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

Obedience and protection must be co-oxiste nt, and it is
only so long rs the just equilibrium is maintained that
the common strength of both remains anilines-ed. The
Pope of Rome claims to be the temporal and spiritual
father of the Christian world; but paternal authority un-
accompanied by paternal protection is a thing to be re-
puiliattd, for it is an arrogated power that has grown
out of wrong, and can be enforced only with injustice.
Hence it is that the temporal Sovereigns of Europe, from
the first ages of the Christian era to the present
time, have been in constant antagonism with a
Papal dictator, who, for the implicit obedience he
has demanded, bad nothing to afar as a le-
gitimate compensation. Ilis claims have embraced
an amount of absolute supremacy which is altogether
inconsistent with his attributes as a man. They have
been claims upon matters temporal, and upon matters
spiritual; they have been claims upon the action, upon
the thoughts, nay, even upon the very souls of men;
they have been claims to a sub deification as a priest,
when there was no proof of hocoor as a man. Such
were the Popes of Rome, and such are they at the pre-
sent time. And what if England were to tall down and
bow her mighty head before this brazen serpent? Can
he give us the peace we have not, or array us with more
atrenth against our enemies, or dtfend with more care
our lives and property? Shall vie be better Christians
under the us;-Christian dogmas of the Council of Trent;
or mere zsalous in discharging our social obligations?
We think not. Unhappily for Rome, she has a history,
and to one whose caret r has been pursued through de-
vious and miry paths, no misfortune can be greater. But
wherein li, s this mighty influence for the good of man? Is
it in nations ovtr whom the Church of Rome has full
swap?
It should be so; but let the question be answered
'by France, by Spain, by Pot tugal, by Belgium, by Austria,
by Italy, and last, although, as far as we are interested,
not least; by Ireland, and they will teach us that the
See of Rsme is not only utterly inert for the promotion
of social happiness, but that it is too often a party to
those anarchical intrigues by which monarchies are over-
thrown; and national stability subverted. Whence, then,
does Rome derive her arrogated supremacy over all
earthly things? Is it because she alone is the sacred
custos of holy truth? Not 40, for the Eastern Church
is as old and less corrupt. Ts it because she alone has the
apostolical succession? So has the Church of England.
Is it because she is more efficient in her ministrations?

It cannot be, for her doctrine is opposed to the canon of
Scripture. herefore then, does she claim universal
supremacy over the whole of Christendom? It is because
she is more ambitious of exercising temporal authority
than of disseminating the truths of Holy Writ; more
ardent in the exaltation of the human than of the divine
institution ; more devoted to the Church than to Hint
.who founded it! Such, in a few words, is a brief epitome
of the Papacy; such is the influence England has re-
jected; and such is the influence she is again called upon
to tear out, ere, like a consuming gangrene, it grow too
large to eradicate, but with dailger to the constitution.
Ense rescidendum est Let us examine the conduct of
Pius IX. in the matter which now engrosses pn6lic at-
tention, and let us see whether, in his person, the-Papacy
has lost any measure of its ancient quality. It will be
in the recollection of most persons • that an additional
reason for sending a Cardinal Archbishop to England
waskthe pretended belief, on the part of the Pope, that
his jesuitical scheme had received the sanction of the
British Government, through its accredited agent, Lord
Minto. We give the conversation on the authority of
the Ami de la Religion, to which paper it was communi-
cated by a French Homan Catholic priest, in the follow-
ing words :
" I had not intended to send the new Cardinal (Wise-
man) back to England, but to keep him near the Papal
Court, and to employ his talents here. But I em per-
suaded," added the Pope, " that, the time is come to
set about the great enterprise for which you have just
thanked me. I think he has nothing to fear in England.
I spoke of it some time ago to Lord Minto, and I un-
derstocd that the English Government would offer no
opposition to the execution of my plan. I therefore
send this most eminent Cardinal back to England, and

I entreat you all to pray without ceasing that all dif-
ficulties may be removed, and thata million, nay three
millions ot your countrymen, still separated from us,
way enter into this new Church, even to the last of
them."

Whatever obloquy may attach to the gratuitous false-
hood of the story, it must be divided between his Holi-
ness the Pope, the And de la Religion, and the priest; for
we find, in an official letter, written by the direction of
Lord John Russell, tbat "Lord Minto, when in Rome,
was not consulted en this measure, and never gave any
countenance to it." Had not the Papacy the mi.fortune.
as we Dave already termed it, of possessing a history, the
conversation quoted. and now met by the absolute state-
ment of the Prime Minister of England, would be too
monstrous for belief. Bat, with centuries of facts be-
fore us, it can only be regarded as the addition of another
stone to that great cairn of Peal trickery which stands
for the contemplation of the world, in frightful contrast
to the assumed sub-divinity of the men whose deeds it
so truly chronicles. Yet, even with these aids, it is dif-
ficult to persuade the mind that an expedient so
miserable, so contemptible, so humiliating to himself, to
his Church, and to mankind, can have been adopted by
one who styles himself " Christ's Vicegerent upon
Earth," and claims rule over all kingdoms, principalities,
and powers—a demi-god amongst men!

INTRAMURAL INTERMENT AND
MR. WALKER.
Some years back, the venerable Dr. Chalmers raised
the watchword of Church Extension, and urged the
excavation of the heathenism of our large towns. The
evils brought to light in the investigations which en-
sued were indeed hideous and appalling—indicating
that fearful moral causes were in busy operation, pro-
ducing the appropriate fruits of darkness, misery, vice,
indigence, and public crime. Some time after this
grand event, a movement was made in favour of sani-
tary reform. Multitudes of people were found living
in apartments without a proper supply of air, without
water for ablution or other necessary purposes, with
houses undrained—damp, pestiferous, and surrounded
with festering impurities. In our lanes and alleys,
fever and cholera found their most appropriate vic-
tims, and the scourge of heaven was not alone
a chastisement to sinners, but in its ravages
a voice of warning in matters of social duty
to the community. Some fifteen years back,
a gentleman in London, Mr. George Alfred
Walker, surgeon, stood forth to denounce and expose
a monster enormity—the graveyard system of this
country, particularly of London. The data accu-
mulated by the industry of this learned person were
horrible in the extreme. It was sickening and re-
volting to peruse the facts adduced by Mr. Walker in
his elegant dnd thrilling lectures, and in his volumi-
nous evidence given betbre a Select Committee of the
House of Commons. The " model " graveyard was
alike a hot-bed of pestilence and a scene of brutality—
the vaults beneath churches and chapels were over-
charged deposits of fierce malaria, which found its
way in every quarter, an agent of virulent disease to
the living. Mr. Walker showed himself an enthusiast
in his advocacy of reform in this case. He sacrificed
to this object money, time, professional emolument
and advancement. In season and out of season, and
amidst discouragement in various ways, he perse-
vered, toiled on, kept his ground, and gradually the
effects of his zeal and indomitable resolution has
been evinced in a general bettering of the grave-
yard economy of the country. New cemeteries
have been laid out in various parts of the country, and
where the old graveyards are kept in use, as much
improvement as they are capable of has been pro-
duced. The disposal of the dead in the metropolis
has been provided for by a special Act of Parliament ,
and it is very discreditable to the Government that
the chief place in carrying out the new measures
was not given to the public-spirited and able man
whose labourious and sustained endeavours did more
in this case than successive administrations of the
Crown and all the writers and orators of the day.
In London, however, a most becoming prvject is being
carried out—that of getting up a National Testimo-
nial to Mr. Walker ; the honour is eminently
merited, and its incentive a tribute to justice. We
recommend this object with the utmost confidence,
and would be highly gratified if in this most impor-
tant case public merit received a public -reward
worthy of the country and the valuable services of
the recipient.—Aberdeen Banner.