The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-27 00:00:00

LATEST INTEL LIGENCE.

(REUTER'S 'ELEGRAMS.)

R OLVIE.
ROME, SEPT. 26.

The official Giornale di Roma declares to be
apocryphal the circular Df Mgr. de Merode, pub-
lished by the Italian journals, ordering the Ponti-
fical troops to respect the band of Fuoco, as not
engaged in brigandage but defending the cause of
the ex-King Francis 11.

NEW ZEALAND.

MELBOURNE, AUGUST 26.
(By Overland Telegraph from Galley.

Advices received here from New Zealand announce
that General Cameron las resigned the command
and returned to England by the present mail.
William Thompson has petitioned the Queen to
send a commission to in'restigate the wrongs of the
Maories.

More murders have been committed by natives.
[A portion of the above telegram has been
omitted, having been rendered unintelligible in
course of transmission.]

CHINA AND THE NETHERLANDS. '
(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
SHANGHAI AUGUST 21.
The Treaty of Commerce with the Netherlands
has been ratified.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Sept. 20.

At the opening of the International Exhibition at
Oporto on the 18th inst., the King replied as follows
to the address of Senor Antonio Braga, president of
the central committee of the undertaking :
" Among you, illustrious Portuguese, none may
doubt of our progress, none may fear that it is slow
and indefinite. Nations fall from their splendour
by the errors of men or natural calamities. But it
is also certain that they rise gloriously to the reso-
nant voice of patriotism and liberty. And with the
same rapidity with which they were cast down are
they impelled towards prosperity, if with good faith
and firm steps they enter upon the path of reforms,
the sole course by which the moral and physical re-
generation of peoples can be effected. This move-
ment once commenced becomes a necessity of such
magnitude and urgency that a benefit remains cir-
cumscribed by the area traced out by its author.
This Portugal, after a long period of misfortune,
which caused her to lose the prestige of her past
greatness, has now, Providence be thanked, entered
upon a new epoch of efforts and enterprises, which,
encouraged and fortified by peace and liberty, will
assure to her, in a brief 'future, the place which she
once occupied among the most cultivated and fortu-
nate nations. The first International Exhibition
which took place in the capital of the commercial
world was followed by that of Paris. And such is
the power and influence of the progress of humanity,
that in little more than 10 years a city of the second
order in a country hitherto considered to be a cen-
tury behind most nations gathers to her bay, for
your honour, the manufactures of both worlds and
the wonders of art and intelligence. This spectacle
is, then, a great glory for Portugal and a well-
founded hope for the future. Arduous was the '
session of my honoured grandfather in implanting
the liberal institutions we now enjoy ; and arduous
also the task of my august brother, evangelising and
exalting among us the sublime idea of the supre-
macy and glorification of labour. Such facts can-
not be forgotten, and your allusion to them at once
affects and gratifies me. Invited by you to assume
the presidency of the Crystal Palace, and later to
give an impetus, as you express it, to the develop-
ment of the Exhibition, I acceded with the greatest
pleasure, recognising all the importance of it.
The spirit of the age, the example of my brother,
and the love I bear to my country and my subjects,
will lead me to embrace and second with all my en-
deavours this generous and highly-civilising idea,
whose realisation will give to our country much
higher consideration among foreign nations, and
will increase nit welarbt•Pf ,
public spirit to the height from which naturally and
spontaneously spring patriotic actions. This con-
test of labour, this truly national festival, is so
striking a proof that we are advancing on the path of
progress, it opens up to the national industry so
many improvements, and promises such various
advantages to the country, that I feel real pride that
this great event should take place as a happy pre-
sage at the commencement of my reign. My
honoured father, the enlightened President of the
Exhibition, accepted and undertook, in the same
manner, so pleasing a charge. His august name,
as you well presumed, immediately secured the pub-
lic sympathy for this great work. The most dis-
tinguished artists, and the most intelligent and in-
dustrions nations, hastened to respond to our invi-
tation. No nation, however powerful and ad-
vanced, disdained to come and take their place
among the laborious Portuguese. Honour to them
for this, as it is to us a motive of gratitude. To the
wishes you express for my happiness, that of my be-
loved consort, the prince, my august father, the
Infante Dom Augusto, and the royal family, I re-
spond with the most fervent wishes for the great-
ness and welfare of the country which has been our
cradle."

The official Diaro da Lisboa announces that the
King has decided that the baptism of the newly-
born Infanta shall take place oa the morning of the
27th inst., in the Chapel of the Royal Palace.