The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1867.

IYIONFif MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL UZTELLIOB'NCR,

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

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In the general Discount Market there is rather
more inquiry for accommodation. The rates cur-
rent, however, remained unaltered.
The Union, from New York, has arrived with
specie amounting to £14,625 for England, and
£5OO for Bremen.
In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets,
during the last few days there has been a fair
amount of business transacted ; no change can be
reported in the value of tea, but sugars have brought
full rates. Coffee has been in fair request at steady
prices, while in rice, fruit, spines, and tallow no mate-
rial change can be reported in the rates current.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the Royal
Bank of Liverpool, held there yesterday, state-
ments of a very extraordinary kind were made re-
-BPecting the management of the bank, some of which
it is deemed probable may be the subject of investi-
gation in a court of law. It was unanimously re
solved that the bank should be voluntarily wound
al; and that, as the position of the bank required
it, a call of £lO on each share should be made.
Of the £251,000 in Australian gold just arrived
by
the Sir John Lawrence, £11,400 is for the Bank
./113f New South Wales, £120,000 for the Commercial
Chartered
of Sydney, and £120,000 for the London
'eartered Bank. This reduces the amount of Aus-
tralian
gold known to be on its way to this country
,t° "31,000. The Persia and the Union, both from
New York, have arrived, the former with specie
amounting to £17,500, and the latter with £14,625,
hr England, and £5OO for Bremen. The Louisiana
as arrived at St. Nazaire from Vera Cruz with
£240,000 in specie.
The laying down of the Submarine Telegraph
Company'sLa new cable from the South Foreland to
'
5 Parrne, a small fishing village in Belgium, close
t 4
13 the French frontier, has been successfully com-
pleted
by Mr. W. T. Henley of North Woolwich.
The cable is a very heavy one, containing four con-
meting wires.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are steady at 241. 25k, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds at 19 20.
bealings in the New Honduras Loan have been
active, and the quotation has advanced to 2 3 prem.
It is understood that the reply of the Greek Mi-
ter
for Foreign Affairs has arrived relative to
I" proposed arrangement of the Greek Debt of
221'5. At the last meeting of the bondholders an
l;uJeurnment was decided upon, so that the commit-
see Might forward to Athens some proposal for the
Melioration of the terms then submitted to them.
budget
appears that the reply consists, in effect, that the
'adget for the year is framed upon the £55,000 a
year, as offered. We may remind our readers that
lee adjourned meeting of the bondholders will be
ld
on Wednesday, 13th inst.
aThe official liquidators of Overend, Gurney, and
(Limited) have arranged for the payment forth-
N
Ivriatt 11.
of a further dividend of 18. in the pound,
ch will raise the total thus far to 13s. It ap-
7ears that, instead of waiting until they could
thedsßoon
absence of employment for money, to distribute
dBOOll as possible the receipts in hand. Each ls.
distributed cancels £200,000 of debt, and checks
altithat amount the accumulation of interest.
TiobB "re extract the following from Messrs. J. E.
11 aud Co.'s tallow circular :—The tallow market
co
"continued flat, and a further depreciation in
13
artly by a few values
has taken place. This has been occasioned
parcels delivered on November
b 4. tracts being offered for sale, and there
eng very little activity in the market, sellers
had to concede a small reduction in price before
isles could be effected. This being done,
from
lower quotations became 'current. Advices
„hr°4l St- Petersburg bring accounts of further ship-
ments, making a total of 89,322 casks, of which,
"'ever, 17,329 casks had not yet sailed. The
market to-day has been quiet, and closes at 435. to
428. 9d. for fine new first Y.C.T. on spot ; 425. 9d.
for Nov. and December ; 435. 6d. to 465. 3d. for
Jan. to March, and 435. for deliveries in separate
Months from Dec. to Feb. Town tallow was Is.
6d. lower on Friday last. Petroleum is. rather
firmer, at ls. 3d. to Is. 4d. for English refined, and
ls. 4d. to ls. sd. for American."
There were no gold operations at the Bank
Yesterday,
The following are the current quota-
tions of bullion :—Bar Gold, 77s 9id per oz.
standard ; do., Parting, 78s ; Doubloons, Spanish,
752 6d to 768; do., Mexican and South-American,
.38 9cl;
58 United States Eagles, 76s 30 to 40 ; Bar
Silver, ;
do., Contingent Gold (5 grains and
upwards), 5s 1d ; Dollars, Mexican, 4s "10 id to
118; Cake Silver, 65s 4d.
th'6` very satisfactory announcement appears in
e Moniteur to-day, to the effect that the
atflontaneous withdrawal of the Italian troops from
the Papal provinces has given lively satisfaction to
full Government of the Emperor, by whom it is
.Y appreciated. It further states that the French
oleditionary army will evacuate Rome as soon as
[der is secured.

Two o'CLoci.
ti According to Reuter's Telegram from Paris this
681' the French Three per Cent. Rentes were at
15e. Better. Inanimate.
ei,:eihee. City of Paris has brought only £5,000 in

°lila towas expected that the Government broker
a .ay commence his purchases of stock on
ner,c,,.() h day
dt
of the Sinking Fund, but it will probably
" be deferred until next week.
I\l4 firmer tone is apparent in the English Stock
arket, owing to the more favourable aspect of
eroved
affairs on the Continent. Consols have
theY are 93.
to 941 k, and for the account, ex div.,
'al?
9 New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
]29' ; New 5 per Cents., 104/ ; Annuities, 1885,
--- 11-16 ; Exchequer Bills, 31s. prem. ; India 5
l'aer Cetats., 115 114 i ; ditto 4 per Cents., 100 i
'ld ditto Bonds, 555. to 568. prem.
tonlti the Foreign Stock department business has
It-11 more active on account of the settlement.
4lian have advanced to 451 I ; Greek +, to 121
I; SPanish Passive 1, to 204 1 ; and Certificates 1,
andi ; while Mexican are unchanged at 14} 151;
Turkish 5 per Cents. at 311 32.
thta the Railway Share Market the settlement of
deelaceount occupies the principal attention of the
Lakve etShod speculators, and prices in most instances
Lav own. considerable depression. Caledonian
4beell Particularly flat, and have receded 21 ;
Eastern and Lancashire and Yorkshire, each
11ietreat Northern, Brighton, North Western,
4 rePolitan Midland, and South Eastern, each
,1,,14 Great Western,
-I.
of ."al Foreign and Colonial lines show little change
20 lPortance.
Eastern of France are marked
8414 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 131 ;
104.118417 161 ; East Indian, 1091 ; and Great
250 Peninsula, 104 109.
Illimerican Securities show an advance of 1 in
6.241 s sh:lres, and a decline of in United States
81,° Bonds. Erie shares are 461 47 ; Illinois, 831
!,;.,and the 5-20 Bonds, 70i 71.
r('coos and Finance Shares continue flat.
Telo.-trect -Warehouse are marked 121 ; Atlantic
enteral'h. S per Cents., 721 ; Peninsular and Ori-
_
c 7
.41 Steam, 54. Royal Mail Steam rk main at 66
a. 11,1
Vic
733, 4 eroy of Egypt's Mortgage Loan at

Ilank Shares rille are, in some instances, a shade
tifll4'r
of City Bank have improved to 13; and
41.4 London to 37 371 ; London and West-
146ter bave .

MINING MARKET.
TUESDAT, Two P.M.
tinnedtusiness in the Mining Share Market has con-
h moderately active, prices generally re-
-I,l4l4in°' steady. The shares chiefly dealt in have
last P'rinee of Wales, Chontales, West Chiverton,
Lttst Caradou, Marke Valley, and Cara Brea.
Annexed
u are the closing quotations :
n la flrea, 18 20; Chiverton lltoor, 5 51; Chontales
1,.,-„old, 31 31 ; Clifford Amalgamated, 6i Gi; East Basset., 12
44 i Last CLiradon, 6i 6i ; East Lovell, —; East Russell,

33s 35s ; Frontino and Bolivia Gold, 17s 6d 20s Od ; Great
Laxey, 171 181; Great Retallick, ; Great Wh al Vor,
171 18/ ; Marke Valley, 61 61 ; North Crofty, 21 31; North
Treskerby, 34s 365; Prince of Wales, 52s 545; South
Frances, 32 34; West Chivorton, 70 72 ; Wheal Basses,
90 95; Wheal Chirerton, —; Wheal Grenville, 27s
29s ; Wheal Seton, 971 1021.

LATEST CITY INTELLIGENCE.
CITY, HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK.

Since two o'clock there has been a further im-
provement in English Securities, owing to the
favourable announcement in the Moniteur, and the
advices generally from Paris. Consols are now
94.1 for money, and 93h. for the account, the sth
December.

Foreign Stocks have in some instances not
closed at their,best point. Italian are 11- lower, at
454 1 ; and Greek I, at 12i ; and Sp ►nish Passive
have advanced -I to 20aa ; but Mexican are un-
changed at 141- 151 ; and Turkish 5 per Cents. at
314 32 ; Spanish Certificates present no change,
closing at 17- 4.

The following were the latest current quotations
of some of the principal railway companies shares :
Caledonian, 82 to 83 ; Great Eastern, 29/ to 301 ;
Great Northern, 107 to 109 ; Great Western, 451
to 45/ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 122 to 1221 ;
Brighton, 52 to 53 ; Metropolitan, 120 to 1201 ;
Midland, 1161 to 116/ ; North-Eastern (Berwick),
100 to 101; and South Eastern, 65i to 66.
The following is Alex. Collie and Co's. market
report, dated Manchester, Nov. 12 :—" The tone of
our market, to-day, is quiet, ani Friday's rates are
barely maintained, although quotations are nomi-
nally unchanged."

The following business has been transacted to-
day in the Open Stock Exchange (Limited) :
London and County Land, 25s ; Confederate
Cotton Loan, £4 15s ; Rossa Grande Gold lls
9d; Hercules Insurance, 10s; Galveston, Houston,
and Henderson Railway, 1s to is 5d ; Anglo Bray
Gold lls ; Imperial Land Company of Marseilles
Bonds, 1872, £4 5s to £4 7s 6d ; do. 187 G, £4 2s 6d.

BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FONDS.
3 or tient. Consols
Do'. Account, Dec 5 93 } xd
3 per Cent. Reduced 92i 3
New 3 per Cent 92/ 3 2i 3}
New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Cm. Jan. 1873.. lo4}
annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan.' 188('.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2 11-16
Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Ana., 1908 —
March.
&xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 Je 2} per Ct 3l pm
Do £5OO 3l pm
Do. £lOO & £2OO 3l pin
Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent 2451

Juno.

Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 10k per Cent., Aprill.B74

Do. Account - -
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888

Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5f per Cent., May, 1879 —
Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 —
Do. do. 1882

Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under XI,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent . --
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent 9B}
Do. 4i- per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account —
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
Caba, 6 per Cent.
Cailian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent —
Do. 6 per Cent., B •
Do., 1867
Do, Scrip, £74 paid
Do., Scrip, £32 paid
Guatemala o per Cent .. —
Itolian 5 per Cert., 1865 —
Do, Account
Do. Mart:minima Railway —
&t3licau 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
D n. 1864 7}
_ _ _ .

De 6 per Cont. Anglo-French .
dontevidean 6 per Cent .. —
Vl.oorish imporial 5 per Cent . 9G
Now Granada... .
Do 3 per Con 291
...

Do. _deferral
Do Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 5 per Cent, 1865
Do Account —
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarreu)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 40 4
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 854
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do is per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds BB
Do. do. £B4 15s. do.
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B7/ 7 1
Do. do. £B4 15s. do
Sardinian, 5 per Cent 74
Spanish 3 per Con 341 4
Do Acchunt —
Do Nev Deferred... ...... ...
Do Account
Do Passive —
Do Acceunt
Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not fuaded „ —
Do Account
Turkish 6 per Cent., 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 —
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent., 1862 62 1

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 614 1
Do. 1863
Do 5 per Cont., 1805 314 2i 2
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 514
DJ I per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Di Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil,. —
Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates
French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 2si.
Do. Account
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 94i 1
Do. Account, ex div ,. 934 1, ad

MARKETS—(This Day.)

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 50s Ocl to 81s ; clover, 60s to
1008 ; and straw, 30s to 38s per load. Trade quiet.
CUMBEILLAND. —Meadow hay, 50s Od to 84s ; clover, 600
to 1003; and straw, 30s to 38s per load. Demand heavy.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 30s to 848 Od ; clover, 608
t• 105 s Od ; and straw, 30s to 38s per load. A slow trado.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—There have been very few inquiries, and prices
have remained without change.

Si:GAlL—There continues to be a fair demand for re-
fining qualities, with few sellers, and prices aro well main-
tained. In the refined market goods on offer are limited.
Common lumps and titlers are quoted 425. per cwt.
EECOFFEE.-A fair amount of business has been transacted
in Colonial descriptions, and full rates hays been readily
obtained for superior qualities, the stocks on hand, com-
pared with those of the corresponding period of last year,
showing an increase of 2,830 tons.

RlCE.—Business has boon very quiet, the high rates still
demanded by holders chooking operations to any largo
extent.

COTTON.—A moderato amount of business has been en-
tered into without any material change in values.
TALLOW. —There is littlo alteration to note in the tallow
market during the past week. The demand has been fair,
but not sufficient to strengthen prices in the face of
shipments at St. Petersburg, which wo learn by
telegram have reached 90,300 casks. The price there
remains steady at 43 silver roubles, and the exchange
33d. to 331 d. Here the market is quiet at 435. on
the spot, 425. 9,1. to 435. December, 435. Gd. sellers
January to March, and 445. March. Australian boot 425,
6d., South American 455. Town tallow 425, 83, het OttSh.
The deliveries in London last week were 1,D92 casks
against 2,714 casks in the corresponding psriod of last
yoar. The arrivals were 1,902, and thQ stock on hand
23;595 casks, against 41,491 ca,iss last,

emen,—Alow me unsolicited to send you a word
of commendion for your Pain Killer. I have used it in
my fq2.mily several years, and find it all it claims to be:
For rheumatism, coughs, colds, burns, cholera) aild dis-
eases generally that prevail in families) I regard it as be-
yond all price, and as offieacious beyond any remedy
within my knowledge. We keep it as our chief family
medicine, and find its use iu ordinary cases worth more
than any doctor. Many clergymen have spoken of it in
the highest terms as a family medicine. Missionaries in
repeated instances have said to me in person and in their
letters that the Pain Killer was by far the best mediciae
used in heathen lands. This I say iu justice to yourselves,
and for the benefit of others.—Yours, &c., Rev. W. B.
JACOBS, late editor of the Christian Chronicle. To Perry
Davis and Son, 17, Southampton-row, Holborn (W. C.)"
None genuine without their trade mark, PAIN KILLER,
on the Government stamp. Sold by chemists generally.-
01Yrr.)

y(ar.

" Genitl!

Solemn Requiem for the Pontifical Solders.
(This Day).

A solemn requiem mass, for the repose of the
souls of the Pontifical troops who fell during
the late invasion, was celebrated to-day
at the pro-Cathedral, Moorfields, at which his
Grace the Archbishop of Westminster assisted
pontifically. The cathedral, the high altar, the
archbishop's throne and pulpit, were all draped
with black velvet, trimmed with gold lace.
In front of the high altar a catafalque
was erected, over which was a pall of cloth of gold
edged with sable velvet. At the four corners were
placed massive gotten candelabra, between which
were others of smaller size, all containing lighted
tapers. Shortly after eleven the Archbishop—fol-
lowed by Provost limit, and Canons Weathers,
Last, Sl/4;arle, awns, Walker, and Hearn, entered
the Cathedral, and took his seat on the throne at the
left of the altar, the gratid organ pealing forth the
Kyrie. There were, also present the Provincials
of the Augustinians, of the Oblates of Mary,
the Oblates of St. Charles, several Fathers
of the Oratory and the Passionists, the Revs. W.
Kelly, Lockhart, Dr. Gilb3rt, T. Cahill, Hussey,
Pycke, &c., the sanctuary being full of ecclesiastics.
After the Epistle and Gradual the " Dies ilia"
was solemnly and most impressively chanted by a
very full choir, and at the close of the mass his
Grace ascended the pulpit and preached the sermon,
of which the following are in substance; as nearly as
possible, the words of his Grace :

iVisdom, v. 4-5, "We fools counted their life madness
and their end without honour. Thhold they are
numbered among the children of God, and their lot is
among the Saints."

There is a day to come which will reverse the
confident judgments of men. On that day " The
first will be last and the last first." The wise in this
world will be fools, and the fools in this wcrld wise.
The mad in this world will be the heirs of a
better. It is no wonder to us that, day after day,
base, craven, hireling names should be showered
upon the noble-hearted men who have joyfully laid
down their lives for the Vicar of Jesus Christ. I
should break the peace of this hour if I were to
repeat the heartless and bitter railings which
have been pelted at them. They would taint the
fragrance of this sanctuary. I will, therefore,
examine the cause for which they fell, and I will
appeal from their nameless accusers to a tribunal
which is seldom unjust to the broad, calm, common
sense of Englishmen, and to the nobler and higher
instincts of Christians.

The dead for whose repose we offer the Holy
Sacrifice to-day were slain in battle for the defence
of the sacred person of the Vicar of Jesus Christ,
of his lawful authority over the city which, under the
providence of God, he and his predecessors have
held, by martyrdom, suffering, and sovereignty, for
1,800 years : for the liberty of his person and office
as Head of the universal Church, for his supreme
guardianship of the faith and law of Jesus Christ,
in which all Christendom has its vital interest,
and finally for the rights and spiritual liberties of
the whole Catholic world.
If it be madness or baseness to die for such a
cause, tell me what cause is holy, what cause is
glorious ? If the world calls such men hirelings,
the whole Christian world will honour them as
martyrs; and we will bide the sentence of the
Judge from whom is no appeal.
There was a time when the whole of Western
Christendom held it to be noble and glorious to
volunteer in arms to defend the Holy Sepulchre
from the powers of Mahometanistn. Why is it not
in like manner noble and glorious to defend the
Vicar of Jesus Christ, the liberty, the purity of the
Church itself from an anti-Christian revolution ?
If it was an act of Christian chivalry to defend
the frontiers of Christendom, why is it not both
Christian and chivalrous to defend its Head and
Centre? If it was a noble courage to fight and to
fall for the *Christian liberty and purity of souls,
and of homes threatened by Mahoinctanistn, how
is it ignoble and hireling to defend the Christian
Church at the centre of its liberty, purity, and life,
against the violence of men who have blasphemously
trumpeted their hatred of Jhristianity, and stained
the cities of Italy with impurity and blood? If a
war for justice be sacred, and if all Christians may
lawfully and with dignity help their brethren of
every nation, and die in such a cause, how can
a Christian hand write names of infamy upon
them ? I appeal from such wresting of judgment to
the Christian conscience and Christian justice
of Englishmen. I say of Englishmen, be-
cause the hearts and consciences of Irishmen are
wounded and indignant at this violation of every
instinct of their faith.

But perhaps we shall be told that Rome is the
capital of Italy. This is the true issue.
We deny it. Rome is not the capital of Italy.
It is the capital of Christendom ; God has so made
it, and man cannot unlit tke it ; and all Christian
nations have a right in it. Italy has its share in
Rome as France has, and all other Catholic people ;
and neither less nor more. Bat Rome is in Italy,
and Italians speak one tongue. Geography an I
language create no rights. If it were so Canada
would justly bo annexed to the Unite :1 States.
North America, " one and united," would not be
"made" till it had incorporated Canada in its
national unity of language and geography. Spain
may say the same of Gibraltar, Italy of Malta, and
other races of India in their several limits of terri-

tory and language. To this portentous theory of
nationalism, we answer that it is a denial of
all true national and international justice ; the
source of schism in religion, and of revolution in
polities. Until the schism of the 16th century shat-
tered the unity of Christian Europe this theory of
division was never known. A higher unity and a
higher law bound together the nations of the Chris-
tian world, and consecrated the authority of States,
while it protected the liberties and rights of the
people. As Christians, and as Catholics, we refuse
to break up the unity of Christendom for the unity
of Italy, and to sacrifice the Christian and superna-
tural order of tho world to the "national aspirations"
of any people.
For the last thirty years the doctrine of na-
tionalities and non-Intervention has been preached
with a subtilty and a confidence which has seduced
many and stunned more. Men have been afraid of
raising their heads against the claim of a nation's
right to make revolutions. The doctrine which the
Protestant Reformation used as a wedge to split off
nations from the unity of the Church has been
since applied as the le for to overturn thrones, and
to destroy international rights. It is now lifted
to overturn the Holy See. It is assumed that
the highest and ultimate unity on earth is the
unity of a nation—that each nation may isolate
itself both in religion and politica at will, .and that
non-intervention is a reciprocal and universal duty
of all nations to each other. Against this system
of national supremacy, anti-Christian and immoral,
we protest in the name of Christendom. There is
an unity higher than the unity of any nation, in
which the welfare of all nations is bound up—the
unity of the Christian world. The maintenance of
this unity, in its head and centre, its order and laws
of national justice and co-operation, is the highest
interest of all nations, and the guarantee of their
reciprocal duties and rights. England isolated itself
front the Christian world in religion three hun-
dred years ago, and its present attitude of political
isolation is inevitable. Russia in like manner is
cut off from Europe by its schism, and its schism
dictates its policy. Prussia is still half united to
the Catholic world. The other nations of Europe
are, for the most part, or altogether, members of
the Catholic unity. It is not possible for any one
of them to claim the Russian or English exemption
from national responsibility to a higher unity with-
out renouncing their Catholic character. This, in an
evil hour, Italy has been lured, taunted, tempted
to do. Aud in an evil hour it has listened.. It has
claimed the capital of Christendom by a vote of its
Parliament as the capital of Italy. But the Catholic
world will not submit to this usurpation, and
France, not as France, but as the mandatory of
the Catholic Powers, hasdefeated, and will defeat,
the usurpation, and protect the centre of Catholic
unity and the Head of the Catholic world. This is
our answer. The unity of Christendom will not
make way for the unity of Italy.
It was for this cause these brave men fell.

And yet it was not against the Monarchy of Italy
they fought. They were face to face with an anti-
Chriaiau horde )vhieh the rii4g of Italy di owned,

Some ten thousand men of all parts of Italy, and of
many other countries, armed and organised, with-
out authority of public law, and in direct vio-
lation of the same, invaded the States of the Church.
They made a private war in the name of the Red Re-
volution. This horde was led by the man who in 1848
stained Rome with innocent blood, and the other day
demanded the overthrow of the Christian religion as
essential to the welfare of the world. They were on
their way to Rome to dethrone not the Pontiff
alone, but Jesus Christ. God not permitted
the outrage to be perpetrated. While we were
praying, day by day, in the Holy Mass, and be-
fore the most Holy Sacrament, while in Rome
households were saying at the first hour of night
the Litany of our Blessed Mother, with an in-
vocation of St. Petev and Paul for the protec-
tion of Rome, the heal of the revolution, with its
leader in all his pre3tige, was crudied and swept off
the Patrimony of the Church by a blow so su lien
and so complete that not a vestige, except the dead,
wounded,and arms of the invaders rem tins upon the
field. Men will read this event differently. Some will
see in it no more than a battle and a vict.ry. We
see in it also au answer to prayer, and an act of the
power of God. 'lt has once more savel the Heal
and Centre of Christianity from sacrilege and de-
secration ; and they who gave their lives in the
defence of Christianity may be numbered with the
martyrs. But over that field of slaughter and of
flight there hangs a gloom as of a funeral pall. The
unhappy men who fell with weapons in their hands
raised against the Vicar of Jesus Christ were re-
generate in baptism, and once illuminated with
faith, and members of the Holy Catholic Church.
In boyhood they had made their first confession and
first communion as you did. But some terrible
illusion of Satan, and the snares of secret societies,
blinded and entangled them. I would fain say,
" Father, forgive them, they know not what they
do !" But how could they be ignorant of their sin?
There is mourning for them in many homes, and we
mourn over their misery ; but our tongues are tied,
and our thoughts suspended. Our hearts can only
ascend in secret to the infinite depths of the Divine
mercy.

I have said that those for whom we pray
did not fall before the Italian Monarchy. But
there are depths in these events which we can-
not fathom. The armies of the King of Italy
did not disarm or hinder the invaders. They
were bound to do it, but did not. They en-
tered the Roman State in the rear of the revolution,
and stood awaiting its success. I know not how to
interpret this conduct, but I know how it would
have been interpreted in England if the armies
of the United States had not repressed the
armed bands which from their frontier a year
ago threatened Canada; still more if they had
advanced in the rear of the marauders to hold
for the American Union what might be successfully
seized by force. Such a course would not be ignoble
because Great Britain is strong, nor is it noble
because the Pope is weak. Neither aro the " na-
tional aspirations "‘of [taly for Rome more legiti-
mate than the national aspirations of the Union for
Quebec. Italy has no more claim on Rome than
on Dresden or Paris. Rome is protected by as
sacred aright of sovereignty against the usurpation
and ambition of Italy as Vienna or Madrid. Sove-
reigns do not lose their rights because they aro in
the neighbourhood of stronger powers. If proximity
and geography and the unity of language constitute
a right of absorption for the greater powers to ab-
sorb the weaker then Brussels may be lawfully
annexed by France, and Amsterdam by Germany.
We have loudly aided and encouraged Italy in their
usurping policy. We have lavished 'upon it " the
moral support" of leading articles, and wo shall
reap the fruit of our labours.
It is a strange simplicity which pretends to won-
der why France should even have made a CJnven-
tion when it withdrew its protection from the Holy
See; and why it should have surroundel it with " a
moral cordon," reserving to itself the right of in-
tervention. •

It did so 13,:cause the Holy 5.32 is to France and to
the Catholic world a centre in which they have supreme
and vital rights ; and it placed the security of the
Holy See within the same defence which protects our
persons and properties from robberyand violence—the
justice and conscience of Christian men, the public
law of Christendom, backed by a supreme power,
which " bears not the sword in vain."

I have no doubt that they who counsel to Italy
moderation " for the present," and hold out the
hope of Rome in reversion when Pius IX. goes" to
his rest, sincerely believe themselves to be wise and
equitable men. We are told also that the signs of
the times are enough to show that Pius IX. is the
last Pontiff who will hold a temporal sceptre. Some
men will read even Holy Scripture back wards. The
signs of the times rather indicate tint so long as
there is a Christian world so long the Pontiff will
be Sovereign. If the world should apostatize from
Christianity, it then may be that God would scourge
it by the fulfilment of its heart's desire.

But it is well for them to know that the Ca-
tholic world, neither now nor hereafter—neither at
the decease of Pius IX., nor yet at any time—will
yield one shadow of the inalienable right of the
Sovereign Pontiffs to the capital of Christendom ;
neither will it for a moment suffer the denial of its
own supreme right and duty to intervene for the
protection of the Holy See. The moral cordon of
justice and order will be always drawn around it;
and the right of execution will never depart from
the Catholic world. In the days of Pius IX. it is
France alone which has executed the will of Chris-
tendom ; in the days of his successor it may be a
league of Catholic Powers, or the force of 200
million concentrated and brought to bear by some
future organisation which shall give expression and
effect to its will.

For twenty years the anti-Christian seditious of
all the world have aimed at the overthrow of Rome,
at the destruction of the Temporal Power first, of
the Spiritual Power afterwards. They hate the
Temporal Power much, but they hate the Spiritual
Power more. They think that if it wore possible
to destroy the Temporal Power, the Pontiffs would
be either persecuted or subject. A Pope subject to a
Royal Supremacy would reduce the Spiritual Supre-
macy to absurdity ; and derision would be keener
and more deadly than persecution. For this end,
therefore, all the spirits of anti-Christian revolution
have united against Rome. They have poisoned
the public opinion of Europe against it by lying, or
by truths perverted, which are the worst of lies.
They have misled and influenced Governments,
stirred up popular bigotry,„paiuted the Govern-
ment of Rome in the foulest and falsest colours,
organised in secret a Propaganda of sedition to
disgust, alienate, and goad on the subjects of the
Holy See to discontent and to rebellion. Finally,
when the people of Rome would not rebel, nor ac-
cept them as deliverers, nor take the baits of sedi-
tion, the revolutionary hordes of all countries
entered the Roman State in arms. It was at once
proclaimed as the rising and insurrection of the
Roman State. Foreign invasion played the part of
domestic insurrection. Every act to seduce or to
compel the peaceful pOpulation to rise has been
used. Provisional Governments, revolutionary com-
mittees, petitions signed by imaginary thousands,
Plebiscites, Proclamations, conspiracies in Rome,
shells thrown among the loyal inhabitants, gun-
powder plots, mines under the walls, were tried, but
all in vain. In the end, moved by a just indignation,
delayed only too long through Christian endurance,
the soldiers and protectors of the Holy See crushed
and scattered the lawless hands of the revolution.
It was a just and noble act for the Catholics of all
countries to sweep the seditious, conspireies, and
armed outrages of foreign invaders out of the Patri-
mony of the Church. If the unbelievers of other
countries, banded in secret societies, have a right
to plot the overthrow of the Sovereign Pontiff, the
faithful of other nations have likewise a just and
perfect right, in open and lawful array, to defend
his person and throne. If the revolution invade
his State, tho Catholic world has a right to turn
' it out. Foreign aggressors may justly be destroyed
by foreign troops. But no Catholic power is
foreign in Rome. Every Catholic has a right in
the Holy See, and in the city where God has placed
it. The theory of non-intervention has no applica-
tion in this case. Non-intervention may be a po-
licy of the natural order, bttt must be confined to

the sphere of politics, and to the mutual respect of
civil Governments. It is a mere deceit in order to
mask the question when applied to Rome. No
Catholic Power can proclaim the policy of non-
intervention when the Vicar of Christ and the Head
of the Catholic Church is threatened. To do so
would be to renounce the Catholic character and
name. Protestant or schismatical Governments
may perhaps proclaim non-intervention as their
policy, because they have forfeited their rights in
Rome. They may also in their theories divide the
Temporal from the Spiritual Power of the Pon-
tiffs. But all C Ltlnlics kno7 these things
to be providentially united for t;:e free
and p.3ac?ful exerci of the mission of the
Church am mg the nations of the world. Tiio in-
tervention of the French people to (1 fen 1 the per-
son and authirity of Piui IX. against external
violence from whatsoever nation, race, or Govera-
meet it may com 3, would be by all the pre;eriptiln
of Christian international law, an honourable, just,
and noble act. How much more when France has
intervened against a law'crs an I hyrr)7l.l band of

invaders, rebels to their own Government, and
disturbers of the peace of the Christian world ? By
this act which is only one more in the traditional
office of France in protecting the Centre and Head
of Christendom, she has placed herself in the lead
of the Christian oaLT, the Christian justice of the
Christian chivalry of the world. May God main-

taim her firm and inflexible in this noblest mission
upon earth. The Catholic world will confirm her
acts by the sympathy and assent of its heart and
conscience. France has thereby invoked upon itself
the enmity, scorn, and revilement of anti-Catholic
and anti-Christian factions. But it has won to

itself the confidence and the sympathy of every man
among the 200,000,000 in all lauds, who refuse to
offer up the supernatural unity, order, and purity
of the Christian world as a homage to the tyranny
of modern Nationalism, the deification of the civil
power, the anti-Christian hatred against the Church
of God. Let France stand firm, and she may stay
the plague which is devouring Christian Europe.
The prayers of all good men will ascend for her.
Those thoughts bring to my mind others of a sadder
cast, and nearer to ourselves. But I forbear to
speak of our own country.
There are, however, happier thoughts to which I
gladly turn.
These late events have detected and exposed with
a terrible but just retribution the hollowness, the
imposture, the falsehood, the vainglory, the impo-
tence of the Revolution. Grandiloquence, mystery,
pretended übiquity for a long time terrified or dis-
tracted the friends of order. But the veil is rent,
and the idol is broken. On the Ist of November
the ringleader of this godless anarchy proclaimed to
the world from Monte Rotondo—" I here, alone a
Roman General, with full powers from the only
lawful Government—that is of the Roman Republic,
and elected by universal suffrage—have the right to
maintain myself in arms on this territory of my
jurisdiction." Before the moon was up on the
3d of November he and his hordes were
swept away, not by the soldiers of Christendom, nor
by the armies of France, but by the just judgment
of God, whom, in the Vicar of His Incarnate
Son, he had outraged and defied. Thus, then,
is one vast scandal and danger swept
out of Italy. Year by year there have been
arising in Italy the harbingers of a better
day. It has suffered much, and the shadow of a
greater suffering which may yet come is
cast before upon it. But there is yet time,
and there is yet hope. Italy is both Chris-
tian and Catholic. Infidelity and Revolution

have tormented and tainted Italy, but Italy is neither
revolutionary nor Infidel. Factions have risen ,from
time to time, to the surface; and the traditional
mind and will of Italy is for a while confused and
paralysed. But it is evidently rising again in vigour
and contest ' • and if only wise and Christian coun-
sels prevail the Christian mind of Italy will be once
more in the ascendant. Then, and only then, can
the reconciliation of Italy and Rome be accom-
plished. No worse enemy ever came between them
than the Infidel Revolution. When Italy returns
upon the path of its old Catholic glory, the hearts
of the Catholic world will return to it. We love
and venerate it as the soil on which the greatest
glories of the Catholic Church are inscribed, and the
Head of the Christian world is divinely placed.
Apart from these prerogatives Italy has no claim
upon our goodwill beyond other nations ; against
these supreme laws of Providence Italy has uo rights.
We pray that all temporal prosperity may be
upon her, but on the condition of her fidelity to
the order and the unity of the Christian world.
There remains but one more thought, an image
which rises in our minds high above all in cahrness,
dignity, and grandeur—the Vicar of Jesus Christ,
immovable in confidence, inflexible in justice, the
Father of his people. Against him can be found no
accusation. Many have borne witness against him,
but their testimonies do not agree together. No
man can convict him of injustice, of cruelty, of
oppression, of even lawful severity. He has been
conspired against and betrayed, but he has par-
doned the conspirators and betrayers, to be betrayed
and conspired against again. He has taken no
man's goods, not so much as a shoe latchet. Ile
has never harassed the poor of his people, nor
driven them from the humble homes of their fathers,
nor wounded their conscience in that which is
dearest to a Catholic people. The line of Pontiffs
stands alone for justice and mercy in the history
and the assembly of kings. One accusation
against him can alone be proved. He ig
a Priest of Jesus Christ. Some men are to
be found who think this enough to justify his
dethronement. The Christian world is not yet of
their opinion. Neither were those noble hearts who
gave their life-blood, as millions in all nations are
likewise willing at this hour, in order to forbid this
great sacrilege. In that little band were men
of noble blood, of time-honoured memory, of high
culture, fighting side by side, with simple, hard-
handed, broad-hearted peasants, who, with hearts
full of devotion, left their hamlets and their homes
to defend the Vicar of our Lord, and with striplings
' of 17, 18, and 19 years of age, mature in faith, and
the manhood of Christian chivalry. These were
the men,who forsaking home, and all that life holds
best and dearest, went to bear arms as private
soldiers, without hire and without hope, except that
of defending the person and authority of the Vicar
of Christ, and of shedding their b'_ood, if need be,
in the justest warfare and for the holiest cause ; and
God has accepted this offering only from a few :
but there will be fathers, mothers, sisters, wives,
who will mourn over their bier. You will pray for
them, though the sanctity of their cause almost
. .

forbids it, that they may enter into the joy of those
who,they
face to face, see Him for whom died.
And we may trust that their places here will be
filled up tenfold—a hundredfold—that the manhOod
and chivalry of Catholics in all nations will spring
forward with a new energy of devotion and close
around the person of Pius IX., and of those who
shall come after him as an impenetrable wall of liv-
ing strength, against which if revolutionary violence
or ambitious nationalism shall hereafter again dash
itself it may be for ever broken.
This outrage and its chastisement warns all nations
of the Christian and civilised world to provide for
their own safety. It is but one more of the out-
bursts of anti-Christian and anti-social revolution
which has in time past struck at the Head and Centre
of Christendom. It will soon renew its as-
sault. It has been utterly and bitterly foiled, but
we do not deceive ourselves with the hope that it is
crushed or extinct. It will return again. Its hordes
are driven out of view, but they lie under the
horizon. They will re-form their array, and return
hereafter. We have need, therefore, to prepare more
solidly and resolutely than ever.
Three things, we may trust, will come of this
offence against the Christian order of nations, which
has all but plunged Europe into war.
First, That France declared to all comers, and to
all who may affect to doubt it, that the traditional
mission of a thousand years as the Protector of
the Holy See will not be relaxed ; that it will exe-
cute it hereafter, as it has now, with inflexible
decision ; that in all diplomatic calculations this
must be taken into account, that while others talk,
France will do.
Secon,lly, That all,European nations take security
against the renewal of these dangers to both their
external and internal peace. The Catholic nations
have a vital and all-pervading interest in the safety
and independence of the Head of their Religion.
The nations not Catholic have mingled among them
so many millions of Catholic brethren and 'fellow
subjects that their own internal welfare, as well as
their external peace, is perpetually threatened by
these outrages and scandals. It is the highest in-
terest of a!1 to protect, by international law and re-
ciprocal engagements the neutrality and exemption
of Rome from all political conflicts, and the inde-
pendence and dignity of the Head of the Catholic
world.
Lastly, The example of this noble blood from
Rome, from France, from Belgium, from Holland,
from Ireland, from England, and from other lands
which has been generously shed, calls with the
voice of a trumpet upon the youth of all Catholic
people to form a circle around the :Vicar of
Jesus Christ. Let the world count thir Christian
chivalry to be madness, and their end to be without
honour. There is One reigning in the realms of
light above this dark world Who will accept their
reproach, and, if 5o be, their life-blood as An offer-
ing •
to lib:coal.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY AUTUMN MEETING—MoNDAy.

The Abbey Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for
three year olds and upwards ; the second to save his

stake ; about three quarters of a mile.
Mr. E. Green's Admanthea, by King of Trumps—
Adeline, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Humphries) 1
Mr. E. Brayley's Miss Alice, 3 yrs, Gst 101 b (Butler) 2
Mr. A. Heatheote's Brown Tommy, 3 yrs, Est 111 b
(Cameron) 3

Betting—Even on Miss Alice, 2 to 1 agst Adamanthea,
sto 2 (at first 6 to 4) agst Brown Tommy. Won in a
canter by two lengths.

Match 100, h ft; three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Brayley's Moose, by Mountain Deer—Constance,
aged, tint (Cannon) 1
Mr. C. Perey's Ainsley, 3 yrs, 7st (Quince) 2
The Cleveland Plate of 200 sovs (llaudicap); winners of
any handicap after Nov. 2 (at 10 a.m.) 71b, if of 100 sovs
10Ib, or a second iu such latter raco 51b extra ; about live
furlongs, straight.

Mr. G. Angell's Python, by Young Melbourne—Latons,
3 yrs, 7st 2;b (S. Mordau) 1
M!-. J. I'. CravJu's Sir Oliver, 3 yrs, Est Sib (car. Est 91b)
(Pell,lei) 2
Mr. Brewer's Deceiver, I yrs, 7,t fib (11. Covey) 3
The Lißowing also ran : —Salliet, Corporal, Jeannie
Deans, Chibisa, Prima Donna, Columbine, Squire, and
Janet Rawcliffe.

Betting —3 t 1 agst Janet Rawcliffe, 6 to 1 each agst
Corporal and Python, 7 to 1 each agst Salliet, Deceiver,
and Columbine, and 8 to 1 agst Sir Oliver. Won by a
neck.

The Racing Stakes of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; two year
olds 7st, three Bst 91b, four, five, six, and aged 9st 31b ;
the second to save his stake ; about three quarters of a
mile. •
Mr. Jennings's L'Africaine, by Father Thames—Miss
Shepherd, 2 yrs, Gst 4111(-Z10)
Sir E. A. Hamilton's Rosa Nera, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (X4O)
(Parry) • • (Parry) 2
Mr. Brattou's How-d'ye-do, 2 yrs, sst 131 b (.£10) (Butler) 3
Betting —7 to 4on L'Africaine. Won in a canter by a
length.

The Stewards' Cup of 50 sows, aided to a handicap of 5
sovs each, 3 ft (to the fund) ; the second to save his
stake ; about one mile.

Mr. J. Stephenson's Scipio, by Leamington—Victoriou 3'B
dam, 3 yrs, ost 101 b (godson) 1
Mr. E. Brayloy's Cromwell, 3 yrs, sst 81b (car 56t 101 b)
(Butler) 2
Mr. A. lleatlicete's Lady Pam, 3 yrs, sst 121 b ...(Vinell) 3
Minster 801 l also ran.

Betting —9 to 4 (at first 5 to 4) agst Scipio, 5 to 2 each
aget Lady Pam and Cromwell, and 3 to 1 agst Minster
Bell. Won by a neck
The Queen's Plate of 100 gs ; three year olds Bst 61b, four
9st 71b, five, six, and aged 9st 13:b ; three miles.
Mr. Johnstone's Mandrake, 3 yrs, Bst 61b (Ca,neron) 1
Mr. E. B ayley's Moose, aged 9st 131 b (Cannon) 2
Mr. Wadlow's Christmas Carol, 5 yrs, 9st 13Ib
(J. Challoner) 3
Betting-3 to lon Mandrake, 4to 1 agst Moose, and 10
to 1 agst Christmas Carol. Won by half a length.
The Carnival Nursery Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, with
100 added; the second to save his stake; about one
mile.

Mr. J. Smith's Paganini, 7st (S. Mordan) 1
Mr. J. Wood's Beauty, Bst 121 b (A. Edwards) 2
Mr. Thellusson's Lictor, Bst (Deacon) 8

The following also ran : —Mariner, Northern Star,
Triana, Meliora, _Shrew, Duffer, Morning Star,
Citron, Fugleman.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Citron, sto 1 agst "Actor, Bto 1
each agst Meliora and Paganini, 10 to 1 each agst Beauty
Mariner and Fugleman. Won by a head.
The For,-,ato Stakes of 10 sous each, h ft; two year olds
7st 121 b, three 9st ; about three furlongs, straight.
_ _ _

Prince Soltykoff's Bounceaway, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b (J. Mann) 1
Mr. H. Flight's Sour Grapes, 2 yrs, ist 121 b (F. Webb) 2
Betting-100 to 6 on Bounceaway. Won by two
lengths.
A Nursery Handicap of 3 sous each, with 20 added, for
two year olds; about half a mile, straight.
Mr. G. Angell's Retirement, ist 101 b
Marquis of Queensberry's Pocket Hercules, Bst 21b (Milne) 2
Mr. O. Green's Peace, Bst (Humphries) 3
_ _

The following also ran :—Latoef colt, Irwell, Glenarm,
Toby. _ _

Betting-5 to 4 agst Retirement, sto 2 agst Peace, and
Bto 1 agst Pocket Hercules. Won by a head.
The Wynnstay Welter Handicap of 10 sovs each, 3 ft (to
the fund), with 80 added ; about three quarters of a mile.
Mr. E. Green's Wild Moor, 3 yrs, 9st 101 b (car. 9st 121 b)
(Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr. Jay's Elegance, 4 yrs, Bst 81b (T. Challoner) 2
Mr. J. Dawson's Belmont, 4 yrs, list 41b
(garquis of Queensberry) 3
T he following also ran: —D uc de Bourgogne, Redbourne
Chepstow.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Chepstow, 3to 1 agst Reclbourne,
4to 1 agst Wild Moor, and sto 1 agst Elegance. Won
by three lengths.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

LONDON, Nov. 12.--Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 12.—Wind N.-W.—Arrived—City
of Paris, screw steamer, from Now York ; left on the 2d
intla u t.• _ .

CARDIFF, Nov. 11.—W ind N.W.— Sailed —Victor, for
Ilavannah ; Blanche, for Yokohama; St. Joseph, for
Mauritius. _ _ .

FALMOUTH, NOT. 12.—Wind S.W._Arrived—Auna,
from Rio Janeiro. _ _

LIVERPOOL, Nor. 12. —Wind N.W.—ArriTsd—Alleppo,
steamer, from New York.
GRATE/SEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, Nov. 11— Harmonia, from St. Petersburg;
Siblomston, from Sodorham; Medusa, steamer, and Co-
lumbine, steamer, from Cronstadt.
Arrived, Nov. 12—Magna Charta, steamer, from Alme-
ria ; Hippolite Marie, from Rouon ; Derwent, steamer, and
Era, steamer, from Cronstadt; Seine, steamer, from
Boulogne.

DRAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed.—Volunteer, screw steamer, for Bordeaux; Queen
of India, for Madras ; Zeus, for Buenos Ayres ; Quiver, for
St. Michael's ; Adler, for Liverpool—all from London
Cleator, screw steamer, from the West, for London.
Anchored—Caroline, from London, for Cardiff.
Sailed.—Alphington, for Singapore.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This Evening.

Amsterdam - Short. 11 181
Ditto 3 Months. 12 Of
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 35
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 Of
Paris • . . Short 25 10
Ditto 3 Months. 25 30
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201
Vienna — 12 54
Triesto :— 12 55
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid — 481
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 28 30
Naples — 28 30
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto — 51

11. 19i
12 1f
12 11
25 40
25 40
13 10;
25 20
25 37i
25_37.1

1201
12 62i
12 62
32
6 27

481
49
28 50
28 50
28 50
28 50
28 50
28 50
511
51,E

FATAL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morning an in-
quest was held in High-street, Poplar, on the body of
Frederick Saunders, aged 45 years. The deceased was
excavating at the West India Docks, when a mass of earth
fell upon him and fractured his skull, causing instant
death. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
PATENT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending Nov. 9, 1,790:
total number since the opening of the museum free daily
May 12, 1858), 1,199,150.
Lady Elcho and family leave London to-day for
Paris, on their way to Cannes, for the winter. Lord Eleho,
M.P., will join her ladyship and family next month.
THE TOWER OF LONDON.—A concert was given
at the Tower of London last week by the Ist battalion of
the Coldstream Guards, which. was well attended by the
official residents of the garrison, as well as by the warders
and their families and the men of the regiment. The pro-
gramme consisted of part songs and instrumental music,
and several comic songs were introduced and performed by
a sergeant-major of the Royal Engineers in such a spirit of
humour as to afford much satisfaction.
PIT Exr LOSION AT CRADLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE.—
Yesterday morning a disastrous pit explosion took
place at. Homer-hill Colliery, on the confines of the South
Staffordshire coal &LI. The pit is the property of
Messrs. Swindells and Evors, and has been in operation
more than two years. It has always been considered a
very safe pit. According to custom the pit was
stnnoiwas
ned
by the deputies at six o'clock, and a fallf
found to have taken place, but on further examination no
gas was discernible. The men wont to work at the ordi-
nary time, and had been at work an hoar and a half when
a violent explosion took place in the south workings.
There were forty men in the pit at the time, and of
these sixteen are seriously burnt, the majority past re-
covery; others on being brought to the surface by the
men from the north workings, who did not experience the
full force of the blast., suffered very much from after damp.
The men were brought to the surface as rapidly as pos-
sible, and medical assistance obtained. The cause of the
accident is attributed to are-damp.
Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office from the Governor of the Bahamas. De-
spatches were sent to the Governors of Malta,
an Ceylon b-
Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, a Lti
raltar.
SALE OF THE DANISH WEST INDIA ISLANDS.--
A telegram through Popo and lieu's General Telegram
Office from Copenhagen states that it is not the Island of
St. Croix, but the Danish Islands of St. Thomas and .St.
Jean, that have been sold to;the United States for 14 mil-
lion Daui§h thew.

THIRD EDIT iLON.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLock.

SPORTING INTEL LIGENOE—This flay

SHREWSBURY RACES—THIS DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
Wit ERIN STAKES.
The Wrekin Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added; two
year olds 7st 11b, three Bst 81b, four and ttiwards gat ;
the winner to be sold for 200 sovs; if nut to be sid Ifjt,
extra; about half a mile, straight.
Liddington
Brenda
Adamanthea

1
• ..... 2

...... s
BATI'LEFI.ELD HANDICAP.
The Battlolield Handicap of 5 says each, with. 3 &Mud ;
whiners of any handicap after Oc'. (-;. ten a.m.) slb,
if of 100 s,vs 1 )It,, or a SUea lat:oe. race bib
extra; the secuud to savu his stake; alJunt three-.
quarters of a mile.
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