The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-07 00:00:00

BEER-HOUSES.

The Earl of lIARROWBY presented a large num-
ber of petitions, praying for the limitation of beer-
houses.

Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Fuur o'clock, when,
there not being 40 Members present, the House was ad-
journed till to-morrow.

SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE
LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY.
WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 7.
BREVET.
Ta BE LIEUTENANT COLONELS.
Majors—Matthew Smith, 29th Foor.
James Hope Grant, C. 8., 9th Light Dragoons.
Iviauric> Griffin DPnnis, 60th Foot.
Edward Lugard, 29. h Foot.
Henry Bates, 90til Foot.
John William Yerbury, 3d L;ght Dragoons,
John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, 32d Foot.
Augustus George Blachford, 24th Foot.
,4,' TO BE MAJORS.
Captains unaaea J. Otter, 61st Foot.
Arthur Lowry Balfour, 321 Foot.
John Cldrk Kennedy, 18th Foot.
Walter Unett, 3d Ligbt Dragoons.
Joint Cameron Campbell, 9th Light Dragoons.
Mary Farington Longden, loth Foot.

Edmund Haythorne, 98th Foot.
E sward James Pratt, 9th Light Dragoons.
Frederick Paul Haines, 21st Foot.
Robert Abercrombie Yule, 9th Light Dragoons.
Hon. Francis William Henry Fane, 25th Foot.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the under-
menioned Officers, of the East India Company's Forces,
to take rank by Brevet in her Majesty's Army, in the
East Indies, as follows:—Commissions to be dated 7th
June, 1849:
TO BE AIDES DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN, WITH THE RANK

OF COLONEL IN THE EAST INDIES.
Lieut.-Colonel Foster Stalker, C.B. 19th Bombay Native
Infantry.
Christopher Godby, C.B. 2nd Bengal
European Regiment.
Nicholas Penny, C.B. 69th Bengal Native
Infantry.

TO BE LIEUTENANT COLONELS IN THE EAST INDIES.
Majors—James Colley Tudor, 46th Bengal Native In-
fantry.
Skeffington Poole, Ist Bombay Native Infantry.
George Connolly Ponsonby, 11th Bengal Light
Cavalry.
krederick Brookes Corfield, 20th Bengal Native
Infantry.
Edward Green, C. 8., 21st Bombay Native Infantry.
" George Farquharson, Bth Bengal Native Infantry.
Clements Blood, Bombay Artillery.
David Williams, 45th Bengal Native Infantry.
John D. Hallett, 3d Bombay Native Infantry.
John Finnis, 51st Bengal Native Infantry.
William Robert Corfield, 31st Bengal Native
Infantry.
John Sackville Leeson, Bombay Artillery.
Robert St. John, Ist Bombay European Regiment.
Thomas Forsyth Tait, C. 8., 2d Bengal European
Regiment.
Hubert Garbert, Bengal Artillery.
Richard Horsford, Bengal Artillery.
• Edward Fitzgerald Day, Bengal Artillery.
John Christie, 3d Bengal Cavalry.
Robert Napier, Bengal Engineers.
Arthur Mitford Becher, 61st Bengal Native In-
fantry.
John Fordyce, Bengal Artillery.
Thomas Fergusson Flemyng, 36th Bengal Native
Infantry.
Henry Tod Tucker, Bth Bengal Native Infantry.
Frederick Mackeson, C.B. 14th Bengal Native
Infantry.
George Thompson, 40th Bengal Native Infantry.
Francis Wheler, 11th Bengal L ght Cavalry.
Walter Scott, Bombay Engineers.
John Studholm Hodgson, 12th Bengal Native
Infantry.
John Kennedy McCausland, 70th Bengal Native
Infantry.
John Lealand Mowatt, Bengal Artillery.
Frederick Coventry, 6th Bengal Light Cavalry.
Charles Chester, 23d Bengal Native Infantry.
James Mackenzie, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry.
George St. Patrick Lawrence, 11th Bengal Light
Cavalry.
Charles Griffin, 51st Bengal Native Infantry.
Robert William Honner, 4th Bombay Native In-
fantry,
Stephen.. Williams, Bth Bengal Native Infantry.
John Hobson, Istßombay European Fusiliers.
Edward Henry Ludlow, Bengal Artillery.
Robert Mignan, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers.
George Joseph Mant, 19th Bombay Native In-
fantry.
Edward Sainsbury Lloyd, 19th Bengal Native
Infantry.
George Borlase, Tremenheere, Bengal Engineers.
sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear, Bengal Ar-
tillery.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE EAST INDIES.

Captains—David Cabel Keiller, 6th Bengal Native In-
fantry.
Henry Stiles, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers.
Hugh Hughes Lloyd, 72d Bengal Native Infantry.
James Abbott, Bengal Artillery.
Arthur Wheatley, sth Bengal Light Cavalry.
John Dowdeswell Shakespear, Bengal Artillery.
Francis Kyan Duncan, Bengal Artillery.
John Lang', 36th Bengal Native Infantry.
John James Hamilton, 36th Bengal Native
Infantry.
James William Henry Jamieson, 52d Bengal Na.
live Infantry.
Thomas Moore, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry.
Charles Campbell, 42d Bengal Native Infantry.
Ed ward Hume Hart, 19th Bombay Native Infantry.
Philip Kearney Skinner, 9th Bombay Native_ln-
fantry.
Edward Pelham Master, Bengal Artillery.
Robert Augustus Master, 7th Bengal Light Ca-
valry.
James Ramsay, 35th Bengal Native Infantry.
Frederick Lloyd,l9th Bengal Native Infantry.
George Cautley, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry.
Thomas Tapp, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers.
John G. Glassfurd, Bengal Engineers.
William Pitt Robbins, 15th Bengal Native In-
fantry.
B,obert.Rains Kinleside, Bengal Artillery.
Barre William Goldie, Bengal Artillery.
Alfred Huish, Bengal Artillery.
John Clarke, 25th Bengal Native Infantry.
George Biddulpb, 45th Bengal Native Infantry.
Henry Marion Durand, Bengal Engineers.
William Abercrombie, Bengal Engineers.
James Duncan Macpherson, 22d Bengal N.I.
William Maunsell Gabbett, Madras Artillery.
Edward Griffiths Austin, Bengal Artillery.
Murray Mackenzie, Bengal Artillery.
James Roger Western, Bengal Engineers.
James Alexander Duncan Fergusson, 6th Bengal
Light Cavalry.
William Kerby Warner, Bengal Artillery.
George Palmer Whish, 60th Bengal Native In-
fantry.
Michael Dawes, Bengal Artillery.
Charles Hogge, Bengal Artillery.
Henry Siddons, Bengal Engineers.
Cairns Threshire, 10th Bombay Native In-

fantry.
Markham Ecles Sherwin, 2d Bengal European
Regiment.
Thomas William Hick, Bombay Artillery.
John' Frederick Isiembhard, 56th Bengal Native
Infantry.
John Abercrombie, Bengal Artillery.
Sydney Turnbull, Bombay Artillery.
John Ramsay, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers.
Robert William Disney Leith, Ist Bombay Euro-
pean Fusiliers.
Altxanuer Cunningham, Bengal Engineers.
_ _

Edward Wiggins, 52d Bengal Native Infantry.
John Nicholson, 27th Bengal Native Infantry.
TO HAVE THE LOCAL RANK OF MAJOR IN THE FUNTAUB,
Lieut. Edward John Lake, Bengal Engineers.
Reynell George Taylor, 11th Bengal Light
Cavalry.
Charles Herbert, 18th Bengal Native Infantry.

SUPPRESSION OF THE
INQUISITION.

Memorial regarding- the tribunal of the holy office
at the time of its supression in February, 1849.
In cons( quence of a decree of the Roman Consti-
tuent Assembly by which the suppression of the
tribunal of the holy office was resolved, the Govern-
ment ordered that the Fathers of the Dominican
order then inhabiting that vast locality should re-
move to the convent called " Della Minerva," the
chief seat of their order. They were in number eight,
exercising the functions of commissary, chancellor,
&c. The doors were then carefully sealed by the
Roman notary Caggiotti, to prevent the abstraction
of any object, and a keeper was appointed to the
premises. These precautions taken, the inventory
was commenced. The first place visited was the
gronnd fluor of the edifice where were the prisons,
and the stables, coach-houses, kitchen, cellars, and
other conveniences for the use of the assessor and the
father inquisitors. This part of the building was to
be immediately prepared for the reception of the civic
artillery with the train belonging to it.
Some new doors were opened in the walls and part
of a pavement raised ; in this operation human bones
were found and a trapdoor discovered, which induced
a resolution to make excavations in certain spots
pointed out by persons well acquainted with the
locality. Digging very deep in one place a great num-
ber
of human skeletons were found, some of them
placed so close together and so amalgamated with lime,
that no bone could be moved without being broken. In
the roof of another subterranean chamber a large ring
was found fixed. It is supposed to have been used in
administering the torture. It still remains there.
Along the whole length of this same room stone steps,
rather broad, were attached to the wall—these
probably served for the prisoners to sit or recline
on. In a third under ground room was found
a quantity of very black rich earth, inter-
mingled with human hair, of such a length
that it seemed women's rather than men's hair ;
here also human bones found.wereinte h Itnhicthknes
isds ofun-
geon a trap-door was formed
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room
where
a
ducted. Among the inscriptions made with charcoal
very
on the wall it was observed that many appeared of
recent date, expressing in most affecting terms the
e
sufferings of every kind endured in these chambers.
The person of most note foundtheas e
rwho had
prisons odf
the inquisition was a bishop named in
Kasner
been in confinement for above twenty years. He
related that he arrived in Rome from the Holy
Land, having in his possession papers which had
belonged to an ecclesiastic there. Passing himself for
that person, he succeeded in surprising the court of
Rome into ordaining and consecrating him a bishop.
The fraud was afterwards discovered and Kasner
being then on his way to Palestine was arrested and
brought to the prison of the holy office, where he
expected to have ended his days, less, as he expressed
himself, to expiate his own fraud, than the gross
blunder of the court of Rome which had no other
means of concealing his character of bishop, its own
absolute laws preventing his being deprived of it.
The inventory of the contents of the ground flat
being finished in a few days, it was then thrown open
to the impatient curiosity of the public. The crowd
that resorted to the scene was very great, and the
public indignation rose so high that there was a loud
and general cry for the destruction of an edifice of
such detestable memory. This feeling was so strong
that on a Sunday afternoon in March faggots were
thrown into the cellars and other underground
rooms, with the intention of setting fire to the build-

ing, and this would have been accomplished had not
a battalion of civic guards rushed to the spot from
the Piazza di S. Pietro. To the truth of all that is
here related thousands, both Italians and foreigners,
who visited the place can testify; and there exists
also a detailed account of everything, written and
solemnly attested with legal forms.
Passing to the upper fiat, the attention of the Go-
vernment was especially directed to the chancery and
the archives; the first containing all the current
affairs of the inquisition, the second, jealously guard-
ing its acts from its institution until now. Before
commencing the catalogue of the contents of the
chancery, it was resolved to remove such papers :as
might disturb or compromise the tranquillity of those
persons who had had relations with the holy office.
Attention was especially directed to the book called
of " Solecitazione" (it contains reports) and to the
correspondence. This was done by order of the Go-
vernment, which thereby gave another proof of that
moderation which its enemies deny to it. There re-
sults from a careful examination of these documents,
which remain for the inspection of such as desire
proofs, that the past Government made use of this tri-
bunal, strictly ecclesiastical in its institution, also for
temporal and political objects, and that the most cul-
pable abuse was made of sacramental confession, espe-
cially that of women, rendering it subservient both
to political purposes and to the most abominable
licentiousness. It can be shown, from documents,
that the cardinals secretaries of state wrote to the
commissiary to the assessor of the Holy Office to pro-
cure information as to the conduct of suspected indi-
viduals, both at home and abroad, and to obtain
knowledge of state secrets by means of confession,
especially those of foreign courts and cabinets. In
fact, there exist long correspondences, and voluminous
processes, and severe sentences, pronounced upon La
Giorine Italia, La Jeune Suisse, the masonic societies
of England and Scotland, and the anti-religious sects
of America, &c. There is an innumerable quantity
of information and processes on scandalous and
obscene subjects, in which the members of regular
religious societies are usually implicated.
Passing from the chancery to the archives, which is
in the second floor, it appeared on first entering as if
everything was in its usual place, but on further in-
spection it was found, with much astonishment, that
though the labels and cases were in their places they
were emptied of the packets of papers and documents
indicated by the inspiriptions without. Some conjec-
ture that the missing packets have been carried to the
convent "Della Minerva," or were hidden in the houses
of private persons, while others suppose that they
were burnt by the Dominican fathers. This last
hypothesis receives weight from the circumstance,
that in November, 1848, shortly after the depar-
ture of the Pope from Rome, the Civic Guard
came in much haste to the Holy-office, from having
observed great clouds of smoke issuing from one
of its chimnies, accompanied by a strong smell of
burnt paper. But whatever were the means, the fact
is certain, that, in the archives of the Inquisition, the
most important trials were not to be found ; such,•for
instance, as those of Galileo Gralilei and of Giordano
Bruno, nor was there the correspondence regard-
ing the reformation in England, in the 16th century,
nor many other precious records. There remains,
however, nearly complete, a collection of decrees, be-
ginning with the year 1549 down to our own days.
They are divided year by year, each volume contain-
ing the decrees of one year. Of these, of all that was
contained in the chancery and archives of the Holy
Office, a catalogue has been taken, with every legal
formality of certification. It ought to be added, that
after the above mentioned threat of setting fire to
the Holy Office, it was unanimously decreed by the
Assembly, that instead of destroying that vast edifice
it should be portioned into dwellings for poor families
of Rome. In consequence of this ch cision the
Government was obliged to remove all the papers in
the chancery and archives, along with three libraries
exiting in the holy office to the Palazzo dell' Apoli-
riare, which was the residence assigned to the Minister
of Finance.

Of these three libraries, one was private property,
the other two belonged to the Inquisition. Of these last,
one is most important, containing copies of the original
editions of the works of the reformers of the 16th and
17th centuries, now become extremely rare. The
other is of less consequence. In it are many recent
publications; and it appears that the revisore (tf revi-
sori") at the Custom-house of Rome were in the habit
of extracting books consigned to the booksellers there,
without making any compensation.
It must not be omitted to notiee that the holy office
bad its independent revenue, arising from gifts of
state property, chiefly bestowed by Sixtus V. and
Pius IV., amounting clear to about 8,000 scudi. This
sum was chiefly spent in paying the monks attached to
the Inquisition, some of whom received considerable
salaries. In the above income is not included the
money exacted from prisoners as board ; the ac-
count of what was paid, for example, by the famous
Abbess of Monte Castrilli was found to 3,000 scudi.
The authorised paid agents of the holy office, called
" patentali," were well remunerated ; indeed, this
was a system by which many persons were demo-
ralised and corrupted, whose birth and education
should have removed them far from such a base
and guilty traffic, but who were tempted, perhaps,
by necessity. _

To conclude. In a few categories we may sum up
the results of this inquiry :-
1. That the Court of Rome availed itself of the
tribunal of the holy office for temporal and political
ends.

2. That to succeed in its purposes the holy office
had especially recourse to confession, of which it made
the most enormous and abominable abuse, not only
violating its secresy, but tampering with its integrity.
3. By mean; of confession, the most odious licen-
tiousness was insinuated in the confessionals. With
this branch the holy office occupied itself with extra-
ordinary diliger,ce, but without finding a remedy for
the causes of such scandal.

4. That the holy office corrupted all classes, buying
information and secrets.

5, and tasty. That the ecclesiastical nuncios at
foreign Courts are in constant correspondence with
the Holy office, and, from possessing means of pro-
curing intelligence quite peculiar to themselves, keep
the Court of Rome informed of the most hidden poli-
tical secrets.