The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-25 00:00:00

SIR H. BUL WEB'S MISSION TO ROME.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Protestant Association Office, 6, Serjeant's-inn,
Fleet-street, Oct. 22, 1852.
Sir,—Allow me to invite the attention of yourself and
your readers to the enclosed correspondence of the sub-
ject of diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome.
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient
servant, JAMES LORD, Chairman.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby,
My Lord,—You were pleased to favour me with a
prompt reply to my former letter, dated Juno 26, and
to give an unqualified denial to a report to which I had
drawn your attention with reference to the alleged mis-
sion of some diplomatic agent to Rome to treat with
the Pope in certain important subjects then re-
ferred to. Since then a rumour has gone abroad
,ttended with some matters of so circumstantial a
kind as to give a probability to it,:and to have impressed
many with a belief of its truthfulness. The rumour
to which I now refer appeared in substance in the Dioats
and other papers. It is to the effect that Sir Henry
Bulwer had visited Rome, and when there had an inter-
view with Cardinal Antonelli, on which occasion Sir
Henry is represented as having hinted that it would be
advisable for the British Government to accredit to
Rome an agent with a higher title than that of consul :
and that Cardinal Antonelli replied that it would be
time to discuss such a question when a papal nuncio was
admitted to the Court of England.
May I then request of your lordship it formation on
the following points :
1. Whether Sir Henry Bulwer has been accredited
as ambassador or minister to the Court of Rome, or
to act there in any diplomatic relation on behalf of
the British Government ?
2. If any communication, official or otherwise, has
been made by him or others to her Majesty's Govern-
ment of any such interviews as is above referred to ?
Your lordship's exalted position may place you above
noticing mere ordinary rumours, but I trust that in a
question of so much importance, and in which many feel
so strongly, and one thus specially brought under your
notice, a speedy and satifactory reply will be afforded.
I have the honour to remain, my lord, your lordship's
obedient servant, JAMES LORD, Chairman.
Oct 18,1852.

Downing. street, Oct. 20, 1852.
Sir,—l am directed by Lord Derby to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., in which you
request to bo informed whether Sir Henry Bulwer has
beenlaceredited as ambassador or minister to the Court
of Rome, or to act there in any diplomatic relation on
behalf of the British Government ; and also whether any
communication, official or otherwise, has been made by
him or others to her Majesty's Government of any in-
terview with Cardinal Antonelli; and I have, in reply
to your first question, to acquaint you that Sir Henry
Bulwer has not been in any way accredited to the
Court of Rome ; and with respect to your second ques-
tion, that it does not consist with Lord Derby's duty to
answer any inquiries as to private and unofficial com-
munications which rear have passed in conversation be-
tween Sir Henry and Cardinal Antonelli, or any other
person at Romo.—l am, sir, your obedient srvant.
James Lord, Esq. W. P.e TALIBOT.

The League Banquet at Manchester is now drawing
near, and great anxiety is manifested among the corres-
pondents of the council of the League to secure places.
Letters are coming to hand from all parts of the country,
and the applicants include four ensployie of the French
government. The first issue of tickets was on Thurs-
day, end up to noon the next day 700 or 800 bad been
sold, independent of the applications from a distance.
The following additional members of Parliament have
accepted invitations: Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P.,
Lambeth; Mr. Robert Ingham, M.P., South Shields;
Sir George Goodman, M.P., Leeds; Mr. T. Kennedy,
M.P., Louth; Mr. S. M. Peto, M.P., Norwich; Mr. W.
M. Shee, M.P., Kilkenny; Mr. Richard Gardner, M.P.,
Leicester; Mr. M. Sullivan, M.P., Kilkenny; Mr. James
Sadlier, M.P., Tipperary; Mr. W. H. Gore Langton,
M.P., Bristol; Sir John Foster Fitzgerald, M.l'., Clare;
Mr. John Green, M.P., County Kilkenny; Mr. F.
Scully. M.P., County Tipperary; Mr. P. O'Brien, M.P.;
King's County; Mr. John Ball, M.P., County Carlow;
Mr. Richard Swift, M.P., County Sligo; Mr. Thomas
Thornely, M.P., Wolverhampton; Mr. W. M. E. Mil-
ner, M.P., York; Mr. John Brady. M.P., Leitrim; and
Mr. H. Brown, M.P. Tewkesbury.
MODERN CYCLOPEAN WALL.—A recent number of
the Allgemeine Zeitung contains an interesting account of
a visit which the writer had made to inspect the progress
of building a wall in the manner called Cyclopean, at
Duaternbrook, near Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein. He
considers the effect of the work and the style of execu-
tion far superior to any of the numerous remains called
by the same name which he had seen in Italy, and goes
so far as to give it the preference over any other kind of
wall, so far as the plain, vertical surface of the material,
apart from ornamental accessories. is concerned. He
thinks that the polygonal stones, exerting their pressure
in all directions, must insure stronger work than squared
stones, however closely jointed, which only act in the di-
rection of gravity. Indeed, the innumerable many-
sided and multangular stones of all sizes seem run to-
gether into one compact mass, of which neither time
nor age will get the better. Neither mortar nor any
other means of binding the stones together is employed;
but ths greatest care is taken in fitting :the granite
blocks one into the other, the vacant spaces in the wall
as it is carried up being accurately taken off with a lead
tape (bleistange) forced with a hammer into all the angles
of the openings, and then applied to the fiat hewn face of
the block best suited, and next to be brought to its pro-
per shape by the workman. From the workmen, he learned
that the directions given them by the architect were—
" Five-sided and six-sided blocks, seldom four-sided ;
straight lines, obtuse angles, joint upon angle and
angle upon joint; all according to the lead tape,
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pointed out to him, that each stone either pressed or
supported, with every one of its sides, however nume-
rous. He was unable to learn the name of the architect.
Herr Malinke was the name of the builder, who had
said that the cost of the work was less than a squared
stone wall that it was much stronger, so that he should
have used it in several larger buildings if he had been
acquainted with it sooner ; moreover, that this kind of
building was to be preferred, because every stone, large
or small, can be used up in it. Generally, the writer
holds this polygonal or Cyclopean kind of building to he
especially applicable in, first, hydraulic works, as it offers
nowhere a continuous joint to the water ; second, in for-
tifications ; third, for railways in substruction and steep
coverings, and in the cellar story and even in the next
story of large buildings and palaces. In these mortar
would be used, not as 3 means of connecting the stone,
but only as pointing to the joints, so that the immediate
contact of the stone should not be interrupted. In con-
elation, the writer recommends the adoption of this
method of building, according to determined and clearly
defined principles and rules, as altogether practical,
wherever the material for polygonal blocks is found—a
method which is at least to us a new one, and not simply
a more careful execution of the long-uscd rock wells, or
an ornamental imitation of an old style, as in the Wal-
belle, of which practical method, in short, the Cyclopean
wall, near Kiel, is the first example that has been exe-
cuted in Germany.— The Builder.
THE BALLOT.—Mr. Cobden in a letter to the un-
successful liberal candidate for Montgomery remarks—
It is to meet such crying evils that you describe that the
ballot must be adopted. It is not as a cure for bribery,
that I advocate secret voting, so much as a shield against
intimidation and coercion. The remedy for briberyis
the enlarging of the small constituencies, and the ballot.
With 18 millions of people to be repreeented in Perlin-
by 656 members, there ought not to be any small consti-
tuencies.

THE MARIONETTES IN LITERPOOL.—The perform-
ances this week have been slightly varied. Mr. A. Browne
delivers a new introductory address, and then follows the
burlesque of " Bombastus Furioso." Nest, we have a
duet from Norma, the performances of the Ethiopian
melodists, a comic song,
and the splendid spectacle of
" Aladdin." The audiences are numerous, and if wo
may judge by the roars of laughter and thunders of
applause with which the efforts of the puppets are
grev.et., greater favourites never appeared before the
Liverpool public, We are not at all surprised that it
snould be so, for the performancoof the Ethiopians alone
is so natural, and withal so ludicrous, that all classes aro
provoked thereby to, we had almost said, the most out-
r..,geous laughter. The scenery is splendid, every scene
being a perfect picture in itself ; and the action of some of
the figures la graceful, if not always natural. For children,
a vigil to Marionettes will be a great treat; and although
large numbers attend nightly, they are specially pro-
vided for in the morning performances, which take place
every Slturday.—Liverpool Mercury, Oct. 22,
NE.TER DESPAIR.—A couple were married at
K ng's COQ lately, who had "wooed" for 37 para.