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London, England, 1850-10-28 00:00:00

that if Harwich had a railway it would supply London
%1 I 1 fish whop it could come from no ether source.
is s of this Yore felt,
that every fish factor in Billingsgote signed a petition
that Harwich might be connected with the metropolis
by railway, in order, first, that the public might 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 Waghern spoke warmly in
favour of this route to Trieste. The report of the Go-
vernment Commissioners was equally conclusive of 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 project, and a renewal of the offer
will not be made mail the communication is com-
pleted. Regarding passenger traffic, Captain Wash-
ington ascertained that 1,500 annually left the Thames
for Harnburgb, 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
Express.

PONTIFICAL NEWS.
(From Punch.)
His Eminence Cardinal Pants Leone, 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-'
went 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 of 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 cf Whitehall.
The Holy Father has appointed Monsignor Snooks
Lord Chancellor ot 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
ot the Church, and Monsignor Snooks will take his seat
in the Char.cellor's Court at the commencement of next
term.—Driblet.

His Holiness has conferred upon Monsignor Snucchi,
the new Lord Chancellor of England, the title of Mar-
quis Saint Bartholomew's of Smithfield.—Diaro di Roma.
Lodgings have been taken in the New-cut, Lambeth,
fo: 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.

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

Urnil the Palace at Fulham is ready for his Lord-
ship's accommcdation, the reverend preli.te has en-
gaged a temporary residence, No. 42, River-lane,
Putney, over the mufin•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. Barnabas are of so exceedingly antiquated and
cumbrous a inature that the ecclesiastical architects of
H. 11. are engaged in whitewashing the interior of the
building, and simplifying the arrangements, so as to
suit the present time.

On INTilLesday morning last the statue of Saint Mary-
axe, opposite the Post-office, began winking its left eye
in so convincing a manner that 33 letter-carriers and
two commercial gentlemen, staying at the Bull and
Mouth, were instantly converted.
Mr. Mentz and Colonel Sibthorp have signified their
intention to become Capuchin friars, and it is eonfideutly
reported that the Memhers for Aldbury and Oldham are
in retreat previous to receiving the tonsure.
The cathedral church of Smut Peter, in Westminster,
will, of course, be restored and resumed by its rightful
proprietors; hut it is not intended to make any ecclesi-
astical use of the large heathen building erected on the
site of the ancient Basilica of St. Paul, on Ludgate-hill,
oppo.ite to Dakin'a tea warehouse. We understand
Madame Tussaud is in treaty for it, and will exhibit her
ingenious wax works there at a price little differing from
the present charges.

Tiae residence-of the Primate of England a ill be
opposite the new Cathedral Church of bt. George's-
in- the-Fields; and the Palace of Bedlam will be prepared
for him.

CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE OF A POLlCEMAN.—Yes-
terday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at the George the
Fourth, Margaret-street, Clerkenwell, on George Tippell,
aged 36, 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-con-
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 husband's life would have been saved had the door been
opened when she requested 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
that it would in future be a caution to him 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."

A RASH SIJSPENSION.—Suspension by ether is not
uncommon ; but what will steady going folks say to suspen-
sion by a bell-pull. A rash young currier of tnis city had
" loved" a fair servant maiden, living at Matford-house, the
residence of J. Miltord, Esq., to positive distraction. She
had first reciprocated his ardent affection, but lo I the damsel
becomes inconstant,: and refuses any longer to welcome his
attentions. The 'youth throws himselt into violent " love
fits," determines to " have her in •marriage," and rushes in
despair to the house of her master, but she is cool, moody,
and inexorable. The love-sick swain cannot endure it- he
madly rushes to the door, slips a noose in his scarf, and
actually hangs himself to the bell-pull ! The rashness of the
suicidal act causes the bell of the house to ring. The family
were alarmed, and Mr. Milford came to the door, when to
his great consternation he saw the youth dangling about in
a grotesque and ludicrous manner. He N, as cut down, a
constable sent for, and then taken before two magistrates,
who fined him 6s. 6d. for this exhibition of mad-brained
folly.— Weste) n Times.

THE DUCHESS OF IIONTPENSIEII.—The 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 Acnelie,to offer her her consolations on liar
recent loss.

APPOINTMENTS.—The General Board of Health
have appointed Mr. H. R. Williams, the accountant of the
General Steam Icily ig ati on Company, to be treasurer and ac-
countant under the Metropolitan Interment Act. Mr. Williams
will quit the private for the public service. Mr. H. Sickling
is appointed Master of the Supreme Court at South Australia.
We understand that the Rev. G. Mansfield, of
Trinity Church, Trowbridge, has been censured by the Lord
Bishop of the diocese, kr refusing, without cause, to adminis-
ter the Holy Communion to a member of the Church.—De.
vizcs Gazette.

TOSSING FOR A VERDICT.—A report, which has
spread in the town, that the jury who were locked up at the
Hull ressions, on Monday tight, in one of the railway cases,
" tossed up" for Their verdict, is wholly false and without the
slightest foundation.— Hull Advertiser.

ROYAL COLLEGE, CHELSEA.—The grand military
musical festival, which has already received the patronage of
her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
beit, will be held, by the kind permission of Major-General
Sir Colin Halket, in the gardens of the Royal Hospital, in the
spring of the ensuing year.
Wo understand that on Thursday last, the 17th
inst., Mr. Malcom Maclennan, Inverness, was admitted a
solicitor and procurator before the Sheriff and other courts of
Inverness-shire. Mr. Maclennan has been for several years
assistant to John Mackay, Esq., Procurator-Fiscal for the
county.—lnverness Courier.
PARTRIDGE SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY. Lord
Ossulaton killed with his own gun, over two brace of
pointers, 44 brace of partridges, one snipe, one rabbit, be-
tween the hours of twelve and five o'clock, yesterday week,
on a farm belonging to the Earl of Tankerville, at Dodding.
ton, near Woolen—Kelso Chronicle.
EARLY RISING.--I was always en early riser.
Happy the man who is. Every morning day comes to him
with a virgin's love, full of bloom and purity, and freshful-
ness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of
a happy child. I doubt if any man be called old, "so long
seesontlies asuvnerb.ludsheroePvieir
as he is an early riser and an early walker." And oh 1
youth 1.-- take my word for it—youth in a dressing gown and
Bawd ientg thatov e breakfastryouth
whichat n o
mgthe mountains, and the dew sparkling upon bl •
ghastlyslippers,
blossoming
hedge- rows,—Blackwood.