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

"TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" The humble Addreis 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 Mujesty, 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 word 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
Romish 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 usurpations of the Church of
Rome, 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. DUNELM,
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 YOWLER ST. ASAPH,
J. P. MANCHESTER,
R. D. HEREFORD,
J. CHESTER,
S. NORWICH,
A. LLANDAFF, and
J. SODOR and MAN."

SIR B. HALL'S LEI:TER. TO THE ARCH-
BISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

A letter has been addressed to his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury by Sir B. Hall, in which the
Hon. Baronet treats at considerable length of the
causes of the Pope's late usurpation. If Puseyism be
one of the causes, he asks, why have the bishops " been
so careless and so indifferent as regards the welfare
of our Church and the maintenance of Protestantism
as to allow Puseyism 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 distribu-
tion and management of ecclesiastical preferment andl
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 lion. Baronet then contrasts
the incomes of the Frcnoh 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 on 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. B.
Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel
Bouverie, were in attendance on his Royal
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left the
Castle to-day. Highness.

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 Hardiage and Lieut.-
Colonel Hon. C. B. and Mrs. 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" Boildeau.
Valse, " Wild Flowers" ....... „ Jullien.
Grand Selection, "Figaro,' Mozart.
Polka, " The Jetty Treirz" Carl Buller.
Pas Redoubl6, from Jullien's "Exhibition Quadrille."
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended,
and played the following pieces :
Overture, "Die lustigen Weiber von
Windsor" .................... Otto Nicolai.
Quartett in C, No. 9 (dedicated to
Prince Rasoumoffsky)—Andaute
con moto, allegro vivace, andante,
minuetto and trio, allegro molto—
two violins, viola, and violincello
—Messrs. Sainton, Cusins, Hill,
and H. Chipp
Finale, Ist Act " Zauberflote" ... • 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. The de-
putation consisted of Lord Monteagle, Hon. F. Scott,
M.P., Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Mr. De Salis, Hon. W.
Wrottesley, Mr. Charles Logan, Mr. Donaldson, Mr.
R. Tod, Mr. Henriquez, and Mr. Davidson.
Lord Chichester, Air. 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 Dawning-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. The
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. lletherington.
Mr. Hume, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Mr.
Milner Gibson, and a deputation on the subject of
county rates, had an interview yesterday with Lord
John Russell and Sir George Grey.
The Earl of Carlisle left town yesterday for Leeds.
Mr. Brickwood had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell.

IMPORTATION OF BRITISH COAL INTO FRANCE.—
On Tuesday a meeting of persons interested 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 coal. into France. The meeting was
aind.edrdeisssaeddvbanytaAgire.ouLiiicyldell; M.P., Mr. Bell, M.P., Mr. I hitt,
M .P., and others, and t
affectedeolu ti obnyli
thew r were
presentadopted
ratesto otlfideuettlyeocnt
"That the commercial and shipping interests of this .disti-ict
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 expansion of trade ob-
t rueted."