The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-06 00:00:00

The humble petition of the undersigned clergy and
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fait-y
of the diocese of Hereford

We, the undersigned, clergy and laity of the diocese
of Hereford, approach your Majesty with mingled j
veneration and attachment, to express our alarm at
the efforts which are now being made to interfere
with the free exercise of the royal prerogative in the
ancient and undoubted right of appointment to vacant
bishoprics.
We believe that this most insidious attempt to de-
stroy your Majesty's free agency, as head and supreme
ruler, under God, of the national Church, is pregnant
with danger, whether considered in respect•of its im-
mediate and avowed object, or in regard to its colla-
teral consequences on the fundamental laws of our
Church polity.
We are unfeignedly impressed with the vital im-
portance of maintaining our Church government in
its entirety; and we, therefore, deeply deplore the
conduct of those amongst the hierarchy and inferior
clergy whose present proceedings are calculated to
first suspend, and then abolish, that branch of the
royal prerogative to which the Church owes its secu-
rity, and the uncontrolled exercise of which is es-
sential to the protection and preservation of the union
of Church and State.

We are more alarmed because the originators and
abettors of the opposition to your Majesty's appoint-
ment of Dr. Hampden to the sea of Hereford belong
principally to a party, many of whom have seceded
to the Church of Rome, whilst those who professedly
remain in the Church of England are noted for their
attachment to Rornish doctrines, rites, and ceremo-
nies, and seek to revive the system of intellectual
despotism and degradation which the Reformation
was the great instrument of undermining and de-
molishing.
We, therefore, humbly pray your Majesty not to
be influenced by those who are endeavouring to
convulse and disorganise the Church by appealing to
prejudice and misconception, and who seek to
" darken counsel by words without knowledge."
We most heartily beseech the only Ruler of Princes
with his favour to behold your most Gracious
majesty, and to direct and prosper all the consultations
of your Majesty and your advisers, to the advance-
ment of his glory, the good of his Church, and the
safety, honour, and welfare of this kingdom.
(Signed by, or on the part of ninety persons.)

WESTERN JEWS' FREE SCHOOL FOR BOYS.—
Fortunately no Act of Parliament is required to enable
our Jewish fellow_citizens to exercise those charitable
feelings by which they are so honourably distinguished,
and a large assemblage of the leading Jewish families
met last night at Willis's Rooms on the occasion of a
public ball given in aid of the funds of the Western
Jews' Free School for Boys, a benevolent institution in
which about sixty boys are now receiving a' moral and
religious education in Greek-street, Soho. About 250
persons were present, among whom were—Mr. Alder-
man Salomons, the Baron Meyer de Rothschild, Mr. P.
Salomons, Mr. Lionel Cohen, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., Lord Marcus Hill, ,M.P., Mr. Neville Abdy, &e.
The brilliant eyes of the Hebrew maidens furnish the
nearest approach to our ideas of Eastern houris which,
peihaps, our northern clime can present, and we have
rarely witnessed a ;more unaffected spirit of enjoyment
at a similar entertainment than that which prevailed last
night. The arrangements were excellent, and the ball
will doubtless be repeated with increased eclat next year,
the success of the experiment having been decided.
THE FAMILY IN ARCHEs COURT.--It has lately
been observed that nearly all the officials in the Arches
Court are related to Sir Herbert Jenner Fost. We
presume that the patronage of the Court of Arches is
dispensed on the principle of " Fust come Fust served."
—Punch.—(oh!)
THE NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK AT LIVER-
POOL.—The head office here, and such of the branch
offices as the company still retain, were opened yester-
day, for the payment of their notes and of small deposits
not exceeding 201. The notes and claims presented
here have been very few, and if the available resources
of the company are not unexpectedly and excessively
drained, there is little doubt that they will be enabled to
resume fully by the end of the month.—Manchester
Guardian.