The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-19 00:00:00

THE PRINCESS AUGUSTA.

The Princess Augusta experienced a severe attack
on Thursday night. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager
came to Clarence House, and remained till one o'clock
yesterday morning.
The following account of the health of her Royal
Highness was issuod yesterday forenoon :
" The Princess Augusta is not suffering so much
pain this morning, but her Royal Highness's symptoms
have not improved.

" Clarence House, Sept. 18.",
Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Sussex and
Cambridge paid visits to the Princess yesterday morn-
ing, and remained some time. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, and her Roy al Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, came several times to Clarence House in
the course of the day, and had also interviews with her
Royal Highness.
Sir Henry Halford attended the Princess again last
evening, and Mr. Moore is in constant attendance at
Clarence House. Lady Mary Pelham and Miss Wyn-
yard are both in close attendance on the Royal
sufferer.

The number of the Nobility and Gentry who called
yesterday to learn the state of her Royal Highness
was unusually numerous. Among them were the
Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerna ; the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer ; the
Hanoverian Minister, the Austrian Special Minister,
the Danish Charge d'Affaires, and Countess Bille
Brahe ; the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, the Duchess
of Inverness, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter,
Countess of Fingal!, Countess of Mountnorris, Lord
and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord and Lady Mahon,
Sir Charles and Lady Begot, Lady Woodford, Sir
George Murray, the Solicitor-General, Sir Gore and
Lady Ouseley, Lady Matilda Wynynrd, Lady Taylor,
Rear-Admiral Sir George Mundy, Right Hon. H. La-
bouchere, Sir John Hippisley, Mr. Croker, Mr. F.
Maule, Colonel Charles FoX, Hon. Mrs. Stewart
Mackenzie, General and Mrs. Grosvenor, Mrs. Ad-
miral Sotheron, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codrington,
Mr. and Mrs. Backhouse, Rev. Dr. Kuper, Rev. J.
Horsley Dakens, Mr. and Mrs. G. Byng, Mr. New-
digate, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley, and Mr. Frederick Ste-
phenson.
Last evening her Royal Highness was more free
from pain.

THE CHRISTIAN CHARTIST

CHURCH.

( From the Scots Times.),

The Noddy Church, occupied by the Chartists, which
contains at a pinch about 1,500 persons, is now occa-
sionally found to be far too small for the multitudes who
throng to it from all quarters of the city, so much so
that the passages, staircases, and every other corner, is
sometimes filled even before the hour of commencing
the service. We can affirm that this was the case
on the afternoon of Sunday last, when we at-
tended to take notes for the present sketch ; and
had it not been for the kindness of one of the managers,
we would have had to depart without accomplishing our
object. We come now to the rules and management of
the Church. On this head it perhaps would be as well to
allow the naanager._t.
w.—
eals to tne • M embers of the Chartist Worshipping As-
sembly," which is drawn up in the form of a Report,
printed by the Committee, and which we published at
length in this Journal a few months since, we find the fol.
lowing passages:—
" We commenced, then, in the month of September,
in the hall in the College Open, under very promising
auspices; and although we have been persevering for these
five months, we have never found ourselves in want of
preachers, who have declared to us the counsel of God,
not in the fashionable rhetoric of the day, but in the sim-
plicity of the Gospel."
" Our Society has been commenced and carried on in
the true democratic spirit of the Gospel. . . . We
therefore conceive that it is necessary that we should ac-
knowledge all men equal, and that he that is chief should
be as he that doth serve, and that the elder should serve
the younger, thus manifesting In all that whatever gifts or
graces we possess should and ought to be directed to the
cause of God, and exercised fur the good of all."
After some statements respecting the election of a
chairman and vice-chairman to conduct the sermons, in the
event of a lack of volunteers as preachers, the appointment
of a precentor and door-keepers, the report proceeds—
" Your Committee think it unnecessary to introduce seat-
letting into your Church. They conceive it breathes too
much of shopocracy. They therefore wish to remove this
evil also from the Church. The rich and the poor will,
therefore, no longer sit distinguished from each other ; all
will be welcome.

As to the doctrine, your Committee approach this part
of the report with great caution, not afraid of encoun-
tering the difficulties attending such a task, but, in defe-
rence to the feelings of our brethren who may never have
had opportunity of examining and weighing the truths of
Divine revelation. We would only recommend the Bible
as our exclusive rule of faith—and adopt the advice of
the Apostle Paul—" Let all things be done decently and
in order."

As the affairs of no church can be carried on or con-
ducted without money, your Committee will depend
wholly on the free and voluntary offerings of the people,
who may, from time to time, worship along with them.
And as the poor have always been the peculiar care,
feigned or real, of the church, we recommend that, as soon
as possible, a sum will be appropriated for them.
Another very important part of our work we would also
bring before your notice—namely, the sending of mis-
sionaries to explain our views, and, if possible, to establish
churches in every town and hamlet. The allowance for
these shall be left to your own liberality.
We now come to the outward ordinances of religion--
namely, marriage, baptism, and the Lord's supper.
As to marriage. Your Committee propose that the
parties be attested by two witnesses, and united if of pro-
per age ; and that the ceremony be performed by the Chair-
man or Vice-Chairman.

As to baptism. Your Committee consider that it may
be performed at any age. No particular period if life is
alluded to in Scripture.. We purpose that the Chaieman
perform this duty also.
As to the Lord's Supper. Your Committee are of opi-
nion there is no allusion in Scripture to the frequency of
showing forth the Lord's death till he come, we would
leave it to the members of the Church who shall assist
each other in the solemn service."
A host of Scripture passages are then given in support
of the views laid down in the report. Then follows an
excellent appeal to the members, which is signed by Mr.
Malcolm M'Farlaue, the Chairman, Mr. Walker, Mr.
Bryan, and others.
With respect to one of the ordinances alluded to in the
report, viz., baptism, we believe there is not a church in
the city where it is more frequently performed. Some
Sundays not less than nine and ten children have been
named. We do not wonder that the clergy of the Esta-
blished Churches look with peculiar feelings upon an in-
stitution such as this. Verily, it may be said, if things
continue at this rate, their Dianas are in danger.
Like the other individuals who generally officiate in this
church, Mr. M'Ewan is a working man, and although
possessing few of those qualities which some people think
necessary to the occupant of the pulpit, is nevertheless a
very powerful preacher. He is no ordinary man.

FUNERAL OF LORD MARK KERR.—The
mortal remains of this late esteemed nobleman were
re-
moved
at an early hour on Thursday morning from Hen-
-I::,tta-street, preparatory to their interment in the family
._•zhiplake-church, near Henley-on-Thames. The
7ault in
funeral .-:?ts: in ,ccordanee to his Lordship's desire, strictly
private, the Ear. ot' _Antrim and his immediate family only
following.
Mr. Tomlinson, of i;Ar..Ancliester, was seized with
a fit at the betting-rooms, Done,.ster, abaut half-past nine
on Wednesday evening, and,
befoi:e medical assistance
could be obtained, was a corpse.
the
We are authorised to contradict in Count
positive terms the report circulated at Paris the- most
r o
f
D Orsay had any participation or knowledge whatev.
the enterprise of Prince Louis Napoleon at Boulogne.'
Although entertaining the warmest friendship for the
Prince Louis, Count D'Orsay was in utter ignorance of
his projects, the Prince never having communicated them
to him, a silence Count D'Orsay now regrets, as he would
have used every means in his power to dissuade Prince
Louis from embarking in such an expedition. Had Count
D'Orsay taken the least part in this unfortunate affair he
would have passed over in silence the reports on the sub-
ject a, Paris, originating, no doubt, in his being known to
be one of the most enthusiastic admirers of the Emperor
Napoleon, and to have lived in habits of intimacy with
nearly all the fr.:tiny. Tice friendship between Piinee
Luula and Ct,imt D'Orsay of avcient date; and gladly
would Count IYOrsay have given what considers would
le the most sincere proof of his attachment, 12L1 an oppor-
tunity been afforded him, by advising the Prince against
She rash enterpripe.—.lktorning Post. •-