The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-22 00:00:00

TOWER.

There were two vacancies in consequence of the
resignation of Mr Lawrence Redhead and Mr H. N.
Nissen, the deputy. The new candidates were
Messrs. Edwin Smith, B. Corcoran, C. Robinson,
J. Forster (of the Railway Tavern, Fenchurch.
street), Henry H. Aste, and C. Heginbotham. Upon
a show of hands the following were returned :
Masers. J. Young, H. Heath, J. S. Banning, J.
North way, B. Corcoran, and C. Heginbottom ; upon
upon which a poll was demanded on behalf of Mr
Edwin Smith and others.

The Papal Government and the Confederate

States.

The Index publishes the subjoined reply of his
Holiness the Pope to the manifesto of the Con-
federate States:--

" Honourable Gentlemen—Mr Soutter has handed
me a letter of Nov.ll, with which, in conformity to
the instructions of your Government, you have sent
me a copy of the manifesto issued by the Congress
of the Confederate States and approved by the most
honourable President, in order that the attention of
the Government of the Holy See, to whom, as well
as to the other Governments, you have addressed
yourselves, might be called to it.
" The sentiments expressed in the manifesto,
tending as they do to the most bloody war which
still rages in your countries, and to the putting an
end to the disasters which accompany it by pro-
ceeding to negotiations for peace, being entirely in
accordance with the disposition and character of
the august head of our Catholic Church, I did not
hesitate a moment in bringing it to the notice of the
Holy Father.

"His Holiness, who has been deeply afflicted by
the accounts of the frightful carnage of this ob-
stinate struggle, has heard with satisfaction the
expression of the same sentiments. Being the Vicar
on earth of that God who is the author of peace, he
yearns to see these wraths appeased and peace re•
stored. In proof of this he wrote to the Archbishops
of New York and New Orleans, as far back as Oct.
18, 1862, inviting them to exert themselves in bring-
ing about this holy object. You may, then, hon.
gentlemen, feel well assured that whenever a fa•
vourable occasion can present itself, his Holiness
will not fail to avail himself of it, to hasten so de.
sirable result, and that all nations may be united in
the bonds of charity.

"In acquainting you with this benignant dia.
position of the Holy Father, I am pleased to declare
myself, with sentiments of the most distinguished
esteem, truly your servant,

" G. Card. ANTONELLI.

"Rome, Dec. 2, 1864.
" Messrs. A. Dudley Mann, J. M. Mason,
and John Slidell, Commissioners of the
Confederate States of America, Paris."

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as bting the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to b 3 obt fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, "Food and its
A.dulteratioas," says —" Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher thin either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined Vb., ;lb., and lib. labelled packets, and sold by
all grocers, confectioners, and chenaifita,—[ADTT.]