The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

Mr Thwaites and the Thames Embankment.

The following is the correspondence between Mr
Ridley and Messrs Waring Brothers, which pre.
ceded:the writing of the letter by the latter gentle.
man to Mr Thwaites, which we published on Mon-
day last :

" 5, Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W.,'
London, Dec. 10, 1864.

"Sir,—We have received from Mr Thwaites,
chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, a
letter (and enclosed with it, copy of one from Mr B a-
zalgette), referring to communications with yourself
in reference to certain evidence of his prejudicial to
you, and requesting to know if ho is at liberty to
ask the engineer, Mr Baz algette, to state publicly
what he before communicated confidentially to Mr
'Thwaites and memLers of his board, as having been
stated by us to Mr Bazalgette.
" We have replied that the staf ement embodied
in the letter of Mr Thwaites and that of Mr B4zal-
gette is not a truthful representation, either in sub-
stance or in spirit, of communications confidentially
made by us, and leaving therefore to Mr Thwaites
the responsibility of acting us he may see fit in
regard to it.
" But we have added the expression of our anxious
wish that, as regards ourselves, the whole truth
should be made known, and have stated that we
should inform you of the inquiry addressed to us,
of our reply, and of our desire to put both the public
and Mr Thwaites in possession of all which passed
in our interview with Mr Bazalgette ; and we have
to inquire, therefore, from you whether, the cum-
munications having been essentially confidential,
ycu are willing that the seal of confidence should
be removed, so that we may proceed in the
manner indicated in our reply to Mr Thwaites.
—We are, sir, your obedient servants,

“ WARIN G BROTHERS.
"S. C. Ridley, Esq., 20 Great George-street.”
" 20, Great George-street, Westminster,
London, Dec, 13, 1864.

" Gentlemen,—ln reply to your letter of the 10th
inst. (received to-day) I have no objection to your
placing Mr Thwaites in possession of all that tran-
spired at the interview with Mr Bdzilgette, and
which you refer to in your letter. lam therefore
willing so far as I an: concerned that as regards
yourselves the seal of confidence should be removed.
—I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,

I. SAM. C. RIDLEY.

"Messrs Waring Brothers.
"It may be necessary to publish this letter and
yours, to which it is a reply."
Then comes the letter to Mr Thwaites already
published.

A Roman Catholic Bishop on the Papacy,

(From the Birmingham Post.)

On Tuesday night the Very Rev. Dr Ullathorne,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, presided at
a reunion of the Roman Catholics of Wolverhamp-
ton, in the Corn Exchange. The meeting was
numerously attended.

Dr ULLA- THORNE spoke at some length in open•
ing the proceedings. He said they were not as-
sembled to make sreeches, but to spend a social
Christmas evening. To him, who had presided
over them as their chief pastor for 16 years, it was
a source of great pleasure to meet the two congre-
gations in Wolverhampton assembled under one
roof. It was a beautiful expression of union be-
tween the people and their pastors. He would
take a retrospect of the history of Catholicism in
Wolverhampton in the peat 16 years. He looked
back to the time when they had their one and
venerable chapel i❑ North-street, which he still re-
joiced to see more vigorous and more beautiful;'
and, he might almost venture to say, better served
than ever. (Applause.) He went back to the time
when they had the one school adjoining the chapel.
In these two institutions he found what was the
whole circle of the material expression of the Ca.
tholic religion and education as it at one time
existed in Wolverhampton. He then turned his
eyes, and he saw St, Patrick's Schools admirably
served and taught by those religious ladies
who had contributed so much to advance
the religious interests of the Catholics of
that town. From the very fact that they
were absent, and were represented that night
only by their spiritual father and prelate, he could
not pass over their devotion to the education, the
religious edification, and to the religious adornment
of the Roman Catholic population of that great
town. He would then pass on to Snowhill, where
he saw the beautiful church of St. Peter and St.
Paul, and the large schools near to it—the memorial
of the zeal, the devotedness, and the charity of the
Rey. Canon Moore. Wherever he turned he saw
that whatever existed in Wolverhampton was in a
most gratifying condition. But a bishop was an
overseer—one whose office it was to look around and
see what was wanted to be done. The very rev.
caairman then drew attention to the necessity that
existed for a third church in Wolverhampton,
erected on the land already purchased as a site in
Stafford.street. He spoke of the constant applica-
tions which the Revds. Messrs Kelly and Duckett
were making to him to send a priest for that part
of the town, and he promised that so soon as the
Catholics of Wolverhampton would themselves
begin to move in the matter in earnest, he would
comply with the request. The promise received the
loud applause of the meeting, which became even
louder when Dr. Uilathorne offered to give 1100
towards the building fund.

Mr KELLY, Mr DUCKETT, and another of the
pastors of Wolverhampton they spoke, and
The Very Reverend CHAIRMAN, in responding
to a vote of thanks which was passed to him amidst
great enthusiasm, referred to similar demonstrations
with which the name of his Holiness Pops Pius IX.
was received, and expressed the very great grati-
fication that such applause afforded to himself.
Perhaps, he said, he felt this the more because of
all the persons then within those walls he probably
knew more of the heart of that man. lie was a
man at whom people at a distance marvelled and
wondered. He was a man of entire benevolence,
but be would apply to him another expression, and
say that he was a naan of supernatural goodwill to
all meh—(loud applause)—a man fail of the spirit
of God—a man whose every hour, he might say
every minute, was spent between God and the sera
vice of the people of God—a man who, when he was
not praying to God for them, was almost always
toiling in solitude, or in council, for the welfare of
the universal Church of God, (Applause.) There
never was a man yet who approached him—and he
had known many from different countries,
occupying the highest positions, and standing
nearest to the throne itself, who ever approached
him without, when he left his presence,
feeling that he had been in the presence
of a being who was not like the rest of men, but a
man whose heart was overflowing with love to all
mankind. (Loud applause.) Such was the man
who, above all other men, was set up as a sign and
a mark for the criticism of others. The Pope was
a man who he firmly believed was raised up by God
especially to carry the Church through one of the
greatest crises it had ever gone through—a crisis
which would be marked in the annals of the Church
as not a period when she was thrown into obscurity ;
not when the Church was coming to an end, was
sinking and sinking; but when it was rising higher
in its splendour,and forcing itself by its own vitality
more and more widely over the surface of the earth,
and more and more deeply into the hearts of the
people—(loud applause)—and yet it was being said
ny her enemies that she was sinking into obscurity,
was dying out, and was like an ostrich desiring to
hide her head in the sand. But let any one go to
Rome and they would find the Pope, and those
about him, solacing themselves in the midst of the
oppressive labours which weighed them down with
the knowledge of the fact that the Church was
becoming more and more widely a blessing to the
universe.

'I he choir then performed a programme of music
with great ability, and a pleasant evening was spent.

LIVERPOOL, Deo. 29.—1 t is rumoured that,
according to advices received here by the Hansa, the
Spanish admiral's ship, off the Chinches Islands, had sunk.
The Peruvian Congress was debating the question of peace
or war,