The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1860.

ON SATURDAY, the 29th of December, will
bo published, at No. 112, Strand, "THE WEST-
MINSTER GAZETTE," a new Catholic Weekly Paper,
supported by a large number of known and approved
writers. Its two main objects are, first, the exposition of
Catholic principlis on all those great questions—ecclesias-
tical, philosophill, and social which are now agitating
the intellect and heart of the country; and, second, a
truthful statement. of facts as to the condition, political and
religious, of Catholicismin the various countries of Europe.
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" Tim Westminster Gazette." The true interests of Ireland,
its struggles for its unquestionable rights as Catholic
nation to a Catholic system of Education, shall bo dis-
cussed always in a spirit free from the prejudice or passion
of mere political partisanship. An important feature of
the Now Paper will bo the large space especially allotted
to reviews of books, both English and foreign, non-
Catholic as well as Catholic.

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Now ready, price 36i., Ni ith Map,

POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1867. Also a. New Edition of the SIX HOME
COUNTIES DIRECTORY, now publishing, price 365.
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powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protege the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fraaranse. to
the breath. Price Is. Cal.—Red Bull Wharf,
.1/3, Upper
Thames-street, London.

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IVlgmore-street, Cavendish-square. corner of Marylebonc-
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MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per-
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and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps), London.

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Mr. EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey.

SWINSLOW lIALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that he his transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmindiam to the above desirable resideLce,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-halt by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, me tnow, plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

SAUCE.—LEA and PERRINS'
WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.
This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE,"
Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS.
The public are respectfully cwitioned against worthless
imitations, and should see that Lea and rerrins' names are
on wrapper, label, bottle, and stopper,
ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE.
Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wor-
cester; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell; Messrs. Barclay and
Sons, London, tto. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen uni-
versally.

L_AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.-AN
ILA EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad-
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by
W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing-
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip-
thn of ARTIFICIAL TEETH*, fixed without springs, wires,
or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble' the natural teeth
as not to be distinguished fro n the originals by the closest
observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will
be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This
method does not require ti,e extraction of roots, or ar.y pain-
ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful
In mastication.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.
This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s; sent by post for 60 stamps.
—2lB, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

LTAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 51, 81, and 144 stamps.
—Had of all Chemists.

REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
AT ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
Immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in effe t. Price 3s Rd, 5s ed, and ioa ed ; sent by post
[or 54, 81, and 141 stamps ; and all Cheralits.

HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes
superfluous hair from the lace, neck, and arms, without effect
to the skin. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d, and 105 6d ; sent for 51, 81,
and 144 stamps.—llad of all Chemists,

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LES DR I.GONS DE YELL t. ItS (Opera Comique), Music
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zether with an Entirely New bivertisseinent, entitled TILE
OXI"OLtD REVELS, arranged and produced under :he
immediate sunerinten'ience of Kr; W. IL Payne, THIS
EVENING (MONDAY).

itirADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
ITI. BAKER-STREET.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
NEW EDITIONS. —Life-size Portrait-Models of JOHN
BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and the late RICHARD COBDEN,
Esq.,
Open from 11 Lm. till du'k, and from 7 VII 10 p.m..
Admittance, IL ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, Gd.

ARGYLL ROOMS. —GRAND CASINQ,
Windmill-street, Picitadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, baring been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVICHY IiWICNIN(i for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor Ligit Cullrt. Manager,
GRENET.

Admission to Promenade. one
Reserved Seats, Two 9.itlllings.

WEST ON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
H LB.
Sole Proprietors; SiVE and frouirn.
The -most -triumphant success Wirer attained in any
Musical F. eablishmont. Grand Selection from Auber's
Opera of '" MASANIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in
costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish
Minstrels. ,with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under
the directin oof Pat Cord. A now and original overture
composentnd arranged expressly for the above`minstrels
by Mr. It. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd,
Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt, Paddy
Fannin" Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King.
Majaton':as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian
Juggler.' Band of 30 first-class mers, and large Chorus
chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera
Horses. 'Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI.

Prices. of admission &tills and Balcony, ls.; Area, Gd. ;
Private Boxes, 10s: 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office,
between the, hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every
Evening at 7 o'clock, commencing at Half-past.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to the trade for the sale of this genuine old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand. London, W.C.
Established id Grafton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,

Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

" V.R." IRISH WHISKY.
DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.

London Offices and Stores,
4, BEA.UFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Eatatil(shed 1808. Quotations on application.

-FAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, Johre-street,
111 Cork, bey to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their, celebrated Whiskies, in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7,
P4nfing-house-square, London, E C., the only house in the
square not occupledby the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
briny the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by relerenee to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whielals fetch 6d. per gallon and is. per case over the next
beef, and Is. tid per gallon and ss. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old
mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

THE OCEAN ST. LEG-ER of jB66.—What
Lord Lyon was to his owner was the 'Nevin to her
Ca•ilain, viz., winner of the race, having distanced all com-
petitors, as the S:AS I' IV DIA TEA COUPANT- have in-
rariab y done in their choi e and mile of fine new season's
teas, now selling at imprier's prices. Warehouses-9, Great
St. Llelen's-churchyard.

AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.-
A CHINESE CADDY, containing (Gibs. of really
good Black Tea, sent carriage free to any railway station or
market town in England, Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on re-
ceipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and CO Tea Merchants, 8,
King William-street, City, E.C.

TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d ,
25., 2s 6 t. per lb. are the prices at which PHILLIPS
and CO , Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, Lon-
don. E.C.. are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A. price
current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any railway
station or market town in the United Kingdom.—Observe—
PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents or any Connexion with
any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at
market prices.

GE O L O G Y.-ELEMENTARY COLLEC-
TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's
Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of
Mineralogy and Geology, can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500
guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils,
and Recent Shells, Geological Maps. Hammers, all the recent
Publications, &c., of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to Her
Majesty, 149, Strand, London.
Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by
Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C.

THE ITALIAN BISHOPS.

FLORENCE, Dec. 22.
The bishops who were exiled from their sees by
decree of the Italian Government, and subsequently
took up their residence at Rome, addressed a letter
to Baron Ricasoli after the issue of his circular of
the 22d October. The bishops were under the im-
pression that the permission to return, announced
in the Ministerial circular, did not apply to those
ecclesiastics residing in Rome, and complained of
this exclusion in their letter to the President of the
Council. Baron Ricasoli's reply, which follows
beneath, was not originally intended for publica-
tion, but since the letter of the bishops has appeared
in the Unita Cattolica, it was considered necessary
that the public should be made acquainted with the
terms in which the Minister replied. The letter of
Baron Ricasoli bears date 2Gth November, and is
as follows :
" Monsignori,—l have only to-day received the
letter which you have done me the honour to
address to me from Rome, bearing date 15th
inst., on the subject of the recall of the bishops
to their sees. This letter was doubly agreeable to
me from the important reasons for which your lord-
ships approve that measure, and in which lain happy
to concur with you, and from the request that the
permission to return to their dioceses, conceded to
the bishops by the circular of the 22d Oct., should
be also extended to the bishops residing at Rome,
thus elemoustpitirrypsigpitiueveresice.
towards'tte—insti ionS an ws
shadow you desire to live. I rejoice that I andel-
pated'Your wishes in this matter, and interpreted
your sentiments aright by deciding, on the same
du as that on which your letter was despatched,
that the exception complained of should be removed.
Of ,this I believe your lordships_ will alreadyp have
hadfoll and official cagnisanCe.
"The decision adopted by the Government arises,
as your lordships state, from the desire that perfect
libektin the relations between Church and State
should pass from the Abstract region of principle in
which it had hitherto remained to the reality of fact.
The Government, therefore,,po less
,_earnestly than
your lordships, desires that Maly may. very soon en-
joylthe magnificent and imposing religious spectacle
now afforded to the free citizens of the United States
of America by the National Council of ka/timore,
wherein religiontdoetrines are freely discussed, and
whose decisionsiapprovxd by the Pope, will be pro-
claimed :and executed in every town and village
without exequatur or placiti. I therefore beg your

lordships to consider that it is liberty which has
produced this admirable spectacle ; liberty professed
and respected by all, in principle and in fact, in its
amplest application to civil, political, and social life.
In the United States every citizen is free to follow
the persuasion thatohe may think best, and to wor-

ship the Divinity blithe form that they may seem
to him-pest appropriate. Side by side with the
Catholic Church rises the Protestant temple, the
Mussulman mosque, the Chinese pagoda. Side by
side with the Romish clergy thetenevan 6onsistory
and the Methodist assembly discharge theii-Dffice.
This 'state. of: things generates neither :confusion
nor clAshing,-- And why is this ? *ewe no
religion=i asks: eilher special protection or
privileged from the State, each lives, developes, and
is followed Under the protection of the common law,
and the equally respected by all, guarantees to
all an equal liberty:- The Italian Governmient wishes
to demonstrate ias far as possible thet it has faith in
liberty, and fs..dheisous of applying it to the greatest
extent compatible fvf* the interestesof.public order.

It therefore calls upon the bishops to return to their
sees, whence they were removed by these very mo-
tives of public order. It makes no conditions save
that one incumbent upon every citizen who desires
to live peaceably, viz., that he should confine him-
self to his own duty and observe the laws. The
State will insure that he be neither disturbed nor
hindered, but let him not demand privileges if he
wishes no bonds. The principle of every free State,
that the law is equal for all, admits of no distinc-
tions of any kind. The Government would be glad
to cast off all suspicion and abandon all precaution,
and if it does not now wholly act up to this wish, it
is because theprinciple of liberty which it has adopted
and put into practice is not equally adopted and
practised by the clergy.
" Let your lordships remark the difference between

the condition of the Church in America and the con-
dition of the Church in Europe. In those virgin re-
gions the Church is established in a new society, but
which carried with it from the mother country all
the elements of civil life. Representing the purest
and most sacred of the social elements, the religious
feeling which sanctions right and sanctifies duty, and
carries human aspirations far above earthly things,
the Church has there sought only that empire pleas-

ing to God, the empire of souls. Companion of
liberty, the Church has grown beneath its shelter,
and has found all that sufficed for free development
and the tranquil and fecund exercise of its ministry.
It has never sought to deny to others the liberty
which it enjoyed, nor to turn to its exclusive advan-
tage the institutions which protected it. In Europe,
on the other hand, the Church arose with the deca-
dence of the great empire that had subjugated the
earth. It became constituted amid the political and
social cataclysms of the barbarous ages, and was com-
pelled to form an organisation strong enough toresist
the shipwreck of all civilisation amid the rising flood
of brute force and violence. But while the world,
emerging from the chaos of the middle ages, re-en-
texed the path of progress marked out by God, the
Church impressed upon all having any relation with
it the immobility of the dogma entrusted to its
guardianship. It viewed with suspicion the growth
of intelligence and the multiplication of social forces,
and declared itself the enemy of all liberty, denying
the first and most incontestable of all, the liberty of
conscience. Hence arose the contest between the
ecclesiastical and the civil power ; since the former
represented subjection and immobility, and the latter
liberty and progress. The conflict, from peculiar
circumstances, has greater proportions in Italy, be-
cause the Church, thinking that a kingdom was
necessary to the independent exercise of its spiritual
ministry, found that kingdom in Italy. The eccle-
siastical power from the same reason is here in con-
tradiction not only with the civil power, but national
right. From these causes originated the distrust and
precaution described in my circular which provoked
your censure, but which were only dictated by
necessity. The bishops cannot be considered among
us as simple pastors of souls, since they are at the
same time the instruments and defenders of a power
at variance with the national aspirations. The civil
power is therefore constrained to impose those mea-
sures upon the bishops which are necessary to pre-
serve its rights and those of the nation. How is it
possible to terminate this deplorable and perilous
conflict between the two powers—between Church
and State ? Liberty can alone bring us to that
happy state of things which your Lordships consider
so enviable in America. Let us render unto Caesar
the things that arc Caesar's, and unto God the things
tivt arc God's, and peace between Church and
State will be troubled no more. I desired to
pay deference to these principles in removing the
prohibition to the return of the bishops, and their
residence in their sees. I believe that liberty is
good in profession and practice, and, further, that
it has the virtue of converting those who are called
to enjoy its benefits. I trust that your lord-
ships, returning to your dioceses with the sincere
sentiment of respect for the law expressed in your
letter, among a people who wish to remain Catholic
without relinquishing the rights and aspirations of
the nation to which they belong, will bless that
liberty which protects them, and upon which the
reconciliation of interests hitherto appearing ir-,
reconcilable pan alone be based.

ic RicAsou."