The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-15 00:00:00

GARIBALDI AND ROME,

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of that committee :—" Pisa,Dec.22.—Dear Friends,
—I accept with gratitude and confidence the presi-
dentship of your political committee. Where the
sun of liberty does not shine—where the priest
maintains the darkness of ignorance and supersti-
tion—where the power of the stranger keeps alive
a doomed idol, by lending it a sword, already
stained with the blood of one nation, to strike to
death another—there, it is necessary that a great
organised force should work in unity for its liberty,
its independence, and its civilisation. The fears ani
base counsels of corrupt men render the intellect
weak, the heart weaker, and base and despicable the
labour of life. Listen to them no longer. It
concerns your honour, and the existence of
the whole nation. So long as you are not
able to make yourselves respected, diplomacy
will despise you. You despise it first, and its
charm is gone. Diplomatists, depend on this, are
the offsprings of lies and the nurselings of trea-
chery. Romans, demand your liberty of yourselves
alone, and you will obtain it. Dare; do; and
have faith. Let us work together as the miners in
the bowels of the earth. To-day we shall have
stones and rocks ; to-morrow, metal. To-day the
work of preparation ; to-morrow the open struggle
and victory. If you are wanting in courage, go
down among your ruin 4, among your tombs, and in
the midst of your dead you will find it. Touch the
dust af Spartacus, of Brutus, and a hundred others
who have illustrated the pages of your history.
Interrogate the past ; two epochs of civilisation will
answer you. Trust to the present ; twenty-nine
millions of brothers are bound to help you; and
they will help you. I shall be with you as in the
glorious days of '49. Yes, glorious days ! We
were all Italians, who were defending our hearths,
our land and laws from foreign invasion ; and I say
it with pride, with the consciousness of truth, that
the honour of Italy came forth unstained from the
trial.—Yours, GARIBALDI.

THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND THE POPE.—
The Europe, of Frankfort, relates the following
strange story, which, however, it declares to have received
from a reliable source :—" Three weeks back Mr. Odo
Russell, having demanded an audience of the Pope, read to
his Holiness a confidential despatch from Earl Russell, in
which the English Minister proposed to his Holiness, in
the interest of the Roman Catholic Church and of the secu-
rity of Italy, to retire with the Roman Court to Malta, to
there await a favourable moment for returning to Rome in
entire security, after obtaining all the guarantees desirable
from the Italian Government. With that view Earl Rus-
sell placed the palace of the Governor of Malta at the dis-
posal of the Pope. His lloliness confined himself to
replying that he did not think he failed in modesty in
considering himself as more competent than the noble
earl to appreciate the interests of the Catholic Church, and
that he believed it to be his duty to await near the
tomb of the Apostles the ulterior decrees of Divine Pro-
vidence."

ACCIDENT TO THE EARL 01' ELLENBOROUGH.—
On Monday afternoon, as Lord Ellenborough was
leaving a shop in the Clarence-parade, Cheltenham, to en-
ter his carriage, his foot slipped, and he fell heavily on the
pavement, his temple coming on the flag-stone. A
but his lord
wound was inflicted, from Which the blood flowed freely:
ship declining the assistance proffered by the
bystanders, simply called for a cloth to stay the bleeding,
and ordered his coachman to drive home to his mansion at
Southern. We are happy to say that no serious results
are apprehended.

ANOTHER LADY BURNT TO DEATH.—Yesterday
Mr. William Payee, the
City coroner held an in-
quiry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death
of Mrs. Elizabeth M'Ewen, aged 64 who lost her life on
Sunday last, under the following. shocking circumstances :
,
—lt appeared from the evidence that the deceased resided
at Nicholas Cottage, Liverpool-road, and that on Sunday
last, while passing behind the back of the chair of a
friend who was dining with the family, her dress caught
fire at the bars of the grate. Not being aware of the fact,
however, she sat clown, and all her under-garments were
burning before any one knew what was the matter. A
sudden draught caused her clothes to burst into a mass
of flame, and the unfortunate deceased was most frightfully
burnt over her whole body before the burning mass could
be extinguLheci. She was immediately conveyed to the
hospital, where everything possible was done for her relief,
but she died in a few hours. A verdict of accidental death
was returned,