The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-23 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Siècle has the, following on the recent nomina-
tions by the Pope to Roman Catholic sees in England :
" The promotion of an Englishman to the cardinalate
bad produced a sensation of surprise rather than of anger
with our neighbours, but since it has been known that
the new Cardinal, Mr. Wiseman, had been named Arch-
bishop of Westminster, the anger has at least equalled
the surprise. Are our neighbours in the wrong ?
Sir 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
where three-fourths at least of the people profess a re-
ligion, the practice of which'does not entail either civil
or political incapacity, it is very natural that the minis-
ters of that religion should receive the titles consecrated
to the hierarchy. But it does 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, episcopal
and zochiepiscopal sees. We do not forget that the
Holy See is accustomed to name bishops in partibus
infideliurn. . The question is to know whether it
is proper to rank_ England among those countries. We
do not think it is. In order to oppose reform, Loyola
instituted the order of the Jesuits, whose maxim is,
• the object sanctities the means.' The Council of
Trent wished with the same idea that the authority of
the Popes should be absolute. The contrary, however,
of what they sought was met with. Jesuitism and
nitramontanism did a great deal more harm to the
Catholic religion than the reform itself. That truth
we know has been denied, but as the denial comes
from those who did the mischief we may be allowed
to give little credence to it. The church, which is
a government, is subjected in spiritual order to the
same laws as other governments in a temporal order.
• The mission of the latter is to apply political and civil

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principles in a manner the most in conformity t) the
wants and spirit of the time ; the mission o 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-
inutable. Is not the principle of authority the same ?
In poiitics 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 of 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 ege. Now we will say that it commits a not
less serious fault in treating England like a region
of infidels. The Court of Rome do,,s not act very judi-
ciously to have England against it, while France was in
its favour. The Cardinals, therefore, injure the Pope
by telling him that Franca is satisfied in being led to
re-es:ablish a Government which declares itself for ever
incompatible with constitutional liberty. We do not
speak of gratitude, we 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 by the erection of bishoprics
and archbishoprics which that Government will not
recognise, • and indirectly 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
journals, on the faith of in English journal (the
Morning Chronicle), have prow—fed, 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 miss to
Admiral Le Pr6dour, and who has returned,
Alcibiade
" Admiral, I formed part cf the staff of the Are:kale,
)n the 21st July la,t; it is then as an eye- witness that I
can make known to you what occurred in the roadstead of
Buenos Ayres, under the circumstance to which certain
journals allude. Admiral L 9 Pie lour embark( dat two
o'clock in the afternoon in an Argentine sloon to return
on board the steam-corvette the Archizre le, which
brought him to Monte Video, in the month of April.
He was accompanied by two Admirals, by a Captain of
the little Argentine fLet, and by an Aide-de-Camp of
General Rosa% When the beat bearing the Ad-
miral was at 300 yards from the war schooner the
Julio, that vessel displayed the French flag and saluted
it with seventeeUguns. The Archircede 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 homage rendered by the Argentine
Government to the person of the French nezotiatoe,"
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 3,1 November.
He says that he considers abstention from vot-
ing as an imperative duty for all republicans,
as to vote wauld 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-
hap,, no longer eligible. He would not, he says,
fallow the example set him by an immense majority
of his colleagues, and have himself inscribed on the
lists of the department of the Stine, but had ranged
himself voluntarily among the " vile multitude."