The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, FRIDAY, 10 P.M.
The Yorkshire, 1,056 tons, Capt. E. A. Reynell,
belonging to Messrs. Money Wigram, of London,
which left Melbourne, Jan. 23, has arrived in the
Channel, and landed eight passengers here. She
brings 15,000 oz. of gold-dust, valued at £61,500,
and a large cargo, including, 1557 bales of wool..
Among her 100 passengers are Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
derson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Mrs. Smith,
family, and servant ; Miss Cotsworth, Mrs. Carmi-
chael, Mr. Haigh, Mr. Durand, Mr. Arden, Mr.
Hallenstein, and Dr. Bickler. In the South Pacific
she met with large quantities of field ice, and a great
number of formidable icebergs.

On the 6th March, in lat 52 S., long 137 W., 50
bergs were counted from the deck of the Yorkshire.
She rounded Cape Horn on the 19th Feb., crossed
the Equator on the 21st March, and sighted the
Azores on the 6th April. Spoke, March 23, north
of the Line, the ship Lord Lyndhurst, from Liver-
pool for Calcutta, which had experienced very heavy
weather ; April 5, lat 35 40 N., long 34 33 W., the
brig Albertha, homeward bound ; April 11, the
Liberia, 83 days from Adelaide, for England; April
15, the ship Marchmont, outward bound.
The frigate Shannon, which arrived from Fayal
this morning, has landed here the master and 15 of
the crew of the ship Kitty Cordent, 809 tons, from
Cardiff for Halifax, which foundered on the 23d of
February 250 miles N.N.W. of Fayal, whither they
were conveyed by an American ship.

111G.R. DE lIERODE'S REPLY 20 EARL
RUSSELL.

Mgr. de Merode, Minister of Arms in the Cabinet
of the Pope, has addressed to the Marquis of Nor-
manby the following letter, contradicting certain
statements made by Earl Russell when speaking of
Italy in the House of Lords, on the 27th February
last. The document appears in the Union, and is
published without any date :
" Monsieur le Marquis,—You will, I trust, allow me to
take advantage both of the knowledge that your Excel-
lency possesses in a high degree of Italian men and things,
and of the relations which I had the honour of having with
your Excellency during the stay of his Holiness at Flor-
ence, is 1857, to engage your attention for a moment on
one of the most considerable inaccuracies to be found in
the speech of Earl Russell on the 27th February.
"According to the reperts given by the papers the noble
earl, speaking of the men who, after the series of combats
with the Piedmontese, took refuge on the Pontifical terri-
tory, said, When these thieves and assassins are arrested
and disarmed by French troops they are armed and clothed
afresh by the Pontifical Government,' &c.
" I will not examine the question on which side are the
thieves and assassins in this war, which the noble earl re-
fuses to call ' civil,' no doubt becalm Hungarian, English,
and other legions assisted the Piedmontese in subjugating
the Neapolitans; but Earl Russell will admit that nothing
could be more easy than to find some traces of the actions
of the Government of his Holiness in the permanent comedy'
of which he asserts the existence between the Pontifical
authorities and the French troops, on a theatre so confined
as that part of the States now preserved from invasion. Of
those traces none exist, and none can exist.

" To speak only of the disarmaments effected by the
French troops—since those not less important effected by
the Pontifical gendarmes are passed over in silence in the
speech in question—it is quite true that several times French
troops have arrested and disarmed bands which had taken
refuge and attempted to reorganise themselves on the Pon"
tifical territory. The arms seized on such occasions have
always been received and acknowledged in the most regular
manner. Nothing can be more easy than to now verify the
deposit of them in the magazines where they may be still
found.

" As to clothing, the French army does not strip the
unfortunate people whom it arrests and disarms ; it is not
accustomed to such proceedings. What necessity could
there then have been to distribute clothing to the refugee
In question ? It may have perhaps happened, in very er
ceptional cases, that individuals covered only with old WO
have received necessary clothing, especially during the pre-
sent season.

" Earl Russell only speaks after official documents.
Thus, at the same moment in which he formally accuses
the French and Pontifical troops of hypocrisy, his delicacy'
did not allow him to accei t the discussion on the celebrated
proclamation of Colonel Fantoni in the absence of an official
edition of the document, preceded, however, and followed
by many other analogous documents which render it 8°
probable, The noble earl has, therefore, based his asser'
tions relative to the Pontifical States, on documents which
ho considers as perfectly sure. Otherwise he would be dis-
tributing justice with two weights and two measures.
"Your Excellence will perhaps think, it useful to poi
out to him the inexactitude of those documents, and to thug
call hi, attention to the distrust which ought to be excited
by the sources from which has until now drawn his info
mation on the subject of the affairs of Itnly, and particir
larly the Pontifical States.
Receive, &e,
" XAVIER
MERODe

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