The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-20 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Aug. 19.—The market presents little or
no change either in the amount of business doing or

in prices. Thiees, for the Account, are unvarieil at
66f. 45c. Mobilier have slightly receded, having
been last done at 1,022 f. 50c. Railway Marh:et
firm at yesterday's quotations. The market lost its
firmness towards the close, and left off as follows ;
4t per Cents. 94 60 Italian Loan 6B 15
Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 20
3 per Cents
Do. end_m0nth........66 35 New Mexican 66k

Credit Mobili6r 1917 50
Do. end montli 1017 50
Bank Shares 3375

Credit Foncier
Roman

Russian
Austrian
Spanih Threes 49 25

Ffome Debt
Deferred

RAILWAY 9.

Cash. Account.
Orleans ....... 887 60 .. 892 50
Northern 983 75
Lyons and Mediterranean 93) .. 931 25
Southern 650 .. 645

Wostorn

Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa .. 502 50 .. 505
Ditto to Barcelona

The Roman Catholic Church in the

Midland Counties.

One cf a series of Roman Catholic churnhes re-
cently reared with much pomp and ceremony was
on Thursday last publicly consecrated at Learning.
ton by Dr, Uflathorne.

In the morning high mass was performed by Dr.
Ullathorne, assisted by the Canonical Chapter of
Birmingham, and a large number of dignitaries,
Including Monsignore Manning, protonotary
apostolic of the Papal Court at Rome. The
preacher was the Right Rev. Monsignore
Manning, who selected his text (Donay
version) Ist St. John, 2d Chapter 27th verse :
"But the unction which ye have received abideth
in you, and ye have no need that any man :each
you; but as the same unction teacheth you of all
things, and is true, and is no lie." In the course
of his address he argued that the disquietude that
distracted English Christians with respect to the
inspiration of the Scriptures and other fundamental
principles of religion was attributable to the falsely
called reformation, which destroyed the communion
with the one infallible Church. He affirmed that
the Church of God needed not the reformation of
man, but that it was divinely taught of God,
and that not one particle of human error had
ever been allowed to mingle with the blessed
truths inculcated by the Church. The ex-
pansion of the Catholicism, he melted,
was simply that of the acorn unto the
oak, the result of the battling with the errors
and th© heresies that arose from time to time, Thp
unction given by God himself to His Church was
unceasingly continued, and therefore to its teachings
could the 'faithful alone securely trust. In conclu-

sion, he alluded to the many Legislative restrictions
that had been repealed in England with respect to
Roman Catholicism, and expressed a belief that this
country would once more return to its allegiance to
the Sovereign Pontiff, instancing as a proof of the
progress that the Catholic religion was making that
they were no longer compelled t 9 worship in cata-
combs and secret places, as their forefathers had
done, but were at libeaty to do so in magnificent
temples, such as that in which they were assembled.
A dejeuner was served in the Assembly Rooms,
Regent-street, at 2 o'clock, when more than 300
persons sat down. The chair was taken by Mr J. J.
Bradshaw. When the cloth had been withdrawn,

The CHAIRMAN said that, bearing in mind the
occasion which had brought them together, the
company would recognise the propriety of giving as
the first toast " The Health of Pope Pius IX." (Ap-
plause.) In consequence of the peculiar position of
Continental affairs at the present time, that toast
was taken out of the range of mere formality and
had a degree of political interest imparted to it. A
certain section of politicians were fond of speculating
on the probability of the death of his Holiness lead-
ing to some great change in the Government of Rome
and the Papal States, thinking it would facilitate
the transfer of the holy city to the avaricious grasp
of King Victor Emmanuel. Only a few weeks ago
telegrams repeatedly proclaimed that the Pore was
in art iculo ?WWI'S, and that the conclave of cardinals
nad been summoned to nominate his successor.
Just as frequently those telegrams were contradicted,
and it appeared his Holiness had presided at
the usual ecclesiastical councils, and that
his reception had been of the most en-
thusiastic character. Those present would
agree with him that the wish for his demise
had been " father to the thought," and would re-
joice in the knowledge of the fact that his Holiness
continued to enjoy as good health as could be ex-
pected for anyone at his advanced period of life.
(Applause.) It had been asserted that if the French
troops were withdrawn from Rome his Holiness
would not be able to remain there a day longer, but
he would venture to affirm that if the paid agents
of Victor Emmanuel were withdrawn, and if those
correspondents who earned their bread by writing the
papacy down and stirring up a revolution were ex-
pelled the country, the whole zevolutionary element
would be eradicated, and the position of his Holi-
ness the Pope, would be one of perfect peaco and
unbroken security. There would then be little
chance of the patrimony of St. Peter ever forming
portions of the dominions of the man who had out-
raged Christianity by conferring upon the author of
the infamous Vie de Jesus the orders of St. Maurice
and St. Lazarus. (Hear.) Let them take every oppor-
tunity of publicly recording their steadfastness and
fidelity to his Holiness, not only on account of the
high office he bore here, but for the many virtues
that adorned his personal character, and which even
his bitterest enemies were fain to recognise and
acknowledge. (Applause.) The health of the-Pepe
was drunk, upstanding, with enthusiastic cheers.
In proposing " The Health of the Queen and