The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-09 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Jan. 9.

The Press of this morning denies that the Porte
has withdrawn the fifth point of her ultimatum
sent to Greece, and states that Djemil Pasha has on
the contrary been instructed to insist on the whole
ultimatum.

The Tagblatt states that large purchases of arms
have been made in Austria by the Roumanian Go-
vernment.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jan. 8.

The Imparcial of to-day states that at a banquet
held at Seville, at which all the civil authorities
were present, it was resolved to send a telegram to
General Espartero expressing the desire that, what-
ever form of government may be established by the
Cortes, he himself should be proclaimed head of the
State.

A fall has taken place in the Internal Stock,
which is attributed by the Correspondencia to the
rumour of quantities of arms having been sent by
the Carlists into the northern provinces. The same
paper stigmatises these rumours as the manoeuvres
of speculators.

OUTP,TARD BOMBAY MAIL.
GIBRALTAR, Jan. 8.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Bangalore, from Southampton 2d instant, ar-
rived here to-day at 9 a.m., and leaves at noon for
Alexandria.
Experienced bad weather. All well.

BOMBAY MAIL.
SUEZ, Jan. 9.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Columbian, from Bombay 26th December, arrived
at 5.30 p.m. yesterday.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Jan. 8.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the
week's receipts of cotton at American ports amount
to 76,000 bales ; since the Ist of September,
1,140,000 bales. Shipments to England, 30,000 ;
to France, 10,000 ; and the Continent 8,000. The
total exports to date since September are 580,000.
Stock, 300,000. Middling Upland, 11d. cost and
freight per steamer. Market excited.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9.

The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Australasian,
from New York, arrived here at 9 a.m. to-day.
She landed 112 sacks of mails, passengers, &c.,
and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All
well.

ARCIIBISHOP MANNING ON THE
CATHOLIC C.HUI?CII.

The Rev. Dr. Manning, Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop of Westminster, who is at present in Rome,
preached on St. Thomas of Canterbury's Day at
the English College. The correspondent of the
Weekly Register, in his letter this week, gives a
report of the sermon, from which we make some
extracts :

Vespers having been sung his Grace mounted the
steps of the altar, and thence addressed the congre-
gation, taking for his text lat Galatians iv. 26,
" But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is
our mother."

The Archbishop said,--" Two things, my breth-
ren, never die—the loveliness of nature and the
Church of God. Go by the road that winds along
the shore of Thrasymene, and you trace alone in
the pages of history the outlines of the mor-
tal agony of the Roman legions, snared in
that fatal pass, and dying in thousands in the
deadly conflict. Go there now, and where the
battle raged you see nought save corn, and wines,
and olives; where the legions fought and fell the
viuedresser prunes his stock and the peasant drives
his oxen, and only the sunshine of heaven is re-
flected in the silver lake. Not a stain or rift re-
mains on the earth to tell the tale of blood and
strife and mortal anguish. The undying fructivity
of the earth has swept away every trace of the past.
So, of the combats the Church has waged ; no stain,
no mark remains save piety towards her com-
batants and defenders. The cause for which St.
Thomas fought, and the principle for which he
shed his blood, are fresh and undying. He died
fur the liberty of the Church of God, for her pre-
rogatives, and the heart of the Church retains a
vivid remembrance of her faithful soldier. To-day,
my brethren, we are met to honour his feast. Becket's
crown is desolate. There is no festival chant in Can-
terbury, and it i 3 sad to think that in the place
of Lis martyrdom no memory is made of it. But
here afar, in Rome—Rome which he so loved, and
for which he died—amid the glories of the Holy
City, and under the guardianship of the Vicar of
Jesus Christ, we are met to celebrate his memory.
The theme is so wide and so varied a one that I dis-
spair of treating it save in bare outline. Two lines •

of historians record the actions of men—the histo-
rian who writes iji the spirit of the Church, and he
whose hired pen deals with human acts according