ENGLISH NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 April 1851, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS.

The " Travancore" which arrived on Monday last, has brought us English news up to the 7th of December. The uninteresting; calm which existed when the "Isabella Hercus" sailed, had changed into a storm of excitement, awakened by the Papal Bull establishing a regular Hierachy in England. This was but to be expected after the public letter of the Prime Minister on the subject. A large meeting has been held in London followed by others in different parts of the country. The following protest by the Bishops and Archbishops of the Church of England has been issued. PROTEST FROM ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS. To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. The humble Address of the Archbishops of the Church of England. May it please your Majesty, We, the archbishops and undersigned bishops of the church of England approach your Majesty, with sentiments of veneration and loyalty at.a, time ' when an unwarrantable insult lias been offered to the church and to your Majesty, to whom appertains the chief government .of all estates ofthis ■ realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil. This, our country, whose chin-ch 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 congratulated on its restoration after an interval of three hundred years to a place among the churches of Christendom. 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; inculcates 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 ecclesiastical •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 atone. 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 cliurch of Rome, by which religious divisions are fostered and the labours of our clergy impeded in their endeavours to diffuse the light of true religion amongst the people committed to their charge. J. B. Cantuar. G. Peterborough. T. Ebor. H. Worcester. C. H. London. J. Lichfield. E. Duneltn. A. T. Chichester. C. R. Winton. T. Eley. R, Bath and Wells. S. Oxen. C. Lincoln. Vowler St.Asaph. J. Bangor. J. P. Manchester. G. Rochester. R. D. Hereford. H. Carlisle. J. Chester. J. H. Gloucester S. Norwich, and Bristol. A. Llaudaff. C. J. Ripon. J. Sodor and Man. E. Salisbury. Mr. Rokbuck has published a letter in opposition to the universal feeling- of the country, but it has met with reprobation by all the leading journals. The only other question which occupied the public mind, was ihe law of patents. A change in the law is contemplated to meet the requirements of the great approaching Exhibition of this year. Mosey Market, London, Friday Evening, Dec. 6. —The news from Berlin of the adverse rote of the Lower Chamber caused the English funds to open this morning sit a decline of an eighth, but there was subsequently a tendency to improvement, which was in some degree aided by a large purchase on account of one of the principal assurance companies. The ii rs t quotation of' Consols for money was 97% to %, and tbey left off at 97% to 97*5-eighths, For the KJiU of January the last juice wasl)7i. Bank Stock closed 212* to 213 ; 'Reduced, 96« to f; Three-ami a-Quart : r per Cents., 38^ to § ; Lonjr Annuities:, 7% ; India Stock, 269 to 271 ; India Bonds 83s. H3y. to Bfe.; and Exchequer bill:-:, 04s. to 675. premium.— Times.

The building for the Exhibition was rapidly approaching completion.

The Board of Trade returns of exports and imports for the month ending sth November, 1850, continue to show an improvement in the trade of the country. The exports are as follows: — 1848 .... -£3,556,884 184.9 .... 4,568,234! 1850 .... 4,751,804 This shows an increase of 183,570/., or 4 per cent, over 1849, and of 1,294,920£., or above 30 per cent., over 1848. For the ten months the returns of exports are equally satisfactory, the amounts being— "1848 . . . £40,091.744 1849 . . . 49,395,(54S ISSO . . . 55,038,206 The increase over 1849 is 5,639,558/., or. 11l percent., and over 1848, 14,936,462/., or 35 per cent. The rate of increase on the present month is not so large as previously, because it is compared with the period at which trade began to revive last year.— Daily News, Dec. 5.

But the news probably by far the most interesting to all our readers at.present will be found in the following account of a meeting* at the rooms of the Canterbury Association, which we have copied from the Morning Chronicle of the sth of December:—