The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-06 00:00:00

" was received up to the present moment by the entire
Irish Catholic Bishops and Priests, as the authorita-
tive system of Theology." To this audacious stAte-
Inent, to which no reply waS; or could be, made at the
time, because the meeting refused to hear a gentleman
%di° was fully prepared with one, an answer has just
been published, in the form of a letter to Lord
RN by no less distinguished or authoritative an
individual than Dr, MURRAY, Catholic Archbishop
of Dublin, in which his Grace expressly states that
DrSs's work, so far from being a text-book with-.
Catholics of the present day, is almost universally
repudiated by them, as " containing obsolete opinions
wholly unconnected with any article of Catholic faith,
and which opinions it was known that hardly any one,
at the present tune, would think of defending." His
Grace further observes, " The notions of DENS re-
garding the right of temporal states to compel their
subjects, by confiscation and other punishments, to
embrace religious doctrines of which their conscience
would not approve, were unfortunately too prevalent
throughout Europe, at the time he lived ; and I must
add, no where more prevalent than where the Refor-
mation was established." This is fairly enough re-
torted on those Orange fanatics, who would have us
believe that intolerance is exclusively of Catholic
growth, notwithstanding the repeated proofs to the
contrary that we have seen for years past, and .are
daily in the habit of seeing, in their own speeches
and actions. We wonder what new system of mis:
representation these men will next invent against the
Catholics. They have such an inherent taste of
calumniating all who happen to differ from them-
selves in religious matters, that they are not like-
ly to be silenced, even by such a triumphant reply
as that just put forth by Dr. MURRAY. Were their
objects really what they profess them to be—viz., the
defence of the Protestant establishment against the
assaults of its enemies, we could respect their perse-
verance, even while we demurred to their method of
showing it ; but they have no such laudable objects at
heart. The sole motive that actuates them in their
constant assaults on the Catholics, is to revive the old
days of bigotry and persecution. The worst spirit of
priestcraft influences their every word and deed. They
speak, as if they had a rich church living in perspec-
tive ; just as some Parsons have taken to polemical
scribbling, in the hope of pamphleteering their way to
a Bishopric.

We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of
Saturday, with intelligence of the latest dates from
Bayonne and Madrid. Their contents are important.
The Minister of the Interior, M. TIIIERS, received
from General HA RISPE on Saturday morning the fol-
lowing telegraphic despatch :

" BAYONNE, Saturday, July 4.
" The Queen's troops, to the number of 20,000 men, en-
tered Bilboa on the Ist inst., at two o'clock, P.M. No fight-
ing took place. Don CARLOS established his head-quarters,
the preceding day, at Onate."

A copy of this despatch was posted up at the
Bourse on Saturday afternoon, but it does not appear
to have had any effect on the price of the Foreign
Funds. This was occasioned by a rumour which pre-
vailed in Paris on Saturday, to the effect that the
KING had disapproved of the circular addressed by
the Prefect of the Seine to those Frenchmen who
felt disposed to join the Constitutional Army
in Spain. This rumour, however, like so many
others circulated for no earthly purpose but to
suit the views of nefarious stockjobbers, was subsea;
quently proved to be a gross fabrication. The only
foundation for it was an order which had been received
at the Military Intendant's office, advising that per-
sons applying to be enrolled in the service of the
Queen of SPAIN, should not be received before the
Government has issued further instructions on the
subject. This casual delay was eagerly seized upon
by the Paris press for the purpose of showing that
the KING had either changed his counsels, or that he
had been threatened by the Representatives of the
Northern Powers, and of course cowered at their feet
rather than be the instrument of kindling a civil war
throughout Europe. These conjectures were hardly
expressed when the Government, as if to cover its
assailants with confusion, published the following
order, signed by the Minister at War—thus clearly
establishing the fact that the KING had not changed
his counsels—that his Government had not been inti-
midated by any menaces uttered in the name of the
Holy Alliance—and that in such a cause, a higher
authority than the Prefect of the Seine required
to give a national sanction, and a moial influence to
the expedition about to be undertaken by the volun-
teer corps :

CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTER O WAR TO THE INTENDANTS-
GENERAL OF THE MILITARY DIVISIONS, AND THE MILITARIP

INTENDANTS.
" Gentlemen,—The '9th Bulletin informed you that volun-
tary engagements we'..e open for the Foreign Legion.
" That legion '.s to proceed to Spain, a circumstance which
induced me to decide that all Frenchmen anxious to go and
defend the
I:onstitutional cause in Spain, agreeably to the first
article of the law of 18th March, 1831, and without any other
au,he'risation on my part, should be allowed to enter the Fo-
reign Legion, if they had the age and aptness required by the
ttl Art. of the Royal Ordonnance of March 18, 1831.
" The engagements are to be contracted in the manner pre-
scribed by the 4th and sth Articles of the said Ordonnance, in
presence of the Military Intendant, and not before the civil
officer, as required by the 15th instruction of March 18, 1831,
anteriorly to the law of recruitment of the army.
" With regard to the authorisation required by the volun-
teers by the 21st article of the Civil Code, to retain their
rights as Frenchmen, of those who shall enlist in the Foreign
Legion, I shall have an understanding on the subject with the
Minister of Justice, in order that they may obtain it without
any application on their part.
" I rely, gentlemen, on your zeal to sec-dre in your respective
capacities the execution of these dispositions, which must be
immediately made known to the public by every means in your
power.

I " Receive, gentlemen, the assurance of my very distinguished
consideration.
( Signed)

The Marshal Minister of War,
" Marquis MATSON."
We find most of our Paris, and several of our Lon.
don contemporaries, expressing the utmost surprise at
the alacrity with which Louis PHILIPPE now sup-
ports the cause of Spanish legitimacy. This appears
to them an enigma, which it is impossible to unriddle.
Some will have it that it is owing to the united in-
fluence of Tin ERS and GUIZOT, who have obtained
an entire mastery over him ; others that he has come
to a secret understanding with the Great Northern
Powers, to whom he has explained his painful posie
tion, hemmed in by Englp:,-,a on one side, and attacked
on all others by rcle-ls, conspirators, and republicans;
and others-,
his object is to weed France of
the again, that
.erocs of July, and the champions of the " three
glorious days," for whom he is most anxious to have
graves provided at the expense of her most Catholic
MAJESTY. Now, all these conjectures are erroneous,
although we can readily believe that Louis PHI-
LIPPE would be happy to make the Constitutional
cause in the Basques, a present of the French wor-
shippers of the memory of old LAFAYETTE. The KING
was never less under the influence of M. M. THIERS
and GUlZOT—never less friendly disposed towards the
chiefs of the Holy Alliance, than he is at present.
The cause of Louis PHILIPPE'S present alacrity in
snpporting the Queen of SPAIN, may be traced to
his discovery of what occurred at a conference at the
Loo, between WILLIAM of Holland and a confiden-
tial agent of Don CARLOS—a conference which, we
predicted at the time, would have the effect of chanr;-
mg the future plans of the King of the T7E:I:NCH.
The result has proved that we were correct in our
estimate of the importance of what then occurred,
though our opinion was not supported by any portion
of the English or French press. Up to the moment
LOUIS PA4LIPPZ was made acquathted with the pig: