The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-04 00:00:00

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.

Lieutenant-General Sir J. S. Barns, JLC.B., Colonel
of the 20th Foot.

Major-Generals—Slessor ; Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G.,
Governor of St. Helena.
Colonel Custanee, Unattached.
Lieutenant-Colonels—Cross, retired full pay 68th
Foot; Green, Unattached.
Major Biscoe, Royal Engineers.
Captains—Lord W. Beresford, Ist Life Guards; Pou-
lett, 54th Foot; Cochrane, 64th Foot; Lawrence, Royal
Artillery; T. Willson, halt pay 20th Dragoons; Count
E. Kielmanseggp. half pay Ist Hussars.
Lieutenants—Travers, 3d Dragoons; Phillpotts, Royal
Engineers; Owens, half pay 31st Foot; Alex. Cameron,
half pay 42d Foot; M`Manus. half pay 62d Foot; Gib-
bings, half pay 81st Foot; L. 111•Lachlan, half pay 3d
West India Regiment; Alt, half pay Staff Corps; Mor-
ton,' half pay French's Corps; Luckhurat, halt pay 3d
Provincial Battalion of Militia; Wiebolt, half pay 2d
Hussars, King's German Legion.
Ensign Meier, half pay sth Lino Battalion, King'.
German Legion.
Adjutant liawsrn, 3d West Yotk Militia.
Quartermasters—Broadley, Ist Foot; Carter, half•pay
Rutland Fencible Cavalry; Guy, half pay 62d Foot; D.
Willi:mast:lt, half pay Br, adalbanp Fenet hie Infantry.
Barr ick-mattrs—Sir ti. Oakes, Bart. (Lieutenant
half pay 95th Foot); Laseellps.
Surgett ,
us Tit( mson 69th Foot; E. W. Barton, Staff;
Parrott, halt puy Cape Corps.
Assistant-hnigeon Einthuven, half pay 6th Line Bon.
King's German Legior,
Purveyor R. Cleave, half pay Staff.

IMPORTANT GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERT.—It will
undoubtedly be interesting to geologists to learn that a most
important discovery has just been made in that department
of science at Applecross, on the west coast of Scotland. A
large mountain, called Tore More, on being accidentally ex-
cavated the other day, presented a substratum of pure,lime,
within five feet of the surface, and on prosecuting the disco-
very by a further excavation, it was ascertained beyond a
shadow of doubt that the whole mountain, except an average
surface of twenty feet, consists of lime fit for the field or the
mason, the result of organic heat. The hill appears to have
been at one time a stupendous limestone rock, submitted to
the influence of immense heat. On the summit are found,
traces of volcanic origin, such as charred and vitrified owl cs
lava, kc.

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1850,

Why is it that the Papal Government has, in Ire-
', and, prohibited a system of education similar to that
which it has permitted and sanctioned in France t In
other words, why is it that it endeavours to usurp an
authority in a Protestant, which it does not venture
to assert in a Itomzn Catholic country ? The question
is one of considerable importance, deserving a cate-
gorical answer. Sir ROBERT KANE, in his admirable
eddress on the opening of the second session of the
Qaeen's College, Cork, to which we have recently
alluded, has shown that there is not a single provi-
sion in the French educational law, passed during
the present year, which the means and rules of edu-
cation existing in Ireland do not fully secure. The
French law is, to all intents and purposes, one of
united education. The State has necessarily a great
interest, an influential voice in the management of
these establishments, lent it has no separate or ex-
clusive authority. In the council there are four
Roman Catholic bishops, but there are two Protestant
ministers, and—even going further than we do—one
Jewish Rabbi. There is nothing forced upon children
to which their parents, of any creed, could object.
but each student can receive instruction in those
general branches of education of which all can ap-
prove. " The principle of mixed education is," to
use the eloquent language of Sir R. KANE, " con-
ceded from the Rhine to the Pyrenees," and this
with the full assent of the Court of Rome. "The
Voice from the Vatican" declared that, "although
the new law might not be everything that the Church
might. wish, it was yet a great improvement upon the
preceding state of education, and that the bishops
and clergy ought to give it co• operation, and ought to
avail themselves of all the means they acquired under it
for promoting piety and religion."
How different was this from the course pursued in
Ireland? Could it be said with the slightest ap-
pearance of truth, that the system introduced
;y the new colleges was not a great improve.
event on the preceding state of education ?
Certainly not—not even "Joule of Tuam"
himself could dare to assert the contrary.
But yet we find the same authority denouncing the
system in one country of which it approved in another,
where it might be supposed to have much greater
influence and weight in the national councils—the
same " Voice from the Vatican," declaring that the
Irish colleges " will prove detrimental to religion by
reason of their grave and intrinsic dangers," warn-
ing the bishops of Ireland "to have no share in
carrying out their establishment," and proclaiming
that "it is not lawful for other ecclesiastical per-
sona to discharge any function having refer-
ence to the said colleges ;11 while in France it calls 1

upon " the bishops and clergy to give the new
law co-operation, and to avail themselves of all the
means they acquired under it for promoting piety and
religion." These are strange inconsistencies, but, un-
fortunately, no less true than strange. The Papal
Court is manifestly blowing " hot and cold," approv-
ing in one country what it prohibits in another—de-
nouncing in Ireland what it deliberately sanctions in
France and Belgium. Why then, we again ask, does
the Postner endeavour to usurp an authority in the
British dominions which he does not claim in the
republic of France or the kingdom of Belgium ?
There is but one answer that can be returned, one
mode of accounting for this extraordinary proceeding.
The United Kingdom is wholly unrepresented at the
Papal Court. We have no minister or envoy to
remonstrate at any undue assumption of authority, to
protest against any act of aggression, and to exhibit
the just indignation of the British Government. Our
own absurd jealousy has prevented us from obtaining
the legitimate influence at the Vatican to which the
power and importance of Great Britain and its un-
questionable weight in the scale of nations would
otherwise entitle it. We recognise the Sultan of
TURKEY, the Schah of PERSIA, Mahommedane, or
Fire-worshippers, or Pagans of any description may
be directly negotiated with; but we cannot have
a representative at Rome. The POPE is the only
temporal sovereign with whom we are by Act of
Parliament prohibited from maintaining amicable
relations. He has nothing to lose if he should dis-
please our Government, and nothing to gain if he
should be disposed to conciliate ; neither hope nor
fear can influence his actions. But are we not our-
selves in some degree to blame for this untoward
state of affairs ? If in private life you exhibit a con•
start and unceasing suspicion, an unreasoning an-
tipathy against an individual, you cannot reasonably
hope to avoid acts of retaliation on his part—be will,
in all human probability, endeavour to justify, or
rather to give you cause for, your bad opinion ; and
the same result will follow among nations, if a similar
course be pursued. We assume an attitude
of hostility against the Papal Court why
should we be surprised because it takes up a si-
milar position ? If amicable relations were subsisting
between England and Rome, would any of the three
grave acts of aggression, committed within a single
year, have been attempted ? Would the prelates and
clergy of the Irish Roman Catholic Church have been
insulted by the appointment of an Italian priest (and
we look upon the Rev. PAUL CULLEN as little better)
to the highest station in that Church ? That was but
the introduction of the point of the wedge, which will
on a future occasion be driven home, until there
will not be a single Roman Catholic prelate in Ire-
land owing allegiance to the throne of England.
They do not act in this manner in other coun-
tries. In Russia, for instance, although the AUTO-
CRAT is not in communion with the Church
of Rome, he still nominate the'prelates of that Church
throughout his dominions. There is undoubtedly,
by a species of pious fraud, an appearance of free-
will, as much as there is in the deans and chapter of
our cathedral churches in the election of bishops. In
the latter case the QUEEN issues a conga d'elire under
the great seal, recommending a certain individual,
and the quasi electors incur all the penalties of a
prcemunire if they do not select the fortunate indi-
vidual. In the other, the EMPEROR also recommends
an individual to the POPE, and the Former, "that
the Catholics of the country may not be persecuted.'
(be it remembered this is the reason assigned by
Archbishop MURRAT), " appoints the individual so
recommended."

Again, we are justified in assuming from what has
occurred in France, that there would have been no
undue interference with the system of education
sanctioned by the National Legislature ; nor would
there have been the parcelling out of England into
ecclesiastical districts, the conferring, of. power and
authority within these realms contrary to the express
wish and desire of the Government and people of the
country, by a foreign potentate. Most certainly not.
We were formerly told by the most unexceptionable
witnesses, whose testimony was given on behalf of,
and adopted by the Roman Catholics of Ireland, " that
the decrees of Popes were not now considered obligatory
unless when sanctioned by the civil authority." But how
can we reconcile that statement with the passage in the
synodical address, which, speaking of the Papal re-
script, declares, " all controversy is now at an end
—the judge has spoken—the question is decided ?"
It is impossible, then, not to perceive that the Papal
Court has, since its return to the Vatican, assumed a
new policy with respect to England and Ireland, and
put forward claims which, if they ever existed, had
long been suspended. Dr. DOYLE, the celebrated
Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, de-
clared in his evidence that the Irish Prelates " were
not less jealous cf the interference of the PorE " than
of the Crown of England. He said, "We are
zealous for the independence of our church,
and we do not like that the PorE should in-
terfere with it beyond what is necessary
for preserving the Catholic communion." We
trust that a similar spirit of independence may now
he exhibited by the Roman Catholics of England and
Ireland, that they will assert their rights as free-
born citizens, and not surrender their unquestionable
rights and privileges on the most sacred point—the
education of their children—at the dictation of any
man or holy of men ; if they do so they will no
longer be freemen, but slaves—they will recognize a
despotic authority absolutely inconsistent with
liberty. In resisting this unwise and impolitic as-
sumption of power, they will not be rebelling
against the authority which they have ever recog-
nizsd, but against its undue extension to points to
which, for ages past, it has never even been attempted
to be pushed. We look to the good sense and judg-
ment of the Roman Catholics themselves for the pre-
servation of their nationality, and the defeat of these
daring attempts at their subjugation.

Recently we took occasion to suggest the immediate
removal of certain eyesores and blemishes at present
existing very prominently in our metropolis. We
argued for their instant dissipation with a view to
improve the aspect of the British capital before the
commencement of next year's Exhibition. Among
these proposed innovations it can scarcely be
forgotten by our readers that we especially
particularised the termination of that disgrace-
ful system which has established money-
takers at the porches of our great ecclesiastical edi-
fices, and transformed the dean, the prebendaries, the
minor canons, and the canons residentiary of our
cathedrals into so many barefaced twopenny showmen 1
Against this miserable and degrading practice we
ourselves, in common with the majority of our
brethren of the press, have inveighed again and
again, as against a system disgraceful to the Church
Establishment, destructive to the beneficent influence
otherwise exercised by the hallowed precincts of
those abodes of religion, and derogatory in the
very uttermost degree to that simplicity and sanc-
tity which should ever seem at least to invest
those divine and consecrated palaces of Christianity.
Hitherto we have sedulously availed ourselves of every
opportunity presented to us of arguing for the abolition
of a scheme so pernicious in its operation and so repul-
sive in its character. We have insisted that in its
removal we recognize prospects advantageous to the
cause of general morality—seeing that the systems of
religion would thereby become in some measure
popularised, or would at any rate be relieved from
charges baneful to it in the national estimation. Never
has this conviction of the good likely to accrue from
the proposed alteration been so forcibly impressed
upon our judgment as at the present moment, when
the country is awaiting the approach of intelligent
travellers from all the corners of Christendom, and
when moreover in consequence of that unusual influx
of foreigners the institutions and customs of our
people will be subjected to the closest and the most
rigorous ninthly. By abolishing the plan heretofore
adopted more or ins in all our cathedral establish-
ments, both provincial and metropolitan, we should
be at once ameliorating our own condition as a
Christian community and depriving our visitors of a
fruitful subject of scorn and animadversion.
Upon every previous occasion the Deans and Canons
of our Cathedrals have remained imperturbably in-
different to all, even the most earnest appeals, blind
to arguments the most self-evident, and deaf to en-
treaties the most fervent and reiterated. Now-a-days,
after many grievous disappointments, and
with the prospect before our eyes of having to undergo
in many respects such a minute and searching criti-
cism,we are disposed to throw aside all idle consideration

for the feelings of men who have shown themselves
all along utterly and irremediably careless of the
feelings of the whole population. Consequently, in-
stead of directing public indignation against them
abstractedly as a body corporate, we would now hold
these reverend personages up to the observation of the
multitude in their own individual characters, trusting
that at least the mere dictates of shame may have
some influence over their councils, if those of con-
science and propriety have hitherto proved ineffectual.
Turning, then, to the arch offenders against public
decency in this particular, turning to the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral, we would point to
the members of that ecclesiastical establishment as to
the prominent originators of this great and crying
evil. Instead of doing as heretofore, we would
now specify their names and titles in succession,
so that the people may know who are, in point of
fact, these twopenny showmen of the cathedral. We
speak no longer inferentially ; we are long since tired
of that. Oar arguments have been so pertinaciously
disregarded that we content ourselves, at length, with
exposing the evil by means of a few plain statements.
Foremost among these we would mention the fact
that the following is a catalogue of the reverend gen-
tlemen who are acting as

THE TWOPENNY SHOWMEN OF ST. PAUL'S:
H. H. Milman, Dean.
W. H. Hale, Canon Residentiary.
Thomas Dale, Canon Residentiary.
J. Endell Tyler, Canon Residentiary.
H. Montagu Villiers, Canon Residentiary.
Thomas G. Hall, Prebendary.
R. W. Browne, Prebendary.
Thomas Robinson, Prebendary.
Henry Venn, Prebendary.
Thomas Hartwell Horne, Prebendary.
Thomas Boyles Murray, Prebendary.
Alexander M•Caul, Prebendary.
H. H. Norris, Prebendary.
Richard Harvey, Prebendary.
James J. Round, Prebendary.
Derwent Coleridge, Prebendary.
R. G. Baker, Prebendary.
Thomas Henderson, Prebendary.
C. 13. Dalton, Prebendary.
John Smith, Prebendary.

G. Randolph, Prebendary.
W. A. SOULDCS, Prebendary.
J. w. Vivian, Minor Canon.
W. J. Hall, Senior Cardinal and Minor Canon.
E. J. Beckwith, Succeutor and Minor Canon.
J. T. Bennett, Warden and Minor Canon.
J. Y. Povab, Divinity Lecturer and Minor Canon.
J. H. Coward, Epistolan and Minor Canon.
W. Calvert, Gospeller and Minor Canon.

From this time forth the public cannot remain in
ignorance as to who are the offenders in this particular.
The above list contains the names of those individuals
who have so long disgraced the sacred cause of reli-
gion by affording their sanction to the continuance
of " the money-changers in the Temple!" Further
we need not go at present. The community will
not remain indifferent to the force of the foregoing
catalogue. They can draw from it their own very
emphatic conclusions. All we are solicitous about just
now is, that if only for a time, say during the days
of the Exhibition, the system of extorting halfpence
at the doom of our cathedrals shall be discontinued,
so that English customs should not in this particular
be so terribly disgraced in the eyes of so many intel•
ligent foreigners. Can nothing be done by the paro-
chial or municipal authorities to force this conces-
sion at least from the Dean, the Prebendaries, the
Minor Canons, and the Canons Residentiary ? Acting
in accordance with their old and immemorial customs,
they will of course be unwilling to forego the chance
of such a rich harvest of copper coin likely to
be gathered from the sight-seers of 1851—but we
mean even in that regard might not some satisfactory
arrangement be come to in reference to the temporary
cessation of the existing system, viewing it simply
(0, shame that we should have to say it !) as a merely
mercantile transaction ?

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
All Saints' Day was observed as a holiday, conse-
quently none of the journals, with the exception of
the Republique, were published on Saturday.
" It is positively stated," says the Journal des Di-
bats, " that General NEUMAYBR has written to the
Minister of War to say that he cannot accept the new
appointment just conferred on him. If this news be
confirmed we should, for our parts, regret this deter-
mination of the honourable General, as his refusal
would lead the world to believe in the prolongation
of a crisis which has so deeply afflicted all good
citiz'lls, and which has for the last two days been
looked on as happily terminated."
The Ordre has the following on the subject of the
examination cf M. BAROCIIE before the Committee of
Permanence on the subject of the removal of General
NI UMAYER from the garrison of Paris:—
"The Minister was interrogated five timer (before the
Psrliamentaty Committee) r n the sufj, et of the political
cause to whtcn the revecati na of General do N. um:yer
was publicly attributed, or rather be was invited in the
most precise manner to declare if it was true or
not, that the commander of the first military division
had been revoked because ho had enunciated
personally an advice condemnatory of cries by soldiers
under arms, and the Minister, wo repeat, refused
obstinately to give any reply. Nor was the committee
in the least astoeished. Nor do we allege it as a
crime against M. Laroche. He would not tell a lie :
voila tout. Ilis silence was an avowal. How could he,
forsooth, contradict a fact which is not only true, but
which has been at different times attested to General
Neumayer by the Minister of War himself in presence of
a witness whose word would not be questioned. This
fact we were the first to affirm; we affirm it again, and
we protest beforehand against the imposture or the error
of whoever would dare to deny it; we sly, moreover,
that such imposture, however well calculated, would be
vain, for it would be exposed on the first public debate
that should take place."
This account is by M. DE CHAMBOLLE, himself a
member of the Committee, and therefore likely to be
well informed with regard to all that passed. The
Prefect of Police, however, M. CARLIER, addressed a
summons to the gerant of the Ordre to insert a con-
tradiction of the statements which had appeared in
that journal on the subject of the removal of General
NEUMAYER, and to that summons M. DE CIIAM-
BdLLE replies as follows
The personal fact regarding General Neumayer—
and it is a grave one—is recalled in the article in which
you find yourself alluded to. Do you meet it with a de-
negation? If you say yea, I will then answer that it is
your denegation which is false. I will maintain that no
other explanation than that Oven by the Ordre can be
honestly sustained. I will affirm that the Minister of
the Interior did not dare to contradict it before the Par-
liamentary Committee. I will add that if it is contested
nt the tribune it will be confirmed by such testimony as
to remove all shadow of doubt."
The same journal gives the following account of
the manner in which General NEUMATER acted en
receiving the announcement of his removal from
Paris to Rennes :
" General Neumayer is witheut fortune. The blow
which has been levelled at him so unjustly, if it does
not deprive himself of the means of existence, yet,
does it, at least, affect the prospects of his wife and
family. On this account it was, that when ho thought
appearances saved by the ordinance in the Moniteur, he
felt painful hesitation. In the meantime his brother-in-
law the Commandant Trochin consulted his sister, and
soon after haling the noble woman by the hand, fol-
lowed by her two children, he presented himself to the
General, saying—‘You have been placed between a
question of interest and a question of honour, the advice
of your family is, that you ought not to hesitate.' C'est
Lien, replied the worthy seldier---‘ You have compre-
hended me, itis on their account, that, in fact, I did admit
a moment's hesitation,' and he immediately wrote a letter
of refusal to the Minister of War."

How the proposed removal of General NEUMATEIt
from Paris to Rennes (for, be it remembered, he is
not dismissed but promoted) could injuriously affect
him in a pecuniary point of view, as stated by the
°rdr
very clearly appear, seeing that the
rank toe' does
which t p
not
was appointed was higher than the
rank he held in Paris, the emoluments greater, and
the expenses less ; it is those, therefore, who induced
him to refuse the command at Rennes, who are re-
sponsible for any injurious consequences to the pro-
spects of his wife and family which may arise, and
not the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who appears to
be justified in taking steps to reduce the un-
constitutional, anomalous, and dictatorial power
of CRANGARNIER, who seems anxious to ex-
ploiter all parties for the sake of his own personal
ambition. It strikes us, however, that M. BAROCIIE
was much to blame if he gave any pledge, as alleged,
to the Committee of Pertnan6nce that the removal of
General NELuay.ta should be an isolated act; if it is
an isolated act, it is worse than a fault, worse even
than an ordinary mistake, it is a stupendous blunder,
as it will irritate, without essentially weakening,
CIIANGARNIER and the I3ourbonists. It; however, it
is the first of a series of well considered acts for
breaking down the power of the would-be dictator,
and for ultimately depriving him of the com-
mend of the army of Paris, then it is a
bold first step in a justifiable course of policy, which
will he successful in exact proportion to the fidelity of
the PRESIDENT to the Constitution and the Republic ;
in the meantime, it is abundantly evident that the
split between the Orleanists and the Bonapartists is as
complete as that between the latter and the Legiti-
matists.
A complete reconciliation has been brought about
between the PRESIDENT and the other members of the
Bonaparte family by the good offices of his cousin the
Prince of CANINO.

A letter from Brest of the 20th ult. announces the
arrival there of the Hercules and Jupiter ships of the
line, belonging to the squadron which sailed from
Cherbourg under the command of Admiral PARKE-
VAL DESCHENES.

Toe Republicans have determined to abstain from
taking any part in the election of the department of
the Nord.

Eleven political convicts, among whom was ELAN-
QUI, were conveyed to the Rouen Railroad on Friday
night, whence they proceed to Belle Isle.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE,
Anglo-Italian (late Italian and Austrian), VA—Bou-
logne and Amiens, 8 —Great Indian Peninsula, 134
Northern of France, 14%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2
Sambre and Meuse, 2

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have been received.

The Gaceta announces that the Marquis DE MlRA-
rr,ortEs has been appointed President of the Senate,
and the Prince DE AICGLONA and the Duke DE VERA-
GUA, Vice-Presidents. A letter status that the Mi-
nistry had resolved to propose M. Louis MAYANS for
the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies; he tilled
the post in the List session, and it is nut doube.l that
he will be elected by a large majority. Letters from
the Havannah of the Ist October, received by the Go-
vernment, contained no details of any rising at El
Pinar del Rio in that island, from which it was as-
sumed that all that had been said on the subject was
unfounded.

MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 29.—Three per Cents,
34 11-16 ; Five per Cents ,13 paper. Exchange on
London, 50 30 paper.

PORTUGAL.

Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the
29th ult.

A. notice has been issued by the Lisbon Board of
Health, to the effect that owing to the defective state
of the Laziretto at Oporto, vessels from infected or
suspected ports will not be admitted into the Douro
without having first performed quarantine at Lisbon,
Vigo, or some other accredited lazaretto.

Late in the afternoon on the 28th ult., arrange-
ments were made by an English agent with the Por-
tuguese Ministry, for a loan of 100,0001, at 6 per
cent., the Government giving most satisfactory secu-
rity. It is said that the house of OLIVEIRA and Co.
are the contracting parties.
The English squadron, under Commodore MAR-
TIN, was about to sail from Lisbon on a cruise, to
test the qualities of the respective vessels in heavy
weather.