The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

THE PACIFIC.

The Panama Star _Herald of the 9th says :
From Chile we learn that a change in the cabinet
is spoken of in the Ministers of the Interior and
Foreign Relations and Public Instruction. The
financial crisis continues, and business is exceed-
ingly dull ; the agricultural prospects are, however,
better. The Santiago and Valparaiso railroad is I
actively progressing. From Peru the news is un- 1
satisfactory, and matters in the political world
remain very unsettled. At Tacna recently a mob
destroyed several aguadiente distilleries owned by
Frenchmen who were acoused of using guano and
other deleterious substances in the manufacture of
their liquors, which is supposed to have caused the
death of many people. Business is very dull in

Lima.
The following is from our Callao correspondence:
—The continued fears of a revolution induce the
utmost vigilance on the part of Castilla. The police
guard here has been trebled in number, and in Lima
standing patrols are stationed every night with
their arms stacked in the centre of the principal
streets, and in the daytime you there meet with an
armed soldier at every corner. The constant de-
mand hitherto vainly made upon the government
for commercial improvements has at length resulted
in a project for the construction of a dock in the
Bay of Callao for the receiving and discharging of
cargoes: Also another for the building of a floating
dock. Mr. Prentice, the government engineer, will
soon leave for England with letters of credit for
£75,000 sterling, receiving besides his regular pay
three per cent. on the entire cost. The guano agency
is now in the hands of Cisco Valdiviano and Co. for
Belgium, Zaracandagua for Spin and the United
States, Canavero for Holland, Witt and Shut for
Hamburg, Thomas Lachambre for France. Nobody
at present has that for England, thought it is thought
that the Messrs. Gibbs will eventually receive it.
The San Francisco journals are principally occu-
pied with aecounts of the terrible floods which have
recently inundated the interior of the country.
Sacramento has been the greatest sufferer, the river
having risen some 22 feet above low water mark,
and caused great loss both to life and property,
especially in that neighbourhood where the poor
reside. So great has been the devastation that a
proposition was brought forward by the Union to
' repudiate the city debts and devote the amount of

funds in the treasury towards repairing and
strengthening the city against future inundation.
Large sums of money have been contributed to re-
lieve the sufferers. The loss sustained in Sacra-
mento alone is computed at upwards of one million
of dollars, and hundreds of families have been left
entirely destitute.
The whole country between Sacramento and
Feather rivers, nearly up to Cuba city, was under
water. Marysville and other towns have also suf-
fered severely, and the greater portion of the bridges
across the rivers have been carried away. There
is no recollection of so general and serious an inun-
dation since the settlement of the country by
Americans.

DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE BE-
TWEEN FRANCE AND BORE.

The Paris papers of yesterday publish the text of
the two despatches—that of M. Thouvenel of the
11th inst., and that of the Marquis de Lavalette of
the 18th—of which we gave a copious summary in
our ,telegraphic intelligence of yesterday. The
despatch of the, marquis in its complete far' 'ls as
follows :
Rome, Taii.-18,
M. Le Ministre,—l have received the despatch
which your Excellency did me the honoUr to write
under date the 11th of [this month. I obtained on
the morrow the opportunity of discussing, viith the ,
54P.1.44*-peclAary Mate the colitlitions therein
-
Your Excellency framers that, impressed byte'
words that I had been enabled togather-from die_
lips of the Emperor himself, I endeavoured in my
first interview with the Holy Father to make my-
self the accurate and respectful interpreter of the
sentiments of profound interest, the expression of
which I was charged to convey to him. Without
leaving to his Holiness any illusions respecting a
restoration of the past, without forgetting the
exigencies of a present so intimately connected with
our interests, I did not neglect any opportunity of
preparing the Holy Father, in general terms, for
an arrangement which would answer our most sin-
cere wishes, a reconciliation between Rome and
Italy. I found also, in the courteous reception
accorded to me, the right to appeal to the confidence
of his Holiness, and to seek from him the expression
of a hope or a wish, to the realisation of which the
government of the Emperor would be happy to be
abie to contribute.

Your Excellency also knows from my previous
reports that while listening to me with the most
affecting condescension, the Holy Father always
concluded by words whioh scarcely disguised his
refusal—" Let us await events ;" and that the
Cardinal Secretary of State, more explicit in his
expressions, pronounced himself opposed to any
arrangement implying the abandonment of any part
whatever of the lost territories.

I was therefore more afflicted than surprised
when notwithstanding all the considerations I pre-
sented to him, inspired as I was by the views of
your Excellency, the Cardinal Secretary of State
considered himself unable to reply but by the most
unqualified refusal.
" All negociation," said the cardinal, " is impos-
sible between the Holy See and those who have.
despoiled it. It does not depend on the Sovereign
Power, it is not in the power of the Sacred College,
to cede the smallest portion of ecclesiastical terri-
tory.
I replied to his Eminence that I completely set
aside the question of right ; that recalling his pre-
vious statements I did not expect to see him
tamper with principles from which he had declared
himself powerless to depart. My only object was
to lead him into the practical ground of facts, to
offer to the Pontifical Government an opportunity
escanitlff. while reserving its rights, from a situa-
tion as disastrous tor its tuteLccta as it was me-
nacing to the peace of the Christian world. This
object, which I set before the Holy Father, as well
as before his Eminence himself, was above all that
which was pursued by the Emperor ; it was in this
sense that I had received my original instructions;
it was in the same spirit that they had been just
renewed. I had not, I added, received an order to
communicate them textually to the Cardinal Secre-
tary of State, but they were so closely conformable
to the sentiments of which I had so frequently made
myself the exponent, that I considered myself Who-
rised to place them before him. I then read to the
Cardinal the despatch of your Excellency.
" I find in this despatch," replied his Eminence,

"the expression of that affectionate interest which
you have never ceased to show for us. It is not
exactly true, however, that there is disagreement
between the Sovereign Pontiff and Italy. Although
there may be a rupture between the Holy Father
and the Cabinet of Turin he has none but excellent
relations with Italy. An Italian himself, and the
first of Italians, he suffers with her sufferings, and
witnesses with grief the cruel trials which have
troubled the Italian Church. As for making a
pact with the despoilers, we will never do it.
I can only repeat that all negotiation on this
footing is in4ssible. Whatever might be the
reservation with which it was accompanied, With
whatever graces of language it might be surrounded,
from the moment of accepting it we should appear
to consecrate it: The Sovereign Pontiff, before his
elevation, as well as the cardinals since their nomi-
nation, have engaged themselves by oath to cede no
part of the territories of the Church. The Holy
Father, therefore, will make no concession of this
nature, a conclave would not have the right to make
it, a new Pontiff would be unable to make it, his
successors from age to age would be no more free to
make it than himself."
The calm tone of the Cardinal Secretary of State
announced a resolution all the more immovable,
that it showed his thoughts to be running in a
channel which escaped from the dismission. I con-
fined myself to observing to Cardinal Antonelli
that the character of his declaration imposed on me
the duty of asking him if I could regard it, and
transmit it to the Emperor, as the final response of
the Holy See. After a moment of reflection his
Eminence offered to refer it to the Holy Father,
although it was his conviction that this step was
unnecessary. It was a profound sense of duty and
obligation that had dictated to his Holiness the
solemn declarations which, in his encyclicals and
allocutions, he had so frequently made to the entire
Catholic world, The Cardinal, therefore, had no
difficulty in foreseeing a reply, which, at the same
time, he promised to transmit to me on the morrow
either in writing or by the intermediation of one of
his prelates.
I have this morning received from the Cardinal 1
Secretary of State the note, a translation of which
your Excellency will find enclosed. Afterhaving
received the orders of the Holy Father, his Emi-
to retract from
nonce had nothing to add, nothing
his declaration of the preceding evening.
In conclusion, M. le Ministre, your Excellency
will consider this question, the exact terms of which
I reproduce :—" Ought we to nourish the hope
that the Holy See will, taking accomplished
facts into consideration, devote itself to the
study of a combination which would assure to the
Sovereign Pontiff the permanent conditions of dig-
nit, security, and independence necessary to the
y
exercise of his power 9"
regret that I find myself
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(Signed) LAVALETTE.

On Wednesday last died at Southend, Croydon,
Surrey, where he had resided upwards of 60 years, Mr.
Henry Edwards, at the advanced age of 101, leaving a
widow, to whom he had been united 62 years. The de-
ceased retained all his faculties to the last, and on the Mon-
day prior to his death read, as was usual with him, without
the aid of spectacles,