A PLEA FOR THE POPE.

." J. C." has written the following cogent and amusing letter to the in behalf of the Pope, reduced to great straits by the larceny co!ntaitted by his agents at Bologna. The Mortara baptism and its ecclesiastical consNuences form together a ve7 grave pontifical difficulty. Yet he who decreed the immaculate con- cotton

need not despair. It is laid down by Benedict XIV., and universally admitted, that the osptism of the child is perfectly valid.

lflo,he'It is decided in the pages of Dr. Wiseman't great authority, guide, and St.ligueri, that the children of parents who have become unbe- ',Tem may be baptised against their will, because, 'as the Church has the 1".ft* of eompelling the parents to observe the faith, she can also take from them their children.' "It is also decided, that the 'ellildrenjainnbelievers 'who ore.see CluieVaransasteramern,helAwfullyabaptized.' , alt, the .sain,e time, fair to quiche illeXcifialittiticat of Pope Jerlitts III., who attaeheamee these prieetta who, heptize voting Jews against the will 'dif' ell,'Oettit lay-any one man or woman; naing the is tpie

forotlaid d'1flpwIetánent, is valid, an un d piesbee "indef.! hld chane!tela'' atid'a'nidliedittioasCiaterrt a subject of the Church,' and! to the Setereat ,crtia aflaaotpenaltits in case of desertion or :rites

"The Pepe wauld'iheiefeiedaolate the laws and callous of the • Church a-ere he to give up the young Jew, being validly baptized, td' nebre of parents. Where, in such a case, would be infallibility ? Whet' would Ise the dieorgonizing effect on the whole church of a Pontifical ji fringraMit of the canons? Cardinal iViSemair wetild'etitmutton osi'dayebf ails-tufa:nee, and Knight Hospitaller' Bowyer would indulge in suet en-that days, and Clip infallibility,oik which -a reient doom ,reposen)would lieidtatsa tered. -The Ilopeo mier old Man, is ddeplytO be pitied.. He musteithet. commit Paaol, sunii le bli•OOTItivue to ontrago the sense anddiretioe anti due- stinets of Europe., But; -little sail careabosit the .Popo,er eanoniggtioPcx a Car:41414'0mA; I ant yet epropeesieMite eltepgh to soggest, what lottat suaded he will yet'amept, a:loophole by whicli.he may.eaeape trout his culty. It is this. There is room for very greet doubts about the valich , any bapti;..ui ari6in,'r from any uncertainty about the matter employed in t

1,,,ptisin.Ii Pr. great authority—I may my sainted auth' —it is declared to be doubtful baptism if the juice ei " r frees, salt watei°,.

melted snow,''human tears,'" distilled water, hot water,' or poisonetti water,' not to add lea* delicate fluids, -he employed in ministering thatoilmi Mtiy not the Pope take the bendfit of these-endless:doubts, .and: diseovettjdetst even demonstrate,' what in theee'days of winking Virgins it is velpeaajarte, do, -that some of 'these elements sverensed in thia,partidulat,easei ami,t4t, thus,, theratoetaattie,child iaatilt a Jew?: There is accordingly no .beiptiente and the Holy Mother Church Con graciously and infallibly hand ever child to the Hebrew mother—save infallibility—pacify the indignant

peter of the Freueb, and possibly stave MY a few years the sure cerisi'

no whioll'he and his go down amillstone into the depths of the ..„ L'illeso some smh discovery is made the Pope must remain impaled on dither horn of a dileninia—a position in which it is very Painful 'to see the Worst heretic ire Chris te oi on '

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The Queen has appointed Mr. Charles Joseph La Probe, so,otc time LientenantXmvernor of the Colony of Victoria ;: Mr. Herman Morivale one of the LTntler Smaretniiee of State for the Colonial Department; Mr. James Douglas, Gavelitor. And Cominander-in-Chief in and over Venom:- we's island and the Colony' of British Columbia ; Mr. William Steven-- soil, GoVernor and Commander-in-Chief in-and over the Island of Man- ritine; Mr. William Atoindell, .Chief Justice for the Colony of British Guiana ; and Mr. James Buchanan Macaulay, some time Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Canada West, to he Companions, of the Order of

the Bath. ' •

An idea has been started in London, Cambridge, and Oxford, of raising a sum by subscription to pay the fine inflicted on M. de Montalembert. The Thtun is "requested to state that the author of Un Dehat suf. e Inde personally deprecates anything like a subscription in England for the purpose of paying the fine to which he has been sentenced."

The models sent in for competition for the Havelock memorial, may be seen gratuitously by the public on and after December 9th, (except December 15th,) from 11 a. m., to 3 p.m., in the Gallery of 'British Artists, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall.

Thomas Hamilton, Earl of Haddington, died on Wednesday at his country house, in the 79th year of his age. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the first brief Peel administration, First Lord of the Arniralty in the second, and Lord Privy Seal in the third. In 1853 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle. He was hereditary keeper of Holyrood Palace, one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, a trustee of the British and Hunterian Museums, and Deputy-Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire..

One of the old officers of the mild Regiment—those fine old fellows of the Light Division will soon be all g-one—Licutenant-ColonelJolm Philip Hunt, died at Weimer on the 26th November. He was aide-de-camp to Sir john Moore in Sweeden and Portugal, and from this lima where the 52d went, he went, until, leading the volunteers from the Light Division, he fell wounded in the breach at San Sebastian.

Commissary-General Sir Randolph Routh died on Monday at his residence. in Dorset Square. This veteran served in the West Indies, Waleheren, Spain, and at Waterloo ; subsequently in the Mediterranean and Canada. He won his K.C.B. by superintendi g the relief fund during the famine in Ireland.

The Honourable Miss Plunkett, daughter of Lady South, has afforded another illustration of the danger of balloon dresses. She went too near a fire, her dress touched the flame, and in a few moments she was so burned that small hopes are entertained of her recovery. Lady Charlotte Bridg- man has died from the effects of her burns.

The Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh have conferred the honorary degree of LL.D.: on the Right Hon. Lord Elcho, M.P., the Right Hon. the Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, Mr. Moncreiff, M.P., Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, and Professor J. S. Moore.

The Reverend William Milne, M.A., lately a misssionary to China, has received an appointment from the government RS interpreter at Hong Kong.

The Illustrated Tiilie8 puolishes a rumour to the effect that Lord Stanley is about to be married to the eldest daughter of Lord John Russell.

Mr. Vernon Smith and Mrs. Smith are on a tour in Italy.

Lord and Lady Palmerston have arrived at Cambridge House from Broad- lands.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have returned to Grosvenor Gate, from a visit to Baron and Baroness M. de Rothschild, at Mentmore, Bucks.

The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh is at Vienna, under the travelling name of Captain Melville. de has chartered a steamer belonging to the Austrian Steam Navigation Company, and is going down the Danube on a shooting expedition.

A report that Sir Benjamin Brodie would be shortly raised to the Peerage as Baron Betchworth has been in circulation, but it has proved to be un- founded.

Major-General Sir John Inglis is to sail today for India in the Ceylon steamer. Southampton desired to fete hint, but he declined the well-meant but obstreperous honour. He said he should hive "little heart for gaiety on the eve of his departure—his last night inEngland." it foyo efiNsattvEgoci A tiftaia,ivf* twlywarl

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II •s‘ 9 ill aeola alf4 Eloob adtatiy4lichriba ° AldlY • hi§e7ig/fA. IN h if.. fVf4f,,,, .. 7. „PPM-- i, Iii,gRiTbel/P1 114404e,iii44NROVANAO.feT;1.19'111,1, The Queen of Spain has prekentedrillvili'P;vitliiallle irtilfeetibil'gf feWids to a statue of the Virgin in theseliareli-of-St—Mestiii3--at Santiago. -littati4balfaelitiohllictoralltiesse staters' thattral ediutiehepi:otAirs* has been. RAffilltPagd,IsttatiesaahPaisnia:ReederierWillianssif Mansasoeldest ,1011•Laf the • 8414ekelli94ialet9ei• 4'9409 44ff-1We okitheikeitie)itad Xiimboatth. ,..-1a1.11,w arBatherdiarasail ' leettaled att Cark after all,:rdflid•lroops; , tho 'Pollee, and slituttat official *-11•bnl,'.D"-thlin'iseites dal,readhaestetcaprotatt llim, but no dis-- tur aura occurred. .?.1.iff,,),.17.1 'I , ' ' ;, • . : - loTh4liesa:ren4 lAlfttedToOle Jute,. it •is.alit4 abaudoire4 the actlan for libel 40414 1,hisd.coni amino(' agelnitt tlas Ildnonsidde antillitwereutl Mr.,136418.=, soNalettetidrons-Pieguesiayeahat the Eimisibeinsidiaand of rAustiili (Ode otthe reigning. Emperor): hainahrady'madeoa Willli..3- witi6h, lid lbaNieR'4116 whstaof.this.ferttine tor.variouvraligiowycortwatiabsi• --enti., ,,,.•la,•.., .r.c-,, sd .4, •al 11-r1,!■,1.• , nr 1r riir ',If 11 .

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vpeseM,tU.ee •the•-•,-FraVhidials'aPevekinenis of Citriiidai, - New BrattigaSitIginitd lc 00aLgtiatia,1iiiTeC■Citted,inb Sforiour of separate auffienees cofthirialejesty;: end•novl.th6 responsible adviser.sir the Crown in British• NaarthiAoactiee insy WitViust pride stir •that Abe r position has been with elstialihnoesind wiadonirseognized by the laghOstfautlioriiy.ia; the empire. Weis Ititiliret. Lytton beloiTs the c re di t• of halsibt tire/cc:1r down that foolish giitillaapietiblelrentine of departmentili.adrainiiitilatielf 'which' kept the 'Co- Wiles 49thitlikalritq- under the exclutifeadelligelet khe1Secretery of State aiffigligelliefolerks in Downing Street,:, -1,notairall an'direditahate cense- vTtl qicleileSsidflithe-• system of, iesponsittleL go ' ' oaths Biltith Nor tli:Anierica widlt1601 actSete te:tbe- Throne on the.1.piis joesthe reolonitil'advVerilaif,the atairnilti 411. dna% tors of imperial• coniernid blittiverej dice it hat tlid federative union of British North America is the matter-WI/kb:that holt' 4eutioikeir a' change in the colonial administrationwhich will give universal satisfaction and content.—Post. -t - 3 it; 1 i. ti yrazols:

• - The firm of Denniun w sto of asgaW have .announced. with the greatest

satisfaction, that from the 30th NOemher iiiid'for'foorteen d:iyS idler, they Wire prepared to par the. last two instalments, due on. the 31st 'December 18, and the 30th June igso.

Judge Metcalfe, of the Supreme Court of New York, has decided in the case a Ray 'Tompkins and J. C. Thompson, charged with having set fire totheQuarantine'buildings on the 1st and 2d of September, that the guaran- tine was a nuisance: and that private citizens had a right to abate it. Me ftzither Said the legislature had no more right to apportion among the com- munities surrounding New York her dangers from disease than her ex- penses, nor compel her to do her dying than to pay her taxes—Boston

Ledger. •

A vessel has just arrived bearing for the British Museum 100 eases of antiquities from Haliearnassus and Cabins, further result of the excava- tion at those places by Mr. Charles Newton, the British 'vice-consul at Mytilene. Also about fifty cases filled with similar treasures from Car- thage. Amongst those from Cnidus is a gigantic. lion of Parian marble, in a crouching attitude, measuring ten feet in length by six in height. and weighing eight tons.

"An artistica' treasure," says the Independence of Brussels, "has just been discovered in Hungary. It is an altar, on the double doors of which are paintings by one of the most celebrated painters of the 15th century—Michel Wohlgemuth, the master of Albert Durer. There are in all forty-eight small sketches, twelve of which, representing in an epic series the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, are by the master himself."

A letter from Milan states that the only cigar which the young men there will tolerate at present is one called " Cavourino," from the fact of its being smuggled into the country from Turin, and called after Count de Cavour.

Marshal Yaillant having been written to by a shoeing-smith of his own name for particulars concerning his family, the Marshal had the kindness to give the following account of his career and origin :—"You have ad- dressed to me a good letter, and the ...person who wrote it must be a good- hearted man. I should be very proud of his relationship, though I do not know if we shall be able to make It apparent. My father, whom I had the misfortune to lose in 1823, was secretary of the district of Dijon, and after- wards Secretary-General of the Prefecture of the Cote-d'Or in 1815; he was elected representative during the Cent-Jours, then deprived of his place at the Prefecture, imprisoned as Bonapartist, &c. I was then in the army of the Loire. My father died poor, but esteemed by all,- I do not know that he had a single enemy. I do not reaemble him in anything; he was thin and I am stout, he was mild and people find me cross; in fact, he had as many good qualities as they say I have faults, and I believe they are not mistaken. My father, who brought up a large family, was married to a Mademoiselle Canquoin. A brother of my mother died at Geniis (Ctite-d'Or), an excellent man, whom we constantly regret. I have no child, and this is the greatest sorrow that God has given me. I was born at Dijon on the 6th of December, 1790. I scarcely re- collect my mother. We were poor—very poor. We were carefully and tenderly brought up, but in the midst of privations of every sort. My nurse still lives at Dijon. God has not made any being more devoted than one who received us as infants, and tended us with a love which I cannot express ; she has refused twenty offors of marriage to live with us, who, however, gave her trouble enough. I entered the Polytechnic School at the age of sixteen, and I left it to enter the engineers. The grade which has given me most pleasure was that of corporal at the Polytechnic School. I was in the Russian Campaign of 1812, and was made prisoner at its con- clusion. I was at Waterloo ; I was wounded at the defence of Paris in 1015. I had a leg torn by a shell at the siege of Algiers, in 1830. My chiefs said that they were pleased with me at the siege of Anvers in 1832. Ruch, Sir, is my history, nearly complete. I obeli be most happy if you find in it some proofs of a similarity of origin between your family and mine. I pray you to receive the assurance of any esteem."

The unusually heavy mortality, which the returns of London for last week announce, will be seen with re,,oret. In the first week of this month the deaths were 1217, in the two following weeks they were 1349 and 1487, and in the week ending last Saturday they rose to 1802. The mean tempera- ture of the air in the first week of November was 43.3'; in the last three weeks it was successively39.0°, 35.5° and 37.4'. Without attempting at pre- sent an exact appreciation of recent meteorological conditions in relation to health, it is sufficient to state that the mortality of the month attained its

' " HORACE. While no moreareicOmtliallitNohlet\iiilenrill bjalieetitgeitit, Jr134,eksvee„f3x, ahisse the average, tiliermoinategM'cliblelOroAL,e,4 ','Wi- 114.8 point of,miatgu„hao,kiii "M. 1113441116.1".Pfaelagrisellikstset ffleketsure.• : . ..1 1 ad LT,f! .ii '...i;I: , I- .•,.•. responding with last week Waft 1160'; but inuthi 1802 deaths anny • resumed' oceiiredi silvan :increased. population they shoub/odati pared with the qggtpga',:avlseathe hater has be*rftiseslAiermyyt„,;Bpvti,, it,,,44.e,„..„ „,.r. last, weekiii,gxeee#4111e number thafi*ouldliiiii-dle i only the arerage reethni whiCh will iimkei'l 1 „.„, IK. me Ammo, , , pr,1,7**1 • II rate 04 , itle#AYAll OR, \CIVti.,'. RAINR1411340/41,1184 slira0140,4•74egfe„,. She was ciumlit in the ,late .1 plea andlidhivertienhaqfaliencourse: • ,She was bound for India, calling. at Cerk::43t1thaswrOcia Sheihealleat,her masts and part of her crew, but is now expected every is.alats.Flymciuth: lc. .., en Friday week: ' During the whole voyage they experienced: heavy 'south_ easterly gales. The ship having thirty hours' coal- remaining, and 8th only 350 miles fronr-GalWaviCaptain,Ccurtentay, ititonseqnence of a Iron- and well adapted for Atlantic navigation, baying only %hipped ens sea daring the whole passage. The eaptairs stated , that the Weather %la un- precedented, and that • many easualitles 'matt have oaiukredi las they fell ia tinuance of the fearful state:dist the 'weather; deemed it 'advisable to lay to left Halifax l on thenight,tlf 1thcfllsit, •having,iorr board!stateewdays" sa The maehineryworked wellilitulthe ship proved to beta firstirate aed-baat, with great quantities of denting arreek.la- L131; II), 1,10 't li 9',1,',',1,1 venela.P4:.,45ffigfir,-al: ,;ni..,ffil '19 in: • ,39rorritml 1110)E1Bili 695111.1011H - which he did for seren days During this time itwastriecessary ke'Coastinis a small portion of the i ears* bonsisting of ,roatidn, .1 atikii%, ice, ,) lass a„„. ..The missing ,steam-ship Indian Empixii meivettat•Eroadhavonst 9 aas, In the ten years 1848.57 thesianiage Ain:caber of deathein the-weeks:‘, The ship Balaban:, .wit.h1800 droops .oti,holird, inivabeen sidongtime at sea,

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