The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-10 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ADVICE TO HIS BISHOPS.

The Roman correspondent of the Times sends, under
date December 4, the following :—" I see by the papers
that a shipload of twenty-four bishops had a very bad pas-
sage from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia. It is estimated
that one-third of the Council will be able to speak,
or, at least, understand, English. There will
be forty English and Irish bishops, seventy
North American, some from South America, some
from the Australian and other English colonies. I
can hardly make out 200 ; but even that is a large contri-
bution from the British race. It suggests an interesting
speculation as to the prevailing race and language of the
next General Council, if there ever be another. It may
find us in the majority. The reporters were all sworn, in
the Sixtine Chapel, last Thursday, to the proper discharge
of their duties. The Pope addressed an allocution to the
assembled bishops in the Sixtine Chapel. He assumed
iu the opening that the Council had been called to
provide suitable remedies for the many evils that have in-
vaded the Church and civil society in these days. Both
have to be rescued and preserved, and the Apostolic See
alone can do it. Ho spoke of all the tribulation he had to
suffer for Christ, and the comfort he found in the presence
of so many brethren bound by every consideration to
be perfectly united with him. But he anticipated
disunion, blindness, worldliness, stupidity, and a
disposition to be offended at doctrines difficult
to the human reason, or humbling to human pride.
There were still among us the counterparts of those low-
minded folk of. Galilee who left the Preacher because His
sayings were hard. He oven expected the enemy sowing
tares, and causing divisions in the flock. He felt himself,
like the Apostle to the Gentiles, in daily conflict with
them that are within as well as them that are without.
The burden of everything was thrown upon him, and
he looked for comfort where he could. In these trials
and afflictions he naturally identified himself with
his Master. When others left that Master, the Apostles
would not. Whom else could they go to ? He had the
words of eternal life. They went about with him always,
everywhere, only leaving to return; however differing
among themselves, yet one with Him. So he implored all
to forget differences, to avoid them that caused offences,
to come to the centre of unity—the House of the Lord, the
Hill of Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem. He besought all to
be of ono heart and one mind, and assured
them that they who were of God would hear His
voice now. It was no neutral or moderate course that he
could be content with. They who were not with Him
would be against him, for their allegiance would be sharply
tested. The proposition to be made, so he implied,
would be such as to leave no doubt who were the friends
and who were the foes of the Apostolic See. Pius IX is
wont to speak warmly and emphatically, and he was not
wanting to this occasion ; but it remains to be seen
whether even the Catholic world will carry its sympathy
to the extent of sacrificing all its convictions, and aban-
doning the use of reason, for his sake."

AN OBLIGING FRlEND.—According to an Ame-
rican paper, two friends were drinking together at an hotel
in Sonoma, California, when one said to the other, " I wish
you would cut my throat or my head off." The other
replied, " All right : I'll do it for you," went out and bor-
rowed a knife, with which he inflicted a severe wound in
the neck, causing almost instant death. There had been
no quarrel, but both were intoxicated. The obliging friend
was arrested.

Tom Hood said he wrote to his butcher that it
was necessary, for the sake of cheap literature, and the
interests of the reading public, that he should furnish him
with meat at a very trifling percentage above cost price;
and that Mr. Stokes replied: " Sir, Respectin' your note,
Cheap literature be blowed! Butchers must live as well
as other pepcl ; and if so be you or the redin' public wants
to have meat at cost price, you must buy your beastesses
and kill yourselves."
A correspondent in the Black Country has written
to the editor of the Birmingham Gazette to say that he had
attended a certain convivial meeting of a musical club,
and that in the course of the evening the president called
him a confounded jackass. The correspondent adds that
one of the rules of the club was that "no swearing was
allowed," and he concludes by asking, "Now, sir, I want to
know if it was not swearing to call me a confounded
jackass." The editor's decision is that the president was
right.

-THE 11.1EDIVE AND COTTON.—During the week
of festivities at Suez, a number of Manchester gentlemen
interested in the cotton trade, presented an address to the
Viceroy of Egypt, asking his Highness to stimulate the
growth of the plant in Egypt. The Khedive, whose own
private estates produce nearly one-fourth of the whole
crop raised in Egypt, replied that he was making and
would make every possible effort to increase the cultiva-
tion of cotton in his country, and declared that canals
would be commenced as speedily as possible to promote
irrigation for the purpose. In his remarks, the Viceroy,
alluding to M. de Lesseps's enterprise, admitted that some
mishaps had occurred to vessels, and that it would be
necessary to widen and deepen parts of the channel. The

latter, however, ho considered only a question of detail,
and he believed the success of the whole work Ras nos
placed beyond any doubt.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The Arch-
bishop of Canterbury has had no return of seizure, and is
gaining strength. His Grace is now removed daily to a
room adjoining his bedroom, whence he can enjoy the
extensive prospect to be had from the extreme point of
the North Foreland, on which hishouse is situated. Motion
is now complete in the leg, and sensibility is returning to
the left arm. The appetite and spirits are good, and the
pulse is becoming steady, the variableness of range before
noticed being no longer observable. An attempt made on
Thursday to stand upon the affected leg, and to move
the foot of that silo forwards, was not altogether unsuc-
cessful. On the whole, his Grace proceeds favourably,
and the fact that there has been no recurrence of the more
important symptoms since the 23rd of last month furnishes
his medical attendants with a reasonable hope that his
Grace's amendment may now proceed without interruption.
—Lancet.

AN ENGINEERING PROBLEM.—The line of the
Cerro de Pasco Railway of South America is carred over
the Cordilleras, and has a summit of 14,200 feet above the
sea, or nearly the elevation of Mont Blanc. There are 70
miles of read over mountains and by precipices, along
which only mules can travel. As this is the
approach from the sea, the problem was how to transport
the engines and machinery, the maximum weight allowed
being only 300 lbs., while no object must exceed 7 feet in
length. Consequently, everything had to go out in pieces ;
the cylinders and steam chests usually cast in one were

made in five pieces, and the wheels, tyres, and
axles were all separate. A fixed workshop engine
and boiler, a wheel lathe, drilling machine,
blowing fan and smiths' hearths and tools, were also sent
out, the fast headstock of the wheel-lathe being made in
no less than fourteen pieces, yet an ordinary observer
would not, it is said, notice anything special about it. A
staff of boiler makers and fittcrs have been engaged to
erect the engines on their arrival at Peru. They are the
first locomotive engines seat out from Chia country in such
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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 9.
Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Louise, walked in the Home park
this morning.
Her Majesty went to London this afternoon, and
visited her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
at Marlborough House.

lATEST INTELLMENCF)

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)
NEW YORK, Dec• 9.
The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Cuba, and the
India (of the Anchor line) arrived out to-day•

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 123 ; the highest quotation dur-
ng the day was 124 ; the lowest, 123.
Sterling Exchange on London 1081.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll5l.

1885 ll3l.
" 1867 ll6k.
46 1101.

10-40

Illinois

Erie 261.
25k0.
Cotton—Mitt upland

Petroleum—Standard White 32ic.
Flour, extra state, $5.20e. to $5.80c. Corn, old
mixed, $1.12e.

PORTLAND, Dec' 9.
The Allan (Glasgow) steamship Nova Scotian
arrived out to-day.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 10.
The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Silesia, from New York, arrived here this ma°l4
with 180 passengers, 88 sacks of mails, and $28,19°
in specie. She landed 50 sacks of mails and eigbt
passengers, and proceeded for Cherbourg. I'4°
former were forwarded by the 9 o'clock train.
On December 9th the Silesia passed a steamier 01
the London and New York line, bound West.