The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

BILL.

A report was brought up from the General Pur-
poses Committee, embodying a letter from the soli-
citor to the board, in which it was stated that the
expense of introducing this bill, but which was
afterwards withdrawn by Mr. Tite, M.P., was
£1,650, exclusive of printing, &c.
RATING OF THE METROPOLIS FOR THE EXPENSES
OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
Mr. LEGGE moved, " That this board do now
make an assessment upon the City of London and
the other parts of the metropolis, for the metropolis
main drainage rate for the year ending August 1,
1861, in manner following :-
City of London .. X 16,005 10 0
St. Marylebone .. 12,210 6 0
St. Pancras .. 10,008 0 0
Lambeth .. 6,128 3 9
St. George, Hanover square .. 11,796 4 0
St. Mary, Islington .. 6,857 3 0
St. Leonard, Shoreditch .. 3,322 3 0
Paddington 6,580 5 0
St. Matthew, Bethnal-Green .. 1,629 0 0
St. Mary Newington, Surrey .. 2,375 0 0
Camberwell .. • • .. .. 2,625 0 0
St. Jtimes, Westminster .. 393 15 0
St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell 2,767 3 0
2,9283:000 21
00
CSth.eAlsleaary Abbotts,.. .liensing.• ton 11
St. Luke, Middlesex .. 2,144 11 0
St. George the Martyr,,Soutliwark 1,558 5 0
Bermondsey ~ • . .. 1,645 15 0
St. George-in-the-East ; .. 2,128 8 6
St. Martin-in-the-Fields .. 3,233 17 0
Hamlet of Mile End Town, .. 2,029 17 0
Woolwich . 1,037 10 0
Rotherhithe 800 0 0
St. John, Hampstead .. .. 1,301 19 0
Whitechapel District .. 3,152 4 3
Westminster District .. 3,431 5 0
Greenwich District 2,959 12 6
Wandsworth District .. .. 3,737 14 9
Hackney District .. .. 3,480 10 0
St. Giles District .. 3,271 4 0
Holborn District .. .. 2,145 10 9
Strand District .. 3,354 7' 0
Fulham District .. .. 1,671 10 0
Limehouse District .. .. 2,235 12 3
Poplar District .. 3,406 6 0
St. Saviour's District .. .-. 2,012 10 0
Plumstcad District 1,311 12 6
Lewisham District .. 1.726 5 0
St. Olave District .. 1,209 6 6
The Charter Houle 21 7 0
Gray's-inn .• •• •• 158 9 0
The Close of the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter • •
Inner Temple ..
Middle Temple ..
Lincoln's-inn
Staple-inn
Furnival's-inn

17 15 0
252 9 6
162 10 0
205 5 0
26 18
39 11 0

The motion having been seconded, Mr. Leslie objected
to the basis upon which this rating was founded, contend-
ing that (£1,284,000 was altogether an insufficient annual
valuation of the property of the City of London.
After a short discussion, the motion was put and agreed
to by a large majority.
Mr. LEGGE then moved the following resolution :
" That precepts do issue in accordance with the act of the
19th year of Queen Victoria for the better local manage-
ment of the metropolis, and the other acts for amending
the same, and that the other proceedings prescribed by the
said acts be taken for obtaining payment of the sums so
assessed, and that the precepts be sealed with the comm n
seal of the board. That the several parties to whom the
said precepts shall be directed be required to pay the sum
or sums therein mentioned into the Bank of England, on or
before the 25th day of March, 1861, to the credit of an ac-
count in the books of the governor and company of the said
bank, in the names of John Thwaites, Eq., chairman of
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and George Alexander
Hamilten, Esq., assistant secretary of the Treasury, the
same being persons duly qualified by the commissioners of
her Majesty's Treasury in this behalf."
This motion was also put and carried, and immediately
afterwards the precepts were sealed, and will be issued
forthwith.

The rest of the business was quite of a formal character,
which having been disposed of, the board adjourned.

ANOTHER PROTEST FROM THE POPE.

Another protest from the Pope ! These shrieks
of injured innocence are very distressing. Will
nobody go to the rescue ? No old lady in the
hands of two ruffians ever called " Help !" more
lustily and more uselessly. Her Afric in footman,
whom she hired at fabulous wages, has been well
threshed, and has run to shelter. The Irish guards,
whom she hired to annoy her neighbours, have
been taken away to the police-office. She who has
so long stood upon her rights as a householder and
defied the police now screams for them in vain,
making the whole neighbourhood resound to her
lamentations, filling the whole atmosphere with
her cries, and obtaining little more than a dry and
sarcastic assurance that her assailants are only
removing a few articles of apparel which arc quite
unsuited to her position in society and never really
belonged to her.
" It is very painful to be unceasingly obliged to
recount events more and more deplorable." It
must be unpleasant. Here is the Pope, who has
been all his Ponedom the most harmless and inno-
cent of mortals. He never gave any provocation
to any one. He says it, and let Perugia if she
dare gainsay the infallible word of the Pope. Even
after the Romognas had been taken away from
him, and while the Holy Father was innocently
endeavouring to increase " the very restricted num-
ber of his forces" by getting together all the rap-
scallions of Europe, and sending them forth to
make that solitude which under the temporal do-
minion of the Church is the only sure preparation
for a. peace,—even while the Sovereign of Rome
was thus innocently employed, the Piedmontese
actually got possession of Pesaro, and took captive
the Commandant, who had laboured in defence of
the town. They then went to Perugia, and here
they had the unparalleled effrontery to capture the
General who commanded against them. Perugia,
it is true, sustained the assault with great vigour,
and even the protesting Pope is rather proud
of its fighting garrison. But he has no further
pleasant resting-place in his memory of sor-
rows. As he proceeds with his tale of woes
he can only record that the robbers " marched"
upon Foligno, which seems to have yielded to mere
demonstration of military force. Beyond this he
is obliged to seek a still milder word to characterise
the tameness of submission and the lamb-like and
Christian mildness of the adherents of this meek and
suffering martyr. They " impetuously assaulted"
Pesaro, they " attacked" Perugia, the " marched
upon" Foligno, but they only " came to" Spoleto.
Alas, the resistance diminished in a direct ratio to
the value of the Papal forces engaged ; it was glori-
ous at Pesaro, it was good at Perugia, it was very
moderate at Foligno, and it was nil at Spoleto. At
other places it was vidi and vici, at Spoleto it was
only veni. Even at Orvieto we have the Papal
testimony that the town was "carried" by the
volunteers who fight in the interest of Piedmont,
and Viterbo holds out still, although the Pope has
little hope of it. The Pope does not say so, but,
although certain feelings of the old Adam do seem
to rise up within him when he speaks of the defence
of Perugia, there can be no doubt that in his pas-
toral and episcopal capacity he must be pleased to
know that no guilty carnal warfare took place at
Spoleto, and that there was no bloodshed there to
raise it to a disgraceful equality 'with Donnybrook
Fair. These, however, are only the thrice repeated
catalogue of the Holy Father's wrongs—how much
he has been despoiled, and how frail have been his
defences. The moral of this statement is that
really these Swiss, and these Bavarians, and these
brave Belgians, and these brave Irish are all non-
sense. The Pope has given them a fair trial, and
his good friends may behold what has come to them.
Trusting to these, " the Holy Father has seen
nearly all the States which were the patrimony of
the Church and the Catholics torn away from him
bit by bit." The question he wishes to put is--:
Does the Emperor mean business ? Do the great
Powers intend to come down and enable the Pope
to do what he likes with his own, and.teachthose
serfs who are the property of the Church and of all
good Catholics to return to their holy bondage
the Pope and his Cardinals ? If they do not
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this, they are of no use to the Popeju; fo
stice, order,
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order, or morality if Holy Church is not
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Moreover,
ported in dealing with her own serfs
if they will not do this, then the Popetheir protests
once once again that they
demanda r e scattered
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those many millions ofaer.eathaoillidcswwhheo
throughout the kingdoms, and
their Government shall
.pu an end to the distress
and the calamities which oppress their common
Father.
We cannot discover from this energetic document
any new facts or any new phase of the Italian ques-
tion. It is aoother wail—that is all. Neither is
it much more careful of the truth than other ex-
cited calls for assistance from the same quarter.
Like other squibs, the greatest bounce is in its tail.
That all the many millions of Catholics are calling
upon their Governments to send their Catholic
armies to put down the Catholic; inhabitants of the