The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-01 00:00:00

.1-IER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, OCt. 30.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and
attended by Lady Ely, drove out to Abergeldie and.
inspected the detachment of the 93d Highlanders
quartered there.
Her Majesty drove out again in the afternoon
with the Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice.

THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP WALES

The Prince of iValt‘s, attended by Lieutenant-
Colonel Keppell, visited the studio of Mr. Noble, in
Bruton-street, yesterday, and inspected the models
of the statues of the Quen and the Prince Consort,
which Mr. Noble is executing for the Presidency of
Bombay.

The Princess of Wales drove out, att3nded by
Viscountess Walden.

THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL.

ROME, Oct. 26.

The Encyclical letter recently addressed by the
Pope to " all the primate patriarchs, archbishops,
and bishops of the Catholic world, being in grace
and communion with the Holy
_Apostolic See," has
just appeared here. The principal portions are sub-
joined :--

"Venerable brethren, hail and our apostolic
blessing !—Cast your eyes around you, venerable
brethren, and you will see and deeply deplore, with
us, the detestable abominations which now chiefly
desolate unhappy Italy. As for us, we most humbly
adore the impenetrable judgment of God, who has
been pleased that we should live at this sorrowful
period when, by acts of a few men and notably of
those who govern and direct public affairs in most
unhappy Italy, the venerable commandments of
God and the laws of the Holy Church are utterly
despised, and impiety uplifts its head unpunished,
and triumphs. Hence all the iniquities, all the evils,
and the injuries we behold with th© utmost grief of
our soul. Hence these numerous arrays of men who
walk in iniquity, serving under the banner of Satan,
upon whose forehead is written Falsehood,' and
who, called by the name of rebels and turning their
mouths against Heaven, blaspheme God, sully and
contemn every sacred thing, and, treading under
foot all divine and human rights, only breathe car-
nage, like rapacious wolves. These are they who
shed blood, lose their souls by most serious scan-
dals, and seek most unjustly to profit by their own
malice, carrying off by violence other men's goods,
afflicting the weak and the poor, increasing the num-
ber of widows and orphans, and showing favour for
reward to the impious, while they refuse justice to
the just, plundering, and in the coruption of their
hearts shamefully glutting themselves with all evil
passions, to the very great prejudice of civil society
itself.

"By this race of lost men, venerable brethren,
we aro at present surrounded. These men, ani-
mated by an altogether diabolical spirit, desire to
hoist the standard of falsehood even in our bene-
ficent city, near the chair of St. Peter, the centre
of truth and Catholic unity. And the chiefs of the
Piedmontese Government, who ought to repress
such men, do not blush to support them with all
their zeal, to furnish them with arms and all things
necessary, and to procure them access to this city.
But let all these men tremble, although placed upon
the highest step and in the most elevated post of
the civil power, for by this assuredly perverse con-
duct they entangle themselves in the bonds of
ecclesiastical censure and chastisement. And
although, in the humility of our heart, we have not
ceased to pray and to supplicate, with all our
strength, God, rich in mercy, that ho would deign
to bring back all these unfortunate men to salutary
penitence and the right path of justice, religion,
and piety, nevertheless we cannot be silent upon
the very serious dangers to which we are exposed in
this hour of darkness.

" We await with an entirely tranquil mind the
course of events—whether thty bo brought about
by deceit, by calumny, by treachery, and criminal
falsehood—for we place all our hope and all our
confidence in God, the Author of our salvation,
who is our stay and our courage in all our tribula-
tions, who does not suffer that those who trust in
Him should he confounded, who discovers the snares
of the wicked and breaks the strength of sinners.
"In the meantime we cannot refrain, venerable
brethren, from pointing out first to you, and to all
the faithful committed to your charge, the ex-
tremely sad condition and the serious danger in
which we now find ourselves by the acts of the Pied-
montcse Government in especial. In fact, although
we are defended by the bravery and devotion of
our most faithful army, which has given proof by
its exploits of almost heroic courage, it is neverthe-
less evident that it cannot long resist the more con-
siderable numbers of these most iniquitous aggres-
sors.

" And although wo experience great comfort
from the filial piety testified to us by the remainder
of our subjects, reduced to a small number by
criminal usurpers, we are reduced to regret deeply
that they themselves necessarily feel the very
serious dangers with which they are assailed by
these ferocious battalions of criminal men who con-
stantly terrify them with all kinds of menaces, who
despoil and torment them in a thousand ways.
44 But we are further reduced to deplore other
evils over which we cannot sufficiently groan. You
are well aware, notably through our consistorial
allocution of Oct. 29 last year, and subsequently
by a printed summary furnished with supporting
documents, by what calamities the Catholic Church
and its children in the empire of Russia and the
kingdom of Poland have been miserably tortured
and torn.

" Catholic prelates, ecclesiastics, and faithful
members of the laity have been sent into exile,
thrown into prison, vexed in every way, despoiled of
their property, afflicted and oppressed by the severest
punishments, and the canons and laws of the Church
are altogether trodden under foot. Not content
with this, the Russian Government, following
the plans of its predecessors, continues to violate the
discipline of the Church, to break the bonds of union
of the communion existing between these faithful
brethren and ourselves and our Holy See, to make
every attempt and every effort to overthrow the
Catholic religion altogether in their domains, to tear
these faithful ones from the bosom of the Catholic
Church, and to drag them into the most fatal schism.
It is with incredible sadness of soul we acquaint
you that two decrees have recently been published
by that Government since our last above-mentioned
allocution.

" In the decree of May 22 last, by a horrible
audacity, the diocese of Podlachia, in the kingdom
of Poland, has been entirely suppressed with its
college of canons, its consistory general, and its
diocesan seminary ; the bishop of the aforesaid dio-
cese has been torn from his duck, and forced instantly
to quit the diocese.
" This decree is similar to that of .Tune 3, in the
preceding year, which we have nut previously men-
tioned, being unaware of its existence. By that
decree this same Government has not been afraid to
suppress by its own will and authority the diocese
of Kamiemitz, to abolish its college and canons,
consistory, and seminary, and to tear the prelate
violently from his diocese.
" Finding ouro,Avcs ckprivcd of all means, seeing
closed to us all ways by which we might communi-
cate with these faithful ones, and not wishing that
they should be exposed to prison, exile, and other
chastisement, we have been forced to insert in our
almanack a document in which we have thought it
our duty to provide for the legitimate jurisdiction
over these vast dioceses and the spiritual necessities
of the faithful, in order that intelligence of the
resolution we had taken should arrive in those loca-
lities. Every one will easily understand in what
spirit and object decrees of this character are issued
by the Russian Government, since the absence of
several bishops is added to the suppression of their
dioceses.

" Our grief, however, is brought to the highest
pitch, venerable brethren, by a decree promulgated