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

GARIBALDI AND ROME.

The following is the text of the reply of General
Garibaldi to the letter from the Roman Garibaldi
Committee, requesting him to accept the presidency
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 brood 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 and
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 m,ke yourselves respected, diplomcey
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-a among your tombs, and in
the millet of your dead you will find it. Touch the
dust of Spartacus, of Brutus, and it 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 ! Wo
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 ,talian Government. With that view Earl Rus-
sell placed the palace of the Governor of Malta at the dis-
posal of the Pope. His Holiness 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 ho 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 OF ELLENBOROUGH.—
Ou Monday afternoon, as Lord Ellenborough was
leaving a shop in the Clarence-parade, Cheltenham, to en-
ter his carriage, his loot slipped, and he fell heavily on the
pavement, his temple corning on the flag-stone. A
wound was inflicted, from which the blood flowed freely:
but his lordship declining the assistance proffered by the
bystanders, simpy called for a cloth to stay the bleeding,
and ordered his coachman to drive home to his mansion at
Southam. We are happy to say that no serious results
are apprehended.

ANOTHER LADY BURNT To DEATlL—Yesterday
Mr. William Pepe, the
City coroner, held an in-
quiry at St, Bartholoznew's Hospital, respecting the death
of Mrs. Elizabeth M'Ewen, sged d 4, who lost her life on
hunday last, under the tollewini, 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 down, 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 inasl
of flame, and the unfortunate deceased was roost frightfully
burnt over her whole body before the burning mass could
be extingui,hed. She was immediately conveyed to the
hospital, where everything possible was done for her relief,
but she died in a few hours. A verdiot of accidental death
was returned,