The Sun. — 1863-02-11 (London, England)

EARL RUSSELL TO EARL COWLEY.  Foreign-office, Dec. 27, 1862.  My Lord,—Her Majesty's Government have freely and candidly expressed their opinion to the Government of the Emperor respecting the French occupation of Rome. Her Majesty's Government have no desire to pursue that argument further for the mere purpose of controversy. But, upon a question closely connected with the French occupation of Rome, her Majesty's Government must, in justice to the interests of Italy and of Europe, call upon the French Government to interfere with the Pope's advisers.  The Pope himself, with the benevolence Which is characteristic of him, has always held that his temporal dominion ought to be a territory free from foreign quarrels and aan• guinary conflicts. In this spirit, in 1848, he declared in his allocution of April 29 that he would take no part in the war of Italian independence. The passage alluded to is as follows :—" It is wholly abhorrent from our counsels, seeing that we, although unworthy, discharge on earth the office of Him who is the author of peace and lover of charity, and agreeably to the duty of our supreme apostleship regard and embrace wi:h equal paternal earnestness of love all tribes, peoples, nations."  In the same spirit, when the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Communion from all parts of the world went to Rome in the course of this present year, they described Rome, in an address to the Pope, as the seat of a temporal authority, independent of any other; "the eentre, as it were, of universal concord ; a place where no human ambition breathes ; where no one ever intrigues for terri ;oriel dominion." They remind the Pope of his own words, that "it is by a special disposition of Divine Providence that the Roman Pontiff, established by Christ the centre and chief of His whole Church, possesses a temporal power."  If the French army at Rome protected a power thus holy, religious, and charitable, the evils of the French occupation would be in some degree mitigated. But there is a long distance between the theory thus stated and the existing fact. The political banditti who invest the southern provinces of Italy have their headquarters at Rome. They constantly issue from haunts, rendered secure for them by the cover of the French flag, to destroy whole villages and to murder the peaceful farmers of the south. A detachment of 260 men lately went from Rome well armed, and clothed in blue overcoats and red trousers in order that they might look like French soldiers, and thereby deceive the Italian outposts and patrols.  If such detachments of robbers were to be sent from Switzerland into Lombardy the Italian Government would at once protest, and the Swiss Republic would at once put an end to such au unfriendly proceeding.  At Rome, however, things are done in a different way; and the high dignitaries about the Pope's person, as well as his illustrious guest the late King of Naples, are believed by the world in general to be the instigators of these incursions.  It is obvious that if the Roman Government were really independent, it would be at once called to account by the King of Italy for these aggressive and unjustifiable proceedings, and would not venture to disregard his just and well-founded remonstrances.  The continuance of these barbarous outrages is, therefore, an evil entirely owing to the French occupation of Rome, and it would cease at once if proper orders were given by the French Minister of War to the General commanding the French troops in the Roman territory. The Minister of War has but to say peremptorily "Let brigandage cease," and the Roman banditti would be extinguished in a fortnight.  ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Eitablishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Jullien.  Her Majesty's Government cannot refrain from submitting to that of France that the Government of the Emperor ought either to leave the Roman States to settle its own quarrels and to atone for its own misdeeds, or it ought to insist upon a behaviour on the part of the Pope which shall be peaceable towards his neighbours, and in conformity with that impartial love and universal charity professed in words by Pius IX., but utterly disregarded in action by his Minister.  The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metropolis. Admission Is.—Manager, M. Grenet.  fir