An individual, signing himself ‘A Protestant Dissenter,’ has written to us, to remonstrate against one of the heroines of the tale in No. 424, with the above title, having been consigned by the author to the seclusion of a convent.  As the same correspondent protests against the ‘Visit to an English Monastery’ in No. 413, as something calculated to introduce the wedge of Popery among our readers—­the said article having given much offence to our Catholic readers, and terrified all our Protestant readers, but one, into thanking God for their own faith—­perhaps it may be thought unnecessary for us to notice such a communication.  But this is only one of the reproaches we receive almost daily, from all sides of the religious question.  Our correspondents are not satisfied with the well-known fact, that while retaining our own opinions, we wilfully interfere with the opinions of no other man.  Each secretly thinks we ought to side with him, and would have us sacrifice to this duty the usefulness of a journal which circulates freely among all denominations of religion, and inculcates the practical part of Christianity wherever it goes.  We are tired of such correspondence—­and there is the truth.  Let it be understood once for all, that ours is no more a religious than it is a political mission.  The supposed party tendency of expressions that occur here and there in our papers is the result of mere chance; it may be detected as often on one side as on another; and in no publication but our own does it rouse the acrimony of partisans.  We give information connected with monasteries, churches, and conventicles, with equal impartiality; and if this is found otherwise than useful or amusing, it is the fault of those who convert facts into sentiments.

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