The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-11 00:00:00

LADIES' ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.

The following petition, from the ladies of Windsor,
u yesterday presented to her Majesty, at Windeor•cutle.
" To TlllQUllltell MOST EICILLINT MAJESTY.

" The humblepotitfon of the undersigned women, resident
in the town of Windsor.
" We, your blejesty's attached and devoted subjects, berg
to approach your Majesty with sentiments of the moot tender
and respectful affection. . .

No fangusue can adequately express the gratitude of our
hearts for the atmosphere of high and honoured purity
which your hisjestyhu clused to surround the court, sod
the royal lustre which your Idajes'y's example has thrown
around the maternal and other retired duties of ours x.

" Under ordinary circumstances we would shrink from
the publi:ity of an address like ; but at this crisis, in
common with our fathers, our husbands, and brothers, and
sow, we feel highly indignant at the insult offered to your
Majesty, and, through your Majesty, to us all, by the recent
agsvesaion of the Dubop of Rome.
" Omitting other and grave conaiderations, whether of
church or state, there is one point on which we feel urged,
with the most affectionate earnestneas, to ►ppeal to your
Majesty.
tt We are informed that the canon law of the church of
Rome is inapplicable under vicars apostolic, but would be
in full force under a diocesan hierarchy, such bishops being
under obligation to their superior to carry out u far as poe.
sibis the provisions of that law.
" We are informed further, that a part of the most im-
perative duty of such bishops would be to enforce upon their
priests, that they might enforce upon as many of the Duple
as poe•ibls the practice, of private auricular contessisin.
" From the thought of the bare poribility of this prac-
tice being pressed upon us or our children, we shrink with
instinctive horror. And therefore we humbly implore your
most gracious Majeaty to exert to your utmost your Majesty's
royal and constitutional prerogative to guard our happy
country against the intolerable abuses of a p►pal hierarchy.
"And your Majesty's petition'', will ever pray."

Ma. MOLYNEttI TAYLOR has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the editor of the Morning Herald :
Bir,—My attention has recently been directed to a leading
article published in your paper of the 23rd ult., respecting
the will of my late father, Mr. Taylor, of Wey bridge, which
had previously, it appears, been made the subject of a very
unfounded personal charge against Cardinal Wiseman. Had
I seen that article earlier I should have felt myself bound to
notice it, and in order to prevent any permanent miscoreep-
tion it seems still incumbent on me to addreae you • taw
words of explanation.
It is strictly correct, as stated by Cardinal Wiseman, that
he was wholly unacquainted with my fa,her in his lifetime,
sad also that my father's death took place before the car-
dinal came to London, or was connected wile the catholia
church of this distriet. It is also correct that he was not
personally named in the will, and it is lurther doe to him to
state, that from all I know, or have heard of him, I Wien'
him to be far too honest and high minded to be concerned
directly or indirectly in such a transaction.
With ',tepee; to what Cardinal Wiseman, in his letter,
terms my supposed disinheritanee," I must add that the
substanos of the will is correctly stated in your article. The
balk of my father's property is left to his children fur their
lives only, and upon their decease the inheritance is given to
the use of the late Dr. Griffith.,. If living, and if not, to the
then vicar apostolic of the London district for the time being.
The will contains no power enabling me to make any pro-
vision whatever in favour of a wife or children ea t i the pre-
perty so devised ; hut, on the contrary, my lite estate is
' coupled with very etringent pr.:quintal against any attempt
at incembrance or alienation.
. .

Such a will appears to me to create. not a salve/led. but a
real and effectual diaiohcritancn, and such I have always felt
it to be. I should add, that the will was executed by a roost
kind and affectionate parent, after he had attained the aged
80 and upwards, and when his mind was affected by eeversi
illness, and in immediate contemplation of that great change,
the approach of which renders the strongest and beet-
prepared wholly unable to resist any influences which map
be brought to assume the sanction of religion. I should
further add, that about four years before, my father had
executed a will in which his whole property had been left for
the benefit of Ms children. .

As the heir-at-law, and the person most effected by this
well intentioned, but most utjust and mistaken act, I was
advised to contest the will, ►nd obtain, through the Court of
Chancery, a full disclosure of the eireurnstai.ces under which
it was made; but I forbore from doing so, because I was
outwitting to expose my family to the vexations and difficul-
ties of a thirteen suit; and I felt that no earthly considera-
tion could induce me to expo's, thee, I had loved end
cherished from my earliest infancy, and who had been in-
duced to acquiesce in the will, to the ordeal of chancery
and legal interrogatories in order to compel painful and
unwilling disclosures relative to matters which they would
consider to be sacred as the wishes of a dyiag parent.
I believe that, by the laws of most catholic countries,
such a will would be ipso facto void. Whether it is so by
the law of England, independent of any special disclosures
or newt trusts, i. a question which I reserve to myself the
full liberty of considering, if nec.sury, at any future time.
I ma bound in candour to state this, or otherwise the effect
of the correspondence published iu your paper would be to
produce the impression of complete acquiescence upon my
part in an act, though originating in the but of motives on
the part of the testator, I mast always feel to be a great
injustice, and calculated to throw a shade of sorrow over my
path through life.
I am, sir, your obedient, bumble tenant.
J. MOLYNEUX TAYLOR.
11, Furnival'einn, Balboni, Dec. 2,1100.

THE BISHOP OP LONDON AND THE REVEREND MR.
Baretenwr.—The following is a copy of the seswer given by
the Rev. Jam Sinclair, Archdeacon of Middlesex, to a letter,
written by a gentleman io Pimlico, on the subject of the
Puglia practices which prevail in Si. Bernabas :—" Vi-
caral Kensington, Deo. 7, 113.50.—Sir,—In reply to year
hurt , I hutch to inform you that the Bishop of London
Inter to direct his archdeacom to visit all the churches and
chapels is which the forms and ceremonies referred to in his
late charge ere persisted in. It wIU be my duty to hold a
visitation in St. Bernal:we, and I trust that the result will ha
satisfactory to the public. I have the honour to be, ski,
your faithful servant, John SlaciAlis."

TURNINII THE 80D or THE SHREWSBURY AND
HISIIIO/D RAILWAT.—Before "peep o'day" the bells of
AU Raintasbureh heralded the dawn of Tuesday monde&
the time selected for the turning of the first sod of this loaf/.
expected railway. A praised= was formed et the Great
Dragon hoteL Having arrived near Ben's Court-honees
three-wawa= of a mile from the city. in a meadow parallel
to the Gloucester sad Hereford Canal, the ceremony' of
=Mug the turf was performed by the hon. chairman of the
Seellieely, IL 0. Goa, Seq., amid the loud hews of
the members present. Lam a speech from the Om
tar prosisdes reformed, and walked round the pritd?
eteeets of the shy. A largo and influential party of e
Vestry of the county and inhebitents of the various towns
of Shrewsbury, Lambdas, Ludlow, Preeteigu, Hereford.
die., afterwards sat down to a banqaet provided at the
Great Dragon hotel. The children of the shoot were sup-
Cied with vine and plum cake in the town-hall ; and a free
all, open to all respectable persona, was held at the County-
hall in the evening. The woelui am to be eommenoad at once
in various portions of the line end will be carried forward
with vigour, so se to open (*Amide in therm 1862.
THE Wsur POWDER GLITSIL—Tbs MayOr
of Liverpool has not
a comleimu•nfration from Sir George
Grey, Beerstary of Rate, directing the immediate removal
of the (=powder snagasinm at Wallasey. Thb intelligens.
will be lm&il with earlimaces by a dames, but mere es-
pecially by the inhabiealsea the Chadds. shore who re-
side is the immallate vimisdey of this dangle= depot.
BETRAORDINART Teo AT Lairma.—Baltioult Loss
OP Wm—Darin tie pest ems days did moat extraordi-
nary fog seer whammed has prevailed in Leeds sad the
aeighlieurbes• sad darter Monday night it wee so dean
Uses eves in the streets lighted with the seal gas lempe tt
was iiipeesell• to distieguish objects three or four yards dia
teat. la fed= te avoid confusion and collision it was shoo-
leselyamemery, even in the lighted streets, to go about
with Heisted candles or lanterns, and the cabs usually ply-
ing km lire were of necessity withdrawn from the stands, it
being quitsinsposslble for them to we even at a slow pees
with safety. In numerous instenese persona lost their way,
and we are sorry 10 add several lost their lives else. Oa
Tuesday morning three bodies of persons drowned daring
the night were taken from the river Aim, and information
is in die posseseloa of the polies which leans little deal*
that at Lest five otters have met tbs lame molakslidll fate.
OLJJCHIW, Pawns. AND CHIEREOCE
Weekly return of trafic.—Herniser Si passellaw•ll2.44s •
passengers sad pamals, MN. Ida. Bd. tle 3064'
amoant, 81171. lie. Corinspentling week in
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