The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-20 00:00:00

trim. Further information fthi)ut this moss.rose must
1-Kt utiCercd ff,,ut the (tf tne wit,- glen,
rotyhiy over the rest, the following strike me as
being well in :—Woolwich, Sit ; Vatican, 7st 10th ;
Fuglormn, ist 71b ; ?digs Ann, 7st 71b ; Knight of
Aven(l, 7st f-_):b; Sir Richard, 7st; Little J,.ek, 7st ;
Cockermouth, 6st 121 b; the Flying Gout, sst 12lb ;
The S.'j.ndler, sst 121 b ; and 13iii,gton, sst 101 b. The
tbree-years-ohl division, fkt C!hester, very rarsiy accorc-
plish rho Bed I),rr feat of 1844, therefore I shall pass
them over without any further comment whltevt'r.
My " notes and notions" on the " Coop " and Metro•
politan having extended to a much greater lengti than
I intend-A, I shall be under the necessity of postponing
my dissection of the One and Two Thousand Guineas
for a few days, when I will also lay before you an ab-
stract of the principal three-year-old engagements of
the Newmarket Spring Meetings; and on Monday next
I purpose milling into print with my ANALYSIS OF THE
DERBY, which will contain a " full, true, and particular"
statement of the present condition, merits, and preten-
sions of the favourites for that great stake, the naives
of those that are dead, disqualified, or out of training,
as well as those that I have ascertained are not intended
for the Great Derby of 1851.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
Jan. 20, 1851.

PAPAL AGGRESSION-QUEEN'S SPEECH.

The Queen is said to have bee❑ highly dissatisfied
with the paragraph of the Speech, as drawn up by Mi-
nisters, relative to the Papal aggression. Her Majesty
considered it lukewarm, and framed in such ambiguous
terms as might he employed to shuffle through a diffi-
culty instead of expressing the honest feelings of a So-
vereign and a Government insulted in dignity and in au-
thority. Her Majesty, in common with the great ma-
jority of her subjects, feels very strongly on the point ;
and it is one on which the Sovereign may be considered,
and must be allowed, to entertain a strong personal
opinion.
Independent indeed of the popular or religious ques-
tion altogether, no greater insult could be well offered
by one sovereign to another than the dispatch of a per-
sonage of the highest dignity to go and exercise authority
in the dominions of another, dominions parcelled out by
a kind of public crier for the purpose. And when it is
conceded that the foreign sovereign who did this was
himself, his authority, and his capital, in the hands and
the keeping of other great powers, especially those of
France and Austria—the soldiers of one garrisoning
Rome, the emmissaries of the other monopolising the
Papal council—all this considered, a more flagrant out-
rage on national independence and a sovereign's dignity
was, perhaps, never committed.

We cannot admit for a moment that such monstrous
insolence as this is to bo passed over or slighted, under
the plea that toleration requires it. There is no prin-
ciple more sacred or more incumbent on an English
ruler than religious toleration. But the .assumption of
territorial dignity and authority in England, by virtue
of the mandate of a foreign power, requires something
more than toleration to stomach it. The project of
Ministers is said to be to prevent any Roman Catholic
prelates in England assuming territorial titles in futuro,
leaving the present dignitaries in full blow, and in pos-
session of those titles and splendour which they carried
by storm.
Now, for cur part, we think that if punishment were
to be inflicted upon any, it should he on the perpetrators
and originators of the outrage. It is impossible and
unadvisable for the Government to enter into a per-
manent state of antagonism with the Catholic body.
And in tact our best allies and means for resisting
arrogance of the kind and avoiding the rise of a
religious party in the country hostile to the throne,
to popular liberty, and to its institutions, are the
liberal Roman Catholics themselves. These to a
man are as indignant at the conduct of the
Pope and of Cardinal Wiseman as the chief of the
Government can be, and we cannot but think, that any
law prohibiting the present assumption of territorial
dignity by Roman Catholic Prelates in England would
be sanctioned by them. To be severe for the present,
lenient for the future, would thus seem the desirable
plan; instead of, as is rumoured, leaving those who com-
mitted the outrage to reap the honour of it with im-
punity, whilst the whole Roman Catholic body are to be
affronted by some permanent Bill of exclusion passed
against the future hierarchy.
The great political objection to Roman Catholicism
is, that the opinions, influence, and power of the laity
are all absorbed in the priesthood, whose acts are in a
spirit often retrogade, opposed to liberty, and to all the
ideas of a free community. This, however, although a
reproach too great and general, is not essential to Catho-
licism, in which the laity can emancipate itself and rise
to the full freedom of citizenship. That this can be the
nature of Catholicism iu a community so developed
and enlightened as England there cannot be a doubt,
so that in no country ought fairer terms of respect and
tolerance be given to Roman Catholics than in Eng-
land. One great protection against the resuscitation or
progress of that religion must be sought, as we have
oft repeated, in a reform of the universities, for the pur-
pose of favouring a more English and less exclusive edu-.
cation to the upper classes; and in the establishment of
an effective system of education for the poor, such as
that just broached in Manchester, most requisite in
those localities to which Irish families have emigrated.
To these must be added some medium institution be-
tweca school and university, such as the gymnases of
continental towns, where the process of mixed education
can be carried on, separating secular from religious in-
struction, and enabling the youth of all sects to meet on
the common ground of general learning and universal
forbearance. •
Taking such precautions against the advance of any
religion that bases itself on authority, and prefers
priestly word to man's own reason, such precautions
should be taken against any arrogance or encroach-
ments of the Roman Catholic hierarchy as might in-
terfere with the Queen's dignity, or with the paramount
right of Parliament. In this, however, we must be in
accord with the liberal body of the Roman Catholic
laity. In the sister kingdom, unfortunwely, the in-
equality and injustice still established and maintained
with respect to Roman Catholics there, binds laity and
clergy in a common cause, and in a combination rendered
necessary in the long war which they have waged, and
have still to wage, against the ascendancy. But were the
great cause removed for Roman Catholic laity and clergy
being banded together in political party, we should find
in Ireland, as in England, the more enlightened and in-
fluential mass of that persuasion entertain ideas and
pursue aims nowise different from those of liberal Pro-
testants on the great questions and intentions and pro-
gress of the day.
To this consummation we must look fa. the furthering
of what is the greatest of two Protestant principle-s, the
emancipation of the laity from the narrow prejudices of
a sacerdotal caste, and the influence of that laity exerted
to bring the clergy into harmony with the necessities
and the ideas of the time.
For all these reasons we hope that the language of
the Government, put into the mouth of her Majesty,
will express most strongly a sense of the affront put
upon the Queen and country by the present renegade
and imbecile Pontiff, and by that singular personage
who one day usurps the prerogative of sovereignl, and
the next condeseends to fling his jocose ribaldry at
Punch. Whatever penalty, even amounting to exile
from the country he has insulted, that could be inflicted
upon Dr. Wiseman, he would certainly deserve. But
for the future, we would consult the views and necessi-
ties of the liberal and ley Catholics, nor sanction any
measure which they might consider to be one of can-
umely, proscription, or even intolerance.—Daily News.

CHARGE OF E MBEZZLE :WENT AGAINST THE
SECRETARY OF A LOAN SOCIETY.
LIVERPOOL SATURDAY.-Mr.. Greatley, s,licitor, pre-
ferred a charge of embezzlement against Mr. G. H.
Plant, secretary to the Liverpool Mutual Loan Society.
It appeared from the evidence brought forward that a
Mr. Fisher, of Scotland-yard, obtained a loan of 1001.
from the society, 691. of which bad been repaid in
weekly instalments up to September, 1849. He then
cea,ed payment till March, 1850, when he made an
arrangement with Plant, by which, amongst other
conditions, he was to pay 181. additional, which was
done in that month, but which had never been accounted
for by Plant in his books.
Mr. Bremeacr appeared for Plant, and cross-examined
the witnesses, but failed to disestablish the case.
The prhoner was remanded till Saturday next, Mr.
Rushton,unt the magistrate, acceding to bail, fixing the
amount at 2001. on prisoner's part, and two sureties of
100/. each.
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FEARFUL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday evening con-
siderable excitement was caused in the vicinity of Albert-
gate, Hyde-park, in consequence of the following fearful ac-
cident :—lt appears that for some time past a building of
considerable extent for the new Chinese exhibition has been
in course of construction near the above-named spot, and
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about the hour for the numerous men employed at the pre-
mises leaving off for the week a numbar of the hands ap-
proached one end of the scaffolding on which they were at
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as well as the stone cornicing, which caused the scaffolding
and a great part of the wall to fall. Five or six of the
bricklayers and labourers were precipitated to the ground,
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amid the bricks, stonework, and scaffolding. The conse-
quence
was that several of the workpeopla were seriously in-
jured—more especially the following persons, who were re-
moved with all possible expedition to St. George's Hospital :
—A bricklayer named William Rowles, 42 years of age, re-
siding at 2, Queen-street, Marlborough-road, received a
serious scalp wound ; Michael Connell, aged 27, a labourer,
of 2, Pantechnicon-place, New-road, Chelsea, was similarly
injured; and William Toole, aged 31, a labourer, of 11,
Upper James-street, Sloan-square, Chelsea, had several ribs
fractured. The others fortunately received no injury of im-
portance. The sufferers were promptly attended to by Mr.
Cutler, one of the principal surgeons of the institution, but
the poor fellow whose ribs are fractured is not expected to
recover.

THE BARQUE, RICHARD COBDEN BURNT AT SEA.
—The following letter from Mr. Archibald, master of the
late barque Richard Cobden, burnt at sea, is extracted from
a acknowledging St. ll.e l Helena pa paper
Captain I
in s
r :
taketponlyethnhee,
means of publicly
of
the
ship
Prince of
Orange, of Leith, my heartfelt gratitude for his humanity in '
receiving my unfortunate crew and self on board his vessel,
when obliged to quit the barque Sir Richardeoben, at sea,
under the most painfulcircumstances ; as also for his con•
tinned kindness and attention to us during the whole time
we were on board the Prince of Orange, and trust that he
may receive more convincing. proofs of the deep obligation
Lnder which we feel towards him and his crew. The barque
Richard Cobden, of Dundee, sailed from Calcutta on the
9th of September, having on board
.a cargo of sugar, cotton,
safflower, jute, &c., and by the ignition of the said cargo was
tctally destroyed by ire on the 22d of October, the ship
Prince of Orange in sight at the time, the master of which
vessel kindly remained by us, and received the whole of the
crew on board his vessel, and brought us well and safe to
this island. Thus we have much to be thankful for, that
a kind Providence has been watchful in protecting us."
WORCESTER CORN EXCHANGE.-011 Wednesday
there was a meeting before his Honour Master Kindersley to
consider the order of proceeding in this matter,