The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-19 00:00:00

The Encyclical Letter,

TURIN, Jan. 14.

The Minister of Grace and Justice and of Public
Worship has addressed the following circular con-
cerning the publication of the Pope's Encyclical to
the diocesan bishops of the Italian kingdom_:—

" Turin, Jan. 8, 1865.

" I find it my duty to remind your grace that, by virtue
of Art. 1 of the regulations annexed to the royal decree of
March 5, 1863, No. 1,169, the Pontifical Encyclical, and
the documents by which it is accompanied, must be sub-
mitted to the royal exequatur. No act of publication, or
of external execution of this Encyclical, or of the accom-
panying document, can therefore take place until this pre-
scription has been accomplished. The presentation must
be made directly to this Ministry in the terms of Art. 3 of
the decree above cited.

" The King's Government reserves to itself to declare, in
the decree conceding the royal exequatur, under what
clauses and restrictions the Pontifical Encyclical and the
annexed document can receive publication and execution
within the kingdom, and what portions thereof must be
excluded as contrary to the institutions and laws of the
State.

" I feel convinced that your grace will consider it fitting
yourself to abstain from, and to advise the clergy of your
diocese to avoid, all manifestations in this matter prior to
having received the notification of the royal decree of
exequatur.
"Receive, Monsignore, the assurance of my distinguished
respect.
(Signed) " a VACCA,
"Keeper of the Seals, and 3finister
Secretary of State for the de-
partment of Grace and Justice
and of Public Worship."

The French bishops are following up their attacks
on the Minister of Justice with all episcopal vigour
and determination. It is not at all improbable, says
the Paris correspondent of the Times, that
their letters will produce far more impression on the
people of the provinces than the Encyclical would
have done had they been allowed to publish it.
They strive to attain their object in another way,
for they deliver sermons in their cathedrals render-
ing an account to their flocks of the interdict laid
upon them, of the reasons alleged for that interdict,
and of their correspondence with the Minister, pur-
porting to show their futility, and the real character
of the document incriminated, In fact, they have
in this indirect fashion brought it to the knowledge
of everybody, as much as if they had been at liberty,
to read it in their pulpits, not to speak of the com-
ments and recriminations which it has given rise to.
In his letter to the Minister the ARCHBISHOP or
TOULOUSE says :
"It is greatly to be regretted that it is at the very
moment when the Government is said to contemplate the
extension of public liberties that it imposes restrictions on
the most sacred of all—that of the Catholic Church. By
adopting this line the Government renounces its right of
imposing a moderation of which it no longer sets the ex-
ample. It disseminates among our Catholic populations
alarm which is taken advantage of by public malevolence ;
and it may give rise to real while it only deprecates imagi-
nary danger. In a word, this measure of yours gives satis-
faction only to those who are as much the enemies of the
Emperor as of religion and of order in the country."
The BISHOP OF NEVERS is, in another way, as
emphatic in his protest :
"I am deeply pained to be obliged to tell you (the
Minister) that we are all equally terrified and afflicted. We
have no fears for the Church ; for the Church has the pro-
mise of immortality; but that promise is only for the Church.
Heaven forbid that I should attack, ever so slightly, the
principle of authority which is now but too seriously dis-
turbed ; or offend you who, by your kindness towards my-
self,have every claim on my gratitude. But you cannot but
admit the embarrassment we are in ; we who are the suc-
cessors of the Apostles, and who cannot forget that, as in
circumstances of a similar kind, the Holy Ghost will not
inspire us with any other answer or trace any other rule
of conduct than this,—' It is better to obey God than
man."

The BISHOP OF BEAUVAIS, NOYEU, AND SENLIS has
not only writen to the Minister, but has addressed a
long circular to the clergy of his diocese. "We told
his Excellency," he says,—

" How many things our public law tolerates. It tolerates
the most direct attacks on the existence of God and the
divinity of His Son; It tolerates impiety and materialism ;
and can it not tolerate a teaching whose greatest fault in
the eyes of its adversaries is that it opposes ancient prin-
ciples to modern opinions ? If it be permitted in France
to outrage the Pope and to scoff at the doctrines of which
he is the organ, why should the bishops be prohibited from
laying hi's acts before the faithful with the respect and
affection which are duo to the first :representative of God
upon earth ?"

He recommends the clergy " to adhere in heart
and spirit to the teachings, the decisions, and con-
demnations emanating from:the Holyßoman Church,
the mother and mistress of all Churches," and with
regard to their conduct to be " prudent and circum-
spect in their words, and, without ever yielding
where principle is at stake, not to exasperate by un-
timely diecussion the mistaken and the prejudiced."
He hopes that with time and patience the present
clamour will cease, and that the people will end by
understanding that the Holy Church, the great
civilizer of the world, has never been and never can
be the enemy of true civilisation and of legitimate
progress."

The ARCHBISHOP OF BESANCON is to answer to
the Council' of State for having read, in contempt of
the Ministerial circular, the whole of the Encyclical
in his cathedral. The Archbishop is in virtue of his
rank a Cardinal and Senator, and by the law no
member of either branch of the Legislature can be
proceeded against without the permission of the
Chamber to which he belongs. The question whe-
ther the Council of State is a tribunal, in the proper
sense of the word, and whether the Cardinal could
without infringing on his privilege be made amen-
able to it without the preliminary authorisation was
discussed in the last Cabinet Council in presence of
the Emperor. It was decided that, in the present
instance, authorisation was not necessary, as the
Council of State is not called upon to inflict a ma-
terial penalty, but only to pronounce a censure, and
nothing more. On the other hand, it is stated that
M. Troplong, First President of the Court of Cas-
sation, and President of the Senate, is of opinion that
no proceeding can be taken against any member
of this body without its express permission.

Arrest of the Captain of a Peruvian Ship

of War.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Evening.

The Peruvian screw steam corvette Union, 14
guns, Captain Grau, fitted in the Thames, which
left Greenhithe for this port at 6 a.m. on Friday,
having been detained by heavy weather, did not
arrive until 1 p.m. yesterday. This morning Capt.
Grau proceeded in his boat from the Sound to
Devonport, and paid a complimentary visit to Port
Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle. He left the Ad-
miral's office about noon, and walked across Mount
Wise, towards the Hard. When nearly in sight of
his boat's crew, he was arrested by Mr. Beandon, of
Dartford, superintendent of the Kent county con-
stabulary, who was accompanied by Inspector
Dawe, of the Plymouth force, and was brought in
a cab to the police-station here.

To-morrow he will leave at 8 30 a.m. from Dart-
ford by the train due at 3 p.m. at Paddington.

The arrest was for an alleged breach of the
Foreign Enlistment Act.
Captain Grau said, " Each man understood per-
fectly what he joined for. I did not :press them—
they volunteered to go." He wished to be taken
first to the office of Mr. T. W. Fox, the Peruvian
Vice-Consul.

The Union has on board a redundancy oflofficers
and men for transfer to her consort the corvette
America, overdue at this port from Nantes, where
she has been fitted for sea.
Captain Garcia, of the Peruvian navy, who is
superintending for his Government the construction
in the Thames of an ironcased frigate, is staying
now at Pearse's Royal Hotel here for the pllll3°
of despatching the two corvettes from this port.
He and the other Peruvian
authority
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Captain Grau is arrested on the
rant signed by a Dartford magistrate, which was
obtained by application from the solicitor to
the
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Spanish Consul in London, and they profess not to
understand such a procedure.

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THE BRAZILS.—RIO JANEIRO, Dec. 25.—Para-
guay has declared war upon Brazil, and a decree has been
issued announcing the rupture of the treaty with the latter
State. Saito (State of Buenos Ayres) is in the hands of
the rebels.