The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 9.—The King and their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princesses, have returned to-
day from Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 19.—We have to fulfil to-day, as
journalists, a very melancholy duty, that of announcing
what we could not hitherto believe, but which is now com-
municated to us on undisputable authority—namely, that
his Majesty has come to the positive resolution to contract
a marriage with the Countess Henrietta d'Oultremont.
is superfluous to remark that the opinion of all the true
friends of constitutional monarchy in the Netherlands, is
unanimous respecting this event.
The grief that is thereby occasioned is the more lively,
and the more general, in pi ()potion as the King's well-
deserved reputation seemed to exclude even the possibility
of such a step.
Every rank has its peculiar privileges ; among those
that belong to the highest, that of braving public opinion
is not one.

Actions which in others are wholly unobserved, and
merely condemned as trifling failing, or ordinary weak-
nesses, assume a more serious character when they suddenly
dim the lustre of a crown which has been worn with
honour for a quarter of a century.
The fundamental law contains no prohibition, but all
that is permitted is not honourable. Royalty, especially in
the age in which we live, ought to be free from every spot ;
this is the sincere wish of those who look on the throne as
the bJlwark of our national prosperity.
Difficulties and dangers of many kinds surround the
political edifices of the Netherlands ; it is reckless to in-
crease the number, as it is impolitic to weak( n the respect
for the sceptre at a moment when all the energy of the
love of a faithful people is scarcely able to restore the
past or to secure the future.
Never was it of more importance that those who possess
the King's confidence should hold the language of truth,
and plainly interpret the wishes of the nation, which they
know.
May they succeed in averting an event which gives joy
to none but the enemies of the House of Or ange. —Han-
dlesblad, March 1 I.
AMSTERDAM, MARC►t 10.--It is affirmed that the three
Ministers, Van Maanen, Verstolk Van Soelen, and Van
Doom, have been commissioned by the King to prepare
the projects of law for some changes in the fundamen-
tal law.

We are positively informed that the King's Commis-
sioners in Luxemburg are engaged in drawing up a Con-
stitution for the Grand Duchy, which, however, appears
not likely to be fashioned after the modern principles of
political rights.

DU'YCH FUNDS.—.A.MsTaItDast,..MaRcH 10.
' Money. Bil
Actual Dabt, ‘2?,‘ per Cent
2 4:4
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A inci t Srndic,4!,i per cent 91% 90.4
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 75% 76
Commercial Company, 4'4 per cent l7ski 176.,.,,% Ditto (1832 and 1533) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. lOO% 100*.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, One month ll 95
Two
—Dutch Papers, March t 1
0. ll 85
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Mancu 7.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 108!
1815
i 108 4
A n,lo-Russian Loan 11131,9 lOSN
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 1033j
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 9B 95%
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 51% 51%,
Ditto 5 per Cent. 97,5,
Polish Bonds ~ 145 144
New ticket
' '7
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 74% 74
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent....... .......
Spanish, New 3 per Cents. 231,;', i 3
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
PETERSBURGH, FEB. 28.—Two months, 39' pence.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BEaLIN, MARCH 7.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 41,4 per cent." 104% 103%
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4.per cent 103% 103%
Exchange on London, three months 6 2031
—Prussian Slats Gazette, March 8.

From Tux WEEKLY DISPATCH of Sunday, March 8, 1840. I
THE MORALITY OF " THE TINIE8" JOURNAL.
—There is no journal in the metropolis, and it is extremely
doubtful whether there is one to be found in the world, which
has alternately displayed so much insincerity and baseness as
Ti.e Times, a newspaper which has advocated and betrayed
every party with which it has been connected. The following
are extracts from that journal, and nothing can be snore revolt-
ing to an honest mind than the evidence they afford of the
utter want of morality and the absence of truth and candour in
the Editors. It will be seen that, in 1834, the immaculate
Times lent its assistance to Chartism, while in 1837, only three
years afterwards, the honest Editors were absolutely rabid in
their delight of Toryism ; but that may be accounted for by
the fact, that the same men who write the leading articles fur
it now, about the year 1835 suffered their consciences to be sold
by private contract, with the types and machines, to the Carlton
Club ! Men of England, this is the organ which it was in-
tended by the Conservatives should " guide public opinion !"
The Peers.— The Peers are to The Lords hare saved the
be considered as old and use- country by their wisdom
less lumber, and it is high and firmness. It is, indeed.
time that thcy were deprived an established fact, that
of the means of doing mis- their usefulness in the State
chief.—Times, 1834. was never so gloriously ma-
nifested as at the present
time.—Timer, 1837.
Peel and Lyndhurst.—No man, He must, indeed, be either an
with the least comprehen- arrant knave or a fool, u•Le
sion, would pronounce Sir denies the established fact
Robert Peel anything but a that Sir Robert Peel is the
shallow-pated red tapist, greatest of living "tatesmen,
and Lord Lyndhurst a de- and that Baron Lyndhurst
signing knave. Times, is the most honest and
1834. learned ro/itician of his
time. —Times, 1837.
Oxford University. The The pious and learned divihee
monks at Oxford are the of the University of Orford
most narrow-minded of ec- are the true bulwarks of
clesiastics. It is time that Christianity. It is an es-
they should begin to set their. tablished fact, beyond all
house in order, for the hand doubt, that to their liberal
of sound and sweeping re- feelings it is owing, that all
form is now approaching religious disabilities hare
them.—Times, 1834. been removed.—Tisnes,lB37.
Church-rates.— What are the The unholy war against the
Church-rates but the most payment of Church-rates
nefarious exactions when among low Radicals and
levelled against our Dis- Dissenters, amounts almost
seating brethren? The Al- to sedition and blasphemy.
mighty has left a man's Those who choose to secede
conscience free, and it is, from our Establi shed Church
therefore, a robbery in the —and it is an established
eyes of Heaven, to extort fact that it is the only true
from a man support for church—ought to be made
that creed which he does not pay the penalty for their
believe.—Times, 1834. backsliding.—Timee, 1837
Conservatives.— What are the We rejoice at finding the cause
Conservatives but the most of Conservatism so rapidly
inveterate obstructives ? advancing; we could al-
What do they seek to gain most assert that the spirit
but power at the expense of of Providence is directly vi-
honour, justice, and the wel- sibie in that advancement.
fare of the people.—Times, It is an established fact that
1834. the Conservatives have ever
been eager to promote all
such reforms as tend to the
benefi rand happiness of th'
community.—Times, 1837.
The Queen Dowager.—Petti- What a miserable scoundrel
coat politicians are the bane must that man be who would
of a Court, and in regard impute to our gracious
tsLord Melbourne's disnzis- Queen the slightest inter.
sal, it is well known " the Terence with political ma 1-
Queen did it all."—Times, tors ! It is an established
1834. fact that her Majesty is un-
interruptedly engaged solely
in the exercise of her private
virtues.—Times, 1837.

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WORTHY OF NOTICE.—We are requested by
Lord Cantelupe to state that the Royal command for his Lord-
ship's presence at a party at Buckingham Palace, mentioned
in the. letter of our Brighton Correspondent on Monday last,
was issued previously to his becoming a candidate for the
borough of Levees, and that the election and the Royal com-
mand with which his Lordship was honoured, could not b 3
possibility have the slightest connection with each other.
Morn/ nn Post. The same Morning Post, and the rest of the
Tory Journals, lyingly asserted that the summons was issued
after Lord Cantelupe had become a candidate, and was a Mi-
nisterial trick, to prevent his success. This is a specimen of
the despicable and vile arts continually employed by
.the so-
called gentlemanly and aristocratic Tory press, to excite con-
tempt and hatred against the Ministers.