New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Miss Margaret Goodman recently published
book on Soterhoods in the Church Of England"
Ia the course Of il she gives peculiar stories OF
DR.. Pasey under whose spiritual direction she lived
for some time. A system Of sisterhoods, as 1t is
probably known, has been extensively in operation
In England, and DIR. Pussy and Miss SeIlon have
been active in organizing and carrying on the chief
one ofthem. Miss Goodman declares that the Doctor
using the power he gained through the confessional
tho Protestant Coatessional. let it be remembered
was in the habi, of demanding at times that the
young women under bis spiritual coutrol should re-
fuse obedience TO their parents when 80 ordered to
do by him. On one occasion sister left Mics
Sellons establishment at the wish Of her relatives;
DR.. Pnsey wrote 10 her with commsnd 70 return,
and threat that be would not Otherwise remain
her spiritual director. She eventually did return,
bes no. promptly. Therefore Miss Selon, with the
counteuance Of DR.. Pussy, degraded her, forbade
her intercourse with the other inmates OF the house.
and compelled her to pass in solitude her " hours OF
recreation" The effect Of this punishment, which
lasted for twelve months, most depressing upon
the culprit." 1t is furthermore stated by the
same authority that DR.. Puseys subsequent dlsci-
pline in this case induced the girl ito attempt to
starve herself during Lent" phrase which is not
quite clear. The Doctor apparently had
cheerful method with his young disciples
sometimes, Miss Goodman gives an iustra-
ZION Of his teachings, which is curious, if
the writer 10 trustworthy. He was urging upon
the young women the doctrine that expiatory fires
would burn them, even II eternal death did not alb
solutely destroy them, for certain sin; in word,
he was intoxicating the simple dogma Of purgatory.
He wished to enforce his point by an anecdote: he
said he was going along crowded street in Oxford
one day, "when WAS surprised 10 perceive at my
elbow q man whom believed vt the time unable 10
leave bis bed. He said DIR. Pussy, have been
in hell the last hour for that lie told you" Irefer
ring 10 a lie at the confessional 81 turned round"
the Doctor went on 10 say, to ask an explana'
ton; but the people pressed upon me, and lost
sight Of the figure Of the man who accosted me. In
great surprise, 1 fastened TO bis residence, and
learned at the door that he had been dead about
hour" Not many young women under Dr. Pusey's
spiritual direction, we venture TO say, would tell
him anything but the truth in confession for some
days at least. Miss Goodman gives an amusing ill.,
stance Of the minute particulars to which the Doc
tors oversight extended: one day be going
saucepan where potatoes were boiling. He grayely
shook bis head. "Thsse potatoes said he, are
too large; not according to holy poverty" We
cannot help thinking that the sstimable Doctor
unbending bs mind with gentle jest, and that the
unrelaxing solemnity of his yisage mised the mar
rstor into tue belief that be was in serious esrses
- Lieut..Gen. w. Knollys, a great man in
England, is the Controller and Treasurer Of the
household Of his Royal Hghnoss the Prince Of
Wales. He has occasion frequently TO appear in
print the author Of letters to various private per-
soma and public bodies, and recently he became more
than usually conspicuous in that line through his
epistolsry efforts connected with the crushing Of
seven persona in d crowd. The consors among the
people. who seize every occasion 10 lash out upon
n who surround the highest personages of the land
and who write letters to The Times, jumped upon,
the unlucky Knollys at once. He writes bad
English, said they; bis sentiments are Christian.
but his grammar is Pagan. One individual who
sigus himself 80" goss into Q minute verbal dis.
section Of the letter which the Lieut. General wrote