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An agrregate meeting of the beneficed clergy of the Metropolis was held on Thursday, at Sion College, to memorialize the Bishop of the diocese on the subject of the appointment of the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Westminster, and the general establishment of the Romish hierarchy in this country. The Reverend H. Roxby, President of Sion College, took the chair. Dr. Wean], in a short speech—dwelling on the danger to the Monarch of England and the liberties of our people from the recent assumption of power by the Bishop of Rome—moved the fol- lowing address to the Bishop of the diocese.

"To the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Bishop of London. "My Lord—We approach your Lordship with sentiments of sincere re- spect and affection.

"Having heard with indignation and concern of the recent aggression of the Bishop of Rome in appointing, by an assumed authority; a Cardinal Arch- bishop of Westminster, and in assigning, under a Papal bull, certain dis- tricts of this country to the spiritual jurisdiction of clergy entitled Bishops of the Romish Church,' we feel it our duty to declare our resolution, with God's help and blessing, to cooperate, as far as we are able, in guarding the rights and privileges of our native Church from the assaults of foreign and usurped dominion.

"We call to mind the fact, that the faith of Christ, in its purity of doc- trine and worship, had been planted and established in the realm of Britain some centuries before the mission from the Roman See, in the time of Pope Gregory, had set foot upon our shores. We know, when the Church of Rome had, by its unscriptural decrees and idolatrous practice; corrupted the primitive faith, with what joy the call to the Reformation was received in this lend, and at how great price our religious freedom was vindicated and recovered by our Protestant forefathers; and we believe and trust that there exists in the laity as well as the clergy of our communion such a hearty de- sire for the maintenance of the Christian truth in all its integrity and purity, as effectually to resist this novel and presumptuous movement ; which ap- pears to us to be nothing less than an affront to the Queen's Majesty, and the lawful prelates, clergy, and people of this Protestant kingdom, and a bold attempt to undermine, and eventually destroy, our constitution in church and state.

" We pray your Lordship will be pleased, under the blessing and guidance of the head of the Church, to offer your powerful aid and counsel in the present conjuncture.

"We cannot conclude this memorial without requesting to offer to your Lordship our best and warmest thanks for the dignified and uncompromising Christian tone of your reply to our brethren at Westminster. "And we ever pray," &o. The motion was seconded by Mr. T. H. Home, and supported by Mr. T. B. Murray : the latter speaker felt it to be a duty of humanity as well as patriotism to be up and stirring, and declared that whatever tolerance they might extend to tenets differing from their own, they would not tolerate this aggression on their Church or this insult put upon their Queen by a misguided man. Dr. Croly deprecated division, but doubted whether the address was not premature, and also whether it was addressed to the proper quarter. He read to the meeting a rough draft of an address to the Queen; and thieklirehed forth in this strenuous style of declamation- ` which the present agitation was brought forward in this co • .4.. • it. It had brought matters to a head, and there 4 aon or discrepancy of opinion respecting the recent 'fibreotk Is It showed that it was impossible to rely upon the

ey could make no compact with Rome. It showed us as a nation, they had regarded us as in a state of dened by the Gospel. As far as they (the clergy ly concerned, their ordination-letters would not be worth a straw It is a foul shailionth:r£ the Pope—that worshiper

of idols—that miserable dependent uponta pea asiand alms of a beggarly natimemthat thdallitepe, a, manias( not jihodld' come and invade these real/I-lanky his`shelials, ford) Men in pick service were menials, and shouldoiay that Reiland hid returned tam eadesiastical order, from which it hadisitlierto beasamanderingin ..en,.ess.vithisaiene frem a man who was him- self &pendent upen the sound oftheF"rmchteteln, wbse'e power was based upon the presence of foreigners in Rothe. Was it thus that the great Church and Wavle of England, ennobled by so many illustrious recollections, powerful by its hold upon the affections of the people, by its management, conduct, and discipline, the gentleness of its administration, and the dignity of its offices—was it this great Church which was to be decked out as a victim for the altar of the Pope—a sacrifice by its own want of caution ? What they required was, not to go to any inferior quarter. He had much respect for the-Bishop, but he advised them to go straightforward- to the-Queen as the- body of the clergy of London, anti at once present their memorial to her Majesty." Mr. R. H. Ruddook held the attack and insult which hall been offered to them to be the result of infatuation— •

It seemed hire an infatuation in a person who had been hurled from his throne by his own subjects, and sought safety in flight, before being rein- stated on that throne, to turn round and parcel out the dominions of the greatest Protestant Power hi Europe. He •believed that suchateps were the signs of desperation. Dr: Worthington suggested that Dr. Croly's address would be worthy of future consideration, as the 'basis of a subsequent memorial. Mr. Harding, Mr. Home, and Dr. Russell advocated the original address. The original address was agreed to, nem. con.

The promoters of the Temperance movement celebrated the progress of their cause by a meeting in Drury Lane Theatre, on Monday evening ; and friendly reporters say, that though admissions were fixed at " some- what like playhouse prices," yet "the pit and galleries were full, and a large number of persons were distributed on the stage and in some of the boxes." Mr. Lawrence Hepworth, M.P. for Derby, presided ; and the, audience were regaled with speeches from Mr. George Cruikshank and the Reverend George Copway, (the Chippewa chief, Kah-ge-gah-Bowh,) and other reverend and lay orators of less note ; and with musical per- formances. At the end of the Indian chief's speech, the eccentric " Chartist poet" Duncan presented to him a bunch of grapes,- and begged • its acceptance instead of his scalp.

It is stated that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests-lave com- pleted the arrangements for carrying into effect the projected Park in Battersea Fields. They have purchased, for the sum of 11,0001., the shooting-grounds and pleasure-gardens of the famed Red House; on • the river-bank ; and "will commence without delay the erection of the iron suspension-bridge which is to cross the Thames immediately below Chel. sea Hospital."

In the Court of Bankruptcy, on Thursday, Captain Samuel Alfred Warner, '- the projector of the "invisible shell" and the " long:range," was brought up by the Governor of Whitecross Prison, for the hearing of his claim to be released. Some creditors opposed his release, unless he would give security that he will not leave the country. The amount of his debts, which have almost wholly arisen out of his inventive proceedings, is 7000/ The reporter of the court gives this narrative from the papers filed in the • case. Captain Warner was employed for several years previously to the close of the war in commanding a vessel which bore despatches to and from the French coast. In this perilous duty 3800 U] seamen were killed,and Captain Warner himself was wounded six times. At the termination of hostilities, the Captain received from the Government for his services 60,000/. The whole of this sum and much more has been spent in the invention of those projectiles which have at least given notoriety to his name. In the year 1830 he was about leaving England for Egypt, for the purpose of taking command of one of Mehemet Ali's vessels : Mr. Lukin of the War Office, solicitous of securing the benefit of his inventions and services to England, mentioned the subject to Sir'Herbert Taylor; and the result was an interview with King William, and the abandonment of the Egyptian adventure. A correspondence took place between him and Sir Richard Keates and Sir Thomas Hardy ; and then followed the report of his Majesty's Commissioners appointed to investigate and examine the inventions and dis- coveries of Captain Warner. He joined the expedition for Oporto ; but his assistance was not required, for Don Miguel's fleet had retired into the Tagus. He, however, returned to this country with an unlimited contract from Don Pedro to fit up a steam-vessel; which he would have done, but that he had received a positive command from the King not to go out again, but to destroy any weapons he had prepared. In the Portuguese expedition he alleges he spent 13,0001., not a penny of which he ever recovered. He claimed from the British Government for the invention of the invisible shell 200,000/. ; for the long-range 200,000/.

Commissioner Evans adjourned the case till Tuesday.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday Henry Denham was tried for feloniously. assaulting Thomas Miller. ThiS iv the man who was arrested on suspicion that he was one of the assailants of Mr. Cureton, and who while m custody on that charge was recognized by Mr. Miller as one of a gang who attacked him some months since in Long Acre. Mr. Miller was returning home at night-; three or four men stopped him, and put an "infernal ma- chine" round his neck, which deprived him of all power; they seem to have been disturbed, and to have run off before they could rifle Mr. Miller's pock ets. On leaving him, they threw him upon the kerb with such violence that one of his teeth was broken and his thin cut. The man who' applied the machine was Denham; Mr. Miller had seen him by the light of aTamp, and he immediately recognized him again when he was in custody : he had not the least doubt of his identity. Mr: Bodkin handed to Mr. Miller a twist- ed flexible stick, loaded heavily at one end with lead, and capable of being bent quite double : the witness had no doubt that it was such an instru- ment that had been put round his neck. The stick, it was afterwards proved, was found at the house of a man who was suspected of being- concerned in the attack on Mr. Cureton. The Jury immediately gave a verdict of "Guilty." The prisoner asserted that at the time alleged he was ill in bed with a fever, and bad his head shaved. The Recorder, Mr. Wortley, ob- served that no attempt had been made to prove the alibi; and he sentenced the prisoner to transportation for twenty years.

Hardy mid Smith, two burglars well known to the Police on the Surrey side of the Thames, were convicted of breaking into a house in Kennington Lane and stealing property.. They were captured by the Police while carry- ing the plunder through the streets. Former convictions for burglary were proved against both. In Hardy's house, in Webber Row, Westminster Road, were found four hundred skeleton keys, " jemmies," lanterns, 'and a quantity of burglar's implements of every description. Sentence, ten years' trans- yo--tation. At thelliddlesex Sessions, on Thiirsday, Hoivard, a dealer in dogs and pigeons, was tried for having unlawfully taken a reward for the restoration of a 'stolen dog. Mr. Mainwaring lost a dog; on a former occasion Howard hadrecovered it for him for 21.;. Mr. Mainwaring applied to him again, and the-dog-fancier asked for 31., and that " no fuss should be made about it." The owner of the dog, spoke to the Police, and paid Howard three marked sovereigns_ ; soon after the prisoner was arrested as he was leading the dog through the street. He was found guilty, fined 201., and is to be imprisoned till the money is paid..

At MaiwlebonePolicte-Offiee„ on Monday, William Dyson and two other men-were brought up charged with .the burglary at Holford House. The two new prisoners were produced, by the Southwark Police. One called him- self James Mahon, the other.Williain Robinson; butthey have assumed other names at divers times: The-robbery was committed early on the morning of Monday the 14th October • -at ten o'clock on the night of the 13th they were seen with Dyson at the George public-house, a notorious haunt of thieves, near the Mint in the Borough; but though they usually frequented that house, they have been absent since the robbery. Thep were arrested at a beer-shop near theKingsland Road. Mahon's left. hand was cut in the palmoind there was a mark of a shot on the right thumb. Henry Locock, cabman number 6417, gave importantevidence. He said—" At about half- ono; or twenty minutes to two, on themorning of this day fortnight, had just put down a job-at the York and Albany Tavern, when the. prisoner Mahon came up to me, and.I asked him if he wanted a cab; to which he replied ' Yes.' He told me that he had been bitten by a dog, and he showed me his hand, which was bleeding very much. I told him there was a pump close by, at which he could wash it ; and while I was speaking to him, an- other man came by bleeding from the head, and without a hat. He got into the cab, and ordered me to drive to the Strand." Mr.-Broughton—" Did he and the other man who went to the pump speak ? " Witness—" They did not, your worship ; and I bad nereason to think that they knew each other. While, going along Albany Street, the man whom I was driving said he felt faint, and asked to side outside. He Alighted, saying that he would walk on; which he did ; and soon :afterwards, hearing another cab behind, he gotin.again, saying, Drive me as quick as you can to Waterloo Bridge.' Hehad no hat on ; and I asked him what had become of his hat; but he made me no answer. I set him down close to the bridge, and demanded 28. 4d. as my fare„ but he gave me only Is. 6d.. I was at that moment hailed by a lady and gentleman, who got into the- cab; and .I at the time objected to take them, not liking to do so untill had foundont where the man whom I had. brought to the bridp. lived, as he was lying down bleeding ; but I. was obliged to carry the fare I have spoken of or run the risk of being sum- moned and fined for refusing to do so." Mr. Broughton—" Did he tell you how it was he had no hat? " Witness—" No, sir ; but on the road to the bridge he expressed a wish to go down to the Strand by some by-street." Mr.: Joseph, a surgeon,. now examined Mahon's hands. Upon the left one there had been a cut, now nearly healed ; and below the right thumb was a blue mark, and an indentation, as if made by a spent shot. Mr..Joseph did not consider that a shot- had entered the flesh. Mahon and Robinson pro- tested their entire innocence. Dyson said.nothing. All were remanded for a week.

On Tuesday, the Police crowned their labours by placing in the dock Sohn Mitchell, the man shot by Mr. Paul, who was hitherto supposed to have died. Mitchell was captured the preceding night, at a house in Little Surrey Street, Blackfriars Road. When plated at the bar,, he was in a weak state, with his arm in a sling ; he was allowed to be seated, and was supplied with water when faint. Mr. Paul described the occurrences on the night of the burglary ; he could not identify the prisoner. The shot-riddled and bloody hat found at Mr. ,Holford's was produced.; and Mr. Broughton: told Mitchell, the gaoler, to see if it.fitted the accused. Mitchell put it upon the prisoner's head, as did also Policeman Lockerby ; when the prisoner said, "It's of no use trying it on any more, for I know it fits me." Locock, the cabman, was examined again. He positively swore without hesitation. that the prisoner is the man he drove to the Strand, who was without a hat and bleeding from the head : but in mine details he slightly varied- from his former account. Mr. Brounliton (to the prisoner)—" Have you anything to ask.of this wit- ness? " Prisoner—" NO ; I don't deny that I am the man„ for I'm guilty : but the cabman has sworn falsely; it was not his cab that I rode in, and I know nothing about him. However, although. he has sworn what is not true, I say that I am guilty." It was proved that Mitchell consorted with Dyson and the other prisoners at the George in the Mint. Policemen described his capture. He was sitting up in bed, and a woman was poulti- cing his wounds. Sergeant Barry said—" At the station-house a doctor was called to look at his wounds, and he received every attention. He" had wounds on the back.part of his head, his ears, and other parts of his person, and he told me some shots-were coming from under his tongue.. He also told me that he had shot, in his fingers." It seems that he was likewise shot through the neck into the tongue, in the loins, and in the legs. Mr. Everest, Superintendent of the Rochester Police, said he had•for a long time known, the prisoner and the others charged• with him ; and he had good rea- son for .believing that the prisoner was connected with a gang who had committed numerous burglaries in the. county of Kent. • Mitchell made no further remarks:- he was remanded till Monday next.. Mr.. Broughton praised the Police for :their tact in apprehending all the.men suspected., At the same office, on Monday, another case of burglary, aggravated by a savage assault on a_P.oliceman, was brought before Mr. Broughton. George Rouse, aged eighteen, was accused of burglary at the Dublin Castle, Park Street, Camden Town,- and of cutting and wounding Policeman Godwin with a knife. Th6 officer's-head and face were plastered and bandaged ; the pri- soner also had the back of his head strapped up. Godwin said, that while on duty . near Chalk Farm early.that mornbgi Rouse passed him ; he did not like his appearance, so he followed him ;, and eventually he took him into custody,. after Rouse had offered to give him "half" if he would let hint go. Godwin continued his narrative as follows. "I laid hold of him by the back of the neck, and led. him along ; and for Iva hundred-yards he walked as quietly as possible. He then said something to me, but I eannot recollect the words he used ; and, at the same moment, he suddenly sprang up, and I was stabbed by him in the face with a sharp instrument. .I still kept hold of him, and we rolled together down an embankment. A souffle then ensued between us, and he cut me in on the ear and the hand. I caught hold of his wrist, and Saw the knife. in his hand, which Was- uP- raised, as if in the act of once more stabbing me, the blow being. about. to be aimed at my head. We continued to scuffie,_and the prisoner got away, from me. I got up as quickly as possible, while the blood was flowing from me in a stream, and I ran after him with my drawn truncheon. When I had got within a few yards of him„the ground being slippery, he fell: I fell too. We both got up, and with my truncheon I gave him several blows, which brought him down. I helloed out, and my:cries brought to my assistance two rail- way policemen, by whom the _prisoner was secured and.tonveyed to the sta- tion,house. I managed to walk there myself in a bleeding and fainting tan.. dition ; and on searching the prisoner, I found in his possession three bags, which I now produce. They contain 191: in shillings, a crown, .14 half- crowns, 128 sixpences, 24 fou nny-pieces, 15 threepennyspieoes, and other monies in copper. In one of his waistcoat-pockets I found tWo fourpenny- pieces, and in his fob a jet necklace."- Rouse told the officer belted received the money as wages, from " Mr. Grimble." A number- of witnesses proved that a robbery had been committed at the Dublin Castle. For three or four. weeks past,. Rouse had frequented the tap-room. He was there on Sunday night. The potman desired him to leave, and thought he had gone : but it seems that he concealed himself in the shop. In the inorniug, the street- door was found to be open. The: door of the bar-parlour had been opened by cutting a hole through it, and about 25/. in eoin had been taken away. Mr. Seaton, the landlord, could swear to one of the hags found on the xi- • soner, but not to the others ; part of the money had been taken from a cup- board, the rest from two tills; the necklace Mr: Seaton knew nothing about. A knife was found under the prisoner, which had slightly cut his thigh. It was a small table-knife, and was identified by Mr. Seaton as hie. The psi soner made an improbable statement in defence, and was remanded.

The robbery of the' owner's in the Strand has taken quite a new aspect. . At Bow Street Police Office, on Saturday, four men and three women were brought up in the custody of the Polices—Shaw, a bootmaker, with his wife; Badcook, a bootanaker ; Gardiner, a well-known burglar, and Mary Ann Chereneau who lives with him ; and Bundler, another burglar, with his wife. Charles Clinton, a lad of seventeen, who -had been errand-boy at Messrs. Williams_ and Clapham's, was also placed at the bar : it was partly from his admissions that the Police had been led to arrest the other persons. When Kelly, the porter, was accused of the robbery on Friday last, Clinton behaved • . in a way that was very suspicious; Inspector Lund looked well after him, and in consequence of some questions the boy made a confession. It was- not very clear ; but it appeared that he arranged to admit Shaw and Bad- cock to the house, and some of the others joined in the robbery. Clinton admitted two men at night dining.Kelly's temporary absence; he hid one under:the counter, and another in a shutter-box behind some mats. He de- clared that Kelly is innocent. The Police forthwith arrested the ioersons now produced iu various localities, and brought them separately before the Magistrate. In the pocket of Buncher's wife was .a duplicate for a gold ring : she tried to conceal a piece of paper ; on one side was an account of a loau, but on the other was a list in pencil of watches, rings, and other-jew- ellery. When Chereneau was about to be searched, she took from her bo- som a bag containing 158/. 108. in gold ; which she declared to be her own —sent to her from her father in America. The Magistrate questioned Clin- ton in the absence of the other prisoners : he said Gardiner and Buncher were the men he had arranged with ; but on the night,of the robbery. Gar- diner brought a man who 13 not in custody. Shaw first brought. Buncher to Clinton ; they met on Hungerford Bridge, and arranged that he should take wax, impressions of keys for them. The prisoners gave indifferent aeceunts, of themselves. Eliza Shaw was liberated ; the others were rouanded. All the persons in custody were reexamined. on Wednesday. Mr. Clapham, one of the partners in the business, gave evidence. The boy Clinton had been recently discharged, .as he had formed bad acquaintances ; but he was taken back on the intercession of his father and of Kelly the porter. Kelly should have seen that all things were secure at night ; ho should have ex- amined the place to see that no one was concealed. If he had neglected this, a man might have been hidden behind a door, on which coats were hung, without Kelly seeing him. The prisoner Kelly hem said he had examined the shop that night. Mr. Clapham said the porter had been in his service since 1844; he always considered him a very steady man. Mrs. Lloyd, Kelly's mother-in-law,, spoke of conversations in the kitchen in the Stand after the robbery : the boy Clinton, when she alluded to the robbery, ex- claimed, "Oh, don't speak so! you make me ill." Clinton had owe kept back 28. belonging to his employers. Kelly expressed a fear that theboy had something to do with the burglary, as he had got into bad company. Kelly had also said something about a parcel and a ring taken by Clinton. • Little, a brass-finisher, who worked with Shaw, deposed that he -heard Badeock tell Mrs. Shaw that "the robbery would come off on Saturday evening," a d that " Charley had taken impressions of the keys." Little said,. as he did not know what robbery or "Charley" this referred to, he did.not give in- formation to the Police. Mr. Gilham appeared for Kelly, and asked that he should be admitted to bail ; urging that the evidence against him was ye weak, and such as might be consistent with his perfect innocence. Arm- some discussion, Mr. Henry said the case against Kelly had certainly greatly altered its complexion ; and he allowed bail. Sureties were immediately produced, and he was liberated. All the other prisoners were remanded ler a week. It would seem that none of the property stolen has been traced.

Mr. Sirrell voluntarily appeared at the Mansionhouse on Thursday, to answer charges of having received stolen plate. The investigation was merely preliminary, to warrant a remand. A silver table-spoon, alleged to have been stolen from the Rainbow Tavern in Fleet Street, and three silver pepper-castors, stolen from Mr. Henry Godden, of Somerfield, near Maid- stone, were found in Mr. Sirrell's stock. Engraved letters had been filed from the spoon ; but with a magnifying-glass Inspector Lund rend the Mint marks of " Rainbow Fleet Street," upon the handle.: Mr. Sirrell was held to bail to appear again. .

At Guildhall Police Office, on Tuesday, there was not a single charge,of disorderly conduct, misdemeanour, or felony, brought before the Alderman. Alderman Sidney remarked upon this unusual fact, and directed that white gloves should be purchased for himself and the Chief Clerk to commemorate the maiden sitting.

Mr. Joseph Harris, an Inspector at the General Post-office,-- has disap- peared in a manner that leads to a suspicion of foul play. He left the Post- office,on Saturday morning at nine o'clock, his duties then ceasing till half- past ten.. He did 'not return, and nothing has been heard of him since, either by the establishment or his distressed family. There.was nothing

amiss to induce him to abscond. . Bills have been issued by the Police, and a reward of 101. is offered for information by which he may be traced. Mr. Harris has often lately expressed a dread of being attacked in the way Mr. Cureton was, in his rooms opposite the Post-office.

At Griffin's Wharf, in Tooley Street, goods are raised or lowered into . barges by means of a large drum wheel, worked by men walking round the inside. On Tuesday afternoon,. sonie casks of cocoa-nut oil were landed, six .. men working the wheel ; when a load had been• railed .% considerable height, . four of the men left the drum too soon; the weight.ran.down with frightful velocity, and the men in the drum were dashed about in every directiou. . Hurley was taken out dead,. and. Callaghan seriously hurt.