The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

The Pope and the Italian Government.

The Armonia of Turin announces in the follow-
ing terms an encyclical letter of Pius IX. to the
cardinals, archbishops,
and bishops of Italy
"Our Holy Father, Pius Ix., under date the 10th of
August, has addressed an encyclical letter to the Italian
cardinals, archbishops, and bishops, in which he deplores
the very cruel and sacrilegious war to which the Church is
everywhere subject, but especially in Italy, through the
acts of the Subalpine Government. The Holy Father
regards the triumph of truth and justice as certain ; he
rejoices over the constancy and firmness of the episcopacy,
he renews his former declarations ; he condemns the clerico-
liberal societies; he praises the Italian clergy, who are
strongly attached for the most part to the Holy See, and the
rdigieuse who prefer to suffer hunger rather than leave the
cloister, and the Italian people who succour the Pope by
means of the St. Peter's pence. He recommends them
finally to pray and wait with confidence."
" This is a document," concludes the Armonia,
" worthy of Pius IX., who in his paternal solicitude
points out the evil, suggests the remedy, and pro-
mises recovery in the name of Him who has rendered
curable the nations of the earth."

THE POETRY OF SEA-FISHING.
As DESCRIBED IN A RECENT ESSAY, BY THE
AUTHOR OF " WATER BABIES."

Cliffs over head, ribbed and scarred, four hundred
feet in height, over which peeped many a gallant
deer ! Stacks of rock-island at their feet, as large
as great men-of-war with all sails set, ribboned
with yellow, black, and red, pierced with vast
arches, through which shone the infinite gleam of
the Atlantic ; round the stacks, and in and out of
the arches, mackerel, in tens of thousands, breaking
water an acre at a time with a soft roar, as out of
the water flashed before them millions of shining
splinters—some water-beads sparkling in the SLID,
some " brett"—the herring-fry which they had
chased in shore. In among them the boat slides,
with three lines out, and each taken ere the bait
was two oars' length from the boat; while over-
head and all around was a Babel of wings and
voices, which confused eye and ear alike, of mer and
shearwatcr, blackback and herring-gull, hacklet,
and cormorant—diving, gobbling, screaming, cack-
ling, laughing, fighting—and overhead two or three
stately gannets, too proud to mingle with the com-
mon herd, sailed round a hundred feet in air, in
search of a vacant spot, and then
Fell from the sky, like a god, while the wind rattled
hoarse in their pinions,
and rushed under water, throwing up a perpendi-
cular jet of spray, exactly as does a cannon-ball.
And, over all, nearest the roof of cloudless blue,
sailed out from her eyrie in the white cliff the great
hen peregrine, the queen of all the shore. Slowly
the falcon slides round and round, eyeing the mob
below, till some fat herring-gull, full gorged with
mackerel, flaps lazily away to digest. In a moment
the great falcon's wings are closed over her back.
With one long silent rush she has reached him, and
those terrible hind talons, which can strike the life
out of a mallard's brain, and drop him into the mere
at a single stroke, are fast in the gull's shoulders ;
but not to kill. After a moment's flapping and
screaming, adversity gives him wit and necessity
invention. Down drops a mackerel, shamefully
disgorged, and down after it drops the falcon, and,
catching the fish in mid-air, bears it off in triumph
to the ledge where her young are barking for their
dinner. And so goes on the great hungry world,
as it has gone since the first Lingula or Orthis
gaped in pre-Silurian seas, some 199 millions of
years ago, and us much more as Sir Charles Lyell
has need of—conjugating the primary verb, "To
eat." I eat thee ; he eats me ; they eat him ; other
theys eat them : and so forth, ad infinitum.

DONATION BY THE QUEEN.—At the end of last
month Mrs. Maclaren, wife of a workman at West
Port (says an Edinburgh paper), gave birth to three girls.
The occurrence was made known to Sir Charles Phipps for
representation to the Queen, as it is usual for her Majesty
to give a donation to mothers under such circumstances.
The Queen ordered a Post-6ffice order of £3 to be sent to
Mrs. Maclaren, which has been duly received by her.

A ROYAL LOTTERY.—A lottery has just been
organised at Bucharest by the reigning Princess, the pro-
ceeds of which are to be devoted to the creation of a found-
ling asylum.
THE ENGLISH LEGATION AT TURIN.—The
number of the Independatice Beige, received to-
day, has the following on the subject :—" It appears that it
is intended to make a complete change in the English Le-
gation at Tulin. Sir James Hudson has already resigned
his functions in the hands of the First Secretary, pending
the arrival of Mr. Elliot, a near relative of Lord Russell.
It is rumoured that the present Charge d'Affaires, Mr.
West, is to be replaced by Mr. Russell, nephew of Lord
Russell, lately at Rome, at present on leave in England, and
for some time past attached, for form's sake, to the Turin
Legation. It is maintained, as you know, and with some
appearance of reason, that nepotism has a great deal to say
to the nominations of the British Minister for Foreign
Affairs. Two of the Under Secretaries of Legation at
Turin are also to be changed ; one goes to the United
States, and the other to Pekin I One might really suppose
that Lord Russell had discovered a conspiracy in the heart
of the Legation in question, and that he is resolved to
scatter its elements to the four cirners of the earth. Mr.
Hudson, it is believed, will continuo to live in the North of
Italy, and it is even said that he will pass a good part of
his time at Turin. His presence there might be a little
auburn/341g for hit ElleCeEpor."