The Sun. — 1840-10-29 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS  FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning chronicle.) We continue to receive numerous letters on the case of Captain R. A. Reynolds. From all parts of the country questions are put to us which we are not in a condition to answer. A very general wish is expressed that an authority should be given to receive subscriptions on behalf of Captain Reynolds ; and we are satis. fled that if a committee, named by a public meeting, a body of gentlemen advantageously known to the public, were to assume the responsibility of deciding in what mode advantage should be taken of the sympathy with the victim of oppression, the people would everywhere cheerfully attend to the recommendation. In many places subscriptions have already been opened for Captain Reynolds, and in still more places an eagerness has been expressed to know where subscriptions can be received. Under these circumstances, it is time that something positive should be done. Various sums have been transmitted to us, which we are anxious to hand over to some body of gentlemen authorized to manage the subscriptions entered into, either to indeas• nify Captain R. A. Reynolds for the loss of his commission, or to mark the public detestation of the tyranny of which he has been the victim. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Matters are rapidly approaching a crisis in the Church of England. What the Dissenters have failed to effect, and what most probably they would not have achieved for a considerable time to come, namely, the overthrow of that Church as an establishment, promises to be speedily brought about by herself. If the signs of the times are at all to be depended on, she is at this moment in the act of committing suicide. Need we express ourselves in yet plainer language? Well, then, the adoption, by so large a portion of her clergy and people of the Popish doctrines known by the name of Puseyism, cannot fail to prove the prelude to her destruction. It is one of the leading principles of the Puseyites, who swarm in all parts of England, but who are particularly plentiful in Oxford, that the reformation from Roman Catholicism was a great crime; that the outward forms of the Church are essential to salvation ; that the State is to be subject to the ecclesiastical power ; and that the Church has a right to control the Monarchy. Such monstrous assumptions, such audacious and despotic pretensions cannot be suffered to be made in a free country. Were the Puseyite party few in number, and destitute of influence, we might, indeed, be disposed to laugh at them ; but when it is remembered that they are a most numerous, and learned, and influential party, and are daily increasing in numbers and power, the case assumes a different aspect, and ought to attract the attention both of the Legislature and the country. Unless both Parliament and people are prepared to abandon Protestantism, and allow Popery again to become the religion of the land, something must be done to arrest the progress of Puseyism within the bosom of the Established Church. Do we, with this view, recommend the interference of the civil power in the way of persecution ? Far be the idea from us. But it becomes the bounden duty of Parliament to see that those clergymen who arc paid by the State for preaching Protestant doctrines, do preach those doctrines, and not the doctrines which were preached before the Reformation, and which are nor embraced and preached by the Church of Rome. If they will persist in inculcating doctrines which lay the axe at the root of Protestantism, it is rather hard that a Protestant people should be made to pay them for so doing. If they are resolved to support the Popish religion, let the Popish religion, on the principle of reciprocity, support them. The only effectual way of dealing with these Puseyites will be, by Parliament stopping the supplies. It is true that the simplest and most natural way of proceeding with them would be for the really Protestant party in the Church to have excommunicated them at once. But this is not now to be expected. That party has allowed the Puseyites to become too numerous. There is reason, indeed, to believe that the latter constitute a majority in the Church ;in which case their expulsion becomes, as a matter of course, impracticable. But whether Parliament does or does not interfere with the Puseyite party, the existence of that party is destined to prove the destruction of the Church. If the Legislature withhold the payment of their stipends, that will lead to a commotion in the Church which must shiver her to pieces ; if the Legislature do not inters fere, every remaining vestige of Protestantism will vanish, and the result must be an open and perfect union with the Church of Rome. The present state of the English Church furnishes a striking exposition of the evils of religious establishments. Such fearful heresies, such awful corruptions of doctrine, as those which constitute the essence of Puseyism, could never obtain a local habitation or name among the Dissenters. It is a curious and instructive fact, that in no single ink stance has Puseyism effected an entrance among the Dissenters. Were any of their ministers unhappily to be infected with it, the people have the remedy in their own hands, and that remedy they would promptly apply. They would at once shut the pulpit against him. Or if, on the other hand, any of the members were to imbibe the pernicious principles which constitute the Puseyite creed, the Church would at once apply the powerful preventive against its further progress, of final excommunication. (From the Morning Post.) The following description of the political character and position of M. Thiers, which we have received from a Paris Correspondent, will be read with interest :