The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

ADDRESS.

Most Holy Father,—France, whose children we all love
to call ourselves, has during all times placed at the head
of her titles of glory that of Eldest Daughter of the
Catholic Apostolic and Boman Church. The faults she
may have committed have been expiated by great misfor-
tunes, and, we presume to say, have been followed by a
still more lively and affectionate love for the Church. That
love which has existed during all the ages of Christianity
has received a new impulse at the sublime spectacle of
your virtues and your sufferings. We know that your
heart beats for France. How many hearts in France beat
for your Holiness ! We do not fear to assert that the re-
solution of our assemblies has been hut, the feeble echo of
the sentiments of our country, whose will cannot and shall
not be mistaken.
Whatever sorrows, Most Holy Father, the future may
have in reserve for you, we all come in the name of our
families and of the immense majority of our fellow-coun-
trymen to declare here, in the presence of God and of your
Holiness His Vicar, that the love and devotion of Catholic
France shall never be extinguished, but that she shall
always keep watch around thy sacred person and around
that throne on which sits that temporal sovereignty of
which it has been said by high authority that "Ages have
made it, and have well made it." Yes, always shall Catho-
lic Franco regard the cause of your Holiness as the cause
of faith, of justice, of honour, of civilisation, and of true
liberty.
Deign, then, Most Holy Father, to permit us, after the
wondrous solemnities at which we have assisted, to place
at the feet of your Holiness our most ardent prayers that
you may still wear for many years that triple crown from
which, even at the price of our blood, we would wish to
remove the thorns, and that you will grant to us your
Apostolic Benediction as the pledge and the symbol of that
of Our Lord.

These words, so pious, so sublime, and so energetically
expressive of the will of France and of her children, deeply
impressed all who were present.
REPLY OF TIIE MOLT

His Holiness, in a clear voice, but with evident
emotion, replied in the following terms :
My Children,—These days of Easter are days of con-
solation and of joy.
France has always consoled me, and does still console
me. You aro the evidence, for you bring this day great
joy to my heart.
It is true that it is not France alone which has given mo
this affection ; but when I was obliged to leave Rome it
was a French ambassador who prepared and covered my
departure ; and when I returned to Rome I had at the right
of my carriage a French General, who has since become a
Marshal of France.
During the 20 years that I have, by the will of God, and
notwithstanding my own unworthiness, occupied and
throne, France has given me constant proofs of her filial
attachment, and her Government has of late, as you well
know, affirmed the necessity of my sovereignty to secure
spiritual action.
The enemies of order, the revolutionists, and the im-
pious, deny that the temporal sovereignty is required to

The Pallas, 6,—lroncased screw
Connolly, weighed
e2ig,h37ed2
tons, 600 tons power, Capt. M.her anchor from Spithead on Wednesday morning,
and made a trial of her engines, under
the superin-
tendence of their builder, Mr. E.,Humplireys, pre-
paratory to the ship entering upon her official triPl-
- speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay.
ship left Spithead at 10.30 a.m., drawing 18ft. bin.
of water forward, and 2,lft. 7in. aft, and complete
in everything for sea service, excepting
_coals. Mr.
John Ward, assistant chief engineer at Portsmouth
dockyard, was on board, representing the Admi-
ralty in the superintendence and working of the
ship's engines. Mr. W. H. Brain, assistant-master
shipwright of Portsmouth dockyard, represented the
Chief Constructor's department of the navy. The
ship was started at first with a low pressure of steam
in her cylinders, and made her way leisurely out
south-east of her anchorage at Spithead, the wind
being on her port bow, at a strength of about 5, but
with the water quite smooth. At 11 o'clock the
Culver cliffs, the easternmost point of the Isle of
Wight, were about two miles under the ship's lee,
the weather thickening, and the force of wind in-
creasing to 6. The engines had by this time ex-
ceeded 70 in their revolutions, no pressure being
put upon them, and the barrel-shaped " ram" bow
of the ship was driving up in front of her a wave of
foaming water permanently level with the till of her
hawse-pipes, and sending tons at a spurt through
the hawse-pipes on to her fore main deck at each
interval of a few seconds when she met the slight
head seas with a greater inclination, heavy sheets
of water being at the same time flung inward on the
vessel's upper deck over the bows. At 11.20 the
engines had reached 80 in their revolutions, the
Culvers, with the east end of the Isle of Wight, be-
ing hid from view in the thick weather astern, and
this was continued until noon, when the ship's course
was reversed to north by west and her head laid for
Spithead. In running back for Spithead before the
light breeze the appearance of the heaped-up waters
in front of the ship's stem became more extraordinary
than when the ship was steaming against the wind.
The height of the raised water was equal in its per-
manence with that raised when steaming against
the wind, but its formation was now more distinctly
marked. In steaming against the wind a confused
mass of broken water, extending half-way up from
the water-line of the ship to her bowsprit, could
only be seen—an immense wave without definite
form. On steaming back, however, to Spithead
with the wind on the ship's quarter, the form of this
mass of waters under her bows became more de-
fined. Its permanent height, as already stated, was
level with the hawse-pipes, and close to the stem of
the ship'was a continuous " boil" of foam, as pre-
-viously when steaming against the .win 4,, In addi-
tion to this there were white rollers of brokenAvater
rising continuously up through the clear green water
fully GOft. a head of the ship's stem in board. It
was the result of the action of the " ram" or pro-
jecting plough bow, of which more will be said in
our report of the ship's trial over the measured mile
in Stokes Bay. The Pallas anchored at Spithead
again at 1 p.m., the results of the day's steaming
satisfying all the officials on board that the ship's
machinery was competent in every particular to
carry her through her trial over the measured mile.
The engines were never eased or stopped from the
time the ship left Spithead until the signal was made
on her return to stop them to anchor the ship again.
The Pallas is ordered to make her trial of speed at
deep draught at the measured mile in Stokes Bay
to-morrow, weather permitting. The Chief Con-
structor of the Navy, Mr. E. J. Reed, the designer
of the ship, with the other officials from the Admi-
ralty, is expected to be present at the trial.
Saturday having been the anniversary of the
birth of the Princess Beatrice, and her Majesty,
with the Royal family, being at Osborne, her Ma-
jesty's ships at Spithead, in Cowes Roads, and in
Portsmouth harbour " dressed" with the Royal
standard at the main and the national ensign at the
fore and mizen, and Royal salutes were fired from
the ships and land batteries in honour of the occa-
sion. The Royal standard was hoisted all over the
dockyard, the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard,
Haslar Naval Hospital, the gun-wharf, and all other
public establishments.
The Imperial Austrian screw frigate Friedrich,
Capt. Woplinger, anchored at Spithead on Satur-
day morning, from Bremerhaven, bound to the
Adriatic. She exchanged the customary salutes with
the garaison saluting battery, and with the flagship
Victory, carrying the flag of the naval Commander-
in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir T. Pasley. The Fried-
rich will fill up with coal at Spithead previous to
resuming her voyage to the Mediterranean.
The unarmoured screw, sloop Cameleon, 17, 952

tons, 200 horse power, Commander T. M. Jones,
arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Pacific,
and exchanged salutes with the flagship of the Com-
mander-in-Chief on anchoring. She sailed from
Valparaiso on Jan. 17, passed Cape Horn on Feb.
4, with very fine weather at the time, and reached
Stanley harbour, Falkland Islands, on Feb. 8.
Stanley harbour was left again on Feb. 12, and the
line crossed on March 11. Since reaching the lati-
tude of the Azores contrary winds were experienced
until catering the Channel. The invalids and naval
supernumeraries brought to England by the Came-
loon were transferred from her on Saturday to the
flagship Victory, and the former vessel was expected
to sail from Spithead yesterday afternoon for Sheer-
ness, to dismantle and pay out of commission, after
nearly five years' foreign service.
The Cornwallis, sailing Indiaman, arrived at Spit-
head on Saturday morning from Madras, with time-
expired expired and invalided soldiers on board from various
regiments serving in India. They will
this morning, and the ship will afterwards sail for
the Thames. the de-
-4th Regimeut,
The head-quarters of the a disembark
t, find the time-ex-
taehment of the 56th Regimwchillo
arrived at Spithead
pined and invalided soldiesrts
Castle, were all disem-
barked Castle,
in the sailing India!
dnarosiin Lawrence, Winchester,
ships on Saturday in Portsmouth
superintendence of Col. Wines
nil Id
under
rotEleste r - Gen. for the out -westMi-
gone. Sin o quartersh
hbaarrbkoedurf,ruo
at
Deputy-Quar
Thed 54th havet
Gosport, the 56th
detachment joined head-quarters
litary
Portsmouth, the invalids were sent to tl Royal
Victory le
District.
\''ictory Military Hospital at Netley, and the time-
expired men to the depotsof their several regiments.
All four ships have sailed from Portsmouth for
London.

The troops brought to England in the sailing,
ships Tyburnia, Malabar, Victor Albert, and Corn-
wallis, will ail disembark from those ships at Ports-
mouth this morning, and four vessels will imme-
diately afterwards leave Portsmouth for the Thames.
Never since the time of the Crimean campaign until
Saturday have eight private shipsbeen seen lying at
Portsmouth at one time freighted with troops rc-

list in the army within three or four weeks,of their
return home, the majority of them with the hope of
soon finding themselves again en route for India.
Surely some inducement might be held out to them
to re-enlist •in India, and thus save-the heavy and
apparently needless cost of their tr4port to Eng-
land and back to India. 4.•
The following
Commander B. S. de R.
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Bushnell,,
rnluiost appointments
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smeno ina,aadsnvehdreocarr-t,
the Admiralty :—Commander G. D. Brown, to the
Lieut.
Bvincco. rethEr
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promoted
Hall, to the Fawn, 'vice Talbot, promoted ; Com-
mander A. R. Owen, to the Falcon, vice Parkins,
the Shear-
pwraotienro, tve
ile;e Coinm
Douglas,an
lycott, to the Minstrel, as Lieut. commanding ;
Lieut. S. R. Huntley, to the Cherub, as Lieut. com-
manding ; Lieut. W. F. L. Ellwyn, to the Slaney,
vice Keats, promoted ; Lieut. C. E. Donville, to
the Algerine, as Limit. commanding,' vice Tacker,
dperrormLoEtedS;llLlitiebu'
promoted ; F. K. Taylor, A. J. W. Neville, and F.
C. Corbett, masters, to the Princess Royal, for dis-
posal; J. Hicks, midshipman, to the Liverpool; 11.
Brown, chief engineer, to the Challenger; Dr. Wat-
son, surgeon, to the Challenger; Dr. G. Pickthorn,
assist.-surg., to the Challenger ; Dr. R. Potter,
assist.-surg., to the Prince Consort ; M. Lilt, engi-
neer, to the Challenger; J. 11. Hefferman, engineer,
to the Fisgard, for the Waterwitch ; E. J. What-
more and T. R. Crowder, first:class assist.-engi-
neers, to the Challenger ; E. R. Brown, C. C. Wil-
son, and S. Davis, clerks, to the Challenger, for
disposal; F. 11. M. Whitfield, assist.-clerk, to the
* for disposal; and H. A. rapidge, asiist.-
~.„-ax-,-16-the Formidable.

At the examinations of candidates fcr naval
cadets, concluded last week at the Royal Naval
College, Portsmouth, the following passed their
examinations successfully from the North Grove
House Naval A
. Academy,E. Thomas,
mSaosu,thsj.elav:—.
31B.yBersen,eAtt„
F. H. A.
J. Chancellor, E. B. Scott, F. J. Montgomery, R.
L. Mundy, E. D. Chambers, W. S. Girdlestone,
and J. G. Bremer.