The Sun.
London, England, 1837-12-11 00:00:00

ARCHBISHOP OF COLOGNE.

LIEGE, DEC. 6.—The Chapter of the Collegiate Church of
Aix-la-Chapelle and the Clergy of the same city have received
from the Metropolitan Chapter of Cologne the following cir-
cular, dated March 20 :-

,
" Our very Reverend Archbishop Clement Augustus, Baron
Von Droste Neschering, has been conducted (abductus) far
from his diocese for weighty reasons (gravissimis ex causis),
and hindered from administering to his church. In conse-
quence, seeing that the Archiepiscopal See is as it were va-
cant (quasi vacat), according to the rule laid down by the
Canon Law in cap. Si Episcopus, 3 de supplenda neglig.
prcelat. (1. 8), the Chapter must administer the diocese, both
in spiritual and temporal matters, as if the See were vacant
by death. We therefore signify to you by these presents,
we have this day taken the administration into our hands, and
we order you to apply to us by letter respecting all the ec-
clesiaQticaa affairs which you may have to treat of, till other
means shall have been taken, conformably to the Canon Law.
We shall send to the Apostolic See—which is instructed in
providing for the wants of the churches—a detailed and ac-
curate account of this whole affair, and of the present
state of the diocese as is fitting, and has been laid down by
law ; and we shall humbly conjure it to settle our affairs, and
to order what it shall see good.
" We shall soon receive the Apostolic Decrees, and we ex-
hort you as the Lord's dear brethren, to wait for them as we
do, with tranquillity and confidence, and to take care, for the
ova of God, by your prudence and circumspection, that
neither the church nor public affairs suffer any injury, and
that the minds of the faithful be not excited or alarmed."
In the name of the Chapter,
CHARLES ADALBERT BARON DE BEYER,
Vicar General in pontificalibus.
Cologne, Nov. 21, 1837.

The Countess of Bridgewater will keep open house
at Christmas. The are now upwards of 200 poor people em-
ployed in the grounds around Aahridge Castle.
Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., continues at Oatlands,
confined to his room by a severe attack of gout. His Lord-
ship was unable to come to town on Friday, to be present at
the division on the Pension List.

Count Charles and Countess Pozzo di Borgo will
return to Ashburnham House the latter end of January, when
a series of soirees will be given by the Countess to the beau

monde.

The forthcoming pantomime at Covent-Garden
Theatre is to be called Harlequin and Peeping Torn of Co-
ventry, or the Lady Godiva and the Witch of Warwick.
Balfe's opera of Joan of Arc, and the new ballet of
The Daughter of the Danube, still attract crowded audiences
to Drury-lane Theatre.
We hear it is likely that Major-Genetal Sir John
Colborne will succeed the Earl of Go.ford as Governor of
Lower Canada. . _

It is reported, and we believe with good reason, that
the Honourable Mr. Bligh, at present our Minister at Stock.
htlm, is to be appointed Minister to the Court of thp• King 01
Hinover. The King of Hanover liaz named Baron Munchau.
sen to be his Minister at this Court. _

The new Marquis of Queensberry, late Lord John
Douglas, is to succeed his brother as Lord- Lieutenant of Dum..
fries-shi.e. We believe that the other offices held by the late
Marquis are not yet filled up.
The ship Upton Castle, bound to Sydney, having
on board Sir George Gipps, the Governor of New South
Wales, his suite, &c., arrived at Mad, ira on the 2Sth of Oct.,
all well, in twelve days, from Plymouth.
QUICK WO R K.-011 Wednesday, a woman,
charged with robbing a farmer of V., was committed from the
police office, Rochdale; sent to Manchester, tried at the
sessions, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment—all in
one day.—Manchester Guardian.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—Thirty gen-
timen have passed their examination at the Royal College of
Surge)ns during the past month, and have received their
diplomas in consequence.
EXTRAORDINARY TEMPERANCE.—OII Satur-
day, at a meeting of the Magistrates, a woman was put to her
oath as to the temperance of her neighbour. Witness swore
that she had known her for ten years, and never knew her to
he iatoxicated, for she seldom drank more than sixteen glasses
(gr ruin in the course of the day.—Manx Advertiser.
FINE ARTS.—The President and Council of the
Worcester Institution have issued a circular, soliciting the
patronage of the inhabitants of that city and its neighbour-
hood for an exhibition of works of art, the productions of
' British artists, in painting and sculpture, which will be opened
in a short time at the Athenceum. The Lord Lieutenant of
the county, and the Members for the city and county, to;e-
ther with many noblemen B,nd gentlemen, have become yatrons
of this undertaking.— Worcester Journat.
It is already known that a correspondence has taken
place between Lord John Russell and those persons who have
control over our great national buildings, such as St. Paul's,
Westminster Abbey, &c. That correvondence is to be laid
before Parliament, and we have had great satisfaction iu
learning that, in the case of St. Paul's, his Lordship's en-
deavours have been wholly successful. St. Paul's is to be
opened to the public, free of expense, every day from nine
until eleven o'clock ha the morning, and from three to four
o'clock in the afternoon. The public are also to have the
benefit of a great reduction in the admission fee to the
'rower. The fee is t. 3 be reduced from three shillings to one.
_Sunday Paper.
The condition of the carriage way in the Strand, to-
wards Chasing-cross, is most disgraceful. It is full of holes,
some of them nearly a foot in depth, and such as seriously en-
danger the axletrees of light vehicles that pass along this very
important thouroughfare.
In the old libiary of Upsal are deposited the mys-
terious iron coffers left by Gustavus the 'Third. The period
fixed by the Royal will for opening the coffers falls this year,
and it is expected that they will yield documents which will
throw light upon the events of those times hitherto involved in
impenetrable darkness.—Nuremberg Correspondent.
'clic distinguished young French artist M. Johan-
net has jw3t died at Paris, after a long and painful illness.
Mr. Barnett, veterinary surgeon, has lately taken an
enora ous wart, measuring nineteen inches in circumference,
and weighing three pounds and a half, from the belly of a va
luable horse, near this town. The cure was performed is nine
days, and has left no blemish.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
'Mr. Robert Stubbs, of Sawdon, near Scarborough,
has ill his possession a turkey, in her second year, which, after
laying seventeen eggs, afterwards sat, hatched, and brought
up her brood. She again commenced laying, and has pro-
duced eighty-four, making a total of one hundred and one etgg.s
within this season.
POsTAGEt—" My proposal then is, that every
letter written upon a single sheet with a Stamp
at one pepny, be carried not exceeding 50 miles,
at twopence, 100
at threepence, OOO

and at fompence,--every other distance.
Such a ratio of charge I consider would be just, and I con-
sider it would be satisfactory and lam inclined to suppose
the returns by this settle would got be far short, if tht4 w(,-tuid
tint be hilly equal to the present amount.'—Extract from a
commuhicatien addressed by Mr, Johnson to the Berwick
Advertiser,