The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-21 00:00:00

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SUN. OFFICE Three o'Cloch.

The annuli. Parliamentary grant of 8,9281 for the
of -.he Roman Catholic 'College at Maynooth,
rise, .n the House of Clomrcon_:, last night, to the
amlual cs ening's vituperation of the Roman Catholic
priellthor d. The calumniatoim of the Catholics, last
Jiight, avere Mr. PLUMPTB,D, Mr. BATESON, Sir. G.
It. ST_YTII, who has 'levet:• gone out of mourning for
Cattolie Emancipation, 5(11(1 that old pink of Orange
-Magistrates, Colonel -17r,nxoN. The array of names
is not overwhelmingly formidable for rank, influence,
or intellect. Minte' date must be the system which
wooh! fail to arta.; against it hundreds of such oppo-
nents. Lord Ca-.Y.JIENTs with great good sense observed,
that if half five time and trouble which were bestowed
upon the con'. ersion of poor Roman Catholics, were be-
stowed upwa the education and instruction of poor Pro-
testants to Ireland, a most desirable result would be ob •
tained. This fact is notorious to all who are acquainted
with Ireland. There thousands of Protestants are left in
the most deplorable state of ignorance, while the whole
influence of the Kildare-street Society is brOught to
bear upin the conscience of some old woman, with a
view to induce her to swallow a bowl of mutton-broth on
Frithry ! nappy is the travelling missionary, who can
report that, by the temptation of a pair of brogues, or a
new wallet, he prevailed upon a mendicant Papist to
abjure counting his beads, and fasting when he could
find anything to eat. The "dear man" is looked
upon Z)y the Society as a saint—as an apostle,
expressly calked to promulgate the Gospel among
the idolatrous Papists of Ireland, and as every ap-
proach to perfection brings a higher salary, the
candidates, upon such terms, find the business of Papist-
converting far too profitable to think of devoting any
part of their time to the instruction of their ignorant co-
religionists. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Col-
chester, drew a revolting picture of the obscene course
of education in Maynooth. It is very surprising that such
a course of youthful instruction should produce the most
zealous and moral priesthood in the world; and yet,
strange to say, such is the known and universally ad-
mitted fact. But the course of education in Maynooth
was defended by Lord ELIOT, as being the same as that
which prevailed in all Roman Catholic Universities.
The Noble Lord added, that in no place was there
greater purity of morals than in Ireland, among
the people whose daily conduct was influenced
by the advice and example of the Roman Ca-
tholic priesthood. We ought to, feel grateful
for the forbearance of the Irish Members upon this
occasion. We were somewhat apprehensive that they
might retort upon English hypocrites the course of edu-
cation pursued at the English Universities, and the state
of morals among our own people, as detailed in the evi-
dence recently submitted to the House of Commons by
Colliery and Mining Commissioners. It would puzzle
Sir 11. Drams to hold out, as examples to others, a well-
paid State priesthood, thousands of whose flocks are
proved to have arrived at ripe maturity without ever
having heard of GOD, or the great scheme of Chris-
tian redemption. The opportunity was a tempting one ;
and, looking dispassionately at the question, we must
say that the Irish Members manifested as much for-
bearance as good feeling and good taste in not availing
themselves of it.

Something, however, ought to be done to prevent
Cp_.se annual exhibitions of sectarian, anti-Christian in-
tolerance. The Roman Catholics are justly becoming
disgusted with these foul attacks upon their faith, and if
they be repeated from year to year the grant will be re-
fuscd, and thus the Government will lose all right to
control the supervision and inspection of the education
of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Many of the Irish
priests already protect against the grant ; the Liberal
Irish papers treat it with contempt ; and even Mr.
O'CONNELL himself has become indifferent to it.
6ir ROBERT PEEL is fully aware of this, and has
acknowledged its importance by previously apprising
the Roman Catholic hierarchy that, . btit for the great
distress of the country, he would increase the grant to
Mayntioth, and that he would do so next year, if in
office. This, after all, is the great point to consider,
viz., Is the right to superintend, and to some ex-
tent direct the education of the priesthood of
seven millions of subjects, worth the paltry sum of
eight or ten thousand a-year ? Is the devotion of thrt
priesthood, in a country where they are all-powerful, and
v; here the laws derive their authority from mere brute
force, worth such an outlay on the part of the British
Treastnky ? Lord ELIOT acknowledges that the Re-
roan Catholic priests exerted themselves most meri-
toriously and strenuously in assisting the Government
to put down the disturbances in Tipperary. In
fact the priests are the most efficient constabulary of
the kingdom, and yet the bigots in the Holise of Com-
mons, to the number of forty-eight, voted last night fur
breaking the only link in the chain that binds them to
the English Government. Bigotry and folly are always
closely allied, but never nearer than when h seriously
proposed to withhold the paltry grant made to the
liu:nan Catholic College of Maynooth.

There is very little news in the French Papers received
this morning, and that little is entirely confined to the lie-
g,enoy question, to which the majority of English reach as
ore become indifferent. We quote from them what mis-
-
lant:ous gossip they contain.:—
A letter from Naples of the Bth says that the squadron of
Admiral Hugon was to sail on the 10th or 12th for Palermo.
King Ferdinand had been on beard the Ocean (the Admiral's
ship). All the vessels of the squadron fired a grand salute of
all their guns on the occasion.
The Deke de Broglie has arrived at Neuilly, where he waited
on Duahess of Orleans. Our rooters will recollect that it
was ?he Duke de Broglie who went to Schwerin to receive her
Royal Higheess and accompany her to France.
The house to which the Duke of Orleans was conveyed
after his fall has been purchased by the civil list for 110,000 f.
A letter from Brest of the 19th says;:—" The new Maritime
Tribunal appointed to decide a second time on the fate of Reivo,
vi,rina, and Ripoli, implicated in the affair of the Paella, has
jest condemned them to hard labour for life. The first tribunal
iiad sentenced them to imprisonment only. The three prisoners
had again appealed.—Gazette de Tribunaux.
A letter from Constantinople, of the 29th of June says:—
" Yesierday the Tut kish steamer, the Reschid, set out for
;yria with troops. It is given out that they are to take the
puce of the Albanians, but we know that this is not the case,
and that the Porte intends, on the contrary, to increase the
number et these irregular troops."

The Porte has just adopted a measure respecting the printing
offices, which bears the stamp of the spirit of reaction which
prevails in the actual policy of the Government. A mem4iran-
dein was delivered ye,tcrday to the several legations interested
in the question. 'Chat delivered to 11. Alavrocordato, the
Alinistcr. requires the suppression of several Greek
printing-offices. The fslinistrr means to protest against this
measure, We hope that 111. de Bourqueuey will not carry his
s)stetnatic deference for the Porte so far as to sacrifice to its
caprice two French printing-offices, the suspension of which is
also demanded, and which, however, have-not given grounds,
by any abuse, for the vigorous measure.— Commerce.
BO URSE—PAuts, 'rursDAY, JULY 19.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. I'rice. Price.
French fi per Cents.... 117 35... 117 35... •117 20... 117 30
4 per Cents.... 101 50... 101 50... 101 30... 101 30
3 per Cents_ 77 35... 77 35... 77 20... 77 25
Bank of Franca ...... ...3175 ...3177 50...3175 .. 3177 54)
Latiitto Bank 1,000f...1015 ..1015 ...1015 —.1015

5,000f...5035 —.5035 —.5035 .50:35
11,'gianBank... 772 50—. 772 50... 772 50... 772 50
Belgian Five 5..........
. 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103
1830..... 103/ ... 1034 —. 1034 ._ 1034
Spanish Active 22
4* ...22
Passive ......
Portuguese Fives
Neapolitatt..• lO5 250... 105 80... 105 80... 105 80
Boman

The Three per Cents. were clone at Madrid on the
12th inst., witt► the Coupons 2.ttqched, at 21 cash, ai►d
21 -Ls at 60 days. The Five per Cents., with 11 Coupons
attached, At 29.41- cash, and 30 30. at 60 days.
George Robins may well be entitled the "Übiquitous."
Ile antynnices this evening the sale in the Cape of Good
Hope of Forty-three Thousand Acres qf Land, and it is
the first sale of property iu this healthy climate. The
hill pastures are all covered with sweet grass, from the
base to the summit ; and en the plains there is plenty of
succulent herbage, with grass ; and the profit arising
from ten theusaml Lbeep (whicii the farm will carry) is
beyond calculation. A farniLr with money, or the great
caEitatist, will find an opportunityat this sale to employ

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ways and means" to extraordinary advantage.
A return respouthr, Church Patronage in Scotland,
which has been printed by order of the House of Com-
mons, exhibits in a strong light the blessed effects of the
Veto Act. It was moved fur by Mr. Wallace, in order
to ascertain the number of Causes arising out of this Act,
and now pending in the Court of Session. The causes
reApectinq patronage amount to twenty-five, and are
brought tor th.: Purpose of ascertaining such points as
the following. Who has right to the vacant stipend ?
To whom it is to be paid ? Whether the presentee can
claim damages aga.inst the Presbytery for keeping him
out of the living and whether certain members o!
pr„,vtery have a right to sit in the General Assembly ?
One of the causes is now before the House of Lords,
and all the rest may follow; so that whatever
be the result,
the lawyers at least will profit by these in-
ter•minable disputes, but the true interests of religion will
sufir. Independent of these causes there are thirteen.,
otLrs arising out of a decision of the General Assembly,;]
be which the Tainiaters of chapels of ease were admitto&
members oi Church courts, ;$9 veral respectable clergy-
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