The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.—Morning, 10h. 54m.—Afternoon, 1111. 26m.
Ta-MORROW.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. Gm.

THE WEATHER.-Sum OFFICE, OCTOBER 13, 1861,

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE,
68—highest since noon yesterday.
47—lowest this morning and during the night.
64 —this:day at noon.

BAROMETERs-30.02.
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weather. Evening—Wind moderate.

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58—lowest this morning and during the night.
70—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1881.

Cant and cursing—are the original sins of eccle-
siastical documents, and we might add doings.
Sometimes they are freer from it than at other
times, and a few seem to have had an immaculate
conception. This latter beatitude we certainly,
however, cannot attribute to the last offspring of
Pio NONO ; the original sin alluded to having been
probably developed so largely by the midwifery
and nursing of Cardinal ANTONELLI. We worldly
folk are apt to account for these peculiarities in
our own worldly way. The holy men who pen
allocutions at Rome, and exhortations to the
clergy. which go by another name in England, we
are apt to suppose to be men of like pas-
sions with ourselves. Bat, being in power they
must not show their power precisely in the same
way as profaner folk—the officer on board ship
and frequently on board of land too, curses
his men to his heart's content—and we
only hear of the men exclaiming "'Tis so plea-
sant to be cussed by one's own officer." It is
hearty hot cursing without a bit of bitterness, and
Jack or the " sojer" think no more of it than they do
of the mustard and pepper which season their ,

mess.

But the unfortunate Ecclesiastics, although
being men in authority, ought not, by their pro-
fession, to curse, so they oil the cursing with cant.
They can't forego the privilege of the seeular officer,
but they can send men to hell, or to the peculiar
Cathartic institution of Popery, with lubrication
enough to launch a Warrior.

It has always been so, so far, at least, as our
humble acquaintance with ecclesiastical hlstoly
extends. And a cursing, canting POPE'S allocu-
tion strikes us only as something quite natu-
ral. Alt who displease Ecclesiastics by
differing from them on points of discipline or doc-
trine, or still more by treating sacrilegiously the
holy temporalities which they possess for the good
of their own bodies and of other men's souls, must
go to prison or the scaffold if the time and place
permit such salutary discipline ; but if that be im-
must go to perdition as quickly as
possible, they
priestly anathemas can carry them. One of our
humourists talked of " buttered thunder ;" perhaps
we may describe the dreadful wrath of his infallible
Holiness, as "greased anathemas."

Here is a specimen or two of them--grease and
all. " Heartfelt grief," " holy religion," weeping
over a dear son,'.' "piety and virtue" in an arch-
bishop, him of Naples—lubricate the very first para-
graph. These expressions are to make it holy, pious,
and kind, to denounce the King of ITALY and the
noble men who have acted with him, as "abettors
of disastrous rebellion,"—as "forming part of a
detestable conspiracy, as full of ignorance and deceit
—as attacking with the fury of ancient heretics—as
raging against Holy things"—as endeavouring to
" completely overthrow, if it were ever possible, the
Church of GOD and the (Roman) Catholic religion
—to Wrest from every soul its salutary doctrine,
and to
excite and inflame every bad passion."
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of the first
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being remembered only occasionally, in the " fury
of modern Popery." After a long catalogue of
black charges, founded on the text that " ati laws
human and divine have been trampled under foot,"
the Pope actually quotes Scripture, to be sure it is
to the cream of the Clergy—the " great and criminal
rebellion " has filled the land with " calamities,
crimes, and misfortunes, and, to use the words of
the Prophet—By swearing, and lying, and killing,
and committing adultery, they break out and blood
toucheth blood." And this from the Pope who has
filled Southern Italy with rapine, blood, and mur-
der by the brigands he has equipped, sent forth,
and sheltered when they fled from justice.
But griefs follow each other like Jos's messen-
gers. Forst, these spoliators of the Church profess,
with " brazen impudence," that they wish to give
her liberty, which, of course, means the " brazen
impudence" of VICTOR EMMANUEL in offering to
declare the Church free, when the Romans are
permitted to free themselves from the temporal yoke
of the Head of the Church. Next, some of the
secular and regular clergy—Father PESSAGLIA, we
suppose, at their head—" led away by a fatal spirit
of error and rebellion," give their assent to these
impious designs. Again, as if to wrap the very
horizon of ecclesiastical temporal power in dark-
ness, in the Catholic " offing" of Central America
itself temporalities are falling and crashing; in
Mexico, temporalities ecclesiastical seem in
a bad a case as the temporalities of bond-
holders—" they have pillaged ecclesiastical pro-
perty, despoiled the altars, driven away
the virgins consecrated to God, and after outraging
bishops, have sent them into exile." A streak of
consolation is found here, however, or a little of
the oil thrown in; for the Mexican Bishops have
come, his HOLINESS says, to Rome and " given
him great consolation by the display of the virtues
they possess in a high degree." One could wish
they had had the virtue of preaching honesty
successfully to the Mexicans. Worse still, the
near neighbours of Mexico are not much better
than she. In New Granada they have made a
"criminal decree, forbiding ecclesiastics to exer-
cise authority" without authorisation from the
civil power. They have even dispersed the blessed
Jesuits, "who have rendered such great services
to religion and society ; and, infanduni! they com-
pelled the legate of the Holy See to leave their
territory within the space of three days."
So, after damning everyone and everything
from Turin to Mexico and Granada, the Holy
Father falls back "in the bitterness of his sorrow"
—in " his pain and anguish"—on the vener-
able fathers,—the Perugian father, and all the rest
of the Vatican,—and on the beloved Bishops of
Italy. If theologians and clergy are seduced
bishops remaiu faithful. Speaking of them it is no
longer common anathema grease, but " balm of
Gilead," "ointment of Spikenard,' or something of
that sort. Here is a drop or two "he offers up in
all humility of soul, the most earnest thanksgiving
to the GOD of all consolation who deigns by the
remarkable piety and generosity of the Episcopacy
and the faithful, to give him alleviation and strength
in the midst of his grief and bitterness." SOLOMON
says that " dead flies cause the ointment of the
apothecary to send forth a stinking savour," we know
not whether money-begging has any such effect on
Papal ointment for faithful bishops, but certain it is
that all this luscious praise of Bishops in the form of
a draft on Heaven, is in immediate connection with
their "pious and spontaneous donations," and the
" grave embarrassments" and the enormous and in-
creasing charges" (for equipping brigands to ravage
Neapolitan towns) of the Holy See.
But enough—the conclusion of this memorable
specimen of Pontifical Reviling closes, of course,
with appeals to the SAVIOUR, to the "Holy and
Immaculate Virgin MARY," who certainly owes Pope
Pius a good turn, and to GOD himself, which, at the
close of a document so thoroughly worldly in its
cravings, and in the temper in which it utters them,
reads to us like profanity. Whether the POPE be
above advice it is not ours to say; 'but assuredly if
he be not, his friends, and those who care for the
credit of the faith of which he is the head, would
do well to prevent the issue from the Vatican of
such bootless and revolting abuse, such transparent
worldly ambition, such notorious lies, and above all,
of such disgusting cant.

The principle of nen-intervention now regulating
our Foreign Policy is not by any means to be re-
garded as a modern discovery. Diplomacy has
been for a long while tending towards it. The fact
is now merely that what has hitherto been more
implied than expressed, is at length proclaimed very
candidly. There is no longer any beating about the
bush—any groping in the dark—any mere throwing
out of hints. Formerly, for example—and as the
the date we are here forthwith going to specify will
indicate not so very long ago either—the style
adopted by the boldest of our Foreign Ministers
was about as gingerly and as cautious as well could
be. Thirty years ago—it was on the 22d of March,
1831—our present Premier, then Foreign Secretary
(writing to Lord HEYTESBURY, who was at that
period her Britannic MAJESTY'S Ambassador at the
Court of St. Petersburg) could only thus insinuate
the notion that England could do no more than
r simply advise the councils of the CZAR in regard to
the affairs of Poland :—" His MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment," wrote Lord PALMERSTON, at the date re-
ferred to, are fully sensible that it is a matter of
great delicacy for one Government to make any
communication to another as to the manner in
which it may think fit to deal with subjects who
have been subdued after an unsuccessful revolt; and
they have:too high an opinion of the generous and
high-minded sentiments of the Emperor of RUSSIA 1
to doubt that his victory will be used with as much
moderation and mercy as may be consistent with
the future security of his authority ; but as far as
you may find it useful and proper to touch upon
this subject, you will conform your language to the
sentiments entertained upon it by his MAJESTY'S
Government." As if there ware a positive delicacy
about putting the matter quite frankly, and avow-
ing, as we do not hesitate one instant to avow under
similar circumstances at this time that our foreign
policy (be it in reference to Poland or to Italy, to
the Hungarians or to the Montenegrins) is regu-
lated simply by the principle of non-intervention !I
Upon that principle we were striving to act
thirty years ago ; and further back even than
that. Only—then—we hesitated to acknow-
ledge as
much. If only for inasmuch as the
open adoption of
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that open adoption of it is most assuredlyte factmatter of
for flank congratulation. Nor must it be supposed
for an instant that the out-spoken acceptance of the
principle of non-intervention as the prominent and
paramont guiding principle of our Foreign Policy
derogates in any essential particular from the dig-
-1
nity, the self-respect, or the independence of a great
nation like England. For what in truth is really
signified by it ? Not that England will ever refuse
to interfere when her own interests or her own
honour are anywhere concerned either directly or
indirectly. Simply that she will not consent any
longer under any circumstances, to admit the pos-

sibility of her appearing before the world as little
better than a political QUIXOTE. Simply that the
independence of any other power, great or small,
shall not be in jeopardy, henceforth (so far as the
British Government is in any way concerned) of
being wantonly tampered with. Guai a qui la
tocca ! That is still virtually, to all intents and
purposes, the motto blazoned upon our national
banner. Gare a qui la touche ! The principle of
non-intervention to the contrary notwithstanding!
It were ludicrous to regard it, indeed, as otherwise.
A Power like that of England cannot abrogate her
right of interference in anything whatever that
concerns herself or her own interests. It is simply,
then, we repeat, that she puts aside for once and
for ever the mere Quixotism that has so often
marred the Foreign Policy of so many of the diffe-
rent races of Christendom. Henceforth—(this and
no more than this is the meaning of the adoption of
the principle of non-intervention by'England)—
Henceforth England will interfere nowhere by force
of arms save where Honour and Justice constrain
her to interfere, in the vindication of her own rights,

It can hardly be thought—even by the most
infatuated Coalitionist—to look very auspiciously
for the present Government that the Earl DE
GREY, as a member of it, should have spoken of its
past and future, as he did the other day at Ripon.
The occasion of his rather ominous, and certainly
very sinister remarks, was the banquet" given by
the Mayor of that borough-town on Tuesday last.
And The remarks we have just alluded to as having
been there and then uttered by the Earl DE GREY
were in response for no less a toast than that of
"Her MAJESTY'S Ministers." Speaking for him-
self and his colleagues, the noble lord can hardly
be said to have expressed himself very hopefully.
"No one could prophesy,"—said Lord DE GREY
(though assuredly it needs no Earl to tell us that !)

—" the duration of a Government." Even that
somewhat trite remark looks ugly, seeing that
it is volunteered by a member of the Administra-
tion ! But, it is what was afterwards said by Lord
DE GREY that looks far worse—seeing that every
word we are now about to give was also volun-
teered. And, before giving these remarks of the
noble lord's, we may premise that we hardly know
which looks the more gloomily, his retrospect or

his anticipations.
Remember, he had just then observed, in answer

to the toast of " Her MAJESTY'S Ministers,"—" No
one could prophesy the duration of a Govern-
ment." And he now went on to remark
candidly as follows :—" He scarcely thought
last year, that he should have had to
return thanks for the toast he did on_the present
occasion ;"—how will Mr. GLADSTONE like the ad-
mission ? or Earl RUSSELL ? or Viscount PALMER-
STON ?--" but," naively continued Lord DE GREY,
" having lived so long he might hope to live
longer." His lordship would find some little diffi-
culty in getting his life " insured" in any " office"
for no better reason than that ! The Earl DE GREY,
however, went on at once to try and reconcile
himself, without further delay, to the very worst
—or, as he would fain have us believe that he re-
gards it (from his own point of view), to the very
best ! " Though," he says, "he was convinced
that it would be a misfortune to this country should
Lord PALMERSTON cease to preside at the head of
affairs, yet it would give him (the Earl DE GREY
and RIPON) the advantage of the pleasure of being
longer among his friends in that part of the coun-
try." Really, if we are to comment upon these
words simply in our character as REFORMERS, we
cannot for the life of us resist the inclination to
add—Pity that the Earl DE GREY and RIPON
should be kept so very vexatiously from remaining
longer among his friends in that part of the coun-
try ! Perhaps shortly after the meeting of Parlia-
ment be may yet have his holidays.

REMOVAL OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—It has
been definitively arranged to dispose of the site of St.
Thomas's Hospital for the requirements of the London-
bridge railway companies, and to coalesce with the St.
Bartholomew's, the joint institution to have a convalescent
hospital some few miles out of town.

Mr. Henry Knight, whose name has been so
familiar to the noblemen and gentlemen of Eton College
for the last half century, first in the household of the late
Dr. Keate, and subsequently as the host of the " Chris-
topher," died at his residence at Eton, on the 4th instant,
in the 81st year of his age.

THREE CHILDREN FOUND MURDERED.—On
Saturday information was received by the police of the dis-
covery of the bodies of three infants who had been mur-
dered ; one, a female child, at Stepney, with a piece of tape
bound so tightly round the throat as to cut deeply into the
flesh, proving death to have been caused by strangulation ;
the second, a fine male child, found in the public urinal in
Arundel-street, Strand ; and the third, another male child,
found in Hyde-park, all having marks of violence on their
bodies sufficient to account for death. Largo rewards are
offered, and the police are using every effort to effect the
capture of the murderers.

DEERFOOT, THE SENECA INDIAN, AND JACKSON,
THE AMERICAN DEER.—Deerfoot, the Son of the Prairie,
will meet another pale-face this day, at the West London
Cricket Ground, Brompton, who may perchance shake a
leaf from his laurels. Jackson, the American Deer, has
contended with and beaten some of the best men of the pre-
sent generation, and has also defeated the fastest runners of
seven different tribes of Indians in America. As the distance
is only four miles, a good race is sure to be the result. Four
p.m. is the appointed time.

THE GIPSY KINGDOM.—The Kelso Chronicle
has this week received a royal message from the gipsy
palace, communicated verbally through a trusty source, to
the effect that an inaccuracy occurred in the notice of the
late king's death, in so far as it stated that his majesty
left no issue to succeed to the throne. Our later and
more authoritative information acquaints us with the fact
that the deceased King Charles I. has left both male and
female issue, there being several of the former, and all of
them survive. We believe the eldest son, who, had he
claimed his rights, would have ascended the throne by
the style and title of King David, is resident in Berwick-
shire; but he has abdicated his crown rights in favour of
his royal sister, the Princess Helen, the youngest of the
family, and who faithfully abode by her deceased father,
and nursed him in his declining years. Her royal high-
ness still occupies the royal palace at Yetholm, where
visitors are received with as much courtesy as ever, and
where they can be shown some relics of the late king,
and an excellent portrait of his Majesty. We have not
heard whether the Princess Helen has been formally in-
stalled into her regal authority, or if any form is deemed
necessary in this instance ; but we understand she is by
nature eminently fitted to rule, possessing all the suavity of
manner Which it is possible to assume, and being able at
times to awe the gruffest and most unruly subject into re-
spect and obedience.

Loss OF THE NEVA STEAMER.—On Friday the
official statement of Captain George North, of the London
and St. Petersburg steamer Nova, was posted at Lloyd's.
It appears from it that the Neva was an iron-built vessel of
450 tons, classed A 1, which belonged to Norwood and
Co., of Hull, laden with a cargo of general merchandise,
she left the Humber on the morniEg of the 25th ult. for St
Petersburg. She had a favourable passage across the North
Sea. On Saturday the 28th. at two o'clock in the scorning,
she was in the Cattegat, steering S. half E., when suddenly
a steamer's masthead and red light were observed about a
point on the starboard bow. The helm of the Neva was put
a-port, and the other steamer's red light was thereby
brought about two points and a half on the port bow of the
Neva. The helm of the Neva was next steadied till the
other steamer's green light was perceived to be completely
in sight. The Neva's helm was then put hard-a-port and
kept so, but this had scarcely been done when she was
struck by the other vessel and cut down from the gunwale
to below the water mark. Captain North having sounded
and found six feet of water set on all the steam pumps,
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