The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-02 00:00:00

' THE SUN, LONDON? FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 1859.

THE SUN.

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1539.

The Pope is in want of subjects. Not of spiritual
subjects—of them he boasts about 200,000,000 ; but
of temporal subjects—of those who will pay taxes,
submit to autocratic decrees, and not venture to
utter or print a word he disapproves. The spiritual
subjects are obedient enough. Their very thoughts
obey him. Whether his Holiness bids them be-
lieve that the earth stands still and the sun moves,
or that the Virgin .11A.r.Y was conceived by her
sinful mother, as immaculate as our LORD himself,
it is all the same. The 200,000,000—we take the

figures as he gives them—bow implicitly to the de-
cisions of the Vicar of CHRIST. We have nothing
to say against this. Let Drs. CUMMING and CUL-
LEN fight their own battles ; and let Dr. APNETLE
join them, and make a triangular duel of it if he
likes; theology we must leave to our friend of the
Morning Advertiser, and content ourselves with the
horrible infidelity which cannot sell its belief to
any authority, either to the decrees of Pius IX., or
to the "Presbyterian standards" of Dr. CUMMING,
or to the forty articles, save us, of Dr. APNETLE.
Our only wonder is that, with such a splendid
spiritual dominion, the worthy Pope and his friends
should be so troubled about the temporal fealty of
two or three millions of Italians. Even these
temporal rebels are on the whole, we be-
lieve, spiritually obedient. We seem to imagine
that if two hundred millions of men bound
themselves to think as we do, we should
be quite satisfied with such an Empire
as that. We confess we never knew the tempta-
tion of having men's bodies at our mercy. . To guide
opinion has been our only ambition ; and who can
tell whether, if we had been intrusted with other
weapons than those of argument, we might not
have been disposed to retain and to use them if we
could.

With our habit of viewing things, however, the
recent savings and doings of our Ilib:,rnian friends
We find it difficult to read

are \Try amusing..

them with becoming gravity. Sometimes, indeed,
the thought will steal in that it is all masquerade.
Our neighbours of the Green Isle are more given
to demonstration than we are. Religiously-,
socially, or politically, they like a good exhibition
of the outward signs of feeling. A good. shillelah-
row at a fair, to seem as if they had something to
fight for ; a good mile-long procession, Orange or
Catholic, to look as if both sides had a splendid
cause and were absorbed in it ; a monster meeting,
for politics or for religious purposes—a howl, a

shout, a show, or a blow—is the delight of genuine
Irishmen. The Pio Novo displayi niay therefore
labut a piece of pure Irishism. The POPEatid his
teMporal rebels may be only the excuse for gratify-
ing the Irish vein ; much as a ckafitable institution
serves Englishmen as a pretext for a good guinea
dinner.
Be this as it may we ha;lea sulieitroii to make
to our Subjeds. We are of course sorry
to lose them as neighbours.;. still, as.large numbers
of them, to our neighbourly sorrow, will emigrate,
why should.they not go to Rome ? They would be
neexer home there than on the other side of the
Atlantic. They could go for a song, and nearly all
the way by land ; they .would find there a glorious
sun, and a political paradise. They would live
under a Theocracy. They would have priests for
their administrative rulers ; and their high priest for
their chief sovereign and sole lawgiver. If the
Romans did but know it, Heaven has descended on
earth in the Roman territories: Instead of being,
as Dr. CUIIifINQ, and the Times, and• the Morning
Advertiser impiously affirm, .the Babylon or the
' Scarlet Woman of the Apocalypse, Rome is doubt-
less its New Jerusalem—the city of the blessed.
All that is wanted is citizens and subjects to appre-
ciate the blessing. Now Irishmen do appreciate it.
They are indignant at the Catholics there for not
'appreciating it also. They propose to subscribe ;
to raise a penny a week, and something more ; and
to furnish the POPE with a regiment of Irish sol-
diers, who shall teach the rebellious Catholics there
their duty. As PAUL lived at Rome in his own
hired house, so the POPE shall no longer live by
help of French bayonets, but by his own hired Irish
soldiers—paid by PETER'S pence, collected from the
whole population. A noble thought !

No fear of " the Saxon" at Rome. No danger of
republican democracy as in America. No want of
employment, of agricultural employment at least ;
for the whole territory adjoining the city is one
vast marsh or level, pestilential now through want
of drainage and cultivation, but capable of being
made one of the most fertile districts in the world.
It is the very place for good Irish Catholics who
are tired of Ireland, and sick of the pernicious free-
dom which men enjoy under the reign of VICTORIA.
The Romagnese and the great mass of the inhabi-
tants of the States of the Church, alas ! hate their
privileges. They hurrah for Lord ELLEN BOROUGH
and the Saxons who subscribe for GARIBALDI'S mus-
kets, they curse the CULLENS who want to trample
them under the feet of their Pontiff. They resent
as heartless cruelty the wish of Irishmen and of
the Celts or Gauls of the continent, to sacrifice their
temporal liberties as an offering to the supremacy
of their Bishop. They say they are in purgatory
before their time ; while they have no hope that
their civil sufferings now will save them one hour's
future suffering, or their survivors the cost of a

single mass.

Now when the POPE wants loyal subjects, when
Irishmen are so tired of freedom that they crave an
absolute master, when they so love the POPE that
they think nothing at all of the independence and
civil rights of the nation he. governs—it really does
seem as if Irishmen were made for the POPE and the
POPE for Irishmen. There is, to be sure, an alterna-
tive. They might invite the POPE to Dublin. There
is no kind of objection to that; only there, instead
of playing the teniporal ruler, he must be tem-
porarily the subject of her Majesty Queen Vic •
TORIA. She, however, would use him very kindly.
She would guarantee him full religious liberty.
He might reign as supreme as he now does in the
minds of his two hundred millions. And only to
think of the joy there would be in Rome. Of the
illuminations there, and throughout all Italy,
because the heaviest weight on their liberties was
gone. Perhaps, after all, this would be the best
plan. Since Irishmen would be but:to) happy if
his Holiness made their house his home ; and the
Romans would be equally delighted that he had
done so. Cannot the suggestion be sent to Con-

gress? What glory it would be to Ireland to solve
the European difficulty !

The three arch-apostles of Free Trade received
yesterday, at Liverpool, what they have eminently
well deserved—a magnificent demonstration. It
was a demonstation, however, at the hands of others
than those who are simply Free Traders—the occa-
sion being the long-talked-of soiree, accorded in re-
spectful appreciation—to Majar-Oen. PEYLONNET
THOMPSON, late M.P. for Bradford, and the witty
author of the Corn Law Catechism—to Mr.
Rica Ann CoanEx, M.P. for Rochdale, the dealer
of the death-blow to that old Giant Blunderbore,
the Ogre of Monopoly—and last, but certainly
Rot the least, either in energy, ability, :or
eloquence, to Mr. JOHN BRIGHT, most
pugnacious of Quakers, the ultra-reforming and
superlatively out-speaking M.P. for Birmingham.
Scanning the deeply interesting record of last
night's proceedings at the Philharmonic Hall, at
Liverpool—proceedings which will be found given
in full detail elsewhere in to-night's impression of
our broadsheet—we can think of no better or more
appropriate sentiment for the nonce than that
embodied in Lord NELSON'S heraldic motto, familiar
as household words on the lips of the people, Palmanz
qui meruit ferat. Each of these three eminent
citizens has long since earned the right to bear
aloft in his hand the well-earned palm of v:ctory—
of that noblest victory of all, the bloodless victory
won by the sheer strength of reason, employing alone
for its enforcement the keen, and trenchant, and
polished weapons culled from the armoury of
rhetoric. There are no three men, we believe,
whose good services to the common weal are more
universally or more cordially recognised. Since
the achievement in 1816 of that grand and final
triumph of the Free Trade principles, there has
been no possibility for any of them, even if they
had wished it, to hide their light under a bushel.
It is remembered too well to this day, even by
their principal antagonists, as a triumph won
in a very great measure indeed through their in-
strumentality ! Through their instrumentality, of
course, coming in aid of various rarely-gifted and dis-
tinguished fellow•labourers, champions of the same
cause, like WILLIAM Fox and CHARLES VILLIERS,
and EBENEZER. ELLIOTT, the Corn•law Rhymer—
each and. all of them in turn promulgating the
same truths, though in varied accents, through the
trumpet of the Press, or from the platform of the
League. Honour, say we, to those good citizens
and practical reformers ! May their fair fame
in this fair realm of England be held undimmed in
perpetual remembranc 2.

Cordially regarding thus, with unstinted appre-
ciation, the tlu•ee recipients of the manly homnge
proferred to them yesterday at Liverpool—to two
of them by name and to one of them in
person—we cannot, of course, be presumed
to regard with others% ise than complacency
the purport of the demonstration made yesterday
in their behalf by the Livcrpool Financial Reform
Association. The aspirations, the principles, the
aim and object of that Association arc ours. Its
labours we not only sympathise in, but as journalists
participate in and emulate, so far as in us lies, to
the very utmost. What it is struggling for so
earnestly- we have long, very long, been hoping
for—we have for years and years past,
in these columns of the Sun, been striving

zealously to aid in realising. In the main, there-
fore, so tar relateli to the great principles of
political economy intended to be enforced by;yes-
terday's demonstration, our opinions, and the
opinions of the Association, may be pro-
nounced to be—so far a the opinions of different
individuals possibly can be in respect to one com-
plex subj2ct—absolutely-identioak! -Nevertheless,
while we go heart
and soul with those broad and
clear and rational views of political economy which
are always so forcibly expounded by menlike
BRIGHT and Mr. COBDEN—as for example, in
many parts of that masterly argument delivered
last night by Mr. BRIGHT at Liverpool—we cannot
at the same time help grieving over those bewil-
dering errors both of temper and of judgment
by which the very interests Mr. BRIGHT and Mr.
COBDEN would fain, we believe, enforce by every
means in their power, are in reality militated
against so very deplorably,
It was only yesterday that we had to lament
(not by any means of course for the first
time) over that constitutional acerbity, or acri-
mony, or whatever else it may be, through
which another of the great living' Tribunes
of the People has throughout his career in the
most tantalising manner imaginable "paid his
tribute," as the phrase is "to humanity !" But
for that infirmity of temperament, can any of us
doubt for one instant but that years back JOHN
ARTHUR ROEBUCK would have taken high rank
among our most sagacious administrators. Quite,
as effectually, though by very different methods
indeed have both ' Mr. BRIGHT and Mr.
COBDEN debarred themselves from kindred
opportunities of doing far more than yeoman's
service to the Crown and to. their Country.
Mr. COBDEN, by the adoption of fantastic and
wholly impracticable projects—projects like that of
Arbitration pur et simple (very simple, indeed, we
may say in the purely idiomatic sense), what is
popularly known as the peace-at-any-price halluci-
nation ! Mr. BRIGHT by an ever irritated and an ever
irritating :pugnacity—a pugnacity that is certainly
effectual, if in nothing else, in riling, as the Americans
would say, every possible antagonist to the utmost
conceivable degree of moral and mental exacerba-
tion. If we wanted a testimony of each of these
infirmities that should be in a measure, so to speak,
the very epitome of an illustration, we have it here
promptly at hand in yesterday's proceedings down
at Liverpool.
The honourale member for Rochdale being con-
fined, as we grieve to notice, to his sick chamber in
Paris, is constrained in lieu of going to write a letter
of apology for his non-appearance. An admirable
letter of apology in many respects, yet one that
nevertheless comprises, to our mind, within its
narrow limits, what we may term the essential oil
of the very quintessence of the old peace-at-any-
price hallucination. According to Mr. COBDEN the
complete triumph of Free Trade Principles is really
and truly all that is required to .bring the whole of
this great globe of ours to—the Millenium ! The
supreme and matchless excellence of those prin-
ciples as among the grand root or guiding prin-
ciples of political economy among 'the nations of
the earth, we ourselves have long recognised. Yet
to talk of them as the puff advertisements talk of
Parr's Life Pills or of Holloway's Ointment, as cer-
tain to cure every ill that flesh is heir to—is really,
and truly to talk—we won't say nonsense, but :we
will say, as—Mr. COBDEN writes in his letter to
the President of the Liverpool Financial Reform
Association ! The cry with him, there, from his
sick room at Paris—sounds like an echo, of the
prophetic injunction to beat the swords into
ploughshares, and the spears into reaping hooks!
But sound though it may like that, it bears
the much simpler interpretation of—" Dilly
Dilly, come and be killed !" England, we may
rest assured, will in this not listen to the voice of
the charmer, charm he (to all appearance) never so
wisely. 'While, in respect to the less amiable weak-
ness of Mr. BRIGHT—it is only necessary to glance,
though but for one moment, at his elegant allusion
to the newspapers barking at his heels—and but for
another at that resounding and recalcitrant pero-
ration which is only to be typified by BRIAREUS—
with a cocked revolver in each of his hundred
hands—challenging every one, after the fashion of a
last century's highwayman.

We have much pleasure in directing attention to
the report of a meeting, held in Dover the other
day, in honour of a very worthy gentleman, Mr. E.
T. WAY, the well-known Superintendant of the
South-Eastern Railway at that important station.
Mr. WAY has frequently received testimonials of
esteem and due appreciation of his gentlemanly
character from royal as well as lordly personages;
but, if we mistake not, the distinguished mark
of respect so unanimously volunteered by his
fellow-townsmen will be rendered more dear
to him than any other, as evincing a very
kindly feeling and generous sympathy, which
reflects honour on those who gave, and him
who so gratefully appreciates, the goodwill of men
as worthy as himself. We, too, cordially wish Mr.
WAY all prosperity and well-merited success.

THE INVASION.

Invasion threatens—let it come
We'll meet it one and all ;
And sternly guard our dear loved home
From Russ or vaunting Gaul.

Or both combined—with many more
Who hate us—being free;
But ere they touch our envied shore
They'll drink the deep-blue see.
For Britain bears her Banner high
O'er steep and stormy wave—
With hearts resolved to do .or die
For Freedom—or the Grave.

Then, men of England ! mind your helm,
And steer the ship aright ;
And nought on earth can overwhelm
Our TARS in all their might. ,
Our Soldiers, too—a gallant Band,
And Riflemen in store,
Will meet the foe with heart and hand,
But part with him, no more.

Then peace to all—with fear of none !
Give no offence—nor take !
But woe to him who dares step on
Old England's Quarter-Deck I
For there her might is truly scan •
With spirit—all our own,
Resolved to be, as we have been,
Transcendant for Renown !

Then let Invaders come or stay :
To come—will be no joke;
For we shall smash them on their way,
Or board,them in the smoke !
Then, men of England, mind your helm,
And steer the ship aright ;
And nought on Earth can overwhelm
Our Thus in all their might !

TRUE BLUE.

Oa Monday next her Majesty the Queen, his
Royal highness the Prince Consort, and Royal family,
will leave Windsor Castle fur the Isle of Wight, where the
Court will remain until the 24th inst., and then return to
Windsor. Her Royal Richness the Duchess of Kent, who,
we are happy to say, is 10 \V in the enjoyment of good health,
will remain at Frogmore-lodge during the absence of the
Court from Windsor. .

DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS
FREDERICK WILLIAM or PuusstA.—,-On Saturday morn-
ing next, at half-past 7, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess Frederick William of Prussia will take leave
of the Queen, the Prince Consort, and Royal family, and
depart from Windsor for the Continent. The Royal visitors
will proceed to Dover, and thence across the Channel to
Calais, from which place they will travel by railway to
Brussels for the purpose of paying a visit to his Majesty
the King of the Belgians,

LATEST NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr..Reuter's office :

PARIS, FRIDAY.

The Pays of this evening says :—" We are
assured that the Governor of Tetuan has ordered

the arrest of the commander of the Moroccan forts,
who, acting without orders, has rendered him"elf
guilty of an unjust aggression against a nation at
peace with Morocco."
The Moniteur de la Flotte confirms the report
that the French fleet had destroyed by a cannonade
the, forts at the mouth of the river leading to
Tetuan, in consequence of the Moroccans having
fired at the French vessel St. Louis, which displayed
the flag clearly indicating its nationality.

The Moniteur de la Flotte adds :—" We have
every reason to believe that this isolated fact will
not hinder the continuance of the good understand-
ing now existing between France and Morocco."
His Majesty has invited the Neapolitan Ambas-
sador to visit Compiegne before his departure for
Naples.

The Pays confirms the announcement that Count
von Hartig has been nominated to represent Austria
at the Court of Turin.

PARIS, FRIDAY.
The Itioniteur of this morning contains the
following despatch :
" The Bretagne, off Algesiras, Nov. 26.

" Yesterday the vessel St. Louis was cannonaded
by the forts at the entrance of the river Tetuan.
Informed of that the same night, I have this
morning with four steamers destroyed the two
forts, which have been abandoned by the Moroccans.
" To-morrow the Foadre will proceed to Tangiers
to make severe representations to the Minister Kalil.
" Justice fulfilled, I resume the part of neutrality.
(Signed) "Admiral ROMAN DESFO3SES."

The Moniteur also announces that the Grand
Duchess Marie of Russia left yesterday for Nice.

FLORENCE, THURSDAY.

Of the three members of the National Assembly
who conveyed to Turin the vote respecting the
Regency, one, M. Coppir has returned to Florence;
the second, M. Galeotti, has gone to Modena,
whither he had been summoned in haste ; and
the third, M. Fabrizi, remains at Turin as official
charge d'affaires of Tuscany.

COPENHAGEN, THURSDAY.
The attempts of the Councillor Rottwill to form
a new Ministry have not at present succeeded.
He left today, accompanied by the Councillor of
State Westenhalz, for Frederiksburg, to see the
King.

Senor Martinez de la Rosa will represent Spain
at the Congress.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.

Accounts from Brest, of the 28th ult., state that
on. Friday last the frigate Perseverante was towed
out of the harbour, having on board troops for
China, but she was forced by bad weather and con-
trary winds to return to the roads during the night.
The frigate made a secomlattempt to sail on Satur-
day, but she was again compelled to return. The
weather continued to be equally bad on Sunday.
In consequence of a violent gale of wind which
prevailed at Dieppe on Saturday night last, the
boats engaged in the herring fishery lost all their
nets, amounting in value to 200,000 f.
The Moniteur publishes the monthly return of
the price of wheat in the different markets of
France by which the import and export duties on
corn and flour are regulated. The highest price
was 22f. 7c. per hectolitre in the market of St.
Lo, and the lowest 15f. 59c. in that of Saumur;
the highest average was 18f. 70c. in the markets
of Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and
Rouen, and the lowest 17f. 10c. in those of Saumur,
Nantes, and Alarms ; the average for the whole of
France was 17f. 99kp., being an advance of of a
centime.

THE BOURSE.—The settlement of account has
gone on satisfactorily, with a moderete rate of
continuation. Threes, after having been done at
70f. 30e. improved to 70f. 50c., for the present ac-
count ; Mobilier varied from 7821. 50c. to 787 f.
50c. ; Orleans, 1,368 f. 75e. to 1,3721: 500. ; Lyons,
890 f. to 891 f. 25e. ; Southern, 5131. 75c. to 5161.
25c. ; Eastern, 645 f. to 647 f. 50c.; Austrian, 5521.
50e. to 553 f. 75c.

The following were the last quotations :-
4?. per Cents. 96 10 I Credit Foncier 695
Do. and month .. I Belgian 41 —
3 per Cents 7O 50 Piedmonteso (5) .. 84
Do. end month 7O 40 itoman B6 50
Bank Shares. 2870 Austrian
Cr6dit Mobilier 783 75 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 783 75 I Home Debt 43 25

what I hear from persons whd are well acquainted
with the course of events, wished to assure not an
administration exclusively-laic, but to give a large
place to laymen in thd Government. The secu-
larisation of the Pontifical administration is im-
possible. Some branches of the Government may
be intrusted to laymen, but they must retain
an ecclesiastical spirit, for the Government
cannot change its nature without compromis-
ing its existence. Neither was the Pontifical Go-
vernment perfectly well pleased with the expres-
sions used by Count Walewski as to the guaran-
tees for a better administration of justice, because
they throw doubts on the present administration,
and do not explain the Pope's plan, which consists
in a reform of the mode of proceeding both in civil
and criminal matters. Perhaps the Pontifical Go-
vernment will not fail to make some declaration in
order to anticipate the accusations which might be
made against it if the reforms which are expected
from the Holy Father are not in strict con-
formity with what are announced by Count
Walewski in his circular note. In the meantime
the Roman journal declares that the reforms an-
nounced by several journals to be made by the
Papal Government are exaggerated. The revolu-
tionary leaders at Rome are incensed against the
Emperor Louis Napoleon in consequence of the re-
presentations made to the King of Sardinia on ac-
count of the Regency accepted by the Prince of
Carignan. The departure of General Garibaldi
from the Romagna has produced a political mani-
festation, which was suppressed by the National
Guard. General Garibaldi was greatly esteemed
in the Romagna, and he found it necessary to use
all his authority and moral influence to maintain
strict discipline among his men, of whom he
shot three at Rimini. At present Tuscan troops
have replaced in the Legations the volun-
teers who have passed into Tuscany and
into the Duchies of Parma and Modena. The Roman
volunteers who have quitted the service and return
home have drawn a melancholy picture of the state
of the troops under the pay of the Government in
Bologna. The privations suffered by the troops are
excessive, and even now there is a want of beds in
the barracks. The Pontifical Government is decided
no longer to give the increased pay to the troops at
Perugia, Ancona, Sinigaglia, and Pesaro, who are
supposed to be making a campaign. This resolution
will produce a considerable saving. Notwithstanding
the deficiency produced in the Roman Treasury by the
present revolution, the Minister of Finance, Ferrari,
has so well managed matters that he has sufficient
to pay all demands up to the end of the year. A
loan is inevitable for 1860. Cardinal Antonelli is
the diplomatist whom the Holy Father has chosen
to represent the Holy See at the European Congress.
General de Goyon gave a grand dinner yesterday
to the Roman municipal magistracy as a proof of
his gratitude for the honour conferred on him when
he was created a Roman noble. Monsignor Fal-
divioso, Archbishop of Santiago, in Chili, has been
at Rome for some days. This prelate was one of
the most ardent promoters of the foundation esta-
blished at Rome of a seminary for the education of
young men from South America intended for the
Church."

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Nov. 29.

General Bonin, the Minister of War, has ten-
dered his resignation, which has been accepted.
The General has been appointed Commander of the
Bth Corps d'Armee (Rhine Provinces and Coblentz).
The War-office is intrusted ad interim to the Prince
of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The retirement of
General Bonin is attributed to a difference of
opinion on the new organisation of the army.