The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-05 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCKS AND BIRMING-
HAM JUNCTION.—It appears that the Railway Com-
missioners have signified their approval of another
portion of this line, extending from Islington to
Camden-town, and it is accordingly intended to open
that portion on Saturday next. By arrangement
with the Blackwall Railway Company, the East and
West India Docks Railway conveys passengers from
Camden-town, Islington, Kingsland, and Hackney,
to the station at Fenchurch-street, the Brunswick-pier
at Blackwall, or any other station on the Black wall
line. From Islington the railway has been working
about two months as an omnibus line, at the fares of
6d. and 41, and appears to give great facilities to the
inhabitants of the districts through which it passes.
When the junction of this line is made with the Lon-
don and North-Western Railway at Camden-town,
passengers will have the opportunity of booking for
that railway in the City, or at any of the stations on
the East and West India Dock line, without the ne-
cessity of a journey to Euston-square. On the com-
pletion of the junction at Carnden.-town, the goods
traffic from the London and North-Western Railway
will be conveyed over the line to the river Thames.
At present the Dock Railway is worked as for pas-
senger traffic only.
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—It is stated that ad-
vances will again be probably made to this railway,

f not by the'Great Western, by some other parties.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—It
is expected that the recent decision, adverse to this
company, instead of being injurious to the shareholder,
will prove beneficial, inasmuch as the effect of it
will be to facilitate arrangements between them and
the London and North Western Company.
DIRECT BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD, READING, AND
BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—His honour Master Brougham
has just instructed Mr. Hutton, the official manager,
to appeal forthwith, at the expense of the estate,
against the order of Vice-Chancellor Rolfe in the
case of Walstab, the effect of the decision of the Vice-
Chancellor being to remove all allottees from the list
of contributaries as liable, and, consequently, forming
one of the most important decisions hitherto oome to
under the Winding-up Act. Owing to the impor-
tance of the principle involved in the case an oppor-
tunity will be taken to obtain a hearing at the earliest
sitting in the ensuing session.
LONDON AND SOUT:IEND RAlLWAY.—Yesterday
the Master the lion. Sir George Rose erased from the
list of contributories Mr. Stratton, one of the pro-
visional committee, in conformity with the decision of
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, in the case of Brewitt,
but retained on the list the executors of Mr. P.
Skipper, on the ground that he had attended several
meetings at which a variety of expenses were ordered
to be incurred.

RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER RAILWAY.—
On Monday his Honour Master Richards allowed the
claim of Messrs. Hall and Smith, the solicitors to the
company, amounting to 500/. Dir. Wryghte, the
official manager, reports the assets of the company to
consist of about 3,0001. in the hands of the Account-
ant-General, and the liabilities to be discharged at
about 7,000/. There is a claim on the part of the
Northamptonshire Banking Company of 3,300/.
About 20,000 shares in the company were allotted,
and 40,000/. received as deposit; 5,600 shares were
bought up by the directors at a premium in the
market, and 9,000 shares were reserved, as alleged,
for landowners. The 40,0002. were spent in " Par•
liamentary preliminaries," and the last rendered ac-
counts of the company exhibited a balance of 2/.

PAPAL AGGRESSION.

THE BISHOPS.

The following is a copy of an address from the
Archbishops and Bishops (except Exeter and St.
David's.) to ber Majesty :

" TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" The humble Address of the Archbishops and
Bishops of the Church of England.
"May it please your Majesty,—We, the Arch-
bishops and undersigned Bishops of the Church of
England, approach your Majesty with sentiments of
veneration and loyalty at a time when an unwar-
rantable insult has been offered to the Church and to
your Majesty, to whom appertains the chief govern-
ment of all estates of this realm, whether they be
ecclesiastical or civil. This our country, whose
Church being a true branch of Christ's Holy Catholic
Church, in which the pure wi.rd of God is preached,
and the Sacraments are duly administered according
to Christ's ordinances, is treated by the Bishop of
Rome as having been a heathen land, and is con-
gratulated on its restoration, after an interval of 300
years, to a place among the Churches of Christen-
dom. The return of our people is anticipated to a
communion the errors and corruptions of which
they deliberately renounced, and which continues
to maintain practices repugnant to God's word, in-
culcates blasphemous fables and dangerous deceits,
and prescribes as necessary to salvation the belief of
doctrines grounded on no warranty of Scripture.
" It is part of the same arrogant assumption that
in defiance of the law which declares that no foreign
prelate or potentate shall use and exercise any manner
of power, authority, or jurisdiction, spiritual or eccle-
siastical, within this realm,' the Bishop of Rome has
pretended to exercise spiritual dominion over the
people of this country ; and, in nominating certain
Bomish ecclesiastics to particular places or sees in
England, has re-asserted his claim of supremacy over
the kingdom, and has interfered with a prerogative
constitutionally belonging to your Majesty alone.
" We consider it our duty to record our united
protest against this attempt to subject our people to a
spiritual tyranny from which they were freed at the
Reformation ; and we make our humble petition to
your Majesty to discountenance by all constitutional
means the claims and usurpalions of the Church of
!tome, by which religious divisions are fostered, and
the labour of our clergy impeded in their endeavours
to diffuse the light of true religion amongst the people
committed to their charge.
(Signed) "J. B. CANTUAR,
T. EBOR,
C. J. LONDON,
E. DUNELNI,
C. R. WINTON,
R. BATH and WELLS,
J. LINCOLN,
C. BANGOR,
G. ROCHESTER,
H. CARLISLE,
J. H. GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL,
C. J. RIPON,
E. SALISBURY,
G. PE fERBOROUGH,
11. WORCESTER,
J. LICHFIELD,
A. T. CHICHESTER,
T. ELY,
S. OXON,
THOMAS VOWLER ST. ASAPH,
J. P. MANCHESTER,
R. D. HEREFORD,
J. CHESTER,
S. NORWICH,
A. LLANDAFF, and
J. SWAM and MAN."

SIR B. HALL'S LEITER TO THE ARCH.
BISHOP OF CANTEItBURY.

A letter has been addressed to his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury by Sir B. Hall, in which the
Hon. itaronet treats at considerable length of the
causes of the Pope's late usurpation. If Puseyistn be
one of the causes, he asks, why have the bishops" been
so careless and so indifferent as regards the welfare
of our Cnurch and the maintenance of Protestantism
as to allow Puseyisra to gain so great an ascendancy,
by permitting those clergymen who are now desig-
nated as ' traitors to the Established Church' to con-
tinue ministers of the reformed religion of that
Church ?" After some observations on the Bishop of
London and Mr. Bennett, he says—" I am, however,
of opinion that the Pope has been induced to issue
his last bull not solely in consequence of the ad-
vances of the Puseyites, but of the general dis-
content with regard to the Established Church
which exists in this country, arising from the very
unequal, very unjust, and most improvident dietribu
tion and management of ecclesiastical preferment and
ecclesiastical property." On this theme Sir
Benjamin dilates. He suggests to the dignitaries of
the Church the propriety of consenting to such a re-
duction and re-distribution of their incomes as would
enable the working clergy to receive not less than
2001. a year each. The Hon. Baronet then contrasts
the incomes of the French and English Bishops, en-
ters into lengthened details of the proceedings of the
Ecclesiastical Commission, speaks in terms of strong
animadversion on the state of the Collegiate establish-
ments, and concludes by giving his opinion that if
(as is the case in Scotland, Switzerland, Holland,
Sweden, and the whole of Germany) the people in
Great Britain were allowed a voice in the election of
their pastors, such a course would speedily replace
the Established Church ou a basis too firm for any
further cause of apprehension from the disciples of
Pusey or the aggressions of Rome.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, DEc. 4.
The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and
Windsor Park.

The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
in the grounds around the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot-
ing this morning, accompanied by Viscount Hardinge
and Viscount Palmerston. Colonel the Hon. C. 13.
Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Bouverie, were in atteLdence on his Royal Highness.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left the
Castle to-day.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans visited
the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert this
morning, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty
and the Prince.

Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge and Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. C. B. and Airs. Phipps, had the honour
of joining the royal dinner circle to day.
The Queen's private band was in attendance in the
Castle after dinner.

The band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the
Castle during dinner yesterday (Tuesday) evening,
and performed the following selection :
Overture, " Jean de Paris" .......... Bandeau.
Valse, " Wild Flowers.' ....... Jullien.
Grand Selection, "Figaro" .......... Mozart.
Polka, " The Jetty Treffz" .......... Carl Buller.
Pas Redouble, from Jullien's "Exhibition Quadrille."
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended,
and played the following pieces :
Overture, "Die lustigen Weiber von
Windsor"
Quartett in C, No. 9 (dedicated to
Prince Rasouinoffiky)—Andante
con moto, allegro vivace, andante,
minuetto and trio, allegro tnolto—
two violins, viola, and violincello
—Messrs. Saintun, Ctbius, Hill,
and H. Chipp
Finale, Ist Act " Z tuberflote" Mozart.

A deputation on the subject of steam communica-
tion with Australia had an interview with Lord j.
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street. His Lordship was accompanied by Earl
Grey and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Tne de-
putation consisted of Lord Monteagle, Hon. F. Scott,
ALP., Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Mr. De Sells, lion. W.
Wrottesley, Mr. Charles Logan, Mr. Donaldson, Mr.
R. Tod, Mr. Henriquez, and Mr. Davidson.
Lord Chichester, Ali. Fearon, and the Attorney-
General, had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of In-
land Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. H. Baillie, M.P.,
had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet
yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Finance Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday at the office
of the Board of Trade. Present—the Earl Gran-
ville, Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr.
T. F. Gibson. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Exe-
cutive Committee, attended.
The Corn Department removed on Tuesday from
the Board of Trade, Whitehall, to the new office in
Old Palace-yard.
A deputation respecting the Liverpool station had
an interview with the Commissioners of Railways
yesterday, at their office in the Board of Trade. Tne
deputation included Mr. Louis (solicitor to the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company), Mr. T.
Grundy (solicitor to the East Lancashire Railway
Company), and Mr. Hetherington.
Mr. Hume, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Mr.
Milner Gibson, and a deputation on the subject of
county rates, hmi an interview yesterday with Lord
John Russell and Sir George Grey.
The Earl of Clrlislo left town yesterday for Leeds.
Mr. Bciekwood had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell.

IMFORTATION OF BRITIsiI COAL INTO PRANCE.—
On Tuesday a meeting of persons intefested in the trade of
Newcastle was held in that town for,
.the purpose of taking
into consideration the oppressive duties levied upon the im-
portation' Of -British France. 'rhe meeting was
addressed
tyMr. Liddelf,'...ilZ, Mr. Bell. 'M.P., Mr. Itutt,-
P.; and ',Oth erg,-arid -ipOtitieti wete adopted ta the :effect
the and'shipping interests 'Of this dist.-ict
are disadvantageonBly. aiVected-by thapresent rates of duty on
coAls imported into France, and the mode in which those du-
ties are—levied, whereby- the intercourse between the two
countries is limited, and the natural.: expausiou of trade ob-.
otrucCed." •

SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY _ EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1850.