The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

The Pope and Cardinal de Bonald.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the follow-
ing:—

" The Moniteur of the 28th of February last
announced that the Ambassador of France at Rome
had expressed to Cardinal Antonelli his painful
astonishment on the occasion of a letter being
addressed by his Eminence Cardinal de Bonald to
the clergy of Lyons, giving an account of an
audience which his Holiness had given to the car-
dinal.

" The Moniteur added that Mgr. Antonelli,'after
having received the orders of the Holy Father upon
the matter, had declared that his Holiness, in the
terms reported textually by the Moniteur of the
28th of February, had energetically blamed the
letter of Cardinal de Bonald, and charged the Sec-
retary of State to express his displeasure to him
therewith; that, in fine, Cardinal Antonelli took
measures to fulfil immediately the orders of the
Holy Father.

" Mgr. de Bonald thought it his duty to address
from Home, under date of the 11th of this month,
to the clergy of his diocese, a letter which has been
printed and distributed in France, and in which he
declares that the Moniteur has been imposed upon
by false intelligence; that the Sovereign Pontiff
had said nothing to him respecting his circular;
that his Secretary of State had said nothing to him
about it . . .; that he had only known of the
displeasure of the Pope from the Moniteur.

" The information from which the article in the
Moniteur has been drawn -,Ap was official. It
establishes the fact that at the date of the 23d
February last M. de Sartiges received from
Cardinal Antonelli the explanations which
were literally reproduced by the Moniteur of
the 28th. Fr4sh information, also official,
states thbt if from causes the; we have not appre-
ciated, the communication from Cardinal Antonelli
to Mgr. de Bonald WAS delayed, the Secretary of
State affirmed nevertheless, 'that he had, on the
9th of March inst., caused to be transmitted to Mgr.
do Lyon, the expression of the blame of his Holi-
ness for his indiscreet publication; that he had
charged Mgr. Bernardi, his Under Secretary of
State, to perform that commission ; that the latter
had sent for M. de Serre, grand vicar, and nephew
of the cardinal, and had requested him to transmit
to Mgr. de Bonald the expressions of blame which
the Holy Father had made use of on the subject
to his Secretary of State.' In fine Mgr. Bernardi
himself confirmed this information.
" This simple expose will suffice to make the
truth fully known."

A GREAT COMET is predicted by Professor New•
anger. He tells us that in 1865 a comet shall come
so close as to endanger this our earth, and. should it not
attach itself to us (as one globule of quicksilver to another),
nor annihilate us, the sight will be most beautiful to behold.
During three nights we shall have nu darkness, but be
bathed in the brilliant light of the blazing train I The
professor was leaving Australia for Bavaria when he made
this prediction, so that we may hear more of this on his
reaching Europe.

VANCOUVER'S ISLAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
—The imports into the part of Victoria in the year
1863 amounted in va'ue to 3,888,812 dole., an increase of
333,335 doll. over 1862. The direct imports from Great
Britain rose from 691,275 dolo. to 1,432,521 dole,. while
those from San Francisco fell irom 2,315,066 dole. to 1,880,117
dole. ; these colonies are thus in course of becoming less de-
pendent upon American supplies of provisions. If nothing
be deducted for re-exports, and the imports be apportioned
among the white population only, it would appear that every
man, woman, and child in these two colonies, on an average.
consumed imported merchandise alai produce in the year to
the value of more than 303 dolt'. The export of gold in
1863 is stated at 2,935,170 dole., an increase of 767,336 dole,
over 1862, and bringing the total ihipamita of biz years
N 0•63 up W 103200) DA dole.