The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-07-24
NO. 238.
RASTRRN AFFAIRS.

..no,is If Canton and its sister ProVince-has ar
hinged the Jesuits residing under bis Jurlsdic-
.,oo far trapsgressing the civil law-for daring
70 set up higher law than that OF the State un-
1sr whose protection they live. In proclama-
,;o, dated Febru lry 10Th last, he denounces them
:, ,orms as follows: "All sects Of false religion
h,,rn incense, fast, and live upon vegetable diet
=. o,5er 10 Rather mouey Among such, the Ro-
IN Catholics are notorious, worshipping the
o,oss and caring alike neither for Heaven nor
t,r ancestors. Under the cloak Of religion they
,,ausgress the law. To put the people in good
Tn, Il ia necessary to demolish bad religions,
anA mt forward good ones. The classics should
10 taught to every one, even to the peasants, and
,bsD M error would find entrance" The Wri-
tingsor scriptures of COnfucius are meant, doubt
lass in this allusion to the classics.
The truth is, the Jesuits in China have follow
81 the vell-uigh invariAble fashion of proselyte
,,s.srs-have endeavOred to regulate in all things
III. whom they believe ignorant enough to re-
miro their instruction, or weak enough to sub
nit 10 their dctatiOn. History shows, too, that
whenever and wherever too many religious in
struetors found the opportunity, peor human
nature so guided their policy as to set them to
work in attempts to administer and expOund
the civil law, as well as the law Divine
Like the blood Royal, that class when in power
practically claim divine rights.
week or two since the Society for the Propa-
CATION of the Gospel held its third jubilee in
London, Prince Albert of course in the Chair.
The occasion gave birth to the utterance OF SEN
tments which will hardly go down here. Lord
John Russell coolly discOursed of the United
States, with her 20 900 of souls, as a country
in which The Church Of England might srtend the
blessings of the Gospel This is cool Where,
in proportion to the number of processing Epis-
copaians England has one who oonscientiOusly
lives no to his creed the United States possesses
ten it not being (as general thing required by
fashion or worldly interest to prefer that church
to any other in this country. The Bishop Of
London earnestly urged the Episcopalians to look
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or in other words, not lin accordance with the
spr A. Re aoel 10 asS"ilate the religious polity
of future great countries now governed by Eng
land to the sentiment of universal brotherhood
and coeouaty, the eternal justice Of which in
this era no sane man born of English parentage
denies The reader will recollect that the res-
son, and the only one seriously alleged publicly
BY the advocates of church exclusiveness in Eng
land, for the perpetuation of the monstrous dark
ace principle of connection between Church and
State, is the utter impossibility of making the
necessary changes in the laws, customs, habits,
train of thought, &c. necessary to the radical
chsnge in so vast a nations church affairs
Russell amused himself in congratulating socie-
ty on the assumed fact that the day has passed
when barbarOus or infdel power can rule in a
country in which Christianity now holds sway.
Poor fellow, he must be too near-sighted to see
beyond the tip of his nose He fails to realize
the actual condition Of the Continent, lying con-
quered at the feet of Nicholas, the Christianity
of whose system is about as bad as any fetichism,
and incomparably worse than any Mahometanism
of this era. One who thinks and feels can hard
ly avoid being affected with sentiments vastly
different from those sought on such occasions as
this anniversary to be impressed upon him, when
measuring the grandiloquent addresses in which
they are celebrated, by well ascertained facts.
For instance, the Bishop of Oxford boldly assert
ed that {" that great problem which no heather
nation, however civilized, was able in any meas
ure to solve-how a distant, a helpless and a
wealthy people could be governed with exact JUS
tice, with benefcent kindness, with foresighted
liberality-a problem which Rome endesvored in
vain to solve and which not all her prosecutions
of such men as Verres enabled her to discover
that problem had been solved ia the Rule Of Brit.
ish ndiaw
The reader, if he knows aught Of the history
of British rule in India--of the fact that for thir.
ty years. on one OCCASION quite million Of souls,
per annum were sacrifced-murdered, starved
drowned, or destroyed by infectious diseases--to
obtain for British commerce the firm foothold it
has in that quarter, will appreciate this senti-
ment. What a comment on this Bishops text is
to be read in almost every chapter of the history
Of British India
But even that cleverest subject Of Victoria
Prince Albert, did his share Of the occasions
bamboozing; for, on taking the Chair, he referred
to the history Of British Professionalism, main
tanning that its greatest regal friend William III,
was the greatest sovereign England has to boast
or One may venture to believe that his High
ness is secretly of opinion that "bad is the best
OF the lot. If history speaks the truth with very
few exceptions, England's Kings have been as
sorry set of scamps as the misnamed Grace Of
uod ever cursed people with-fsr inferior TO
the females who have welded the sceptre Of that
Realm. Throwing out of the estimate Elizabeth,
Anne, Alfred, Henry II, Henry VII, and a few
others, and really the proper question u.s. who Of
them all has done the least harm, rather than the
most good Albert is too intelligent not 10 know
'na' ne was endeavOring to humbug the British
public in arguing, as he did by implication. that
the Kings who have governed England since the
Reformation were defenders and propagators of
the creed of Englands church, for the benefit OF
others than themselves and their descendants
In fact, there is as little truth in his assumn.
tons as in those Of his frocked colaborers on the
occasion, who backed him in strenuOusly contend.
ing Tor the pure Christianity of all that the au-
thorIlies OF the Church Of England do at home
and ABROAD in the face Of the truth that during
mat very week the foreign Protestant preachers
attending the Exhibition had been turned out of
Tue episcopal chApels in which they were at first
permitted 20 preach to their cOuntrymen then in
-'nu0n and that a powerful church opposition
- tue scheme of universal popular education in
'ne Realm had been concocted because OF the
"Ope'eSsness OF prevailing on the British public
% incorporate in the scheme the teaching of the
s"ut'ns peculiar dOgmas, as one Of the chief
uuties OF the projected institution!
mere appears to be little difference in prin.
uP'e between the conduct Of the French army in