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

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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 wo 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. You are
aware of the frightful war now going on between
light and darkness, truth and error, vice and virtue,
Bella' and Christ, and you are not ignorant by
what proceedings hostile men endeavour to trample
under foot the thing's 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, zeal, 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 feel 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 our. 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 sward
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 the
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 spouse.
Let our venerable brethren not cease either to impress
on 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
Cr quests 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 Matt, ensured in his states
the liberty so much desired of the Catholic Church.
SC great an act, an act so worthy of a Catholic prince,
deserves the encomiums wl.ich 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 char seer will be pleased, in his zeal for
the good of the Church, and continuing his work,
end carrying it on to perfection, to arrive at the
highest point of merit. Bat whilst we were deliver-
ing ourselves up to this consolation, a cruel grief fell
on us, from seeing how its 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 b. othren,
that we speak of the subalpine kingdom, where, as
()wry one knows, a law has b• en promulgated,
contrary to the laws of the Church and to the conven-
tions solemnly concluded with this Apostolic See,
1 arid 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 solici-
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
most serene king, and all in that kingdom who hold the
helm of affairs, will reflect in their wisdom how much
the Catholic Church and its doctrires tend to the tran-
quillity and temporal prosperity of nations; that they
will be pleased to preserve in its integrity the safety-
riving 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."
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,OYAL ARTILLERY. -- WOOLWICH, JUNR 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-cokonels,
tour second-captains to be captains, four first-lieutenants to
be second-captains, and four second-lieutenants to be first-
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 throngh 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 150,0004
with power to borrow 50,0001.
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 conditions
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 to rth 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 mach larger sum.
The following were the tolls let on the several roads :—The
Kensington,o
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Harrow put
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1,0901.-920/. being asked. The Kilburn and Edgware road
produced 3,660/., being disposed of the previous year for
3,580/. The Highgate and Hampstead road realised, last
year, 17,490/.. and, this year, 17,5001. The City road was
offered for 3,169/. ; it was disposed of for 3,206/. The Stam-
ford-hill and Seven Sisters roads went for 9,1101., the sum of
9,1001. being the amount they put up at.

DUBLIN
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ThsrcA A sz.— lreaFil,R,ltDhAerYe arel‘diaOrßkNrluNmGo.u—rs of the POTATO
DlsrAsx.—Already there are dark rumours of the re-appear re
ance the fact to Lord John Russell that there
of the potato disease. The Lo.d-Lieutenant is said to
communicatedhraevetheimistakeable signs in the potatoes in the Viceregal
gardens.a We do nct believe that the potato crop generally
is affected with the destructive disease which has caused such
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 appearaneea 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
form any opinion worth acting upon. There have been at
all times partial failures of the potato as well as other crops,
arising from local circumstances, such as bad seed—badly-
adapted soils—frosts—harsh winds, kc.
FATAL ACCIDENT oN THE RlvEß.—Yesterday an
inquest was held at the Old Swan, Chelsea, before Mr. ar•
Wakley, upon the body of James Adamson, aged 18, late a
clerk in the employ of Messrs. Blythe, Hamilton,an and
Blythe, of 52, Little Britain, feather dressers, whoawwherry
un-
fortunately drowned on Wedntsday night by
having care-
steamboat, near the Cadogar-pier.The PrY
f which has already
in which he was coming in collision with the Citizen "A "
fully investigated the facts, an outline o
and there was no
any one connected with
culpability or neglect attaching to
appeared in our columns, returned as their verdict, "That
the deceased was accidentally drowned,
the steamboat." - -

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX M AeoaGripllpS
offendersT RA T E s, ,
and— ...
general meeting of Middlesex magistratesrowparisathileigldeaoc
Thursday, at the Sessions House, Clerkenwoeulls-egreen.
porta were presented, giving favourable accounts of theorßie
con-
dition of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, the West-
minster House of Correction, and the House of Detention
,
Clerkenwell-green.
thata agreed, on the motion of Mr.
Thomas Turner, " a committee be appointed to con-
propos proposed they consider best adapted
bider and report upon the practicability and expediency of
the principle be ap-
pctilpinssosfinof3r-tionth4tehtechoreeucpnetrp)isrtoioonfnerAosificddodiiisiletnsiiieli_ct,tt,eedalnatosdsteohsf
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submit to the court such scheme as Ato
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considere of the present
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granting of licences for music
and carried a reso-
and dancing by this court
state of bth e them."la
come routine business, the curt report to the court." After
adjourned.
THE TEMPLE, JUNE
7.—The after-mentioned
members of the Hon. So
called to the degree of b Society of the Inner Temple have been
barristers-at.law, and were this even-
ing sworn in before
George Malcolm, of several of the benchers:—Mr. John
Balliol College, B.A. the Temple; Mr. Patrick Cumin, of
Mr. Edward St ; Mr. John Jones Cleave, of the Temple;
eere, of University College, London, L.L.B. ;
Mr. Gowran
Cam-
bridge, B,A, Charles Vernon, of Trinity College,
, i. William Henry Bubb, of Wattham Oxford,Col-
legTiomß.A.li A ; Mr. Arundel de. Pentheny, and .
a, Alexander Dashwood, of Christchurch Coll
Ox-
ford, B.A. College, Ox-

rnom AMERICA.—The American line-01-
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 specie, consigned to an eminent house in the
metropolis.