Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-27 00:00:00

AN IRISH GUARD FOR THE POPE.'

The DundaTh _Democrat, a furious Ultramontane
-journal, makes (forgetting the, Foreign Enlistment Act)
a ludicrous proposition of raising an army of Irish for
the Pope. It writes :
" Thousands upon thousands of our young men. go
into the English' army, and prove faithful to their
enemy ; and it would be strange, indeed, if we could
not muster 20,000 of them who- would enlist under
the banner of Pius IX., and prove the devoted de-
fenders of their illustrious friend. _With a brave and
chivalrous army -in Rome and the States of the.
Church, who 'would drive away the rabble of Cut-
throats and emancipate the subjects of the Pope-reom
their outrageous tyranny, peace would be restored to
the mind of his holiness and safety to his person ; and
he would be left in. quiet and security to attend to the
duties of his high and holy mission, in directing . the
affairs of the Church, whose.childreg are scattered over
the world.' Money would also lie required, and that
would he forthcoming. The Catholics of Europe and
America would easily contribute £lOO,OOO a year to
sustain the army of Rome. We should say Ireland
tributewould pay a of £lO,OOO a year; England,
£5.000; France, £20,000;. Spain, £10,000; Portugal,
5,000 ; Austria, 40,000 ; Belgium, £5,000 ; Prussia
and other Continental States,.. £lO,OOO ; America,
;£lO,OOO ; Canada, £5,000-; making a grand total of
inv4 ilcoa
rtohoeoofoEcttioierriumaintain
y,tha
efotrrruueffithaaenndirlfarliciiisdterhs
oh
of his ifnafirtdmielyel
enemies. As to Ireland's portion of the tribute,
£lO,OOO, it could,be made up by 200,000 persons paying
.Ise each ; or by 2,400,000 persons paying Id. each;' or
-by -1;000- paiishes-pnythg:-LlOTtlitliT At it
would conic very light if it were sustainedhy all the male
Catholics in the -country over 10 years; of age. This
would be the proper Way to sympathise with his holi-
ness, menaced as he is by the rabble of revolutionists
and anarchists, who threaten to lay their Sufi-
, legions hands on the patriniony of the Holy See. It
is the way in which Pius IX. showed his heartfelt sym-
pathy for Ireland in the day of her affliction,. when
0110 million of human beings were peimitted to die in
the midst of plenty. If the Emperor" of the Pi-emit
heard that Catholic Ircland felt indignant at his inex-
plicable conduct, we may be Certain that a great deal of
good might be effected. Under all the circumstances,
we think the time has come for Ireland to speak out—
for an aggregate meeting to be held in Dublin—the
Most Rey: Dr. Cullen occupYing the :chair—and for
Meetings throughout the provinces; to -sympathise with
his Holiness—to collect funds, and recruit an army for
the defence of his liberty and the stability of his throne."

RACE-HORSES v. Dom.—We understand the follow-
ing.singular and unprecedented match hag been made
between the Duke of Beaufort and Lord Winchelsea, to
come oft' at Newmarket in the Houghton Meeting week
of 1860 :—The Duke is to run five couple- of hounds
against his lordship's three race-horses ever the. Beacon
d'ourse.--Court Joarnal.
NAVAL IMPROVEMENTS.—We understand that the 9th
proximo, on which day his. Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales will have completed his 18th birthday, will be
chosen for the promulgation of the Admiralty conces-
sions to the masters, paymasters, and engineers-of the
navy.— Ufiited, Service Gazette.
Tue AUTHORS OF THE AGE.—On Monday afternoon,
S. Carter Hall, Esq., F.S.A., delivered, at the Royal
Manchester Institution, the first of two lectures "On
the authors of the age" The attendance was larger titan
usual. .Mr. Hall gave brief but graphic sketches of Sir
Walter Scott, Hannah More; Samuel Rogers, Lady
Morgan, Thomas Moore,. Letitia E: Landon, &c., in-
terspersed with remarks relating - to. his Own personal
interviews with them, and which added materially to the
interest of the lectUre.
FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—An explosion occur-
red at Washington Colliery, near • Newcastle-on-Tyne,
on Saturday morning; and four persons, three men and
a boy, lost their,lives by it. It was an explosion of fire
damp, and it is supposed that one of the then had been
wailing with a naked candle, and the foul air coming
in contact with the flame instantaneously ignited. This
is the supposed cause of the accident, but there is only
conlecture for it at 'present. , •
LEATHER LEGGINGS FOR SOLDIERS. Leather
leggings are to become an article of clothing for the
troops.. A circular from the Secretaty of State for War
has been issued to all general officers'. and officers com-
manding corps of infantry to the effect that 'each non-
commissioned after and soldier.of the Foot Guards and
regiments of infantry of the line serving at hone and in
thaColonies is to be supplied with them. His Royal
Highness the General Comnianding4n-Chief desires the
commanding officers may be apprised that the leather
leggings are to ba.worn over the trousers, which. are to
be'pulled up to the top 'of the boot, neatly folded round
the 'leg, The leggings are only to be worn hi muddy
Weather,-. end at guard mounting, When. necessary.
TAE'CZAR AND THE PRINCE °REGENT'oF PRUSSIA.—
A letter from Berlin, dated 22nd of October, says
" The Prince Regent left Berlin: this morning by express
train for Breslau,' accompanied by Prince Frederick
Prince AlbteCht,':(sen,) the Minister ,for
Foreign Affairs, the Minister of -War, and many coun-
cillors of the Foreign Ohice,,nnd various officers of the
Prince. Regent's military staff. The prince goes. as far
'as °Mau to welcome the Emperor of Russia. The
Emperor will not touch the Austrian territory, nor is he
likely to'have an interview with the. Emperor of Austria,
as l!as been reported. The Emperor will. leave Breslau
in the night between Monday and Tuesday.. The Prince
Regent will leave on the-Tuesday morning. • A great
political bearing is generally attributed to. this meeting."
A despatch, dated' the 24th of October, says : The
Emperor of Russia arrived at.Breslau yesterday morning
at half-past nine o'clock, accompanied ny the Grand
Duke of Saxe Weimar and • the Prince of Orange. A
grand reception took place at the railway-station.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING AND HEALTH.—The paper
just submitted to the Academic by M. Pietra Santa on
.the influence of railways•onpublichealth, has attracted
great attention,' and caused the utmost alarm amongst
•travellers in general: M. Pietra Smta declares that
railway travelling irritates. the.nervous system, and by
the repetition of the exciting. 'emotions caused by the
anxiety to get in time, the fear of missing the. train,
• the annoyance of being crushed by the.crowding of the
wagons, and above all the silent and, perpetual dread of
danger which every man retains in his mind in spite of
himself, has been the cause of more frequent development
.6.work of opposition
afforded
-01rudneadcybtyhi‘ain: arniyetroathseia.'nitn6. ourto the time.
g; Tti7
• M.
Fourneux, executed by order of the. "GOVernment in
1848, gave rise to a lively discussion amongst the stati-
cians Of the. Academie. Fourneux dwells p4ticularly
on the "question of security, which he afhrins to be
greater in travelling by railway thanl4ftny other mode
of locomotion, and gives, as flip greatest :proof of his
argument, that in Belgium, daring a space of fourteen
years, .one single life was.lost out of; 8,864,804 travellers,
and one: single- person wounded, out of two millions of
indiViduals hurrying by railway in every direction all
oyerrthe kiug4om.-7.--Latter frans Pork