The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-21 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 21. 1845.

To a casual observer of the progress of social institu-
tions, nothing would be so little likely to present itself
in the shapa of one of the great disturbing forces which
vex their tranquillity—as religious discords. The
"odium theologicum," for so many centuries the scourge
of the old world—the fomenter of civil and of foreign
wars—the dethroner of crowned kings—the great motive
of external_ and domestic treasons—the restless peace-
breaker in private families as well as States—has been
thought, by many, to have outlived the fires by which
its zeal was anciently inflamed. But he who trusts that
so desirable a consummation is accomplished, will soon
discover his fatal error. His steps will be "super eine) es
dolosos." The fire is not extinct—it still exists in all
its intensity. It no longer bursts into fierce and de-
vouring action, rearing on high, to the terrified gaze of
all mankind, its consuming flames; but the molten lava
does not the less seethe and boil beneath the surface
which overlays it. And at this very moment the
fatal element seems to be in a state of agitation,
that is manifested by occasional eruptions, more or less
partial and transitory, in kingdoms of Europe the moat
remote from one another. We earnestly invite the
reader's attention to this remarkable modern phe-
nomenon. It is peculiar to this epoch of the nineteenth
century. The " disturbing force" of which we speak
communicates its impulses from some such mysterious
connexion as only MICHELET or QUISET can explain,
'n these, our days, from St. Petersburgh to London,
from Dublin to Leipsic, from Avignon to Treves, from
Itume to New York, at almost one and the same time.
A. slight type of its defirining and perverting powers
has been supplied for the consideration of this country
to the obstinate tenacity of Puseyite innovators, in the
rancorous hatred with which seceders from the fold
of our Protestant Church have turned round upon the
institutions which had for years nurtured and educated
them; and in the insidious arts and inflexible perse-
verance with, which the emissaries of Rome have, for
=ome time past, addressed themselves to the work of
letaching, not I:Lyn:veil only, but ordained priests of the
>stablishment from our communion. But no man who
lees not wilfully shut his eyes to the relations Of cause

and effect, to the evidences of unity of purpose and
combination of means, can be blind to the steady and
measured recurrence of those manifestations of the re-
vcving pretensions of the Papal Church which, in the brief
course of three or four years, have convulsed the most
cnoclern as well as the oldest of States, Mon irchies, and
aupublics, the best governed and the worst. Scarcely had

the presumptuous conturnacj of a refractory Archbishop
been resented (and :hey were ultimately repressed) by
the King of PRUSSIA, before all France was agitatt d from
her capital to her frontiers, by the resuscitation of the
Jesuits, and their demand to have the superintendence of
the education of the youth of that country. But, as if
to prove that the "odium theologicum" is not the exclu-

rive or peculiar vice of any one Church, but the un-
christian feeling of all churches, rather, the Emperor of
RUSSIA. has still more recently fulminated his autocratic
" ukases" for religious conformity, by visiting his Ro-
m-in Catholic subjects with all the persecutions of the
widest time—the proud and palmy days of spiritual
domination—in order to compel them to come into the
pale of the Greek Church. His tender solicitude for
the " amity of faith," is so excessive, that he