The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

SARDINIA.

The Of'lda! Gazette of Turin of the 27th instan'
publishes the following :

Victor Emmanuel, &c.

On the proposal of our Minister Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, baying consulted our
Council of Ministers, we have ordained and ordain
as follows :
" Art. I. The Government of the King is autho-
rised to give full and complete execution to the
treaty concluded between Sardiniti and France,
and to that concluded between Saidinia, Austria,
and France, both signed at Zurich on Nov. 10 last,
and the ratifications of which were exchanged on
the 21st of the same month.

" Art. 11. The present decree will be presented
to Parliament, to be converted into a law.
" We ordain the present decree, signed with the
seal of State, to be placed among the archives of
the Government.

" Given at Turin, Dec. 10. 1859.
(Signed) " VICTOR EMMANUEL.
(Countersigned) " DABORMIDA."

SPAIN AND MOROCCO.

The Commander-in-Chief of the army in Africa
has sent the following despatch to the Minister of

:-

" ENCAMPMENT OF FUAD-EL•FELU,
Jan. 23, 7 30 p.m.

" With a view to protect the works of the ad-
vanced redoubt, I placed this morning at the avant
garde one battalion, two squadrons, and four guns,
under the orders of Brigadier Villate.

" The enemy, in considerable strength, descended
from the positions they occupied, and attempted to
surround our men. The troops beat to arms, and,
overcoming all the difficulties of tb e ground, marched
against the enemy with their usual bravery. How-
ever, but a very small portion of the troops was re-
quired to beat the enemy in every direction. The
combat was chiefly maintained by a battalion of
infantry of the Rios Division, which, formed in
square, drove back the enemy's cavalry ; by a
battalion of the 3d Corps; two squadrons of cavalry
who chargud with the greatest bravery, and cap-
tured a standard of the Morocco army ; and by the
artillery. On this day distinguished themselvss
more particularly—General Garcia; General Rios,
who ordered his battalion to form square, and took
his place inside it ; General Galiano and General
Usturiz ; as also Brigadier Romero Palamegne, who
charged with the cavalry. The loss of the enemy
was very considerable ; they were cut up by the ar-
tillery, which fired with remarkable precision, I
am not able to give a correct return of our loss,
which I estimate at three or four killed and 20 to
25 wounded."

ALGESIRAS, SAN. 24, 1.15 p.m.

" The enemy attacked the encampment in large
force about noon : the Moors were completely driven
back by our troops, whose bravery was what it has
always been. Our artillerymen decimated skilfully
the ranks of the enemy's cavalry every time it at-
tempted to attack our left. The landing of ammu-
nition for the artillery and infantry, and of provi-
sions, continues actively. The weather is fine ; the
wind from the west. The ships are firing salutes
in honour of the. Prince of the Asturias."

HUNGARY.
The following letter from Pesth,d
dated
considerable Jan.
25
says :—" A sign of the times' of
im-
portance is that several Hungarian officers in the
Austrian army have resigned, in order not to be in
any way on the Austrian side in the conflict which
is believed to be impending. Another sign, of not
less serious import is, that the Austrian Govern-
ment prohibits the officers of regiments serving in
Hungary from marrying Hungarian girls. The
object of the prohibition is ofcourse to prevent these
officers from having any family ties in Hungary,
so that, should the struggle coiner they may act.
with greater freedom against the Hungarians;
but the cleverness of the Viennese Government
seems likely in this matter to overreach itself,
inasmuch as several officers, either from being in-
dignant at the unwarranted interference with their
private sentiments, or from other causes, have re-
signed, and others are expedielto do the same.
" Notwithstanding the vehement opposition of
the Protestants to the patent of the Ist of Sep-
tember, which destroys the rights and liberties
-
of the Ptbtestant Churen& the Austrian Go-
vdrninent has just iikeir a circular to its
functionaries, directing 1 j ! patent shall be
carried into effect; and tl3 consequence, the
ProtesiaritE shall proceed forthwith to make the
election, and do alUtheq,other Matters enjoined by
it, under.pain of lacing deprived of the few privi
leges the patent leaves thorn, and of being otherwisei
punished. The circular is'drawn up in a coarse and
even brutal style, and Awn- s purposely intended to
examkratg the Hungarians, by " adding insult to
injtV--In enforcing the hated patent, the
Viennese government, faithful to its instinct, which
telis9th~t it must divide in order to govern, hope to
ks,eogAvision among the Protestants, by detach-
ing front the bulk the faint-hearted, who would
submit to anything for the sake of securing peace
and avoiding trouble. What has caused this
hope is, that one Protestant clergyman of the name
of Hodzza, a known agent of Austria, is endeavour-
ing to induce the Protestants of the Selavonian race
who reside in the north to accept the patent. But
Hodzza enjoys little esteem, and is proverbially un.
successful in his enterprises. In 1848, for example,
when all the nation was on foot to overthrow the
Austrian domination, he endeaToured to get up an

uc-
army' to defend that domination, but he only t
ceeded in collecting a set of ragged followers with
whom Falstaff would not have marched through
Coventry ; and neither they nor he' ventured. to
show fight. In making use of such a personage,
who is distrusted by all Hungarians, the Austrian
Government shows to what sore straits it is, driven.
It may, perhaps, be rendering a service to the few
simple-minded people‘ who follow Hodzza's teach-
ing, to state that not only in politics does he
descend to be the agent of Austria, but he is not
even a Protestant in religion—his Protestant-
ism being a mere disguise. By the way, is it not
singular that the Austrian Government, in spite
of all its power and influence, has only been
able to find in all Hungary two men of the sacer-
dotal order who have consented to do it service—
Michael Haas among Catholics, and the soi-disant
Protestant Hodzza ?"

"The national movement gains strength everyday.
Newspapers to support it are being established
everywhere—Arad, Baja, Gyor, Szeged, and Terms-
war have, in addition to numerous other towns,
now got newspapers of their own, which are
vehemently anti-Austrian, and (the same thing
as anti-Austrian) enthusiastically national ; and
lijvidek, Pecs, Nagy-Kanizsa, and other places
are about to start journals. In the county of Pesth
the Servian and Croat youth have been ' fraterniz-
ing' in grand style with the Hungarian youth, and
have solemnly bound themselves to stand by Hun-
gary. This oath-taking is certainly a little thea-
trical, but it shows the spirit which now animate all
the small nationalities which are dependent on
Hungary. That spirit is, as I have more than once
had occasion to tell you, deadly animosity to Aus-
tria ; and when it breaks forth not only will Hun-
gary be free but the reign of the Hapsburgs will,
according to all appearances, be at an end."

SCOTCH CLERGYMEN AND THE
ENGLISH CHURCH-BISHOP TAIT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—I understand from quarters bath public
and private which are likely to be well-informed
on such subjects,that in the Church of England there
is the greatest possible difficulty in obtaining accept-

able curates, and that clergymen have often to wait

long before they can secure suitable fellow-workers.
Then the Church of England, I hesitate not to say,
ought to devise liberal measures, and carry out
these measures into practical working, and it is not
unlikely that this difficulty might, at least to some
extent be removed. Permit me to make a simple
statement—l am, or rather was, a Presbyteria n
clergyman, but my views have for some time past
undergone a change in favour of Episcopacy. After
very considerable hesitancy I did apply to sever al
of the Bishops of England for admission into the
Church. I instructed the right rev. prelates as Ito
the character of my education. I stated that I hstd
attended the Glasgow University eight years—four
of these years were devoted to classical, mathemati-
cal and philosophical learning—the other four-to
theology, didactically, polemically; and practically
viewed. I further added that I had received ordi-
nation, and. for a time served a church ; also, that
my doctrinal sentiments were in accordance with
the Church of Scotland. In addition, I stated that
I oould furnish unexceptionable documents bearing
en character and general professional qualifications.
The sins qua non of every answer I received was,
that clerical admission could be conceded only on
the proviso that I attended some English College or
University. This lat once decidedly refused to db,
and the simple ground of refusal was that I would
consider myself degraded by doing any such thing.
I had been found fully qualified by another Church
as competent in all respects to judge of literary and
theological qualification as the Church of England.
I next applied to several clergymen whose adrer-

tisements appeared in the newspapers, presuming
that some of them might have influence with their
diocesans, but here also I failed. The list adver-
tisement I answered was the late Rev. Mr. Mor-
ley's, vicar of Aylesbury ; from this truly godly
and warm-hearted man I received several comur-,
nications, breathing the purest religion and the
greatest good-Will, and at the same time informieg„
me that he would employ all the influence he could
command to secure my admission into the CIO'
He accordingly wrote once and again to his' billl°P,
the late Dr. Kaye, of Lincoln, but his invariable
answer was, I must attend an English University.
I can never forget the disinterested kindness of thio
excellent clergyman. I never saw him—he wee-to
me a total stranger. It was with the deepest regret
I was informed of his death—" To live is Christ.
and to die is gain." Copies of the bishop's letters
were sent me, but they are as cold as ice. Is it aril
wonder, I ask, that applicants from other churchas
should hesitate to seek admission into the Church
of England ?—" I fear not."
Several clergymen having been informed of till
unfortunate result of my repeated applications,
have waited on me and made inquiries as to whe-
ther I had applied to Dr. Tait, the esteemed Bishop
of London, and made my case known to him. I said
I had not, and the reason I assigned was that I fen
so hurt at the icy way in which my former applici-
lions had been so summarily disposed of by one an 4
all of the bishops to whom I had applied, that f$
was with the greatest possible difficulty I could'

make up my mind to renew my application to an,'
one, unless something in the shape of a promise of
succeeding was held out. I have already submitted
to degradation enough to descend further. Scots-
men, it is said, are proud; it may be so (I neither
affirm the averment nor deny it), but in my case,
and under the peculiar and anomalous circumstance,
I consider it a commendable pride.
Having adverted to the respected bishop's name,
perhaps Imlay be permitted to state, in reference
to that gentlenian's elevation to the episcopal bend},
that the Scottish Metropolis, and the Edinburgh
Academy very greatly rejoice. It was in this
educational institute that his lordship received the
rudiments of that learning which has ranked him
among the first classical scholars of the age. Glee
gow University, that ancient seat of learning (n 7
own alma mater), bids YOU turn up her venera*
records, and with gratulation points to the name. 01
Tait, as, one of her most distinguished alumni.
OaG-
ford puts on the cope-stone with shoutings of ao-
claim; and the Metropolitan See of the south not
enjoys the spiritual out-goings of his gifted mind
and scholarly accomplishments. We of Scotland
rejoice in the honour of having sent forth so ripe iF
scholar and so able a theologian. May he be long
spared under God to advance the cause of that
divine Master he has so manifestly at heart, and bls
eminently instrumental hi furthering the spirittO
and moral benefits of that holy Apostolic Churcl!,
of which he is so distinguished an ornament.
I am morally persuaded that were the heads of
the Church to devise more liberal measures, em!'
sions would speedily be made from other churches
to the English establishment, by men whose mort4,
intellectual, and theological superiority would re-
fleet lustre on the Church, and under God's gray
bo powerfully promotive in the advancement of*
sound scriptural and spiritual evangel. The Kirk
of Scotland has at length awoke from the slumber
of a century, and again put on her beautiful gar'
ments, and from her 1,000 pulpits are now issuin#
forth, not as in the old time, a cold and lifeless
moderation, but a blessed and evangelical theologt
deeply imbued with the statements of the Gospe f
and breathing a divine and heavenly tone. Th!
United Presliyterian and Free Churches, and 00'
other minor denominations are acting up to the
spirit and requirements of the tithe, " and
ll
pressing to the mark for the judge of the high
calling." The Church universal imperatively d&
mends it, the world needs it, and the Macedonisv
cry is again being heard, as in the ancient day!,
" Come over and help us."—l am, &c.,
Edinburgh, Jan. 27. W. P. T.

COLONEL IVAuGiI.—A writer in a contemporary
says !—lt may interest the numerous friends, acquaintancq'
and creditors of the " eminent" Colonel Waugh to lest
that this illustrious person is in Paris, apparently in escrlf
lent health and spirits, as the papers were wont to sal i
his Into Majesty George IV. The colonel is residing I°
handsome house, No. 3, Rue Balzac, at a corner of the 11:
Lord Byron, formerly the residence of Mr. Lawrence reev
and situate in one of the most fashionable and heal%
quart icrs of this brilliant city. As I passed the col
mansion the 'other day I saw through an open window Pia
domestics spreading the social board," on which thiebe
was no doubt served afterwards a recherche repast, its
colonel had guests staying with him at the time, and :ed
always a most liberal host. This little incident, 5
comb
with the excessive dearness :of house rent in Paris, lea& 'JO
to the conclusion that the ex-lord of 13ranksea Castle i 0 ,
41. Tery comfortable if not aftluent circumstances.
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