The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-23 00:00:00

of able seamen. They are still to be found—they are a
numerous body; but they present themselves everywhere
except at the enlisting stations. They are scattered wide as
the limits of our own—and, alas! not alone of ours, but of
American and Russian commerce and discovery ex-
tend. The merchant service has offered those induce-
ments of adequate pay, personal comforts, and con-
. side! ation which, not finding in that of her MAJESTY,
they have been fain to avail themselves of elsewhere.
Great exertions are being daily made by the Admiralty to
recal them, and when the men find—and not till then—that
length of service, and the infirmities of age, or the physical
disabilities contracted by their spirited discharge of their
arduous but honourable duty, will no longer entitle them to
the melancholy premium of a cold and harsh dismissal from
the calling with whose demands on their physical strength
they can no longer comply, to that poverty, neglect, and
wretchedness, to which it is the reproach of Great Britain for
the last two centuries to have remitted them, lint that
they will be handed over to an honourable retirement,
in which they may continue to subsist themselves
on the pensions or half-pay that shall be granted to them in
that repose fur the remainder of their lives, which they have
so dearly purchased by intrepid, long-sustained, efforts in
their country's cause, they • will rush to engage in that
which will become—as it ought ever to have remained—the
most popular of our national services. But these brave fellows
have generous and ennobling feelings as well as physical
wants to be gratified. Raise them in their own self-respect
as well as that of their compatriots, by increasing the moral
prestige of their calling. The anniversary of the battle
of Trafalgar, from one extremity of the empire to the other,
ought to be the sailors' jubilee. Whatever a generous mo-
narch desired and secured to perpetuate the memory of the
military victory of Waterloo, all this and more ought long
since to have been provided, to keep visibly and honourably
present to the perceptions and feelings of the people at large,
and especially those of our seamen, the illustrious renown
of the great sea fight and decisive naval triumph of
Trafalgar. Let us hope that another year will not
be suffered to elapse without witnessing the foundation of
some " Trafalgar" association, for the express purposes of
rewarding the past and exciting the emulation of the future;
of providing and retaining in available efficiency, at all times,
the services of able seamen and petty and warrant officers on
any great national emergency; and of combining with these
great and invaluable objects the public commemoration of the
most glorious of our ocean triumphs, the most consummate
of our naval commanders, and the most disinterested of Bri-
tish heroes!

•
The conduct of the Puseyites, by remaining in the English
Church, while they renounce its docttiues and adopt these of
the Church of Rome, is unexampled in the history of this
country. During the reigns of HENRY VIII., ELIZABETH,
and other Sovereigns, when material alterations were made
in the liturgy, or canons, or discipline, it was no uncommon
thing to hear of hundreds of clergymen who resigned
their livings rather than force their consciences, and openly
profess tenets which they inwardly abhorred, but in these
days another rule is the guide of our clergy; they prefer
filthy lucre" to a clear conscience, they receive large in-
comes from the established Refonned Church, while they
malign its doctrines, declare the Reformation a great crime;
adore the Pope of ROME, and conspire to destroy the Esta-
blishment which at the altar they had taken sslemn
oaths to deiend. A few have seceded, as if to try
public patience still more by proving that for more than
four years they had been Roman Catholics in disguise, and
that the hundreds, perhaps thousands, that remain, who pro-
fess to the full extent their tenets, are guilty of the same
double-dealing and plotting for the ruin of the Protestant
faith. The secession of NEWMAN, the great chief of the
sect, leaves no doubt whatever of their entire conversion to
Romanism ; yet it is singular enough that while these rene-
gades disgrace the English Church, as well as the character of
Englishmen, no measures have been voluntarily taken by the
Bishops to wipe out the stain. Every resistance has come
from the laity ; they have complained to the higher authori-
ties, from whom they have received only rebukes and insults;
they have, in many instances, deserted their parish churches,
and nothing but a general disruption of the whole fabric has
induced even one of the Prelates to take a move in the right
direction. That, however, has been done in the least
possible effective way, and with the worst grace.
There have been no meetings at Lambeth Palace,
to take steps against the encroachments of Popery, no mani-
festo on the part of the Bishops in favour of Protestantism,
now undermined at the national seats of learning; and when
these Fathers in God have ventured at all to allude to the
new doctrines, they have shown themselves infinitely more
disposed to encourage than to check them. Yet
these same leaders, with only a few exceptions, voted
against Catholic emancipation and the Maynooth
grant. They have in every question brought before
Parliament relatiye to the Irish Catholics shown the utmost
hostility to that people, under the garb of religion, and remain
quiet spectators when they know to a certainty that at least
one third of their own clergy are as good Catholics as Father
APIIALE or DANIEL O'Cow:eser.. Such a loose morality'
such a total want of principle, and such glaring
persecution of seven mil ions of their fellow-subjects,
afford a melancholy picture of the times. It only shows that
religion is mixed up with the question to catch the multi-
tude, while political and selfish motives are the mainspring
of their actions. The Irish Orangemen, too, proclaim their
hatred of Popery—they threaten destruction to the PEEL
Ministry for granting some acts of favour and justice to
Roman Catholics, but they are silent as the grave about
PUBEY and NEWMAN, and the traitors that infest
Oxford and Cambridge. How can Englishmen then
respond to such a manifesto as that just issued
by Lord Ronme to the Protestants of the empire?
They know well that the Protestant religion is only used by
Orangemen as a stalking-horse, and that all they want is
full power, as formerly, to persecute and destroy the men
whom they have injured. While Puseyism is allowed to
spread through the land unheeded by these pretended de-
fenders of the faith, no confidence can be placed in their pro-
testations or in their avowed motives for overthrowing the
PEEL Cabinet.

We have intelligence from Madrid to the 15th inst., from
which we are glad to learn that the Finance Minister is en-
gaged in another important measure of reform. It is well
known that the important duties on many English and
French manufactures are enormously high, and theta general
system of smuggling, which no military force can put down,
is the consequence. Senor MoN has turned his attention to
the ruinous practice, injuring alike the revenue and the
morals of the people, and has directed the Commissioners of
Customs to draw up a new tariff, by which many articles now
entirely prohibited would be amnitted at a reasonable duty,
and the tax on others considerably diminished. The Com-
missioners have also been directed to make inquiries into the
character of the persons employed in the collection of the
Customs with a view to get rid of those who are in league
with the smugglers. This will be found a laborious task, for
all are implicated, and the country people, who profit by
the system, will not be likely to give evidence against them.
The report of the Commissoners, it is understood, will be laid
before the Cortes at its meeting in December. Letters from
Barcelona of the 15th state that the new income-tax had
been resisted at Gerona, that a collision in consequence had
taken place between the people and the Civic Guard who
protected the tax-gatherers, and that several lives had been
lost.
No business was done on the Madrid Bourse.

According to accounts from Paris, the stock and share
market still continued greatly depressed at the close of busi-
ness on Tuesday. The Three per Cents- had fallen 40c., and
the Fives 10c. Considerable fluctuation had taken place in
railway shares; but, on the whole, the appearance was bet-
ter, and several of them bad recovered from the depression
of the previous day. The run upon the savings' banks had
not much abated, but as the sumswithdrawn had been chiefly
invested in railway shares, and the rage for that mode of in-
vestment had been checked, it was anticipated that a favour-
able change would soon be the result. No further news had
been received from Africa, and the principal topic of
discussion in the journals is the resignation of Marshal
SOULT, and the remodelling of the Cabinet. The Con-
stitutionnel says there can be no doubt that SOULT
wishes to resign, but his colleagues have besought
him not to withdraw for the present, and gives
the following reasons:—" It would be necessary to find a
Minister of War of a rank equal to that of the Governor of
Algeria, the principal ofh is subordinates, and who would exhibit
great activity in the conduct of our affairs in Africa. This is
the first difficulty. the second place, it would be neces-
sary to resolve the question of the presidentship of the
Council. But the profound unpopularity of M. GuizoT, the
very slight aptitude which he exhibits for all matters not
exclusively of a political character, render several of the
Ministers, and particularly M. DUCIIATEL, averse to M.
GUIZOT'S taking that post. Hence the almost universal
desire of the Ministers to preserve Marshal SOULT, though
weak, in the midst of their weak Cabinet. They only ask
him, besides, to keep the title of president. What matter is
it that the affairs of the war department are ill or well con-
conducted, and that all goes by chance? Is not M. DUCIIA-
TEL there to give votes—and M. GUIZoT there, by his speeches,
to furnish pretexts for requiring them ? Marshal SOULT
will watch over his health, and the Ministry will look sharp
to keep itself in existence. The rest is nothing." The Epoque
a Government paper, says :—" There is great incorrectness,
or to say the least, great confusion in the rumours. Marshal
SOULT has never thought of separating hun.telf from the
Cabinet, although his health requires that be should be
relieved in part from the fatigues of office. It is not only
since his return from the country that he has testified this
desire; h.: had intimated it previous to his departure both to
his colleagues and the KING. The news, therefore, is about
three months old. We hope that the Marshal's health will
be completely re-established, and that he may still continue
to preside over the Ministry, by which his judgment is so
highly appreciated. But we know that in no case will he
withdraw his concurrence from the Cabinet, nor his services
from the KING."
According to the Courricr Francais the Dukes D'AUMALE
and DE MONTPENSLEK are about to set out for Africa, to join
the expedition againtst ABDEL-KALthat. The Journal de