The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-03 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

WHATEVER difference of opinion there may De as
to the merit of Papal pretensions, no one will
doubt that the schemes for giving' effect to those pre-
tensions are in the most competent hands. The Pope
possesses unbounded courage, unflinching persever-
ance, and—what is not less important—entire belief in
the doctrines he would have accepted by the Catholic
Church. The opposition of principalities and powers
in no way influences him. The one loss
which it is well known he would regard
with the utmost dismay—the loss of the French
bayonets at Rome—hefearlessly faces when he thinks
it his duty to do so. During the four months which
have elapsed since the Council was first convened
very little progress has been made. The
time has been spent in speechifying, intriguing, and,
there is no denying, to a great extent in wrangling.
But now that the opposition has become most formid-
able, when such a man as Cardinal Schwartzenberg
writes an anti-infallibilist manifesto, which
is circulated by order of the Emperor Francis
Joseph, when Count Daru, late French Foreign
Minister, sends his second protest to Rome, Piux IX.
prosecutes his designs most actively. The Council
has just held its third public sitting. It got through
more business than on any previous occasion. The
Schema de Fide was passed with acclamation, after
some alterations had been made in it to set the
minds of the Opposition at rest. This
is, undoubtedly, a great triumph. It is true that
the muster of bishops did not represent the
full strength. It is true that the Schema de Fide
is less important than others—the Little Catechism,
and the Schema de .Ecclesia, which is the most
important of all. The Schema de Fide, in short, is
not at all like the last-named hot and strong compo-
sition ; but a comparatively mild series of curses
upon those who doubt the existence of God, divine
revelation, and human reason being depen-
dent on faith. It embodies none of the
great Papal pretensions. Nevertheless, all deduc-
tions being made, its acceptance is a. clear step in
advance, the first that has yet been taken.
Moreover, it is to be followed by other
movements ; and if the latest telegrams
be correct, Infallibility itself is to come on imme-
diately. There can be no doubt that the Vatican is
displaying more activity now than at any time since
last December. One good reason may be given : the
support of the French clergy is more than ever need-
ful to the Emperor, and the Pope may well exact his
quid pro quo.

THE TRAMWAYS BILL.

The Tramways Committee have reported their resom

tions to the House, and also the bill with various amend-
ments. These resolutions ate to the effect that the
cterfernment Bill is to extend to Scotland ; that provi-
sional orders for the construction of tramways are to be
granted by the Board of Trade and confirmed by Parlia-
ment ; that the consent of two-thirds of the municipal cor-
poration of other local authorities is to be required ; that
the Board of Trade may institute a local inquiry; that
the Board of Trade may proceed to grant a provisional
order, notwithstanding the objection of the local authority,•
that the maximum tolls are to be fixed in the provisional
order. There are various other resolutions as to the locus
standi of certain iaarties. and as to the maximum tolls.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, pre-
sident of'the Society of Arts, and the Princess of Wales,
have graciously signified their intention of honouring with
their presence the society's conversazicme to-morrow, at the
South Kensington Museum.
Arthur White, who attempted to assassinate Mr.
Charles Buxton, M.P., on Friday last, was arrested last
night in Paris, at the Maison Dore°. He was armed with a
revolver when arrested.

The Morning Post says a firm in Paternoster-row
offered Mr. Disraeli £16,000 for the copyright of his novel
"Lothair ;" but the work is published solely on account of
the author.

Earl Fortescue will preside, and several members
of Parliament will be present, at a conference on interna-
tional decimal coinage, to be held in the rooms of the Society
of Arts, on Friday, evening.
Thirty guineas premium are being paid to effect
insurance on the ship Catherine Rankin, which left Java for
Amsterdam on the 16th of November last, and by the last
advices had not arrived out.

All danger of a Fenian raid in Canada is over, as
the militia, who were specially called out to guard the fron-
tiers, have been recalled.
The case of the Bank of Bombay against the Bank
of Hindustan has been decided against the defendants, with
costs.

The health of the Archbishop of Canterbury is
said to be thoroughly re-established. He will shortly,
says one contemporary, resume his public duties.
The Treasury, through Mr. Stansfeld, has declined
to forego its claim upon the Norwich Town Council for
the repayment of the cost of the Norwich Election Com-
MISSIGru

the new south-Western branch line into Alder-
shot Camp was opened this morning by Messrs. Williams
and Verrinder on behalf of the company.

A telegram received this morning states that the
Conservatives are still without a candidate for East
Suffolk.

Colonel Akroyd, ii.P., continues to improve, and
there is now no doubt of his recovery from his recent
accident. •

John Whyte, the clerk in the National Bank of
?cotland, at Glasgow, who recently stole £B,OOO in
bank-notes, has been sentenced to five years' penal servi-
tude.

From the 2nd July next a single prepaid letter
from North Germany to the United States will cost three
silbergroschen viol Bremen or Hamburg, and four silber-
groschen itici England.

A pastoral letter has been issued by the Right
Rev. Dr. Grant, Bishop of Southwark, in which, after
requesting the prayers of his flock for those working to
secure Catholic education for Catholic children, and
instruction and means of religious exercise for Catholic
prisoners, he urges them to pray for " those whose duty
it will be to defend our conventual institutions, and to
satisfy our opponents how faithfully and how freely their
inmates have forsaken friends and home, rank and
fortune, for the service of God, and the love of their
neighbours."

DEATH OF FULLER FILCH.—We regret to announce
the decease of this well-known and highly-respected veteran
cricketer, who throughout his long and successful career
enjoyed and most deservedly so the reputation of being one
of the most perfect exponents of the batting art, accom-
plished fieldsmen, and best judges of cricket that ever lived.
Fuller Pilch was born in Norfolk, on the 17th March, 1803,
and died at Canterbury (Kent being his foster county) on
Sunday, the Ist of May, having just completed his 67th
year.

THE CANADIAN DOMINION.--The Canadians are
still on the look-out, but no Fenian as yet has crossed the
border. Kiel's delegates have not been received by the
Canadian Government. Among the demands made by
Kiel is a large tract of land for the French population,
and that the residents, to the number of a thousand, shall
be armed and equipped at the expense of the Canadian
Government to maintain order. A Government paper in
Montreal states that the transfer of the North-West
territory to Canada is complete, and that Great Britain
ensures ueaceful possession.

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HER MAJESTY.

Her Majesty drove out this morning, accompa.
nied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise.

The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended
by Lieut.-Col. Teesdale.
The Princess of Wales, attended by the lion.
Mrs. St'nor, drove out yesterday.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

(REU'ER'S TELEGRAMS.)

FRANC

PARIS, May 3.

The Official Journal of this morning publishes a
despatch from the Marquis de Bannerville at Rome,
dated the 28th ult., in which the French Ambassador
informs the Minister of Foreign Affairs that the
greater number of French bishops still at Rome
have expressed their regrets at being thereby pre-
vented from attending to those duties which the ap-
peal of the Emperor to the nation imposes upon all
Frenchmen. The despatch proceeds : "In their
patriotic anxiety for the greatness and prosperity of our
country, they would have felt happy to assist
Vie Government of the Emperor among the people in
their dioceses, by their authority and by their co-
operation, and also by giving an example of de-
votion.

" Tbey desire at least to give expression to the
sentiments by which on this solemn occasion they are
animated, and they have requested me-to be the in-
terpreter of those feelings and wishes to his Majesty
the Emperor and to the Government.

" I have also, in conformity with the request of
many French bishops, to ask you whether their votes,
and those of such ecclebiastics who are their attend-
ants at Rome, would be received at the French Em-
bassy in that city."
Last night a meeting was held at the Theatre
Folies Bergeres, at which 4,000 persons were pre.-
sent. The thanks of the meeting were unani-
mously voted to M. Cernuschi for having forwarded
another sum of 100,000 francs to the Democratic
Committee to be applied to operations against the
Plebiscite. _

Perfect order prevailed during the proceedings.
Madame Rou=sel was arrested yesterday even-
ing. Ske declared she knew nothing of the
conspiracy against the Emperor's life. A person
resembling Roussel was arrested yesterday at
Arras. Levellle, an accomplice of Roussel, was
also captured. The police have seized a manifesto
signed " Lubez," who is the president of the Inter-
national Association, announcing a Democratic ban-
quet, which would be held in London to-day, in
honour of Tibaldi and Flou'rens.

The Gaulois publishes a report that M. 011ivier
has addres)ed a circular to the public prosecutors
throughout the country, announcing a project of the
Irreconcileables to proclaim a Republic in the towns
where a majority of negative votes should be given
at the Plebiscite, and requesting them to adopt the
necessary precautions against any such attempts.
BOURSE, May 2.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

per Cont.
per Cents...., 74 20

Bank Shares 2825
Ital'an Fives 56 90
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 49
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deforrod

End of month 74 271
'3redit Alobilier 237 50
Transatlantic 200
'redit Foncier 1295
Paris Gas 1672 50
Suez Canal 290 -
RAILWA'

Cash
970
655
1175
6131
1036 f
607 k
55
788 k
390

Orleans
Western
Northern
Strasburg .,
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern.....
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
6aragossa
Roman

ITALY.

FLORENCE, May 3.
The Opinione of to-day says that the report of the

Financial Committee of fourteen announces their
acceptance of the proposition of the Ministry, with
certain modifications, of which the principal are:—
They refuse to increase by 1-10th the Octroi dues in
favour of the Government, and reject the proposed
addition to the existing taxes of 5 per cent. The
Minister had reckoned upon being able to cover
the deficit of 110 millions of lire by economies
to the amount of 25 millions, by an in _
crease of 10 millions in the produce of
the grist tax, and of 75 millions, the
result of the general revision of the taxes. By the
modifications of the Ministerial proposals adopted
by the Commission the Government will obtain 83
millions of lire in the following manner, namely :-
23 millions by the economies to be effected in the
expenditure, and 60 millions by an increase of
revenue.

In order to cover the remaining 27 millions of the
deficit the Commission calculates on the 12i millions
of lire payable by France in 1871 towards the cost
of the Mont Cenis tunnel, and on 14- millions result-
ing from other smaller sources of revenue. The
balance of 13 millions of lire would be obtained by
increasing by 1-10th the income tax, which would
.herefore be raised from 12 per cent. to 13.20 per
cent.

With reference to the immediate requirements of

,e Treasury the Committee approved the Conven-

tion concluded with the National Bank with some
modifications, and accords to the Ministry the autho-
risation to sell Dente to the amount of 80 millions.
FLORENCE, May 2.
In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies,
Count Visconti-Venasta, in reply to an interpella-
tion, confirtne the news of the murder of the
Italian Consul at Buenos Ayres, and stated that
offic'al inquiries had proved that the imputations,
which had been brought against the Consul were
ca'umnies.

The Minister consented to lay before the House
papers referring to the case, and also to the Greek
tragedy at Marathon.
Signor Lanza, in answer to a question, stated that
the brigandage in Calabria was no longer of any
importance. The few bands which still existed in
Sicily numbered only 45 individuals.
Count Arrivabene called the attention of the House
to the allegation made by Mr. Moens, the English
tourist, who fell into the handsof Neapolitan brigands
in the neigfibourhood of the town of Saterno in 1864.
He protested with indignation against Mr. Moen's
allegation that the Italian Government had connived
at the outrage in question.
Signor Lawza replied that Mr. Moen had been
most ungrateful in making such assertions, and
stated that he had been urgently requested at the
time by the British Minister, he .(Signor Lanza)
being at that time Minister of the Interior, to permit
the friends of the two captives, Mr. Moens and Mr.
Murray, to treat with the brigands as to their
ransom. The Government, he added, treated the
matter rather from a humane point of view than from
that of lawful authority.

Signor Chianes laid before the House the report
of the Committee on the financial measures of the

Government.

The House decided to discuss these measures
alter the estimates had been discussed ; at all events

between the 15th and the 20th of the prcsent
month.
Signor Billia withdrew the bills which he lately
laid before the House.
The latter adopted the bill for abolishing the
authorisation of the issue of loans with premiums'