The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

The allocution of the Pope, promulgated on the
20th ult. at Rome, after expressing the thanks of his
Holiness to the various Catholic Powers who had
interfered by force of arms for the restoration of his
temporal authority, thus proceeds :
" Hitherto we have reminded you of what has caused
us an agreeable satisfaction. Now, pressed by the duty
of our apostolic ministry, we have to say what deeply
disturbs our heart, and fills it with anguish. Yon are
aware of the frightful war now going on between
light and darkness, truth and error, vice and virtue,
Belial and Christ, and you are not ignorant by
what proceedings hostile men endeavour to trample
under foot the things of our holy religion, to tear up
to the last root of all Christian virtues, to corrupt by
mortal errors men's minds and hearts, particularly of
the inexperienced multitude, and of imprudent youth,
and to destroy from top to bottom, it possible, the Ca-
tholic Church, and overturn the holy chair of St.
Peter. Every one sees with what calamities the flock
of Jesus Christ, confided to our care, and human so-
ciety itself, are attacked and torn to pieces. In conse-
quence, venerable brethren, now more than ever, we are
bound by union, seal, example, and efforts of all kinds,
to raise up a wall of defence before the house of Israel,
and to wage valiantly the battle of the Lord. For our-
selves, we teel fully convinced of our weakness, but lean-
ing on the help of God, and constantly raising our eyes
towards Jesus, we shall spare neither cares, nor counsels,
nor labours, to give strength to the house, to fortify the
temple, to repair the ruins of the church, and to pro-
vide for the safety of all, ready to give our life for our
Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Church. And here,
addressing all our venerable brethren, the Bishops
of the Catholic universe, asked to share oar solicitude,
whilst congratulating them warmly on their illustrious
labours for the glory of God and the safety of souls, we
encourage them, in order that in this horrible war
against our divine religion, taking in hand the in-
expugnable shield of God, and girding on the swerd
of the spirit, which is the Word of God, they may
rise up to combat intrepidly in favour of our holy
religion, and by their pastoral virtue, constancy,
and prudence, break the attack of their enemies,
and defend the flock committed to their care.
In addition, we call on our venerable brethren not to
cease to exhort and encourage the ecclesiastics to appear
in all things models of good work; and, united amongst
themselves by the strict bond of charity, to put on ths
divine armour of God, and march to combat with
one heart and one soul, placing in common all
their forces, and, under the conduct of their Bishop,
raising night and day their sacerdotal voices,
preaching with ardour to the Christian people the law
of God and the prescriptions of the Church, his sponse.
Let our venerable brethren not cease either to impress
oa the ecclesiastics the duty of discovering to the
Christian people the ambuscades and snares which
are laid for them by deceitful men, and of remind-
ing believers that from sin spring all the misfortunes
and calamities which overwhelm nations, and that
true and solid felicity consists in the observance of
the Christian law. Let them spare nothing, that all,
detesting what is evil and pursuing what is good, may
march in the way of the commandments of God, and
that they who are misled, snatched from the gloom of
error and the filth of vice, may be converted to the Lord.
Already, venerable brethren, we have informed you
of the great consolation which has been given
us in the midst of so many pangs of anguish,
when we learned the decrees issued by our very
dear son, Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic
King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia—decrees by
which, following the inspirations of his piety, accomplish-
ing our desires and our requests, and the desires and the
requests of our venerable brothers, the bishops of his
vast empire, to the glory of his name, and the joy of
all men of worth, he has, in concert with his ministers,
and out of his ardent heart, ensured in his states

the liberty so much desired of the Catholic Church.
So great an act, an act so worthy of a Catholic prince,
deserves the encomiums which we give to this illustrious
Emperor and King, felicitating him warmly in the Lord.
We indulge in the gratifying hope that this Prince of so
religious a character will be pleased, in his zeal for
the good of the Church, and continuing his work,
and carrying it on to perfection, to arrive at the
highest point of merit. But whilst we were deliver-
ing ourselves up to this consolation, a cruel grief fell
on us, from seeing how in another Catholic kingdom are
treated the things of our most holy religion, and how the
sacred rights of the Church, and of the Holy See, are
trampled on. You comprehend, venerable brethren,
that we speak of the subalpine kingdom, where, as
every one knows, a law has been promulgated,
contrary to the laws of the Church and to the conven-
tions solemnly concluded with this Apostolic See,
and where in these latter days—our soul is filled with
grief at the thought, and all good men at Turin and
in the whole kingdom are in mourning therefrom—
the illustrious Pontiff of Turin, our venerable brother
Louis Fransoni, torn by armed force from his epis-
copal residence, was conducted to the citadel. As to
the gravity of the fact, and the duty of our charge
for the defence of the rights of the Church de-
manded, we immediately, by the voice of our Cardinal
Minister, made representation to that Government,
first, against the above-named law, and next against
the insult and violence offered to the illustrious arch-
bishop. We cannot now help, in our paternal solidi-
citude towards the illustrious nation of the Belgians,
which has always made itself remarked for its zeal for
the Catholic religion, testifying publicly our grief at the
sight of the perils which there menace the Catholic
religion. We feel confident that henceforwaard their
moat serene king, and all in that kingdom who hold the
helm of affairs, will rah ct in their wisdom how much
the Catholic Church and its doctrices tend to the trim-

quillity and temporal prosperity of nations; that they
will be pleased to preserve in its integrity the safety-
giving strength of that same Church, and to consider as
their most important task that of protecting and defend-
ing the holy prelates and the ministers of the Church."

ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, JUNE 7. ---
Lieutenant-Colonel Wright, Lieutenant-Colonel Bent, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel James, and Lieutenant-Colonel Story, all
officers who have seen considerable service in the Peninsular
and on foreign stations, have been permitted to retire on full
pay, and four captains promoted to be lieutenant-colonels,
four second-captains to be captains, four first-lieutenants to
be second-captains, and four second-lieutenants to be Unit-
lieutenants. In consequence of these promotions Lieutenant
Bent is appointed to the Repository, vice Field, promoted;
and Lieutenant Fitzhugh to the Royal Military Academy,
in place of Telford, promoted. Sergeant Mason arrived yes-
terday from Lisburn, Ireland, with 24 recruits, four of whom
were rejected.

THE CITY GAS QUESTlON.—Yesterday the Com-
mittee broke up, after agreeing to the insertion of clauses in
the Central Gas Companies Bill, prohibiting them from light-
ing any portion of the districts occupied by the British and
Commercial Companies, but allowing them to lay their mains
down through those districts for the lighting of the city and
its liberties. The total capital sought for by the Bill was
250,000/., but a clause was inserted fixing it at 160,0001.,
with power to borrow 50,00 e/.

SALE OF THE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yesterday the
commissioners of the roads north of the metropolis held a
public meeting at their offices, No. 22, Whitehall-place, for
the purpose of putting up to auction, for the period of one
year, from the Ist of July next—subject to the condition.
produced at the meeting—the tolls payable during the year
at the gates and bars of the several turnpike roads within the
district of the commission north of the metropolis. In con-
sequence of the increase of traffic anticipated from the Great,
Exhibition of 1851, they were put up at the same sum they
were let for last year, and they realised a much larger sum.
The following were the tolls let on the several roads :—The
FRIDAY MORNING.
- - —casuhtTtione Russell—lin
acatErs the
ctepatiuNl):,:eaiOsecntadTeeti
rdArsheauTge i
such
Kensington, Brentford, and Isleworth road, putAip at 15,4501.
and knocked down for 15,510/. The Harrow road went for
1,090/.-9201. being asked. The Kilburn and Edgware road
produced 3,660/., being disposed of the previous year for
3,5801. The Highgate and Hampstead road realised, last
,year,,ioo 1.1:::
negO/t. ,h e and,aa] ethis t
th year,ey
plu7t,suopo Thela.ha-wtpL.tniooiiteei City road was
offered for 3,160/. ; it was disposed of for 3,208/. The Stara.
ford-hill and Seven Sisters roads went for 9,110/, the sum of
DUBLIN,
there are dark rumours of the re- appear-
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affected
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Lordhe thea tL
disease
top jhroedet
terrible misery in Ireland, but there are to be found by the
close hunter after calamities appearances in the stalk which
resemble those that preceded the full development of the
blight in former years. These suspicious appearances are
supposed by good practical farmers to have been produced by
harsh winds—the stalks having been rubbed together' and
their position in the ground altered. It is as yet too soon to
formall
timesa ny•
poapri
tniiaolnfassi-loorrtehs actingof the
s.
arising from local circumstances, such
There have been at
adapted soils—frosts—harsh winds, kc.
potato as
as wellha dasseoetdh—erhcardolpyt
iNnvqaukeisety7wausphoneldthaethtohde Oofld
JSamwaesn,ACdahmelsosena:
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RfvEs.—Yesterday an
of Messrs. Blythe, aged IS, late *
clerk in the employ
before Mr. M.
Hamilton,
Blythe, of 52, Little Britain, feather dressers, who was un•
fortunately drowned on Wednesday night last, by
a wherry
d
in which he was coming in collision with the Citizen "A "
steamboat, near the Cadogan-pier. The
jurrhavingcare-
fully investigated the facts, an outline of which has already
and there
the deceased was accidentally drowned, was no
neglect attaching to any one connected with
appeared in our columns, returned as their verdict, "That
culpability or
the steamboat."
MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. --- A.
the West-.
general meeting of Middlesex magistratesk was held otx
favourable accounts of the
Re-
ports were presented, . con-
dition
Thursday, at the Sessions House, Cler enwell-green.
minster House of Correction, and the House of Detention,
of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields,
Clerkenwell-green. It was agreed, on the motion of Mr.
Thomas Turner, " That a committee be appointed to con-
sider and report upon the practicability and expediency of
classifying the prisoners committed to the Houses of Correc-
tion for the county of Middlesex, and of
appropriating each
prison to the reception of distinct classes of offenders' and to
pi n t a committee ittperoo
submit to the court such scheme as they consider beet adapted
for carrying out this arrangement, if the principle be ap-
proved by, proposed and
consider
coafrrtiheed
present
state ,r them." Mr.
. lo
"'l'o appoint
state of the law as regards the granting of licences for music
and
and dancing by this court,
report to the court." After
some routine business, the court adjourned.
THE TEMPLE, JUNE 7.—The after-mentioned
members of the Ikon. Society of the Inner Temple have been
called to the degree of barristers-at-law, and were this even-
big sworn in before several of the benchers :—Mr. John
George Malcolm, of the Temple; Mr. Patrick Cumin, of
P,alliol College, 8.A.; Mr. John Jones Cleave, of the Temple;
Mr. Edward Steere, of University College, London, L.L.8.;
Mr. Gowran Charles Vernon, of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, B.A. ; Mr. William Henry Bubb, of Wadhatu Col-
leg., Oxford, B.A. ; Mr. Arundel de Pentheny, and Mr.
Thomas Alexander Dashwood, of Christchurat College, O.
ford, B.A.
SPECIE rsom 'AMERICA..—The American line-of-
packet ship Prince Albert, arrived in the docks from New
York, has brought twenty packages of specie; and the
American packet ship Devonshire, also arrived in the docks
on the same day from New York, has brought twenty
packages of epode, consigned to au eminent nem $ Oft
metropohe.