The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, I4'EI3RUARY 18, 1860,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY

Many of the subscribers having left for Lincoln, the rooms
were only thinly attsnded, and the only horse in demand
was Satellite for the Chester Cup, about whom 20 to 1 was
taken freely.

CLOSING PRICES.

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Satellite (taken freely)
22 to 1 agst Viatka (take 25 to 1)
22 to 1 agst Birmingham (offered)
22 to 1 agst Longrange (offered)
30 to 1 agst Tame Deer (take 100 to 3)
30 to 1 agst Gaspard (taken)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
6to 1 on the Field (offered)
DERBY.

9to 1 agst Umpire (offered)
10 to 1 aget Mainstone (taken)
12 to 1 agst Buccaneer (taken)
40 to 1 agst Cramond (taken)
40 to 1 aget Sir William (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
10 to 1 agst Anatis (taken)
16 to 1 agst Abd-el-Kadcr (taken)
20 to 1 aget Telegram (taken)

CITT AND SUBURBAN.
15 to 1 agst Cbere Arnie (taken)
16 to 1 apt cby Andover (taken)
20 to 1 agst Nucleus (taken)
25 to 1 apt Bentinck (taken)

LINCQLN lIEETIN.Q ABANDONED.

The stewards of the Lincoln meeting, after having twice
postponed the races from day to day, on account of the frost,

saw no alternative yesterday but putting the meeting off
altogether, they not having the power to postpone the races
from week to week. All stakes and bets upon the Lincoln
•vents have become void. This will no doubt be looked
upon by the backers of Tommy Noble and Curlew as a gresi
" slice of luck."

Murray, Esq., to be Ensign. 2d Company of Rossshire
Rifle Volunteers—Kei,h Stewart Mackenzie, Esq., to be
Captain ; Alexander Hay, Gent., to be Lieutenant ;
Edward Hay Mackenzie Matheson, Gent., to be Ensign.
Cinque Ports.-2d Company of Cinque Ports Artillery
Volunteers—Major Rebert Thomas Thomson to be Cap-
tain; Captain Henry Boys to be First Lieutenant; James
Adams Rae, Esq., to be Second Lieutenant. let Sub-
division of Cinque Ports Rifle 'Volunteers—Henry Bean
Mackeson. Esq, to beLieutenant ; James Watts,
junior, Esq., to be Ensign.
County of Kincardine.-2d Company of Kincardineshire
Rifle Volunteers—Patrick Davidson, Esq., to be Cap-
tain; Wm. B. Fergusson, Gent., to be Lieutenant;
John Gorden to be Ensign.
County of Lanark.—Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers, 7th
Company—William Robertson, Esq., to be Captain;
Thomas Ramsay; Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; Join
M'Ynight, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, 45th Company—John Gow-
land. Esq., to be Captain; John Forbes, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; John M'Culloch, Gent., to be Ensign.
Ist Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps—Ronald John-
stone, Esq., to be Captain; Hugh Heugh Maclure,
Gent., to be First Lieutenant ; Henry llerbertson, Gent.,
to be Second Lieutenant.
County of Haddington—Haddington, Berwick, Linlith-
gow, and Peeblesshires Artillery Militia—Major George
Logan Home to be Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant.
County of Somerset.—Weston-super-Mare or 6th Somerset
Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps— James Law, Esq.,
to be Captain • Samuel Edward Baker, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; dharles "Whiffing, Gent., to be Ensign.
Bath or Ist Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps
—John Stothert Bartrum, Gent., to be Honorary Assis •
Cant-Surgeon. Bathwiek or 2d Somerset Company of
Volunteer Rifle Corps—Edmund Lloyd Bagshawe,Gent.,
to be Honorary Assistant -Surgeon. W ells or 10th
Somerset Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps—Edwin
Lovell, Esq., to be Captain ; William John Slade Foster,
Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Willianr Chester Berryman,
Gent., to be Ensign.
County of Renfrew.—Renfrewthire Volunteer Rifles-
4th Company—Lieutenant Robert Gillies Lowndes
to be Captain, vice Crum, transferred to the
16th Company; Ensign James Jassie to be Lieute-
nant, vice Lowndes, promoted ; Malcolm McCal-
lum, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Jassie, promoted.
7th Company—John Graham, Gent., to be Captain;
James Cunningham, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Francis
Heys, Gent., to be Ensign. 16th Company—Captain
Alexander Crum, from the 4th Company, to be Captain;
Alexander Crum, Junior, Gent , to be Lieutenant;
Thomas Colledge, Gent., to be Ensign.
Leicestershire Regiment of Militia.—Her Majesty has been
pleased to approve of the resignation of .Lieutenant
Arthur Dixon Rawlins of the Commission which he holds
in the above Regiment.

THE FRENCH GOVERN MEN2' AND
TILE .LEGATIONS,

Yesterday's Moniteur publishes the following de-
spatch, addressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
to the Ambassador of France at the Ho!y See:—
" Paris, Feb. 12, 1860.
" Monsieur le Due,—l have informed you of the
impression which the encyclical letter of the Holy
Father to the bishops has made upon us, and I have
not disguised from you the sincere regret which it
has caused us. I feel it to be my duty now to com-
plete the circular which I addressed to the diplo-
matic agents of the Emperor, under date of the Bth
of this month, by examining with you the recent
events which have brought about the present situa-
tion in the Legations, in order to determine whence
comes the evil, and on whom rest the responsibilities.
" How, then, did the events of the Romagna
break out, and how have things there come to such
a pass as we see them at this moment ? Is it
solely to the late war that we ought to refer the
state of matters in that country ? It would take
too long to enlarge on details which are present to
the mind of every one who is not altogether a
stranger to the affairs of his time ; and although
the encyclical letter gives us the right of recalling
the past and of judging, as the great powers did in
1831, the political regime applied to the Legations,
I shall abstain from taking that ground. I shall
confine myself simply to pointing out that from the
day the Austrians withdrew the events which have
taken place since their departure were certain and
inevitable. We are profoundly convinced that the
Pontifical Government has no grounds, from any
point of view, for reproaching us with having failed
In solicitude and forethought in regard to it.
"At the commencement of hostilities the neu-
trality of the Holy See had been proclaimed and
recognised by the belligerents. They continued to
occupy the positions of which they were the guar-
dians before the war. They abstained from forti-
fying them for the purposes of active warfare be-
tween themselves. They seemed, in one word,
penetrated by the thought that, above their tran-
sient disagreements, was a higher interest equally
dear to both—that of the maintenance of order in
the States of the Holy Father. The garrisons of
Ferrara, Comacchio, Bologna, and Ancona, were
able, in all security, to watch over the maintenance
of tranquillity in the Legations and the Marches,
whilst the French garrison watched over it
at Rome. It does not belong to me to weigh the
circumstances, most undoubtedly imperative in her
eyes, which determined Austria to continue her
part no longer ; but I have the right to remind you
that France has remained faithful to hers. The
Austrian troops withdrawn, the populations have
profited by the conjuncture, without being induced
thereto by any special exciting cause ; and we may
say that they found, rather than made, themselves
independent. That is the whole secret of the rising
of the Romagna.
" That rising, Monsieur le Due, cannot,- then, be
imputed to France, or authorise any doubt of the
sincerity of the assurances of sympathy and good
will which the Emperor gave to Pius IX. at the
beginning of the war. And was it not the Empe-
ror's duty to take into consideration the new events
which took place contrary to his wishes ? His Ma-
jesty, looking, as was his duty, at the difficulties of
the situation, and judging, nevertheless, that the
peace concluded at Villafranca, might produce all
the consequences which he expected from it, if the
court of Rome seconded his efforts, addressed him-
self from Dezenzano to the Pope, on July 14, to
make him acquainted with the conditions of it—
"ln this new order of things," added the Emperor,
" your Holiness can exercise the greatest influence
and put an end for the future to every cause of
trouble. If you were to consent,'or rather, de motu
prop). io, be so good as to accord to the Legations a
separate administration with a lay government
named by yourself and an elective council, and were
that province to pay the Holy See a fixed tribute,
your Holiness would have ensured the repose of your
States, and would
-,be able to dispense with foreign

troops.
"I beg your Holiness to listen to the voice of a
devoted son of the Church, but one who compre-
hends the necessities of his epoch, and who knows
that force is not sufficient to solve questions and
remove difficulties. I see in the decision of your
Holiness either the germ of a peaceful and tranquil
future, or, perhaps, the continuation of a state of
violence and calamity." You know, Monsieur le
Due, that these suggestions were not received.
Whilst successive events multiplied difficulties, the
Court of Rome persisted in shutting herself up in an
abstention calculated only to aggravate a state of
things which already could not be reconciled with
her authority without either sacrifices or compen-
sations. It is thus that all the circumstances op-
portune for re attaching the Legations to the Holy
See have been allowed to escape ; it is thus that we
have found ourselves in the presence of an eventu-
ality which the Emperor has in vain attempted to
remove, and that his Majesty was led to address to
the Holy Father his letter of Dec. 31.
"And now, lask, things having passed as I have
just called to mind, were then the counsels that
have been rejected so singular ? Assuredly, the
sincerity of the sentiments with which they were
given is at least clearly demonstrated. The respect,
rather let us say, the devotedness shown by the
Imperial Government on every occasion to the head
of the Church is one of the dominant features in

the history of the ten yearsjust elapsed. The French
clergy knows with what benevolence and breadth
of view the Imperial Government has always en-
forced the laws that regulate their relations with
the Court of Rome. They know that they also have
found in the empire a renovating power, and that,
sustained by this tutelary support, they have re-
sumed in French society the influence and authority
denied them under other forms of government.
These facts alone would suffice to attest with what
feelings the Imperial Government was animated
towards the Papacy, even though it may not have
given it direct and incessant proofs of them. We
do not dispute that the occupation of Rome, at the
period when it was undertaken, was dictated by
political as well as religious considerations; but
who can deny that the Emperor's Government was
chiefly induced to continue, year after year, the
sacrifices this measure imposes on France by au af-
fectionate and persevering anxiety respecting the
interests of the Holy See P Who does not recog-
nise the contrivances by means of which we have
diminished, or even prevented, the inconveniences
that the occupation of Rome was calculated to en-
tail substantially as well as actually on the sove-
reignty of the Holy Father ! Who can refuse to see
in this aggregate of facts an evidence of the most
cordial intentions and of the most formal will, not
merely to protect the personal position of the Holy
Father, but to extend, were it possible, his moral
influence ? It is to this order of ideas in particular
that is to be attributed the assistance lent by
French diplomacy to the Holy Father in every
country where there are religious interests to be
defended, and with which are connected, to a great
extent, the expeditions completed or commenced in
the seas of China and Japan. And lastly, Monsieur
le Due, what better proof can be given of this soli-
citude than the stipulation at Villafranca, by which
the Emperor, in assigning to the Holy Father the
honorary presidentship of the confederation, wished
to place him at the head of regenerated Italy ?
" We may deduce from this explanatory state-
ment how happy the Imperial Government would
have been, and still would be, in the present con-
junctures, to effect a combination capable of
diminishing the embarrassments of the Holy See.
But here the goodwill of France runs a risk of
failure in face of insurmountable difficulties.

" In fact, it is not alone the question of restoring
the Legations to the Pope, it is also requisite to find
the means of maintaining them in. his hands, with-
out giving rise to a fresh interverktion followed by

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a fresh occupation. Events have sufficiently proved
how powerless this measure would be to remedy
the evil. The opinion of Europe is formed on this
point, and occupation, condemned by lessons of the
past in the Legations themselves, is an expedient
to which no one would any longer think of resort-
ing, unless
.he misunderstood the necessities that
are binding on the wisdom and foresight of every
Government. Such a policy is inadmissible at the
present day. Neither the monarchical authority
nor the majesty of the church would have any-
thing to gain by it ; religion and reason combine to
reject it with equal energy.
"Thus, then, Monsieur le Due, the moment had
fairly arrived for taking different combinations into
consideration, when the Emperor intimated their
necessity to the Pope. The most evident interests,
the most pressing considerations invite the Holy
See to do so. A resolution absolutely taken to re-
fuse to recognise the true nature of the present
state of things would only aggravate it more and
more, and end by creating impossibilities equally in-
surmountable. On the contraey, should the Holy See
at length decide on quitting the religious ground, on
which the question does not really rest, in order
to return to the ground of temporal interests, the
only one involved in the debate, perhaps it would
bring about, late as it may be, a ohange favourable
to its cause. In every case it would enable the
Emperor's Government to lend its support to i con-
ciliatory and reasonable policy.
" You are authorised to read this despatch to
Cardinal Antonelli, and to leave with him a copy
of it, in case he should express a wish for one.
" Accept, Monsieur le Due, the assurances of my
high consideration. " THOUTENEL.”