The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

others a burden which themselves have cast off?
It is vexatious to be obliged to treat of such things ;
but, alas ! that the menace wad ever thrown cut—
nothing is trifling when it is to be enforced by au-
thority, because once yield to authority without
reason or qualification, and anything, however
monstrous, may be forced upon you. We
are Protestants, because we protest a inst
the authority of Rome as well as the errors
of Rome-; but we shall be Protestants no longer
if we do, not protest against the authority of any
other church. to change our forms of worship, be-
cause the transition from form to substance is ine-
vitable. The path has been already marked out by
the Tractarians; and we know any other church,
if ruled by the arbitrary will of men, is as likely
to err as Rome. This, we must expect, even did
we not see men preparing to import Romish
errors ready made, and to import them wholesale.
A protest on the side of the people is therefore now
a duty, and even the Morning Post itself admits
that concession :is a duty on the other side :—" We
are not for strife on either side, nor do we see
the use of insisting upon non-essentials with a
high hand so as to give offence. But whatever error
there may be in authority going further than occa-
sion demands, it is a hundred times worse when
ignorant prejudice flames out into rebellion
against authority, and is favoured and comforted in
this mischievous folly by those who pretend to the es-
pecial patronage of the civil government." We give'
the paragraph for the sake of the good advice in the
beginning of it. We are not aware of the pretenders
to the patronage of the Government, we know of no
such pretenders. The Government, we believe pa-
tronises no writers, either in the newspapers or in any
other vehicle.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, DEc. 6.—ln the night of the sth inst.
the mercury in the centigrade thermometer at the
Observatory, suspended three yards above the ground
in a north aspect, fell to 4 deg. Reaumur (23
Fahrenheit) below zero. In December, 1843, the
greatest degree of cold was only '2 deg. 2 min.
(1 deg. 8 min. Reaumur) below zero. The greatest
degree of cold since 1833 was in the night of the
16th December, 1840—viz., 12 deg. 9 min. (10 deg.
3 min. of Reaumur.)
BRUSSELS, Dac. 7.—Last night the mercury in
the Centigrade thermometer fell to 8f deg. Reaumer
(16f deg. Fahrenheit) below Zero. Since sunrise a
strong north-east wind has increased Vie intensity of
the cold.

The navigation in the canals from Brussels to Wille •
brook and Charleroy is completely stopped, and also
the canal of Louvain. The ice is already several
inches thick. The rivers Dyle and Senne are begin-
ing to freeze.
The arrival at Brussels, of Mr. Deffandis, is not
without importance. Iti has been long known that
Mr. Deffandis. would be commissioned to stipulate
tor the interest of France, in the commercial negoci-
ations that might be opened between the two coun-
tries. This step, therefore, whether it has been taken
at the leave of our Cabinet, or spontaneously by the
cabinet of the Tuileries, shows that notwithstanding
all that has been said, the treaty of the Ist of Sep-
tember has not caused any serious difference between
Prance and Belgium ; Al. Deffandi's may easily con-
vince himself during his stay at Brussels that on
concluding the treaty of Sept. 1, Belgium by no
means renounced its desire to form a close commercial
connection with France as far as the interests even
of Franco itself permitted.
HANOVER, DEC. Majesty the King, ac-
companied by Prince William of Solms-Braunfels,
Set out at eleven o'clock this niorniag by a special
train, to join a hunting party of the king of Pr ssia
at Quedlinburg.
The Earl of Westmoreland, who, with his family,
has been here some days on a visit to the King, and
lodged in the royal palace, has now left us.
ST. PETERSBURGII, Nov. 26.—8 y an Imperial
ukase directed to the Minister of Finance, the Em-
peror, considering the expenses necessary in 1845
for the construction of the railroad between Peters-
burgh and Moscow, order that a Loan of twelve
millions of silver rubles shall be opened abroad,
on the same basis as that of the third Four per
Cent. Loan. The inscription of 500 silver
rubles each -are to be divided in 184 equal sections
and to bear interest from the Ist of August this year.
The repayment commences in August, 1846. The
capital destined for this purpose is, in the year 1846,
125,000 roubles, and in the following year, 300,000
silver roubles, in 2f per cent. of the nominal capital
of the loan. The realisation of the loan is entrusted
to Baron Stieglitz, in Petersburgh.
HAMBURGH, DEC. 6.—The Mercury in the ther-
mometer is now constantly below Zero. The greatest
degree of cold we have yet had is 7 deg. below freez
ing point (probably Fahrenheit).

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnuosiu.s, Dec. 7.
Actua Debt, 9% per Cent., ............. —
Rothschild% Loan, Five per Cent. ..... ........... —
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.... .... NU
... _ Three per Cent...........
.---- ...Thirty-seven Milli, ns, ditto .............
.......—.—.---_. (1849) 1.3%
1844....•..•“••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 102 X
Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. ........... .........• 102%
-----.----. .183,
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Be! ilium, Five per Cent.. ...... ................
Issue of 184 i..."...•...... • 060 •••••• •••••••••••••••••••••
—Brussels Papers, Dec. IL
HAMBUIIGH BORSENHALLA Dec. 6.
Sills. Money.
Austrian S per Cents. •••••••••••••••••• ........... .... 113
Rank Shires..... ..—................. ..................... 1688
Anglo-Russian Loan ll4
Russian 4 Der Cent., lit series, Certificate lO5 103
Inscription, lit series — 1-5%
Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series..
Ditto in Certificates .......... ....... - ...... .......... 99
New 4 per Cent. (1840) SO% 90%
Dutch .tctual Debt. 2% per Cent. .........
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. ... B7 P 63(
SD.inish, NeW 5 per Cents.
Polish Bonds
New Tickets ...

.Exchange on London.
Hamburgn, One month .....
Two 13 73(

LONDON GAZE' T.;''
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, DEC. 4, 1844.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Allan Borman
Heath, of Andover, in the county of Southampton, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Thomas
William Davies, of Leominster, in the county of Here-
ford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery, _

- BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Rose, builder, Nursling, Southampton, to
surrender Dec. 17 and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arm's
yard ; Johnson, Walcot-square.
John Thomas Gibbons, grocer, Eaton, Buckingham,
Dec. 18, atone, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ;
Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard.
John Brett, currier, Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 20, and
Jan. 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,.
official assignee, Aldermanbury, London ; Nettleship,
Clifford's Inn ; Durrant, Bury St. Edmunds.
James Ayling, cabinet-maker, Leeds, Dec. 17, at-
twelve, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-cham-
bers'; Torkington, New Bridge-street.
Stephen Bucknell, carman, Hendon, Middlesex, Dec.
17, at half-past one, and Jan. 28, at one, at the Court ot-
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Abrahams,
Lincoln's Inn fields.

Josiah Martin, tallow-chandler, High-street, Shore-
ditch, Dec. 17, at half-past ten, and Jan. 14, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; Walters, Basinghall-street.
Caroline Maidstone, milliner, Cambridge, Dec. 17, at
three, and Jan. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Robinson, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly.
William Starr Drury, ironmonger, Chester, Dec. 20
and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Chester and Co.,
Staple Inn, London ; Hostage, Chester.
Elias Needham, jun., currier, Little Houghton, Lan-
cashire, Dec. 21, and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench-
walk, Temple, London ; Needham, Manchester.
John Beale,-grocer, Cadoxton, Glamorganshire, Dec.
24, at one, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis-
trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Beer,
Swansea ; Short, Bristol.
William Skinner Rendle, tea dealer, Penzance, Dec.
19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court.
llersaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Hill and Mathews,
St. Mary-axe, London ; Terrell, Exeter.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 61
Antwerp 25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13 131
Altona l3 13/
1'211.4,3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 vionths 25 96
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l

iNGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice
47
Naples 394
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon s4i
Oporto
Rio Janeiro 24
Bahia 24
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight --
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17. 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 11

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7

Vienna, effee. 8.3 M 954
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36*

Cadiz
%lbw 36

Barcelona 36

Seville

u. ....

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
;From the London New Price Current of_Dee. 10.)

SUGAR—To-day the business transacted in all de-
scriptions of West India Sugar was limited, and the
rates accpted were rather under those previously quoted
foe brown and inferior sorts, but good and fine yellow
are still fetching full prices on account of the
short supply at market. A public sale of 96 hhds
4 tree of Barbadoes went off quietly at a decline -in
prices of 6d for low and middling, but good and fine
sustained the formes• currency, fine yellow fetched .'648