The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-06 00:00:00

AND EMLY.

" Dearly beloved Brethren,—ln times like the present,
when every eye is fixed upon us, and when every word
and action of ours is rigidly and jealously scrutinized,
the advice of St. Paul to the Christians of Ephesus
ap-
pears to be peculiarly applicable in our regard ; adopt-
' ing, then, the sentiments of that great apostle, I may
say to you with him, see, brethren, that you walk with
circumspection, not as unwise, for the days are evil, but
as wise, understanding the will of God.
" You, my dear brethren, are the coadjutors and co•
operators of our ministry, with whom we have shared the
duty of feeding the flock which the Holy Ghost has com-
mitted to our care. We exhort you, then, that in all
things you show }ourselves to be faithful ministers of
:he Lord, and that, guided by the paternal counsel
which, in the name of the common father of the faithful,
has been lately addressed to us you exhibit on
your parts a signal ptudenee and moderation of spirit,
and most cautiously avoid every thing that could exas-
perate or inflame—that you carefully cherish amongst
the people quiet, tranquillity, and peace, which is the
bond of Christianity, and constantly teach them by
example and precept a due submission to the temporal
power in those matters which appertain to civil affairs.'
" In compliance, my dear brethren, with the spirit of
this wise admonition, endeavour to promote a love of
peace and social order amongst the flocks committed to
your care ; exhort them, as you have always done, to
be peaceable and well conducted, and not to be tempted
to violate the law or to commit any crime, for the person
who commits a crime strengthens the hands of his
enemies, and is an enemy to himself, an enemy to his
country and to his God. In a word, teach him to fear
God, to honour the Queen who reigns over us, and to be
obedient to her laws.

" God, who created man, is the author of society. and
of that obedience which is its fundamental law. Those
who occupy his place in the State, from whatever source
their authority is immediately derived, hold it at least
remotely from him, according .to the clear doctrine of St.
Paul, who expressly teaches in his epistle to the Romans,
that 'there is no power but from God.'s
" The same apostle also teaches that we are to give
tribute to whom tribute, honour as well as obedience to
whom honour is due ; this obligation thus unfolded by
the apostle has been comprised in a single sentence by
our blessed Lord, saying, render therefore to Caner
the things that are Cmsar's, and to God the things that
are G
" You will, therefore, earnestly exhort your people to
show a faithful and ready obedience to the law, and you
will more especially recommend to them a cordial attach-
ment to the person of our gracious Sovereign who occu-
pies at present the throne of these realms. Fidelity to
their kings has always been the characteristic of Irish-
men, and has descended to them as a sacred inheritance
from their fathers. Cultivate and cherish, then, amongst
your flocks those sentiments of loyalty which their re-
ligion, their interests, and their inclination enjoin.
" But on this subject, my dear brethren, we have also
another duty to discharge, for, in virtue of our ministry,
we are debtors to all—to the great as well as to the
humble, and to the governors as well as to the governed.
If, on the one hand, we are bound to tell the people, in
the words of St. Paul, that ' every soul be subject to the
higher powers,'f sad that they should obey, for con-
science sake; the rulers whom Providence has placed
o Ter them; on the other hand, we should tell those rulers
themselves, that they, too, have duties to fulfil as well
as rights to maintain ; that allegiance and protection
are correlative obligations, and that if their subjects
are bound to yield obedience unto them. they are
also bound to secure to their subjects the free and legiti-
mate exercise of their constitutional rights, and to govern
them by just and equal laws. The principles of civil
government here laid down are clear and undeniable, for
they are the principles of the free constitution under
which we live, as well as of the great social compact by
which both princes and people are equally bound.
" You are well aware, my dear brethren, from sad
experience, that the social condition of these countries is
grievously deranged, whence the great body of our people
have many grievances to complain of, and many priva-
tions to endure. To you they will naturally utter their
complaints, and from you they will expect consolation
and advice ; for in you they repose an unlimited confi-
dence, and you are, therefore, the depositaries of all their
sufferings, their wants, and their woes. They richly
merit your tenderest sympathy, and if you refused it
to them you should cease to be men. Like true pastors,
therefore, you will sympathise with your flocks in the
various trials and afflictions they have to undergo ; but
at the same time you will exhort them to submit with
Christian patience and resignation to those temporal
evils which an all-wise Providence oftentimes permits to
be fal them.

" And this, my dear brethren, is peculiarly incumbes.t
on you at present, for designing persons have insidiously
endeavoured to excite suspicions and jealousies in the
minds of our people, by representing the authorities of
our Church as opposed even to a calm and temperate ex-
pression of opinion upon the grievances under which
they labour, and as hostile to the extension of their civil
rights. It is onr duty to refute this calumny, and thus
to quiet the fears and relieve the anxiety of the public
mind. _ _

" What ! the Catholic Church an enemy to the wel-
fare and to the liberties of her children ? Unjust and
unfounded imputation !
"Let us look back for a moment at the history of the
middle ages, those ages of faith, when the influence and
power of the Church were greatest, and let us inquire how
was its influence used, and how was its power exercised ?
Was it not in the protection of the oppressed against
their oppressors, and was not. the Church in those days
the strongest, nay the only remaining bulwark of the
few and inconsiderable privileges which, under the feudal
system, the people were permitted to enjoy ?
" Yes, and so strongly was this conviction impressed
upon the minds of the people themselves, that in all their
struggles for freedom, they contended as strenuously for
the immunities of the Church as they did for their civil
rights, because they knew from experience that in pro-
portion as their rulers were successful in encroaching on
the freedom of the Church, the salutary influences of
religion were weakened, and the liberties of the people
were stricken down.

" The history of these countries furnishes a memo-
rable instance in point, for when the Catholic Barons of
England, with Archbishop Langton at their head, ex-
torted from John the great charter of British freedom,
they took special care, in the very first article of Magna
Charta, to secure the liberties of the Church, and to pro-
vide that the election of bishops should be free.
Such, my dear brethren, has invariably been the
character of the relations subsisting between the Catholic
Church and the people ; but in Ireland these relations
are of a still more peculiar and interesting kind. For the
Catholic clergy and people of Ireland have always been
remarkable for their cordial and devoted attachment to
one another—an attachment founded on the purest feel-
ings of religious affection, and strengthened by a com-
munity of suffering during centuries of woe. In the
very worst of times, and amidst all the vicissitudes of
civil and religious persecution, they adhered to each
other with unexampled fidelity ; and though they lost
their liberties, they preserved their religion inviolate,
and their hierarchy still subsists unbroken and inde-
pendent, the only remaining monument of their national
grandeur.
" It is true, my dear brethren, that we have lived to
see ;better times ; the sword of persecution has been
sheathed, and the Penal Code has been repealed—
thanks unto Providence, and thanks also to him whom
Providence has raised up to loosen our chains and
liberate us from bondage
" But although brighter days have arisen upon us, we
have a duty, an important duty, to discharge. We are
bound to guard with a watchful eye and a jealous care
the freedom of our Church as well as the purity of our
faith. This, I repeat it, is the duty, the bounden duty
of all, the duty of every Catholic who loves his religion
and his native land ; and it may not be amiss to add,
that this is the determined and unanimous feeling of that
venerable body to which we have the honour to belong.
" Our enemies may accuse us, if they please, with
seeking to establish the ascendancy of our Church ; but
to their groundless calumny the only reply we conde-
scend to offer is that the accusation is untrue. We seek
not for the ascendancy of our Church, but we seek to
preserve its independence, and, with the Divine assist-
ance, that independence we will inviolably maintain.
Yet, as far, at all events, as we are concerned, our
hierarchy shall be independent, and our priesthood shall
be free. The strong hand of power might fetter us with
chains of iron, but by golden manacles we never shall be
bound ; and no gift that royal or ministerial bounty cin
bestow shall ever purchase that independence which nei-
ther proscription, nor exile, nor death itself, could de-
stroy. In weal or in woe, to our people we will cling ;
on their generous feelings we will throw ourselves for
support, and will that people cast us away ? Oh ! forbid
it heaven that an event so disastrous should occur ! May
the bonds of affection which unite the Catholic people of
Ireland to their clergy never be broken ; and may the
sacred union that exists between them never be dissolved.
" There is one subject more—namely, the Catholic
Bequests Bill, to which, on an occasion like the present,
we think ourselves called to allude. In our joint peti-
tion to Parliament, my dear brethren, we have already
recorded our opinions in opposition to that measure, and
to these opinions we unalterably adhere. But in the
discussions regarding it that may and that will arise,
let your influence be used to moderate the violent, and
to deprecate anything like disrespect towards those of
our brethren in the ministry whose opinions on that
question may differ from ours. Let it be remembered
that they are the anointed of the Lord, that they are
the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mys-
teries of God. Let, therefore, all unseemly language to-
' wards them be avoided, for this could only tend to wound
charity, to injure religion, and togradatief)r- the enemies
of
m_. will
our holy faith. You yourselsveasi; m
give to your respective
in this respect ; and we will d
flock
not example
ple of moderatione
do
them the injustice
to suppose that they would be wanting in that respect
for the character and the persons of their priesthood,
which has always pro-eminently distinguished the Ca-
tholic people of this land.
In conclusion, dearly beloved brethren, may our
blessing and the blessing of 'leaven die upon you and
upon the flocks that are committed to your care, and may
the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding,
keep your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus. —Phi-
lippians, iv. ch., v. 7,

" SLATTERY, Archbishop.
" Thurles, Feast of St. Frances of Sales."
The Catholic Bishop of Ossory has also published a
pastoral address of great length, in which he objects
Strongly to any connexion between Church and State.
At a meetirg of the Repeal Association on the 3d, the
following resolutions wore put and adopted:--
"That however desirable it may be that a discussion

should take place in the House of Commons, with aietv
-toevrtte.s -ttreiniestitkr of-the prore:eahigi cuntireted "tir7.
the late Rate trials, this association is au. deeply ` -
Dressed with a sense of the hopelessness of obtain
dress fur the wrongs of Ireland from the Itn_per.
hatuent, that we cannot recommend that the fri
tiers should be called upon t 4 attend such discus
" That the attendance of the Irish Repeal Me
the Conciliation Hall would be most conducive tO\
great object of the association—the restoration ode
domestic Legislature.''
After the disposal of some routine business, 141,
O'Connell announced the rent for the week to he
3871. 2s. 2d.

* Rom., 13 ch., 1 ver. t Luke, 20 ch., 25 ver.
Rom., 13 ch., 1 ver.

DREADFUL MURDER.

_ - -
A most barbarous and revolting murder was commit-
ted at a village called Larnmonby, in the vicitritv of
l'enrith, Cumberlan on the afternoon of Werine;thy
last. It appears that a woman of the name of date
Crosby, who is married, and who keeps a small inn at
Lamiramby, has her ii very much addicted to drinkir ° of
late, arid the himband frequently re primanded her for
hr r inisco:oluct. They have two daughters, about the
respective irg.s of nine and ten years, and the. younger
of these children was the lather's favourite ; ar.d she
frequently, on being questioned by her father on his
return from work, informed him that her mother had
been drinking during the day in his absence. The con-
sequence of this was, that the mother took a most
rooted antipathy to the child, and had determined to
put her out of the wav on the first favourable opportu-
nity. It seems, on Wednesday afternoon, a.ccordingly
undressed the poor child, with the tx,eption of her
shift, and having fir,t hidden the clothes in a closet, or
recess, in the house, actually made a large fire purposely
in the kitchen, and then took the child up .by the
legs, held it over the fire with its face downwards, and
laid it on the top grate bar until the poor child's flesh
was literally all burnt off her face, and death put a period
to her sufferings. The inhuman wretch then, it appears,
had taken the child off the fire, and called at a neigh-
bour's house, and stated that the child had been left in
the house with her little sister only, and her, elothea
having caught fire, she bad been burnt to death during
her absence at a farm-houso about two miles distant.
The story was doubted very much by the neighbours;
and on looking at the remains of the child, the shift it
had on was found to have been only partially burnt about
the neck and breast, but the back part was whole, and as
no pieces of the burnt clothes had been found about the
tire-place in the kitchen, their suspicions naturally
became excited, particularly as the woman had previously
only borne a very imperfect character in the village.
The coroner was accordingly summoned, and on the in-
quest these suspicions were communicated to him, and the
house having been searched, the child's clothes were
found wrapped together concealed in a closet ; and on
further inquiries being made, it was found that the in-
human mother had perpetrated the crime in the presence
of her other child, who was in the kitchen at the time,
and who had been so terrified and frightened by the cruel
threats of the mother that she would burn her also if she
reveteed the occurrence, that she in consequence never
mentioned it till questioned by the coroner and jury.
The coroner, Mr. Carrick, after a very patient and
lengthened investigation of the ease, adjourned the in-
quest until Monday next, to give time to obtain some
circumstantial evidence, and in the meantime ordered
the woman to be taken into custody, and she is now in
gaol until the verdict of the jury is returned. This pain-
ful occurrence has been a source of the greatest alarm
and excitement in the secluded village of Lammonby and
its neighbourhood ; and it is supposed that sufficient evi-
dence will be elicited to warrant the coroner in commit-
iug the wretched woman for trial for the cruel and un-
natural murder.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
TIIAMES POLICE.
Yesterday, the boatswain and thirteen other Chinese
seamen, natives of Canton, who were distinguished by
their long tails of plaited black hair, and small caps on
their heads, came to this office to make a complaint
against the master and owner of the Repulse, East
Indiaman. _

The boatswain, a good-tempered Chinaman, got into
the witness-box and began to address the magistrate,
but his English was so imperfect that he could not make
himself understood, and an Englishman who accompa-
nied the natives of the_ Celestial Empire said he wou:d
state their case. The Chinamen shipped in the Repulse,
at Hong-Kong, under articles which specified that they
were to be paid six dollars per month; except the boat-
swain, who was to receive seven dollars,. The articles,
es he understood the men, further stipulated that the
captain of the Repulse was to send them back to China
in another ship at the sate wages. Their engagement
with the Repulse had terminated, and the whole of the
Chinamen had been paid all their wages except twenty
dollars, which they would receive in their own coun-
try. That morning they were seat to another ship,
the Ellen Stewart, in the St. Katharine's Dock,
and upon asking for the articles and the amount of
wages they were to receive, the captain said they were
sent on board as passengers, and would be taken back to
[long-Kong as such, and not as seamen. The men re-
fused to remain on board, and now sought the Magis-
trate's interference to compel the master or owner of the
Repulse to fulfil the engagement entered into at Hong-
Kong, and ship them as seamen at the same rate of
K ages as they had been paid on the voyage to England.
There were four other men who shipped at Calcutta in
the same condition.

Mr. BRODERIP said he was not aware that he had any
power to compel the master or owner to ship the men
as seamen in any vessel bound to Ilong-Kong at six
dollars per month; and he thought it was unlikely that
such an agreement was entered into with the men; but
the owner or master was bound to send them back to
their own country, and if they did not the Lords of the
Admira'ty would take it upon themselves to do so, and
sue the owner for the expenses incurred in relieving,
maintaining, and finding a passage for them.
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, said the *owner of the
Repulse had waited upon him respecting these men, and
said, they only shipped for the voyage to England, and
not for the voyage homewards.
Mr. BRODERIP—In that case the owner has done all
the law requires of him—provided them with a ship to
convey them back to their own country.
The boatswain said bis men wanted six dollars per
month wages, and they signed for it.
Mr. BRODERIP asked the Chinaman's interpreter if
he had seen the ship's artieles, and he replied in the
negative.
Mr. BRODERIP then directed Barber, a police-con-
stable, to wait upon the owner, who was stated to have
offices at No. 29, Cornhill, and request him to wait upon
the sitting magistrate to-morrow (this day) with the
articles, and explain the circumstances of the case.
The boatswain made his salaam, took his long tail
under his arm, and retired.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITH o'ATIZE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Unequalled Success of the Southern American Minstrels.
TIIIS EVENING
WIII be repeated THE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real
Fox-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds.
To be followed by the Meledles of the American Southern Minstrels.
Entire Change in the Circle.--tinequalleil Feats of Horsemanship.
To conclude with the Pantomime of HARLEQUIN JOHNNY
GILPIN'S RIDE ; or, The Black Witch of Edmonton. Johnny
Gilpin, Mr. Wells ; Clown, Mr. Barry ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury ;
Harlequin, Mr. Lewis ; Columbine, Mrs. J. W. Collier.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. D. W. Broadfoot.