The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-25 00:00:00

DECLARATION.

Adverting to the circumstances of the time in which
we are calved to minister in this reformed branch of the
Church of Christ, we deem it necessary to declare our
firm and immoveable adherence to that great article of
the faith—" One baptism for the remission of sins,"
affirming it as it is authoritatively set forth in the
Nicene Creed, 11. CEcumenical Council, and as it is
taught unequivocally by our own Church in its autho-
rised formularies, especially in the offices of baptism,
and in the Catechism; and we are the rather induced
to make this declaration, because we hope that many
who are now divided from us may be brought to agree-
ment by thus knowing the real meaning and extent of
the doctrine which we hold.

1. Acknowledging " one baptism for the remission of
sins," we hold as of faith, that persons duly baptised are
not only baptised once for all, but also are baptised with
the one baptism of him who " baptiseth with the Holy
Ghost," and who thus making us to be " born again of
water and the spirit," delivered us thereby from the
guilt and bondage of all sins original and actual.
We hold, as implied in the aforesaid article of the
Creed, all the graces ascribed to baptism in our Cate-
chism. For—" By one spirit we are all baptised into
one body," even the body of Jesus Christ. We are all
made to be "His body," members in particular of
" His body," "members of Christ"---and being thus
baptised into them, we are " baptised into his
death" who " died for our sins." We are " dead
with Him," "dead unto sin," "buried by baptism
with Him, wherein also we are risen with Him, " quick-
ened together with Him," "set together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus." Believing that the Holy Ghost
so given us in baptism by Jesus Christ, that we are in
Him "created anew." We believe, also, that we are
children of God in Him, and "if children, then heirs,—
heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ," inheritors of
the Kingdom of Heaven.

2. We hold accordingly that all infants presented
either in church or privately, according to the book of
Common Prayer, and baptised with water in the
" name of the Father, and the San, and of the Holy
Ghost," being spiritually engrafted and incorporated
into His mystical body ; original sin being so far
from an obstacle to the right reception of baptism,
that as St. Augustine says, "Infants, because they
are not as yet guilty of any actual sin, have the
original sin that is in them remitted through the
grace of Him who saveth by the washing of regenera-
tion. And as our own Church declares that the bap-
tised child, " being born in original sin, and in the
wrath of God, is by the laver of regeneration in baptism
received into the number of the children of God, and
heirs of everlasting life, for our Lord Jesus Christ doth
not deny His grace and mercy unto such infants, but
most lovingly calls them unto him." And in accordance
herewith, the 27th Article expressly says that the bap-
tism of young children is most agreeable with the insti-
tution of Christ.

3. Without presuming to define whether it may not
please God to give a larger measure of grace in baptism
to some infants, in answer to the more ear❑est
prayer of those who bring them, we hold that if
many shall affirm that the imparting of the afore-
said graces in the baptism of young children is
hypothetical, depending either on the siLcerity of those
who present them, or any other conditions (whew-
upon it follows, that in cases in which the said conditions
do not take place, both the form of baptism itself, and
the article " One Baptism for the Remission of Sins,"
must be understood not as true, but as false and unreal)
ho doth greatly err, contradicting an article of the Creed,
and also the commission and promise given to the Apos-
tles by Our Lord himself.

4. :Lastly wo hold, and would earnestly impress upon
all Christians, that the foregoing statements, rightly
understood, so far from disparaging the need of convez -
sion and amendment, are a most powerful incentive
to holiness of life, and especially to fervent
prayer for renewed or continued grace, as long
as the term in this life shall last. For baptism,
being the ordinance and instrument of Christ, by
which we are born again of the spirit, John iii, 3,5, it
binds us to do that which it enables us to do, " to walk in
the spirit, and not to fulfil the lusts of the flesh, for if we
live after the flesh, we shall die; but if through the spirit
wo do mortify the deeds of the body, we shall live. Bap-
tism makes our bodies to be temples of the Holy Ghost,
which is in us, which we have of God, and if any man
defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy—for
the temple of God is holy, wherefore it follows that they
who, having in baptism received the Holy Spirit to dwell
in them, live not after the spirit, but after the flesh, do
thereby draw on themselves greater damnation, unless by
the grace of God they arise again and amend their lives.
LIE PROPOSED EXETER SYNOD.—The copy of the
diocesan protest has been returned from Crediton most
fully and respectably signed, the first name being that of
our highly esteemed neighbour, Mr. Buller, of .Downes.
Lord Sinclair and several magistrates of Torquay have
headed the signatures for that district. Up to Saturday
morning returns have been received containing about 2,000
signatures, and many more returns are still due. The pro-
test has been signed by all classes; it is headed by the
Lord-Lieutenant, Earl Fortescue, and contains the signa-
tures of Earl Morley, Lord Poltimore, Lord Ebrington,
Lord Sinclair, Sir J. Kennaway, Sir H. F. Davey, Sir T.
T. Drake, Sir J. H. Williams, Sir L. V. Palk, and Sir
Henry Browne. Some scores of county magistrates have
also signed, together with the Right Worshipful the
Mayor of Exeter (W. W. Hooper, Esq.,) and several
borough Mayors. The military profession is well
represented, several generals and admirals being
among the protesters, together with colonels in
the army, captains in the navy and lieutenants,
Nor have the medical profession held back, many doctors
of medicine and a great number of surgeons have already
affixed their names. The yeomanry have signed by
hundreds, and the merchants, shopkeepers, and re-
spectable inhabitants in towns in large numbers.—
Western Times.

A FACT FOR NATURALISTS.—On Monday, the
9th instant, as Mr. James Wilson was walking without his
coat in the Debden-hall gardens, which he occupies, a swarm
of bees came round him, and whilst he was standing still,
he found his hat, by degrees, becoming intolerably heavy,
till at last the weight was so great that he steadily knelt
down, leaning his head and hat against a tree; when he
found that the principal part of the swarm had completed
their settlement, he very gently, but with some difficulty,
took off his hat, then, giving it a gentle tap against the
tree, he hived the whole without receiving the slightest
sting, although his neck and face were completely covered
with bees • his neck was so much so that his niece, with a
small hand brush swept the remaining insects from him,
when they also joined their companions in the hive. Mr.
Wilson, who is in possession of several hives in the
garden, states that it was the largest swarm of bees he
has had for some years; and the weight of them on hie
head so excessive, that he would not have been able to stand
under them longer. His niece, who described the Swarm
while on her uncle, as assuming the shape of a Sugar loaf,
escaped with only a slight sting on the arm, wher.
- one of
the swarmers had dropped, and as she incautiously gave him
a nip, he returned the compliment.—Essex Herald, -"
SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR NouvvicH, On Satur-
day last as a young man named Johnson
through a lane about a mile distant from
Mrs. M com artineau's lane, a dog which ac IN olrNw' aisch ,i) called
beating through an adjoining plantation,panied him, after
returned with what
seemed to be a piece of carrion, with which it ran off. Upon
Johnson's arrival at home he found
that the animal had pre-
ceded him, and that the substance from
the which he had carried
the plantation was a human hand.
com-
municated the circumstanceHe immediately •tohe police, minute
search was instituted in the resulted in the
discovery of other • and
locality, which
.in
the of a dead body, the remains, in
the opinion of several who have inspected them,
ung female. being those of ayo surons
The rumours and opinions
the occurrence which have arisen from are of the most con-
Meting nature, some insisting that a foul murdtr
persons
has been committed, and others suggesting that the portions
of the body discovered have been used for anatomical pur-
poses. The police, however, are busily engaged in the in-
vestigation of the circumstances, and there is little doubt
that they will unravel the mystery in which the matter is at
present shrouded.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT
whi ls M
tALDON WHILE
I3azinNo.—On Saturday afternoon, two young gen..
tlemen Norwegians, were bathing in the river, one of them,
named Otter Hotter, got out of his depth and called for help.
His companion, Mr. Erland Kjostende, immediately went to
his assistance, when the sinking man instantly caught hold
of him round the body, and he being but a moderate swim-
mer, both sank. It was some little time before any persons
could reach the spot; on their arrival assistance was ren-
dered to Mr. Kjostende, and he was taken out of the water
much exhausted, but was soon revived • and although every
exertion was used, the body of Mr. Hotter was not found for
three•quarters of an hour. Every means Nkre then resorted
to in endeavouring to restore animation, but wi •
thout the
slightest effect, and the body was removed to await a coro-
ner's inquest. Deceased had only that morning come down
from London with his friend, M IC t r. jos eade, who was 013 I'
visit at Mr. Dedragues.

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HEALTH OF LONDON DIIRI "C
THEi
(From the Report of the Registrar-Gen
The return for the week eniing last Satiiral
that 968 deaths were registered in the motragia ors
tricts. If corresponding weeks of the ten Atital44;lr, W`' e
1850 bo taken for comparison, it will be seen that tft4AtsrA,
average number of deaths in these weeks was 859, and
that the mortality of last week has produced an excess,
above the average, equal to 109.
But in an increasing population a greater number of
deaths does not necessarily imply an increased rate of
mortality. The population of London is now 2,363,144.
It increased at the rate of 1'551 per cent. annually its
the ten years 1831-1841; at 1.993 per cent. annually its
the ten years 1841-1831; and 1.776 per cent. annually
in the fifty years 1801-51. If the last per centage (that
of 50 years) be taken to represent the rate of increase
during the current decennial period, and the average
deaths of corresponding weeks be raised in the same
proportion, this average will bcome 915, on which the
968 deaths of last week show an excess of 23.
The present return, compared with that of the pre.
ceding week, exhibits a continued decrease in deaths
arising from disease of the respiratory organs, the num-
ber, which was in the former week 139, having fallen to
112. The two principal diseases in this class are bron-
chitis and pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs, which
were fatal respectively in 39 and 55 cases.
The fatality of this class of diseases has now declined
to near the corrected average; that of the avmotic or
epidemic class is not above the average, and does not
yet discover a tendency to increase with the advance of
the season. The aggregate of deaths ascribed last week
to epidemics is 205, and cut of this number 20 of young
persons and 2of adults were caused by small-pox, 39
by measles, 19 by scar/Mina, 48 by hoopin,g-cough, 5 by
croup, 2 by thrush, 35 by typhus, 7 by erysipslaa, one
by noma, one by purpura, 16 by diarrhoea, and one by
cholera.

STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK.
SUNDAY.—The
Rain was falling from sky4h. wasP.N overcast throughout the day.

MONDAY. —kain fell during the early morning hours. The
sky was partially covered with cloud till alter 3b., when it
became free from cloud.
TUESDAY. —Till at about 9h. P.m. the sky was mostly
covered with cumulostratus and cirrostratus cloud ; after 9h.
it was clear.

WEDNESDAY.—TiII after 9h. A.m. the sky was partially
clear ; from noon the sky was overcast ; a little rain fell,
and the day was dull.
THURSDAY.—The sky was mostly overcast till the evening,
when it became clear ; cumuli and cumulostrati.
FRIDAY.—The sky was for the most part covered with
cumuli, cumulostrati, and afterwards with cirrostratus.
SATURDAY.— The sky was for the most part free from
cloud ; at times, however, it was partially covered with light
fleecy clouds; and at night it was at times wholly covered
by thin cirrostratus.
ELEcTrucirr.—No electricity was shown throughout the
week.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M., was 6401° ; and the
mean reading at 9h. P.M. was 62.3,2; the mean readings at
the Royal Observatory for the same times were 65.6 Q, and
59.8° respectively.
The reading of the barometer decreased from 29'97 in. at
the beginning of the week to 29.77 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 16th ;
increased to 30'24 in. by 9h. A. on the 18th; and decreased
to 29.57 in. by the end of the week.

SALUBRITY OF MORAYSHIRE.—A veteran farmer
residing not a hundred miles from Thomasbill of Birnie,
whose head is powdered with the snows of 80 winters, on
the 22d instant led to the hymeneal altar, a " bloomin "
of thirty years! On the conclusion of the ceremony, the
venerable bridegroom evinced the youthfulness of hie heart
by gaily leading off the dance !—Elgin Courier.

HINTS TO SCOLDING WINES.—" And I dare say
you have scolded your wife very often, Newman," said I
once. Old Newman looked down, and his wife took up the
reply. " Never to signify—and if he has I deserved it."
" And I dare say, if the truth was told, you have scolded
him quite as often." " Nay," said the old woman, with a
beauty of kinduess which the world cannot excel, " how
can a wife scold her good man who has been working for
her and her little ones all the day ? It may be a man is
peevish at times, for it is he who bears the crosses of the
world; but who should make him forget them but his own
wifo? And she had best for her own sake,--for nobody
can scold much when the scolding is all on one fide."..*
Bulwer.

FATAL EFFECTS or LIGHTNING.—The neighbour-
hood of Yarmouth was visited on Saturday se'nnight by
severe tempest, which inflicted considerable damage upon a
marsh hill situated at Toft Monks, near the Seven-mile-
house, on the Beccles river. Four young men were eel-pick-
ing in the neighbourhood, two of whom resorted for shelter
to the Seven-mile-house, while the other two took refuge in
the mill. The former were standing with their backs to the
fireplace when the explosion of the cloud took place. They
were forced violently against each other, but received no in-
jury. On proceeding to the door, they beheld the mill-sails
dashed to pieces, and on entering the mill they discovered
the bodies of their companions apparently lifeless on the
floor, their faces and the greater part of their bodies blackened
by the sulphurous exhalation. One of them soon recovered,
but his companion revived only for a short time, his last
words being that "he felt he must shortly die." He was a
fine powerful young man, by name Edmund Pettingill, about
.25 or 26 years of age. He has left a young wife, to whom he
has been united but five or six months. The mill, it ap-
pears, was the property of the family, and is said to be un-
insured.—Essex Herald.

THE CHURCH IN ANGLESEY.—On Tuesday a
young couple, solicitous to bear the " sweet yoke of matri-
mony," presented themselves at the hymeneal altar of the
parish church of Llandrygarn in Anglesey. To their great
disappointment they found that the worthy and respected
minister of the parish had been suddenly called from home,
in consequence of the indisposition of a near relative. Un-
willing that the celebration of their nuptial rite should be
postponed, and being fully conscious of the truth that " hope
deferred maketh the heart sick," some of the friends of the
happy pair suggested that the service of some other clergy-
man should be forthwith requested. This was done, and it
so happened that the next resident clergyman was no other
than the Archdeacon of Anglesey, who immediately con-
sented to do the needful for his reverend brother. Upon his
arrival in church, to his utter dissatisfaction it was ascer-
tained that the mandate produced was a certificate from the
superintendent-registrar of the district! So disgusted was
this " venerable pillar of the Church" at the idea that he
should be expected to obey the warrant of any laical autho-
rity that he actually refused to marry the parties, alleging
no other reason for disobeying the Act of Parliament, which,
some fifteen years ago the temporal head of the Church by
law established sanctioned with her Royal assent. Should
not these highly lireneficed dignitaries be taught to obey the
law, and to conduct themselves in their sphere of office with
propriety, or is it to be wondered at that a " Voice from
Mona" should complain of utter indifference to the interest
of the Church and its well wishers?—Carnarson Herald.
DELIBERATE SUICIDE.—PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—•
Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock, as the up express
train, which leaves Plymouth at 10.20 A.M. was passing
over the Battery incline of the South Devon Railway, about
a mile and a quarter this side of Totnes, it cut off the head
of a man who appears to have deliberately put himself on
the rail. The train was in_ charge of Marlow, the guard,
and consisted of three carriages only, drawn by the Strom-
boli engine. At the point mentioned there is a consider-
able turn in the road, and a person like the deceased was
on the approach of the train observed in an adjoining field
running towards the line. When first seen on it he was
only 30 yards off, stooping over the left hand rail, apparently
putting something on the plates or picking up something
from the road. The train was at full speed, and, the
descent being severe, it was impossible for Dickenson, the
driver, to stop it at the moment; he, however, sounded the
whistle, but the man kept his position, and his head was
instantaneously severed from his body. When the train
returned it was found that the head had been flung 60 feet
forward from the point of decapitation; the bedy was in a
ditch about 40 feet in advance with a left arm and left
leg broken. The mutilated remains were delivered to the
brother of deceased, Mr. Bidlake, a gentleman farmer,
who resides at Whitley farm, through which the railroad
is constructed. Deceased was about fifty years of age, a
bachelor, possessed of some property; he was subject to
fits, and within the last ten days has been afflicted with
a severe seizure. Just before the approach of the 6.50 up
train in the morning a person resembling him was
seen
at
the same spot apparently laying something on the plates,
but he suddenly absconded when detected by the policeman
on duty.

THE GOLD EXCITEMENT IN MAINE.—probably not
of
are ready to
less than 200 men have started this week,
start next Monday, for the gold mine,
company of a dozen men, from Gardiner, the North.r. AL_
gusta, to start next week. We are informed,
this morning. Companies are fitting , Passed uptliine river
Out here and .
thority, that gold has been recently found in the streams that
rise on the east side of the height and flow into the
west branch of the Penobscot. of land, t .
upon goodAistin:.
The head of these a reams is
in the vicinity of the head waters of the streams that flow
west into the Chandiere. No doubt exists of the presence
of gold in the streams thatflow itothe Moose river, emp-
tying into Moosehead Lake. The whole country around the
tributaries of the west branch of the Penobscot anal Moose
rivers is mountainous
and similar in many respects to the
mining regions in other countries. We do not wish to fa-
vour the excitement on this subject further than the truth
will warrant. One fact is undisputed—that gold has been
for about two years obtained in this region. The discoveries
were deemed of sufficient importance to cause a geological
survey of the Chaudiere river by the Provincial Government
of Canada. Since that survey the Government has quietly
carried on mining operations. —New York Tribune.
THE DANGER, OF MODELLING IN WAX:—Few
especially, perhaps, of the many young ladies who
nag the very pleasing art of modelling fruits,
bic in wax, at all suspect the great danger in which
flowers, ~
Pareeranoonws,
are placed from the poisonous nature of the Colouring
matter
matter of the wax which they handle so unsuspectingly.
practising
The white wax, for instance, contains white lead ; the green,
copper; the yellow, chrome yellow; the orange, chrome
1
yellow and vermillion—strong poisons all ; while many
other kinds of wax are equally poisonous, and, therefore!
dangerous. There are very many persons who are aware of
the intense sufferings, for very many years past, of Mr. W.
Bally, phrenologist and modeller in 'wax inwhich latter
teacher of the art at the Manchester Mch
branch he has laboured for 24 or 25 years, b of them as
Mr. Bally has been at times completely
now and has long been very anaricaiy
paralysed, and is
t*
rslelnsti Institution.
nearly"' j)), especially is
the hands and arms; and he has also been afflicted
with extensive ulceration of the throat, and has
almost totally lost his voice. Both himself and his medical
adviser, after a long attention to his symptoms, are satisfied
that the primary cause of his affliction is the extent to which
the subtle poisons in the wax with which he has worked
have been absorbed into his system through the pores of his
hands, while the disease has been generally strengthened,
and one part of it accounted for, by the occasional applica-
tion of his fingers to his lips while at work. Mr. Bally Bays
that he has known several cases in which young ladies have
been attacked with partial paralysis of the hands and arms,
after having devoted some time to the practice of modelling;
but at the time he had no suspicion of the cause. As all
the requisite colours can be obtained from vegetable matter,
and as the use of mineral colouring seems to lead to such
deplorable results, the subject should be carefully investi-
gated by those working with coloured wax.—Manchester
Examiner.
MERCANTILE MARINE Avr.—A return has been
published of the memorials presented to the Lords of the
Committee of
oftPrvy Council for Trade against the operations
of those parts the Mercantile Marine Act which relate to
the engagement and discharge of crews at the shipping-
offices, and to regulations for maintaining discipline by fines
It appears from this return that memorials of the above kind
have been sent in from the ports of Shields, Peterhead,
Sunderland, Seaham, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, Whitby
Stockton Hull, Lynn-Regis, Arbroath, Southampton, Lou-
' don, Dundee, Newcastle, and Yarmouth.