The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-13 00:00:00

THE FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.

The foot and mouth disease has at length disappeared
from the herds of cattle at Hungerford Down, and Hun-
gerford Marsh, Berko, where it has prevailed for the past
four months. The various commoners will now be per-
mitted to remove their cattle to and from their private
premises for the purpose of feeding and milking. Two
fresh cases of this disease have recently been reported as
having broken out at West Woodhay ; and it still exists
on five farms in the parish of Hintbury. The latter parish
has scarcely been free from the disease all through the
season. The disease has appeared on 15 fresh farms within
the Dorchester division, the total number of animals
attacked up,to the time of the last return being 416, in-
cluding 50 sheep and 33 swine.
The foot and mouth disease exists in thirteen petty
sessional divisions in Somerset. In the week ending Bth
October there were 595 new cases, and the total affeoted in
the county numbers, cattle, 3,159 ; sheep, 245 ; pigs, 297.

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, AGRI-
CULTURAL, HALL, ISLINGTON. The number of visi-
tors, exclusive of season ticket holders, exhibitors and
others, on the 12th inst. was 2,528.
WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, 45, GREAT ORMOND-
STREET.—The Principal, the Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A.,
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge, will address
the students this evening at 8.30 p.m. The address will
bo delivered in the new large art room.

TESTIMONIAL TO TETE RESIDENT SURGEON OF
CHRIST'S HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, the boys of this noble
institution presented T. Stone, Esq., F.R.C.S., with a
very handsome suite, consisting of a drawing room clock
and candelabra, in the style of Louis 16th. The articles
were from the establishment of Mr. Benson, Ludgate-
hill, and bore the following inscription : " Presented to
Thomas Stone, Esq., F.R.C.S., by the boys of Christ's
Hospital, grateful for many kindnesses, October, 1870."
THE RIGHT OF BAIL.—Mr. Lewis, jun., made an
application to Mr. Justice Brett, at Chambers, for the
admission to bail of a young man named Atkins, who has
been committed to the Central Criminal Court on a
charge of indecently assaulting several police constables.
He reminded his lordship, who sat for Mr. Justice Lush,
that it was only a question of the amount of bail, inas-
much as his brother judge had decided that, in cases of
misdemeanour, the prisoner was entitled to bail. His
lordship inquired if he was to understand that Mr. Jus-
tice Lush had decided that the accused was entitled to
bail as a matter of right. Mr. Lewis said that was so, and
the question was only one of amount. Under these cir-
cumstances, Mr. Justice Brett decided that two sureties
in £250 each, and the defendant himself in £5OO, would be
sufficient, notice to be given to the Treasury, for whom
Mr. Pollard appeared.
SCULLERS RACE FJR £so.—The last " above
bridge" race for the season. was between Henry Thomas
of Isleworth, and Richard Harding of Poplar, for £5O.
Mr. Wormald, of Bell's Life, was the referee; Henry
Kelley sheaved Harding up, and William Sadler was pilot
for the other. They got away at the same moment, but
Harding catching several crabs allowed the other to take
a commanding lead, so that at Hammersmith-bridge he
was five lengths to the bad ; he never recovered himself,
but was beaten by four lengths—time 25 minutes 30
seconds.

TILE LARGE CITIES OF EUROPE.—The following
is given as the most accurate statement of the fifteen largest
populations of Europe, with the rate of their increase
from 1832 to 1869 :-
1832. 1369. Increase
per cent.
London . 1,624,000 3,214,000 98
Constantinople .. 1.000,000 1,500,000 50
Paris
St. Petersburg 480,000 667,000 37
Naples 358,000 600,000 67
Vienna
Dublin
Moscow 280,000 420,000 50
Berlin 250,000 800,000 220
Lisbon 240,000 340,000 44
Manchester
Amsterdam
Glasgow 202,000 401,000 99
Liverpool ......
Madrid

We hasp reason to believe that the Queen has
given her consent to the marriage of her loyal
Highness the Princess Louise to LorJ Lorne, the
eldest son of the Duke of Argyll. We feel confident
that this announcement will be received by the
country in the same spirit which induced the
royal assent, and that her Majesty's solicitude for the
happiness of her family will be recognised and
appreciated in an event involving such a departure
,from the usages of modern times. The position of
the Princess, removed by many lives from the
Succession, makes it impossible to foresee any of
those difficulties arising from dynastic complications
which have operated as a bar to marriages of a sub-
ject with a member of the reigning family,—Morving
Post.

PROTEST OF THE POPE AGAINST THE
ANNEXATION OF ROME.

The following protest, in Latin, has been addressed b;
the Pope to each Cardinal, and was distributed in the
300 vestries of Rome :
" Pins IX. Pore.

"Beloved Son,—Salutation and Apostolic benediction.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, who humbles and elevates, morti-
fies and vivifies (Ist Kings, chap. ii., verse 6!, scourges
and saves (Tobias, chap. xiii., verse 2), has recently
permitted that this city of Rome, the seat of the Supreme
Pontificate, should fall into hostile hands, as well as the
remaining portion of the Pontifical State which the ene-
mies had for some time considered it expedient not to
usurp. Yielding to the impulse of our fatherly love
towards our beloved sons, the Cardinals of the Holy Roman
Church, and seeing in them co-operators in our Supreme
Apostolate, we have this day resolved, in our mourning
and sorrow, to declare to them, as is required by the duty
of our ministry, and as even the voice of our conscience
urges us to do, the inmost feelings of our soul, which
make us to detest, and publicly and openly to reprobate,
the state of things now existing. We who, although un-
worthy and undeserving, exercise the power of the Vicar
of our Lord Christ on earth, and who are the Pastor over
the whole House of Israel, find ourselves now practically
wanting that freedom which is absolutely indispensable
to us in order to govern the Church of God and to
maintain its rights ; and we feel it is our duty to issue
this protest, which we moreover intend to have pub-
lished, that it may be known, as it is proper that
it should, by the whole Catholic world. And when
we assert that this freedom has been ravished and
taken from us, our adversaries can not reply that this
complaint and this declaration are without founda-
tion. Indeed, any one who possesses good sense will
understand and confess that, having no longer that
supreme and free power in virtue of which we enjoy the
right of our civil Principate in the use of public means of
conveyance and in the public circulation of letters, and,
being unable to trust the Government who has arrogated
this power, we are really deprived of the necessary and
speedy way as well as of the free faculty of treating the
affairs which the Vicar of Jesus Christ and the common
Father of the Faithful, to whom his sons so numerously
come from all parts of the world, must treat and admi-
nister. This observation has again been confirmed by a
fact within the last few days ; persons going out of our
Palace of the Vatican have been searched by soldiers of
the new Government, who wanted to know if they were
not carrying something under their clothes. A complaint
was lodged against this proceeding, and the reply was that
it had been done ,by mistake, and an apology was offered
for it. But who can ignore how easily errors of this kind
may be repeated, and lead to others?
" Moreover, public education in this august city is
threatened with a very serious evil. Before long the aca-
demic year will be opened at the University. This
establishment, which has heretofore enjoyed exemplary
tranquillity and order, although about 1,200 young men
are there assembled, being the sole place where so many
Christian and honest parents can send their children to be
instructed without the risk of being corrupted—this
establishment, either on account of the false and erro-
neous doctrines which are now prevailing, or on account
of the animus of those who have been chosen to pro-
pagate them, must fall, as will be easily understood, into
a state very different from what it was. It was made
known that the laws in operation in Rome should remain
in their integrity and inviolability after the occupation;
but, in spite of such declarations, the parish registers are
taken away by force and examined, and it is uct difficult
to guess that such information is therein searched for as
will doubtless be useful to draw up conscription lists, and
for other ends which are easily imagined. It must be
added that attacks and offences inspired by the desire of
vengeance and by party spirit are left unpunished, and
that a similar impunity is assured to the authors of those
shameful and unworthy outrages with which our faithful
bodies of troops who have so well deserved of society and
religion have been loaded, to the great grief of all honest
people.
" Lastly, ordinances and decrees concerning Church
property have already shown the tendencies of the
usurpers.

" Therefore, against all those things already accom-
plished, as well as against those still worse which are im-
minent, we intend to protest in virtue of our supreme
authority, as we now protest through the present letters,
by means of which we impart to you, beloved son, and
also each of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church,
a brief statement of those particular facts, reserving,
moreover, to ourselves to enter more fully into the matter
elsewhere.

" Meanwhile let us fervently and incessantly pray Al-
mighty God that he will enlighten the minds of our
enemies, in order that they cease loading their souls with
the more and more overwhelming weight of ecclesiastical
censures, and provoking upon themselves the terrible
wrath of the living and all-seeing God, whose arm
none can shun. We, on our part, pray the Divine Ma-
jesty with constancy and humility, imploring also the
intercession of the Immaculate Virgin, and of the brother
Apostles Peter and Paul ; and we do so with the holy
confidence that we shall obtain what we ask, because the
Lord helps those that are in tribulation who invoke Him
in sincerity. Meanwhile praying that our Lord Jeans
Christ may bestow peace and joy on thee, beloved son, we
from the bottom of the heart, give thee the Apostolic
blessing.
" Given at Rome, near St. Peter's, on the 29th of Sep-
tember, the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in the
25th year of our Pontificate.

" Prus, P.P. IX."

GARIBALDI AT TOURS.

The correspondent of the Telegraph, writing from
Tours on the 9th inst., discusses the result of Garibaldi's
presence in France. " What," asks the writer,
will be the effect at this moment of Gari-
baldi's presence? That must depend, I think,
upon circumstances rather beyond the General's
control. That he is the very man wanted at this
moment to achieve a certain object, I hold beyond
doubt. If the French nation really desires, at any
risk or cost, to cut the Prussian lines of communi-
cation, Garibaldi is the man to perform that ser-
vice. Let the command of the Francs-tireurs be
given to him, and the Germans must look sharply
to themselves. But only within the last few days
the Government has almost officially declared
that the system of these free corps is intolerable, and has,
in a manner, incorporated them with the regular army by
a grant of pay and a formal transfer to the constituted
authorities. It is perfectly well known, or entirely
believed at least, that this step is preparatory
to more active measures in the same direc-
tion. The Francs-tireurs themselves are con-
vinced that they are about to be destroyed as
separate bodies, and that all their picturesque finery is to
be confiscated. They do not approve of the prospect. In
the interval, then, comes Garibaldi, the very prince and
tutelary saint of all free-shooters. No wonder that the
Franca-tireurs assemble at the railway, and that those too
late for the first ovation follow him to the Prefecture.
But if the country could not and would not bear
these irregular troops when isolated, is it likely to be
more patient when they shall be formed into a wandering
host under the great guerilla leader—if, indeed, that be
the intention of the Government? I know that the
Francs-tireurs account the formal welcome by M. Cr -
mieux and his colleagues as a tacit revocation of the
measures which they suspected to be forming against their
class. If they be right, the farmers and others, who
thought themselves about to triumph, may not impossibly
be irritated to more vigorous action than before. If they
be wrong, the precipitancy of the official welcome must
be regretted. It will have spread false hopes on one side,
and roused, in any case. a bitter spirit on the part of Legi-
timists and clergy,

WINDSOR GREAT PARK.—Two notices have lately
been issued by the Deputy Ranger, one cautioning the
public of the danger of approaching the red deer during
the present month, and the other stating that the keepers
and police have orders to prevent the acorns and chesnuts
from being carried away, as they are wanted for the deer
during the winter,

The Times is of opinion that Count Bernstorff's reply to
Lord Granville is able, and makes some points which may
have their force as relating to the particular form
which these negotiations took. As things
now stand, however, the question is this
Is Great Britain guilty of wrong because her
Government does not use the powers which it possesses, or
might arrogate, to prohibit in favour of. Germany an ex-
portation which has always been lleld to be legal, which
has been practised by every State, Prussia included, and
is being now organised on the largest scale in America.
The Times has no hesitation in saying that,
however desirable a better internatinoal doctrine
might be, it would not become our Government to
make the change at this time, in the present relations
of France and Prussia, and by recourse to an Act of
Parliament which, beyond a doubt, was passed for an
entirely different purpose. The very fact that the pro-
hibition of the trade must be universal, and apply
to all shipments, whithersoever addressed, shews
hat the Act has no relation to the 'end for
which Count Bemstorff would use it. The ques-
tion for England is whether, taking into consideration
the present crisis of the war, the British Government is
bound to immediate and irregular action. To the
moralist it does, indeed, seem lamentable that for
purposes of gain people among us should be furnish-
ing the means of maintaining a war which is rapidly
acquiring a character of savagery. The statesman and
economist may reflect that, if we sold rifles and
cannon and powder enough to equip half-a-dozen armies,
the gains of the trade would not compensate for the
loss the country in general experiences through a
single week's continuance of the war. Every considera-
tion of honour, morality, and interest equally
urges that the traffic in arms with belligerents should be
controlled or forbidden, and as to the practical difficulties
of the supervision, they are the merest bugbears, which
would disappear before the first honest effort