The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

the pence ; for what would it not suspect ? But
the oppression implied in not allowing the POPE'S
friends to ask money for him under a name of

historical intereet to Catholics, seems to us some-
thing frightful—a revival of the spirit of our Con-
venticle and Five Mile Acts. However, from the
wholeof Catholic Christendom the POPE might as•
suredly rely for any income he needed.
As to his situation, it certainly could not be in•
lured. What is he now but the restive puppet o'
the French General ?. His awn subjects are con-
fessedly not his supporters. In fact they are sub-
ject only to those who keep them down—to the
French. lie has not the credit of either morally or
physically controlling them. He governs neither
their hearts nor their bodies. The French do
the latter for him, but their hearts are with
neither General GOYON nor with the POPE,
but with VICTOR EMMANUEL. What wiser thing,
then, can he do than get rid of a rule of
which the glory, such as it is, belongs to French
regiments, and retire to an honourable position,
quite at his command, with the applause of all
Italy. We are told that ANTONELLI and the other.
crafty old politicians see that the day is gone by
for adding to their immense wealth, and that they
are ready to negotiate, but that the pious but weak.
POPE is, as such characters so frequently are, very
obstinate, and that he had seriously thought of
sharing the fortunes of the ex-King at Gaeta!
If, however, both Cardinals and friends fail him,
even a weak but pious man must bend to neces-
sity; he must bow to it as to Providence.
A happier solution of the Central Italian diffi-
culty there could not, of course, be than the POPE'S
selling out. Austria might then follow his ex-
ample, and plain money bargaining might smooth
difficulties which are insuperable by diplomacy,
and, in one sense, even by a conquest and victory.
The latter might not secure formal recognition
abroad ; the other mode could hardly fail to do so.
We can only, therefore, for the peace of Europe, and
for the sake of humanity, hope that so peaceful a
mode as that of sale and conveyance may accom-
plish, what must now be somehow achieved, the
complete union of Italy. '

The Gazette of last night contains at length
a long-looked for and most welcome announce-
ment. A formal official notice: appears theie
in
those columns of our English Moniteur intimating
the intention of her MAJESTY'S Commissioners of
Works and Public Bulidings to apply in the en-
suing session (1861) to Parliament for an Act
empowering them to acquire somehow, by com-
pulsory purchase or otherwise, a site for the new
Courts of Law—or, in other words, a site for the
long-proposed new Palace of Justice. It is not
our intention now to ventilate the whole question
as to the necessity there is for this proceeding.
That question has so, far been already settled and
decided. The notice here referred to as in
the —Gazette 'of last evening is proof posi-
tive that th,c question so far is decided.
And what certainly completes our ,aatisfaction in
the' matter'ofiliis notice in the London Gazette; is
the. annOuncement:pnt forward in that notice that
the site to which we ourselves years ago ac-:
corded preference has been the very site defini-
tively selected by her MAJESTY'S Commissioners.
The notice thus particularised is 'in effect as ap-
preciably a commencement- of the new Palace of
Justice upon that site as the turning of the first
sod of a new railway is the beginning of that rail-
way, or as the beginning of any edifice is in-
dicated by the laying of a foundation stone
upon a due proportion of mortar dexte-
rously spread by , a silver trowel in the hands of
a Royal Highness. The House of Commons,
we may be sure, will offer no im-
pediment to the completion of the under-
taking. And before London is a very few years
older we may be certain that conspicuous
among its great public buildings will be a grand
and noble edifice, sheltering under its roof all the
now scattered Courts of Law—a structure occupy-
ing that particularly central site in the metropolis
defined in the Gazette of yesterday as bounded on
the north and north-west by Carey-street, Lincoln's-
inn-fields; on the south by Pickett-street, the
Strand, and Fleet-street; on the west by Bell-
yard, Temple-bar; and on the west and south-west
by Yeates's-court, Clement's-inn, and the vestry-
hovse of the parish of St. Clement Danes. Then
at last London will have a Palace of Justice not
unworthy of being the central seat of the Admini-
stration of the Laws of England.