The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN..

SPORTING NOTES.

Shard Railways.

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ROME.

THE HOUGHTON.

Antwerp & Rotterdam
,Ardennes

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Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7xi.c.
Belgian East. Junction
Beziers to Graissessaa
Carmeaux Mina k Rail
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France

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par ip
1 14
91 1
2 2
4 3' di
28 29

51
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On Monday morning I shall, as usual, despatch my notes
from the "scene of action." I shall then endeavour to
ascertain the latest movements, and shall by that time have
had ocular proof of the condition and appearance of the
probable competitors. As the Criterion will, however, be
run off before I again address your readers, I will merely
state that despite the declared " precocity " of Promised
Land, and the "slashing" attributes of North Lincoln, I
shall not be surprised should neither of those animals win.
They have both to give 31b. to the King-at-Arms, and:with
a jockey on his back I am induced to express my belief that
he will defeat the reputed "roarer" North Lincoln and
the vaunted Derby favourite, the Promisei Land. There
is every prospect of a rare meeting, and the Cambridgeshire
has already excited unparalleled curiosity and interest.

Euphrates Valley
Great Central of France
Gt. Luxem., Con. shs
Italian Junction

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Si Si

Lake Constance Dale
Lierre and Turnhout...
Lombardo Venetian....

4} 4s} pl

Lucca & Pi stoja, 5 p.c.pf.
Lyons and Geneva
IMaria Antonia
Do. do. New

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Namur and Liege
Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref
Northern of France
Do. New Shares
Norwegian Trunk Pref
Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent
Paris,Lyons, and Medit.
Paris and Orleans
Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.).
gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.)
Riga and Dunabur;
Rome and Frascati
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
Do. 7 per cent. Pref.
Sambre and Meuse
Do. 5; per cent. Pref.
Southern of France
West Flanders
Do. 54 p. C. Preference
W. & N.W. of France
Western of Austria
Western of Switzerland
Wiesbaden
Do 8 per cent. Pref..
Zealand

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A FRESH MAN.

LATEST CITY BETTING.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
7to 1 agst Zouave (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Ancient Briton (taken)
15 to 1 agst Leontes (taken)
16 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken)
16 to 1 agst Rocket (taken)
16 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie (offered)
25 to 1 agst Physalis colt (taken)
25 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken)
33 to 1 agst Barbarity (taken)
33 to 1 agst Volta (taken)
50 to 1 agst Loyola (taken)
50 to 1 agst Prioress (offered)
50 to 1 agst Rosa Bonheur (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Eclipse (offered)
In the morning 1000 to 10 was offered against Leontes,
but in the evening there was a strong re-action, and the
horse returned to 15 to 1 (takers).

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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1858.

THE JEWISH CHILD KIDNAPPED IN

The correspondent at Rome to the Arnzonia, a
Jesuitical journal of Turin, makes the following
statements about young Mortara :
It was with great joy that this child entered the
Institution of the Catechumens. When he arrived
he perceived above the gate a statue of Our Lady
of Tears. " Why does she cry ?" he asked. " She
is weeping," they answered him, " because the Jews
do not become converted, and are not willing to
acknowledge her divine Son." " Then," replied
the child, " she is weeping over my father and
mother."

When they announced to him his father's visit
he was delighted at it, for the Catholic religion,
very far from extinguishing filial love, strengthens
it by sanctifying it. Besides, he imageind he should
be able to convert his father, and render him a
Christian like himself. This was his hope, and he
showed it artlessly. But when he saw his father,
and found him deaf to all his prayers, he began to
weep bitterly.

In- fine, this child is firm in the faith like an
apostle. His father begged him to go back with
him to Bologna, saying to him " Why don't you
come to me ? Have you forgotten God's command-
ment, Honour thy father and mother ?' " "The
child remained pensive for a moment, and then re-
plied :—" The Pope knows the commandments
better than you or I, I shall do what the Pope
says !"
He knows the catechism admirably, and makes
the profession of faith in the most complete and
exact manner. He insists on this point, that the
Jews have neither an altar, a Holy Virgin, nor a
Pope. He says he should like to convert them, and
by his tone you perceive that it is grace which is
speaking in him.
The Pope wished to see him, and was, enchanted
with him. The child blesses the servant maid that
baptised, and thus opened to him the entrance to
the Catholic Church. They asked him what the
.Pope was ; he answered, " The vicar of Christ."
" And Jesus Christ," added they. His face coloured
up, and he said, " Jesus Christ is the Saviour of
men, whom the Jews crucified."

And they want a child of such quick faith to be
delivered up to the Jews ! That would be a cruelty
without a name, and the most open violation of that
principle of liberty of conscience which the Liberals
have ever in their mouths. The young Mortara
finds at Rome, in the Catholic Church, the protec-
tion necessary to him, that he may be able to pro-
fess his faith freely, and be instructed in the duties
of his religion.
It is not in Rome that they use violence, and seek
to convert people by force. Cases similar to yonng
Mortara's are rare, for rarely do we see such signal
triumphs of grace. For the rest, no one here makes
the least opposition, and the parents themselves are
satisfied at seeing their child brought up in the
Hospital of the Catechumens.l
There are certain journals that declaim on this
subject, but their declamations are only inspired by
the hatred they feel for the Pope, catholicism, and
baptism itself., Suppose the young Mortara had
been born a Catholic, and had turned a Vaudois
protestant or a Turk, these self-same journals would
not have anathemas enough to launch against any
person wishing to prevent it. And now they want
him to be constrained by force to turn Jew again !
Let us pity them. They gnash their teeth with
rage at the news of this conversion, and this sign
of grace makes them blaspheme like demons. But
on this occasion, in attacking the Holy See, they
have not well chosen their ground ; it would seem
they really believe that in Rome the eternal salva-
tion of a Christian is not something far more pre-
cious and important than the capture of the Cagliari
can be at Naples.

The lournol des Debats has received the follow-
ing letter from Bologna on the same subject :