The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-29 00:00:00

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ship Himalaya or Perseverance. 1.4
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have unde'rgone a complete renovation. I ors'
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quarters and men's rooms have been repaired-Oho
'latter have had ventilators introduced into each
I • on General Peel's new principle; in fact, nothing
has been omitted in order to Eccure to the soldier
health and comfort. The old cooking kitchen (a
most wretched and inefficient outhouse) formerly
in use for the officers and men, has been pulled down,
and a new one erected on modern and ample prin-
ciples, admirably set up and equipped with every
ituproxement. The soldiers' kitchen has nev boilers
and ovens for cooking .:and baking their dinners ;
water-pipes have been placed 'in -the building, so
that. the cook or his mate need not leave-the cook-
ing-house . (as in the case: of the old one) to get
water_tioru_the pump. The women's washing-house
has also.witter conducted into the washing-room,
besides Wooden stands to keep their feet front the
damp.

1858.

PRICE 4i). STAMPED, 51

THE HA Vl'.

Her Majoq's steam troop,ship Urgent,
mander .'Donald, had a party of engineel

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POrtsmouth Dockyard employed upon her a night
bn Friday and Saturday, to repair the defec which
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She weighed again at sunset on Saturday, but was
Compelled to bring up again, some slig.l4 " fixing"
having given out. She put to sea at 4 o'clock yes-
terday.innrning.
The.Cliannel Squadron, consisting of the Boyd
Albert Renown, Orion, and Brunswick, weighed
anchor on Saturday morning, and steamed' out of
Bantry Bay- for Cork ; on obtaining an o ng the
squadron at noon of the same-day let o their
steam, and raised their propellers, and pr yeeded
under canvass, the Renown leading the weather.
line and followed by Orion, and the Brunswick
leading the lee line, followed by the Royal Albert.
The wind during thbwhole time the squadrpn was
at sea was from south to south-east, blowing fresh
and occasionally increasing to a gale. At daylight
of the 24th the squadron had separated owing to a
denk November fog. The vessels arrived at Queens-
town in the following:order, Brunswick and Re-
nown on the afternoon of the 24th and RovidAlbert
at 1 p.m. on the 25th. The Orion is outside of the
'harbour.
Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K,C.8., Com-
mander-in-Chief in, the East Indies, has (says the
United Service Gazette) written home to be super.
seded, his health having suffered severely from two
attacks of fever. As the Calcutta is ordered home,
it is probable the admiral will come home In that
ship, leaving the station in charge of ComModore
Rdgell (an able and excellent officer); tat- -is,
should, his health not-be so far re7establishe, as;
warrant his waiting the arrival of his successor.
. Reap-Admiral of the White CharlesTalbOt will
now fiucceed Vice-Admiral Sir H. 130. t hads,
K.C.B. in the command on the Irish station; as we
announced some months ago. . Rear-Admiral
Talbot 'entered the service in 1815, was promoted
to lieutenant in 1823, to commander in 1827, and
to captain in 1830, for activity.. displayed ,in de-
tached service. In 1831, at the insurrection of Rio
Janeiro, he rescued their Imperial Majesties, for
which service ha was presented with the Brazilian
order of Cruzero. He was captain of the- Vestal In
1845, and 'commanded, the successful expedition
against the piratical settlements in Maluda Bay,
rneo, for which he received the especial thanks
of the Admiralty,. and for his services was gazetted.
He was appointed to command the Algiers in 1854,
employed in conveying troops to the Baltic, and
also at:the.blocktide of Sebastopol.
Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., and
aide-de-camp to her Majesty, Junior Naval Lord of
the Admiralty, it is reported will succeed Commo-
dore Sheppard as superintendent of WOolwich
DOckyard.
Her Majesty's screw sloop Curlew, Comthander
W. Horton, which arrived at Spithead on Friday
afternoon from Gibraltar, left on Saturday morn-
ing for Devonport to be paid off.. . .
• The paddlewheel ' steam-sloop. Virago,- 6, Com-
mander M. B. Dunn, despatched by the Admiralty,
from Plymouth to relieve the homeward bound, re-
turned to that pbrt on Friday. On the 19th she re-
lie-red the brig Reliance, of North Shields, bound to
Grimsby ; ,spoke the Queen of Avon, .109 days from
Guayaquil, and the Dutch barque Maria Catharine
180 days from Batavia for Amsterdam, and the
English schooner Punch, from Cephalonia foi Lon-
don, and gave the latitude and longitude to the
French barque Semarang, and to several: other
foreign vessels. ' On the 20th inst.- passed several
vessels lying well up the Channel, the wind being
southerly. On the 21st the wind changed again to
south-east, blowing strong, with a heavy see. and
the Virago ran into St. Mary's Sound, Scilly, where
upwards of 60 vessels were at anchor. She was
there until the 25thi when sheput to sea with the
wind from S.S.W., leaving 90 vessels at St. Mary's.
The brig Childers, 12, Commander W. Swinburn,
which has been detained in Plymouth Sound by
contrary winds, was towed out on Saturday morn-
ing by the steam vessel Zephyr, and sailed for
-Chatham to be paid off.
- The screw steamship Russell, 60, Captain Henry
Story, from Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on
Friday, and on Saturday steamed into ilamoaze.

MILITIA.
The head-quarters and about seven companies. of
the Boyar-Wilts Militia will move to-morrow from
Fort Monekton, Gosport, to Portsmouth, the head-
quarters going into quarters at Colewort Barracks,
and the. rest into Anglesey_ Barracks, Portsea.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHI GE.

In the mystical commentary offered by the
Univers upon the Bishop of London's Charge, and
especially upon the views taken by his Lordship
of the-practice of Auricular Confession, -English
rOttdersrwill discern one practical observation,—
namely, that the Confessional movement as insti-
tuted by certain priests in the English Church
appears to Romanists a very direct step towards
Rome. In such proceedings the Univers very
naturally recognizes its own creed and system, nor
will its ideas up to this point meet with any con-
tradiction in this, country. Establish the Con-
fessional and you will establish Popery—about
that there is no question. When our French
contemporary, however, proceeds to infer that
the movement thus symbolised is an extensive
movement, that large bodies- of our clergy ire
brought within its attraction, and that Papists
May be sanguine in their anticipations of the
result, it reckons considerably too fast. We are
thankfulto reflect that there is no such 'danger.
Foreigners are so apt to be misled by 'appearances
in this respect that even M. de Montalembert,
with all his discernment, did not escape the delu-
sion, though his impressions, perhaps, admit of
easy explanation. He saw that in England there
was genuine religious freedom, and he concluded
'one ion of matter ;
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accordingly that in such an atmosphere what he
econversion believed to be the truth must necessarilyprevail.
T of uunnteie ti.
l foreseescrs e view
England in the vagaries of half. a-dozen Church_
men wblsenan
tho
men it mistakes altogether the character of the facts
before it. _ ,

That there should be a party in the Church of
England with tendencies to the Church of Rome is
a natural and almost necessary incident of spiri-
tual vitality. There have been similar divisions
in the Church of Rome itself at all periods of reli-
gious or intellectual agitation. In England `they
have appeared at intervals ever since the great
epoch of the Reformation, and if Mr. Poole has
an opportunity he will probably be able to
show that such doctrines as he maintains have
never wanted professors. .We now speak of
High Church and Low Church, but long before
these terms were in use the views which they are
understood to express were in active existence,
and the Church received an impulse from each.
party in turn. Upon the whole, however, the
balance has been considerably in favour of the
Low Church, or Protestant spirit, insomuch that
the Oxford movement of 1833, the very move-
ment visible to the Tinkers at this minute, ori-
ginated in a species of despair at the utterly
un-Catholic aspect which the Church was acquirin4.
Many persons indeed who did not directly partici-
pate in the spirit of the Oxford Tracts felt that 'the
time had come for some revival in High Church
quarters, lest the opposite party should carry all
before it, and the via media of the Anglican estab-
lishment be altogether lost. But all that has
been achieved in this direction has been insufficient
to turn the scale. Among the younger members
of the priesthood the doctrines Connected with Dr.
Pusey's name made some progress, but they have
never taken the least hold upon the people, and
the -Protestantism of tiul country, grOwin,* naturally
with the growth of freedom, is more decided and
absolute than at any other period of our history.
It is not, inked, under institutions like ours that
High Church tenets could gain advantage ; still
less that Popery could make progress. The spirit
which was rampant under the Stuarts and de-
pressed under William of Orange is not likely to
attain any excessive, expansion in the • reign of
Queen 'Victoria. That it has become notable at all
is simply. due to the general activity of mind and
the freedom of discussion by which the present
generation-is characterised.
If any person wishes to know what Papists are
really doing in the way of proselytism, he may at
once assure himself, from the difficulty he will find
in getting. information, that they are certainly doing
no mischief. If they had any success to boast of
we should be sure to hear quite enough about it.
Of late years they have been making extraordinary
efforts. They are ready to overbuild themselves
everywhereupon the slightest opportunity—running
up chapels where there is no congregation, or provid-
ing 1,000 sittings where there is scarcely a demand
for 50: In despite, however, of all the endeavours
and of the entire freedom with which their opera-
tions have been conducted they have never at any
period made the least perceptible impression upon.
the Protestantism of England. It may be doubted,
indeed, whether they have ever done anything-To
save the decline of their own body. In the mign
of Elizabeth, after the first broad line of separation
had been thoroughly drawn, they still nuT.Obered,
even at the lowest estimate, a third of /the whole
population, but the religious and political contro-
versies of the succeeding century scothinned their
ranks, that under King William ril, they consti-
tuted barely 1 per cent. of the
.people. What 311.1 y
be their real numbers now it would be hard to
learn, but, Ireland apart, they probably do not
exceed the proportion last mentioned. At the
census of 18M it was found that their chapels had
altogether about 186,000 sittings. In the course of
jhe last 20 years they,have secured some proselytes
of mark, and have made the most of them, but the
aggregate is utterly inconsiderable. More persons
during the same period have quitted their original
congregations to join the Irvingites, and many
more, we regret to say, have become Mormons.
In fact, the 'Mormonites beat the Papists hollow's
They have only been in existence a few years, they
have no antiquity of tradition or grandeur of
ceremonial, and they call men from their homes
and kindred across a thousand leagues of ocean to
settle in a remote and hardly accessible desert.
Yet they reckon their numbers by tens of thou-
sands, and possess in England and Wales between
200 and 300 places of worshi.z., The truth is
that they outbid the Romanist4 in those peculiar
pretensions which attract uns;cable or distempered
minds.

Our French neighbours may unhesitatingly
divest themselves of the belief that England is
verging towards the doctrines of Popery. To under-
stand the scenes they now witness, the novelties of
ritual and discipline, protests, invectives, appeals
and counter-appeais, they have only to consider
that the Church of England is active, turd that
its actiiity, while it evokes all the energies of its
clergy, excites also centrifugal tendencies, finding
such expression as we see. It could not well be
otherwise, but the danger to the Protestantism or
the country is infinitely less than it would be if
religious feeling were stagnant altogether, Take
the whole number of persons—laymen as well as
priests—who have embraced Romarnsin since 1840,
and the aggregate will be absolutely inappreciable
compared with the mass of the nation. On the other
hand, and as a set-off against this apostacy, we see
churches rising everywhere, religious here, societies mul-
tiplying, and the condemnation of public opinion_ brought instantly to bear upon any Romanising.
ceremonial or practice within the Church itself. Re-
ligion, in short, is alive and active, animating P.m
great bulk of the educated classes to vigorous exer-
tion, and leavening the masses of society more uni-
formly, if less -violently than in the days of Whitfield.
It is a necessary consequence of this vitality that
there should be occasional excess, but it is not upon
such a condition of opinion that Popery could ever
act with advantage. It may pick up a few prose-
selytes at one end of the chain as Mormonism may
do at the other, but the country remains safe be-
tween. The attitude of the population at the time
of the Papal aggression showed the true national
spirit, but its demeanour since has been more
convincing still. We thought then, on the impulse
of the moment, that a protest was needed, and it,
was made accordingly on a scale never before seen_
—Times.

THE INDIAN ARMY.—There will shortly be a large
number of nominations in the patronage of the Right Hon,
the Secretary of State for India and the members of the,
Indian Council, to complete the effective strength of, her
Majesty's military and naval forces in India, which will
probably be divided as follows :--For the Bengal Infantry
about 200 Madras Infantry, about 100; Bombay Infantry
about 50; Bengal and Bombay Cavalry, about 20 ;`
Navy; about Maiel Nov, 24,