The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-05 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Paris Ordre has the following on the affairs of
Rome :

"Much has lately been said of a note which the
Apostolic Nuncio at Vienna delivered to Prince de
Schwartzenberg on the 20th ult., demanding that the
number of the Austrian troops in the States of the
Church should be decreased. This corps d'armee
is composed of an effective force of 20,000 men,
and is entirely at the charge of the Roman
Government, on which it entails an annual expense of
six millions of francs. This enormous charge weighs
heavily on the Roman treasury, and paralyses the efforts
made by that Government to bring about an equilibrium
in its budget. The Court of Rome thinks that the pre-
sent state of things admits of this auxiliary force fur-
nished by Austria being reduced to 12,000, and that
this measure would procure a saving which is
pensably necessary. The note, which is couched in
very moderate terms, was preceded by a step taken
some m3nths since at Vienna by an Envoy Extraordinary
sent froi n the Roly See. The Austrian Cabinet at that
time rep liedthat tranquillity was not yet sufficiently se-
cured f o render such
„a measute safe. Now the
Doman Governoafii4 insists. oz it; it says that the
state of tho couiltayiis eve ry.
day improving, and
that it is better. ..a.ble.,„to —Judge on this matter
than other - p-rtyr.-It iy affirmed that it
is so deeply , impressed, with the necessity . of
bringing the quistion to a solution, That it in-
tends to address itself to France to demand its friendly
raediatit )11 in the event of Austria giving an evasive

answer. The voice of France would have the more
weight, as sho gives the example cf a generosity which
is appreciated by all Europe, by keeping up at heir own
expense a force of 10.000 men, who constantly obssrve
the most admirable discipline."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
DEPTFORD INN COURSING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.
The Derby.
First Ties—Lobster bt Factotum, Merryman bt Imp

'The Oaks.

First Ties—Cigarette bt Sally Grey, Indiana bt Cash-
mere, Whiff bt Gipsy.
The Cup.
First Ties—Staymaker bt Liazy, Mildred bt Eddy,
Red Republican bt Fairtoes, Lady of Locbleven bt
Racer.

Fish erton Stakes

Deciding Course—Mr. James's Fame bt Mr. Law.
rance's Leading Article, and won the stakes.
Deptford stakes.
First Ties—Myrra bt Fundholder. Syntax ags
Bandit, undecided.

The Stonehenge Stakes.
Capt. Windham's Victory IA Mr. Bowles's Charmeau
Mr. Lawrence's Leghorn bt Mr. Miller's Magdalen.
The Amesbury Stakes.
_ _ _

Mr. Lawronce's Lucifer bt Mr. Morant's Manimus.
Mr. Esdaile's Gadabout agst Mr. Bowles's Jack's-the,
Lad, not run.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING
SIX O'CLOCK.

CHESTER CUP.
50 t) 1 agst Montague
50 to 1 agst Wallflower
50 to 1 sgst Clarissa
50 to 1 agst Brother to Dough
66 to 1 agst Musician
66 to 1 agst Miss Ann
66 to 1 agst Glauca
All t►ae above bets taken.
DERBY.
5 to 1 agst Grecian
40 to 1 agst Ipsus
50 to 1 sgst Confessor—taken

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
DAILY NEWS.—The Church of England was
never framed or fitted for a state of religious war. It
is one of those vessels that ride powerfully and majes-
' tically in a calm, but the very bulk of which renders
it the sport and victim of rough seas of controversy.
The Church of England, like the constitution, is a
compromise; and the nature and condition of a com•
promise is, that extreme parties shall submit to it, not
as the exact solution that each should desire, but as
the best and most pacified result they can hope to ob-
tain. It has, however, been now for some years evi-
dent that a Church which is a compromise does not
satisfy the ardent aspirations and devout zeal of many
of its sons. The idea began to prevail, that religious
faith without enthusiasm was of little worth, and that
it was scarcely deserving of the name, unless it per-
vaded and controlled the thoughts and feelings of the
whole community and of each individual in it; nay,
unless it was the universal motive not only of
man's serious resolves and actions, but even of the
minutest circumstance and observance of his life.
It is the striving after this, which has rent
the Church in twain, and that it will succeed in corn
pletely destroying it, is at least one of the eventuali-
ties towards which reflecting men should look. The
present moment, and the circumstances of the time,
'fully reveal the importance of the crisis ; and we
must confess we can perceive no power that has as yet
been brought to bear upon these opposite tendencies
and dissensions that is either capable of combating
or likely to appease them. Whenever by chance one
of the impartial public contemplates the anarchy of
the Church, his first burst of resentment is directed
against the bishops. But after all do we not heap too
much blame upon them individually? Are they not,
like drivers of mingled and heterogeneous flocks, un-
able to keep and tend together the sheep that wish to
wander into fat pastures, and the goats that would
climb the barren rocks ? The episcopal crook cannot
reach both, and the pastor infallibly abandons either
one-half of the flock or the other, or else in despair of
controlling either, flings himself at full length to slum-
ber. If the authority of the bishops has failed, and if
the bishop's office itself has become more a stumbling
block and a derision than an active, efficient, and use-
ful authority, shall we look to the State for help ?
But the State is even more ignored than the prelacy
by both the extreme parties. Its interference has
given rise to serious resentment. The aim of the State
has been no doubt to trim the vessel of the episcopacy
and the Church as to keep the balance even, nor allow
it to vary so much on one side, or to let water in.
But at every movement of the kind, the unruly and
mistrustful crew fling themselves alternately, from
one side to the other, so that it is in truth a miracle that
the Church is yet above water. What happy Church
and State pilots were Pitt and Lord Liverpool ! They
had no need of balancing or trimming. All went
straight in those right Tory days. But now it is far
different. The Church his passed the power of
Bishops to control, or of a Prime Minister, with
his official authority alone, to manage. There
is, in truth, but one remedy. Call i❑ the
laity. Let not the Church be carried away and
divided by purely ecclesiastical schisms, and merely
sacerdotal views. Correct the idiosyncracy of the
clergy by the good and plain sense of the laity. It h
the latter that pay for the Church ; let them have a
voice in it. Aid then, when there is a public, a lay
opinion, clearly and constitutionally expressed, or
Church matters, the minister can lean upon that, in-
stead of being compelled to go out of his way, and
make an extraordinary appeal to the public sentiment,
which, however powerful and decisive in the answer
that it provokes, is still derogatory to the dignity and
calm of high office,as well as offensive to those who deem
themselves the objects, not of legal repression, but of
individual and irregular persecution. ,The time is one
which demands a large measure of Church reform ;
and if the present outburst of religious zeal lead to
such a result as that, it will be one of the most salu-
tary movements that ever stirred the British mind.
We see, indeed, that this movement is scouted, and
we read that Mr. Roebuck, amongst others, has come
forward to decounce it as intolerant. In what is
it intolerant? What penalties does it seek to in-
flict, what persecution does it demand ? It has
stirred up certainly orators and writers to utter their
opinions of the dangers of Roman Catholic progress
and ascendancy. But who provoked them ? And if
the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church at Rome
and in this country have provoked it, what great
reason have they to complain that Protestants express
their fears, state their convictions, and frankly avow
their aversion to the principles, the forms, and ten-
dencies of a religion, the most illiberal and intolerant
on record. Mr. Roebuck tells us that Protestant
fears are groundless, that the Catholic Ppropagandists
who come amongst us use but the weapons of per-
suasion, and appeal merely to reason. But of what
value is the reasoning of an uneducated multitude ?
We have millions in our very streets of the utterly
ignorant, the hopelessly destitute; we have a popula-
tion of children in intellect, just the population that
would fall down and worship the large hat
and red stockings and the gilded couch
of a Cardinal. And we have a half-educated upper
class, many of whose members have disinherited
their offspring, in order to endow a Church, one ele-
ment of whose greatness is successful mendacity and
extortion. Mr. Roebuck will say, why not educate ?
"Why not, indeed ? Wby not raise the Irish helot,
the hewers of wocd, and.drawers of water in our great
metropolis, to that rank amongst rational and edu-
cated beings, which would enable them to distinguish
between an astutely trading religion, and an honestly
philanthropic one ? But this cannot be done in a day,
even if we knew how to set about it, and until this
has been done, Mr. Roebuck must permit us to take
precautions—precautions, not savouring of persecu-
tion ; and he must permit us to express fears—sensi-
ble, rational, well-grounded fears—of the partial
successess of a retrogade religion amongst us, whilst
we contain those most legitimate fears, both with re-
spect to sentiment and to language, within the fairest
bounds of tolerance.

THE RIVER PLATE.—Accounts from Monte Video
of October Ist state that nothing of importance has occurred
since previous advices, either in the city or the country.
From Buenos Ayres we learn that General Rosas had
given orders to the captain of the port to engage foreign
sailors, and purchase three merchant vessels. It is also
stated that General Urquiza, having received instructions to
march upon Paraguay, replied that he could not move for
want of horses.

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THE BIRKENHEAD RIOT.-011 Saturday the ma-
gistrates assembled at the Town Hall, for the purpose of in-
vestigating the circumstances relating to the late riot. The
meeting was strictly private, but Nye understand very impor-
tant information respecting the origin of the late riot was re-
ported to the meeting by Mr. G. Palmer, the special high-
constable of the hundred, and Mr. M'Haig, superintendent of
Birkenhead police, and which was derived from various
sources, all tending to show that the riot was the result of a
deep-laid conspiracy.
LocomoTwEs IN NEW Youx.—At the Board of
Aldermen, last night, after a long discussion, permission was
granted to the Hudson River Railroad Company to propel
their cars from Chambers to 31st-street by the " dumb"
locomotive, which resembles a baggage car externally,
makes no perceptible smoke, and but little more noise than
an ordinary car. It has been tried for two weeks, has not
been found to alarm horses attached to other vehicles, and is
favourably regarded by the carmen whose business carries
them through that part of West street in which the rails
are laid. ror the safety of the public its speed is limited to
six miles an hour, and a proper person, mounted on horse-
back, is to be employed to precede it, to give warning of its
approach.—New York .'ournal y. Commerce, Nov. 15.
THE MOTJSE AND CANARY.—For some time past,
in Mr. Timmon's shop, Cavan, a mouse has been in the habit
of entering the cage of a canary; and feeding there quite
unconcerned. Several engagements took ,place between
them, before a friendly reconciliation could be, accomplished,'
A few days since, however, the mouse was observed to carry:
something in its mouth from another part of the shop and
deposit. it in the cage, Which on examination proved to be
manna. The bird partook of the present, and from that
time there seemed to exist an increased friendship bet Ween
them.-111euth Herald.

PROPOSAL to CROSS the ATLANTIC

WITH A BALLOON.

Early in the year 1843 Mr. John Wise, the American
acrona,ut, issued a proclamation annourcinc' his intention
cf cro,,Fina,t the Atlantic Clfean with a balloon, in the
summer of 1844; but as Lir. Wise himself was not pos.
f recuniary means to attempt the voyage, he
petitioned Corgress for assistance, but which up to the
present time be has not been able to obtain.

Several scientific gentlemen, convinced of the prac-
ticability of the scheme., have lately urged Mr. Wise to
renew his petition to Congress for aid in the matter,
which he has determined to do by their assistance. If
he is still unsuccessful, Mr. Wise will endeavour to
carry it through with his own resources.

From an cx-perience of a number of years in the prac-
tice of aeronautics by Mr. Wise, it has been fully de-
monstrated that there exists in the atmosphere a constant
current of wind, moving from west t. east, with a velocity
of from 20 to 60 miles an hour, according to its height
from the earth. From the advantages continually at
hand from the local currents of Lir, it is quite feasible
(he observes) to travel eastward with a velocity that will
circumnavigate the globe in 30 or 40 days. with an
ability to vary from a straight course 30 or 40 degrees
from the latitude of departure, which would enable
to leavt, dispatches in Europe and China, and return by
way of Oregon territory to Washington city. This has
been demonstrated by experiments made by Mr. Wise,
in reaching points 60 and 90 miles distant from the
place of departure, with a precision not surpassed by
ship sailing, aided by the local currents in varying from
the groat eastward current. Mr. Wise observs, ‘• What
if I du get a few degrees north or south of latitude of
departure; it will at least be a beginning which will not
end there."

Tcn or fifteen thousand dollars is the sum required
by Mr. Wise for this experimental outfit, and so confi-
dent is he that the thing will be effected, that he asserts
that it will be done just as certain a.; steam followed
horse power.