The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-07 00:00:00

THE BRITISH MAGAZhVE.

This magazine is chiefly devoted to serious and re-
ligious subjects ; in the present number, there is an
interesting article on " Modern Hagiology," exposing
the errors of those Commentators who seek to im-
prove the Sacred Text by their own additions.
" Correspondence" includes letters on " Prophecy,"
the " Clergy and the Middle Classes," " Vestiges of
Creation," and various other subjects. But the mo t
important topic, the topic of the day, is of course
Maynooth; the remarks on this subject are worthy of
attention, characterised as they are by extreme mode-
ration and forbearance. As a firm supporter of the
Church of England, the writer approves of the May-
nooth grant, on the ground that education is ever the
forerunner of truth. We recommend the following
remarks to the attention of those who fear that the
Established Church will suffer from the change :
" We believe that this measure will serve the Church,
will tend to its stability and ultimate increase, and what
it may not be wrong to consider even more important
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general. Give the Church in Ireland gentlemen and
scholars, and men who are sincerely pious in their own
religious creed—give it such men as these for its anta-
gonist., and the truth will find its own way, and pre-
vail over every opposition. The truth fears not learn-
ing, nor morality, nor piety; it breathes more freely,
when it has such opponents to contend against; it finds
itself at a disadvantage when opposition is clothed in the
garb of ignorance, and vulgarity, and scurrilous ridicule,
and political secularity and violence. Against such an-
tagonists it knows not how to aim its weapons; and be-
sides this—make the Roman Catholic clergy scholars
and theok glans, and you at once force upwards the tone
and standard of theological attainment in the Church;
divines who appeared learned beside an almost illiterate
gentlemen.
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and half-civilised priesthood, must dig deeper into the
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theology, when
more learning the Church of Rome brings against the
doctrine of our Reformation, the more will it bring to
light, and detect the shallowness of its own pretensions,
and the feeble sophistry of its defences. The more
learned and scholar-like its attacks on us, the more does
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s between us and the Romish Church in Ireland?hfetarcelehs questionool
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not a question between truth and error? between the
Catholic Church and a schismatical body? Perhaps
neither community can reasonably object to this way of
stating the case ; but, believing as we do, that we have
truth and catholicity on our sid, and believing that the
Divine presence and power are promised to truth and
catholicity to the end of the world, is it not plain that
all the Church in Ireland can now desire is, that the
battle between truth and error should be fairly fought?"
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plleric system, the impelling power is at the centre of
gravity, and must, from its action, keep the train on the
rails. A collision of trains, from which such disastrous
results have arisen, cannot possibly take place on the at-
mospheric principle. Then, not to enter into any meta-
physical discussion of the question, how much the very
consciousness of safety promotes our comfort—it may
suffice to say, that the atmospheric system offers a full
enjoyment of the pure atmosphere of heaven as you
quietly glide on by an invisible power, and entire free-
dom from the clanking of cumbrous machinery, flying
sparks, hot cinders, and strong sulphuretted hydrogen.
Another advantage is, increased speed—the average rate
of travelling by the atmospheric power being fifty miles
an hour, while the highest velocity of travelling on the
fastest line, by steam, is thirty miles an hour ; and, in a
country where time is appreciated as property of great
value, this must be considered of paramount importance
did it exist alone ; but when speed can be secured at less
expense, and with increased safety and comfort, no
doubt can exist to which system the most decided prefer-
ence is to be given."

In the " Game of Chess by the Electric Telegraph,"
there are some amusing speculations as to the singular
effects that may he produced by the electric current;
for example, when her Majesty visits the House
of Lords, the salutes might be repeated at every sta-
tion in England; instead of blowing. up a ship at the
distance of six miles, by one of Captain Warner's
projectiles, we should he enabled to do so at the dis-
ta.nee of a thousand. Humanity should compel every
butcher to kill animals by electric galvanism, which
would spare them all pain and suffering. There is
an explanation of the signs of the Zodiac, showing how
the figures are appropriated to the seasons they repre-
sent ; a chapter of Agricultural Chemistry ; Antista-
tic Printing, and various other subjects of interest or
instruction.