The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

ous other respects, the immeasurable superiority of
Paris over London—we have still reason to exult
in, other respects in our own regard in the matter
of divers positions and substantial advantages quite
as indisputable and invaluable. If Paris has Notre
Dame—London has Westtninster Abbey. If Paris
possesses St. Sulspice or St. Genevieve (the latter
formerly the heathenish Pantheon of the Re-
volution)—has not London St. Paul's Cathe-
dral ? The Bastile and the Temple of the
Bourbon ages both of them swept away from Paris;
London has still the Towers of Julius as among the
curious and memorable of her historical monuments.
But beyond all this, for the material comfort of her
inhabitants, who shall say that London is not better
paved throughout than Paris—better gas-lit—nay
already, we believe, better veined or nerved with
the magic wires of the electric telegraph ?
Added to which, we have the satisfaction
of knowing that we are already entering
upon a more effectual and comprehensive
system of drainage, by which the health
of three millions of people will be more reliably
secured, and the natural advantages accruing from
the bisecting of the capital by the river Thames
restored; and, when restored, perfected for the
enjoyment of it by the inhabitants of the metro-
polis upon both sides, by the erection upon its
margin of a double line of embankments. Slowly
and surely, then, we are advancing here in London
with our metropolitan improvements—our neigh-
bours, the Parisians, speeding a-head of us the
while, it is true, with marvellous rapidity. The
race between us seems to have been hitherto as
unequal as the race between the hare and the
tortoise—but let not our Paris friends be caught
a-napping, or we may, one of these fine days, be
" forging" a-head of them as surprisingly as lESOP'S
hare-conquering, slow-footed tortoise !

We gave insertion on Thursday, and willingly, to
an extract forwarded to us from a Welsh paper,
headed, " Intolerance in Cardiganshire," and con-
taining facts which might well, in the year of our
Lord 1860, have been taken for fictitious. It is, we
conceive, the duty of the Press to publish such facts
throughout the kingdom, since they are deediof the
gravest moral and social delinquency, and yet
wholly beyond the reach of law. The sufferers from
religious bigotry have rarely indeed any court of
appeal, but that of public opinion expressed
through the journals of the day ; and, though the
case of the victims who may claim our advocacy
can rarely be bettered by it, for bigotry is gene-
rally too proud as well as too bitter to retrace its
steps, we may yet do something to prevent the evil
spreading. We may check incipient bigotry, if we
cannot in every instance destroy the full-blown
evil. No social evil, therefore, ought the enlight-
ened press of the country to be more prompt to ex-
pose than that of persecution for religion.
But what do we mean by persecution ? Fire and
sword, fines and imprisonment, coercion to attend
one form of worship, penalties for attending ano-
ther—all such things, happily, have nearly
vanished from both statute and common law.
Very few civil disabilities, in a direct form at
least, lie against any creed or worship. The
precise religion of the QUEEN and the Lord Chan-
cellor, we forget at the moment whether that
of any other persons, is alone fixed by law, and as
they are generally brought up to the creed they
must hold they practically suffer nothing. The
only persecution inflicted by the state now is purely
constructive ; the bestowment of certain property
on two or three creeds, and the conferring of State
rank and position on the persons who hold the most
favoured one of all. Even this Lord STANLEY
tells us is to pass away in another generation, and,
when we see the Head of Catholic Christendom
losing secular dignities by the hands of Catholic
sovereigns, it may well be that another generation
will. recognise in bishops and archbishops only
spiritual persons. And happily too, persecution
for creed or worship has become growingly revolt-
ing to the feelings of the great majority
of the nation. The change in the laws has
been a thawing of the rigid ice-crust of
persecuting legislation, by the genial warmth of
bettered social feeling rising to the surface, and
softening the soil for the cultivation of genuine
religious liberty.
If in such a state of social advancement, and
Christian advancement too,—for if hatred of per-
secution be not Christian, we know not what is—
we ask now what is persecution, thank Heaven we
have light enough to answer—" Every thing by
which I place my fellow-man at a disadvantage on
account of his Religion." When we were youths
almost half England believed it was right that law
should do this. Now, so changed is the feeling,
that—we say, no Commoner, whose election
might be perilled by it, but not even any old Tory
lord, hardly we believe any bishop, dares venture
to assert that an Englishman ought to sustain at
law civil damage for his creed. But surely indivi-
duals, in society, are bound to be far better to each
other :than law compels them to be. If the law
will not injure a man for his creed, the man in
society who would do it must take his place with
those detested beings who practice that summa
injuria the suinmum jus ; and wrong their fellow•
men to the uttermost,while just keeping themselves
clear of penal servitude. As the law treats equally
all good subjects, irrespective of creed, so the man
in society should know no difference between
those who all treat him alike in their dealings with
hp. If I remove my custom from a shopkeeper,
not because another will serve me better, but be-
cause I have discovered him to be of a different re-
ligious creed to myself, I may argue how I will—l
am a persecutor. I cannot burn or imprison the
man, but I can punish him with loss of the fair
profits he might obtain from my custom, and see-
ing the law has repealed its penalties, I take the
law into my own. hands and inflict the penalty.
If this ought not to brand a man as a social perse-
cutor, we know not what ought. What business
have I with my butcher, my grocer, or my draper's
creed ? They do not injure me by it. They serve
me none the worse—it may even be that they serve
me the better for it. They have a moral title to be
treated as good and fair tradesmen, while they act
as such, and it must be of the worst religious as
well as social consequences, if creeds and religious
profession are openly or tacitly purchased with
meat, tea, and calico. The former do not
admit of measurement by the yard or the
pound; and woe to the persecutor wko , tempts
the tradesman to sell his religious convictions with
his goods. The Evil One has not a better servant
,than he.

And wherein, we should like to know, is it
better when a land-lady mixes up considerations
o f religion with the letting of her farms, and when
her amanuensis, for such we take him to be—
ChcEnicus, exhorts all the land-lords of England to
follow the pious example of Miss MoßicE. We
have all heard enough of Jesuitry, but if the letter
,of Miss MORICE, and that of CLERICUS, both
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from internal evidence almost certainly the work of
t 'he same hand, be not as thorough sophistry as
a nything exposed by PASCAL, we ..know not what
is sophistry. Miss MORICE sends her tenants a
not ice couched in long and piously unctuous phrase-
hich
o) ogy, but w' interpreted into simply English,

means—" if you cannot come and worship at the I
church of Landdeinol, you must leave my farm I "
She and CLERICUS will not deny that that is the
announcement which they try to make
appear reasonable—Christian—nay even " do-
ing to others as we would they should
do unto us"—and worthy of all imitation—in
letters which filled a column of our smallest print.
CLERICITS is even indignant that any one should
speak of such signal piety as persecution. What is
it then ? Why, it is, he says, using her position as
a landowner for the good of the Church in which she
believes. And her conscience " forbids her to allow
the tenants to make use of tie advantages which
they derive from connection with her property, to
the support of those principles which are at variance
and hostile to those of the landlady."
We leave the grammar as we find it, but the
abuse of the common sense, indeed of religious
sense also, deserves exposure. This priest-ridden
lady is taught to regard her tenants' fair profits as
her own ! As a gift which she may acceptably
present at the offertory of her Church, though it is
the fruit of her tenants' labour and skill, and costs
her nothing ! She is taught by her Confessor to
confound her rents with her tenants' fair profits ;
what never belonged to her with what unques-
tionably does. If she wished to retire into
an Anglican nunnery, and devote her
entire rents to the " true Church," whatever
we thought of her religious sanity, we should do
honour to her self-denying sincerity. But when
she would honour GOD in the cheap way of expel-
ling all who differ from her from the land, so far as
lies in her power, and of substituting for them
those who will conform to her creed, it is plainly
serving GOD at the cost of others. She is directed,
indeed, to protest against forcing her tenants to
become Church people—only if they do not they
mast quit. She would not have them stay and go
to Church against their principles ; only if their
principles do not lead them thither, they must go
out of their farms ! What " undue influence"
means, politically, we know it is hard legally to
define, but if Miss MoßioE's letter had related to
election matters, we are confident the most Tory-
minded judge on the bench would pronounce that
the votes in accordance with it would have the un-
questioned brand of that species of corruption. Miss
MoRICE's legal right we know cannot be impugned,
but the gross moral wreng she is taught to perpe-
trate becomes only more revolting when it is put
forth as a model of religious duty.
We are sorry to fear that Miss MORICE is not
alone in lending her maiden ear to the charmings of
priestly bigotry; but if these remarks should ever
reach her, we beg her to consider what Ireland and
Scotland must become if her confessor's principles
were adopted by its landlords. Protestant Epis-
copalians hold, we believe, the greater part of the
soil in both Scotland and Ireland; are they, for the
glory of GOD and the good of the true Church in
which, like her, they "firmly believe," to eject all
their Presbyterian and Catholic tenants, and to pro-
cure an immigration of men of the true faith ?"
Are they to deny the "advantages" of earning an
honest living to men who honestly pay their land-
lord's rents, and only enjoy their own fair profits ?
Is every Dissenter, Catholic, Jew, or Quaker land-
lord in England to act on the same plan, and eject
all the Churchmen, indeed, all respectively but
Dissenter, Catholic, Jew, or Quaker tenants ? Is
shopping to be conducted as, if she is right, it ought
to be, on the same principles—and are we therefore
to have JOHN SMITH, " Episcopalian grocer," DAVID
JONES, " Dissenting grocer," JAMES ROBINSoN,
" Catholic or Quaker grocer." Indeed we could not
stop there. At Islington we must have JoHNsort,
" butcher, and Evangelical Churchman ;" near St.
Barnabas ; " THOMPSON, draper, and Anglican
Churchman ;" and in the sober City " ANDERSON,
tea dealer, and mlderate Churchman."
We must, however, conclude our remarks. For
ourselves, we think no terms of reprobation too
strong for such landlady cruelty. Not even the
absolution of CLERICUS can obtain absolution for it
—in Heaven more than on earth. While the SUL-
TAN is treating all creeds alike, and while Spain
and Rome are the models which Miss MORICE is
imitating, we cannot doubt that such baleful in•
tolerance will meet its just social, punishment in
England. In Wales every one knows that dissent
is the rule, conformity the exception ; but if all the
landlords follow the example of Miss MoßicE, and
of her father confessor CLERICUS, the farmers of
Wales will have no alternative but emigration or
hypocrisy.

GARIBALDI.

All hail! thou Liberator Lord,
"What blessings shall we crave ?
For Italy looks to thy sword
To liberate the slave.

Dear land of Arts I as now—of yore,
But spirit scarce the same—
What pages hast thou counted o'er
Of glory, grief, and shame
And thou wert dead, but livest again,
With radiance on thy brow—
Thou hast produced some wondrous men
Like Garibaldi now.

Thou may'st be proud of such a Son,
So daring, yet so meek ;
For nobler deeds were never dono
By Roman or by Greek.
Ho won men's hearts in his own way—
Was cheerfe even in sorrow ;
"What seems impossible to-day,
May be achieved to-morrow."
But all were mute—when ho arose,
The man of fearless heart,
And said—" Prepare to meet our foes,
" This night we ship I—depart."
For very joy they could but weep,
Yet, doubting still, hoped on—
When Garibaldi crossed the deep—
And Sicily was won !
The dawn of freedom now had come,
And spread beyond the wave—
Whore men will dare for Mother-home
All that becomes the bravo.

" Then onward freemen, for renown
Success is ever sweet ;
Think nothing gained till Rome be won,
And Naples at our feet I"

But pause a moment—look around—
Nor risk Too Much for More—
Ambition treads on slippery ground,
While Prudence shuns the shore.
Then, yet be wise—consolidate
Thy strength in Freedom's cause ;
And thou mayst raise a mighty State
Will win the world's applause.
* *

His march was like the welcome tide
O'er parch'd and weary sand ;
And as he laid his sword aside,
He grasp'd them by the hand.

There was no need to prove his might—
His name—that magic word !
The very slaves he went to fight
Turned Freemen, and adored

Then, praise to him who never boasts,
Yet does the deeds of fame.
Hosannas! to the Lord of Hosts,
In Garibaldi's name I

COBURG, Oct. Royal Highness the 1---5-IT'l7"-'we
Consort has quite recovered from the slight injuries which
he received. His Royal Highness will go out to-day.
RETURN OF THE COURT TO WlNDSOR.—Accord-
ing to the present arrangements, her Majesty, and the
Prince Consort will arrive at Windsor Castle from Ger-
many on Wednesday, the 17th inst., for the winter season.
His Royal Highness the Count of Syracuse
(uncle of the King of Naples) and suite, arrived at the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Friday night, from
Park,.