The Sun. — 1848-12-08 (London, England)

THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF  ENGLAND AND HIS HOLINESS THE POPE.  On last Sunday an eloquent and powerfully-written pastoral letter, which was addressed by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, Roman Catholic Bishop of the London dis[ trict, and his coadjutor, the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman, to the clergy of that district, was read from the pulpit in all the churches and chapels of the metropolis, and was listened to with the most marked attention by the several congregations. The pastoral, after alluding to an order which had been recently given for the suspension of the recital of the daily collect for the Sovereign Pontiff, an order which arose from the belief that the storms which had gathered round his temporal throne had passed away, proceeds as follows: "But, alas! how have our hopes been deceived—how have our fondest expectations been dashed to the ground. Within a few days of the issue of your circular, a d :rk and impious conspiracy burst forth, and a fiendish murder was its first work. For 30010 hours, and even days, evil spirits seem to have had power given them over the populace of the Eternal City, and to have swayed their feelings through their godless leaders. Murder was glorified in the City of the Saints; assas3inations extolled amidst the tombs of tne martyrs. " But the sacrilege ended not here. A furious mob, urged on as it had once been at Jerusalem by wicked men, assailed the sacred abode of the Holy Pontiff, attacked his small faithful guard, and heedless of either the insults or the danger to his person, poured their balls into his palace, and, it is said, into the very room in which he was. One truly learned, truly pious ecclesiastic, well known for his labours fur the Church, and a faithful and well-beloved servant of the Holy Father, was struck down by a fatal shot, within the precinct of the palace, while in the act of consoling and allaying the fears of a very aged mother. It was with cannon planted against the palace gates, with threats of setting them on fire, and of massacring every soul within, except the Pontiff himself, that, acting under the advice of the ambassadors who had gathered around him, his Holiness virtually surrendered the reins of secular government to the counsels of his enemies.  " Every subsequent account describes this our beloved Father, as brokenhearted and alone, narrowly watched and guarded by those who value him only as a necessary sanction to their further purposes. There is every reason to fear that his precious health has seriously suffered from the cruel-shocks thus inflicted on it. " This, dearly beloved in our Lord, is the moment for them to rally in affection round the throne of Peter and the sacred person of its occupant, who understand the deep mysteries of the law whereby it stands, and of the providence whereby it is sustained. Let them wonder and doubt (for here surely none will scoff or glory) who see in the amiable and virtuous Pius IX. only one more sovereign whom the impetuous passions of a misguided people is casting forth from a temporal throne. But to a Catholic heart that sees in his august person the living vicegerent, representative, and vicar of Christ Jesus, never will he appear more truly invested with glory, more worthy of deepest reverence and tenderest love, than when, as his Divine Master, his high and unalienable prerogatives are combined with sorrow, with captivity in the hands of his own people, and with treachery of those most dear to him. If, when the Great Pontiff Boniface