The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-12-21

Infantry, COMPANY F, to date from June 10, 1850
Second Lieut.. Thornton A. Washington, from
First Infantry, Company b. to date from June 16,
1850.
Second Lieut. John w. Frazer, from the 5th In
fantry, with the date of August IL, to the Second
Second Lieut.. Alfred Cumming, from the I'd Ia
fsntry, with the date Of August 81 To the Seventh
Infantry, Company A. to ate from July 10, 1850.
The officers whose dates of promotion are
changed, as above announced, will Immediately
return to the Adjutant Generals Office the com.
missions or letters Of promotion cancelled by this
order.
V.-The officers promoted and appointed will
join their proper regiments companies, and stations,
without delay those on detached SERVICE or act
ing under special Instructions will report by letter
TO the commanding officers of their respective regf
ments and corps. BY order.
r. JONES, Adj't General.
The Position OF tho Catholic Church In
England,
From the Lo odon Weekly Despa.ch.1
The tiara begins TO take its ancient place of su-
premacy. IL towers far above the miire. Even
the Cardinals hat enforces an involuntary reve-
renee and Peter fairly carries of the legacies left
in the Testament from Martin and Jack. Popery
ostensioly even, and BY very name, raises her an,
Gent head again above the waters of opinion aud
takes her old attitude of prescrptve ascendancy.
We hear OF daily "pererts to the Church of
Rome" The Bishop Of Oxford's brother-son,
not Of a turnip, but OF Wilberforce-is the latest
As The ancient and time honored Faith of uoiver-
sal ChristendQm wanes in worldly power il seems
TO wax in spiritual prevalence The poorer II is in
wealth or political authority, the more general APP
peers to be the reverence in which il is held Sill
Yer and gold has il none-wiihout territory title,
without place even in the social institutions OF
CIVILIZATION all its worldly goods despoiled
and appropriated by the sordid rspacity of upstart
sects-dethroned from the rule Of States, degraded
to private station, end without political or even
municipal denonln alton, with its Oxford and Cam
bridge, its England aid ireland handed over 10 be
sacked by parvenu episcopacy, we yet live 10 zee
IT, in the age of the cheap press, complete liberty
Of opinion, and universal reform aud progress,
alinR upon the soul by its naked me rita and in
sp,nng towards itself general reaction of opinion.
The bishops have the tIthes, the Pope gets the
heart. The parson and the presbyter get Caesars
penny, the priest gets rendered unto him "the
things that are Gods" Nor is this homage, purely
disinterested, or rather against sef-nterest con.
hned TO the poor. the ignorant, the irrelgiols or
the unrehectve. On the contrary, there are very
lew OF the recentproselytes TO Roman Catholicism
Who belong to the class Of the vulgar, the con-
diuon of the masses The modern neophytes of
the Faith of the Eternal City belong TO the order
OF gentry, nobility, utular Episcopal clergy TO the
nch, the devout, the refined, the learned. Nor
do we know of single case of conversion
TO the Papist creed which has not been sealed
by the martyrdom of worldly loss, of broken
friendships, of antagonised families, of degre-
oauon OF social position, OF The scom or de-
nunciatons OF sectaries and workings. Those
who have had nothing TO lose by conversion
seem still TO remain uHconvered. The so called
APOSTLES from purer Faith" have denied them
selves sew. dsen up me cross and flung earth and
Sptncers, The Sibthorps, the Newmans, Feldings,
the WLberforces, and the other converts, have ali
had something 10 lose by the change. The TIL
umph OF the spirit over the flesh was never more
complete. No severer. no truer test of the purity
and power Of a naked and simple Faith was ever
made. No ordeal was ever more triumphantly
borne we unfegnsdly rejoice in the trial and its
result Our satisfaction in the progress Of Popery
is that which the right minded have in " honest
men getting their own" Protestants are not Pro-
testant. Eplscooacy is but bastard Catholicism,
wrong side of the blanket. If "new Presbyeri is
but old PDest whit large" We would rather stick
to the old until We had more satisfactory proofs
that The new was ch ange for the better, aud not
mere distinction without difference Orthodox
Professionalism Is bat mpromiss betwixt reason
and authority, and compromises of principles are a
mere comPounding of spiritual felony. That sailor
was sage who advised his shipmates
Whene'er you take your LIQUOR boy,
Eos Gods s.ke drink IL neat.
4 ne chcat passed upon the conscience by what are
called or call themse Ives, the Reformed Churches
is beginning TO be found out Parsondom has sue
cesded, while mankind were but gaping country
men, IN putting, by dexerous logical IN aumautur-
g}, The pea under which thimbe Il pleased But
now The merest chaw-bacon is u1 10 the rag.
dropping trek, and refuses any longer to venture
ma spiritual CURE ncy At the imposter's table. Or
th9do1y rs no longer permitted both TO have its
cake ana eat II. Society is too astute TO sntler il
70 reiute Fopep by an appeal to reason, aud then
10 turn round upon the nationalist aud denounce
cafnal reason" by appealing to authority. Ian
Eihd see that there ~ no haste buiiien in reli-
Elon, any more than IN morals or opinion
thsl, Indeed, The /" middle course" means no more
man ms mat while fanstcism declares that three
ana hfee are one, and common sense asserts they
come To SIX, your Biodud TO- condemniuQ ex tremes
Nonounces both TO be in the wrong, aud success |
that thfee end three, probably mount 10 fouT and
haii lhe clearersiPbted, intellect radicalism
OF the sge insists upon professors Of religion being
hot or cold, or nything but tepid some who |
have been Graded in the fear OF The pride of nm.
man reason, at last insist upon compelling their |
tscbers =" become true 10 their principles and 10
60 Oack 10 repose on the bosom Of Roman infali- /
uhV. otltrs, who have been nurtured in hatred /
VI PoPsn assumption, have 81 length become con- |
vince that no half faced fellowship can be tole-
fAttd IN patching up a hollow treaty betwixt the /
hutho1y OF an anglican church, or caledonian |
cobvehtcle, and the Tree end unfeered exefcise of
ne intellect IN matters Of religion and therefore
lhey INSIST that " reason has liberty TO explode the
errors on popty, II cannot be fettered in passing an
hotIendent an1 supreme Judgment upon every /
gobma OF any creed. Whatever NAV be right |
-uinefanlsm and Celvanism are seen 10 be clear
" ~ the wrong. IL Priest may not Judge ano-
iher man servant why may parson or pres
byter 90 that which to a Monk IS forbiddeuf III /
there BE- no Pope, why shouId there be apostolic
" there should be no father confessor,
why IN me rubric Of episcopacy should the sick
nHn be here enioined 10 confess his sInsl IL Peter
Dave not the keys. how should the confession of
s'ers the keys OF the kingdom Of HeavenP II
Al solution Is dsamsble hertsy. WHY should the
snelicsn psrson be permitted, In the words OF the
church service, TO say, Hy the authority OF leans
CHRIST committed TO me, hereby sbsolve thee from
~ thy sins
Wen may orthodox Protestant an, be called a 70.
ormstion. The prayer book IL but the m ,ss bonk
hghty altered, TO give the spoilers of the elder