The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-11 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, FEB. G.—The Minister of Public Works
received to•day a deputation of the principal proprietors
of iron-works interested in the railway of Sambre
and Meuse, who came to assure him that they
had no part whatever in the intrigues, the ob•
ject of which is to support the line of Tayl.r ; that
they all desire the prompt execution of the first proposed
line, which will suffice for al! the wants of that industrious
country, which wants nothing more than this vent
for its production to attain all the development of which
it is su.,ceptible.
The Minis:er received these gentlemen in a favourable
manner, and had no difficulty in satisfying them.
The Chamber of Representatives resumed to-day the
debate on the articles of the budget of the department
of the'iriterior.
Article 3 was withdrawn.

Article 4 (now article 3) was agreed to, as well as all
the articles of the ‘.),d and 3d chapters, and the first ten
articles of chapter 4.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 7.—The Chamber of Representatives,
after the presentation of several reports, continued the
debate on the budget of the department of the interior,
several articles of which were agreed to.
Several petitions have been presented to the Chamber,
and to the Minister of Public Works, to obtain a reform
in the Post-office. If we are rightly informed; a plan
has been drawn up in the office of the Minister; admitting
the reform in principle, but recommending the progres-
sive application ofit. It is hoped that the • plan may
be laid before the Chamber before the close of this ses-
sion. The greatest obstacle appears to be the fear that
is entertained in the Finance Department of a diminution
of the revenue. To remove that objection, the merchants
who have the greatest interest in that reform should im-
mediately point out the means of making good the defi-
ciency, if there should be any.
We have had very unpleasant weather for three days
past. Yesterday we had a thunder storm with snow,
hail, and rain, which continued for four-and-twenty
hours, and has been succeeded by a pretty severe frost.
There is, however, a pretty certain indication that the
spring will be mild and favourable—this is, that the spots
in the sun have greatly diminished. Mr. Forster. the
astronomer at Bruges, has ascertained by a great number
of experiments that these spots have a great influence in
the temperature.—Brussels papers, Feb. 8.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, TF..13.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •• . • 11114
4 per Cent. ditto• • •
3 per Ceut. ditto ..... • . ........ ••••• • . • • 78
Loan, 1834 ........ • .......... .....
Bank Shares • ••
Esterhazy's Loan ••• • • •
• RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand . • 192.4
Glog,gnitz
Milan •••• • • • .
—Allgemeinc Zeitung, Feb. 4.
DUTCH FUNDS.--AMSTERDAII., I' ES.
M.,ney. Bills.
Actual Debt, 21;2 per Cent • • • • • 64 644
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent.• • . •
Ditto, 5 per Cent... • • • 9'.), ; 100
Amort Syndic, 412 per Cent .• . • 09.4 1001 i
Ditto, 31.2 per Cent •••••••• • • • • • • • • --
Commercial Company, 41:2 per Cent • 1471,', 114
East India Loan, 4 per Cent .• • ... 48i 9811
Exchanze on London, one month.. • ... 12 17.3
Two months,— ....... .
At sight.. -
On Ilamburgh ...... 33 43.15
Two months..
On Paris ................-
Two mouths.
—Dutch rapers, Feb. 8.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.--Bziuni, FEE, 4.

-
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3!(2 per Cent ••• • • 104) 1-12 99 7-12
Pruss. English Bowls, 1830, 4 per Cent.. - -
Exchange on London, 2 months ••. • • ... 621 624
—Universal. Prussian Gazate, Feb. 7.
LIAMBIII6II BOIZSENIIALLE, FEB.

Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents •••••••• • • • • • . • • --- 113
Bank Shares .. • • • • .• -
Anglo-Russian Loan .• • •
Russian 5 per Cent., Muni.). Certificate. 10511
Ditto lot series Inscription • .. •.
Ditto, Dope and Co., 3d and 4th series • • 1191,E 53 !4
Ditto, in Certificate . .
NOV 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• • • • 92 91
Ditto Stieglitz • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent • • • • • • • • S, 21
Ditto 3 per Cent . ..... ....
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 21; per Cent • • 40
Dutch Actual Debt, 21:2 per Cent ••• • .• 6314 63
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844. •• • 871 i s 7
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p:_r Cent •• •• • • 87!."2 87'
National Bank Shares • • •• •
Exchange on London.
Petersburgh, Three months ••• • • • 377,F.,
Bremen, Two months......
—llamburgh Borsenhalle, Feb. 4.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FLB. 3.
Actual Debt, il, per Cent •••••• • • • • • • •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •••• • • • • --
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • ... 93
Ditto Three per Cent • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ,

I)itto Thirty-soven.:llillions, ditto
Ditto, ditto, 1840. •.••••••• • • .. .. ..
Ditto, ditto, 18 1.1 . 102
Ditto of the City, 18-13 103
Ditto, 1832 • • • • • -•-
Bank of Belgium •
—lints:ids rapers. Feb. 5.

YPIRiT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

GLOBE.—If the decisions of the Council of Trent,
an'l " the whole cycle of Roman doctrine,"—if the eon-.
tinual insinuation, and frequent direct assertion, that
Protestantism is-heresy—if the assumption, as self-evi-
dent excellencies, on every occasion, of the Romish dis-
tinctive characters of priestly-obligatory, and
.gsne-
rally-meritorious celibacy, confession, absolute spiritual
direction, &c., &c.—if the re-publication of all the
legends of English monkery, through all the dark
ages, and the obtrusiou on the astonished eyes
of the English public in the nineteenth century of
thaumaturgic toe-nails and timber-shavings, old clothes,
and old tombstones—if all this is consistent with the
creed of the Church of England, and if the uncen-
sured inculcation of all this within the walls of the
University of Oxford is consistent with the moral and
intelLctual reputation of that University—then we
admit that its convocation will be meddling as need-
lessly, as certain of our Contemporaries think they
will, in expressing any *pinion of their own on
Thursday next. But, if any men, holding Protestant
principles, ever were called upon to stand forth, and say
they hold them—if any provocation possibly can be
given to men, who believe the Reformation COB-
quered great privileges for them, to vindicate
those privileges in the face of first covert—
now oven—insult—then surely the members of that
Univer.sity are so called upon, and the ill-blood
threatened as likely to result from their obeying this call
will have been generated by no act of theirs. The whole
question is, whether they do adhere to Protestant free-
dom, as freedom which ought in England, and an
English University, to be exercised and enjoyed, or no.
The root of the controversy is not this or that dogma—
but the. right of our forefathers, and of u their sons, to
assert the freedom of national ed ueettien from Y he obligation
to bow to one exclusive set of dogmas, imposed by a
foreign hierarchy. It is this obligation which is now
now asserted in language of defiance and insult. Wee
unequivocally asserted by the new Oxford school—and
have now avowals instead of intimations of
"deep and
burning hatred of the Reformation"—explicit instead of
oracular vaticinations that " the demon of Protestantism
will tear and rend the body which it possesses, before it
leaves it." These manifestoes of hostility to the Church of
England (so far as free from Rome) present the novel
feature of being framed in the Church and University,
and of avowedly founding their legitimacy on a sense
of the articles expressly devised to defeat their purpose.
It is quite in vain for these dealers in duplicity in
the sense of plain English to tell us that Low Church-
men also evade such of our forms as they dislike.
Whether Low Churchmen are or are not justified in so
doing, we inquire not at present. But no Churchmen,
save this new junto, assert a right to take their stand •
in the Church for the express purpose of pouring un-
limited insult and reproach on every point of doctrine
and practice which distinguishes this Church from an-
other. It will not be denied that there is a fundamental
distinction between the English view and the Romish
view of what constitutes a church. These men stand alone
in borrowing the artillery of the Vatican to discharge on
us from within our own pale. They stand alone in insi-
nuating, or openly advancing, the charge of schism against
separate Anglicanism—the duty of devotion to the See of
Rome—the character of heresy in all timings that distinguish
(and because they distinguish) our symbols from those
of Rome. It is trite that, in so doing, they necessarily
brand themselves also as heretics. For Rome allows, no
churchinanship out of her communion—and no excuse
but invincible ignorance in any individual remaining
without that communion. These -men, having lost the
plea of invincible ignorance, stand self-convicted here-
tics, every hour they stand out of Roman communion.
And here we come to the practical consequence of
their views in the University. They are turning it into
a petit sentinaire for the supply of Rome with proselytes
and priests. All who receive " the whole cycle of
Roman doctrine" into honest hearts must necessarily
act in accordance with the most important of all her
doctrines—that, namely-, which anathematises as heresy
whatever is held or taught (and simply as being so held
or taught) out of Roman communion. It is a new
phenomenon in polemics, for men to ransack the Ro-
an armoury for all its most poisoned weapons of
6ffence against their own nominal communion—while
every Roman theologian can tell them, that of all
heretics their case is most hOpeless, because the 7 alone
stand golf-Convicted of heresy clung to in the light of
knowledge. The consistent disciples -of Newmanism
have, therefore, seceded, in considerable numbers, to
Rome. And Mr. Newman has himself acknowledged
hiswrittngs as a" disposing cause" to these Conversions.
It is unquestionable that 'those writings are also the
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forsooth, Rome.
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original source of what we deem the far less honourable
alternative—namely,. of the subscription of Anglican ar -
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subscription, coupled with this avowal, is Mr. Ward's
sense upon any
its sense of this revived lore of Loyola ! Those who
subject.. If so, let it be so stated. Let the University
abdicate all its collective functions. In this way, its re-
fusal to give
. ju4gment will at least not be construed as a
refusal to vindicate common sense and honest consistency,
for fear they should retard the conversion of Oxford to,
Roman Catholicism.
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STANDARD.—The property-tax, the sugar duties,
the tax on tea, the assessed taxes, the cotton tax, the
malt-tax, the duty on paper, and we know not lunv
many more taxes, had all found champions to claim
their abolition, when on Saturday a meeting of
soap boilers and Members of Parliament assembled
to insist upon the abolition of the duty on soap,
one-half the former duty having been long since
repealed. The soap discussion fills about four closely-
printed columns of the Morning Ch►onicle, and who-
ever reads the speeches of Messrs. Hawes, Joseph Hume,
&c., must rise from the perusal with the conviction that
the soap-tax is really the only tax that imposes any
burthen on the country. To be sure, the same thing
has been said of every other tax with as much