The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-10 00:00:00

little better than a cannibal. The ladies would
every where set him down as one whose taste for
blood would be likely to gratify itself in some
unhallowed way. We have known many opi-
nions pass gradually from the obnoxious to
the respectable class; and other opinions,
once highly respectable, pass into the obnoxi-
ous and the ridiculous. 'We have Rio doubt that
in the course of a year or two, men will be as
shy of avowing any partiality for excluding the
Catholics from civil rights as of avowing a belief
in ghosts or witches. A prudent man, who'
never changes his place of abode, may easily,
by a little attention, avoid either being too much
in advance or too much in the rear of the ri,ght
sort of opinions. But then, if he have occasion
to change his country, all his previous know-
ledge goes for nothing. We have known, for
instance, Germans who, in their own country,
passed for extra-pious, set down in England for ,
Infidels—so different is opinion in that respect
in England "and Germany. The North Ame-
ricans consider the Unitarians or England, who
think themselves excessively liberal, as only a
little less bigotted than the Trinitarians. As
sentation is thus rendered peculiarly difficult
to a stranger in any country, The English
Quakers are, we 'ice, excommunicating the
American Quakers for heterodoxy ; an Ame-
rican Quaker in England would, perhaps, be
found not sufficiently strict for a High Church-
man. The English Puritans found in Hol-
land a safe asylum and the most ample tolera-
tion ; but they could not themselves tolerate
the Dutch, and rather than live in a country
in which spiel houses were open on Sabbath,
they betook themselves to the wilds of America.
The descendants of these very Puritans, who
were so shocked by the Dutch laxity, would, in
the present day, be shunned by the latter as Moo-
logists, a dangerous set of people in every coun.
try. It may be allowed, then, that those who
question universally-received opinions are fools ;
and those who retain opinions generally aban-
doned are equally fools. But as there always
will be fools in the world, we must lay our ac-
count with a constant warfare against received
opinions with various success. It is well to
know that knavery is not always a profitable
concern, and that honesty is not always a losing
One. No means have yet been discovered for
retaining the world stationary. Campanella ad-
vised the Spanish Monarchs, to " erect mathe-
matical schools, because, by this means, the
people's minds will be diverted from creating us
any trouble, and will be incited to bend their
studies that way which may be useful to the
King." Lady Morgan, we observe, has stumbled
on the same idea :

" I suspect, therefore (she observes), that the
current admiration for the mathematics, as an instru-
ment of mental discipline, arises much more from
the safety of such pursuits, and their disconnection
with moral and political interests, than from the
rigour and exactness of their methods of argumen-
tation. At the end of a five years' College course,
the student is not more likely to question established
abuses than if he had spent the time in playing
sluttlecock. His moral faculties have been kept
perfectly quiescent. Indignation at public and
private wrong, contempt for falsehood and disho-
nesty, the kindling glow of approbation at patriotic
self-sacrifice, hare remained unawakened and cold.
The perusal of abstractions has shut out all interest

or feeling for realities ; and the University whippers-
in have trained the young hound quite away from
the pursuit of forbidden truths. A mere mathe-
matician is the fittest raw material for manufacturing
a passive obedience Parson, or an all-confiding
coußu t, allowing for the goodness of the inten-
tion, still the success has been far from complete.
Tice Universities of England have not succeeded
iu keeping the world stationary ; and at this
very moment the enemy is more busy :than ever
he was at any former period of our history.
Formerly a prejudice or an error would hold
out for a score or two of years ; but changes are
every day effected with great rapidity. Shovel,
hats, as the Quarterly Reviewer feelingly ob-
served, are fast disappearing ; and there is a
close connection between stability of opinions
and stability of fashions.—Morning Chronicle.

HORRIBLE CASE 01.' SEDUCTION.

MANCHESTER POLICE.

A case transpired at the New Bailey, on
Thursday, which disclosed a most horrible sys-
tem. About three weeks ago, a person having,
from dress and manners, every appearance of a
respectable lady, called at a registry office in Bir-
mingham, and inquired for a young female
servant. She described herself as a-Mrs. Wol-
ling, residing at Hulme, near Wolverhampton ;
requiring a young girl to act in the capacity of
an assistant servant. The woman who kept the
office immediately recommended to her notice a
girl named Morgan, who was at that time in
service, but who would be at liberty in the course
of a week. The girl was immediately sent for;
and, upon Mrs. Wolfing stating the nature of the
situation sl wished her to fill, and the terms she
would give her, she went back, and requested
her mistress to allow her to quit that day, as her
new mistress was in immediate want of her ser-
vices. This request was, however, not complied
with ; and the new engagement was, in conse-
quence, not entered into. At the conclusion of
her time, Morgan returned to the house, of her
grandmother (being an orphan), residing at Wil-
lenhall, near Wolverhampton. On Saturday
last, she was, however, agreeably surprised by the
arrival of Mrs. Wolling, for the purpose of re-
newing her engagement. The poor girl imme-
diately acquiesced in the proposal ; and her mis-
tress being extremely urgent, she agreed to return
home with her that day. Previous to their
leaving, Mrs. Wolling stated, that as it was im-
possible that the girl's clothes'could be got ready
on that day, they had better be forwarded by the
carrier on Monday. Instead, nowever, of going
to Wolverhampton, they proceeded to Wednes-
bury, and, upon their arrival at that place, Wol-
fing communicated to her companion that she
had property in the neighbourhood of Man-
chester ; and, as she understood from a gentle-
man who had been reading the'newspaper, in
the inn, there were at present considerable dis-
turbances in that town, it would be necessary
for her immediately to set off, and sec to its se-
curity. Upon this statement, the girl agreed to
accompany her to Manchester, before going to
her residence near Wolverhampton. They con-
sequently took their places in the next coach,
and arrived in this town on Sunday morning
last. In the mean time Morgan's sisters and
grandmother became extremely alarmed, for, on
inquiry, they could not learn that either there
was such a place as Hulme, near Wolverhamp-
ton, nor any family of the name of Wolfing, in
the surrounding country. Messengers were im-
mediately sent off to scour the neighbourhood,
and, if possible, discover the retreat of the parties.
A Mr. Preston, a neighbour of the Morgans,
was extremely active, never having slept from the
time the unpleasant discovery was made, until
the girl was recovered by her friends. On the