The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-15 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The part which Austria has played, and is playing, in
the Papal aggression affair, is borne out, to a great ex-
tent, by what appears in the accredited organ of the
Austrian Government. In what our correspondent
quotes from the Austrian Lloyd, more is meant than
meets the eye. The journal is afraid to speak out; but
enough transpires to indicate the feelings and the con-
duct of the Austrian Government on the question of
Papal aggression in England.
As presumptive evidence of the part which the Cabinet
of Vienna his played in this matter, it may be right to
direct attention to the fact, that Dr. Wisi.mate on receiv-
ing his double appointment a- Carl:heal and Archbishop of
Westminster, proceeded to Vienna before returning to this
country. It is strange that a fact so significant should have
been overcooked in all the discussions and controversies
which have recently taken place on the subject. Nor
was the visit cf the newly -sppointed Cardinai to Vienna
a mere y paving or csmplinientary visit: he remained
in the Austrian capital forty-eight hours, during which
protracted period—protracted in the peculiar circum-
stances of the care—he was in almost uninterrupted per-
sonal communication with Prince Schwartzseherg.
There is. therefore, we rep, ie. taking all the circum-
stanc of the case into consid. r mess • the strongest pre-
sumptive reasons fur believitie that our csrrespundent is
right, when he asserts that Austreau ill:Bum-leas are at the
bottom of that Papal insolence and ths se Papsl aesomptions
which base aroused ititen.c mud universal a feetieg of in •
digeation in the United Kingeom. It wait; not likely,en the
face of matters, that Dr. se io•mau would have oared to
counsel the Roman Pontiff to act as he has done, uelees
there had been some secret premriegs, some private
instigati ns, ot which the world knows euthieg. Even
with the coattails and premised support of a foreign
power, the step was a bold ore. Wr may, therefore,
readily believe that. wieueut such instigation, we should
never have heard of the daring audacity of the Pope.
People will naturally aak, what could have been the
motives eh ch induced the Government of Vienna to in-
terfere at ail in a matter in which they bed nceimme-
diate concern. Ali the considerations which weighed
with Austria, in acting as she has done, will probably
never be known, but some of them are easy of com-
prehension.
She is, first of all, a Roman Catholic power. That
fact would not be without its weight in disposing her
to the course she has adopted. But there are other and
still more potential considerations which aro no less
obvious. The Court of Vienna has not yet forgiven Eng-
land, and never will forgive her, for the line of conduct
which she pursued during the Hungarian war. By-identi-
fying herself with the cause of Hungarian independence, in
the noble and manly manner in which she did, England
incurred the fierce and imperishable hatred of Austria.
That power was not, and is not, nor will she ever be, in
a condition to retaliate openly on this country; but from
that hour the Cabinet of Vienna made up its mind to
annoy and harass Groat Britain in every possib:e way,
whenever an opportunity should present itself.
And Austria reasoned rightly, when she concluded,
that no more effectual mode of annoyance to this coun-
try could be adopted, than to put forward the Roman
Pontiff as a virtual rival to her Majesty, for political
and ecclesiastical power in these realms. So far Austria
has been successful in her schemes. The whole country
is incensed and mortified at the audacity or the Papal
pretensions. All classes feel the affront. The indigna-
tion it has caused is equally shared from the highest to
the lowest in the land—from the Sovereign on the throne
to the humblest of her subjects.
But Austria had other motives still in instigating the
imbecile Pontiff of Rome to pursue the course which he
has adopted. She knows full well how exceedingly useful
Popery has been to her iu carrying out her despotic de-
signs. The Church of Rome has been an able auxiliary
in every tyrannical plan she has formed. She never
yet contemplated a measure, having for its object
to enthral and debase the mind, in the carrying out of
which she might not confidently rely on the zealous
co-operation ot the Romish Church. That Church has
proved, in all countries where she has acquired en
ascendancy, the moat efficient instrument which
human ingenuity ever devised, for promoting the
objects of political despotism. Austria knows full
well, that could Romauism only obtain a footing
in the councils of the Sovereign of Great Biitain, the
political retrogression of the eteuery would not only be
certain, but immediate. The backwards process would
comns nce at once, and would preceed at an eatouud-
ingly rapid pace- until our country had become as de-
based and enslaved as Austria herself.
Ner is Austria the only continental country that is
watching with profound inter. et the result of the conflict
which is now going on between Popery and Prides-
terrtted in tie pre-
tautism, in these realms. The., to not a despotic Court
in Eurot e white is not intensely
grese and termination of the ::!..u41.%":_p.1. know, one
and all, that as it was to, the n f. Protestant
principles that wc ewe lb's-8, SO it is
to the contiuve3 prevalence of ru.ist&!lt principles
cip
greatest countiy, sucielly, and ooze-
' t aiteswoefeerisv, finaanerredeligforout,hle. tmiAl
Eng-
land tie
mercially, in the world.
cannot be too fie-
The
the
legions battle o
fw
Poperyhi h iis
quentl yli:;11b oc ft forciblywE between
nglatdem remindedth
i and
fdtfhutarhte:
now waging
involves ether than purely religious issues. All our civil
liberties, all our must cherished political rights and
privi-
leges are at stake. We do not despair—we
never have de-
spaired—of the result. Thouels the Minister has faltered
and failed in the hour of trial, the country remains true to
itself and to it. Protestantism. We, therefore regard
the triumph of the latter as certain. The conflict may
be protracted a little longer, but it will only be to render
the discomfiture of the Popish hosts more complete; it
will only be to ensure to Proteetantiam a more signal
victory.—Morning Advertiser.

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nNtioonaTaniid-
issued yesterday- in anticipation of the half-yearly Pail)
meeting
on Friday next. They are extremely minute, and being
divided into classes, the exact financial
accounts of tte*lLDo
p„y may readily be ascertained. position of the com-
The general balance-
:beet shows a disposable surplus
678,698/. 16s. 10d. The profit, upon the half-year, of
proposed dividend on the consoli-
dated stock is 5 per cent.' and on the other ahar, in
FOrtion; and it will absorb 527,4071. pro.
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