The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMB

L The Patria of Florence, of the 26th ult., an-
nounces the arrival, on the 22d, at Gallicano, of the
Modenese troops, accompanied by Commissioner
Azzr, who soon after called upon the Tuscan Com-
missary Advocate BIANCHINI, desiring him to give
up to him the possession of the place. Signor BIAN-
CHINI refused, alleging that he had received no orders
from his Government. But on the evening of the
same day Signor Azzi insisted, and took possession
de facto. Signor BIANCHINI has protested against
this act. Several proclamations of the Modenese
Government were posted up soon afterwards. The
province of Fivizzano has a surface of 00 square
miles, 51 parishes, and 16,000 inhabitants ; the annual
revenue is about 40,0001. Florence was the scene of a
disturbance on the 25th. One PAOLINI, belonging to
the old police, called birri, and hated by the people
on account of former arbitrary acts, arrested
a blind beggar. Some persons who witnessed the
arrest disapproved of it ; the crowd increased and
rescued the beggar. The commissary of Santo Spi-
rito, to appease the people, had PAOLINI put into an
open carriage and taken to prison. But the news
having spread, the crowd became more dense, and
Paoram was assaulted. Other bodies of people at
tacked some guard-houses, and burnt the furniture ;
at the old police-office, the Bargello, several persons
imprisoned for debt were set at liberty. All this
took place so suddenly that the civic guard was not
in time to prevent it; that body, however, soon in-
terfered most successfully, and the tumult was quelled
on all points in less than an hour. The Marquis
RIDOLFI, Minister of the Interior, wrote a letter in
the name of the GRAND DUKE to the commander of
the civic guard, on the 26th, in which he passes the
highest eulogium on the behaviour of that body, not-
withstanding the imperfect state of their present
organization.

Lord MINTO was to leave Florence for Rome on
the 2Dth ult.

Count BRESSON arrived at Naples on the 23d,

Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived.
The Marquis of MIRAFLORES, the Marquis of
AlALpica, and all the members of the old Christina
Camarilla arc restored, and Queen ISABELLA iS com,
p!etfrly isolated, her only associates being her Lu.
CRETIA of a mother, and her SOLOMON of a husband.
The Eco del Comercio denouhces a gross job which,
it is said, the Ministry intend to attempt to perpe•
trate for the behoof of MARIA CHRISTINA. It is in-
tended to demand from the Cortes permission to pay
Queen CHRISTINA in capital the amount of her annual
pension, calculated at the number of years she may
be expected to live. The Eco supposes that her MA-
JESTY'S life may be extended to thirty years, in
which case it calculates that the country would be
called on to pay about 90,000,000 reels (twenty-two
and a half millions of francs), which it says would
allow a nominal capital of upwards of 300,000,000
reals in Three per Cents. to be purchased.
It is probably in order to carry out this precious
scheme that the portfolio of finance is to be intrusted
to the cunning (Asturian avogado Senor Morr, who
has recently returned from Paris with a programme
drawn up by Louis PHILIPPE and M. GUIZOT, of
which this conversion forms probably no unimportant
part, furnishing, as it will do, a large and available
capital for carrying on the wholesale bribery by
means of which alone the MONTPENSIER succession
can be secured.

It was rumoured in Madrid that ESPARTENO had
accepted the London Embassy.
The Carlists have appeared in great force in Ar-
rag ,n and in Catalonia; they are more threatening
,tronger than ever.
.vIADRID BOLSA, OCT. 28.—The Three per Cents.
.ere done at 26i at fifty days ; the Five per Cents. a$
161 for paper ; the Debt without Interest at .5f ; and
the Coupons at 12k.
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uesday being All Saints' day, is observed as a
festival in Paris, and none of the papers, with the
exception of Galignani's Messenger, are in general
published on that day. The Journal des Debats,
hOwever, contrary to usual custom, published a half-
sheet, containing important news from Switzerland,
which will be found, in extenso, in another column.
Civil war appears to be inevitable. The Diet refused
to refer the question of the Jesuits to the POPE (it
could hardly be expected that they would consent to
such a proposition, involving, as it did, the admission
of the principle of the right of intervention, on the
part: of a foreign power, in the internal affairs of
Switzerland) ; a proposition for renewed negotiations,
and a mutual disarmament, was likewise iejected ;
and the deputies of the Sonderbund departed from
Berne. This last proposition was about the most
jesuitical that could have been made. The disarma-
ment, on the part of the Sonderbund cantons, would
be a farce. The arms would be probably placed in a
depot at Lucerne, and by means of the lake of the
four cantons, Uri, Schywtz, linterwalden, Zug,
and Lucerne could communicate with each other
in two hours, and in one day would all
be armed; whereas the Liberal cantons, scattered
about around the circumference of these five cantons,
would require weeks, perhaps months of preparation,
to again assemble and arm their troops. Besides,
after the all but expressed determination of M.
GUIZOT to interfere by force in support of the Jesuits,
it would be worse than folly for the Diet to listen for
a moment to any fallacious propositions for a general
disarmament. We, however, take note of the fact,
that the deputies of the Sonderbund have declared
that they will submit to the POPE, and from the
liberal spirit which Plus IX. has manifested, we
trust that he will order the dissolution of the league,
and the withdrawal of the Jesuits, and thus avert
civil war from Switzerland. As a proof of what
Jesuit rule is in Lucerne, we may remark that while
a Catholic pauper who cannot read or write is per-
mitted to vote in the election of members of the
Council, a Protestant, no matter how highly educated,
how talented, or how honest, is deprived of the fran-
chise. This deprivation of the Protestants of their
franchise is the work of the Jesuits.
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the approval of the Metropolitan Sewage Manure
Company (incorporated by 9 and 10 Victoria,) it is
this. Humanity and economy alike demand its
adoption.

Although we yesterday particularised the diseases
of the respiratory organs, such as inflammation of
the lungs and consumption, as among those which
would be perceptibly diminished in frequency by the
purification of the atmosphere, we would by no
means have it inferred that other maladies would not
be thereby in like manner most beneficially affected.
Without referring in particular to other and more
ordinary diseases, we would direct especial atten-
tion to the influence of vitiated air in the
cities ravaged by the Asiatic Cholera. How much
would not cleanliness do towards mitigating
the terrors of that dismal visitation ? And, of
all kinds of cleanliness, which is more essential
or more commendable than the purity of the very air
we breathe ? It is just asserted in the first number of
a new Sanitary Organ, published monthly, and called
the Journal of Public Health—a periodical, the ap-
pearance of which we hail with the more satisfaction
from its starting into existence at a period so pecu-
liarly opportune—it is just asserted in the Journal of
Public Reath that " Cholera is always most virulent
in its attacks in those localities where sanitary mea-
sures are most neglected." This fact is incontrover-
tible ; it is more stubborn than the most stubborn of
mules. And of all the sanitary measures which have been universally neglected, that measure is notoriously I
the most requisite which would remove the causes of
vitiation in the atmosphere of our towns and
cities, and tend to the adequate ventilation
of our houses and workshops. That measure, more-
over, would instantaneously and peculiarly
affect those physical evils which are prevalent
throughout the United Kingdom, evils which (to
quote the language employed on the 22d of Septem-
ber by the Judge-Advocate General, when that Right
Honourable Gentleman was addressing his constitu-
ents at Liskeard), " by a little management, could be
removed at a very little expense." How small the
expense would be in this particular is obvious. As
to the management, we leave that with confidence to
the Government and the Sanitary Commissioners