The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1845.

The late desperate efforts of the Bishops of LONDON
and EXETER to force on the Protestant Church some
of the most obnoxious symbols and customs of Catho-
licism, and the haughty, imperious, and insulting lan-
guage in which they replied to the respectful remon-
strances of different (parishes, cannot fail to give the
people of England a faithful anticipation of what they
may expect, if, for the curse of the country and the
Church, Fuseyism should ever become triumphant.
At first these encroaching Prelates would listen nei-
ther to remonstrance, nor argument, nor humble pe-
tition—they were supreme judges of what was right ;
the ignorant multitude (for as such they treated even
the most respectable inhabitants of their dioceses)
knew nothing of the rubric, and even if they
did, it was not their duty to explain its meaning.
Their duty only was to obey, to render
homage to the heads of the Church, in imitation of
Catholic flocks, and leave the settlement of disputes
about the surplice and offertory, and the burning of
tapers on the altar, with other rites and ceremonies,
to the successors of the Apostles. So bigoted were
they in these slavish doctrines, and so conscious were
they of their own power and sacred character, that
they vowed not to yield to the clamours of the laity,
but adhere to their injunction, whatever might be the
consequence. They reckoned however without their
host. No party joined with them ; not even one
journal could justify their conduct ;1 the people were
unanimous, and the haughty Prelates were forced to suc-
cumb. Let not the people of England however imagine
that the battle is won, or that the Popish doctrines
openly taught by the Puseyites can be eradicated
from the Church, without yet a great and a con-
tinued struggle. A deep plot has been laid at Ox-
ford; it has ramifications in every part of the coun-
try. Its object is to obtain power, to put down free
inquiry, to enslave the human mind, and make the
authority of the clergy supreme, even at the risk of
restoring all the ignorance, immorality, and super-
stition of the middle ages. Happily there is not a
dissentient voice among the laity; but let us imagine
that these Puseyite Bishops had conducted their inno-
vations with more skill, that in addition to their hypo-
crisy, which is abundant, they had also assumed the
garb of humility—had, like PUSEY and .NEWMAN, and
the other founders of the sect, devoted their
lives to :prayer and meditation, and deep inquiries
into the state of the Church, for the purpose of hn-
posing upon the unwary, and then come forth with
all the fervour of Reformers. To a certainty they
would have had many followers—they would, like a
neighbouring C hurch, have led astray silly women,
and excited divisions in every parish and hamlet, and
family. For the safety of the Reformed Religion the
cloven foot has appeared in time, their designs are
laid open, and even one of their own body, an en-
lightened Bishop, has not scrupled to declare to the
world, that " their sole object is to exalt the clergy
and destroy the principles of free inquiry so nobly
asserted at the period of the Reformation." On
this ground, chiefly, we have opposed the
new tenets, because, with a Church al

powerful, with a Church that domineers over
the people, that interferes in all the relations of life,
whether domestic, social, or public, there can be no
useful education, no reform of abuses, no independence
of character, and no real liberty. Will the people of
England, then, who have gained so much by the
Reformation, who have made such noble struggles in
defence of liberty, who have by their own innate
energy established a Constitution which, whether as
regards freedom of thought, freedom of action, and
the development of the national resources, stands
unrivalled—will the people of England again submit

their neck to the yoke, and by yielding to the
despotism of the Church, renounce those inestimable
blessings for which their forefathers suffered exile,
imprisonment, and death? The spirit now displayed
throughout the country happily leads to a different
conclusion, and verifies the words of the poet—

Fortes creantur fortibus, et bonis."
Much, however, remains to, to done. The canker
has taken deep root in the ecclesiastical body, and,
though concealed for a time, will sooner or later again
break forth. Let the people, therefore, be watchful.
They have Jesuits to deal with. If one scheme fails
another will be tried, in the hope that, by accustom-
ing the eyes and the ears to certain harmless innova-
tions, the real object may in time be attained. The
only security is in resisting every change.

By letters from New York, dated the 14th ult.,
we learn that " a very pretty quarrel" is on the eve
of explosion between two of the most important
States of the Union—namely, South Carolina and
Massachusetts. Although the first and noblest right
of our common nature and the dearest interests of
humanity are deeply involved in the ground of the
approaching rupture (for to a rupture the affair is
manifestly tending), there are some circumstances of
such absurd inconsistency, moral and political, in
the affair, that we shall endeavour to regard it, as
much as we can, in the less grave of its aspects. It
seems that South Carolina, a few years ago, passed a
law prohibiting free negroes, under certain severe
pains and penalties, from " coming into that' State."
Not having the original American statute before us,
we cannot say what was the cause of its enactment
assigned in its preamble. Whether the paternal
Legislature of Carolina was alarmed lest the evil
example of its slave-trading 'institutions should ex-
tend beyond its own boundary—or the contagiOn 'of
slave emancipation should pass over and within them,
from other members of the Union, our readers 'may
conclude for themselves. But it must still remain a
I marvel how a body of men, so proverbially acute :as:
the Carolinian planters, could have overlooked the in•
evitable occurrence, in the ordinary course of busi-
ness transactions, of daily cases (as it were) in which
their statute must be violated, or their external trade
be annihilated. When the Carolina legislators, in
the plenitude of their superiority as white-castes
promulgated their penal and disabling statute against
free blacks, they forgot that Nature, when she tinged
the skins of negroes with an indelible colour, had
omitted to affix any badge of nautical disqualification
upon that unhappy race. By an equally unpardon-
able obliviousness, many hundreds of blacks, settled
in various portions of the Western Hemisphere, are
habitually given (it seems) to imagine—first, that
they have a right to purchase their freedom, when
they can , find money enough for that purpose, and
masters who will accept it; and, secondly, that, being
free, they have a right to turn sailors when they can
find captains to engage them at stipulated wages. The
result of this discrepancy between the abilities of
freedom, and the disabilities of slavery—this collision
between the laws of South Carolina and the laws of
Nature—has been, that, on different occasions, " free
blacks employed as seamen have been brought into
the latter State." . The humane custom has been,
that "they were immediately imprisoned, and kept
year 1845 ;—and it
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Extraordinary Success of the Wm Conic Pantomime. THIS EVENING
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THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA.
HOUSE.
Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated THE CHIMES; A Goblin Story. Principal
Characters by Messrs. F. Vining Meadows, Diddear, Matthews,
Collier, Emery, Turner, and Keeley; Misa Walcott, Mies Arden,
Miss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, a New Farce, called TO PERSONS ABOUT TO
MARRY. Supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, and Stoker
Miss Arden, and Mrs. Wigan.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic, Hlsteric4l, Romantic
Pantomimic-al, Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled VALENTINE
AND ORSON. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews;
Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner. Kinloch. Yarnold, and Keeley ,
Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Grove, Mrs
Usher, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley.
PRICES OF A OMls.slol,4.—Balcoily imam. 41.- Upper
Boxes, 31. ; Pit, ts. Gallery, fid. Second Price—Balcony BOxes, 2s. ;
sipper Boxes, Is. 6; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the itslcony Tier
~ olding eight persons), Two Guineas. Private Bemis on the Second
Tier (holding eight persons). One Guinea and ~Half. Private
Boxes on the Pit 'fler (holding six persons), One Guiren,
Tne Box.olicei s open from Ten to Four o'Clock, under the three.
Lien of Mr. Grogan, late of Covent-garden Theatre.

Great Hit of the Equestrian Comic Pantomime at
ASTLEY'S ROY AL AMPHITHEATRE Of ARTS.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY.
THIS EVENING
Will be repeated a New Spectacle, entitled THE ROYAL PDX
HUNT; or, The Race-Horse and Life's Course of Man and Steed;
.ntroducing unequalled Natiosial Fetes. Real Ina-chase on the Stage
ind in the Circle by living For and real Pack of Hounds, purchased
by Mr. Batty of Mr. Tattersall, to realise this novel production.
Epsom Races and other Sporting Features.
New Scenes of the Circle, and entire change in the Feats of Horse-
manship.
To conclude with a Grand Comic Christmas Equestrian Pantomime,
c: lied HARLEQUIN AND JOHNNY GILPIN'S RIDE; or, the
BLick Witcb of Edmonton. Harlequin, Mr. H. Lewis ,• Columbine,
Mrs. J. W. Colyer ; Clown, Mr. T. Barry; Pantaloon Mr. Bradloury.
Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Brosidroot.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five. 1.41140111 in the Art of Riding
by Mr. R. Smith daily.
Mr. BATTY begs to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and his
Patrons, that, in compliance with numerous requests from the
country, and by special desire, he has formed arrangements.to pre.
sent, during the Christmas Holidays, a S,ries of EQUESTRIAN
%WINING FETES and FASHIONABLE DAY PERFORM.
A NCES, to commence at Halfpast One, and terminate at Half-past
Circle.
Three : consisting of Batty's Splendid Scenes of Equitation in the

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Everything New WI
THIS EVENINO
Will be repeated THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN; or, The End
of Crime. Principai characiers by Mr. Henry Corrl (froin the
Theatre Rnyal Edinburgh), meters, H. Hu
elude with an Original Worldly Comic .ewis, Heslop, and Seaman, Mn. yt. ' LAW* Mr s. W.
Harmer, Mrs.
Daly, and Miss Martin.
POUNDS, hHILLINGS, AND PENCgEh:
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Pantomime,HARLEQUIN
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L. S. D. Harlequin, Mr. H. Have
Pantaloon Mr. Henry Corti; coh:g3elY ; Clown? Mr. T. Ridgway;
Places and Pnvate Ilexes to
hod as' MI" Slaiter.
et Idr. Kerschner. at this BI
nice, from Eleven to Four.