The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The African Steam -Navigation Company's mail
packet Candace, Commandr Hawkesley, arrived
this morning.
Her homeward dates are :---Old Calabar, Feb. 24 ;
Camaroons, 26; Fernando Po, March 2 ' • Bonny, 6;
Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; Cape Coast, 11; Liberia,
15 ; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Goree, 24
Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, April 1.
She brings 1,241 ounces of gold dust and a small
amount of specie ; and her cargo includes 437 casks
of pa!m oil, 64 pieces of ivory, three packages of
skins, one cask of gum copal, 68 cases of arrowroot,
96 bags of cochineal, five hogsheads of wine, and
sundry pepper, argol, pineapples, &c.
Among her passengers are Colonel Clarke and
Captains Macully and Hingston, 3d West India
Regiment.
The Governor of Sierra Leone returned on the
6th of March from a successful tour up the river,
where he arranged several treaties with the chiefs.
The war continued in Mellicourie, to the advan-
tage of the Moriahs, which tends to the progress of
trade.
The country round Cameroons is quiet.
Trade is brisk at Calabar.
An expeditlon to open a large palm oil country
is contemplated.
The River Bonny is unhealthy. The doctor of
the Ferozepore died on the 4th of March, and the
Charles Horsfall has lost several hands.
Lagos is quiet, and ample preparations are made
for any possible attack by Kosoko.
A rumour prevails that the Dahomey nation in-
tends making a descent on Abbeokuta.
Owing to the scarcity of rain provisions are dear
at Accra.
The disturbances between the Ashantees and
Fantees being settled, gold is arriving at Cape
Coast Castle. Ex-President Roberts,
with 110
men, has beep successful in quelling a disturbance
at Cape Palmas, which is proposed to be annexed
to the republic of Liberia.
The steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander C.
W. Hope, and the screw steam-vessel Tetizsr, 2,
Commander W. J. Grubbe, were at Old Calblear.
The steam vessel Myrmidon, 3, Commander
Edward W. Shaw, left Lagos on the 7th March for
Fernando Po.

The steam vessel Antelope 3, Commander John
Pike, left Lagos on the 6th March
The steam vessel Merlin, 6, Commander Cecil
W. Buckley, and the steam ship Hecla, 6, Com-
mander Elphinstone, left Sierra Leone on the 18th;
and the steam ship Aplin on the 19th, for a cruise.
The screw steam troop ship Magmra, 6, Com-
mander George T. Purvir, touched at Sierra Leone
on the 13th of March.

The steam frigate Retribution, 28, Capt. Charles
Baker, was at Teneriffe on the 28th of March.
The screw . steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Captain
Astley C. Key, arrived at Madeira on the 27th of
March, and sailed again on the 28th.
The steam vessel Dover was at Sierra Leone.
The United States corvette St. Louis was at
Liberia on the 15th of March.
The French frigate Jeanne d'Acre, the steamer
Tonnante, and the corvette Recherche were at
Goree.
The French packet Bresil arrived at Madeira on
the 29th of March.
The mail packet Etbiope arrived on the 13th at
Sierra Leone, and sailed on the 17th of March.
The screw steam-ship St. George . arrived at
Sierra Leone on the 17th of March, with boiler out
of order.
The troop ship Perseverance, from the West
Indies, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 28th of
February, and sailed for the Gambia on the 9th of
March, and left there on the 21st for Goree,
whence she sailed on the 22d for the West Indies.
The merchant brig, Columbine, of Bristol, was
ashore at Old Calabar, and was seized and plun-
dered by the natives. The steam ship Scourge, 6,
has released the crew who are coming home in the
Candace. ,
Spoke; April 3, lat. 47 30 N., long. 13 49 W.,
the Hamburg brig Elice.

ME CONVICT NATION.—The execution of Thomas
Nation, condemned to death at Taunton on Saturday
List for the murder of John Aplin, under the circum-
stances detailed in the report of the trial which appeared
in The Sun of Monday, has been fixed fur Tuesday, the
21st inslarit. On :-:unday thn prinnuer had a lenpuiuned
interview with his father aura brother, hut he made only
slight rf:fcrenco to the ebarT3 of mdlich he had hen con-
victed, and nothing in the shape of admission of the jus-
tice of his Sentence or a confession of his guilt escaped
him.
TILE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES.—LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.--
The customs duties received at this port ye,terdav were
very large, amounting to 104,716/. os. Hid. This is
accounted fur by the reduction of the duty on
tea and sugar—the amount paid on the former being
56,572/. 7s. 7d. ; on sugar, 34,395/. 4s. Bd. ; and on
moiaises 1,1251. 17s. Oil. Ono house in the tea trade
alone pail 20,139/. 41. sd. ; and another 5,671/. 4i.
The largest amount paid for duties on kugar by one
firm was 7,5427. 170, W.

• PROrEST OF
,THE ROMISH DUTCH
'BISELOPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
MR. EDITOR,—In your paper of last SaturJay you
publish certain Pastoral Instructions, signed by John,
Archbishop of Utrecht • Henry John, Bishop of Haar-
lem; and Herman, Bishop of Deventer. You head the
paragraph—" Protest of the Romish Dutch Bishops
against the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ;"
and commence _with this remark :—" The following sig-
nificant paper forcit ly exhibits that worthless cheat called
lenity' in the schismatic Church of Rome."
Allow me, then, Mr. Editor, to remark for your infor-
mation, and that of the public, who might etherwise be
misled by the perusal of the Pastoral Instructions, that
neith-er the Archbishop nor the Bishops who sign the
document are in any sense either " Rainish" or Catholic
Bishops, but that they are the Bishops of the Jan-enist
Church of Holland. They, and their predecessors for
above a century, have been cut off from all communion
with the Catholic Church, for refusing to submit to and
accept the decrees of the Popes Urban VIII., Inno-
cent X., Alexander VII., and several of their successors,
condemning as heretical certain propositions on Grace
of Cornelius Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, who died 163 d.
This sect, once so powerful, is fast dying away.
While on a tour last autumn through Holland, I ex-
pressly visited Utrecht, the head-quarters of Jansenism,
for the purpose of seeing their archiepiscopal church,
and informing myself of their present position in Hol-
land. I found the church a small building, of no preten-
sions, and scarcely capable of containing 300 persons.
Their Hierarchy consists of the Archbishop of Utrecht
(an old man nearly 90), and four Bishops, with a very
scanty supply of priests. I was told teat they had
scarcely a dozen students in theology in their seminary.
Murray, in his " Handbook of Holland," states that the
Jansenists scarcely exist in any number except in Hol-
land, where they now are reduced to 5,000 souls.
Besides the Jansenist Hierarchy there is also in Hol-
land the Catholic Hierarchy, restored by the present
Pope about four or five years ago.
I need hardly inform you that, by the Catholic Hier-
archy, which also consists of an Archbishop of Utrecht,
and several bishops, the decree of the present Pope de-
fining the Immaculate Conception as an article of Ca-
tholic faith was accepted and received with respect and
veneration. The Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht, Psi-
mate of Holland, John Zuizen, consecrated 1853, was
one of the Archbishops expressly invited by his Holiness
to Rome to take part in the discussions previous to the
definition. His name stands the 39th in the list of
Archbishops assisting in St. Peter's when Pius IX.
pronounced the solemn dogmatic definition of the Imma-
culate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Bth
of December, 1854. On the same occasion, as a mark
of especial honour, the Archbishop was raised to the
dignity of an Assistens ad &limn., or a prelate entitled
to take his place besides the Pontifical Throne when the
Pope celebrates the offices of the Church publicly.
May I request, Mr. Editor, you will either explain to
your readers the error into which you have fallen in
attributing to the Catholic hierarchy of Holland a docu-
ment which proceeds from the excommunicated Jan-
senist Bishops, or that you will kindly give my letter a
place in your journal.
I remain, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant,

CUTHBERT W. CLIFTON.
Workington, Cumberland, April 6, 1857.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

SIR,--As I believe the document referred to iii
the following note has appeared in your columns,
may I beg the favour of your inserting the expla-
nation given in my letter to the Herald this day.
Yours truly,
N. W. HODGES.

April 7th, 1857.

DUTCIJ ROMISH BISHOPS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "MORNING HERALD."
Sir,—As the headineof, and introduction to, the pro•
test which appears in the Morning .Herald of to-day,
and which you designate as proceeding from the " Dutch
Romish Bishops," is liable to be misunderstood, I claim
your permission to state that the three persons described
as " John, Archbishop of Utrecht ; Henry John, BishoP
of Haarlem ; and Herman, Bishop of Deventer," are
not, and never have been, in communion with, or in any
way recognised by the Holy See, and, therefore, thet
cannot be in- any sense "Romish" Bishops. Indeed
they are, and their predecessors have been, formally eP
communicated and their doctrines condemned. Thei
are the only remaining Jansenist bishops, and their
authority extends only over 10 clergymen and some
3,000 of the laity (including men, women, and chil'lren)s
so that Mr. Spurgeon can boast of a larger number of
followers than they. On the other hand, the Catholics
of Holland in communion with the Holy See fora two.
fifths of the entire population, and their prelates—viz,
the Archbishop of Utrecht, the Bishop of Haarlem, the
Bishop of Breda, the, Bishop of Rurimonde, and their
coadjutors, all in communion with Rome—have, in coo'
mon with the rest of the Roman Catholic Church
throughout the world, accepted with thankfulness the
definition by the Pope of the dogma against which the
Jansenist Bishops protest.
I trust to your sense of justice to insert this explanr
tion.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant,
London, April 4, 18 57. N. W. Honuits.

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