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 12 s. vii. JULY 10, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 33 3. London to Portsmouth. Admiralty, Chelsea, Putney, Cabbage Hill, Netley Heath, Hascombe, Blackdown, Beacon Hill, Portsdown, and Portsmouth. Improvements were soon after suggested by various persons, such as John Garnet, Capt. Pasley, R.E., Chevalier Edelcrantz, Major Le Hardy, J. Me Arthur, and Lieut. - Col. J. Macdonald, R.E., F.R.S. The last named published a little ' Treatise ' on the subject in 1808. ENQUIRER is referred also to the ' Naval Chronicle,' vol. i. ; Burney's edition of Falconer's 'Marine Dictionary ' (1815); The Transactions of the Society of Arts, vol. xxv.; Laird Clowes 's ' History of the Royal Navy,' vol. iv. (based on Schomberg), and The Observer, Feb. 23, 1913, where, in an article entitled 'Nelson's Marconi,' fifteen stations on the Portsmouth line are named, viz. : Whitehall, Chelsea, Putney, Kingston, Cooper's Hill, Chateley, Pearly, Bannick, Haste, Holder, Beacon Hill, Compton Down, Portsdown Hill, Southsea Beach, and High Street, Portsmouth. By the end of 1807 five more lines of stations had been con- structed in England and Ireland. There appear to be no maps extant giving the exact position of the stations. EVAN W. H. FYERS, Major. Wellington Club, S.W.I. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN TITLES RELIN- QUISHED (12 S. vi. 248, 340). As BARON traverses my statement, and waxes wrath over it (but too late), I will refer him for its verification to either of the following : Garter King ; the Keeper of the Records ; the report in The Times of a Court function (a Court or ball) during the last years of the late King's reign, in which a list of the peers and peeresses commanded to attend appeared in their order of precedence, and wherein the Baron of Saxe-Coburg and his wife ranked immediately after the viscounts and viscountesses, and immediately before the barons of England and their wives then present ; or, better still, to the Baron him- self, who doubtless retains the warrant referred to, and will hand it down as an heirloom to generations of his family yet unborn. I can write confidently, having at one time seen the warrant, and also a cutting from The Times of the report of the Court function above mentioned, though I forget the date of the latter. The fact of this warrant having occasioned no second Runny - mede, and having, it appeared, been so complacently received by our English barons, was the very reason for my query as to whether there was any precedent for the case. CURIOUS. QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND POPE (12 S. vi. 335). i n ' The False Move ' depicted on the pomatum pot the reference is to the papal brief issued by Pio Nono in 1850 re-estab- lishing in Great Britain a hierarchy of Bishops. There had been in England Vicars Apostolic and Bishops of the Church of Rome ever since the Reformation ; but they had beep appointed as in pariibu? infidelium. In his brief Pio Nono "referred to the Church of England as '.* the Anglican schism," and defied both that Church and the Imperial Parliament to resist or interfere with his decree establishing a British hierarchy. In February 1851, the challenge was taken up by the Prime Minister, Lord John, Russell, who introduced the Ecclesiastical. Titles Bill to prevent the assumption by Roman Catholic prelates of titles taken from places within the L'nited kingdom. The bill received a first reading by 395 votes- to 63, was shorn of the penal clauses in, committee, and the Act was repealed in- 1871. HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith. Your correspondent's description of this coloured lid suggests that it is a satire on the " Papal aggression " of 1850, when the establishment "of a hierarchy of bishops deriving their titles from their own sees " was restored to this country by a Papal Bull. This action was followed by Cardinal Wiseman's pastoral, by the reply of the Bishop of London, and by Lord John Russell's celebrated letter to the Bishop of Durham. Public feeling against the " aggression " ran high, and, in 1851, Parlia- ment passed the Ecclesiastical Titles Act after some exciting debates. But it was repealed in 1871, without having been put into force. Drs. Ullathorne and Briggs were created Roman Catholic Bishops of Birmingham and Beverley respectively during 1850. Drs. Browne and Burgess were elevated to the Papal sees of Clifton and Shrewsbury, in the following year. F. GORDON ROE. Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.I. Possibly this is the incident alluded to.. In November, 1850, Lord John Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham (Maltby), which was called forth by the "papal;