The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

REPLY OF EIB EMINENCE.

" London, Feb. 4.
" My dear Lord Archbishop and Brother in Christ,—lf
I have somewhat delayed replying to the address from
the clergy of the Archdiocese of Armagh, headed by
your Grace, I have thereby gained the advantage of
speaking with more certainty on what, in that most
kind and flattering document, could only be touched
through conjectures. This day has revealed the fact
that the Catholic episcopates in both our islands are to
be subjected to the same enactments. What the severity
of these may be a few days more are required to mani-
fest; but the principle is the same; disguised by what-
ever name, sweetened by whatever palliative, the con-
templated measure will, and must be, the first backward
step towards persecution. Restriction is always that
first step.
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" I am sure that I express a feeling that will pervade
the entire Catholic body in England when I say, that
whatever may have been the unrestrained violence ex-
cited against us for the last three months, and the pain
it may have cost us; whatever may be yet in store
for us that will harass or afflict us, a far greater grief,
and a real one it will be to us, is that any benefit
bestowed upon us should add one more stroke to the in-
flictions on Ireland. If further legislation was needed
in regard to the relative position of the Catholic Church
and the system of religion established by law in that
part of the empire, would not any impartial mind
have supposed that its direction would have been to
give greater lustre if possible), or at least clearer re-
cognition, to that clergy which the mass of the popu-
lation acknowledge for their spiritual shepherds, and
on whom devolves the burden of ministering to them,
through good and evil repute, in season and out of sea-
son, in famine, and pestilence, and woe? If anything
can cast a cloud upon the bright day which I believe
has dawned upon our ecclesiastical condition in England,
it will be any new molestation, or even slight grievance,
which may glance off from us upon you.
" At the same time it will be no small encouragement
to us to have the example before us, and the prayer be-
side us, of our elder and more strenuous brethren; we
shall feel that our sufferings, whatever they may be, will
be ennobled by thus falling, not upon Catholics, but
upon Catholicity, in this empire; and possess more
strongly the consciousness that it is a principle, and not
an offence, that is pursued with enmity.
" These reflections are suggested to me by the gene-
rous and most kind address beforo me; every line of
which convinces me, that while we may regret the suf-
fering we may, unintentionally, have brought upon your
Grace and,your clergy, you will feel proud to bear it.
"Then while, with all my heart sincere, devoted, and
full, I thank your Grace and your zealous priesthood,
for so unmerited, but welcome, a mark of true Catholic
sympathy and charity, let me entreat, from both you and
from your flocks, that sweet and powerful communion of
prayer, and that mutual remembrance at our common
altar, which will unite us more closely in bonds of love,
and procure for us strength under every possible trial.
"I am ever, my dear Lord Archbishop, your Grace's
affectionate brother in Christ, "
" E
N. Cardinal WISMAN.
"His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh."

During the month of January 16,929 emigrants
arrived at New York, of whom I 1,259 were from England,
577 from Scotland, and 512 from Ireland.

FIGHT ON THE STAGE.--On Thursday evening the
stage of the Theatre Royal, Chester, witnessed a veritable
rough-and-ready bout of fisticuffs, after the most approved
fashion of the prize ring. Tiio of the corps drantatipc,
having a private grudge between them, and making mouths
and grimaces at one another during the business of the stage,
the stoicism of one was not proof against the defiance of his
comrade, and he incontinently dealt him a facer, which was
returned forthwith. A regular set-te ensued, amidst the
cheers of the audience (not very many, and although scanty
not select), who enjoyed thexlisplay of human nature as far
superior to holding the mirrpr up to it. The row and the
fua continued until one of the bruisers received a staggering
blow which luml)led him into the orchestra, and there, amid
the " din of broken lamps, and the crash of wounded
fiddlers," and the frantic cheers of the pit, the discomfited
hero picked himself up and withdrew.—Chester Chronicle.

It happens a little unluckily, that the persons who
have the most contempt fpr money are the same that lucre
the strongest:wilf to do gcod with it.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

SHOCKING AXCIDEIfT3 liY FIRE.—On Saturityh
morning two very serious accidents happened by fire, w
it is feared will terminate fatally, in consequence of the
shocking nature of the injuries sustained. One of them to
Mary Evans, in Kentltreet, aged 10 years, whose clothes
caught fire while she wss cooking something for dinner, and
the other to Caroline Marsh, aged 16, residing in Webb,er-
st
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LODGINGSFADE WI; GREAT ExHIBITION.—The
"Mechanics'-house," pear salso caught fire. Both
Thames-bank,were now being fitted
up, is a large warehy
us dress
of most lugubrious
str it. There
aspect, for-
to
in building 250 feet long and about
merly called the " Tbames-bank Depository," in Ranelagh •
pro-
are
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nidige,hbtleysindeensnonuthr buildings; the whole calculated to pro-
id odation for 1,000 persons. The separate
There is to be a general dining-room
sreovomens
f(eoentehfoigrhe.achl' lodger) are to be formed by partitions
and reading-room, and many excellent arrangements are
talked of. We shbuld be sorry, therefore, to discourage a
speculation which. Is being made at great cost to supply
what will be much needed, but we must, nevertheless, wish
that a brighter stilt had been selected. The men from the
coal districts wilhaot discover that they have left them ; and
to find their way home aloes after dark will be quite out of
the question.-21e Builder.
It. is easy to exclude the noontide light, by closing
the eyes; and i is easy to resist the clearest truth, by har-
dening the heart against it.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

THE INDIANS OF lIUMBOLDT.—We have been in-
formed by a gentleman of intelligence and observation, of
some interesting facts relative to the Indians in the vicinity
of Eureka, on nunibeldt Bay. The men go entirely unclad,
all the femalelt slightly clothed. The latter are said to be
vestals in point of virtue. The dead are buried after the
manner of Christian burials. Formerly a spot of ground in
the immediate vicinity of Eureka was their burying ground.
At present they bury their dead farther up the bay, whither
they transport the deceased in a canoe, followed by a long
line of others, the train of mourners chanting the Indian
dirge, while they paddle their slight crafts along the waters
to the final resting-place. A grave is dug, a redwood plank
or board placed.upon the bottom, one at the head, another
at the foot, one on each side. The body is then deposited,
a plank placed above, and the grave filled with earth,

heaped upand rounded off after our manner, leaving the
boards at the head and feet, like two grave stones. They
are said to be worshippers of the Sun. In the morning the
okl men or chiefs go down to the bay, sit down in the water,
when the young men pour sand upon their heads, after which
it is washed off. They keep Sunday religiously, and will not
visit the white settlements on that day, from which circum-
stance our informant thinks that California is the land of
Ophir of Solomon. He says they could not have derived
their religious belief from the Jesuits or Franciscan friars, as
they never dwelt there. But this would not account for
their keeping Sunday, instead of the Sabbath of the Jews.
—Alta California.

PRIZE FIGHTING.—At the Maidenhead Police-
court on Friday, nine men, named William Mitchell, Joseph
Wynee, Thomas Lloyd, and Thomas Wilkins, principals, and
Frederick Hand, Thomas Goodchild, Edward Scott, John
Bradshaw, and John Smith, were brought up before the sit-
ting magistrates, Mr. C. Sawyer, Mr. J. G. Coney, Colonel
Vansittart, and Mr. J. Hercey, charged with having, on the
4th of February last, at the parish of White Waltham, "un-
lawfully assembled themselves together with an intent mu-

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tually to assist one another against any ene who should op-
pose them in a prize fight." It appeared that Mr. Bury
lloyne, a magistrate of the county, on the day above-named
went to the spot where the fight was to take place, and, ac-
companied by two constables, entered the ring and forbadee
the fight, tel the parties that he was a magistrate:_ P.,.
was immediately pushed out of the ring with sticks, his 'l"'
was knocked over his eyes, he was knocked underthervopaiens,
and otherwise ill-treated. He remonstrated, but in
and the fight continued while he was held brateknfb3t-btehcebmarogbe.,
Several witnesses were examined i
and the whole of the parties, with
who was liberated
• a soldier,
7lies7expoception of Hands,
who was discharged, and Smith.
on his officer becoming answerable for his appearance, were
held to bail to meet th charge at the next assizes.
i proportionn g week ;
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tweenth e
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During the week ending_ tile.
Blanchester, Ilthinsta
beingtherentan
deaths
were 208 deaths and 302 birthsiovetrhethaavterof
tinge,iebpurtectielde
births were in excincrease of 19e
s
s
of
the deaths and the births continues much the same as
r onathe commencement of the year.
nights ago, Arthur Sampson, Esq , j.p ,
house, Ballykelly, agent to the Worshipful Cons.-
Yof Fishmongers, had no feer than seventy-live sheep
wPDaornruArnienfwwn
detoeCleath in one night !w He has had 100 others wo
ried, 90 of whom died. Mr. Sampson has succeeded in poi-
-
soning a number of the savage dogs who killed the sheep.—
Coleraine Chronicle.

The licentious never love; and where even levity
preponderates, there is seldom any pure and ardent passion.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.

GOOSEBERRIES IN FEBRVARY.—DUNOON.—Such is
the extreme mildness of the season at flys beautiful watering-
place, that Mr. Robertson, of Gowan Bank, West Bay, was
able to furnish a lady with a small basketful of gooseberries
to send to London last Week.--be/so Chronicle.

PETITIONS.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the
Church Missionary Society, stating that the society had
expended upwards of 2,000,0001. in promoting tho
growth of true religion, and that they were now obliged
to pay upwards of 700 L a year in legacy duty.
The Hort. BARONET also presented a petition from the
trustees of the British Museum praying for the annual
grant.
Lord DUNCAN presented. several petitions for the
abolition of rho window duties.
Colonel SIBTHORP presented petitions from several
places, praying for the imposition of duties on foreign
)mports, and also praying for the remission of imposts
on agricultural duties.
Ur. COWAN and Colonel SIRTHORP also presented
aeveralpetitions for the remission of the paper duty:
Mr. MOODY and Colonel SIETHORP presented suvvral
petitions, both from Scotland and England, agaitist the
aggressions of the Pope, and praying that some preven-
tive meaures might be taken by the House.
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY presented a petition
from Wolverhampton praying for the repeal of the parer
duties, and a petition from Bolton in favour of secular
education.
Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from
Camden-town praying for the repeal of the window-taa.
Lord DUNCAN presented a petition to the same effect
from Bath.
Alderman HUMPIIERY presented a petition from
Southwark praying for the enfranchisement of copy-
holders.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented a large number of peti-
tions from papermakers in Ireland, praying for the re-
peal of the paper duty.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from
Westminster praying for the repeal of the window-tax.
Mr. WAKLEY presented a similar petition to the same
affect.
Lord HARRY VANE and Mr. HINDLEY presented simi-
lar petitions from places in the provinces.
Mr. W. BROWN presented a petition from Lanes-
Aire, praying for the extension of county courts.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented two petitions from
Lambeth, one praying for the repeal of the window-tax,
and the other praying for the repeal of the paper duties,
Alderman SIDNEY presented a petition from Staf-
ford praying for the enfranchisement of copyholds.
Mr. HUME presented several petitions against the
Excise duties on paper; also a petition against the con-
tinuance of the income-tax.
Mr. WYLD presented several petitions against the
window-tax.

CEYLON.

Mr. lIUME moved that the report of the Committee
on Ceylon, together with the evidence taken before it,
should be laid before the House.—Agreed to.
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