Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

GAZETTE NEWS.

The Rev. Edward Hyndman Beckles to be
ordained Bishop of Sicrra Leone.—Edward St.
John Neale, Esq., now Consul in Bosnia, to be
Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in. China.—
Mr. Herman Stolterfoht to be Consul at Liverpool
for the City of Hamburg.

LONDON, Jan. 6. •
Hughes, the attorney, has been sentenced -to
penal servitude for ten years.

SYMPATHY WITH THE POPE.

DVI3LIN, Friday Evening.
The Dublin Evening oontains the following ad-
dress, which is in course of signature, to Viscount Pal-
merston

TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

My LORD,—We, the undersigned Catholics of Ireland,
deeply attached to the Crown and Constitution of these,
realms, deem it right at this important crisis to express
to your lordship, as the head of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, our opinions respecting the attempts now made to
subvert or weaken the temporal authority of the Pope.
We believe it expedient for the general interests of
Europe that the head of our Church (which comprises
the great majority of the Christian world), shouldby his
position, as an independent sovereign, be free to exercise
his spiritual authonty ever Catholics of all nations, un-
fettered by the dependance on any particular State.
The wisdom of this policy has been ackndwledged by
sovereigns and statesmen of.various creeds.
It has been solemnly sanctioned by treaty, and we de-
precate a departure from it at the present time. Let it
not be supposed that in our desire to preserve to the
Pope his temporal possessions, we are indifferent to the
interests of his people..
We value too highly the blessings of good govern-
ment, not to desire that they should be extensively
enjoyed.
-We feel persuaded that His Holiness has a heart to
carry further the reforms in the States of the Church,
which he had commenced, and it is our earnest wish
that they may be soon completed.
We deplore the causes by which they have hitherto
been impeded, but we deem it unjust to hold the Sove-
reign Pontiff responsible for the mis-government of
which he has been accused.
We appeal with satisfaction to the facts of his holi-
ness on his accession to the papacy, by which he proved
his earnest attachment to the cause of rationality and
improvement, although his efforts were unhappily frus-
trated by the machinations of foreign adventurers, who
worked by terror and intrigue on the feelings of a
volatile population, and employed the reforms already
effected by his holiness as instruments for the subver-
sion of his throne. _ _

In-our anxiety to maintain unimpaired the temporal
authority of the Pope, we advocate opinions in accordance
with the interests of the British empire, which contains
so many millions who .venerate his Holiness as their
spiritual head of the Church, and whose contentment is
not unworthy of the serious attention of the British
statesman. We think it right, therefore, frankly
to declare these our opinions to your lordship,
in the' hope that they .may exercise a just influence on
the policy of her Majesty's Government, and induce
them to promote or .concur in such a settlement of the
affairs of Italy, as, while it provides for the liberties of
the Italian people, will secure the integrity, indepen-
dence, and neutrality of the dominions of the Holy See.