The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

TIIE PASSIONS.

a'" What passions'lasurt the body—what Inaprtrve,
Truths as reined as Athena ever heard."
Smile's : •Lifo's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
of Vie passions. Chastity and its infringements. The ensnalties of
lie mtlonsness and dissipation, with Mug's/Alons, graphic, narrative,
and reesediative. Advocacy of 15 a; 1 y marriages.;
THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" To be or not to he, that is the cino.tion."
yeitin society, and ro-
sea. Time and
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nature,
n marriage,
c laic°, on both sides, as to ago, temperament, complemien, sad
ficure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
eizysical defectiveness and its renaoval. Sterility anti its coueraion.
Daces, &c.
By R. J. CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), 24..A.C.E. (let./ ), E.S.A.
(1.1t4). Tw.nty-r, e veers 4kolep, Aro 4'oreiaoe ""efe,c), 'n these
matters. Reception hours daily till FlYe. Evenings, seven till
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SIR GEORGE GREY IN THE HIGHLANDS.—After a
short visit to the Orkneys, the Lightning, steam-ship, re-
turned to the Moray Firth, and on Monday ran up the Cro-
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The Ault-Grande is a long, but narrow and deep gorge or
fissure in the rock through which the burn of Evanton flows,
and a wilder scene of the kind it is almost impossible to
fancy. On their return to Invergordon the distinguished
party—whose names had become known—were received
with cheers by a large number of the inhabitants, who had
ascembled on the pier to see their embarkation. On Tues-
day morning the Lightning entered the Beauly Firth. Sir
George and his lady landed at Rusemarkie Bay, and walked
to Fortrose, spending some time in examining the ruins of
the ancient cathedral. They re-embarked at Fortrose, and
the swift steamer was soon at anchor in Kessock Roads. Sir
George and Lady Grey landed early in the atternoon, end
drove to the 'astle-hill, from which they enjoyed the fine
extended landscape presented by the long expanse of the
great glen. Alter a short excursion to the suburbs they
remrned. and afterwards visited the tartan warehouse. Sir
Castle
Fort William,
George andm(hainsiL4dy(Wperodcneeesddeady)by thaaiaer Edinburghyteaneselarrdeaeyxpected to return to-night, when V, ey will proceed
by the Lightning down the Moray Firth to Aberdeen.—
Inverness Courier of Thursday.

CITY or LONDON REGISTRATION.—According to
the ab.tracts of claims of persons to have their names in-
serted in the list of voters from which they have been
omitted, and objections taken to names in the lists, returned
to Mr. T. Y. bl•Christre for disposal at the revision for the
city of London, on the 22d inst., they are as follows:—Free-
men and liverymen, 2 claims, ql4l objections; inhabitant
householders, 160 72 objections; total 162 claims,
1,186 objections. The claims, therefore, would appear to be
14, and the objections 85, more than they were last year.

HERALD.—Within the past twelve months we
have had more than once occasion to draw attention
to the maroaavres of the priest-party, whether in
France, in Spain, in Italy, in Portugal, in Germany,
in Belgium, in England, or in Ireland. Sometimes
the intrigues of these gentry are wholly and solely
religious—sometimes they are political—sometimes
semi-political, semi-religious. Bat in any or in every
event there is nothing straightforward, candid, or in-
genuous about them. 'Whether the priest and Jesuit
party be publishing abominable and blasphemous cate-
chisms, as at Naples—accounts of pretended miracles,
and abuse of Protestants and Huguenots, as in France
—whether they be preaching bigotry, intolerance, and
persecution in the open air, as in the smaller states of
Germany—denouncing, as at Rome—demoralising
their flocks by their flagrant immorality, as at An-
dalusia—working secretly fur an expatriated minis-
ter, as in Portugal—mischief-making and factiously
intermeddling, as in Ireland—impudently preaching
at the Protestants that go out of curiosity to hear
them, as in England—or intriguing in affairs of
state, as in Thlgium, the race is everywhere the
same. The only object they have in view is to
en-lave the human mind—to dwarf the powers of
the human intellect, with a view to render both the
balies and the souls of men more entirely tributary
to the Pepe of Rome. o matter what injury they
may infl-ct on the soil of their birth or its instirutions
matter how they may impde the material pro-
sperity of their countrymen—O n and on they go, pro-
vided they can satisfy the longings and desires of the
spiritual sodality to which they belong, all which
sodalities, be it remarked in passing, look only to
P,-,me as their common source and centre. Wherever
they may be born, such men as these have no native
country to which they cling as to the breast of a
mother. Their country, their homes, their hearths,
their affections are all expressed in that one speaking

DAILY NEWTS.—A number of our contempora-
ries, English and French, affect to be greatly shocked
at the Emperor of Austria's declaring publicly that
he and his Ministers govern of his absolute and impe-
rial authority, and by virtue of no constitution. All
through 1848, 1849, 1850, and the better half of
1851, these writers were the abettors, the panegy-
rists, the poet laureates of Austria; and not only of
Austria, but of the King of Naples, and of the Pope,
and of the French generals who set up the Pope.
Nothing seemed too harsh, too rough, too royal, too
cruel, or too tyrannical for them, as long as there was
anything left fur tyranny and its bayonets to crush.
But now, when the tyranny is completely established
and strengthened, and past disturbing, oh, then, for-
sooth, these writers turn liberal, and pro'ast. There
was a time when the voice of an English or a
French journal, of an English or a French
statesman, might have contributed to prevent or re-
tard the restoration of Papal infallibility, or
Neapolitan despotism, and when they might
have weighed in the struggle between mi-
litary Austria and constitutional Prussia. But
the cry of the Times and its whole herd of jackals
in London and in Paris was, "Down with con-
stitutions and constitutionalists. Away with law ;
the sceptre and the sabre can ,alone restore order."
Now, however, when the deed is done, the work ac-
complished, when there can accrue no good, no bene-
fit, and no risk, from withstanding despotism, these
dilettante gentlemen venture to be a little liberal.
And they come forward unblushingly to protest
against the tyranny which they themselves helped
to set up, and against the infamy of which they were
the apostles and part perpetrators. The Daily News
has been disclosing and recording for these two years
regularly those doings of the Neapolitan police which
Mr. Gladstone introduced for the first time to Tory
notice. And, let us add, that this conduct of the
Neapolitan police, and this regime of its prisons, is not
lan innovation of yesterday, but a system which has
been in practice there thirty or forty years. It is part
and parcel of absolutism, of irresponsible and military
government; and those who have abetted such govern-
ment, have aided in establishing its inevitable abuses.
We doubt much that Austrian prisons ore any batter,
and that tales might not be told of the entrappings
and torturings of Lombards and Venetians, quite as
bad as those told of Poerio or Zambecchari. Talk of
humanity, of
,clemency, of prison reform, of the fair
trial of criminals, of a police amenable to law—these
blessings are only to be secured by a free and con-
stitutional government, by a government in woichthe
people themselves take part. To scout constitu-
tionalism then, as Tory and semi-Tory amongst us
have done and still do in Germany, is to perpetuate
these abuses; for tyranny and its consequences can-
not be separated. We must confess, however, that
constitutionalism and an empire like that of Austria
are incompatible. The idea' of uniting in one central
rqresentative assembly the Italian, the Magyar, the
Tcheque, and the German was from the first an ab-
surdity, and has been rendered an utter impossibility
by recent events. All that an Austrian ,Blinister could

either the Frankfort Parliamerie, or of any Parlia-
ment. The very rumour of tine, with the publica-
tion of the most insignificant of the series, brought
Austrian paper, which had been recovering, down
fifteen per cent. The great bankers hastened to
Prince Schwarzenberg, and represented to him
that any further reaction would totally destroy
credit, and render a future loan impossible. The
Minister hearkened, the despotic decrees were sus-
pended. And the Emperor for his own private satis-
faction merely promulgated that little document about
Ministerial responsibility which has made so much
noise. No one can deny that declaration the merit of
frankness. Indeed it is ten times preferable for a
Monarch to come forward and declare himself abso-
lute de jure and de facto, than, on the contrary, pro-
mulgate a constitution one day in order to break it
the next, and so entrap his subjects and brother Ger-
mans into acts of treason, for which hundreds of in-
nocent, brave, and patriotic men have been executed.
Far preferable is the bold insolence of Austria to the
cowardly hypocrisy of Prussia. Whether frankly or
hypocritically, however, the gauntlet has been thrown
down by the German princes to the German people.
It remains but a question of time and opportunity,
when the latter shall take up the challenge. That
they are bound to do so as men, and will do so as
Germans, we entertain not the slightest doubt.
ADVERTISER.—What has come of the Catho-
lic Defence Association ? Is it dead or alive ? Has
it already ceased to exist, or can it be, that after all
we have heard about it, it has never had any existence
at all ? It was to be formed immediately after the
great Dublin demonstration in favour of the priests and
Popery. It was, as we understood, to come forth from
the Rotundo a full-grown child. It was to be ushered
into existence before that meeting had broken up, an
infant Hercules. What is the reason why the event
has not been as we were prepared to expect? An
explanation is required, but none is forthcoming. The
Popish priests and Popish press are silent on the sub-
ject. How is this ? They were not wont to be thus
mute. Can there be any truth in the rumours which
are in circulation ? Can it be possible that the great
Popish movement, which was to set all Ireland in
flames, and not only to threaten the Whig Govern-
ment with subversion, but England with dis-
organisation, has been effectually checked in the
bud ? It really looks like it. It is not easy, on any
other principle, to account for the extraordinary
silence and inactivity which have so soon succeeded
the deafening noise and the mighty activity which
characterised the Rotundo demonstration. Be this
as it may, there is a startling contrast between the
present unbroken silence and the late deafening noise
in Dublin—between the present inaction and the late
bustle and activity— activity so far at least as regarded
the intended doings of the prelates and the subordi-
nate priests. But then recurs the question, Why
this significant silence? Why this remarkable inac-
tivity ? Contrasts so great and so striking must,have
corresponding causes to produce them. On this point
also rumour is busy with her hundred tongues. She
says that the Romish prelates are already drawing
back; that they find they have got themselves into a
scrape, and are desirous of getting out cf it as they
best may. We all know the character which com-
mon rumour bears. It is none of the best. The
phrase is held to be synonymous with common liar.
We protest against the justice of the conclusion.
Common rumour, when so spoken of, has cause to
complain of the gross injustice done to her. No
doubt common rumour is sometimes in error. But
she is not always so, much less is she necessarily so.
We maintain that she is generally in the right—not,
perhaps, minutely so, but right in the main. But be
this as it may, we are disposed to credit com-
mon rumour in this instance. We cannot, on
any other hypothesis, account for the perfect calm
which has so soon succeeded the terrific storm which
raged about our ears but a few short weeks age. The
Popish priesthood, however ignorant in other matters,
have never shown themselves ignorant with regard to
matters connected with the work of agitation. None
know better than they the importance of striking
the iron while it is hot—of taking advantage of
popular excitement, when it has been worked up to
the highest possible pitch. Had they meant to carry
on the agitation in earnest, they would not have
allowed the steam to evaporate ; they would have
kept it up. They would have applied themselves
assiduously to the work of agitation. They would
have followed up the Dublin demonstration by simi-
lar meetings is all the leading provincial towns.
We may be told that it is not too late to re-awaken
the popular enthusiasm in opposition to the Ecelesi-
astical Titles Bill. That will not be so easy a task
es some may imagine. Let the attempt be made,
and it will be found that it is as we say. Let those
who wish to test the thing get up another demonstra-
tion in the Rotunds. We confidently predict that if
they do, they will find it turn out a signal failure.
There are various opinions as to the causes why
the new agitation has been nipped in the bud by the
Popish prelates. Some say the sinews cf war were
not likely to be forthcoming. That is probable enough.
We all know in what ludicrously small sums the
Repeal rent, in the latter days of the association,
came into the Conciliation Hall exchequer. Five
pounds were no unfrequent amount. The week that
brought its seven or eight pounds was considered
worthy of all honour. And even when the Repeal
movement was abandoned, and the existing machinery
was brought to bear on a sort of Popish agitation, not
dissimilar to the present, the "rent" underwent no
improvement, but rather the reverse, until poor Mr.
John O'Connell was fain to give up the thing alto-
gether. Unless, therefore, the. originators of the agi-
tation which was supposed to be inaugurated at the
great Popish gathering in Dublin saw a reasonable
prospect of being liberally supplied with money, they
have done wisely in giving up the idea of convulsing
Ireland from one extremity to the other. Without
ample pecuniary resources, the movement would
soon come to a stand-still, however fair and
flourishing it might appear in the outset.
Others, however, say that the real reason why
the Popish agitation has been abandoned, is, that the
prelates who blustered and vapoured so valiantly at
the Rotundo, then and there exhausted all their
courage,—not leaving even a particle behind. With
more mature reflection and further time for delibera-
tion, they cannot discern the charms in martyrdom
which they saw, or fancied they saw, in the first in-
stance. Penalties without the means of paying them
are no longer considered the desirable things they
were thought to be when the plaudits of an insane and
eetni. savage audience greeted their ears. "A fine of
1001., or in default" to be sent to durance vile, is not,
on reflection, found to be the greatest luxury under
the sun. They know full well that the penalty when
inflicted must be paid, or the other alternative must be
submitted to. With regard to the braggadocio of Mr.
Reynolds, touching the myriads of dead bodies over
whom a Popish bishop could alone be sent to prison,
Dr. Cullen, Dr. M'Hale, and the rest of the Romish
prelates, estimate it at its proper worth. That
miserable balderdash had been indulged in too
often, and too liberally before, to be regarded as
anything better than idle words. It is the same
sort of stuff as John O'Connell used to talk when
he threatened to die on the floor of the House of
Commons. If the blustering Member for Dublin
does not die until he expires in fighting against the
n•
troops or police, when carrying, attaiaptin
to
carry off the body of some Popish bishop to prison,
we will guarantee to the Hon. Alenaber an
i existence
much more protracted than that to which
Methuselah
attained. The greatest pee(' of friendship which one
Spaniard can furnish to another,
is to give an au-
dible utterance to the wish that he
years. Any insurance company may speculate on
Mr. Iteynolds's life 'ei •
ng protracted to that term,

ANOTHER RAILWAY Ac CIDENT. Last evening,
about half-past six o'clock, a serious cellision took place on
the Great Northern Railway, by which a large number of Pal-
sengers were seriously injured, although no deaths are likely
to be the result. It appears that an excursion train from
Yorkshire was due at the King's-cross station at about seven
o'clock. Shortly before it
arrived at Hornsey, howeve
from some cause or other, it was found necessary
the engine from the train, so as to cause a stoppable
ten minutes. When the train reached 9
rnea second
train,
coining occurred, during which interval anotherte detachof about
Ii
coining in the same direction, dashed into
knee as to throw several carriages °which having subsided,
great alarm and confusion followed, which it with such vio-
aid was instantly given to thethe rianis.theAcaserreinaegesof
overthrown, many
officers of the company a"erbut persons who came by the
' carted to any
1‘ a :smfej'aWgnihYehr;n;cecsidwenertet to broken.all the trains
which
:17 passengerssehvienrge l y
really
delay was occaaionedbywhic_
n the accident occurred was
followed, and that to sin two portions. It is stated that
nsev arose from the falling out of a portion
the delay at 0.,
Htrthe 'tender, by which the coke was scattered
cf the botto.rn
in such quantities as to render it necessary to
on the liii°
clear it
brought up to King s-cros
' n has been made which shows that, if
A calculatio
• le in the Crystal Palace were to be examined for
every article stop, .41 order to
three minutes,
it would occupy twenty-six years to ouraiue
all.