The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1850.

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. I.er petitionet mold not loin his brethren be saying
t ' rovi,, M imea.timr remits eeleeteo by himself
t ; tar Oen*, h+ claimed to excreter the mime
• is eititietti Ly fear M i• 111 in appointing the arch-
t p. and Whop. of tko Coureh of Esolead."
.r ineirt that to. author., y wLith it Ozer-
'oar Moiety oppointine arebbi•hops and bishop.
the 'sae as Wet which is claimed by the rope ; in tuber
• nit, tut merely to name pm .as who Atoll peeks spiritual
r. ills at the hoods of those emp meted by CIA to cooler
' tit 'dwelt to coal. r it, 1.. twine the oily source el
spiritual otottrity toeswho are competent to
le"lfte..n..t
itch authhiley, as it cannot he exercised by any lay
r howeitr exalted, on it would be uodutihel owl dilv
144 to topper that y s'.7 bath ever claimed or ever
wool clop It would irske you silt ly rerponsible to Almi.hty
• for the woribittes of the per a apptinted by you, as if
the n VINO not iesplud in the noniostion 'twit the overeat,
Ltoitetitia that the poemso Pasinat d be hood, lay those to
whom the inoliemitle richt atiA duty of examining dolts by
the law of tiod below,. worthy of the sacred of and chine
to which kir W nomistimil.
4. But fourthly, be c old art Yoh@ tele concur with the
r. l Ines in ehars..tt irg kb• permit sygression of the Pope r
''unpeaceeented." Tet notorious paroles in belied Carole
It, last tee mutt:Tits, and nee especial ease reepsetiog the
~wily ape... Witt d ditietbe of (*Away within our own times,
vi old titan forbid Lis so applying that term. But Meteors
re for indeed from lair the only or the priatipal
in-
Is:. 41 the sup meg presimption of It me. Pie we
',motes witnessed almost all the British color in
c.iideis into dioceses L) the rove, and bialp pa from among
the toilette of your Majesty placed over them by the same
Coups poteatate with the declared countearce and official
P. pot( of your Msjesty's preen' mimickers.
Aced lastly, there retains another w d an incomparably
t'• tiger retson than acy of the preceding for your peti-
t. .I.ll's withholdirg boo signature from the address of his
Ititer. ; for that address designated yolk klajt sty as " the
t of the church is OP kingdom."
Iletred and primed, es It is your petitioner's happiness to
h,ro, in the true faith cf Christ—and humbly rewig.
g, a. as ereentiel &rile* of that faith, that there it Lot
L. . be more than ono Head, even Christ, of the one
.y t chetah, which is itself one, sow militant on earth,
Paean• r to be triempLant is 111101110—your petitioner,
pus he presumes not to express say judgment as the unti-
manta or I.ngustre of titters, could not, without deeply
w....odirg his own cowl. ne-,: pee the title of "earthly
Lai it the church" to say human b ing. not even to
y M..jt sty, whom above all (they human be op he from
hie taut ackaowle lea himself bound to honour.
In troth, he .nano* doubt that seek a title, without re
stocti:te at.d qe.hfications which minder it noloyanitili,
world)* be offensive to your Majesty to receive fora him as
it 'took! he 'Jabal in himself to offer. For, alth-ogh it was
Lorne by king Hoary VIII. and King Edward VI , under a
ot .tute of the 26'h year of the former, yet it is ',Patios'
Oat that statute falsified the eoneetsioa of " the clergy in
their creavoeotioes," which it rites as acknowledging the
tole, topprissing the qualification, without which not sets
the royal menace of toe pei.alties of prizmunire (incurred
previously by admitting the legating power of Wolley),
could have 'molted the concession. The terms of that qua-
lification were, "so far„ and only so far, as the law of
Christ persoke"--in whey words, and virtually, cot at all.
That your Majesty's keltrg is in accordance with this
miasiple, your yeti loner cannot doubt by reason of the
sacredness of the printiple Psi If. But tie also rejoices to re
member that the op civet. igo, whom in the long line
of your Majesty's royal predocemon we recognise
as your truest prototype, the illusrsious flume Via ibath, re-
futed with Mfr.r to receive !Le title, after the statute which
had confuted it bed been repealed by her titter. The matter
is recordid by Bishop Jewell in words which your petitioner
ie coal lent that your Mitiesty will adopt as your own. "The
(Peen," oo wrote Jewell to a correspondent abroad, "the
Llama will not Potent to be celled the head of the church,
other by ward Of i■ weiiec. When asked on the subject,
she anewyred with at That is a name which has
bete given to Christ, and to Ceti.% only ; by no mortal what
metre can it be boroe."
But even if this grave con-ideration of duty were lees
manifest than it is, still your petitioner would see sufficient
reason for declining to asaibe that title to your Msjesty in
the reproaches which, on account of it, have been htthato
falsely showered upon our ehurc't by It manists and presby-
Means and enemies of every kind ; but which would be fake
no longer if the piveraal voice of the English vpixopain
sboeld benefice the unhallowed phrase.
For these reasons your petitioner has found it his painfel
duty to withheli hit Gigue:we from the address which other
bishop' (he knows not how many) have laid before your
Majesty. Yet he ventures humbly, but confid,ntly, to ha-
meth your Majesty to believe that his dutiful attachment to'
your august person aid sacred °Male not less sincere or less
ardent than that of soy of his brethren,
Tose it may please Almighty God long to preserve to our
c'.urih the readout protection of your Majesty—the
eepteinevereor of this realand your co operation and
support nail the lah*urs of the bishops wed clergy for the
spiritual welters of your people, is, and while lila is con-
tinue! to him •••.? will be, the terms' prayer of your
MMeett'• most dutiful and loyal subject,
Bahopatowe, N0v.22.
The following correspondence between the Bishop
el Exeter and the Home Secretary has patted, in
relation to the oboes petition :
Whitehall, Dee. 4, 1850.
Mj Lord,—l have tsseknowleilite the receipt of your lord-
Mies letter of the d2ad alt , 'adenine to me a document
paretins to be • petition to the Qaseo, with a re
I would pro sent it to her Majesty.
As this document Potties no payer addressed to the
Cleves, and is not in the spirt form of gtia ms or addresses
to the crown, it don not appear to me to be one which the
Beeretaty of State could properly lay before her M jos,. I
lam, therefore, the honour to return it to your lordship.—
I have the Moon/ to be, my lord, your lordship's obedient
MOTTOS,. G. GRIT.
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter,
Bishopstows,Taguay.
Bkhopatowe, Torepsy,Dee. 5.
84,-1 have this day had the honour of ireatifiaft lour
letter to me of the 4th inst., in which you seknowledge the
receipt of my hake to y.,n of the Vol alt., inclining a do-
cument, pope:ling to be a petition to tbeAlteen, with a
itouifft that you would present it to her Majesty,"
Teo inform me that, "m this document contains no
payer slammed to the Quaa, sad is not in the usual hem

of petitions or &dames to the crown, it does not appear to
you to be one which the Secretary of State could popery
Icy before her Meisel," and that you " have therefore re-
tuned it to me."
To the two reasons which made yon deem it improper to
lay the document beton her Majesty, I have the honour to
answer as follows:
1. To the first, by referring you to the meths which im-
mediately precedes the couciwting deelsrati us of what to,
sad ever will be, my prayer to 04 for her Mojesty—which
passage I intended, when I wrote it (and so I still under-
stand It) to be the pester of my petition to hot Majesty,
via., "For these reasons your petitioner has found it his
painful duty to withhold his signature from the address,
Windt other bishops (be knows not how many) have laid
beim your Majesty. Yet he ventures humbly, but confi-
dently, to beseech your Majesty to believe th't his dutiful
atteehmeut to your august person end sacred dike is not less
timer. or less ardent wan that of any of his brethren " In
mime " humbly beseich," i, stead of " turiat.y pray your
Majesty," no thought could be farther from my mind than
that the phrase could b, onseenstraed into 'eluting bearing
the shadow of disrespect. It was, in truth, dictated th'ely
by 'dealing which I am son that her majesty would not
disapprove—l mean reluctance to use toe word " prat "
I applied to Ay earthly sovereign, in immediate jultepuntion
1 with the words of prayer to the King of kings.
I should have bad the less apprehension that such an ob-
jectioa at this—seen if it had preetnted tool( to my mind,
which it did not—could roust sgoinst the presenth'ion of my
petition, because in " the document purporting to he a pen-
tion " from the Archbsolup of Canterbury, and lii other
bishops to King James 11., there is sbniutely no 'armed
DI prayer whatever, but m+ rely a statement of the reasons foe
which they, by implication, pray their Sovereign lot to deem
them leaflets! than some of their brethren !Remise thty
declined to do what had been done by others, but what they
could not coarecientioutly do themselves.
Erectly similar, I salmi% would be the document which
is no a return, d to me, even if it did not contain that special
prayer to which I have had the honour of inviting your at-

tend*.
Tose it it, that the petition of the seven bishops was not
sent to the Secretary of State, but was presented t their
Sovereign by themselves; tine also it is that, instead of
tieing returned to them, it was made the ground of an indict.
mast for • seditious libel. In these respects, I fully semi:
Chet the two cases are Oct parallel.
2. To the second objection—that " this &element is not
la the nasal firm of petitions or addressee to the erorn"-1
have the honour to answer, by referring you to the headier
of the document, "To the Queen's most excellent Majesty,
the bumble petition of Henry, Nair p of Exeter, showeib, '
—and to the eonelissioa of it, which, instead of what is, I
believe. the more usualand your petitioner will ever
pray, dm," substitutes fur the din. a declaration of the sr. I
cid prayer which, in sobetance 1 do, and ever will, offer op
to Almighty 0 41 for that sovereign, who is not loss the Ob-
ject of my dutiful election than of my devoted loyalty, ,
That her Majesty would not, on account of such a departure
from the weal, and in my rice judgment, the not very
decorous phiam, have rejected my petition, 1 most coni
gently expeesi my entire and undoubting conviction.
In condoms, as others of her Majesty's loyal subjects
may be deprived of an cpportunity of laying the ex-
primion of their feelings, on any momentous subject, be-
fore their beloved envereiga, by falling into the same
or other similar error, I shall be dung an net of kindness to-
wari:s them, if I wain them of what they mast, in that nese,
expi ct, and I shall. at the s ime time, save the S:crettry of
State rot only rime troeble, but also the pain WI Ich that
high tfacer cannot but feel wbehever, II is the relent
inotance, consideration of delis% ditty may compel him to
'tend Innate, n her Majesty and the humblest of her subjects
who may have occasion to tours her Majesty of his dutiful
sod loyal devotion to her person and g vvrnineat. I shall.
therefore, make public the communication which I have this
day received from you.
1 have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient ***** nt,
U. Exerraa.

The Riabt Hon. Sir George Gray, Bart., &c.
P.A.—Siva this letter was written it hes occurred to a.
that my petition has not, at its commencement, the worts,
" Mat it please your Majes.y." But I can hardly apron
that the absence of ihis ,tormul r, however usual it may be,
has bees deemed eotlitient to condemn my petitioa as
unworthy of meeting the royal eye. I aeon. t dinbt that it
strict etiquette had made it indisputable, you w odd have
spprietd use of the rule, in order that I might supply the
heedless °mignon.
But I have the eisisfacti is of ',sing that in ti is particular
eso the petition of the seven bishops to King J antes 11, re-
sembled my own. The surds May it piece your Majesty,"
were not burred is it. The following is its introduction :
** It TWO 111001 MOST lIIVELLEMT MLJ TAIT.
"The humble petition of Wdiiam, Archbishop of Canter-
born. sad divers others of the Suffragan Bloom &e ,
•• Humbly showeth," eff
Of this, it will be Wu that the comment. ment of my own
petition is • direct c .py, Mettliedit, t Tent that I do
wet repeat the word humbly —fultowing harm the rule of
the Meuse of Lords, that the word bumble, or humbly, be
sot 'squints to he us..d men than once.
1 'armor Bad, on rsfersece to an exact verbatim copy of
that document, with the signatures, which was nut, at first,
before ate, that the sem. b.shops eteleloCied their petition by
—outplay* bat "mat Asinshly and ewes ly beseeching
hi. M.j my that le will be graciously pleased not to Mast
opus their median his Majesty's declarative."
II this thews that I have been inaccurate is saying above
that ta that petition there was no expressed prayer ten
(as there Is sone is the form is which it is usually exhibited
by our bittorians), that inaccuracy is, I submit, mere than
compensatel by the oomplote precedent which is thus
afforded to ma, in all formal particulars, by those illestrlous
men, one of whom. S r Jonathan Teasers'', was garrote-
s's/or is theme which, by God's perraisaim, I Atom till.

TIIP. PROTLaTANTI OF is in-
tendt.l by the protestant party to bis hothead to hold •
wiring on the subject of papal egg *teiloll on Friday neat.
Measures of precauttnn spinet another interruption by the
csth-lics, have been provided.
Euttinunou.—A treetiog of the protestant lobo-
bitauts of E.lintiargh and its vicinity who " are opposed to
the recent papal agsreesion, and to the puhlie countnance
gives to papery ate endowment, sad the recognietion ot
the linuit.h titles and dianiues, as well no to the progress of
tractilianiva in this wasiry," was held is the Kula Hail
of that city so Thartatay

THE EXHIBITION OF 185:

THE BUILDING.—The building is now rapidly ap-
proaching completion—the skeleton is new sometbir g more
than vibe and vertelnic. The proportions and ultimate effect
of tne building can now be fully realised, and when the great
(risotto% arches have all been raised, the exterior, as tar as
the eye can reach tram without, will be complete. On
Thursday a meeting of the royal a immissioners took plies in
the temporary offices adjoining the works, 'o take into cosi-
iideistion the questing of decorstion. We announced some
reeks ago that Mr. Owen Jones had been entrusted
with the tie k of decoration cle interior; when we, in
common with tunny others, expressed our opinions upon
his plan Sro pointing the girders blue, white, and red ;
the columns blue, white, and yellow ; and the root
red, white, and yellow. Mr. Jones's plan wee discussed
by the meeting and considerably modified. The alteratiose
droned by the commissioners will meet with the oppubation '
of all persons who are competent to judge in so nice a qua-
don. The roof, it ban been decided, must be painted gently
blue and white. The red "meld have made it heavy. From
the columns gee red h,s been banished, at d b'ue and whitd.
e, I
tempered with a slight yellow tint, bun happily substitute I
retie modifications will be received with universal 'elitist- I
don. As a design of gorgeous harmony Mr. Jones's plan I
was not without merit ; but he had made the fatal mistake 11
of regardieg the general effect to the prejudice of the articles I
which the building was to contain. Imagiee a picture
'unitary decorate/ after the fashion suggested by Mr. Owes
Jones. Tne general effect would perhaps be extremely
grateful to the eye ; bat the red, blue, and yellow
seriously detract from the effect of each separate
picture. Thus, though Mr. Jone.'s plan might have
ben sound it h haeen decorating a brilliant suite
of e
assembly rooms he ;
It was undo undoubtedly t
erra neous. when the
object was to height's the effect of every separate article.
10 return to the proper of the budding. The points to
which the contractor' us now mainly directing their ener-
gies are the gleniog sad the raising of the transept ribs,
or. ickes. In ten dal@ then two operations will have
been completed; and then the few days which will
female, before the day on which the building is to
be handed over to the royal commissioners, will be
exclusively devoted to the interior. Already the greairon
ter
part of the gallery flooring is laid down. Tte
work is bully cool from the heat of the forge, before iand
t is
carted and fixed in its ultimate political. Between ose
two hundred people visit the works daily. The enthusiasm
with which Prince Albert was received by the workmen on
Thursday wee extreme ; and this fervour was cot cps lied by
the arrival of a dray bottled with beer for their enjoyment.
The appearance and spirits of the workmen certainly seem to
contradiet the prevalent rumour that they are either on ler.
paid, or subjected to harsh restraints. The difficulty of con-
centrating so large a body of men without finding at some
period of their opelations Cries of complaint and angry
threats, is fully understood by all who have ever had a large
band of workmen under thiir control. Men will take
advantage of any difficulty to demand unusually high wage.;
..is the glasien proved last week. The glazing was a matter
of greet moment—one that did not admit of a moment's de.
lay—therefore, the gluier", finding that their work was
regarded anxiously, suddenly found that they were ill-aced
men, and that their wages were insufficient
The MaTaOPOLITAII Colllttnala have hued a general
circular to the applicants for space, requiting to be informed
by to-day respecting the size, &c., of each article they pro-
_ 4 pose to exhibit, as the commistionas meet on Monday next.
request that

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METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS. -A ',
monthly court of the Metrerlitao Comminsioners of Sewers I
was held yesterday, M the Sewers Court, Greek street, ,'
Soho square, for the purpme of confirming or annulling •
bye law, made at a former Court of Sewers, held on the 15th 1
day of October, for requiring rcura of plats of house
&Mingo in the ease of homes about to be builtd
of OT rebuilt,
houses in taree of building or rebuilding, an houses
already built tut not yet occupied. And also fcc approving ,
Sr disapproving &moth. r bye law made ma the same day, for
orderieg returns from district' surveyors under the Building
Act. Payment* to tee amount of 14,5291. for works is
vogues were ordered to be made. Mr. Edward Lewes
moved that the bye law, which had been adopted on the 16th
of °dem last, be sow confirmed. Mr. P. Hardwick as
1 conded the motion, which, after a few observations from
i Viscount Ebringtos, was greed to.