The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-31 00:00:00

A NEW ORDER OF THINGS.

Dr. M`Hale has addressed to Sir Robert Peel a
second letter, on the subject of the Charitable Dona-
tions Bill now before Parliament. The production
is lengthy and elaborate—too diffuse for insertion at
large in our columns—but still too important, as a
sign of the times, to be altogether passed over in
silence. We have, therefore, taken a middle course
—and sifting off the bran have preserved the flour.
The first thing that will strike the attentive reader
is the sudden, the extraordinary change of tone which
this letter exhibits, compared with the former. There
is in this a beautiful shading off of the rough corners
and asperities of thought and language in which this
Malleus Herelicorum was wont to delight ; and an
agreeable amenity of manners and diction indi-
cates that something has occurred to change
the spirit of the hierarch's dream. Can it
be that his recent speech has had anything to
do with bringing the Minister into better odour ?
Can the prospect of good things to come—of schools
and colleges, with new, or with enlarged endowments
—and the consequent increase of power and patronage
in Holy Mother Church—have had this soothing
effect on the Doctor's temper ? We cannot say—the
cause may be sufficient—and yet not the efficient of so
great and pleasing a change. But come how it may, the
change is visible. The Doctor is not only civil, but
placable : not only placable, but in some measure ap-
peased ; and, if things go on in the same prosperous
course till the close of the next session, the Doctor
will probably be one of the most attentive and suc-
cessful courtiers at the Castle of Dublin. Indeed, as
Sir Robert rises, Lord Normanby seems to go down ;
and nobody need be surprised to hear that, as the
new diplomacy developes itself, the old " officious
and unauthorised sponsorship" will become more and
more odious and insufferable to " a nation's feelings
and convictions."

It is true the Doctor is not quite reconciled to the
Charitable Donations Bill; but propter utilitatem
ecclesice, the feeling Is. not unnatural. Too little
power is 'given to the Church—too much to the
State. The interests of the priests are sacrificed to
the interests of the laity ; in fact, the Bill is too
careful of lay property and too heedless of
the " benefit of clergy" to be quite acceptable to a
churchman so thorough-going as the successor of
St. Jarlath. But all in good time. The amorous
lion, that suffered his fangs to be drawn and his claws
to be pared for the sake of the forester's pretty
daughter, may be considered only as the forerunner
of our Lion of the Fold of Judah, the terror of whoge
mane is relaxing at the sight of a fair endowment,
and who begins to sheath his claws at the prospect of
an additional grant. We write this amid the thun-
ders of popular applause that rend the skies, while
the brilliant cortege that conducts Lord Heytesbury
to the Castle is passing almost under our windows;
and we, too, begin to think that his Lordship will
work a miracle.

Before closing these remarks, we must notice with
approbation the very useful hint which the Doctor
has thrown out respecting the supposed inability of
this country to bear its fair share in the burdens of
taxation ; and we hope Sir Robert will profit by it.
" An average of two thousand pounds a week," quoth
Doctor An-hie, "shows the mighty resources of a
people resolved to be free."
That is a Catholic truth, which, in whatever sense
it may be taken, deserves the attentive consideration
of her Majesty's Government.—Dublin Evening Mail.

ANNANDALE PEEnicia.--We understand that the
infant twin son of the late Sir Frederic Johnstone, Bart.
was on Thursday served heir male in general to the
last Marquis of Annandale, by a jury, consisting
chiefly of members of the legal profession. The evi-
dence of the pedigree was got up in. a masterly man
tier. The librarians of the Faculty of Advocates
and Writers to the Signet, and the gentlemen con-
nected with the records in the Register Office, at-
tended with books and documents, from which,
the propinquity was to be established ; and a
body of evidence of the most convincing character was
laid before the inquest, who arrived unanimously at the
above conclusion. The jury afterwards dined together
in Douglas' Hotel in honour of the occasion.—Sir Fre-
derick John William Johnstone of Westerhall, Baronet,
was on the same day served before the Sheriff of Edin-
burgh, and a respectable jury, heir male in general to
George, last Marquis of Annandale. Thomas Thomson,
Esq., advocate, presided, as Chancellor.— Scotsman of
Saturday.

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and a few influential members, after forming them-
selves into a committee, succeeded in rallying the
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JOE SMITH, THE MORMON PROPHET.—(FROM A
CORREVONDENT.)—This extraordinary personage, who was
shot
in the
yearattended a Dissenting chapel, and when seventeen years of
age, it is said that an angel appeared to him, telling him his
sins were forgiven, and that he was chosen to translate the
in attempting
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sacred book of Mormon, which was written in the Egyptian
language on plates of gold, and had been hid for 1,423 years
in a stone box, on the hill of Comorah, in the New York
territory. It was not, however, until four years' after that
he received the plates from the angel; the translation was
conducted in a most singular manner, having prevailed upon
a person named Harris, who resided in Palmyra, to assist
him, Smith dictated from behind a screen, while Harris
transcribed. Harris having had some misgivings in conse-
quence of not being permitted to see the plates, withdrew
from the sect after it had cost him 10,000 dollars ; he was
succeeded by a person named Cowdery, by whose assistance
the translation was published nr1830: in the fall of the year
his followers amounted to about eighty persons ; but in the
following spring they numbered above 1,000, when they re-
moved to Kirkland, in Ohio, where their first temple was
built:. In 1838 having been threatened by the myrmidons of
the law, in consequence of having incurred debts to a consi-
derable amount, they fled to Independence, Jackson County,
Missouri ; here they were shamefully treated by the Lynch
lawyers—their houses levelled with the ground, 30 killed, and
15,000 banished by the Governor. The party then emigrated
to Illinois, and in the Western wilds built the city of Nauvoo,
all the inhabitants of which are Mormons. It was estimated
in the beginning of 1843, that there were nearly 100,000 of
the sect in the United States. The Book of Mormon has been
proved to be a novel written by a person named Spaulding,
since dead, transcribed by Smith, and interpolated with por-
tions of Scripture, the whole being intended to show that a
great number of Israelites, on the dispersion of the tribes,
emigrated to America, and in A. D. 420, were cut off by the
Indians, with the exception of Moroni, who escaped and hid
the book.
No fewer than 1,300 men have been hired for the
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lighting of the lamps in the Cham p Elysees, for the illumi-
nation of the 29th. They will commence at a given signal,
so that the lighting up is expected to be almost aimultaneeus.
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