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

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1850

We hay. heard from various persons expressions of
dissatisfaction at what they are pleased to term the
milk-and -water tone of the answers which her MA-
J ESTY was yesterday advisel to return to the ad-
dresses of the various civic bodies connected with the
city of London. We confess that we cannot see any
just cause for such dissatisfaction. As we read the
answers we consider that her MansTy has said as
much as the SOVEREIGN of these realms could say on
such an occasion, short of stating the exact nature of

the measures which it is the intention of the Mi-
nisters to propose to Parliament, which (even supposing
the measures should have been already determined on,
a matter which we very much doubt), would have
been a course alike unprecedented and unconstitu-
tional. Neither would it have been seemly had her
MAJESTY on such an occasion adopted anything like
a tone of partisanship, inasmuch as the SOVEREIGN
should always act in a strictly judicial capacity. It
is as complainants that the presenters of these ad-
dresses come before their SOVEREIGN, and their corn.
plaint is as follows :

" That the Bishop of Rome has recently issued a bull,
whereby he not only presumes to partition this country
into pretended dioceses of the Church of Rome, but at
the same time assumes the right of appointing Arch-
bishops and Bishops of such sees, and conferring upon
them territorial titles and ecclesiastical jurisdiction, all
which we deem to be inconsistent with the principles of
our Constitution in Church and State, an invasion of
your Majesty's royal supremacyl an audacious usurpa-
tion of your Majesty's prerogative of alone bestowing
titles of honour, and a grievous insult to this Protestant
nation.

" For remedy whereof we earnestly entreat that your
Majesty will direct such measures to be taken as in
your royal wisdom shall seem expedient, assuring your
. Majesty that you may ever confidently rely on the affec-
tionate and cordial support of a loyal, united, and reli-
gious,people.
6, We further humbly acquaint your Majesty that we
view with feelings of deep anxiety and alarm the intro-
duction, of late years, of many Remish
principles and
practices, and the unauthorised revival of many obsolete
forms of the worship and ministration of our own Re-
formed National Church
,by some clergymenn th;s and
other dioceses, and humbly express our firm conviction
that great encouragement has been thereby given to
that act of usurpation and aggression against which we
now protest, while it is our belief that greater danger to
the Protestant Church is to be apprehended from un-
faithful teaching than from open hostility. '

This is the complaint common to all the addresses ;
and what is her MAJESTY'S reply ?
" You may be assured of my earnest desire, and firm
determination, under God's blet:sing, to maintain unim-
paired the religious liberty which is justly prfz d by the
people of this country, and to up/xld, as its surest safe-
guard, the pure and spiri!ual worship of the Protestant
Faith, which has long been happily established in this land.
" It nil! continue to b:, 25 it has ev,.r Ix en, my earnest
endeavour, in the exerci,,e of the power and tiuthorit)
entrusted to me, as the Supreme Governor (de this TC.IIIII,
to. maintain the independence and uphold the constitutional