The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1844.

We never despaired of the Protestant people of
England when the doctrines of the Puseyites should
he fairly brought under their notice. Englishmen,
fortunately, are not 'hasty in their decisions—they
take time to consider, and no people, perhaps, after
mature deliberation, ever come to a more upright and
conscientious judgment. They have now had at
least three years to form an opinion on this new
Popery scheme, and laymen of all ranks—men,
indeed, of every grade in society, excepting those who
wear the shovel-hat and the surplice—are ueanimous in
condemning PUSEY and NEWMAN. This is a noble
tribute to the b!esiings of the Reformation. Parishes
in every direction are rising up against their Popish
rectors, vicars, and curates ; they will have no Roman
Catholic ceremonies, however harmless and innocent;
they justly regard them as the forerunners of slavery
and the re-establishment of a religion to which the
whole constitution of the country, in Church as well
as state, is directly opposed. It is a reproach to
Protestants to say that this feeling has been created
by the wild schemes of certain bishops to force upon
them a weekly collection for the poor. Their objec-
tions are of a much higher and more sacred character.
The Church of England is pUrely Protestant. It has,
till within the' last four years, shunned the
Court of Rome as the " mystery of iniquity ;" it has
denounced every concession to Catholics ; it has
grudged the paltry pittance to Maynooth ; it strug-
gled to the last against Catholic emancipation ; it up •
held, in every instance, the great and glorious prin-
ciples of the Reformation ; and the people naturally
believed that the Church would adhere to principles
which it had avowed as the very essence of its exist-
ence. A new race, however, sprung up in the
,University of Oxford. They were regarded at first
as mere drivellers, as contemptible as the Mormonites,
or the followers of JOANNA SOUTHCOTE, till they were
taken under the especial care of the Episcopal Bench..
The people rebelled against the missionaries
sent forth by this new sect, appealed for protection to
the bishop of the diocese, but in many instances the
replies to these appeals were jesuitical, and in others—
we refer to the Bishops of LONDON and EXETER par.
ticularly—the Protestants of the Established Church
were insulted and branded as disturbers of the Ca-
tholic Church. Everything the Puseyites did was
right—they adhered faithfully to the rubrics, and
every ceremony offensive to Protestants was sane-
tioned by these fathers of the Church. Even the
A rchlwishop of CANTERBURY, from whom they expected
tome relief, dismissed them with an evasive answer; and
all men saw that there Was a
generalcombination
in the body of the Church againstthe Protestant
generally
regarded The Primate of all England is
regarded as a person of a meek and Christian dispes
tion—he is so quiet and imperturbable, that no man
imagines he can sanction any measures contrary to
his sacred oaths. Yet, notwithstanding several
appeals, he has allowed the heresy to go on increasing,
withoat taking one step to obstruct it, and has per-