The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-01 00:00:00

ITALY AND THE POPE.

The Italian Government has addressed the following
circular to its diplomatic agents abroad :—" His Emi-
nence Cardinal Antonelli has applied to several Courts
for information as to whether the Popo would be
free to leave Rome and to go back to it at his own
pleasure. This applicati m of the Cardinal Secretary
of State having been brought to my knowledge by some
members of the Diplomatic Body, I have immediately
answered that Italy naturally wishes His Holiness to re-
main at Rome, for nowhere else would the Pontiff find
himself surrounded •by greater respect and regard, and
nowhere else could he enjoy greater freedom in the dis-
charge of his spiritual functions.
" If, however, other ideas were to prevail in the
Council of the Holy Father, the King's Government
would certainly regret, but it would also respect, the
Pope's determination. Most assuredly the idea of
exercising any influence on the deliberations of his
Holiness has never crossed our minds. Such an
idea would be contrary to all our precedents, and to our
well•known political programme. The Pope can, there-
fore, abide in Rome, orrepair to Castel Oandolfe, to Civita
Vecchia, or elsewhere. He may quit Italy or return. The
only observation I took the liberty to add to my answer was
that if his Holiness made up his mind to leave Rome it would
be desirable that he should do so in a public and free
manner, for, considering the full liberty enjoyed by His
Holiness, there would be no reason why he should expose
himself to the inconvenience and fatigue of a secret jour-
ney. Whatever may be the determination of the Holy
Father, neither the Government nor the people would
ever fail to surround him with all the honours and all the
proofs of respect which are due to him.—Receive, &c.,
" VISCONTI-VENOSTA."

CATIIOLIC EDUCATION.—At the Roman Catholic
churches in &nd around London .on Sunday, a communi-
cation from Archbishop Manning was read, urging Ro-
man Catholics as friends of religious education, to be
active in regard to the approaching elections. It was
announced that a public meeting of Catholics would
soon be held in London in connection with this sub-
ject. Archbishop Manning, who preached at the
morning service at the church in Spanish-place, Man-
chester-square, prefaced his sermon by some observations
on the same topic, and said that it was of vital im-
portance that the ratepayers should vote for the candi-
dates who would shew themselves most likely to endea-
vour to procure religious education for the people. He
also pleaded for increased support to Roman Catholic
schools.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The Will of Field
Marsh al Sir Alexander G. Woodford, G. O. 8., G. C. M. G.,
Colonel Scots, Fusilier Guards, and Governor of Chelsea
Hospital, was proved in London, on the 20th inst., under
214,000 personality. The will of Sir John Thwaites,
late chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, was
proved in London, under 27,000 personality. The will of
William James Clements, Esq., M.P., for Shrewsbury,
was proved in London, under £12,000 personalty. The
will of the Rev. William Pitt Wigram was proved in
London under £40,000 personalty. The will of the Hon.
Augusta Irby was 'moved in London under £3.5,000.
She has left to the Northampton General Infirmary
£5OO, and to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animal £2OO. The will of the into Catherine
Stanley was proved under £25,000, and she has be-
queathed £3,000 to the Church Pastoral Aid Society,
£lOO to the Irish Church Missions, £lOO to the
West Galway Church Building Fund, and £5O to the
Ararnford Hospital at Leamington, all free of duty. The
late Baroness Wenman left the following charitable
bequests, viz., to the Oxford Infirmary, £5OO, and a like
bequest to the Church Building Society ; to the Societies
for promotinc, Christian Knowledge and the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign. parts, each £250 ; the London
Society for Teaching the Blind to Read, and the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-road, each £loo.—lllustrated
London News.
THE Loss OF THE CAMBRIA .—The following
additional description of the body of the woman who came
on shore on the coast of Campbeltown may lead to iden-
tification. Deceased was a very stout woman, with
double chin, small straight nose, and grey hair ; had on
the ring finger of left. hand a gold ring, with red
corneliau swivled stone, fiat d all round outside,
plain inside, also a marriage ring marked 18 carat,
with initials K J., supposed the maker's initials.
A number of barrels of flour, with other parts of the
wreckage of the Cambria, are coining on shore in Gigha
and the Kintyre coast. The lid of a trunk, marked
" Steamship Cambria, Miss O'Neill, Londonderry, Ire-
land ;" also a number of barrels of apples, paraffin oil,
&c., are ashore. A man named Wilson, at Coleraine, has
identified the body of the girl washed ashore as his
daughter, a native of County Fermanagh. No-
thing else has been cast up.—North British .llfait.--A
Belast correspondent telegraphs It now turns
out that Miss Leo Gilmore is the name of the young
woman whose body was washed in at Giant's Causeway.
As no such name name appears in the list of the Cambtia's
passengers as published, it is possible that the name of
' Mr. L. Gilmore, Glasgow,' which does appear amongst
the intermediate passengers' names, should read Miss L.
Gilmore. The father of the deceased has arrived in
Derry, and identified the body of his daughter. She
emigrated to America some years ago and was returning
to recruit her health. No other bodies have been found
'on the Irish coast."'

FERNANDE.
The Bishop of Manchester will no doubt be gratified to
learn that the lessees of London theatres so far reciprocate
his views recently stated with respect to the instructive
features of stage plays, •as to print his opinions
upon the scented programmes of their entertain-
ments. Whether his Lordship's liberal expressions,
would be as fervently uttered after h 3 had seen
Fernande, as they were , with refereice to the
revival of Richard the Third at Manchester, is
problem we dare not venture to decide. We may, 11°W4
ever, ourselves be permitted to say, as critics of OW
in
general, Shakesperian or otherwise, that the performance."
at the St. James's Theatre, are so novel in then-
way and possess so many points in their favour, and are
so likely to interest at least the fashionable portion of the
audience to a large extent, that we feel no hesitation in
declaring, that not only bishops, but all other spectators,
cannot fail to admire Sardou's comedy and PrgiseA
the way In which the various characters l'ry

personified. The story of ^ Fernande is a re-
markably odd one. A young marquis, at the tinle
engaged to be married to a lady slightly older than hi°.
self, visits Paris, and becomes enamoured of a girl wile
eventually turns out to be the daughter of a gambling"
house keeper. His original fiancee, finding the marquis
hates rather more than loves her, and that there is but litt'e
chance of his supposed attachment for her ending haPPill'
decides in a fit of revengeful passion that the Marcia°
shall lead the heroine of the gambling hell, Fernande, to
the altar, without knowing the girl's real history an',
position. The wedding takes place very agreeably, and
later on Clothilde, the rejected one, denounces Fernande,
insinuating far more guilt to the bride's share than
is really traceable to her. The finale, a very
touching one, represents Fernande in the attitude of
suppliant before her husband. She has been, she de'
dares, though a resident in the ways of sinful wen,'
not a sinner, and she has not deceived
Monsieur le Marquis, in order that she 'night
become a marquise. A letter she wrote before her
marriage day, telling her lover of her origin, and which
had been intercepted, cements all the old feelings together
again, and the curtain falls as Clothilde, in shame and
sorrow, flies from the house. The excellence of the
comedy, as a performance, may, perhaps, be esti•
mated, when we say that although no scenery
worth mentioning is shewn throughout the piece to the
audience—the latter never once seemed to miss it. It i 8
true that the costly satin dresses worn by all the ladi°
who appear, and the superior garments of the gentlemen,
make up to a degree for the dazzling effects that
might be expected elsewhere, but magnificent robes and
silk hats and white waistcoats will not secure commends"
tion if the wearers of such costumes are silly and inane
personages, take them at their best. The success of the pie4e
is altogether, we may assert, due to the natural qualifica"
tions of Mrs. Hermann Vezin and Mrs. John Wood, for the
passionate and humorous parts respectively, which they
play. In the first and second acts of " Fernando," 1411;
Vezin's representation of a jealous and a thwarte',
girl is as bold and as splendid a piece (/`
acting as but few women now upon the stage
are able or earnest enough in their profession tie
produce. Mrs. Vezin's delivery is not only exquisite and
masterful, but her ironical smiles, her gestures of collate"
nance when she is learning the most painful truths, her cora'
manding attitudes,and her old feelings of love which canno,t
(spite of all dissembling be hidden in the breast of fit.
hilde, all serve to make her representation of the diear
pointed worldly woman a perfect and wonderful Per;
traiture. Much might be written in favour e'
Mrs. John Woods' delineation of a suspicious
wife. Her irresistible spirit of humour i 5
aptly suited in the character in which she aP‘
pears. Her action and ludicrous exercise of passion ill
pursuit of her husband,when she fancies that there is "a lady
in the case " other than herself, is the one feature of the
play that relieves it of a rather grave tendency. We canro
speak highly of Miss Brough's impersonation of the
heroine, wanting as she is all through in reality and
fervour, nor of Mr. Lin Rayne's performance. which is
especially disheartening at the opening of the comedy'
His taste in dress, moreover, does not exhibit itself so re'
markably as in the case of the other gentlemen on the stage'
his wedding costume is decidedly at variance with the
garb usually worn on the happy occasions of marriaVe*
At the St. James's ladies' cloak-room, as at the Gaiety'
no fees are now exacted. We are glad to have this t°
mention.