The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-10 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN -RERUN, ..UG 4

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iiills Money
St. Schuh!. Bch., 4 '..: per cent lt 4 It 3y,
Prus,ian English Loan, Is3o, 4 pet cart le:!4;
hxur.ange on London, three months 6 18,4
—Prussian State Gazelie, Aug. 5.

THE BIBLE, WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT --r
This is the title given to a communication inserted in the
Times on Saturday, in which that super-church journal in-
formed its readers that ill,. Rev. Comity Thirlwall, re-
cently appointqd Bi‘hop of 5... D:vid's, is the trap-
later of Schleiermacher's Critical Essay oa the Gospcl
of St. Luke, a work of great authority, as Schleier-
maeher is a theologian and a scholar of the highest rc-
putath.n. The article further informed the public, on
the united authority of Schleiermaeirer and
that" the discrepancies pand in the Gospel comp,l us to
admit that the biuperititcutiiug cr,otrol of the Spirit was
not exerted to exernp:, the sacred writings altogether
from errors and imperfections." Nay, the public are
informed, on the same unexeeptionable authority, that.
the rigid theory of inspiration has beer, long ab indoned
on account of the d.fficultit s opposed to it, and
that it will now be a waste of time to attack it.
These facts and circumstances the Tina's communirates
to the public, at the %cry time that the Bishop of
Exeter is calling out blasphemy in the House of Peers,
and calling for penalties against those who, at Man-
chester, attack the rigid theory of inspiration. We
believe no other theologian in modern times, except Dr.
Philpotts, has thought of denying that the books of the'
Bible and Testament were written and handed down to
and were subjict to the
o
nbytenGaorde liable. It is a far greater
crime,eursrbrys to w
tmheernelZierCht, to inflict pain on a human being for
criticising the Bible, than to criticise it as Rekhorn,
erre9sPe:rucihue lead them to conclusions very
Paulus,
, Strauss and others have done,
S thoughchleie their •
Tercnt from those incorporated in that epitome of all
r itt
rational belief, the Thirty-nine Articles.

BRITISH MATRONS.--We were much struck by a
' n
paragtaph in the Times of Friday,
of
expressing a hope
that the Queen Dowager, the
might long be spared to the nation. This is not very
flattering to English ladies, considering that her Majesty
is a German born and bred,; and we doubt whether
she has yet attained any very extensive knowledge of our
language. Another lady who has also, with at least
equal propriety, been held up as a model to English
ladie, is her Majesty's mother, and the Duchess of
Kent is also a German. Queen Charlotte, too, for
ninny years the pattern of all that is excellent, a Tory
and fashionable woman, whose Court was the purest of
the purt—was a German, who never acquired our
tongue. All the Royal family, males and females, t;,r
more than u century, with the exception of George IV.
and William IV., were more German in their tastes
and manners than English. Many of them could r-ot
speak English. But if any family in the kingdom
has an infltpuice over manners and morals, it is
the Royal family ; and while the nation therefore
has been modelling itself on a German family, it ha:•
been ignorantly crying out against German morals, Ger-
man manners, and the irreligion of the Germans, The
%cry Journal which holds up a Gernian. lady as a
pattern for British matrons to shape their conduct by, so
deprecates the most approved theology of the Germans,
that it makes it an offence in an English Bi,hop that he,
has translated one of the most celebrated German theo-
logical works.

BRITISH HERRINGS.—We understand that the Bri-
tish herring curers have made such progress is the art
of curing that delicate fish, that in roost part of Ger-
many British herrings are now prekrred to Dutch her-
rings. Such a fact may inflaence the taste at :noire,
and make the Eiglish suppose that the produce of
their own countrymen is as good as that of Mynhe:r.

PILCHARD FISHERY, MEVAGISSEY.-- The
drift boats belonging to this place have taken excellent
caches 01 fine pilchards, some boats from 4,000 to 5,000,
The deans are all out, and there is a fine prospect of a
good season.

Small-pox has made its appearance in Penzance
during the last fortnight, and in upwards of thirty cases has
proved fatal.

REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—A gentleman
who I.as been engaged many years in promoting researches
in the science of political economy, asserts that the great
law which has hitherto betti 'd the efforts of all inquirers,
and which will remove & very existing obstruction, has
been discovered to be the law of " Definite Proportion."
This law is. he states, the s,.me which has led to such im.
portant modern improve meats in the science of chemistry.
- He maintains that it is on account of not applying the law
of proportions when treating of the social operation of the
producions of human labour, that the works extant on the
science of political tconorey present to the world such a
mass of false and comtradictory matter ; that such is the
power and the all-pervading propriety of this law, that its
application is indispensable for acquiring a correct know.
ledge of the results of the earliest and smallest number of
exchanges that take place amongst mankind ; as also of
the greatest and most complicated number ; that where its
h
influence is carefully observed by reasoners the science is
rendered simple and easy by cninpre ension ; and, what is
most important of all, that the numerous subjects which
was opposed by Mr. Nichols, on behrilf of Messrs.
are included within the sphere of the science may, by the
aid of the law of ~ di finite proportions," be brought out
with the utmost precision and
with perfect accuracy.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—Orr Satur-
day, Willi..m \Vatton, late of Bermingham, bookseller and
printer,
Price and Watson, of Cherry-street, Birm ngham, st.r., i
loners.
Mr. Ceske appeared f..r the insolvent. His
debts and liabilities amounted to 6,0001., and his assets in
andge odh,tabapdre. and
aea
andd
doubtful debts
etisthim
1,3001. A fiat in batik.
ruptcy to 2 0501. He had paid, he
groundhoia.d complaint issn- d etanistitit him
him was for putting his op-
stated, no less than 500/ for suimpa and discounting bills,
in February lest. The
g
posing creditors to unnecessary expenses by defending the
action brought by them against him, for which the Court
1 adjuoged him to ten months' imprnonment from the date
of his vesting order.
BRIGHTON RACES.—Despite of the -fashion -
which has prevailed of late years to cry down the races, the
sports this year were of a better quality, and the -
excited more gei eral, than has been th.' ease for the last
three of .our suLttiass...4irighlon Herald,