The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-03 00:00:00

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DISCOVERY OF A REPUBLICAN CON-
SPIRACY AT ROME—FINE AliT GOS-
SIP, &c.

ROME, Nov. 24.—Another of those fatal conspiracies
of the Republican party has a few days since been dis-
covered and frustrated. The particulars of it have nob
transpired as yet. Arrests in great numbers are being
made by day and night, and so many " compromised "
are still untaken, that the police keep the matter as
quiet as its importance admits of. One of the leaders in
the conspiracy, indeed the chief, is a man named Man-
cini, who was convicted of capital crimes committed
during the last Republic in Rome, but affected insanity
with such success as to completely gull the authorities
who sent him to the Bedlam of Rome. He made his
escape from the mad-house some time ago, and has
since that time been hiding in the house of a bell-
founder, whose foundry exists in the Via Tor di Nona,
on the way to the Castle St. Angelo. This bell-founder
is himself an old defaulter, baying made a very free
use of the Triumvirates' order to destroy the bells
of the Roman churches, but on the score of ex-
treme penitence he was subsequently pardoned by the
Pope. The police were previously informed of every
detail connected with the affair, and hearing of a meeting
being appointed for a certain night in the house of a
butcher in the Via Laurina, occupied the houses in the
vicinity in great numbers, guarding all the windows and
doors in front and rear At two hours after midnight,
the bell-founder joined the conspirators, as had been ex-
pected by the police, who had arranged his arrival as the
signal for the attack. They accordingly sallied forth in
strong force, and made their way into the house with
such promptitude that the party had not time to light
a snatch to set fire to their papers, and one or two
were caught by the throat and compelled to give out
&Turnouts they were attempting to swallow. Other
papers were thrown out of a window into the street,
manned by the police, who possessed themselves of
them, and, it is believed, have obtained intelligence
of the utmost importance from them. I hope
speedily to be able to say more about the matter. All
I know as yet is that murder on a grand scale, as an
act of intimidation, was intended as the first step in the
affair. The French army of occupation being now small,
in consequence of so many having been sent to the
Crimea, and the Roman troops being at all times more
ready to attack than to defend the Government employ-
ieg them, the conspirators were sanguine of success.
You will remember, in my letters of last summer, that I
mentioned the disembarkation, clandestinely, of large
numbers of armed men, who separated themselves off
into divisions of front 20 to 30 strong, and who, spread-
ing out from the thickets (Macchie) adjoining the Pon-
tine marshes, were heard of trom time to time. The day
fixed for making the grand coup was the coming Bth
December, being the feast in honour of the Immaculate
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, which is to be held
with more than ordinary solemnity and splendour at the
Lateran Basilica, as a finale or windup to the year of
devotion and thanksgiving, celebrated all over the
Catholic world, but especially in Rome.

CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE
GOA COBDAT.

Yesterday evening Cardinal Wiseman delivered an
address at St. Mary's Chapel, Moorfielss, on the subject
of the Concordat recently concluded between the Empe-
ror of Austria and the Pope. He said it was but a few
years ago since this country was thrown into a state of
religious excitement in consequence of what was then
termed the Papal aggression, but which was merely an
arrangement among the Catholics themselves. Now,
every day brought forward something to alarm the pub-
lic mind in reference to the See of Rome, in consequence*
of the Pope having entered into an amicable arrange-
ment with the Emperor of Austria. The publication of
this arrangement had produced great excitement, and it
was his duty, having charge of the interests of the Church
of Rome in this country, to show how reasonable every-
thing was that had been done, and how little ground
there was for any one to complain. To any one who.
watched the signs of the times, it would appear that,
in this country, there must be, from time to time, some
religious frenzy—that religion was like a boiling cauld-
ron, that must now and then run over. This has been
peculiarly the case in reference to the solemn compact en-
tered into between the Emperor of Austria and the beadi
of the greatest Church on earth. The solemn concordat.
had been treated as a miserable fiction by England—a
country which professed to treat religion with respeot
and dignity ; but hei judgment would not be enhanced its
the eyes of foreign nations if she treated with ribaldry a
great subject, which ought to be discussed with dignity,
which God had prospered, and which millions of men
venerated. The Emperor of a mighty nation, which had
been known above all things for the slowness of its re-
solves and the multitude of its counsellors, had been dis-
cussing this treaty with the representative of the Church
of Rome, clause by clause, for two years, and after the
gravest deliberation on both sides the whole treaty had
been adopted. The document was drawn up in the pecu-
liar phraseology of Roman Catholic ecc'esiastical diplo-
macy, and the words had bad a different meaning from
that which they bore when used in relation to ordinary
matters. This well-considered document fell into the
hands of a newspaper editor, who in two hours pulled
the whole of it to pieces. His recent proceeding, how-
ever, could not touch a single interest in this country.
Why, then, should England be so indignant, and why
should the people of Austria be subjected to vituperative
articles in newspapers. The Cardinal adverted at great
length, and in terms of bitter sarcasm, to the religious
divisions prevailing in England, to the High Church and
Low Church, the Puseyite and Evangelical, and the
various forms of dissent, and said his advice to England
and her Church would be—" Physician, cure thyself be-
fore thou vellaerest again on a lesson to Catholic
subjects and a Catholic Church." The Cardinal con-
cluded by stating that next Sunday evening he would
analyse the Concordat, and explain its provisions.