The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUMAJIIPTON, AUG. 24.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans, with the heavy portion
of the Bombay and Mediterranean Mails has ar.
rived. She brings 58 passengers, 4 packages specie,
value £1,277, also 27 cases Indian shawls, 1 box
mosaics, 46 packages sundries, and 426 bales raw
silk, value £40,000 sterling.
The Ceylon experienced from Cape St. Vincent
to Finisterre head winds and heavy sea ; across the
Bay of Biscay, light winds and fine weather.

On the 15th, in let. 36 21 N., long. 13 34 E.,
the Ceylon spoke the steamship Memon, steering
eastward ; on the same date, let. 36 40 N., long.
12 40, the steamship Belona, bound west; on the
16th, in let. 37 38 N., long. 6 42 E., s.s. official
No. 29,639, bound east ; 19th, in let. 36 15 N.,
long. 6 30 W., s.s. Tiber, steering N.W.; and on the
22d, the company's steamer Pera, bound for the
East, with the outward mails of the 20th.
The steamer Ellora, with the outward mails of
the 12th, left Gibraltar for Alexandria on the 18th.
The Tangier, of Liverpool, 30 days from Sunder-
land, bound to Constantinople, passed Gibraltar on
the 18th.

Her Majesty's sh'ps Cossack, Malacca, Surprise,
and Psyche, were at Malta, and the Trident at
Gibraltar.

The Russian screw frigate Asleaba arrived a
Cadiz on the 15th.

GIBRALTAR, AUG. 19.
The following British ships have arrived here:—
The steamer Arabian, 51 days from Liverpool, and
the schooner Stork, 10 days from Funchal, on the
15th; the schooner Catherine Ann, 3 days from
Alicant, on the 16th; the schooner Blue Vein, 21
days from Cardiff, on the 17th ; and on the 18th,
the brigantine John and Mary, 22 days from Car-
diff, and the barque William Wilson, 19 days from
New York. The British• brig Florist, with a
general cargo, left Gibraltar on the 17th, for
Liverpool.

Exchanges on London, 90 days' date, 49 to 50 ;
Paris, sf. 282. ; Marseilles, sf. 29c. ; Genoa, sf. 29c. ;
Madrid, 8 days' sight, par; Cadiz, par to prem. ;
Seville, par; Malaga, par to ; Barcelona, -7, prem. ;
Almeira, par ; Valencia, par ; Alicant, i discount.
Freights without change.

THE CONGRESS AT MALINES.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
MALINES, Aug. 21.
Yesterday morning the labours of the Congress
were resumed, according to the programme, by the
separate meetings of the sections ; and, to endeavour
to see something of
them beyond the sth, which
had hitherto engrossed my attention, and had led
me to visit it a second time from the interest the
first meeting had provoked, I went up to the hall in
which the 4th or Fine Art section met. It was
holding its third and last meeting, and had got be-
yond all the strictly artistic part of its programme,
to discuss questions of literature, which had some-
how or other been set down to it, under the respec
five headings
of historical works and novels.
With regard to novels, which, from their attrac-
tive nature, may be made very useful to morality,
it was deemed that all discussion and controversy
should be excluded from such works, as not being
authoritative. One of the members called the
attention of the section to the class of novels
that may be called historical; and, taking as models
those of Fabiola and Calista, as contrasted with
French and Italian works of the same kind, ex-
pressed a wish that those who so attractively weave
together history and fiction for the instruction of
many, should more carefully note and distinguish
for their readers what is fact and what is fiction.
Art criticism was also discussed; and as the sth
section had decided on the publication of an inter-
national journal, it was suggested that, practically,
a great desideratum in criticism could be attained,
namely, an international criticism.
At three o'clock the usual general meeting began
by the nomination of corresponding members of the
central committee for Italy, France, England and
Switzerland, Poland, Spain,
and Spanish America. Mgr. Manning,
F roerl
taungd, Germany,
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and Messrs. "Wilberforce, Wegg•Prosser, and John
Lambert, were nominated for England; and Mgr.
Woodlock, the Rev. Dr. O'Brien, the founder of
the Young Men's Society, and Major O'Reilly,
M.P. for Longford, were nominated for Ireland.
onoT Then followedn two reports from the fifth section,
the
intended international journal, the other
en the liberty of association. The former of these
was made the text, or rather the pretext, of a
speech by a Parisian lawyer who left us rather
confused in our notions. The latter was read by a
Belgian in a sensible manner. The power of associa-
tion existing in the Church was aptly illustrated by
the readiness with which the Cardinal of Malines,
there present, had succeeded, but a few weeks before,
in reorganising the college which the civil authori-
ties had attempted to destroy, by removing from
his direction the town college. The Cardinal
issued a single appeal, and the means were imme-
diately forthcoming to purchase other premises,
where the whole body of professors and pupils were
duly transferred.
The General Secretary of the Congress, M,
Dupectiaux, announced that, in conformity with a
vote of the fifth section, the central committee
would apply itself to gathering the statistics of
Catholics throughout the world. The baptismal
registers kept in every parish in Christendom will
readily give the number of Catholics in any country
by multiplying the number of baptisms in a year
by the average number of years of human life in
each locality.
A report from the 2d section, on the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul, in Belgium, was then read in
a rather plain-chant tone, and afforded us the pleas
log information that no less than 15,674 poor
families are relieved weekly by the society in Bel-
gium.

Mgr. Nardi, auditor of the Supreme Court of
Rata in Rome, and the Signori Alberi, of Florence,
and Casoni, of Bologna, successively addressed the
meeting on the present state of the Catholics of Italy.
Mgr. Nardi noticed especially the noble efforts of
the Catholic press, as represented by the Azmonia
of Turin, and the Eco of Bologna, the latter of which
has already been condemned by the Piedmontese
to thirty-five sequestrations, 17 years of imprison-
ment for its editor, and £3,000 fine, and yet sends
weekly to the St Peter's Pence Associotion a sum
of 400 francs. He alluded to the triumphs of the
Church in the sufferings of its bishops exiled and
imprisoned in Italy. He spoke of having eight
days before taken leave of the Holy Father, who
had expressed to him the hopes he grounded on the
Mechlin Congress. He mentioned also that the
Catholics of Rome had already subscribed more
than a million of francs to the St. Peter's Pence,
which the Pope wanted to refuse, but they had
claimed to be treated in the same manner as other
Catholics, and to be allowed to contribute to relieve
their Father from al 1 threatened embarrassment and
dependence. Mgr. Nardi concluded by announcing
that on his return to Rome in a few days, his first
act would be to ask the Holy Father's blessing for
all the members of the Congress and for the country
in which they had met, that it might ever be free,
glorious, and happy.
Signor Alberi, in the course of a most spirited
address, expressed his feeling that the programme
of a free Church in a free State had been
applied to Italy in a manner to deride at once free.
dom, the Church, and common sense. He described
also the system of conscription and of loans and
taxations, as it was now carried on by the Pied-
montese, as calculated to absorb the whole of the
public strength of Italy.
Signor Casoni, a remarkably fine looking man of
thirty, kept the assembly' delighted by his address,
in which he described the Catholics of Italy a 5 ,