The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

PUSETISM.

TO THE MOST RETEREND FATHER IN GOD, HIS GRACE
THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE

OF ALL ENGLAND AND METROPOLITAN.

We, the subscribed, lay inhabitants of Cheltenham
and devoted Episcopalians, regarding with dismay the
recent development of the views inculcated by the
tuthors of the " Tracts for the Times," venture to ad-
dress sour Grace, as the chief ecclesiastical guardian of
the Church of Chaim. in England, persuaded that many
of tteir writings are utterly repugnant to the Word of
_God, at variance with the plain meaning of the Arti-
cles, Liturgy, and Homilies of the Church of England,
and contain the essence of many of the most fatal errors
of the Church of Rome.

We therefore humbly entreat your Grace to take such
measures as to your Grace may seem most advisable
for the Episcopal Bench to declare, authoritatively,
their uni'ei disapprobation of those opinions, which
have already been separately condemned by many of the
Bishops at their triennial visitations, as we doubt not
they would have been by the remainder, bad similar oc-
casions pres..noed themselves.
We do not pre.ume to dictate to your Grace, but
pres:mt our request in solemn earnestness!, as to one to
whom the charge and oversight of the flock of Christ
in this rcatm has been committed by the Chief Shep-
herd and Bishop of our souls.

We, the subscribed, with every sentiment of respect,
humbly beg to declare ourselves your Grace's most
obedient and fa'thful servants.

Lambeth, Dec. 24, 1841.
GENTLEMEN—I have to ackno•nledge the receipt of
your letter •ot the 23d of this month, accompanied by
an address very numerously signed by many of the
laity of Chdtunit:im, and I beg to essurc you, that in
compliance with the wish expressed by the petitioners,
I shad give my grave con:ideratioa to this document.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient. servant,
John Lewis, Esq., &c. W. CANTUAR.

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—The first meet-
ing for the season was held on Saturday afternoon, the
Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnson, Bart., in the Chair.
A letter waa-read from Captain Newbold on the ancient
mounds of scoriated ashes in Southern India. Many
conjectures had been made as to their origin, and
amongst others it was considered that they were the re-
sult of volcanic action. The improbability of this was,
however, pointed out, -.as there was even no vestige of
volcanic action in the neighbourhood. Many of- these
burrows were of some extent, one, which was mea-
sured, being of the dimensions of 34 yards by 29. It
%vas the author's opinion that they were ashes princi-
pally of slave, or of those slain in the bAtt!e-field,
which was also interestingly confirmed by the fact, that
on analysis they, were found to contain largely phospho-
ric acid. . Sacrificial rites with human bodies were prat-.
tised by the ancient Hindoos on a very large scale, to
propitiate success in war, agficultnre, &c. On one occa-
sion it is recorded that no fewer than 1,000 human sacri-
fices were offered, and in another instance 1,000 ele-
phants and an equal number of sheep. The Ilindoos
were,however, not the only people characterised by
human sacrifices, as the same was practised by the
ancient Druids only a few centuries before the Great
.lified, by the nomades of Tartary, and in some of the
ceremonies of Greece and Rome. The practice still
exists amongst the Komis, from which it is likely, how-
ever, to be rooted out, by the vigorous measures of Lord
Elphinstone. In the course of a subsequent conversation
it wa:; stated that there were no of volcanoes, either
active or extinct, to be met with Between the Himalaya
:nonntains and Cape Cormorin.
front of
common
souseugg agseo-
of the misery it has
insult
anilia'pApTilAyLgr-10‘17n:DiEnNiTriteonNsit7 GREAT WEST-
ERN RIILNYA.Y.—With such ; examples before us, each
for human beings to
caused, can- any
it is the best place for
t the
much as to call it the safest—place
train is a fit—for mweansilaly,ntohta
be pat ? We can conceive that
the pockets of a Company, who may have to pay for the
goods they may damage on the ways and not for the lives
they may destroy ; but unless in the greater -risk to life
and limb, we can see nothing to be gained by the pas-
sengers, and we seriously hope, if the Companies do not
one and all take warning by ate calamitous event just
happened, and provide better for the poorer public, that
the Legislature will do it for them. The public pay for
a safe conveyance, and have a right to it, and they who
attempt to prejudice that right, are as much enemies to
the railways as they are to the public. For our part we
have always upheld railways, as the safest of all modes
of transit hitherto invented, and we feel our indignation
rising when we see it affected by ignorance or wilful-
ness, or dogmatic pertinacity in favour of absurd or dan-
gerous practices. We do not mean to say that accidents
would be totally prevented by running passengers'
trucks behind the goods—for the Null and Selby acci-
dent rises up before us as a proof that carelessness may
frustrate the wisest P• 1
ans---but we say, that the elements
of accidents are more nurnerons in front than in the rear
of a train, and that it is no less the interest than the
duty of every Company to give their customers the safest
place their conveyance admits of.—flailivaY Magazine.
AN EMBRYO CONSERVATIVE.—A young
gentleman was asked the other day if his father was not
giving him a liberal education. o No, indignantly re-
plied the young cockatrice, ‘. My father is not giving
ine-d Liberal; education ;-he is giving me a Conservative 1
education, Sir.'