The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-05 00:00:00

located in Rome, who is wade to move in whatever
way seems best to the person in Golden-square who
draws the wires. Who is the puppet ? Who is the
party by whom that puppet is moved ? The Pope is
the former. Dr. Wiseinaa is the latter. What are the
Pope and Dr. Wiseman ? What is the Roman Pontiff?
A man intellectually imbecile—a person who cannot be
said. to be in his second childhood, because he never
emerged from his first. Pio Nono, it will be remem-
bered, escaped from his palace in Rome, when his life
was in peril from those who know not what it is to re-
spect the persons of Popes, by assuming the character,
and donning the habiliments of one of his own lacqueys.
His costume would have been much more in keeping with
his t eal character, had he attired himself in the apparel of
an aged person of the opposite sex. He would then have
looked what be is, an old woman. And yet this drivelling,
senile :individual, who is contemned by those who are
conventionally called his subjnets—this Pius the Ninth,
who is kept on his throne by the bayonets of the Freneh
—this poor halt-witted person—this apology for a Pore
—this abortion of a Roman Pontiff—can be made the
means, through the craft and cunning, the ambition and
arrogance, of a Spanish price, naturalised in this coun-
try, of upsetting one Ministry, and preventing the for-
mation of another. He is found to be a fitting instru-
ment for suspendiog the sittings of the British Parlia-
ment, interrupting the business of this great country,
causing infinite mortification and profound anxiety to
the Sovereign, and setting at nought that extraordinary
exhibition of sound Protestant feeling which lately filled
Europe with amazement. Such are the two men who
have created all the confusion which we have lately wit-
nessed in this country, and from the effects of which we
have not recovered. Is it not humiliating in the
extreme, that a country like ours should thus by
accidental circumstances be placed within the power
of two such men? The strings are pulled in London,
and the puppet in Rome faithfully responds to the
wishes of the party performing the operation. Dr.
Wiseman sits in his house in Golden-square, and can at
will set the Vatican in motion. He can do more than
albite referred to by Shakspere, who could call spirits
from the vasty deep,._ but could not make them come.
Dr. Wiseman has only to wish or will that •fk cerWn
thirgehttli be done in Rome, and it will be-done forth--
with,<i -Dr. Wiseman is himself paaotioallrihe Pope, as
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that appertains to England. 'And yet though Dr. Wise--
man, operating through the Pope at Rothe, has already,
caused infinite confusion in this country, there is an un-.
conquerable indisposition, on the part of many of our
most influential statesmen, to adopt the only effectual
means which exist, of chastising the arrogance and
checking the audacity of this Popish priest:
Others undertake to deal with him as the
circumstances require, but afterwards shrink from the
task. Lord Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, and
others of the Peel party, belong to the former category.
Lord John Russell and his Whig colleagues in the
Cabinet, are to be classed among the latter. The
Whig Government are obviously backing out of the
solemn engagements they have made, in the face of Par-
liament and the public, to put down the Papal preten-
sions, and to punish the Popish priest by whom
they were instigated. The measure which Lord
John Russell introduced a few weeks ago into the House
of Commons was notoriously inadequate to the exigen-
cies of the case. That we said, when we first were in-
formed of its provisions, and the entire country re-echoed
the opinion w• then expressed. But inadequate as it
confessedly is, the Noble Lord is now about to withdraw
the few good provisions which the measure contains. It
is to be rendered so mild and moderate in England, as
to be almost inoperative, while Ireland is to escape
altogether. The world may well stand aghast, as if
incredulous of the fact, when it finds that Lord John
Russell is the man who is acting thus—thus grossly be-
traying the interests of that Protestant religion of which,
in his memorable letter to the Bishop of Durham, he
came forth, purely of his own accord, as the champion.
Nor is the betrayal of Protestantism, so far as the
Prime Minister can betray it, the only unfortunate
circumstance in connexion with this matter. Lord
.John Russell has offered an unwarrantable and gratui-
tous outrage to the principles and sensibilities of the
Protestant people of the land. His notable letter to the
Bishop of Durham was regarded by them as an appeal
to the country to rally round the Protestant standard,
which the Prime Minister then erected. Most nobly did
they respond to the appeal. Promptly, energetically,
and universally did they rush, as they hoped and be-
lieved, to the rescue of the Protestantism of the land.
Never in the history of any country was so imposing a
moral spectacle presented, as that which England ex-
hibited a few months ago, when a people rose up, in
their might, as one man, to express their unmeasured
indignation at the insult.to the Sovereign, and the out-
rage on the religion of these realms, hich had been
offered by the Pope, by the publication of his notable
rescript. Lord John Russell has, in effect, concurred
with Dr. Wiseman in treating the demonstration of
Protestant feeling then made as if had been an idle
unmeaning outburst—a manifestation to be treated
with utter disregard, if not to be laughed at
as a piece of enthusiastic folly. The Noble Lord
seems to forget, that if this display of Protestantism
was weakness, if not folly, no man 'figured more
prominently than himself in making it. He was the
firs: to move in the matter. Ile took the initiative. He
set the examp'e. Let him, then, at least, remember
this—that in treating with disrespect the recent ebulli-
tion of sound Protestant feeling, be is pronouncing a
severe censure on himself. But the Whig Premier will
find that ho is doing something more, by ignoring the
manifestations of Protestant feeling which we have lately
witnessed, than censuring himself. He will, before long,
discover, that he has 4. tieetually laid the axe at the root
of whatever little prestige still attaches to his character
as a Minister of the Crown. He will sink beneath the
load of popular displeasure which his infidelity to the
great Protestant principles which he enunciated in his
letter to the Bishop of Durham, and to wh' .;h the country,
'since the publieation of that document, have given so
striking a proof of its adherence, will draw down upon
him. What is he at this moment? What is his Minis-
try at this hour? He possesses no moral weight—it has
no prestige. He is but a provisional Premier—it is but
a transition Cabinet. The country pants for a Prime
Minister of high principle; it longs for a Ministry of
elevated character. It will have both, and it will have
them soon. The present state of matters can only be of
short duration.

We have elsewhere shown that the return of the Whig
Ministry to power is anything but satisfactory to the
country, and certainly is not calculated to raise modern
statesmen in public estimation. But there is one mem-
ber of the Administration which was, and again is in ex-
istence, whose reinstatement in office has caused some-
thing more tha❑ surprise. It is difficult to say whether
we ought to feel most amazement, mingled with another
emotion, at the conduct of Lord John Russell in inviting
Sir Charles Wood to return to the Chancellorship of the
Exchequer, or at the conduct cf the Right Honourable
Gentleman in accepting the invitation. It is, en the
part of both, an act of flagrant indecorum. Respect for
public opinion ought to have prevented so great a scan-
dal, as a Minister resuming the functions of an office for
Ivhich he had, amid the jeers and scorn of the entire
community, proved himself, by his late Budget, to be
wholly incompetent. And to aggravate the matter, the
Right Hon. Gentleman returns to Downing-street withia
little more than a fortnight of the promulgation of a
financial scheme which has been received with shouts of
derision in all parts of the land, and which had not, even
in the House of Commons, where private friendship
will induce persons to go great lengths, one single voice
raised in its favour. We entirely concur with
The Sun, when our contemporary says--" We have,
in common with the great body of the
people of all classes and parties, viewed with regret and
disgust the resumption of office by Sir Charles Wood.
At first sight it appears like a deliberate insult to the
community, to restore that most unfortunate and incom-
petent financier to a situation of such importance. It
seems as if the voice of public opinion were alighted and
despised, and that Lord John Russell had obstinately
determined to force that bitter dose, ' THE PRECIOUS
BUDGET,' on the afflicted and indignant nation. But the
point happily admits of another and more satisfactory
solution, ann until we hear the ex
to give hint
sub-
ject of the' financial scheme,' on
maintained an unbroken silence, i_
',' It really looks as if the
' the benefit of the doubt.
fishingall
sides interrogatories
the
House,
we
that t a
hb: werelGovernment
boesvcideddrilsrrpemesogseseendat.
Noble Lord at the bead
of
t It would
an experiment on public patience.
amountof indignityseem if
he imagined that .AV
the devoted
he carry the '
heaped with impunity uponhead of the na-
tion. Let him take care lest. thing too far.
Lorain private
John
Russell life,
There are limits to the patience of a people, as well as
to that of an individual. The Noble Lord may not have
any distinct perception of this truth at present, but Pre-
miers,a r e
mayev e r
receive learn-
ing, v ewellry parsopbearbsloyna
a little instruction on this point,
before many weeks
have elapsed.
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NEW STEAMCARRIAGB FOE THE STREETS..--In
the,,Avenir Republicain of St. Etienne is given an account of
the appearance in the streets of that town of a new steam-
carriage for ordinary roads, invented by M. Verpilleaux, of
Rive-de-Gier, who represented the Loire in the Constituent
Assembly. The carriage in question went through all the
streets of the town with the greatest facility, under thentoi:let
perfect control of the man sitting in front, turning
of the right or left, or sending it backward or forward as he itletased.
Two cabriolets, filled with some of the friends a
in-
ventor, were attached to the carriage; as was, afterwards,
La Croix-e-
-heavy cart of coals, which it carried
The carriage
weighs two tons, and is of fouenr• horse P
l'llorne to the lime-kilns of Mr. Jacksfoor
all. It had left the
power. It runs on
oglish miles an hour. Its
three wheels, and its speed ist
St. Etienne by
same morning Rive-de-Gier
is badly kept and lull of roots.
the old Sorbiers road,
consumption of coke is exceedinglyd
whichdid not suffer. A new vehicle on the
waggons ".---- t--o,p<rloytoth:hs
The carriage, howevefr,twove_
horse power, is now in course
same principle,
the Po edheo ro ef locomotion
Aral
F
but
of
be able, it is said, to move four coal-
of construction; if
ith a it
weight of arrived;in at
12,000 kilogrammes. It is in-
tended shortly
ing the coals of Bessebei
roma ritzy-
to the Lyons Railway.
ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—At the Liverpool
Police-o, ffice on Monday, Philip E3an,
the son of a London
diamon
dmerchant, was brought up in custody charged
with having• stolen thirty gold chains, thirty brequet chains
and keys, twenty-six gold watches, two silver watches, two
mourning rings, and some money, the property of his father,
who was absent in London. Ile was taken into custody on
board the Underwriter, a vessel about to sail for America.
He stands remanded until the arrival of IA father, irba
hourly expected is Liverpool.

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may question its wisdom. We e.. .owever, afford to
wait, without alarm, for the Eente. • of the jun-.
ADVERTISER.—We know • •tthat Engle: dwa ever
• seed in a more humiliating .osition than tl eis at this
mo.. •nt. Though confessedly the greatest country on
tho f ce of the eurth—" the envy of surrounding nations,
,e admiration of the world"—England is at this
our plunged into a state of utter confusion by a puppet
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