The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Siecle has the following on the recent nomina-
tions by the Pope to itoman Catholic sees in England t—
" The promotion of an Englishman to the cardinalate
had produeet a seas: Linn of surprise rather than of surer
with our neighbours, but since it has been known that
the new Cardinal, air. Wiseman, had been canted Arch-
bishop of Westminster, the anger has at least equalled
the surerise. Are our neighbours in the wrong ?
Str Robert Peel had understood that a Government
which respects itself must put the appellations in
accord with the truth. In consequence., he removed
the prohibition to give the titles of Archbishop and
Bishop to the Catholic prelates of Ireland. In a country
woes three-fourths at least of the people profess a re-
lhthen, the practice of which does not enteil eithsr civil
or political incapacity, it is very nsterel that the releis-
tees of that religion should receive the titles consecrated
to the hierarchy. Bat it doe a not hence result, either in
logic or in governmental courtesy, that the Pope should
have the right of erecting in England, where the im-
mense majority of the ,people is not Catholic, episcepal
and atehtepiscapel sees. We do not forget that the
Holy :lea is :cm:timed to name bishops in partibus
injidelivni. The question is to know whether it
le proper to rank England among those countries. We
do not think it is. In order to oppose reform, Loyola
instituted the order of vie Jesuits, whose maxim in,
the object sanctities the means.' The Council of
Trent wished with the same ides that the authority of
the l'epes should on absolute. The contrary, however,
of what they sought was mtt with. Jesuitism and
ulteamontamsra did a great deal morn harm to the
Catholic religion than the reform itself. That truth
we heiow has been denied, but as the denial comes
fsorn those who did the mischief we may be allowed
to give little credence to it. The church, which is
a Gevernment, is subjected in spiritual order to the
sates la es as other Governments in a temporal order.
The mission of the latter is to apply political and civil
principles in a manner the most in conferrnity to the
wants and spirit of the time ; the misAen of the church
is to conform itself to these wants, to this spirit in the
application of its dogma. The dogma, it is said, is im-
mutable. Is not the principle of authority the same ?
In politics as in religion, for those who know how to look
at the groundwork of things, modifications only bear
on the application of principles, great religious and social
principles not being the work cf men. We have already
told the sacred college with regard to the affair of the
Archbishops of Turin and Cagliari, that it was injuri-
ous to Catholicism and the Papacy to maintain against
universal reason, ecclesiastical immunities belonging to
another age. Now we will say that it commits a not
less serious fault in treating England like a region
of infidels. The Court of Rome does not act very judi-
ciously to have England against it, while France was in
its tavour. The Cardinals, therefore, injure the Pope
by telling him that France is satisfied in being led to
re-establish a Government which declares itself tor ever
incompatible with constitutional liberty. We do not
speak of gratitude, wo speak simply of prudence, and, in
the order of human ideas, we express a serious doubt
whether the Government of Rome acts well in giving a
direct provocation to England ray the erection of bishoprics
and archbishoprics which that Government will not
recognise, and iedirectly to France in seeking to dis-
turb the internal peace of Piedmont, which intimately
concerns her."
We find the following in the Moniteur :—" The
Government wishing to put an end to the malevolent
and anti-national insinuations' which some French
jonrcials, on the faith of an English journal (the
C'hronicic), have propagated, thinks it can-
not do better than publish the report itself, which the
Minister of the -Marine has just received from Lieu-
tenant Foullroy, who had been sent on a mission to
Admiral.Le Praour, nod who lies returned in the
Alciblade :
" Admiral, I formed part cf the staff of the Archin, a le,
on the 21st July last; hi is thee as an eye-witness that i
can make known to you what occurred in the roadstead of
Buenos Ayres, under she circumstance to which certain
journals allude. Admiral Le Pi elour embarked at Liao
o'clock in the afternoop in an Argentine sloop to return
on board the steam-corvette the Archimitle, which
brought him to Monte Video, in the month of April.
lie was accompanied by two Admirals, by a Captain of
the little Argentine fleet, and by an Aide-de-Camp of
General lianas. When the beat bearing the Ad-
:mime wets at 300 'yards from the war schooner the
Julio; that vessel displayed the French flag and saluted
it with seventeen guns. The Archiniede did not return
this salute. as the Chronicle affirms ; it was the corvette
the Astrolabe, which did so ; it fired seventeen guns,
neither more nor less—l counted them. This exchange
of salutes was not the subject of a previous convention ;
it was as it were improvised, and was considered by all
the spectators as an heritage rendered by the Argentine
Government to the person of the French negotiator."
The Presse publishes a letter from M. Mathieu
(de la Drome), in which he replies to applications
which had been made to him by the democrats of
different localities in the department of the Nord
for advice as to the line of conduct they
should pursue in the election of the 3d November.
He says that he considers abstention from vot-
ing as an imperative duty for all republicans,
as to vote would be giving their approbation of the
suppression of universal suffrage. He states that by
the new law he was no longer an elector, and, per-
heps, no longer eligible. lie would nor, he says,
fellow tine example set him by an immense majority
of his colleagues, and have himself inscribed on the
lishs of the department of the Seine, but had ranged
himself voluntarily among the " vile multitude."