The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

reposed such unswerving faith in the vitality of
the nation, and who, by, the .spell of his genius,
roused them gloriously to cope with the armies of
two empires for liberty, right, and independence—
the nation looks up with veneration and pride to
the exile who is pleading their cause with indefati-
gable zeal and unequalled eloquence ; and they
know that when the day comes that the tricolour
flag shall wave again over the plains and moun-
tains of Hungary, as it is waving now in Italy, the
name of Louis Kossuth will be inscribed on the
banner of liberty.

MUSCULAR HEATLIENTSIII.
(From the Hew York Times.)
This is certainly an age of revivals. Whether the
inventive faculties of the race have been exhausted,
or whether the theory of Pythagoras and Boat-
swain Chucks, that all things come round continu-
ally in cycles, be correct, we may leave it to the
philosophers to decide. If-they fall into the fashion-
er the moment, they will get at the truth by a neat
little " set-to" in the grounds of. Columbia College;.
and may " the best man win" the faith of his fellows.
But we are certainly going through a course of
apings of the past. A few years since all the pros-
perous shopkeepers of the New World and the Old
filled their homes with furniture a la Louis XV. ;
sat in thelauteils of marchionesses, who had seen no.
great difference between a tradesman and a toad-.
stool, and ate from the ormolu tables of übbes whose
religion reeognised only the higher classes as human.
In like manner the pompous ceremonials Of .the
mediseVal church, the in tonings of Latin litanies by
priests in gorgeous robes; the embroidery of altar=
cloths for early English chur ches;and' of glittering
copes for young persons "pale with vigil and with
fast," became the rage. Everybody went mad about
the romantic " ages of faith" These backward aspi-
rations have not commonly borne very satisfactory
fruit. To wafer the customs of a bygone time upon
an uncongenial generation is apt to make those cus-
toms rather ridiculous than venerable. Lord Eglin-
- ton's attempt to .poke chivalry out of its grave by a
tournament in his castle-yard, between knights
armed with lances warranted not to hurt, ended in
an immediate shower of rain en the spot, and a last-
ing subsequent reverberation of quips and jokes and.
squibs. And the glory of Puseyism is dying out to-
day in a vulgar quarrel between a pig-headed clergy-
man of St. George's-in-the-East, in London, and his
equally pig-headed congregation, about a few roses
and spangles, and candles more or less, introduced
into the service of a-cliureh which 'nobody ever used
to attend till it became the scene of a series of re-
freshing Sabbath-day scrimmages.
We are now in ' the- brief throes of still another
gush of popular antiqnarianiSin. The old Greek
worship of muscle has been suddenly.shouted and
written and gambled-into an-effervescent vitality
in the two freest-countries of the world, which also
pretend,to be the - leaders of civilisation and the
great depositorieS of Pnre * Christianity.
The leading English and American jouinals of
March and April, 1860; will be a curious study for
the historian in -the year 2000. He will find the
names of Heenan and Sayers jostling those of Pal-
merston and BuChinan in their columns, and the
:most elaborate correspondence devoted to the story
of what he will naturally -suppose to have been a
grand international Olympic Game. Of course, he
will understand that the prominence given to these
heroes and to their encounter represents the interest
taken by the public of each country in the matter.;
and as he will also observe in the British journals
of these times, innumerable exercitations and homi-
lies upon the licence of American life, the brutality
of American manners and the decay of American
institutions, he will reasonably infer that the true
gleam of national manhood and dignity which our
English cousins owned as worthy of themselves in
'our degenerate AMerican character, 'was the equal
zeal with which we followed . them to the solemni-
ties of the sublime gymnastic art. In ancient days
the poets of Greece did not disdain to sing the
praises of those who won the boxer's parsley-
wreath, and the picturesque enthusiasm with which
the London Times records the prowese, of the cham-
pions who -Pounded each other black and blue at
Farnborough, pales before the brilliant sketch which
Virgil has left us of the much more tremendous
fight between Dares and Entellus. England and
America, therefore, will be fairly enough supposed
a century hence to have been possessed; in this year
of 'our Lord 1860, with a sudden fever of the good
old Muscular Heathenism. Every circumstance of
the story will favour the supposition. The Pick-
wickian good-nature of the English magistracy,
who pretended to keep the belligerents asunder ;
the complaiSanee of the English railway directors,
all " 'honourable men "'who consented to invest
as equal • partners with the pugilistic pietists. in
the performance of their sacred rites and in
the tribute of the worshippers ; the amiable
obtuseness of the English police, who watched every
railway station in London but the one selected for
the great exodus ;. the presence .on the ground of
dukes and earls, peers and members of Parliament,
authors and clergymen, the flower of English sta-
tion and culture' and wealth, surely; if these things
do not show, that England believes in prize-fighting
as ever did Nero. himself (as capital a judge, by the
way, as ever decided a " draw," or a defeat), what
in, the world do they show And, of course, the in-
terest'and clamour with which the tidings of the
fight have been received in America, the tens of
thousands of ".extras" snatched up by the impa-
tient public almost before the ship that brought
them was fast at her • moorings ; the Pindaric pas-
sion -el our people in the conviction that a great
triumph -WILS really won for the American name on
the 17th of April (why couldn't they have waited
two days for the anniversary of Lexington P), and
that our young Samson having fallen among Phi-
listines, has been robbed of his duo prize—of course,
we say, all these. American echoes of England's ex-
citement will-be interpreted to prove that we, too;
share this great apostacy from faith in the soul back
to faith in the fists----frenvrespect to humanity back
to delight 'in aimless suffering and prostituted
strength. . •
But there is another side to the picture. The
Muscular Heathenism is, after all, rather a cheap
article ; no more like the 'Spartan original than Dr.
Piisey was like Pope-Gregory VII., or Lord Althorp
at Eglinton Castle like Richard the Lion Heart at
Aspalon. In, the first place, whoever won the "great
-fight," or failed to win it—whether Heenan' blinded
but victorious, was choused of his glory by some
base. slave who " cut the ropes" on which Sayers
was strangling at the very moment when another
squeeze or two would have brought Britain's
champion to the " sponge" of shame or no—the
fight itself Was but a poor , and pale imitation of
the good old Greek sphceromachi a, and of those
eestus-battles on which the Cretan boxers staked
their muscular lives. A few days of reposo
and a bottle of arnica will mend the mo-
dern maulers of God's visage. The Grecian
and Roman giants gave and took blows compared
with which the- thumps of Farnborough would
seem but friendly taps. The truth is our Christia-
nity is in our way. We can be muscular, but we
can't be comfortably and thoroughly heathenish.
This conscience doth make milksops of us all. We
may try our best to revive what even pagan Galen
called the " vicious gymnastics". of the ancients ;
but we shall only parody them. Then, again, we
are a money-seeking generation, and our "manly
art of self-defence" degenerates so rapidly into a
close family connection with "poker" and " brag,"
and all the other schemes whereby the over-witty
contrive to conjure spare cash out of the pockets of
the witless into their own, that we shall not see the
popular enthusiasm long maintained about "cham-
pions" who really represent nothing more "na
tional" or "international" than would be repre-
sented by a Mississippi planter and an English
baronet betting over the green cloth at Baden-
Baden.
We are madly given, here in America especially,
to the love of sensations. What the sensation may
be does not much matter. To be sure, if you spice
it with a dash of patriotism, however cheap, it will
be for the moment all the more welcome. But it
has its hour, and no more. How we shouted when
George Steers bUilt us a yacht to beat all England
on her own waters! How much would we give
to-day to build George Steers a monument! How
glad we were to burn-our City Hall in honour of
Cyrus W. Field and the Atlantic telegraph !
No ; the fashion of muscular heathenism, like all
the fashion of the world, passeth away, and the
chances are that it will have a longer life in Con-
servative England than in Radical America; among
the peers who patronise pugilism, than among the
pugilists who aspire to a seat at the aldermanic
board, and a voice in the conk
of New York. ross-making caucuses

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served, in the vestry of the church, with a prohibition from
the Bishop of London, ordering him not to continuo to
minister, to the congregation of St. Phillip's, Stepney, during
the proceedings now pending against him concerning the
birth of a child in the school-room of the schools belonging
to that church. Tho articles delivered to him called upon
the rev. delinquent to appear and answer certain charges
contained in the articlea'before Dr. Lushington, in' the Ec-
clesiastical. Court, at the instance of the Bishop of London.
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