The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

that if Harwich had a railway it would supply London
with fish when it could come from no other source.
So powerfully were the advantages of this port felt,
that every fish factor in Billingsgate signed a petition
that Harwich might he connected with the metropolis
by railway, in order, first, that the public tight have
good and nutritious fish ; second, that those engaged in
the North Sea fisheries might not be further injured ;
and third, that this best nursery for seamen might not
be neglected.

A petition for a railway was also signed by every
mercantile firm in . London connected with the
northern trade ; it stated that this port was the best
point of communication with Holland ; that it could
be entered in all weathers and in all tides; that mails
from Harwich would reach Holland by the time mails
from London left the Thames; that lines from Hol-
land and Germany leading to Trieste, an important
road to the Levant, India, and China, were, being
constructed, together with other advantages which we
stay not now to enumerate—we may, however, just
remark, that Lieutenant Waghorn spoke warmly in
favour of this route to Trieste. The report of the Go-
vernment Commissioners was equally conclusive ef the
importance of Harwich, and the desirability of connect-
ing it by railway with the metropolis. In fact, in 1849,
the Government actually invited tenders for conveying
mails from Harwich to the Continent ; the offer of
one party was accepted, but difficulties about the rail-
way defeated the proj-et. and a renewal of the offer
will not be made until the communication is com-
pleted. Regarding passenger traffic, Captain Wash-
ington ascertained that 1,.500 annually left the Thames
for Hamburgh, Rotterdam, and Antwerp ; these, he
contends, instead of suffering " two nights of bugs,
bilge-water, and misery," might on a summer's morn-
ing take the rail at six o'clock, embark at Harwich at
nine, and land at Rotterdam by daylight!
We might thus go on accumulating the evidence
that renders a railway to Harwich a necessary thing,
until we have tired out our readers' patience, and en-
larged this article to inconvenient length. The case
as we have given it must for this week suffice. A
railway to Harwich must be completed, and that
speedily. Undeveloped resources in this district de-
mand it; Government and the country, as a mark of
good faith, demand it; the mail service demands it;
travellers, and importers and exporters of goods, demand
it; the northern fisheries demand it; the whole shipping
interests demand it; excurtionists demand it; and
lastly, an Act of Parliament, capital raised, and solemn
pledges given, all imperiously demand it.—lpswich
Express.

PONTIFICAL NEWS.
(From Punch.)

His Eminence Cardinal Pantaleone, Legate of His
Holiness, has arrived at the Golden-cross, Charing.
cross; and is bearer of a message to the Chief of the
British Government, demanding the usual acknowledg-
ment on the part of the Sovereign of Great Britain, which
has been always and from all time a fief of the Holy See.
In case or obstinate recusancy (which is not appre-
hended) his Eminence is commissioned to proclaim the
Prince of Lucca as Sovereign of these islands, the Prince
being direct and undoubted descendant of those legiti-
mate monarchs of England who were driven by rebellion,
the one to death, and the other to exile, from their neigh-
bouring palace of Whitehall.
The Holy Father has appointed Monsignor Snooks
Lord Chancellor of England, vice Lord Truro, who has
not resigned. But the office of Lord Chancellor was al-
ways held by ecclesiastics in England in the good times
of the Church, and Monsignor Snooks will take his seat
in the Chancellor's Court at the commencement of next
term—Driblet.

His Holiness has conferred upon Monsignor Snuccbi,
the new Lord Chancellor of England, the title of Mar-
quis Saint Bartholomew's of Smithfield.—Diare di Rom.
Lodgings have byen taken in the New-cut, Lambeth,
for his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Vauxhall, until
the (titular) Archbishop of Canterbury has vacated the
Palace, which belongs, of right, to the Primates of
England.

Sumner has been offered the place of parish Ladle,
which it is Lelieved he will accept.
The Right Rev. Dominic Barefoot, Bishop of Pad-
dington, looked over the outside of London-house, in
St. Jamea's-square, yesterday, and thence proceeded by
the omnibus to Fulham, his Lordship's residence, near
London.

Until the Palace at Fulham is ready for his Lord-
ship's accommodation, the reverend prelate has en-
gaged a temporary residence, No. 42, River-lane,
Putney, over ttle muffin-man's, where the faithful who
wish to attend his levees will please to ring the two-pair
bell.

Very few alterations will be requisite in the churches
of the archdeaconay of Pimlico, which will be given
over to the orthodox clergy at the new year. It has
been judged, however, that the ornaments of the church
of St. 13arnabas are fso exceedingly antiquated and
cumbrous a [nature that the ecclesiastical architects of
H. H. are engaged in whitewashing the interior of the
builditg, and simplifying the arrangements, so as to
suit the pte.ent time.

On Wednesday morning. last the statue of Saint Mary-
axe, opposite the Post-t.the. , began winking its left eye
in so convincing a znauner that 33 letter-carriers and
two commercial gentlemen, staying at the Bull and
Mouth, were instantly converted.

Mr. Alun,z Co lone! Sib'harp have signified their
interili,,n to 0, come Capuchin friary, and it it eonfid,utly
reported that the Alemter-s for Aldbury and Oldham ate
in retreat previous to recei.i, g the toneure.
Toe cathedral church vl butut Peter, in Westminster,
will, of course, be restored and resumed by its tightful
protair•tort:t but it 14 not intended to make any tcclesi-
usticat use of the large heatfett building erected on the
site ef the ancient B.stli.o .f Sr. Paul, on Ludgate-hill,
oppoAte to Dakitt's Li a wart house. We understand
Madame Tussaud is in trtuty for it, and will exhibit her
ini enious wax woks; theft', at a price little differing from
the present charges.
The resid,nee of the Pi imate of England will be
opposite the new Cathedral Church of Wit. George's-
in- the- Fields; and the Palace of tieclaru will be prepared
for him.

rttrD Zsibttion
NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
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D. M.

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CULPABLE NI. GLIGENCE OP A POLICEMAN.— Oa
Friday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at the Ge.rge the
Fourth, Margaret-street, Clerkeuwell, on George Tippell,
aged 3', a copper-plate printer, late of 33, Noble-street.
Margaret Tippell, deceased's widow, stated that her husband,
who had been very dispirited, through change of circum-
stances, had repeatedly threatened self-destruction ; and on
one occasion attempted bleeding himself to death, by cutting
his wrists right across and very deeply. On Tuesday
morning she went to market, leaving deceased in bed.
She returned in a short time, and finding the bedroom door
fastened became alarmed, and calling on the police-cou-
stable on duty, desired him to force open the door, which
either through fear, or a dread of exceeding his duty, he
refused doing until he got another constable, although
several persons were present when she asked him
to force the door. A full hour elapsed while he went
in search of another constable and before the door was
opened, when the husband was found hanging dead from
the bed post. Mr. Money, the summoning officer, said the
police officer was a young man who lately joined the force,
which, perhaps, accounted for his hesitation in opening the
door. The widow assured the Court of her confidence that
her husliand's life would have been saved had the door been
opened w lien she requusted it. The police-constable denied
that he refused opening the door. The Coroner, on summing
up, censured the constable's conduct, and expressed a hope
twat it would in future he a catitien to hiss to act with more
promptitude under similar circumstances, as in all probability
deceased's life might have been saved had he in the first
instance forced open deceased's door. The jury, who reite-
rated the coroner's remarks, returned a verdict of " Tempo-
rary Insanity."

TOSSING FOR. A VERDICT.—A report, which has
spread iii the town, tbi t the jury who were locked up at the
Bull tessions. on Monday z ia;lit, in one of the railway cases,
" tossed up" for their verdict, is wholly false and without the
slightest foundation.—Hull Advertiser.
THE DUCHESS OF MONTRENSIER.—TiIe Queen of
Spain has authorised the Duchess to travel for a month out of
the Spanish territory. She will accompany her husband to
visit Queen Marie Amelie, to offer her her consolations on her
recent loss.

We understand that the Rev. G. Mansfield, of
Trinity Church, Trowbridge, has been censured by the Lord
Bishop of the diocese, for refusing, without cause, to adminie.
ter the Holy Communion to a member of the Church.
vizes Gazette.