The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 18441

The spirit which prevails in the Opposition journals
of France at the present moment create alarm and
horror throughout the continent of Europe. No
event of a peaceful character pleases the writers in
these mischievous publications. They have little
regard for the interests of the 'human race; they set
at defiance even the welfa,:e, the happiness, and the
security of their own, 6ountrymen. While under the
reign of Louis T;.-tiILIPPE,b France has increased in
power more th.an she did at any former period of the
same extent,• while her commerce is more than three
times greater than it was under NAPOLEON, and the
best of the population, who in the days of glory were
marched off as prisoners to kill Germans and
Russians, are now employed in the arts of peace, the
madmen who conduct the Republican and Carlist
press would return to the old system of
:revolution and conquest, and throw the world into
commotion, with the vain hope of destroying the
ORLEANS dynasty, and taking vengeance on the Eng-
lish. Everything English annoys this wild party--
English horses, English dogs, Englishmen, and Eng-
lishviomen, nay, the Sovereign of ENGLAND, are their
' sFomination. They are like men without reason, and
'would rush to destruction blindfold. The friendly
'visit of their SOVEREIGN to the Court at Windsor
Castle excites the most bitter and savage exclamation!.
Now, we ask them, presuming they are honest men
and gallant Frenchmen, " Could Lours PHILIPPE
have done less ? " The Queen of ENGLAND, disre-
garding all the usual etiquette of crowned bead,,
threw herself into the arms of France. She
paid the highest compliment to the nation,
trusting, of course, to their well-known honour
and gallantry, landed on their shores without
protection, and was received by all classes with the
moot unbounded enthusiasm. Would M. TIIIERS
wish his country, so celebrated throughout Europe
for civilisation, and, above all, fur the highest degm,
of politeness, refuse to return the compliwnt to a
young female, and degrade. " Young Prance" by an
Absolute act of rudeness
he make his SOVE-
REIGN a prisoner—a
114soner too, in a country which
M. THIERS regards as a land of liberty and a model
for all nations—would he
the
from prevent his SOVEREIGN
character o maintaining the old, the hospitable, and polite
f' people, and compel him to forego his
own ardent wish to maintain the chivalry of Franco?
Is the bloody spirit of the Revolution returned
Are all the common decencies of life, all the prou '?
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The election of Dr. Systotas to the office of Vice-
Chancellor of the University of Oxford must be ad-
mitted, even by the Puseyites themselves, to be " a
heavy blow and great discouragement"—as Lord
MELBOURNE would phrase it—to those intolerant High-
Church doctrines which they profess to have so much
at heart. If Puseyism was anywhere strong—if any-
where it exerted a moral influence, which was gene-
rally supposed to be on the increase, and which
influence, as many reflecting individuals imagined,
was likely to be attended with untoward con-
sequences to the cause of simple, unpretendirig•
piety, it was in Oxford that its chief strength lay.
tlere it was first broached—here its infancy was
nurtured with the most assiduous care—here its
progress was watched with the most anxious soli-
citude—here it was advocated with the most subtle
skill, and clung to with the most desperate tenacity.
It is not two years since the rapid spread of this
schism among the graduates, and not a few of the
higher authorities of the University, struck terror to
the hearts of what is called the Low-Church party,
and induced them to endeavour to soothe by cora-
promise what they feared they could not put down
by open opposition. Most of our readers, no doubt,
remember the trimming, jesuitical Charge of the
Bishop of LONDON, wherein this discreet prelate.;
whose highest ambition seems to be to stand
well with all religious parties—strove to steer ,a
middle course between Puseyism on the one hand
and Evangelism on the other, and to coax, wheedle,
and give an apparent support to both, without abso-
lutely committing himself with either. This Charge
was, of course, delivered by the ghostly London under
an impression that High-Church would, ere long, be-
come too dangerous an antagonist to be treated with
silent, supercilious indifference ; and, indeed, circum-
stances seemed at the time to favour the Bishop's
prudent view of the matter, for in all quarters we
heard of the spread of Puseyism, and of the wonderful
revolution it was noiselessly working in the senti-
ments of the provincial clergy. Such was the case
but two or three years ago; but now, " how are the
:nighty fallen !"—How are the prospects of the
Puseyites " fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf!"
Not only have these fanatical sticklers for the mere
'external ceremonies of religion lost much of their
.nfluence generally in the provinces, among the ele-
ical fraternity, but they have been defeated at head-
quarters—in the very birth-place of their heresy
—in antiquated, High-Church, Laud-reverencing
Oxford ! This, indeed, is a stunning blow, and one
from which we can scarcely venture to predict that
:hey will ever fully recover. Justly remarks
the .Herald on this subject :—" If the attempt to
sppose the election of Doctor SYMONS be an un-
wise one on the part of its promoters, it has proved a
happy and glorious event for the University. Su
heavy a blow has never yet been given to Tracta-
rianism. The power arrayed on the side of truth,
and order, and peace was overwhelming. The result
must be most salutary as it respects the future well-
being of the University." Though we are by no
means prepared to deny that the Puseyites have done
some good—though not exactly of the character
which they intended—by putting the antagonist party
in the Church on its mettle, and compelling it to be
more active and diligent in its ministrations than it
would otherwise have been ; yet we quite agree with
our Contemporary that the defeat of these
zealous sticklers for the mere showy cere-
monial observances of the Establishment—in
the rigid maintenance of which they seem
to think that the essence of true religion consists---:
cannot be otherwise than beneficial to the best inte-
rests of the University. For what else is Puseyism,
but a thing made up of forms and ceremonies—which
appeals to the exciteable fancy, while it fails to con-
vince the understanding or touch the heart—which
is arrogant to a degree in its pretension—which in-
sists on the blindest and most obsequious submission
on the part of its disciples--which is strenuously op-
posed to everything like rational freedom of thought
or inquiry—and which, could it have its own
way unchecked, would bring us back to the same inglo-
rious, slavish state in which we were under the doni'..
nation of Popery, ere the spirit of enlightener,,,' .fide-
pendenee, impersonated by LUTHER, forth to
rescue us from our abject bonks.- and raise us in
the scale of thinking and religious beings ?
Madrid

adrid journals
... of the Ist inst. have been received,
but they ti:ing little intelligence of importance,
thou"'-.1 abundance of rumours. One of them is that
cne Government had some coup (fetal in contempla-
tion, and that it would probably take place about the
12th. Another is that.MARTINEz DE LA ROSA had
quarrelled with his colleagues, and was about to re-
tire from the Cabinet. This, however, is denied by
the Ministerial journals. General NAEVAEZ is en-
gaged in making reforms and retrenchments in the
army, and is about to dispense with the military in-
spections, which will produce a considerable saving.
Madrid Bourse on the lst.—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 27 ; for account, 27f ; Five per Cents., for
account, 20i ; Floating Debt, 66i at 60 days.

The act of indemnity to certain political prisoners
granted by Louis PIIILIPPE before leaving Eu, is ad-
verted to by all the Paris journals. Those of the
Opposition, as a matter of course, are generally dis-
satisfied with it for no other reason than we can see,
but because the act does honour to the KING, and
will render him more popular. Some of them in fact
say, it is not an act of mercy, but necessity. This
is the language of the Courrier Francais—" The
courage of the Ministry has all oozed out ; it trem-
bles in presence of its errors, and capitulates with
popularity. The Ordonnance of the Chateau d'Eu is
not a work of mercy and clemency--it is a calcula-
tion. The measure of humiliation aLd error was full;
it was necessary to give satisfaction to outraged opi-
nion, and therefore a shadow of amnesty has been
thrown over it. The derisory amnesty so long and
so vainly looked for, and now so unexpected, is only
the redemption of the shame of Otaheite, the treaty
with Morocco, and the visit to England. It is the
ransom of the Ministry with the Chambers.
grace
clemency GUIZOT thought he would effect a master stroke in,
royal the
hai
giving liberty to a few cap,,t,i;e:as. a Tse_hlaefii,sriahnEdhotb
has paid for a Ministerial combinatio-
clemency itself, exercised
lost its grandeur *losing :its spontaneousness. lt
was reserve`i... i'or M. GUIZOT to compromise the mercy
.oyalt y as well as the dignity of France."l
The Presse, however, forms an exception. "Among the
number of persons for political offences," says that
journal, "to whom the remainder of their punish-
ment is remitted, is comprised the late editor
~:t
the
Journal du Peuple, DUPOTUY, who wP•
in the month of December, 1841 .04 COndernned
Peers, to imprisonment for r --, by the Court-a H
moral complicity'
.
the idea which-
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u e Duke
his act of royalac
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acquirements of civilised society, all the experience
obtained by long, and fatal, and horrible wars, to be
cast to the winds for the purpose of keeping! up
eternal hostility to a near neighbour ? Such is the
doctrine of this sage legislator and his colleagues.
Would it not be well, however, for these warlike men
to ask themselves seriously what they expect to gain
by inciting France against England ? Can they de-
stroy our commerce or our colonies—can they destroy
the English navy or capture the island ? Can they
invade Hindostan or blockade the Indus—have they
the slightest chance of coming off better now than
when NAPOLEON was Emperor ? But we fear it is
needless to ask them questions, or reason
with them. Their great object is war
at any price, and if by the mysterious decrees of Prio-
VIDENCE their wishes were granted, France would be
reduced to the same condition in which it was in
1815, and every nation in Europe would probably be
an equal sufferer. It is the duty, therefore, of all
mankind to hold up these firebrands as the greatest ob-
stacles to civilisation and public liberty, to put them
out of the pale of society, and denounce them as the
enemies of the human race. LOUIS PHILIPPE know s
them well. He has set them at defiance. Notwith-
standing their malicious remonstrances, he has f4l-
- out the bent of his own inclination ; fulfilled
the wishes of the great body of the French people;
crossed the Channel for the first time a French Sove-
reign ever crossed it in peace ; has been welcomed ,at
Portsmouth, and every place on his passage, with the
most enthusiastic acclamations ; and is now enjoying
at Windsor the hospitality of a nation which M
TRIERS and his clique still regard as the natura
enemy of France.