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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1861.

protect and watch their interests, and to add to the
position, the information, and comfort of each mem-
ber belonging to it.

" 10, Water-street, Liverpool, Oct. 8."
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the confirmation of
the report, could not but feel gratified at the pro-
' gress the Association was making. The influence
of the Association was proved by the number of
merchants and shipowners (about 50) who had
joined it since April last. In every seaport that he
had been in he had heard the Association spoken
of as a most valuable and thriving institution; and
in London, where there was great influence brought
to bear, great efforts were being made to establish
a school ship on the model of the Liverpool train-
ing vessel, the Conway. The Government also
highly appreciated the Association. He and others
went to London to see the Admiralty, and instead
of having to wait about for some hours to see the
Secretary, they were ushered into the presence of
the Duke of Somerset, who received them most
cordially, and said he would give the Association
any ship suitable for the purpose of a school ship.
(Applause.) His lordship said he looked upon that
school ship in the Mersey as one destined to become
not only of great service to the mercantile marine
but to the Royal Navy also. (Applause.) He was
glad to say that on the previous evening the Liter-
ary and Philosophical Society had resolved to admit
25 members of the Association free of charge, with
the object of those gentlemen bringing to bear the
information that they had acquired abroad. This
showed that the position of members of the Asso-
ciation was appreciated, and it was hoped that they
would contribute what they could to science. In
reference to the bazaar, which was very highly
spoken of, it would be necessary to increase very
considerably the funds of the Association before it
could carry out its intended charitable movements ;
and he was glad to say that a great number of
ladies, in different parts of the kingdom, whom lie
might never see again, had signified their intention
to contribute articles for the bazaar.

Captain CAMPBELL seconded the motion.

The motion was carried unanimously, and the
proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to
the chairman.

TEE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

The following is the allocution delivered by the
Pope at the secret consistory held at Rome, on the
30th ult.:—

" Venerable Brethren—Each of you May remem-
ber with what heartfelt grief we have frequently
deplored before you the numerous and lamentable
evils caused to the Apostolic Church, to the
Apostolic See, and to ourselves, to the great
detriment of civil society, by the Piedmontese
Government and by the authors and abettors of
that disastrous rebellion, particularly in the unfor-
tunate provinces of Italy, which that same Go-
vernment has usurped with as much injustice as
violence. At the present time, among the innu-
merable and still more serious wounds inflicted
incessantly on our holy religion by that same Go-
vernment, and by the men who form part of a
detestable conspiracy, we have to weep over our
dear son, your illustrious colleague, the vigilant
Archbishop of Naples, renowned for his piety and his
virtue, whom you now see here present, and who
seized by soldiers, was torn from his flock to the
great grief of all right-minded men. Every one
knows how the satellities of that Government and of
that rebellion, full of ignorance and deceit, have
renewed the attacks and the fury of the ancient
heretics, and giving way to all their rage against
holy things, endeavour to completely overthrow, if
it were ever possible, the Church of God and the
Catholic religion ; to wrest from every soul its salu-
tary doctrine, and to excite and inflame every bad
passion.

" All laws, human and divine, have been trampled
under foot ; all ecclesiastical censures set at nought;
the bishops, with an audacity which every day
increases, expelled from their dioceses and even
thrown into prison ; the majority of the faithful
have been deprived of their pastors ; the regular '
and secular priests borne down by bad treatment
and subjected to all kinds of injustice ; religious
congregations destroyed ; the members expelled

from their houses and reduced to the most complete
indigence; virgins devoted to God obliged to beg
their bread; the most venerated temples despoiled,
profaned, and changed into dens of robbers; sacred
property pillaged; ecclesiastical authority and
jurisdiction violated and usurped, and the laws of
the Church despised and trampled under foot.
Schools of false doctrine have been established,
libels and infamous journals, the offspring of dark-
ness, have been distributed in every place at an
enormous expense by a criminal conspiracy. Per-
nicious and abominable writings attack our holy
faith, religion, piety, honesty, modesty, honour,
and virtue, and overthrow the true and unshakable
rules of eternal and natural law of public and
private rights ; the legitimate liberty and pro-
perty of every one is attacked ; the foundations
of family ties and of civil society are ruined ;
the reputation of every virtuous person is blackened
by false accusations, and the impunity of all vices
and of all errors is every day more and more
nourished, propagated, and increased.
" There is no one who has not seen what a de-
plorable suite of calamities, crimes, and misfortunes
have been scattered over unfortunate Italy by this
great and criminal rebellion ; for, to use the words
of the Prophet, ' By swearing, and lying, and com-
mitting adultery, they break out, and blood
toucheth blood.'—(Hosea iv., 2,)
" Yes, the sad heart is seized with horror ; words
are wanting to depict the greater part of the towns
of the kingdom of Naples, burnt and destroyed ; a
considerable number of virtuous priests, monks, and
citizens of all age, sox, and condition, without ex-
cepting even those consumed by disease, charged
with the most shameful outrages, thrown into
prison or put to death in the most barbarous man-
ner, without even the form of a trial.

" And who would not be illed with the most
profound sadness at seeing these men, these frantic
rebels, without any respect for sacred Ministers, for
the dignity of Bishop or Cardinal, without any re-
spect for us, for this Apostolic See, for the sacred
temples, and for justice and humanity, spread
everywhere ruin and devastation.
" And who are those who act thus? Men who
do not blush to affirm with the most brazen impu-
dence that they wish to give liberty to the Church,
and to restore the moral sense of Italy ! Nay, they
are not even ashamed to demand of the Roman
Pontiff to acquiesce in their unjust desires, in order
to prevent greater evils from falling on the Church.
" But what causes us the greatest sorrow, vene-
rable brethren, is that several members of the
secular and regular clergy, some of whom hold
ecclesiastical dignities, being miserably led away
by a fatal spirit of error and rebellion, and, for-
getful of their vocation and their duties, have gone
astray from the path of truth, have given their
assent to the designs of the impious, and have
become, to the great regret of well-conducted
people, a stumbling-block and a scandal.

"To all these misfortunes, which we deplore,
a new affliction has been added. In the States of
Mexico, some men not less criminal and animated
by a similar hatred against the Catholic Church,
have (setting an example never before seen) not
feared to promulgate laws the most unjust and the
most hostile to the power, rights, and doctrines of
the Church. They have pillaged ecclesiastical pro-
perty, despoiled the altars, persecuted members of
the clergy and of religious orders, driven away the
virgins consecrated to God, and after outraging
bishops have dragged them from their flocks and
sent them into exile. Almost all these victims
have come into our city, and have given us great
consolation, by the display of the virtues which
they possess in a high degree.
" And that is not all. In another part of Ame-
rica, in New Granada, a short time ago, perturba-
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divine and human things, you will e4sily under-
stand, venerable brethren, all the bitterness of our
sorrow. But in the midst of this pain and anguish,
which we could never support without special as-
sistance from God, it is for us a supreme consolation
to see the admirable religion, the 'virtue, and the
courage of our venerable brethren, the bishops of
Italy, and of all the Catholic world. These vene-
rable brethren, attached to us and to the chair of
Peter, by the closest ties of faith, charity, and
respect, not allowing themselves to be intimidated
by any peril, and fulfilling their ministry to the im-
mortal honour of their name and order, do not cease,
both by tongue and by writings full of wisdom,
to defend with intrepidity the cause of God, that
of his Holy Church, and of this Apostolic See, its
rights, its doctrines, the cause of justice and huma-
nity; neither do they cease to watch with the
greatest care over the faith of their flock, to refute
the false and erroneous doctrines of hostile men, and
courageously to resist their impious efforts. We
do not feel less joy in seeing in what a striking
manner the faithful priests and populations of Italy,
and of all the Christian universe, walk in the steps
of their prelates, and glorify themselves more and
more by publicly manifesting towards us and this
Apostolic See their love, their respect, and their
admirable zeal in professing and defending our
most holy religion.

" And as our venerable brethren, their clergy,
and the faithful see clearly the extreme embarrass-
ments in which we are placed by the spoliation of
the greater part of our civil domain, they believe
also that nothing is more meritorious for them,
more glorious, more religious, than to lighten with
the most ardent zeal, by their pious and sponta-
neous donations, these very grave embarrassments
and those of the Holy See.

the most earnest thanksgiving to the God of all
" Thus, while offering up in all humility of soul
consolation, who deigns, by that remarkable piety
and generosity of the episcopacy and of the faith-
ful, to give us alleviation and strength in the midst
of our grief and bitterness, we are happy to be able
to again express in the face of the world our feel-
ings of deep gratitude, since it is from their support
and their co-operation that we derive the power of
being able to meet the enormous and increasing
charges of the Holy See.

" And here, venerable brethren, we cannot pass
over in silence the constant testimonies of real affec-
tion, of unflinching fidelity, of devoted submission,
and of generous liberality, which this Roman people
have lavished on
us ; and we wish also to point out
how much they remain firmly attached to us, to this
Apostolic See, and to the temporal power which
belongs to us, and with what warmth they repel
and condemn the guilty attempts of those who seek
to spread disturbance among them. Have not yon
yourselves, venerable brethren, frequently wit-
nessed the sincere and cordial manifestations by
which this Roman people, whom we so much love,
have shown the sentiments of their traditional faith,
of that faith which so justly merits the highest
praise.

" As we have the Divine promise that our
Saviour Jesus Christ will be with his Church to
the end of time, and that the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it, we are assured that God
will not fail in his word, and that a day of won-
ders will arrive when God will show that this for-
midable tempest has not been raised to sink the
vessel of the Church, but to raise her still higher."
" In the meantime, let us not cease, venerable
brethren, to invoke with all our hearts the all-
powerful patronage of the Holy and Immaculate
Virgin Mary ; let us pray and entreat night and
day, by the most fervent supplications, the merci-
ful God, whose nature is goodness itself, whose
power is equal to His will, and whose works are
full of mercy, that he will shorten as much as
possible the days of temptation; that He will hold
out His right hand to the civil and Christian society
so cruelly tried, and shower on all the treasures
of His grace and of His mercy ; that He will con-
vert all the enemies of the Church and of the Holy
see, and bring them back to the paths of justice ;
that His all-powerful influence will have the effect
I of dissipating all errors and doing away with all
impiety, and that thus His holy religion, in which
resides the principle of the felicity and even of the
temporal peace of nations, may live and flourish
more and more over the whole earth."

FATHER PASSAGLIA'S WORK ON THE

ROMAN Q tTESHON.

The following is an analysis of the chief passages
of the very important work on the Roman ques•
tion, which is now exciting so much attention in
Rome itself, and which has called forth the unmea-
sured indignation of the Pontiff:—

" Who does not see (Father Passaglia observes)
that the Italian people are hastening to that un-
happy situation in which there is eminent danger,
not trifling, but very serious danger ; that a vast
number of Italians, either by open and corporeal,
or by secret and spiritual separation, become re-
moved from the paradise of the Church, and leave
the Church itself deprived of its most chosen sons ?
Already a great part of the clergy are in open dis-
cord with the majority of the laity; already almost
all the shepherds are separated from their flocks,
whilst the shepherd of shepherds, the successor of
Peter, the venerable Vicar of Christ on earth, hurls
against the kingdom of Italy, and against Italian
society, the dread thunderbolt of his censures. One
might be tempted to believe that of the double
power to bind and to loose, our bishops now retain
the first alone, such concord do they exhibit in con-
demning, repelling, execrating whatever the whole
nation desires and is striving to obtain. -Wherefore
this spectacle ? Are the Italians renouncing the doc-
trines of our orthodox faith ? No; on the contrary,
they all revere that faith, and observe its rites in
the most minute particulars. Are they assailing the
rights of their legally constituted bishops in all that
relates to sacred and religious matters ? On the con-
trary, they all agree in professing for those rights
the reverence which is their due. Do they despise
the supreme and spiritual authority of the Pontiff?
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In the opening part of his treatise Passaglia
reminds the bishops of the divine duties to which
their mission is limited ; and he then goes on to
prove, with a clearness, with a force of argument,
with an array of patriotic authorities, absolutely
leaving no hope of reply, that the Roman Catholic
bishops, by their addresses, by their pastoral letters
to the clergy and their flocks respecting the tem-
poral authority of the Popes, have betrayed their
duty, and have furnished the world an occasion of
gross scandal. The preaching of the Gospel, the
teaching of Christian morality, the inculcation and
example of Christian love, these constitute the legi-
timate tasks of bishops, ministers of God ; whatever
goes beyond these is wrong. But to stir up by the
deeds which we all deplore, especially during the
last three years, war amongst Christians, to create
deplorable and atrocious dissensions, to furnish the
occasion of a religious schism which the Church
must weep over to the end of time—this is a truly
deplorable course of action, and on that can never
be sufficiently condemned. It is an act for which
God, at His day of judgment, will assuredly summon
the perpetrators to render a terrible account. In
truth, the Church consists only in the clergy and
their flock's. If the clergy remain isolated, if it
drive away the flocks, and if the latter finally leave
the clergy because they find themselves treated as
enemies, where is the Church ? Does it not altoge•
ther disappear ? The unity of the Church is not
possible without mutual concord, An anti-national
clergy is a contradiction in terms. The clergy can
never go hand in hand with the people unless its
members confine themselves to their own lawful
sphere, unless they cease to assail the rights of the
people, unless they desist from menacing and com-
bating national hopes and liberties, unless they
again place their true greatness in the work of a
religious apostleship.

l'AZgAgligt accordingly conchlaQ4 that tho A 141194

rity of the Roman Catholic bishops on subjects un-
connected with moral and theological doctrine pos-
sesses no importance whatever; that the chief end of
that authority, by divine institution, is to preserve
the unity of the separate churches in the Catholic
Church, and to combat schisms and heresies. " The
general institution of bishops, and the special in-
stitution of the Supreme Pontiff, of the bishop of
bishops, pointed, and will always point, through
the grace of Jesus Christ to this, that the unity of
the churches in the Catholic Church shall always
flourish, and shall remain victorious over heresies
and over schisms."

Is this unity fostered by the bishops who Chas*
away their flocks, who insult them, who treat them
as heathens and as publicans ? " Utique," exclaims
Passaglia, "die et nocte plorabo interfectos filios
populi mei, nec antea conquescam a gemitu quam in
Italia universa, populos inter prwsulesque foodus
Christiana✓ pacis, ccelo terraque, plaudentibus,
fauste feliciterque sanciatur."

But the Catholic bishops (adds Passaglia) display
hostility to the kingdom of Italy for two reasons—
for the alleged injustice by which lawful sovereigns
have been stripped of their dominions, for the
alleged impiety by which the Roman Pontiff has
been deprived of his temporal sovereignty. Pas-
saglia hereupon asks, who has given to the bishops
the authority to erect themselves into the judges
of the peoples and of the princes of the earth ?
Their authority was not conferred for earthly, but
for heavenly purposes. And resting on the autho-
rity of St. Barnard, so frequently quoted in this
controversy, he observes—" I have read that the
Apostles were brought up to be judged, but I have
never read that they assumed the character of
judges."

Then drawing from his theological armoury more
than 300 decrees of the Church, he lays it down
that both the Supreme Pontiff and the bishops are
wholly incompetent to pronounce an opinion on
the legitimate or illegitimate character of any
temporal sovereignty. Passing on then to the con-
sideration of the kingdom of Italy and of its con-
stitution, he proclaims and maintains that the con-
stant and immutable rule of the Church has been to
recognise de facto governments. He sums up his
theory in the following words :—" The good of the
Church, the salvation of souls, and the duties pre-
scribed by God to all pastors, urgently demand
that political dissensions and controversies respect-
ing human and civil rights be laid aside, that peace
be stipulated between the Church and all de facto
governments—all that can show possession in their
favour ; that to none of them be denied any of the
things by which Christian communion may grow
up and flourish." This rule, he says, was laid down
by different councils, and by very many supreme
pontiffs, as late as the celebrated bull of Gregory
XVI. of Aug. 6, 1831, in which it is fully deve-
loped and confirmed. From these rules and laws the
holiest Pontiffs did not depart, even in very ancient
times; and, amongst other examples, Passaglia
quotes that furnished by the history of St. Gregorl,
the Great and of the Emperor Phocas. Phocas had
put to death the Emperor Maurice and all his male
children, namely, Theodosius (who was already
crowned), and his colleague in the empire, Tiberius,
Peter, and Paul, likewise a brother of Maurice, and
other native citizens. Nevertheless, Pope St. Gre-
gory the Great, respecting the will of God, " which
changes times and transfers kingdoms," caused the
portrait of the usurper to be placed in the Lateran
Basilica and in the oratory of San Cesario, and, in
recognising him as his lord, addressed to him letters
full of humanity and charity. He augured for the
empire the freedom which confers happiness on
peoples, and concluded his 45th letter with these
words " Considerare sum gaudiis et magnis actioni-
bus gratiarum libet, qnantas omnipotenti Deo laudes
debemus, quod remoto jugo tristithe ad libertatis
temporat sub imperiali benignitativestra pietate per-
venimus." Such examples will perhaps call forth
astonishment and contempt in those members of the
clergy who, puffedup by ignorance, are unable to read
the explanation of the like laws in Christian society.
They are founded on the principle that the soldiers
of Christ ought not to mix themselves up in the
profane things of the world. This principle, on
which depends the preservation or the ruin of the
Church, was thoroughly understood in our age by
Monsignor'' tibour, Archbishop of Paris, who, in a
, celebrated pastoral letter to his clergy, said that the
ministers of the Lord would escape all sccial tern-
pests, and would be encircled by universal venera-
tion, only by embracing, in Christ's name, all man-
kind with equal love, only by keeping aloof from all
revolutions, only by eschewing all worldly politics.
Passaglia remarks that it is very painful to be able
to furnish no answer to those who inquire, " Why
the bishops of Hungary and of Poland side with
the people, whilst those of Italy are opposed to
them ; and why the bishops of France acknowledge
the validity of universal suffrage, whilst they reject
it in Italy ?"

" But," says Passaglia, " the Pontiff has pro-
nounced his famous non possumus, and the bishops
only follow the example of the Pope. A futile
argument. The Papal declarations to which the
non possunaus refers do not touch the dogmas, are
not derived from the holy writings or the traditions
of the Church. They are not obligatory, therefore;
they are liable to change, therefore ; one must, con-
sequently, hope that, with the view of averting the
immense calamities by which religion is menaced,
the Pontiff will see the danger of confounding ob-
stinacy with firmness, and will return to better
counsels, and that to obtain this result the prayers
of the bishops will be united to remind the common
father of the course which his holy predecessors fol-
lowed, and which the exigencies of religion now
require.

I Because the Italian people is now so constituted
that, without universal disturbance and extreme
injury to civil and ecclesiastical society, neither the
former state of matters can be restored, nor can the
course of events be arrested, still less can the politi-
cal unity of the nation be delayed.
To no purpose is the objection of oaths put for-
ward. These have no validity, nor can they be main-
tained when in direct contradiction with the welfare
of society ; they are of impossible execution when
a superior force prevents their fulfilment ; they
were not instituted to be a bond of iniquity. Such
is the language held respecting them by St. Angus.
tin, And the special oaths taken by the Pontiffs
to maintain the integrity of the Papal States were
merely instituted by Pius V., and Urban VII., to
prevent the Popes from making donations of their
States to their bastard sons and to their unworthy
nephews.
Father Passaglia then passes on to the theory of
a free Catholic Church in a free state—a solution of
the question accepted by him with unmingled
gladness. He then terminates his inquiry by the
passages already given in a previous notice.

THE MAD BULL AT CHELSEA.—We are glad to
learn that the injuries received by upwards of 20 persons
attacked by a mad bull on Tuesday last in Battersea and
Chelsea are in no case likely to prove fatal. Miss Emma
Stephens, a young lady of 17, residing in Camera-square,
Chelsea, is the greatest sufferer. She was overtaken by the
infuriated animal in Park-road, Little Chelsea, knocked
down, and tossed twice in a frightful manner. She was then
rescued by the crowd of 300 persons who were in pursuit of
the animal. Miss Stephens was lifted from the ground in
an insensible state, and placed on a stretcher, and removed
to her residence. She remained insensible until the follow-
ing day. She is severely cut in the head, shoulder, neck,
and ankle, but is gradually recovering. Yesterday she was
much better. David Eagle, another sufferer, was attacked
in the same street. He was chase round a cab several times,
and finally knocked down and trampled upon. Four of his
ribs and his collar-bone were broken. He was removed to
St. George's Hospital, and is now out of danger. Thomas
Lloyd, knocked down and tossed, and afterwards taken to
the same place, was so far recovered yesterday as to obtain
his discharge. No information has been procured concern-
ing the soldier who was gored on Battersea-bridge. All the
others injured are rapidly recovering.
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Especial Note.—These purifying Pills excel every other
medicine for regulating the digestion, acting healthily on
the liver and bowels, invigorating the nervous system, and
strengthening the body. They cause neither pain nor
other inconvenience. At this season, when profuse per-
spirations are liable to sudden checks, Holloway's Pills
restore the balance of the circulation, and ward off dan-
gerous attacks of diarrhcoa, dysentery, or cholera. They
are the best correct ves of the stomach when disordered by
over-repletion, or by the presence of indigestible food.
They speedily rectify the flatulence, weight and general
uneasiness which are experienced in the bowels prior to the
accession of more serious syuiptowth ,which &Wit*, if
they dp 49t cadtwifer• •

2'HE MURDER OF A BOY IN NOTTING-
JIAM FOREST.

MANSFIELD, THURSDAY.
Four years ago a bey named John Wesley Atkin-
son, 8 years of age, was found murdered in a field
near Nottingham Forest, a mile and a-half from
Nottingham. Previous to the murder the lad had
on a pair of new boots, but when the body was
found these had been taken off the boy's feet, and
the stealing of the boots appeared at the time to be
the only motive for the murder, which had been
caused by strangulation. A gipsy was apprehended
at the time, but the companion of the murdered
boy, who was present when Atkinson went away
with a strange man, could not identify the gipsy
as the person, but stated that he last saw his com-
panion with a man with red hair and whiskers.
This man decoyed the boy under pretence of giving
him half-a-sovereign to show him the way to New
Basford, near Nottingham, and he was not seen
alive afterwards.

A few days ago the wife of a man named Henry
Wilson, living at Mansfield had quarrelled with her
husband, and it came to the knowledge of the police
that she had reminded her husband that he was the
murderer of the boy in Nottingham Forest. The
man then lived at Bulwell, two miles and a-half
from the scene of the murder. From other suspici-
ous circumstances he was apprehended and placed
in Mansfield lock-up. This morning the prisoner
was brought before Sir Edward Walker and the
Mansfield Bench of magistrates, when his wife Mary
Wilson, stated she was in Pleasley-lanc, near Mans-
field, with her husband, a few days ago, when he
got over a gate and told her to come and sit by his
side. She told him she wanted to go to Mansfield,
but the prisoner said she would never go to Mans-
field any more. He then grasped her throat
and tried to strangle her. Witness resisted, and
the prisoner then pulled a knife out of his pocket,
with which he tried to cut her throat. She after-
wards extricated herself and ran to Mansfield. In
consequence of the assault witness became very ill,
and her neighbours told her she would die, when
she said that if she did it would not be the first
murder her husband had committed.

She alluded to the murder of the boy in Notting-
ham Forest. At the time of the murder she rea
the Hue and Cry, and the description of the mur-
derer corresponded with the person of her husband,
and when she told him so he showed great anger
and left her, and soon afterwards shaved off his
whiskers and burnt his coat.

The prisoner denied having a knife, but his wife
positively swore that he had.

-
The Bench said that the wife of the prisoner had
made a most serious charge against her husband
respecting the murder, and cautioned her ; but the
witness positively affirmed that her statement with
with regard to the murder of the boy was true.
Superintendent Palethorpe brought two youths
from Nottingham, who were with the boy shortly
before he was murdered, and who saw the man who
decoyed away the boy, but, for some reason which
did not transpire court, these boys were not con-
fronted with the prisonerito identify him.
The bench, thinking that the woman had charged
her husband with the murder in consequence of the
assault he had committed upon her, said they
should send him to prison for six months in default
of finding sureties.
Upon hearing this the prisoner's wife said that
she dared not be at large if the prisoner was, as he
had declared he would murder her and her children,
and she had no doubt he would fulfil his threat.
The prisoner was then conveyed to gaol, and the
utmost exertions are being made by the police to
procure further evidence.