The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-06 00:00:00

CHASE EXTRAORDINARY.

A stag having lately made his appearance in tile) neigh-
bourhood of Elsdon, intimation s+f the e;runnt4taore way
sent to Henry Boag, Esq., of Trewhitt, who arcnidingif
went over with his Fox-hounds on Thursday tip niglit.
and, after an excellent run of an hAti anti ten
without a check, succeeded io taking it in iallatit. style,
It proved to be alias briek,'lnd ti-"uPP"ea ttYhave
ed from the west .of Tbme Merc,,,,,p. • ,

PEDESTRIAN MAtuTa;:\tiv,)edAnGaueAdrbelruNtroSu:k(tobqoltSlhaFiea(tie,t
On Monday, to decide a wager of fifty sovereigns-wih
twie'oerrndunojfnotinvheeeerßanFoyyitlaplralr)o7;tohCf4tHilhe ground) fifteen milee ,tbryv
w
hours. The space, one mi 1..., 'our, Was rueemured to thi-
noith of the Cavalry Barracki, at Brighton, making tvrt.
railed out and home. The first live miles were peiformed
in fifty-two minutes and a half, the second five in 'fifty-fotit,
minutes and a ka/f, the third in fifty-nine minutes fifty,
sevineuntesset:::ddsthrtheee accomplished With thirteer,
m hetacsokubdais being
o• spare. The first six emits
were covered in sixty-three minutes.

MATCH TO RU TEN MILES IN .59 MINUTES.
Cbotes, the celebrated pedestrian, undertakes to perform
this Wonderful task this day, at Hampton's Cricket Oretand,
near the New Church, at Camberwell. He eoiramenees at
three o'clock, The wager-money is 401., and the betfine
is six to four in favour of the completion of the truitria.

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SVRREY THEATRE.— ,v e perceive that ..vstf,.
WA YLETT 19 to take her benefit at this Theatre ou Tues-
day next; judging from the marked success which bar,. st.
tended this distiuguished actress during her short engage.-
ment at this Theatre, as well as front the excellent a hilt
of fare " provided for her friends, we can have no doubt
but that she will meet with corresponding support on
Tuesday next.

It is whispered, we understand, in the whiskey
how of Werburgh-street, that several hundred of the
Northern Orangemen have arrived in town for the purpose
of effecting a forcible dressing of tho statue in College-
green, on to-morrow (Tuesday).—Dublin Morning Re.
gister.

The new pier, which will be commenced as
soon
" the necessary powers are obtained, will extend is a
straight hue about 150 feet beyond the-breakwater, and
then break off to the right and left, in the form of a letter
1. A convenient place of embarkation in all times of tide,
and in all winds, will then be formed. The proprietors of
the several steam-packets have signified their intention to
support the undertaking, by engaging to land their paste.
gers upon the pier.— Southampton Paper.
On Wednesday last the Ses.tous of the Peace
ogwitaa:Ahltichtleed
gGfloorrLi*:...d.o__Jtonewyenartoir:sthFenaatedv:rshzettheate7R;zbecoianugraamwaiitd::
paset
On the decease of an old lady in this eity,
few days since, an interest note upon one of our banks, for
several hundred pounds, bearing date as far back as 1792,
was found in her drawers. It had never been presented
for acceptance, nor had any interest, which amounted to
nearly an equal sum with the principal, ever been paid.
The whole of the then existing firm are going to their long
h„,n, ; but, tutteh to the credit of the present bankers, it
was immediately honoured, although payment might haves
been le ally refs -A—.Plymouth Gazieks

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS•

Saint Bexley means is, that the King of -Pros-
.
. • - • sia, who is a very worthy . - man, 'and -iota-
. Dr. Southey pours out about sixty pages of rabid gines himself to. have a better taste in reli-
matter in the last number of. the Quarterly" ;review, gious decorations than his predecessors, thinks the
the business of which is to inoculafe ParlitilllePt Evangelical- Service too simple, and has a sort of
With the notion" of how much more reaataireble- it hankering for a hierarchy. His Protestant subject:
\sea be to dissolve the whole 'frame of the Pri- on the contrary, are by no means enamoured of the
tish Empire, than to admit the King's Cohen, seh- splendour of a hierarchy, whichavould be destructive
jects into the enjoyment of its privileges. The Poet to religion, in their opinion ; and they urge, more-
Lenreet has on this question some terse and epigram_ Over that Bishops cannot be manufactured in an age
matical conceits. Ile looks upon the religion of the where the aid of M. Rothschild is necessary. In a
Catholics; in no better light than as a scheme for en- recent Geiman publication, written with great vigour,
abling the priesthood to domineer over the whole it is observed, with reference to these inclinations of
community : and. he ascribes to the laity of all tanks his Prus.ian Majesty— ' Presbyterianism, which is
and eendirioes just as much political wisdom, and the Republic of Priests, may accidentally be pro-
no more, as will lead them to forward, to their own ductive of good ; hut an Aristocracy of Priests,
detriment and degradation, this worthy pre ject of most necessarily be productive of evil, and only
the priests. The Poet Laureat, having settled so of evil. Neither a Protestant Prince nor a Protes-
comfortable a theory, down from that chamber of tent People, nor any thing which is related to tir he-
the mental slop-shop in which artists in his line are longs to Protestantism, can expect aught from the
most frequently indebted, is at no loss for materials restoration of such an Aristocracy but an existence
wherewith to mould and decorate his work. As we in fetters, or destrirctieh. In its completion and
find ship•builders soak planks in boiling water to a,cendancy it would be for the religious relations of
make them susceptible of the required curvature, so met. whet a Venetian Universal Republic would be
may a Court poet distor tto the uses of one fundamen- for their political relations, and be interesting only
tal prejudice, history, philosophy, truth, and fiction, to the Priesthood. A High Church, like that of
b, steeping them in a cauldron of sour sack. The England, obtains friends in other countries, who,
Laurent Rector seems a learned casuist in the lersi- however, are perfectly indifferent to airy thing be-
tress of taking oaths and breaking them. He con- yond the satisfaction of seeing its decorated digni-
strues some of those whirl, Catholics swear, and taries in their anti-chambers and around the altars.
which he admits that they observe conscientiously, Fortunately, however, for us, the age of loans can
in such a way as proves, to his own satisfaction, that hardly be the age of Prelates. For, as Presbyte-
there are others which they will he ready both to take rianism is nothing without faith, a High Church is
and violate, thus inferring their perjury from a de-
nothing without money. A rich superintendent, for
monstration of their truth. He assumes for Catholics that matter, might well pass for a Bishop ; but, or, the
the intentions which they most earnestly disavow— other hand, a poor Bishop, whatever name he receive.
imputes to their knavery a series of designs, which, will always remain a superintendent." This is the -
if real, would be evidences not of knavery, bur of unsatisfactory state alluded to by Saint Bexley, who
folly, hears testimony to their power, for no end but merely means that the peace of Prussia is owing to
to exasperate their hostility, and colours with- a just the absence of the fuel for religious fervour, namely,
and glowing pencil the confusion, the distraction, the money. Shew us, he would say, a rich hierarchy
sufferings, the !lagers, the impotence of law, the like that of Ireland living in peace and charity with
omnipotence of disaffection, which have grown from a poor unpensioned church, and then we may admit
no other stock but obstinate misgovernment, that he that it will no longer be necessary to keep Ireland
may found on them an argument against any change in a constant state of anarchy, which threatens the
of system. If the Catholic Church was once power-
safety of the whole empire, and impoverishes the
ful, and the people -prostrate, it was because the nation. The interest of the nation is with him sub-
sidiary to the interest of churchmen. So much for
learning necessary for the management of temporal
affairs was in most rases confined to the clergy. Saint Bexley. We alluded the other day to a bolder
When they were the only lights of a-blind and
operator, Dr. Southey, who, in an article in The
tin-
, Quarterl:y Review, does not hesitate to place the
lettered comgruitity, the .priests. of course were
ascendant over it, and turned their superiority to disturbed state of Ireland to the account of the
their own profit. As education became more ge- Aristocracy, and to recommend Poor Laws as a
neral, the laity overtooketnd Outstripped the clergy, sedative. Dr. Southey, however, has other spe-
and gained the Yantage-ground of them. The world cdics besides those to be taken into the stoesrch.
is too forward to be again their slave.-
.Spain and The Catholics are to he restored to the benefit of
Portugal, which still belongsto another century, con- the penal laws, and to be liberated from them
tain even now the elements. of a power which, ere only when they see meet to become Protestants
ten years, will destroy the dominion of their church. "Does, then, (he says), the consistent Protestant
In any part of the British empire---unless. the course look forward to no time at which the State may
of society be arrestedOr,tUrtied toriale,asein Ireland, safely disregard religious differences, and admit the
by a paradoxical and fratltie*.p,. oliey-e---ani subjection Roman Catholiee to an equal share of political
of the lay interests-to. those of „a ,Popish hierarchy power with their fellow-subjects? Not while the
Roman Catholics remain what they are, while their
is 89 impossible as to priests of Ephesus or Babel.
creed binds them to their Cartons, and their Canons
There is yet one point in the diatribe of this Lan-
reate muse which May be worth a brief considers-
hind them to a persecuting spirit, arid instruct them
that faith is not to be kept with heretics. Not
lion. We are told, that to emancipate the Catho-
lio7s would 'be an absurdity, because they have while the Clergy swear obedience to the See of
grievances, frOm. quarters not political, which Rome. Not while the Church of Rome claims to
itself the attribute of infallibility, and proclaims that
dressed. The, landlords. are said to be the real
ought at". all events to be -previously re-
salvation is exclusively confined to those who are of
tyrants of The,
peasantry—not the established its fold ; for upon these tenets intolerance and per-
ciergy,—not the legislature. We bears willing evi- secution are consequent, and become strict dirties
dance to FO much snub as appears to us to be con- —the only duties which that Church- has never
tainted in the above proposition of Dr. Southey. We failed to perform. The single security that might
/lc). riosethink that the. established clergy :afford-in ge- afford a pretext for admitting them into the Legisla-
neral any .well-founded. subject of complaint to the ture would be that which might be offered by a
people. ,It, appears to
.us that their situation has General Council, which should revoke certain doe-
heretofore been most invidious, and to thernselves trines as formally and authentically as they were de-
most creel. They were forced to collect their -in- creed at Trent, at Constance, and in the Lateran.—
comes through ungracious instruments, and they did Opinions of Catholic Universities are worth as little
now as they were when they' were obtained for the
not minister to the peasantry that species .of. . good,
-
'yr recompence for which, according to all theory, use of the Irish in rebellion two- centuries ago. An
the tribute of tithe had been.appointed. - But the authentic disclaimer of whatever is unchristian or
'Tithe Commutation Bill has, We tire assured wrought pernicious is necessary-e-decreed by a Council, and
Wanders in the relation.between.ltbe 'Protestant confirmed by the Pope. Meantime we know that
clergy and • the ,parishioinis,,-;• ,iNatal,,A, i„ux,bee„ what, has been so fiercely- demanded can be withheld,
_
brought into operation in a thousand--parishes, or and need never be conceded till there be such a
change in the claimants as may render it no longer
more, out of 1,600. There is no -longer,' where- it
operates, any contact between the Protestant clergy-
necessary to distrust them. The Irish demagogues
mein and the Catholic peasant. The landlords are
have carried their system of intimidation too far ;
securities to the clergy for the tithe:, it is paid by they have awakened and roused the spirit which it
aliens on their own pasture-lands as well as on the was their purpose to trample down and to destroy.
corn ciopa (which was riot the. case before), and to That wholesome exercise of authority which has
that extent taken off the shOuldera of the tenant. been too long delayed may yet be used with excels
. 'What remains is charged by the landlord to the te- lent effect. But with whatever remedies a dangerous •
madman is treated, the beginning must be to secure :
nani- as so much rent, and with his gent the latter
pays it. The tithe, therefore, where the new law him in a strait waistcoat. Let no more treasonable
operate=, is nothing more than a fixed rent-charge harangues be suffered to pass with impunity; no fur-
issuing from the land for a term of years, at the ex-
ther treasonable preparations; and let the Fortee
pirenon of which a fresh bargain is made te ween shilling Freeholders be disfranchised." . This is a
„
the clergyman and the part h. Under the err- very pretty exemplification of the proposition which
cumstances, the Protestant patron - :
i „1„..,get,. used to lie stated so repeatedly at the Meetings of
the Religious Societies in the Metropolis—" Let
with .regard to the peasantry, into .a country gen, 4.
the Catholics emancipate themselves from their
.str-
denten, and is, gene;al'y speaking, the best country,
perstitiorr, and we will emancipate them." In that
gentleman of his neighbourhood—the best edu-•
. sated, most moral, and most humane. • With clever book, attributed to the Bishop of Limerick,
" Captain Rock Detected," we find it laid down
regard to the mass of Irish landlords, they are
"
represented every where—and we firmly believe but that the state of the Roman Catholics is briefly
this—a people increasing rapidly in numbers, and
too truly represented—as a nuisance to the lower
orders, and a disgrace to their own. Their impro-
daily sinking into greater wretchedness, and yet pot!.
vidence and ostentation produce the natural effect
sensing an energy and a freshness of feeling, in which
of, the Ines:, hideous rapacity in the enormous rents their minds are strongly contrasted with the mono-
which they wring from the miserable peasant. The
tony of their miserable lives; the old gentry—those
who could warn them against improper courses, and
distance Which their station pisses between them-
. e keep up in their minds a salutary belief that their
selves and the multitude, is not tilled up by a middle
sufferings were capable of increase—dropping off, and
- Floes as in England, to, tread upon their heels, anti
a new class of gentry appearing, one by one, in dif-
gt.D.P4se. the, squires, mital. their manners. Hence
ferent parts of the country, Mho, although they
artNiareeeind cou.tempt. for the wretched people
etmfieeine i;aggravate _the sense of their shocking
tray not entertain as yet any design hostile to the Go-
pecuniary pecuniary e'sasnense- hatred, in the Protestant gen- verument, are, nevertheless, possessed by sentiments
elem. an towarrfa olunmitigable hatred towards the nation which they are
:tl,;r-atholic inferior who murmurs
at 'keen, slmw,l j-tsel-c Ingihe form of magisterial tv- perhaps instructed to believe by -such cruel and frau-
easing ; and tne:pt_cii,..R.
I,
,i--,. 0 tut Irish landlord is sour' dulent means subverted the dignity Gf their country,
piete. If it 1-)P4s'",.._'sv. `l.itt.r:etnetly there is for such
the present state of the and extinguished the splendour of their Church."
things, we answer, tnat in;rub? with such a people, so cireomstanced, we fear
hest Bare ought to
Jaw there isllo,rpmedy—that the.
t, emancipation, to allay Dr. Southey wilt find it no easy matter to commence
be the general one--to tvi the strait waistcoat system. Human nature is hu..
the .predominant• fever throughout the system.- man nature in Ireland, as every where else. In
After which, the more specific and i
aet.ve remedies France, Germany, and other enlightened countries,
will have room to work ; antic a these, see are ties we find the liberality of the Laity forcine the Priest-
cidedly of opinion that the most immediate ought hood to greater liberality in turn. With the very
to be, since it would he of all others the must effec. mime creed, the Roman Catholics of those countries
tual, the establishment of the poor laws throughout- !Mier - toto ccelo from the Roman Catholics of Ire-
and with the limitations, land. And why ?, Because an unnateral union is
Ireland, on the principle,
which characterized their original introduction here. no,tePdroduced, by exclusive laws, between the edu-
Until this coercion upon the Irish landlord be adrni- t
In Irenid,the ignorant, the liberal arid the bigot.
nistered, he never will have an interest in the, well-las an gat.present, liberality would he suspected
then only will it be' approximationwo to apostasy. In France, on the
being of his tenant.; for ug It other hand, the d apostacy is not a term of odium,
home to his senses, OW, let the tenant be ever ao
but the bein • • '
rat his feeling, . g priestiedden is. We can make the
poor, the law will find for him—wl Irish what weplease.At present we make all hos-
and for the most part unprincieled, landlord (we are
file to us, ende .
draw forth- expressions of
religious
almost tempted to name some of the worst of them)
, zeal from those who would
natural) be indifferent.
has heretofore withheld from hjm—a sefficienci/ (..)/ —Morning Ch ' 1 mine e.
fond and raiment from the produee of the estate.— The Halifax papers which 21mes.
.were received yester-
day ince the receipt -
atinoi
Lord Bexley never loses sight of Finance in his
Evangelism; and it is curious to observe this great lest Comm;ttee of the House of Commons on the
Saint, in his late Address, have one eye regularly Civil Government of Canada, and remark
, •.tI iat,
fixed on Tithes,: while tire other is on the Bible.-:. "if
. tiered
upon, it will effect a complete. charge
i-ii, mode of preying that those-. who profess the the Government of Canadte.)—that
..." it may be
C'stholic religionsshouldhe-excluded frcm the privi- . called. the declaration of the British •Parliament -as
leg, s of the, Commotion is s very short
and
simple.
to coloniol rights, and almost a declaration of colonial
In all countries of- the-•Continteit where the inhubi; independence," and that the recommendation ". that
tants are partly Protestants, partly Catholics, there persons holding official situations should not.eit in
is the best uriderstandin tg
getween them, and the the Council, tends to weaken the hands of the. Go-
,State places both on t,,ksame footing. This is very vernment." That the Report alluded to in these
true, admits his Lordship; but religion is not on a remarks is calculated to effect a complete change in
properfooting in arty of these countries, and conse- the government of Canada, if acted on, is certainly
fluently they caunot be urged as an example to Eng. as likely as it is desirable ; and that it will, erelong,
hard,
.where alone religion is on a proper footing.— lead to other changes in al our North American
In Prussia, for example, Catholics and Protestants possessions is what we centitfently hope. No colo-
live in the utmost harmony; but, observes Saintnies haveliltherto, with the exception of New South
Bexley, " the state of religion in that country is Wales and Van Dieman's Land, been more gressly
understood to be any thing but satisfactory,. not- mismanaged than those of this country; iron on the
withstanding the very laudable- endeavours of the colonies of any country has so much of the money
King to introduce a better state or things." ' We of the mother country been so uselessly expended.
are not to understand from this that the Cleri The treasury of an industrious -people has been
of Prussia do riot possess ten times more lessen- ; drained for their improvement; -but so shamefully
ing than the Clergy of the Church of England,. I have its•gifts been intercepted and misapplied, that
or that the people of Prussia are ignerant anti , !!'e colonies have derived little or any benefit ftern
turbulent, or that the various sects are deficient them. The aristocrat!), have looked upon them as a
its Christian charity towards each other, What 1 sort of hospitals for the reception of spendthrift son's,