The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-02 00:00:00

BAPTISTS IN DENMARK.

It will be seen from the following article, which we
have translated literally from the Faedrelondel, a Copen-
hagen newspaper, of the 19th of _November last, that
there is no disposition in Denmark to suppre.is the
statements made in this country by the Baptist mis-
sionaries on the subject of their persecuted brethren in
Denmark :
" Under the head 'Religions Persecution in Den-
mark,' the Morning Chronicle of the 11th of NOvember
gives a report of a. public meeting which was held on
the loth, in-a Baptist chapel in 6outhwark, in which
the Baptist ministers, Mr. W. Dawson and Mr. J. E.
Giles, communicated the result of their , mission t*
Denmark. Mr. Giles said that they had °knitted
without difficulty, en their arrival, an audience of the
King, Who had listened with the utmost patience and
kindness; and ultimately oMred to set the Baptists who
Were under arrest at liberty, if "they would promise to
'abstain from preaching until the law on the subject was
altered; that he. had .at the same -time proposed that
.they should in the meantime go to three towns which
he mimed. From the King they had gone to. the
Bishop, . who received them coolly ; he had not asked
them to take a seat, but had himself smoked hi, pipe the
the
whole time ; he would enter into no discussion. on
subject, but abruptly met whatever was :urged with the
brief answer that such was the law. Yet he sdinitted
that, with regard to dipping in water, they were by no
means in the wrong ; the only thing he had to urge
against it was, that they separated themselves from the
Lutheran church, and there Mr. Giles thought was the
secret of the opposition, as the Establishsd Church was
interested for its fees. When the; King's offer was an-
nounced to the prisoners they refused to accept it, on.
this ground—that they found no passage in the Scrip-
tures which authorised them to accept it, and they thought
ih,:t the King had no better right to exact their silence
for til•ree months than for three years, or even for their
lifetin„,• Mr. Giles said, moreVer, that before they could
communk,...e to the King this answer in an official man-
ner, lie
andis colleagues had taken their departure for
England, to col:sult with the Baptist Society about the
affair. since his -et.urn he had heart: that two Baptists
were imprisoned, but t;,e had learned frote: Mrs. Fry that
the Queen of Denmark, Who had constantly' shown her-
self friendly to the Socieatnyi.
in-
fluence on their behalf, intheeatssuainetltlyinfgAehtsdt;ihie
or
fteni in aiewrea,y
iwnhiEciluilitt..onvtiv,edthtehteptoit
itetalitecho•
Esriedlei,giaonuds the
liberty,if lornn.asi go
fCct
onro:
siderable influence in Denmark. Mr. Giles complained
of the illiberality of the Continent on the whole in mat..
could not be opened,
tors of religion, and ascribed it to the selfishness of the
clergy. In Hamburg'', he said, a Dissenting Chapel
pressnie;
er:'vwtsnheaue(sil would
told that the police Magistrate would not give a licence'
but a brothel might. He had been
to a woman of the town till she was first confirmed in the
Lutheran Church. Finfillv, he called on the meeting .t4l
subscribe for the support of their persecuted brethrel'lit
Penmark, for they were suffering, he said, great
dis-
tress. The thanks of the meeting were
Fetter
Palmerston, to Sir Henry W. W. `Wynn,r'. of the
rihseboaefltel)eatu,llitnegr
es d
Brown, Joseph Young, Esq. (which is an error _
Messrs. Giles,
press, in place of Joseph Owen, Esq.), vuteq toLord
Dawson, &c."

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KINGSTON POLICE —An engine-driver in the
employ of one of the contractors upon the South Western
' Railway, named Charles Lark, was summoned before
Captain Roberts and Mr. Spicer on the last Bench day,
to answer a charge of having neglected to obey the rules
and regulations of the Company, by having his engine
and waggons on the wrong line of rails, and not giving a
proper signal, and thereby causing a collision with the
fast train from Southampton ; and one of the inspectors
of this part of the line was also charged with neglect of
duty, arising out of the same transaction. Evidence was
heard at length on the two charges, when the Magis..
trates fined Lark in the mitigated penalty of 51., and Is-
in many parts the
t -Black-
missed the other charge. The fine was immediately paid.
to
of
HIGH TlDE.—Yesterdtty afternoon, • between
three and four o'clock, the tide in the river rose
to such an unusual height, that
quays, whsrfs, embankments, &c.. were overflowed,
duses were
damage to an enormous extent was caused to the and
and property in the warehouses by the river-side,
street along Bankside, from London-bridge goods
the ceil-
re
aho°t-Passen.
The
Black-
friars-bridge, was a complete river, and forfou
an hour and a half rendered impassable for
g overflowede t:s .
to otletldieeptilliooorfinsgelseorfal the
inches,a
number of the cellars were completely filled a great
and
ing. Along the Belvidere-road, Pedlar's-a ere
and Vauxhall, similar effects were experienced, Lambeth,
far as could be ascertained, no fatal or serious ; but, as
occurred.
accidents

The Municipal Council of Paris has just adopt.
v earndl
supplying the principal butchers
ed:sin of it
seto of
smembers,measures,
recommended
on i tho a Special Com-
mission trade
in
the
capital,
whereby the
with it
eat s
fyosrtetmh e orfe
sste a of
,
wholesale, will be put an end to, and every butcher will
buyinge
be compelled to purchase his own beasts for himself at
Sceaux or Poissy: The wholesale system has been for
some time complained of as tending to raise the price of
meat. The Prefect of the Seine has dismissed from his
Ipost the Inspector-General of the meat markets, who
had opposed the abolition of the system above alluded to.