Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

COL. RATHBORNE AND MR. DISRAELI.

Colonel Rathborne has published a pamphlet,
entitled " Mr. Disrael', Colonel Rathborne, and
the Council of India : a Letter addressed to the
Members of the House of Commons, in explana-
tion of a Petition for Inquiry." A review of this
pamphlet 'by a contemporary has elicited the fol-
lowing explanation from Mr. Disraeli :
" Colonel Rathborne was introduced to me, at his own
request, in the year 1857, previously to my bringing be-
fore the House of Commons the subject of the Indian
revolt. I was then in the daily habit of conferring with
gentlemen connected with India. I never heard until
that time that Colonel Rathbork was a writer in the
Press newspaper. His entire statement, therefore, as to his
solicited labours in that journal from-1853, so far as I am
concerned, and, I have little doubt, the whole of the
Conservative party, is a mere romance. The chief
editor' of the. Press was the late Mr. Coulton, a
distinguished man of letters, and a gentleman, and one
who was never in the habit of mentioning the names
of the contributors to his journal. I endeavoured
to serve Colonel Rathborne in 1858, because I
thought him a man of abilities, knowledge, and
honesty, who had been hardly treated in life, and
who, from his peculiar temper and isolated habits, had
little chance of the adVancement which he merited. I
regretted much at the time that I failed in my cordial
endeavours to aid him._ The Statement. that the omis-
sion of Colonel Rathborne's name in the Indian -
Council was made in reference to Lord Derby, in
opposition to the rest of the Cabinet, and even at
the instigation of his Royal Highness the Prince .
Consort, is one of those extraordinary narratives
which can only be accounted -for by a degree of dis-
eased vanity bordering on aberration of intellect ; and
is as groundlesS as it is absurd. No personhaS everbeen
authorised by me, either directly or indirectly, to hold
the slightest communication with Colonel Rathborne, in
order to obtain the return of any letters which I have
written to him. Thei.c is no letter I have ever written in
the course of my life the return of which I would conde-
scend to solicit. The publication of private letters may
hurt my feelings, but can never impugn my honour.
Colonel Rathborne has, however, himself refuted this
wild declaration ; for 'he confesses that, somewhat in-
credulous of the authority of the unknown envoy, he
deemed it' discreet to address me himself on the matter,
and he recived from my secretary, at my dictation, an
answer of defiance and contempt.
" Colonel Rathborne has, I -am informed, published
this reply of mine in his pamphlet, though it completes
the refutation of his incoherent case. But Colonel
Rathborne is no rogue ; he is only a wrongheaded man,
of ungovernable temper, and vexed by nature with an
infirmity of suspicion touching on insanity; one of those
men who are always playing into the hands of their
enemies by quarrelling with their friends."

ITALY.

THE POPE'S• LETTER TO THE EMPEROR

NAPOLEON.

The Inchpendance Beige publishes a letter ad-
dressed by Pope Pius .to the Emperor Napoleon,
in answer to the advice tendered him by his
Majesty. The following is the substance of the
letter :

• I have received the letter which your Majesty has had
the goodness to write to me, and I reply to it without
evasion, and with an open heart. In commencing, Ido
not hide from myself the difficult position ofyour Majesty;
I see it in all its gravity. Your Majesty could leave this
position by some decisive measuce which perhaps excites
your repugnance, and it is precisely because you find
yourself in this position that you advise me again for
the peace of Europe to cede the insurgent provinces,
while assuring me that the Powers will guarantee to the
Pope those which remain to him. A project of this
nature presents insurmountable difficulties. The diffi-
culties are insurmountable, because I cannot cede that
which does not belong to me, and because I see
but too clearly that the victory which would be
given to the revolutionists of the Legations would serve
as a pretext and encouragement to the native and
foreign revolutionists of the other provinces to play the
same_ game, seeing the success of the first ; and when
I say revolutionists, I speak of the least considerable
and the most audacious part of the populations. The
Powers, you say, will guarantee the test; but in the
grave and extraordinary cases which are to be foreseen,
and considcrin the numerous aids which the inhabitants •
receive from without, will it be possible for the Powers
to use their forces in an efficacious manner ? If that is
not so, your Majesty will be persuaded with me that
the . usurpers of others' goods, and the revolutionists , •
are invincible when they are only met by means of
reasoning. However that may be, lam compelled , .
to declare openly that I cannot cede the Legations
without violating the solemn oaths which bind me,
without producing a disaster and a shock in tle
other provinces, without bringing wrong and shame
upon all Catholics, without weakening the rights, not
only of the Sovereigns of Italy, unjustly despoiled of
their domains, but of the. Sovereigns of the whole Chris-
tian world, who cannot see the destruction of certain
principles with indifference. Your Majesty makes the
reposejof Europe to depend upon the cession by the Pope
of the Legations, which for fifty years have caused so
much embarrassment to the Pontifical Government ; but
as I promised in beginning this letter to speak openly,
let me be permitted to return the argument. Who caa
count the revolutions which have occurred in France
0 ru r
do
ipnegi,
nal
niyetd
before
permit
fe
owrnrn;hecii necessary
is aemryyceooumto t
oing restrainaevnerc eejmme ece
tntthoi
it.
,
during the last sixty-six years ; but at the same time
who will dare say to the great. French nation, that for
lTttihonooei it
et repose
s tell
much,tohfe
truth,
ort fuha
teeEhe.,..Empire ?
_The argument proves ~ ,
this letter was opposed to that with •
twhich.he
It a
iyouan honoured
campaign,
con-
.soling assurance. without causing me any trouble.
However, the letter to,which you allude proposed to me
in:its first part a project as inadmissable as the present I.
and as to _the second part, I believe I have adopted it,
as the documents consigned to the hands of your Ambas-
sador at,Rome will show. -

Certain memoirs, called secret, tell me that the Em—
peror Napoleon I. has left to his family warnings worthy
.of a Christian philosopher, who in adversity found
resources and alleviation in religion alone. It is certain
that we shall all shortly appear before the Supreme
tribunal to render a strict account of all- our deeds,
our words, and our thoughts. Endeavour then to appear
before this great tribunal of God in such a way as to
experience the effects of His pity, and not those of His
justice. I speak thus to you in my character of Father,
which gives me the right to tell the whole truth to my
sons, however elevated their position in the world.'
The letter is dated at the Vatican, Tan. 8, 1860, and is
signed, Pius IX.

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