The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-12 00:00:00

The Roman Question.

The following letter has been addressed to the
Daily Telegraph by Archbishop Manning :
Sir,—In your number of Friday last I read an
article on certain words of mine, spoken in the
cathedral near Hereford, and I beg to acknowledge
the courteous and fair way in which you comment
ou them; but I am afraid I must forfeit the ap-
proval you are so good as to express. The report
from which I assume that you take my words
breaks off before the following passage, which is
given in full by the Hereford Times. After speak-
ing of the personal independence and supreme
guidance of the Sovereign Pontiff, I went on as
follows:

While men wore seeking now :a secure those two
divine prerogatives of his offico —.statesmen, legislators, and
diplomatists, who wore seeking at this hour to find some
compromise whereby this might be secured—the foolish-
ness of God, those eighteen hu idred years, had found for
Himself His own mode of administering His Church on
earth. He had committed to the vicar of His Son the
possessioß of that seat which wes the head of the whole
world ; and that seat he has held as his own, and as the
sphere of his sovereignty, from that hour to this. The
world says he will hold it no longer. Let them confide in
the past, and look with assured confidence to the future.
Let them Rot be alarmed at the bold words of men, nor
at the threatening aspect of events. Forty-five pontiffs
had either been driven out of Rome, or had never sot their
foot in it; nine times that city had been held by usurpers;
seven time 3 it had been sacked and all but destroyed; in
every century since there was a patrimony of St. Peter,
tho..e provinces had been occupied by usurpation and by
violence; so that what they saw at th's moment was nothing
to that which had boon, and which would be to the end.

I quote the report word by word, without cor-
rection, because it is honest and true in substance,
though it does not adequately preserve the argu-
ment, which was as follows :-
1. That the supreme spiritual office of the head
of the Church requires for its free and full exercise
the perfect independence of his person.
2. That the independence of his person cannot
be secured without exemption from all temporal
superiors.
3. That this exception requires a sphere of its

Own.
4. That the Providence of God has actually so
exempted the head of His Church from all temporal
t alltransfer
powers, and has actually given to him, as the sphere
of his independence, the city of Rome and its pro-
vinces,
si
r title. belong
you tow uhipmerebeyivtehteha
every right
Rome or andof the Roman State to any other tem-
opforl
From
RaoniPower is in express terms excluded. But, as
I then went on to say, when the conflict is between an
unarmed and defenceless pastor and a great military
force, I have no confidence but in God and justice.
As I am sure you do not desire that my words
should be misunderstood, I would request you to
insert this correction in your next number.—l am,
Sir, your obedient servant,
t HENRY E. MANNING.
8, York-place,
W., Sept. 8, 1866.

and completion of
silver.
THE India mails has arrived
with
TT IlilieE
4AABtT6la4ANtoooTvvlccihtih Te
chiefly
WGyLeEin
RAPII.—The successful lay-
ing of the
st n
year of
recovery
congratulationson
both
sides that of a
of the Atlantic, while the happy results of their
l' c a
agoble subjects and
the
in-
defatigable and persevering efforts form a just reward of
those who have for so long a time devoted their best ener-
gies to this great and arduous undertaking. At every
stage of the proceedings, pessimists have not been wanting
to suggest difficulties which would impede or destroy the
practical advantages of the telegraph. Thus, when the
cables were at last safely deposited in the calm, cool depths
of the Atlantic suggestions of speedy decay f rem corrosion
and the intensity of the currents used were freely put
forward, and gave rise to
y deteriorationunfound ed.
S
appear
cable
having to b e o n
suffered
tire l doubts, which, happily,
inroesfpaer from
ctof,,thelB6s
conduc-
tivity" by its year's submersion, Mr. Latimer Clark on
Sunday telegraphed from Valentia that the tests had been
completed, and the cable of 1865 had been found to be oven
better than that of the present year. The land lines of
telegraph beyond Heart's Content have been found to be in
a very imperfect condition, and it has been proposed, not
only to renew the existing land linos, but to establish an
alternate route of communication with the United States,
and to lay a new cable from Placentia Bay to Cape Breton,
or some other point on the coast. The Great Eastern
having
she
having triumphantly performed the task for
onw Sunday
Liverpool about
was employed, left Iloatt's Content at 5 o'clock k
morning, and may bo expected to arrive at
the 19th inst.—Times.
ACCIDENT ON TILE TIIIRD'kNCITESTER RIFLE
3I
rifle range on
RA.NGE.—An accident occurredoon this•
9 company,
'Third Man-
chester Rifle Volunteers. go
Sa-
turday last to Private Molt, of sit,
with others, was engaged
his knoo in tho act of tag
in class firing, and Whilst
`°
who stood in rears of
aim, the rifle of aniy I lotTrse_i
him was accidentalarged,
the bullet passing through
mental surgeon was in attendance,
The rogi ,
Molt's body.
sufferer removed with allspeed -
and had the su
ohestor Infirmary, where, on inquiry on Sunday night, he
Istill lingers in a precarious condition.—Matic4eAr LAl-
miner.