The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-07 00:00:00

TIIIS MOIINIXG,

Notice was issued, by order of the Lint Mayor, that the
various approaches to Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, St. l'uul's
Church-yard, Cheapside, King-street, and the l'oultry will
be closed on the occasion, and that no cart, Barriage, or any
other vehicle will be allowed to enter or amain in the
streets from the hour of G p.m. until the departure of her
Majesty from the City, excepting such carriages as convey
visitors bringing tickets for Guildhall, ultieli will be ad-
mitted up to half-past 8 o'clock, after which no carriage
will be allowed to pass the barriers.
During this forenoon workmen have been busily engaged
in erecting a large device on the City side of Temple-bar,
which will be brilliantly illuminated on Wednesday night.
Great preparations are also being mado at the Mansion-
house, at all the public uflico,, and by the tradespeople
throughout the line where the procession will pais, for a
general illumination.

DIL MERLE D'AUBIGNE AND TliE BISHOP

OF LONDON.

We understand that the following address has
been transmitted to Dr. D'Aubigne on the part of the
Metropolitan Church Reform Association :
Itevereud Doctor,—The duty of communicating with you
has devolved upon us in the following way :
At the second conference of tile Metropolitan Church
Reform Association, held on the 25th ult., it was unani-
mously resolved (as will be seen in several of the daily
papers of the 2tith June) that the association should ex-
press its deep regret that a more fraternal welcome mid an
unqualified recognition of equal ministerial functions had
not been given by the metropolitan clergy to Dr. Merle
D'Aubigne and the other (memo evangelical pastors now
in London, and that a communication of these sentiments
be made to them by the gentlemen who had brought the
matter before the a:woo:lotion—vie., the Rey. G. G. Beadun,
Rev. Geo. 11. Stoddart, and Chas. Dublients Johnson, Esq.
Your departure, reverend sir, precludes our having the
privilege to wait upon you to express in person these sen-
timents; and we, therefore, thus address you by letter,
and, in pursuance of the duty delegated to us, we explicitly
disclaim, upon the part of the Church Returns Association,
the sectarianism that has declined to welcome to the pulpits
of our national church the seriptutally ordained pastors of
other branches of the one universal church.
We d, plore this the more as it ha.,, in contradistinction to
the spirit of our earlier reformers, prevent. d the manifesta-
tion of the true catholicity of the church of England, and
therefore has a tendency to relax the bonds of union which
have hitherto existed between the church of England find
the protestants of the continent, and because it has pre-
cluded ups., the present occasion a happy realisation of
the communion of saints which would have well be-
seemed us.
We feel assured, indeed, that the impartial historian of
the Reformation will nut suppose this unbrotherly reception
to have resulted from the sentiments of the general body. of
protestant§ in Great Britain, but front a misguided section
of the clergy having exere.sed an undue influence upon
their diocesan, thus displaying a jealousy which too closely
approximate, to that exclusive arrogance of the papacy,
which the history of the Reformation has so thoroughly
exposed.
And it is our conviction, reverend sir, that the majority
of protestant Christiana in the United Kingdom, both epis-
copaliun and presbyterian, repudiate and regret the inhibi-
tion front the pulpits of our national church unhappily
issued by the Bishop of Loudon, at the instigation of a por-
tion of his clergy, but too notorious for their tractarian Im-
becilities and Romish tendencies.
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As an ass-xi: thou, labouring to carry forward the glorious
Reformation to its legitimate development, and desirous to
cleanse the national church from every ground and pretext
of Iturnish teaching and practice, and from all ecclestastical
malversation in office, we specially protest against the illi-
beral sectarianism exhibited towards yourself, the Rev. M.
Roger, and the ltev. M. Armand lk Lille. While express-
ing to yourself our high estimation and regard, we also
desire you will make known to the other foreign evangeli-
cal pastors (who have visited London at the invitation of
the Bishop of London himselt), our fraternal salutation
and lively interest in all that concerns your and their spiri-
tual welfare. Requesting you and them to accept this
humble testimony of sympathy offertsl respectfully on the
part of the Metropolitan Church Reform Association, we
beg to subscribe ourselves,
Reverend and dear sir, your faithful brethren in the Lord,
(Signed) GEORGE 11. STODDAILT, AM., Clerk,
Hon. Secretary to the Metropolitan Church
Reform Association.
CEAIILES DUBLINUS JOHNSON.
GEORGE GRIFFITH READON, Rector
of Axbridge.
To the Rev. Dr. J. 11. Merle D'Aubigni,, Geneva.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—Tho following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
were admitted members of the College on the 4th instant :
Messrs. F. J. Wiadus, Madras ; S. Browne, Royal Navy
W. 11. Felker, Oxford ; J. It. Pr.e., Il•olyhead ; It. Wil-
liams, Himont, Montgomeryshire ; 11. B. Sayers, Bandon ;
F. Nuttall, Bury, Lancashire ; T. Halm, Fort Green,
Staffordshire ; T. A. Bottomley, Huddersfield ; 11. Cole,
Lewisham ; W. H. Harris, Barnstaple, Devon ; and B.
Shillitoc, Hertford.
Tux NEW SUGAR DrriEs.—The new and reduced
rates of duty on all descriptions of colonial and foreign
1 sugars, which come into operation to-day (the ith instant),
is expected to cause the deliveries of sugar from bond to be
large ; and it is anticipated that the quantities of foreign,
refined, and other sugars, required to be delivered on pay-
ment of the reduced duties for home use, will be so great
that arrangements have been made for such deliveries to
take place to a later hour than usual, is order to meet the
requirements of the trade. The retail price of first-rate
refined or lamp sugar is now less than half the price it was
before the revision of the sugar duties took place, and the
public will doubtless benefit to a still further extent on this
fresh reduction of tho duties on all classes of foreign

sugars.
EXTENaIVE RODIMIIT OF iFWELS.—On Saturday
information was received M the head police-office. Scotland-
yard, that the premises, 13, Lambeth-terrace, Lambeth-
road, had been entered and plundered of a quantity of the
most costly description of Jewel:, set with diamond:, in
value upwards of 400/. ; a Bank of England note fur *.:91. ; a
number of sovereigns and half-sovereigns, 40 half-crowns,
and two guineas in money.