent
yoeftaisurrs-.
vives, S. 13°getrw'o sisters were the firat to predict this
ir • . Le, who in his after life, in
li. Lee. T Lawren .
iedgment of
haeorni!iinnoegwnacredoTfal!d.. friendship,
thur kindnes, and as a memorial of
presented to them the por-
t;;itrseof Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble, and the more
valuable portrait (one of his very best) of their friend
General Paoli. Mrs. Lee retained her large and clear
faculties to nearly the last moment of her life.—Bristol
Gazette.

MORALITY IN 13IRMINGNAM.—Never within the
memory of any living person has the calendar of assize for
the county of
aWarwick presented so meagre a number of
prisoners, withless
jus
gtie m,
grave catalogue of crime, than that
placed
before Mr.
500,000 inuihae.bita A
inhabitants
containing a
months furnished only thirty.;twoclr'insi
generally,
t 1
criminals
e 24;f courseor
fr trialomo fri
oy#.l
population of nearly
these there were—From the county
Bir-
mingham, 8. If this condition of things is extraordinary as
regards the county, it is even more astonishing so far as I3ir-
mingliam is concerned. About 250,000 persons, or one-half
of the population of Warwickshire, are congregated in the
borough and its suburbs. In such a dense community good
and evil must necessarily commingle; the facilities for the
commission of crime must be numerous; and yet hi half a
year only eight offences have been perpetrated amongst us of
sufficient importance to be sent before the first crimintil tri-
bunal of the realm. With one-half of the population of the
county, Birmingham furnished only one-fourth of the pri-
soners for trial. The cases too were of the slightest kind.
One of manslaughter was a boy who killed another lad by
throwing a stone. That the offence was not a very serious
one may be inferred from the sentence, which was four days'
imprisonment. A policeman was also indicted for per;ury,
two robberies, and a ease of Cut-
e was no aggravated offence
but the bill was ignored. The other cases consisted of'a
btiunrgglaanrdy,w.avohuonudsienbgr.eakTinhge,r
murder, and, singularly enough, only one charge of tat offence, no
base coin, for the manufacture of which Birmbagham eiu
time bad A Pellyiabll tel•utati9a,....,uirriir h .. at-one
"9 ao 7;
_ .....

T.HE POPE
ANTS AN
IN D
ROIIETHE PROTES-
T.
(From the Times.)
The first proceedings of the recent session were di-
rected against, the encroachments of the Bishop of Rome
upon the national and ecclesiastical independence of
this kingdom; the last words of the same Parliament
were devoted to the practicability of Protestant worship
within the walls of Rome. The Pope treated England
as a heathen country; he abolished, as far r in him lay,
m
all the historical sees of the land, create
hierarchy, sent a Cardinal to be enthroned at
eaPft° pompous
in !neestw-'
minster, and has now decreed the erection
cathedral, on a magnificent scale, some conspicuous
part of the metropolis. The same Pope forbids alto-
gether the worship of God after
the rites of the Eng.
lish Church within the walls of Rome, and condemns
our countrymen to the performance of
service in a granary without the gates. At this
moment there stands a " Cathedral h ofScathGdeorge,"
in the borough of South% ark; snot er a e ral of
St. Patrick" has been designed, we believe, foe West.
minster; and a third "Metropolitan Church of St.
Peter " is tow openly announced. To none of these
proceedings
objection been taken by the has any
Pro-
testant Government of England ; but, when a desire is
expressed of erecting a simple church for the use of
Englishmen sojourning at Rome, it is intimated that the
requisite permission will certainly be withheld, and that
no such design can be entertained.
The Romish churches of this kingdom are obviously
built for purposes beyond those of independent congre-
gational worship. There is already a superfluity of ac-
commodation, in the sense usually given to the phrase.
The edifices are designed and multiplied with a special
object of attraction, and with the evident view of ex-
tending the sphere of Romanian], to the proportionate
disparagement of other establishments. We are not as•
serting that this kind of " aggression" is unriehteous
in principle or intolerable in practice. Within rea-
sonable bounds it is a proper duty of a religious com-
munity, nor can the spirit of proselytism be impunged
when defined as a sincere anxiety fur what is con-
ceived to be the redemption of others. All we wish to
show is, that the representatives of the Pope in this
country are indulged in something more than the mere
freedom of public worship. Though their whole system,
from the fact of its addressing itself to the external
senses, is essentially obtrusive, and though their parade
and ceremonial aro offensive to the eyes and repugnant
to the traditions of Englishmen, they are not restricted
in the matter of gaudy or gewgaws. They declare the
militant character of their Church,they marshal and ma-
nteuvre their forces, prepare their magazines, and con-
struct their strongholds exactly as they please, nor have
they been checked in anything except an experiment
which, if it was not an insidious aggression, was a piece
of empty arrogance. Yet, in the cityhioef Rome,
hwese freely
when
we come to request an ihdhulg
grant, we are met ea that a sum ofndeirewct refusal. Our
readers may, perhaps, be a
ware
money has been recent collected for the purpose
of building a place of ProtestantY worship accommodated
to the needs of our numerous countrymen residing or
sojourning at a city so remarkable as Rome. The exi-
gency of the case is Feanifest. At presentir, Eowngn conlishmen
desirous of worshipping according to the-
sciences and the ritual of their country are driven
without the walls of the city, where they assemble in a
granary, destitute not only of becoming ornament but
the appliances of recognized decency. The funds are
now forthcoming for the erection of a convenient build-
ing within the precincts of the city, but, though no ap-
plication has yet been actually made to the Roman Go-
vernment, we are given very plainly to understand by,
those best acquainted with the subject that such applica-
tion would he altogether vain!
This practieal contrast between Papists abroad and
Papists at home is far too instructive to be over•
looked or forgotten. There is no difficulty in com-
prehending the case. A Romanist, if he could
speak with sincerity and candour, would plainly aver
that whereas his religion was the true one and con-
ducted to salvation, it was to be promoted by all practi-
cable means; but that whereas others were false relie
gions, and led to perdition, they wore hardly to be tole-
rated without misdoing,and nut to be encouraged with-
out deadly sin. He would further say that we had our
own principles, and they theirs; that, as we chose to pro-
claim toleration of creeds, it was competent to them to
avail themselves of the opportunity; but, as they recog-
nized no such liberty, we could prefer no demand in re-
turn. Each party is to act as it can. Papists in London
take the freedoms of Londoners; Protestants at Rome
must do as Rome does.
This is a fair description of the argument against us.
The reply to such pleas is, that it consists neither with
natural equity nor with the rights of man to recognise in
any mortals such an exclusive claim to divine in-
spiration and absolute infallibility. It is, of course,
a necessary consequence of religious sincerity
to conclude that other creeds are less true then
our own, and, in proportion as we maintain
the unity of such truth, we are led to seek and justify
various methods of propagation and conversion. But
here the maxim for our conduct is plainly this :—that we
have no title, as mortal men, on any pretence whatso-
ever, to assume such an authority for our own convic-
tions as would dictate compulsion towards the convic-
tions of others. We may exert our utmost endeavours
to propagate by peaceable and lawful means what we
hold to be saving doctrines, but we may do no more; we
must extend to others the consideration we claim for
ourselves, and leave the issue to an Allseeing Judge.
These are the principles by which the Romish Church
must be tri'd. It is the evil, as it is also the essence, of
that Church, not only to arrogate an exclusive posses-
sion of the truth, but to assert a right of promoting it
according to its own conceptions by any means, however
violent or unholy. Thus persecution, with all its bar-
barities, becomes a necessary tenet of Romanism. It
is better," say the Papists, " that a life should be taken
than that a thousand souls should be lost." No doubt it
is; but the wickedness of the maxim consists in the
presumption that they ace so qualified to pronounce on
the salvation of soule as to be invested with power over
the body.
Such is a plain exposure of the chief Romish argu-
ment, and the moral of the inquiry is obviously this,—
that it is impossible to concede to such a faith that un-
limited toleration which, in common with other faiths,
it come* to demand. " Freedom of worship," in the
ordinary sense means nothing more than the power of
serving God according to conscience. " Freedom of
worship," in the Romish sense, means the power of
proscribing or assaulting every other form of belief, as
circumstances may serve. It is the avowed duty of al'
Papist not only to render certain service to his Maker,
but to reject, condemn, and if possible destroy, all who
render such service in any other manner. They them-
selves denounce toleration as the most heinous and deadly
of errors; and they thou come to us demanding to be
freely tolerated in the establishment of this intolerant
doctrine. They curse us for the very principle on the
ground of 'which they ask to be indulged. So aggressive
and exclusive is their spirit that, before they set up
their own hierarchy, they abolished ours ai a
necessary preparation. They swept away, to the best
of their pow, r and bAief, every monument of cede-
siasticl organization in this country; they proclaimed
a tabula rasa of all English and Welsh sees, and then
actually complained of intolerance because we would
not recognise the effigies which they set up in their
place! Cannot Lord Aberdeen Fee how utterly incon-
sistent it is with even the maxims of self-preservation to
extend unconditional licence to a religious community
whose professed function is to treat all others us here-
tics, and all heretica as sinners to be bodily controlled?
As regards the particular question just discussed, we
are not, of course, suggesting that a system of recipro-
city should be observed in our dealings with Rome. It
is not our duty as Protestants and Englishmen to disbar
Roman Catholics from erecting churches, however offen-
sively they may refuse such a privilege in return. We
do think, however, that as circumstances stand, a direct
appeal should be made by our Government to the Court
of Rome for the permission at present so reasonably re-
quired. It would be advisable to got the practice of
Rome in this respect put upon open record in a catego-
rical answer to our demand. That the answer would bo
a negative is likely enough, hut this negative might be
serviceably published, and Christendom at large might
judge of the principles of a Bishop who claims the right
of organizing hierarchies in all foreign states, and forbids
the erection do place of foreign worship in his own.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT WESTERN.
It appears from the half-yearly statement of the re-
ceipts and payments of this company, which has just
been prepared by Messrs. Dickinson and Atkinson, the
auditors, and verified by Mr. Delvitte, the accountant,
in anticipation of the meeting to be held at Bristol on
the 14th instant, that the expenditure during the half-
year has amounted to 162,4861. 17s. 10d., and the re-
ceipts to 454,9211 7s. 2(1., showing ab 2,4
ala3nicle u.9pso.n
4d.the
half-year's revenue account of 29
Under the head of expenditure the following items
ocean-Maintenance of way. stations, and works,
36,537/. ss. 51; locomotive account, including wages to
drivers, firemen, &e., 33,604/. 191. 9d.; carrying aceount,
39,064/. Os. 61; general charges, 19,954/, Ils. 6d.; Go.
'cerement duty, 12,9361. Bs. 7d.; rates and taxes, 11,8701.
163. 4d., &c.; the whole showing a per centage on the
traffic of 35,717/. as against 40,731/. in the correspond-
ing half-year of 1850. The total traffic receipts amounted
to 438,8331. 13s. 61, including passengers, 292,6011 ss.
2d.;x carriages, horses, and dogs, 9,552/. 15s. 9d.; mails,
10P6ensEs' 8"., 11,499/. 7s. 4d.; merchandise, cattle, &C.,
,620/. 12s. 10d.; and parcels, 17,8211. 10s. 7d. The
remaining receipts comprised 7,050/. for rent, from the
by South Birmingham;Wales 3,863/. Bs. 3d. for use of plant
interest on the oaistmehY; and sundry small items for
&c., and registration
falances, rent of property, cottages,
The general stateraees.
count of capital,
B,7nt shows total receipts upon Re-
ceived on debentures, ,rBl. ss. 3d.; plus amount re-
gng gross total receipt:4:f% 6ce"
5,433,793/. 2s. 9d.,
payments amount to 14,084,5246,1227,7011. Bs. The gross
following items :-Amount paid to 31st
and comprise the
in respect of Great Western,
Oxford,
December, 1849,
Windsor. and other Hues, and fo''rßlerks, and Hants,
10.407,773/. Os. Bd.; payments on account
stock,
liabilities, 147,7611. 16... 5d.; Oxford. aunrclit of estimated
Rail-
way (opened
to Banbury) 1,011,756 i. Rugby 2s. lid.; Wilts,
Sotrwrset, and Weyroonth Railway (opened to
71,139/ 10s. 7d.; Birmingham and oxi.nra Railway,
544,725/. 53. 3d.; Birmingham, Wolverhampton and
Dudley Railway, 185,3031 78. ; South Wales Rail:slid
615,2261. G. 6d.; Gloucester and Forest of Dean Raii:
way, 29,425/. Is. 41; Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
Railway, 545,000/ ; South Devon, 232,7081. 4s. gd.;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
185,103/. ss. 7d.; Cheltanhura and Oxford Railway,
68,557/. 16s. 10d.; Cornwall Railway, 12 031/. 72. 7d;
Plymouth Great Western Deck, 9,5901.; New Locomo-
tive Stock, under cote of proprietors of the 15th of
August, 1850, 25,3521. 19s. 5d.; new station at Pad-
dington, under similar vote of the 13th of i'ebruary of

We have avoided giving the useless details, no
less than the writer's reflections, and almost scorn
to employ argument against such paltry and trans-
parent fiction. Who does not know that by no
possibility could a ship which had been wintering
in Lancaster Sound have reached home on the 19th
June, or even six weeks later ?—and while we
cannot refuse a passing compliment to the march of
intellect which has suddenly developed the Esqui-
maux appreciation of international distinctions, we
would point out the clumsy discrepancy of making
the narrator stow away provisions in a boat more
than two months before the ice breaks up, the very
next sentence describing their entire journey as being
pursued overland.
We can now only leave the perpetrator of this in-
famous attempt at imposing upon the credulity of the
public to the mercy of those with whom he has suc-
ceeded, adding, by way of warning to all con-
cerned in this most miserable fraud, that we un-
derstand it is intended to prosecute in future
such offenders with the utmost rigour of the law.
We should be well pleased to find that the Govern-
ment had acted upon the proposal of Mr. Anstey in
the House, and themselves instituted a legal process.
Such a step would have more weight than anything
else with those who can steel themselves to every
claim not of sympathy alone, but of the commonest
humanity.—Chronicle.