The Sun. — 1837-11-04 (London, England)

OCT 29.—Informing me of the calumnious Catholic, and is not on the whole unsuccessful. The construction put upon our conduct in the affair of the Electoral Committee, you advise me to explain my position and opinions. details of the Saint's murder before the high altar of Facts ought to explain them sufficiently. Our position has Canterbury cathedral, which are quoted from Ozanam, not changed. We still desire what we desired in 1830, because our sentiments then were inspired neither by a blind are full of interest. In the article entitled " The attachment to persons, ncr by anger, nor hatred, nor interest ; Vaudois," the Reviewer, speaking of their " persebut by reason, and a sense of the necessities of the country. cution.s," says, and not without sonic show of justice, We were in harmony with the instinctive judgment of the mass; and the experience of the last seven years has that the reproach comes with an ill grace from the strengthened our convictions. A constitutional monarchy English ultra-Tories with Ireland before their eyes ; on democratic institutions ; such is our political religion. and that those whose fathers carried fire and sword into We trust in it, not as a fact to be tolerated, nor as a transition to be undergone, but as the only kind Innisfail, to implant there a faith foreign as themof Government possible in this country, reconciling the great selves, would have no right to complain, even though necessities of our social state, viz., the unity of France and the Dukes of Savoy had in reality with fire and sword equality. To conciliate monarchy and democracy, and reject the man who would set them at variance. Such is the aim of resisted -that immigration of outlawed French in the our efforts ; this is the flag of our constitutional opposition. twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which bore with Was the beief and trust in this creed confined to me alone in the Chamber, I would still support it, conscious that the well- it into Piedmont a new creed in religion as meaning must finally rally to it. in morals, in social relations, as in civil allegiance. ~ " I deplored the schism in constitutional opposition occa- " furnishes us with sioned by the formation of a mixed Committee, which theMontalembert's St. Elizabeth, Republican paity joined with banners unfolded, preserving some curious particulars respecting this illustrious its extra legal pretensions, and protesting against ourprtn- i Saint, who, it app :ars exhibited the purest perfection ciples. This, however, has not discouraged me. Men whom love and respect, to whose lofty virtue I shall never cease to do home e have acted different) from me, not permitting a doubt of Catholic virtu in ;very extreme of life, in the princreosm birthsuandthteobceigeagtairi oanf dfoaulrl within the short duration, , that their intentions could by e mistaken. This difference is fears. She was, the Rebut passing, and we shall find ourselves again united in de-y fence of our institutions, and of the guarantees won , viewer tells us, (laughter of a King of Hungary, and for them in July. They doubt as little of me as Ido of them, after her decease was canonized as a Saint, "at which or of the unity of our efforts. We have immense difficulties to overcome, all the evil worked since 1830 to undo, in order ceremony . upwards of a million tueonrdneedbfyroAmrcablbl ispialortpss,ofasEsisutreodpebywittheoner ElpileniripgberoirmodrysiN,varactsi to complete and consolidate our institutions. I have been alarmed to see how easily the courtier.spirit, which we all , , thought dead, has resuscitated in our country, and how corruption, not that worked by money, but by favours, is practised derick, who, taking the diadem from his brows, placed with audacity and impunity. Are we to have another such it Als will could not crown her as my 'ill crown her this day, as a Chamber as the last, now progressive, now retrograde, oscilorensshewrsh,osuaylii::ig, ng: lating between persons and principles, and serving every p Ministry without supporting any ? I have no need of uttering Queen immortal in the kingdom of God.' '' Of the a profession of faith. Those who have chosen me take,. as I ' mup have done, open, frank, well-defined positions, determined to ;remaining articles, to which we have no time to advert, resist the encroachment of despotic Ministers, or the subvs-r- the two best are those entitled " Ecclesiastical Archisive attempts front another side. I would neither turn my tecture" and "Perceval's Peace-offering and Roman back on my friends, nor on my cause, and you know how little ~ I affect or desire the positron of chief of a party. I merely I Schism.