The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1860.

BOX: THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGIIT

DOWNING-STREET, NARCII 13.;-•
, The Queen has been pleased to 'appoint James Walker,
Esq.; to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Trinidad
and its Dependencies. -
Her Najepty has also been pleased to appoint John
Creighton, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council
of the Province of Nova Scotia, .
FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 21.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Aran.-
del Mackenzie, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Geneva.
FEB. 25.
The Queen has' been graciously pleased, to appoint Sir
Robert Fraser Turing, Bart., now British Vice-Consul at
atOtlerdam,. to be her Majesty's Consul at Rotterdam. •
The Queen has been . graciously pleased. to appoint
`Charles John -Calvert; Esq., now her Majestyis Consul at
Salonica, to be her Majesty's Consul at Monastir.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased' to appoint
Richard Wilkinson, Esq., -jun., now British Vice-Consul
at Durazzo, to be her Majesty's Consul at Salonica.
MARCH 3.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James
Grignon,, Esq.,. now her Majesty's Consul at Portland, to
be her-Majesty's Consul in the Canary Islands.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Henry John Murray, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul in
the Canary Islands, to be her Majesty's Consul at Port-
land.

MATI.CH 15.
- The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Eduardo
San Just as Consul at Sydney for her Majesty the Queen
of Spain. ,
WAR- OFFICE,
--
PALL-kALL, MAncff 16.
2d Regiment of Life Guards Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Charles Bruce Knight Alleyne has been permitted to re-
tire from the Service by the sale of his Commission.
6th Dragoon. Guards—William Edward Dakin, Gent., to bo
Cornet, by purchase, vice Gair, promoted ; Arthur Jones,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Blackett, who has

retired. _
Ist Dragoons—Charles. Leveson. Lano, Gent., to be Cornet,
by purchase, vice Caldwell, promoted.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant Frederick Barclay Chapman to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Edward Finch Dawson,
who retires; Cornet John Baskerville to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Chapman.
16th Light Dragoons—Charles Carrington Cburchward,
Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Winthrop, ap-
pointed to the 15th Light Dragoons.
Coldstream Guards—Captain the Hon. George Herbert
Windsor-Clive, from the 52d Foot, to be Lieutenant and

Captain, vice Adair, who exchanges.
sth Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Julius Wiles,
- from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Cameron,
' deceased.
11th Foot—Arthur William Ball, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Irwin, promoted.
13th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Mitchell O'Brien,
from the Staff, to.,be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Kirwan,
who exchanges.
16th Foot—George Ramsay Alured Denne, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Taylor, promoted.
17th Foot—Captain John Bellamy, from the 2d West India
Regiment, to be Captain, vice Davidson, who exchanges.
25th Foot—Ensign John Talbot Coke, Icon the 21st Foot,
to be Ensign ; William Lisle Blenkinsop Coulson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase. The appointment of Ensign
Henry Wilkinson to be Quartermaster has been ante-
' dated to 30th December, 1859.
34th Foot—John Olphert Gage, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Jordan, promoted.
37th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel Hawkes to be Adjutant,
vice Bunn, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
46th Foot—Ensign Stwart James Carlow to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Hamond, promoted ; En-
sign Charles B. C. Speke to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Coucher, deceased.
49th Foot—Edward Roberts, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Aldworth, promoted.
52d Foot—Lieutenant and Captain Alexander Wm. Adair,
from the Coldstream Guards, to be Captain, vice the Hon.
G. H. W. Windsor-Clive, who exchanges.
73d Foot—Anderson James Ashmore, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Galwey, promoted.
75th Foot—John Ormsby. Moore Vandeleur, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Tarby, who retires. The re •
signation of Assistant-Surgeon Robert Woods, as stated
in the Gazette of Feb. 21, 1860, has been cancelled.
79th Foot--Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Grove, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, rice Brevet-
Colonel Sir John Douglas, who exchanges;
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Bromhead Butt to
he Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Grove, who re-
tires ; Brevet-Major Keith Ramsay Maitland to be Ma-
jor, by purchase, vice Butt; Lieutenant John Edward
Allen to be Captain, by purchase, vice Maitland ; Ensign
William Henry McCausland to be Lieutenant, bi pur-
chase, vice Allen.
87th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Armstrong, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Collins, who ex-

changes.
100th Foot—Angustus Frederick Tanner, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Moorsom, promoted.
2d West India Regiment—Captain Frederick Augustus
Davidson, from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, Nice Bel-
lamy, who exchanges.
RECRUITING DlSTRlCT.—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-
Colonel Alfred H. Horsford, C. 8., from the Rifle Bri-
gade, to be Inspecting Field-offieer, vice Brevet-Colonel
David Russell, C.B. placed on the Staff as a Brigadier-

General. _
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant John Evans, from the 88th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon Charles John Kir-
wan, from the 13th Foot, to be Assistant• Surgeon to the
Forces, vice O'Brien, who exchanges; Assistant-
Surgeon John Collins, 111. D., from 87th Foot, to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Armstrong, who
exchanges.

SP OR ThVI) .INTELi,IG EN CE;

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTIRDA.Y.

The many different events that are now before the rac-
ing public, which may be truly designated legitimate races
to speculate upon, unlike what we have seen is previous
years at this period of the season, are productive of compa-
ratively little wagering. The Northamptonshire Stakes, so
far as the betting at present indicates, has the appearance of
being a very open.race ; Rattlebone almost daily becomes a
worse favourite; and although • 100 to 7 was the current
offer against him, we question if he could have found sup-
porters to money at 20 to I—in fact, no horse is in anything
like request for this event. For the city and Suburban
Handicap, the favourite Chore Amie seemed to have had a
bad night, she receding, without any outlay, to 13 to 1,
offered ; while Homeward Bound, increased in favour, and
would have
_been backed against Chere Amie at the close
The Chester Cup is at present almost a doad letter in the
betting market, only Viatka and Henic having stanch- s -
porters. 800 to 50 and 450 to 30 was taken about the f
mar. An extensive commission was M the market to
the latter at any advance upon 100 to 3, the only invs
made upon him that came to our knowledge was 70747.:
Buccaneer for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakii seems to
have settled down at sto 2, take 3to 1. sto 1 las taken to .
a little money about the Wizard, and a point more would
have been taken about Lupulus. The only wager made on
the Derby was 1,000 to 18 against Richmond.

CLOSING PRICES.
NORTHAMPTONSIIRE STAKES.
15 to 1 agst Rattlebone (offered)
100 to' 6 agst Man-at-Arms (take 20 to 1)
100 to 6 agst Philomel (take 20 to. 1)
100 to 6 agst Clare (take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Tommy Noble (taken)
20 to I agst Sam Spode (take 25 to 1)
20 to 1 agst First Lord (offered)
25 to 1 asst Simple Simon (take 100 to 3)
25 to 1 agst Pitman (taken)
100 to 3 agst Forger (taken and offered)
100 to 3 agst Ariadne (taken and offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
sto 2 agst Buccaneer (take 3to 1)
.5 to 1 agst Wizard (taken)
sto 1 agst Lupulus (take 6to 1)
CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP.
13 to 1 agst Chere Amie (offered)
13 to 1 agst Homeward Bound (take 100 to 7)
100 to 6 agst Comforter (take 20 to 1)
20 to 1 agst Hetme.n (offered)
25 to 1 agst The Nun (offered)
28 to 1 agst Ariadne (take 100 to 3)
100 to 3 agst Professor Dick (taken 40 to 1)
100 to 3 agst Bentinck (offered)
100 to 3 agst Nucleus (offered)
40 to 1 agst Colt by Andover (taken)
40 to 1 agst Paleface (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
15 to 1 agst Viatka (taken and offered)
100 to 6 agst Gaspard (offered)
20 to 1 agst Tame Deer (offered)
100 to 3 agst Herne (take 35 to 1 freely)
50 to 1 agst Roneoni (offered)
100 to 1 agst Traducer (taken)
DERBY.
1000 to 18 agst Richmond (taken)

F.R N .E AND R ONE.

The Nord publishes the chief portions of the reply
of the Papal Government 'to the despatch of M. de
Thouvenel respecting the Romagna. The document
(says the Nord) is too long to give in extenso, but
we extract those passages iwhich make known the
resolutions of the Court of Rome and its secret hopes.
Cardinal Ai tonelli commences by denying the

motives attributed as the cause of the rising in the
ltomagna. What proves, he says, that the Romag-
noles were not dissatisfied is that the other pro-
vinces of the Church did not revolt. Piedmont is
at the bottom of it all. The Cardinal dwells at great
length.on this point. He also endeavours to throw
blame ou Trance for the campaign in. Lombardy,
but prudence gets the better of his resentment, and,
suddenly coming to the real point in question, he
declares that it ought to be well understood that if
'the Pope rejects the counsels of his protector it is
e c aus e he is compelled to'do so by a higher priniple, -
and that, moreover, that is not the exact
point to be considered, but the promises of assist-
ance given last year, in the month of March, by the
ambassadors of France and Austria.
The Cardinal then continues as follows :

" But every one sees that this has nothing to do
with the means best calculated to restore the patri-
mony of the Church in all its integrity to the Holy
Father, according to the declarations made at that
period.

• Relative to thatsupreme object the past ofrefe
many reminiscences which may facilitate the
means ; the present consists of a refusal of effica-
cious help. Difficulties are thrown in the way of
any one attempting it ; detrimental delays are oc-
casioned ; advice is given to submit to men who
' are by no means conciliatorily inclined; reforms
are proposed which the Holy Father has first to
weigh before God; finally, advice is given to ab-
dicate in part what cannot in any manner be done.
" If it was still possible some months back to en-
tertain the illusion of the possibility of pacifying
the different States of Italy by means of reforms
and concessions ; such an illusion can no longer be
entertained, since those parties have publicly de-
clared, as in the pretended memorandum of the
Government of Bologna, and as one of the chief
authors of the revolt has done in a recent pamph-
let, that no reform can satisfy them except the full
and absolute destruction of the temporal power of
the Church. Is it-possible with men so inclined,
to come to an arrangement by means of reforms ?
" Despite all this, the Holy Father has not turned
a deaf ear to the proposals of reforms submitted to
him by the French Government. He even eagerly
welcomed them ; he only made one condition—
that those reforms should not be contrary to his
conscience and to the real welfare of his subjects.
" M. Thouvenel cannot be ignorant of the nego-
tiations which took place at Rome between the
Pontifical Government and the French Ambassa-
dor, and he must be aware of the result. The
Imperial Government was satisfied with it.
This is evident, first, from a declaration made
by Count Walewski relative to the subject; then,
in his despatch numbered 1,367, dated the 13th of
October of last year.; and finally by the eagerness
shown a few months since by the same Govern-
ment to behold the said reforms immediately pro-
mulgated. The reasons, however, which induced
the Holy Father to postpone such a step until the
linsurgent provinces had returned to order cannot
escape any one.
" To have acted otherwise would not have been
conformable either to the dignity of the Sovereign
Pontiff nor suitable to achieve the object in view.
On the one hand, it would have appeared as if the
concessions were made under pressure, and not
voluntarily ; on the other hand, there was the
danger that the reforms might have been disdain-
fully received. In either case authority would I
have suffered.

" The French Government understood the
strength of this reasoning ; consequently, through
the said Count Walewski, it made known unto us
at that time that it would cease to urge them, as
new imperious conjunctures might advise a diffe-
rent course—a prevision which has not been rea-
lised. Moreover, the publication of those reforms
was not the means to reduce the insurgents of•the
Romagna to obedience. In their pretended memo-
randum they stated what they wanted.
" But, if the Holy Father can consent that re-
forms may be spoken of, it is impossible for him to
listen to a partial abdication. Motives of a far
different bearing than tericstrial interests forbid it.
Now, nothing less than a partial abdication is sug-
gested in the letter forwarded from Desenzano
under date of the 14th of July of last year.
The principal portion of that letter is given textu-
ally in the despatch of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs; this seems to denote a renewal of the pro-
position, or at least to make it believed that if the
revolt is not suppressed in the Romagna the cause
is to be attributed to the refusal to adhere to that
proposition. Now, your Excellency will easily
understand that a separate administration, with an
elective council, with no other dependence upon the
Sovereign Pontiff except the nomination by him of
a lay governor and the payment of a tribute, would
be equivalent to absolute abdication. There would
remain, it is true, a certain suzerainty, but that now-
a-days means nothing.
" I shall not endeavour to show, as I easily might
do, the vain hope of expecting from such a combi-
nation a termination of trouble, a guarantee of
tranquillity in the other Papal provinces—the seeds
of a future of peace and tranquillity. It is clear
that it would be precisely the contrary that would
have to be feared. I shall simply observe that the
Holy Father cannot consent to an abdication of
any sort whatever, and that he never can do so from
the motives indicated in his encyclical letter of the
19th of January last. He cannot do so because his
States are not his personal property, but belong to
the Church, for whose advantage they were consti-
tuted; he cannot. do so because by solemn oaths he
has promised to God to transmit them to his succes-
sors intact, as lie received them; he cannot do so, •
because, considering that the motives for giving up
the Romagna may be applicable or may follow isi
other portions of his States, such renunciation would
imply, in a certain degree, the renunciation of the
whole patrimony of the Church; he cannot do so,
because, as common father of his 21 provinces,
he must either procure for all the good he destines
for the four provinces of the Romagna, or shield
the latter from the evils whisk he should not like to
see fall upon the others ; he cannot do so, because
it cannot be indifferent to him to behold the spiritual
ruin of a million of his subjects, who would be aban-
doned to the mercy of a party which would com-
mence by laying snares for their faith and by cor-
rupting their morals ; finally, he cannot do it
because of the scandal that would ensue to the de-
triment of the Italian Princes de facto unthroned,
and also to the detriment of all Christian Princes
and of the whole of civilised society—a scandal
which could not fail to arise when the felony of a
faction is seen crowned with such success.
"Pius VI., having in vain attempted to defend
himself against the arms of a powerful enemy, was
compelled to give in to irresistible vi
violence, and,
not to see the remainder of his territory invaded
by French troops, to resign himself to the abandon-
ment of a portion of his States by the treaty of
Tolentino. But, if the different circumstances are
considered, it will easily be seen that the same mo-
tive which induced that Pope to cede obliges the
reigning Pontiff to reply by an absolute refusal.
Pius VI., under circumstances totally different from
the present, found himself opposed to an invincible
-violence and material force ; Pius IX., on the con-
trary, is struggling with a principle which an at-
tempt is made to enforce. Now, material force is
simply a fact—from its very nature it is limited,
and it is only felt within the circle of its action, be-
yond which it cannot go. But it is far different as
regards principles. From their nature they are
universal ; they are inexhaustible ; they are not
limited within a fixed circle of action, but are
applicable to. all things. Thus, Pius VI. by ceding
to material force might reasonably rope to save the
rest of his States, while the reigning Sovereign
Pontiff, ceding to a pretended principle, would vir-
tually abdicate the sovereignty of all his States,
and would authorize a spoliation against every
principle of justice and cf reason. Thus it will be
seen that the example quoted in the circular leads
rather to a conclusion the very opposite to the one
aimed at.
" Thus, if hitherto no efficacious remedy has been
found to put an end to the revolt in the Romagna,
the fault must be attributed to others rather than
to the Holy Father, who cannot get any aid what-
soever to suppress it, who showed himself quite
willing to condescend to the proposal
of reforms,
only asking to wait for the proper time to intro-
duce them, and who, on the proposal of a partial
abdication, could only reply by a refusal, without
the example of a Pontiff who ceded to violence and
to the consequences of war suggesting to him any
other line of conduct.
" The reasons given above to demonstrate the