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VENING SUN.

PUSEYISM AND POPERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
an article in your paper of the 25th on Mr.
Wackerbarth and his pamphlet, you ve,ity shrewdly con-
jecture that he has not made his last recantation. As I
was a student at Camblidge at the same time as Mr.
Wackerbarth, and as his career there was not less sin-
gular than it has been since he left it, perhaps it may be
of use to your readers to know something more about him.
He had the unusual notoriety of belonging to three
colleges, being first at Trinity, then migrating to
Corpus, and then to Queen's.
Ile was a young man of fine taste in languages, music,
&c., but always intemperate m the expression of his
opinions—very Tory, and very High Church. For a
short interval he was bitten with the Evangelical or Low
Church doctrines, but this did not last long. He soon
returned to his first love, to the Saxon Chronicles and
the RoMan Missal.

The Bishop of Lichfield, whose censure he fell undo.,
was his College tutor, and is doubtless alluded to in the
passage you quote as the person who'got into the apos-
tolic order " as the pay of simonious electioneering
service." Manet alto mcnte repostum,Judicium
spretavue injuriafin-ma.

But peace to the ashes of his Anglican Priesthood. lie
is at all events an honester man than Dr. Pusey, who
holds his own Church in the same contempt as the " civil
engineer," but has not the courage to fling a shell into
its batteries.—Your obedient servant;
Jan. 29, 1842. A UNIVERSITY MAN.

•
FACTS FOR THSSABBATARIANSr
(From the Edinburgh Observer.)
So far back as thelegitining of the month of De-
cember, a.circular was sent to the superintendents of
police for several of the great towns in England, in name
of the Commissioners of Police of this city, the object
of which 13 sufficiently indicated in the subjoined
queries. Whether this was truly a proceeding by the
Board, or why the result was not communicated to the
public, may be mutter for consideration of the Board it-
self: In the meantime, we subjoin the queries, and the
answers in the case of Manchester, and are giyen to
understand that the answers were similar from New-
castle and Carlisle. Facts like these are worth a mil-
lion of speculations. Let the men who sit quietly at
home on the Sunday, in the luxuriant enjoyment of
their hot joints and well plenished decanters, and yet de-
nounce the poor man's excursion to the country as Sab-
bath desecration,—who 101 l in their horse-drawn car-
riages, yet anathematize the railroad train, answer this
document if they can. Be it remembered, that the
queries were propounded, and the answers obtained,—
not by the Sunday travellers—but by the most rigid
Sabbatarian querists

" Manchester, Dec. 18, 1841.

Sir,—ln answer to your letter of the 16th instant, I
have to state, for the information of the Commissioners
of Police of the' City of Edinburgh, to the first query—
' Whether there has been any increase in Manchester,
and its neighbourhood, of drunkenness, rioting, or other
offences on Sundays, in consequence of railway trains
running On that day ?'—Most decidedly, No.
" In reply to your second query—' If the country pa-
rishes, on the lines of railways, make any complaints in
consequence of such trains being run on Sundays ; and
if they have experienced inconvenience by parties and
others visiting those parishes who have been conveyed
by railways, and getting drunk, riotous, or committing
other offences on that day, and thus tending to demoralise
the rural parishes ?'—l beg to say, I have had mv at-
tention constantly turned to the travelling per railway
on every day of the week, as well as on the Sunday ;
and, from my experience here, I do not believe that any
inconvenience has been felt by parties and others visiting
the adjoining parishes, who had been conveyed by rail-
way on Sunday, by their getting drunk, riotous, or any
other offences on that day.

"In answer to your third iptery---‘ Whether running
of railway trains on the Sundays affords fiwilities for the
escape o.f depredators, and of the properties or goods
which they may have stolen on Saturday nights or Sun-
day morningsi.and thus being enabled to get the start of
a day and escape ?'—l admit railway trains facilitate the
escape of depredators every day of the week, but not so
much on the Sundays as on other days. I consider there
has been a. complete revolution in public matters since
the establishment of railways, owing to there being upon
an average 9,000 passengers daily arriving in Manchester.
" In reply to your fourth query—' It will be obliging
if you will furnish me with any statistical, or other infor-
mation or facts bearing on the subject of railway travel-
ling on the Sunday ?'—l have to state that the railway
Directors in Manchester are men of the highest moral
and religious character, and would not permit any dese-
cration of the Sabbath, which they could possibly pre-
vent ; and I know their orders are most strict to their
servants, to permit no drunken or riotous person to travel
by the trains.

In conclusion, I beg leaye to add, that, rs a matter
of police, I am decidedly of opinion, in which I am
supported by the very oldest officers of the force, that
the more facilities there Are offiTed to the labouring
classes for innocent recreation, the fewer cases of crime
are brought before the police.
" l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " CHA
" J. Thomson, Esq., &e., &c., RLES SHAW.
Police-office, Edinburgh."

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO BRIGHTON.—The
preparations at the Pavilion at Brighton, which have
been in hand for a considerable period, have received an
impetus since the announcement of the intention of her
Majesty and Prince Albert to visit the town, by the em-
ployment of a large number of additional workmen, who
are required to work early and late, in order that the
necessary arrangements for the reception of the Royal
party may be completed by the time announced for their
arrival. A meeting of the inhabitants of the town is
convened for this evening (Monday), for the purpose of
considering in what manner the Queen and her Royal
Consort shall be received, so as best to demonstrate the
loyalty of the town.
MELTING ICE WITH SALT.—During the con-
tinuance of frost or snow it is a very common practice
for pergons to get;rid of the slipperiness of the footways
opposite their dwellings by sprinkling a quantity of salt
thereon. , The practice, we have reason to believe, is
productive of an evil at least as great as that which it
professes to remedy, and has beyond doubt been the
fruitful source of aggravated colds. Professor Faraday
thus speaks of Persons are in the habit of sprink-
ling salt upon snow before their doors. They could
not do a more silly or injurious thing. The result is,
to change dry snow or ice at the temperature of 32 deg.
to brine at 0. The injurious effect of damp upon the
feet at this excessive degree of cold is likely to be ex-
treme. If, then, any one does, sprinkle salt upon snow
in the street, he ought to feel it a matter of conscience
to sweep it away immediately."
CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.
—ln Liverpool itself there was every disposition on the
part of the public to treat the event in a manner be-
coming the interest it excited and the respect due to the
Sovereign and her family. But this disposition met with
no seconding on the part of the authorities, who merely
interfered in a way to spoil the general holyday, by,
treating it in so doubtful a manner that no one could
make his mind up whether it would really be a bolyday
or not, and the day, eventually, was one of idleness,
without being, as it ought to hare been, a day of free
enjoyment. This is rather an ominous beginning of the
Tory dynasty, which plumes itself on its high loyalty
and generous feeling-. Discontent is generally felt and
expressed at the conduct of the chief magistrate. People
contrast it with what was the conduct of the Liberals
when is office, on the occasion of her Majesty's corona-
tion and marriage. It is not, to.be sure, every one who
can be expected to rival the princely hospitalities of Sir
Joshua Walmsley on the latter occasion ; but some
little indication of the existence of a chief magistrate is
to be expected from every Mayor, especially a wealthy
Mayor. Never, we believe, since Liverpool was a.Cor-
poration, would the windows of the Town-hall have been
dark on such an occasion as that of Tuesday. If the
Mayor did not choose to step out of his way to give a
more general entertainment, the least that was to be ex-
pected from him was to have set an example of hospita-
lity and of loyal rejoicing by drinking her Majesty's
health and that of the young Prince, to as select a party
as he pleased, at his official table.—Liverpool Journal.

.. . .
An appalling occurrence took place at the
Bowery Amphitheatre, on Saturday evening. Mr. Da-
vid Watkins, of 743 Fourth-street, visited the establish-
ment on that evening with his wife and child, a little girl
of about four years, and being unable to get through the
crowd at the Bowery entrance, passed around to the en-
trance on Chrystie-street, intending to enter the Amphi-
theatre through the Menagerie. Among the animals in
the collection was a young leopard, which was supposed
to be so tame that it was kept nncaged, and had no se-
curity except a chain of some eight or ten feet in length.
As Mr. Watkins and his family were passing the leopard,
it made a .redden spring, and catching the child's head
in its mouth, dragged her from her mother's arms. Mrs.
Watkins instantly swooned, and fell to the floor. Quite
a number of people were in the Menagerie at the time,
and their shrieks brought one of the keepers to the spot,
who forced the animal to let go its hold upon the child.
• The poor creature was found to be dreadfully lacerated
about her head and face, one of her eyes nearly torn
from its socket, and the flesh torn in a shocking man-
ner. Every possible assistance was rendered to the lit
tle sufferer, and some hopes are entertained of her re-
covery, though her eye is gone, and should she surviv:„
she will remain greatly disfigured. The exposit:l.l, ci _
__l
their visitors to the attacks of such a ferocious 1 !,Pa
by the proprietors of the concern, merits the severestaw .__ A_
re-
prehension. The condition in which the animal "5
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Paper
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THE LATE WRECK OFF
B itAilvltlee.trx.Hreanlinn;srNue,r—ed latelyl
owners of the brig
French Consul at Brighton hqz,:cz
ndleserted by her crew. The
pleitctkeerdstlaTesorhiaßast rtihgbeefie7lo:l:ll6,se Feared . r
and cargo
that nothing I
feared have perished. the
received d
crew,aet
The Gencral Steam Navigation Company's vex.
sel the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom-how yesterday,with the Dutekumil,

journal
- ENING OF PARLIAMENT.
S R- much
10)w:7,s:11j
1,
EDITOR OF TIM SUA'. • -
journal on Thursday delightedan on reading your valuable
to find the Anti-Corn-
law League had suggested r)daY'
thee people assembling on the
occasion of her Majesty
1 pressing their disapprobation or if; :ue
13...1g);ilti,an:ehnatt, aln and
11:I:-
accursed and inhu-
man Corn-laws. Permit me to
would be less objectionable to
wfialjesty, that the
people should provide themselves
boldly printed. For example:—" No Cornt-lusts."
ovvibneds7i,iilD)ttlii;sti,ii
with the Corn-laws." "No Starvation-laws."
is he who withholds Corn from the Poor."
day our daily Bread, &c."--4 am, Sir, you
A FBIEND• TO IIIiMANITY. '
St. Martin's, Jan. 30,1842.