The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-09 00:00:00

DUTCH. AND FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Mmicit s.—Her Majesty the Queen of
the French, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Or-
leans and Nemours and their suite, left Brussels this
morning about half-past nine to return to Paris, where
they are expected on Friday morning. These august
personages had delayed their departure on account of the
illness of the young Prince and of a slight indisposition
of her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, who is hap-
pily recovered. Prince Philip continues to get better.
The Minister of Finance informs the persons inte-
rested that the Dutch Government has revoked the in-
struction, in conformity with which the Director of the
Great Book has suspended provisionally, since the end
of the year 1830, the payment of the interest of the ca-
pital and the active national debt, inserted in the names
of Belgian subjects in public institutions situated in the
southern provinces of the former Kingdom of the Nether-
lands, and that in consequence all the interest, the pay-
ment of which has been suspended in consequence of that
measure, and of the entries periodically published on
that subject, by the Director of the Great Book at
Amsterdam, will be paid on demand at the office of the
Director, as far as due, up to this time.

The average price of Wheat last week having been
22f. 22c., and of Rye 13f. 55c. , Wheat is still exempt
from import duty—Rye pays 21f. 50c. per 1,000 kilo-
grammes ; and the exportation of both, as well as pota-
toes and flour, is prohibited.
Mrs. Fry spent the greater part of the day before
yesterday in visiting the prison of Vilvoorde. She
seemed to be entirely satisfied with what she saw.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 6.—The Chamber continues the
debate on the project of law for the prevention of duel-
ling.

VIENNA, FEB. ',N.—His Majesty the Emperor has
conferred the Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian
Order of St. Stephen on Don Pedro de Oranjo-Lin a,
Regent of the Empire of Brazil. Count Fiquelmont
will return to St. Petersburg in about three weeks.
Count John Ncpomuel Esterhazy, Imperial Chamber-
lain, Privy Councillor, and Knight Commander of the
Order of St. Stephen, died here on the 23d of this
month.

ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 6, 10 P.M.—I have just heard
that the Pacha intends to send the Turkish fleet back
to Constantinople in a few days. As nobody now
speaks to him about the fleet, the measure must proceed
wholly from himself. He must make this concession
of his own free will. I cannot answer for the accuracy
of this intelligence. The source from which I obtained
this is in general one of the best ; but how can it be
reconciled with the clothing of the crews of the Turk-
ish men-of-war in Egyptian uniforms ?
AMSTERDAM, MARCH s.—The King and the Royal
family are accustomed to visit this capital every year.
His Majesty and the members of his august house are
now among us. The King arrived yesterday afternoon
at half-past four o'clock. The streets through which
the King passed were decorated with flags, and crowded
with spectators, who welcomed his Majesty with the
most unequivocal tokens of love and veneration. The
Prince and Princess of Orange, and the other members
of the Royal family arrived today. We learn from
good authority that his Majesty, always anxious to pro-
tect the welfare of his subjects, has opened negotiations
with the German Commercial League for the purpose of
effecting the accession of the Grand Duchy of Luxem-
burg to the League. We may add that there is every
reason to hope that a treaty will shortly be concluded,
which will be advantageous to the Grand Duchy.
On occasion of the examination by the Section of the
Second Chamber of the project of law for making alter-
ations in the fundamental law, a note was presented to
M. Layben, who says, The undersigned sees with
regret that the majority of the Section desire to retain in
the revised fundamental law of the kingdom of the Ne-
therlands the 133 d article of the fundamental law of the
United Netherlands, passed in 1814, which is as follows,
" The Christian reformed religion (Calvinism) is that
of the Sovereign Prince." Tins he considers as im-
posing on his Majesty the King the fetters from which
the meanest of his subjects is exempt ; viz. religious
liberty, the dearest treasure of the Netherlands, for which
it is their boast that they struggled for eighty years, and
which is guarantees! to all except to the reveredhead
of the State. He considers this as unjust, impolitic,
and intolerant. He gives his reasons (especially
for the
second) at considerable length, and declares
that he
shall oppose to the utmost this restriction.
BELGIANFUNDS—BauSSELS, MARca6.
Actual Debt, 2!.."1 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 5314
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent........., I°ll4
95
-----------. 3 per Cent
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 474
Society of Commerce, 4 ,",per Cent lO9
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, March b.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCH 6.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, ‘2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Syndic, -11,.; per cent 9l4i 924
Ditto, ditto, 31,02 per cent 75% 7614
Commercial Company, 4 per cent l77y, 17854
(1132 and 1533) per cent.
Dtto 1537, 5 per cent.
Loau 15:37, 5 er cent.
Exchange on London, One priontk ll 97!.6
Two months
—Dutch Papers, March 7..
A USTIII A N FUNDramma, Fan, 27. m.,
ive per Cents. Nlotalliques .... ...........................
_ 101%
Fear per Cents. ..... ........ ............ ,40a4
Three p,:r Cents. ............... ....... •••••
828
Bank Shares ................ ......................... .
--Alkenreitte Zritung, March 3.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Brawl, Matteis 1.
Bids. Mnney.
s.: hnld. h., .1,, pt, ernt -
I(U4 In 3
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 percent. 1.0
baeihuige on London, three months ...G o),c,
—.Prussian Slats Gazelle. March 2.

" WIIAT IS DISSENT ?" is the title 0,, a small
pamphlet, published the other day by Ridgway.
The author is a Clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, the Rev. George Goodenough Lynn, Minis-
ter of St. John's Chapel, Hampton Wick, a gent:e-
man honourably distinguished from the vast majo-
rity of his brethren by his acquaintance with the
religion of Jesus Christ, and by the Catholic spirit
of charity which such acquaintance never fails to en-
gender.

The reader will not, therefore, expect to find in
Mr. Lynn's pamphlet any of that sectar'an bitter-
ness of feeling towards those who are without the
sacred pale, of which so few Churchmen can direst
themselves. Still less will he expect to meet With
those gross misrepresentations and that disgusting
ribaldry, '. inch form the staple of almost all cleri
cal hicnbratiorn on Dissenting subjects. Mr.
Lynn's view in discussing the question •. What
Dissent ?'' is to show the unreasonableness a•id
wickedness of that exclusion from the benefil•.
national education which the English
almost to a man, are striving to accomnii,h,
present production may be considered ac supi.it-
inenta,y to the excellent and well-timed little um-
phlet which he published not long ago. etritled,
Are the People to he Educated or Nut ?"
On the authority of Mr. Conder, a writer on
Dissenting Si,atistics, Mr. Lynn gives the following
statement of the numbers of the Dissenters in
England and Wales :

Congregations. Attendants
Congregationalists (cr Independents) 1,840
Baptists
Orthodox Presb)terians 60
Wesleyan Methodists of all Classes 3,500 1,400,000
Calvinistic Methodists

Welsh, ditto .

615 1

7,489 3.000,000

Whether this, as far as it goes, be a correct esti-
mate or not, we have not the means of knowing,
but if it be, a considerable addition must be made
for the sects omitted in it. The English Presby-
terians or Unitarians, we apprehend, consideral:ily
outnumber the so-called orthodox body of the
same name, and there is a multitude of other sects
or subdivisions of sects, which must swell the total
amount of Dissent much beyond what is stated
above. Be that however as it may, here are 7,489
dissenting Congregations attended by 3,000,000
of persons. Now, if we allow that these 3,000,000
of attendants on public worship represent a popula—
tion of from five to six millions, we shall probably
not be far from the mark. Mr. Lynn then perti-
nently asks—
Do these vast numbers of men, either collectively or in-
dividually, rend in pieces " the seamless garment of
Christ," cr not ? Are they not all building on the same
foundation, "Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-
stone?" They profess to condemn the system of our
Church government, not Churchmen. l'ey entertain se-
condary differences of opinion upon some doctrinal points,
which the youthful mind, however, is unequal to scan—but
they " hold the head." They agree with us, " not almost,
but altogether," in essentials. They object to the national -
religious Establishment, it is true—but their prayer is,
" that all Christians who agree in the fundamental princi-
ples of the Gospel may be brought to understand, advocate, -
and practise universal communion." We may surely re-
spond to the spirit of this prayer, without having the warmth
of our attachment to the Church called in question.

If none but imaginary causes of complaint against the
Church as a National Establishment had any being, a just
accusation might be raised against the malcontent that
they were unreasonably factious. But when the glance of
an historical eye reveals to us the condition of the Reformed
Church, from its first establishment to the present hour,
candour obliges us to admit that she has never b. en " with-
out spot or blemish."
The mode in which her revenues have been collected—
the non-residence of the clergy—pluralities to a very great
extent—the wish that the people should have a voice in the
election of their pastor—the diverse avowed opininns of
some of her appointed ministers upon the most important
subjects—the unworthiness of others—the admission of
men into the priesthood for the sole purpose of enjoy•ng the
emoluments of patrimonial preferment, although heir
tastes, inclinations, and habits would have given ;he pre-
ference to some secular profession—the prayer of ion
in the " Order for the Visitation of the Sick".--,he
pointed services for the commemoration of certain political
events—the levying a tax for the maintenance of our
churches upon Nonconformists—the excessive deficiency of
church accommodation in populous parishe.•—have all been
adduced, at various times, as pleas to justify a withdrawal
from her communion.

And since these complaints are neither unfounded, nor
altogether unreasonable—since infallibility is not claimed
as an attribute of the Established Church—less severity in
our strictures upon the conduct of those who have taken
umbrage at what we ourselves deplore as errors and urnis-
sions, would be more just and becoming. Let us rather
extend the hand of brotherhood to all who agree with us in
essentials, and unite with them in every godly work. And
were we to " seek, not points of difference, hut points of
agreement, how much of the strife and bitterness that
deform God's earth would disappear."

Of the claims of the Dissenters, in a doctrinal
point of view, to be admitted to a participation with
the members of the Church in educational privi-
leges, we find the following observations, which
will make the bigots stare :
That the Protestant Dissenters here mentioned agree
with us in essentials, cannot be called in question. The
greater part make use of the Liturgy of our Church, with
some slight modifications. In this are embodied all the
unciamental and saving articles of our faith. " The extent
to which an accordance of religious belief exists between
the Episcopal and the Dissenting Churches, may be in-
ferred from the books of devotion and other religious works
which they use in common. A large portion of the versions.
of the Psalms and the Hymns that are now sung in our
Churches and Chapels are the composition of orthodox
Dissenters. Expositions of the Holy Scriptures by learned
Dissenting divines circulate to a great extent among the
Established Clergy—for instance, Henry's Commentary,
Doddridgc's Expositor, Pool's Synopsis and Annotations.
The writings of several eminent Nonconformists (such as
Howe, Baxter, Owen, Charnock, R'at's, &c.) rank among
the received standards of our common theology. That the
Nonconformists have not declined, as a body, from the doc-
trinal standards of other days, is sufficiently evinced by the
fact that their standard of theology, their catechisms, and
other religious manuals in popular use, remain the same ;
—the same Psalms and Hymns are still used in their public
worship. Nor have any of a different doctrinal character
been introduced.

Labouring under the conviction that the general cha-
racter of these three millions of Christians will be found,
upon impartial investigation, to bear the impress of the
Gospel—we may seriously ask, are we true to the sacred
cause of education, if we impede, by any wilful or intole-
rant act, their cordial cc-operation with us io training souls
for eternity ? We dare not say that God will repudiate all
these men. How can we, then, reftße to receive those as
brethren with whom the Father of Spirits holds commn,.
nion ? How dare we malign that heart which is th«• t..mple
of the living God ?
Mr. Lynn then proceeds to the question of the
Baptists, who repudiate the practice of infant bap-
tism, and adduces weighty authority in their fa-
vour or in their excuse :

I may be accused, however, of latitudinarianism if
condemn not the Baptist.
The Baptsts differ in general from the Congta gatioo,,
lists upon the point of Infant Baptism akin,. But. how_
ever deeply we may d. plore their epi..ions respecting
" this charitable work of our's in brinaiog inft.nia
Christ's holy baptism," and sealing there wi:h -,aif of
" a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousaesh"..._
it can hardly be proved that they render them c:angt rotas
allies in the work of education. Differences of opinion
upon this subject have existed in all ages of the Church.
Baxter says, " I found in all antiquity, that though Infant
Baptism was held lawtul by the Church, yet some, with
Tertullian and Gregory Nazianzen, thought it most conve-
nient to make no haste ; and the rest left the time of bap..
tism to every one's liberty, and forced none to be baptised ; in.
somuch as not only Constantine, Theodosius, and such others
as were converted at years of discretion. but Augustine,
and many such as were the children of Christian parents
(one or both), did defer their baptism much longer than I
think they should have done. So that, in the primitive
Church, some were baptized in infancy, and some in riper
age, and some a little before their death ; and none were
forced, but all left free ; and the only penalty of their delay
was, that so long they were without the privileges of the
Church, and were numbered but with the catechumens and
expectants." Dr. Jeremy Taylor also says, in reference to
Infant Baptism, " I think there is so much to be pretended
against that which I believe to be the truth, that there is
much more truth than evidence on our side; and therefore
we may be confident as for our own particulars, but not too
forward peremptorily to prescribe it to others, much less to
damn, or to kill, or to persecute them that only in this pat-
titular disagree."
Were we to unite with these and all other denominations
of Christians in the heavenly work of enlightening the
minds of the ignorant,--Infidelity would ere long nide her
hideous form—Fanaticism would shrink from public gaze,

ti THE PATHFINDER," by the Autnor of
" The Prairie," The Last of the Mohicans,"
coopr
e, " The Pathfinder," we are glad to
welcome him back again hto t ose regions of fiction in which no
es nieri,,c,';:):ll
romance,
living writer can contest his empire. Air. trooper is at home
on the waste of waters, and in the Indian forests; and so long as
he keeps these charmed scenes he cannot fail to delight the world.
We have very little hesitation in pronouncing this work to be
the most beautiful and natural—the simplest and the truest, and
owing the least to mere art—of all Mr. Cooper's novels ; or if
there be any misgivings in the comparison, the freshness of the
impressions left from the recent perusal of the " Pathfinder,"
may readily be excused for obliterating them. Perhaps " The
Last dale Mohicans" is entitled to the first place ; but whether
or not, "The Pathfinder" is a work of such high merit, that
it will nut do discredit to our best eulogy.- The story is brief
and dear—tile characters are all in the humblest sphere, and
derive their influence over the imagination solely from the moral
power stamped upon them by the author ; and the scenes
through which they move are amongst the grandest of the new
world.—Atlas.

The " Prince Albert" has twice sailed for St.
Michael's and twice been obliged to put back, having expe-
rienced most violent weather, and been greatly injured.— West
Briton.
The Ocean steamer, Captain Pile, arrived in this
River to-day, and brought us the Lire pool Albion of yester-
day. This is unprecedented despatch.— Cork Reporter.