The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-05 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ANATHEMA..

A letter from Florence speaking of the Pope's encyclical
excommunicating the king and the whole Italian nation,
observes that if only to prove to the world that Pius IX.
enjoys full liberty, the journals should all be allowed to
publish this absurd document, and in fact it ought to be
affixed to the corners of the streets as the best way of
rendering it ridiculous and defeating its effect on the
people. It Was thus that Cavour acted in parallel
Circumstances in 1861, but he was at the same
time a statesman and a man of wit. Lanza and his
colleagues have done the very' opposite. They have
seized all the papers containing the encyclical and
threaten to prosecute them. Cardinal Antonelli has taken
care to make the seizure known to all the foreign repre-
sentatives in Rome. " See," he says, "in what manner
the Italian Government keeps the promises it made at
Florence concerning the independence of the Vatican.
Pius IX. cannot communicate with the faithful through-
out the world. Was he not a hundred-fold justified when
he said that the temporal power was indispensable as a
guarantee for the free exercise of the spiritual
power ? " The celebrated advocate, Mancini, one of the
best in Italy, has offered to defend the journals
should they be prosecuted. The seizure of the papers has
given rise to rumours of a ministerial crisis. It is said
that Signor Raeli, having given in his resignation, was
overpersuaded by his colleagues. Visconti-Venosta like-
wise wished to withdraw.

DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE NEW
SPANISH KING.

The students of the Universities of Madrid and Seville
are resolute in displaying their hostility to the newly-
elected King. Those of Madrid have been in open revolt
and threw mud and eggs at the Italian arms. They
assembled in great numbers in the street Ancha San
Bernando demanding the release of some twenty of their
comrades who had been arrested. The Impartial, a paper
which has ardently supported the Duke d'Aosta, came in
for a share of their displeasure. They resolved to beat
the editors and manager of, the journal, and the
head of the staff, therefore, took the precau-
tion of filling his office with police. Tran-
quillity was restored after much trouble, but it is
proposed to transfer the university from the capital to
Alcara de Henares. At Santiago, Saragossa, and Sala-
manca the students have followed the example
of Madrid, but to a less serious extent. At
Seville there was an extraordinary demonstration,
in which the students joined the populace in
celebrating the funeral of the Duke d'Aosta in full style.
The civil governor of the town interfered, but was
hissed and pelted with stones, and finally driven
back to his hotel. The students sung the "De Profundis "
in deafening tones, and whenever the officials endea-
voured to shout " Viva the Duke d'Aostar
their voices were drowned in shouts of " Death to the
Duke d'Aosta 1" It required repeated charges of cavalry
and the appearance of several battalions of infantry to
put a stop to the demonstration and restore order. Before
leaving for Italy, Gorilla attached his signature
to some hundreds of letters addressed to several
persons io the provinces to induce them to exert them-
selves to create a favourable impression on behalf of the
Duke. "Our work," he says, "is begun, but not yet
finished. To deceive ourselves on this point might be
fatal. I wish you to continue to excite the
public mind, if only to counteract the labours of our
enemies. It would be dangerous to indulge in
excessive confidence. Until the new dynasty has, by its
acts, acquired prestige and the esteem of the country it
will be the object of attacks from those who are preparing
themselves seriously for the struggle. It is indispensable
that we should not rest on our laurels, and at all cost we
must have addresses of support."

THE RUPTURE OF THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
In consequence of the interrupted communication the
cable telegrams giving the New York prices have not
reached London for some days. The Railway News has
the following observations on the injured cables. The
fracture of the cable of 1865 appears to have taken place
at very nearly the same distance from Heart's Content as
in the 1866 cable, viz., about 70 miles from land. At this
spot the two cables lie about five miles apart, and it is
therefore supposed that the repairing ship may
have accidentally hooked the sound one and caused
the damage which has now interrupted the communi-
cation. As the repairing ship is on the spot means have
been taken to communicate with her, and inform
.those on board of the interruption of the 1865 cable.
The heavy fogs which have prevailed for some time on
the banks, and the shortness of the days, have necessarily
rendered more difficult the work of finding and grappling
the cable. For several days it has been wholly
impossible to take any observation with the sun, and any
landmarks that may exist have been more or less obscured.
Left, therefore, without any means of ascertaining the
precise locality of the cable, it will not be matter of sur-
prise if those in charge of the ship—and the captain has
not, we believe had much previous experience of Atlantic
navigation, he having been formerly a North Sea captain
and engaged in connection with the cables laid in those
narrow seas shall have hooked the wrong cable.
It is hoped, however, that as he is on the
spot measures will shortly be taken for re-establishing
communication. In connection with the present system of
Transatlantic telegraphy, one thing is absolutely certain,
and that is, that the banks of Newfoundland should be as
quickly as possible abandoned as a telegraph station, and
the cable taken direct to Boston, or still better to Rhode
Island, and a direct communicaton be thus established.
For a hundred miles or more off the coast of Newfound-
land the water is shallow, it is the constant resort of
fishing and other vessels, and the cable is continually
liable to injury from vessels seeking anchorage.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles
Fyfe, Esq., to be Queen's Advocate for her Majesty's
Settlement of Sierra Leone, on the Western Coast of
Africa.

Prince Humbert, the Duke of Aosta, and Prince
Carignano, were expected in Florence on Saturday. King
Victor Emmanuel has appointed the Marquis Torrearsa
President, and Signori Marzuchi, d'Affito, Vigliani, and
Mamiani Vice-Presidents of the Senate.
Mr. R. H. Allnutt, of Pensarn, in his meteoro-
logical rep irt for the month of November, says that the
rainfall of the month on the coast was above the average,
and its distribution over England was extremely irregular.
Heavy clouds hung upon the hills and drifted down from
their summit in dense masses of falling vapour, and the
tributary streams were swollen into rapid wrters rushing
to the sea. By the coast it rained on 14 days. After the
26th the weather was fair. The range of atmospherical
pressure was from 30.70 in. on the sth to 29.10 in., on the
22nd, 23rd, and 24th, when, during these three days, the
consecutive registration was identical. On the whole, the
month was ono of great elemental action.

MURDER AT LITTLE STAUGHTON.—One of the
most shocking and diabolical murders ever recorded was
perpetrated in this village, which is situated about two
miles to the west of the St. Neots and Kimbolton main
road, and about six miles from the former place, on the
night of Tuesday last, the unfortunate victim being a
poor diminutive imbecile, named Sarah Marshall, aged
52, better known as'" Old Sally." This poor helpless
creature, for years the butt of the thoughtless boys of
the village, was in receipt of parochial relief, and occu-
pied a wretched little mud one-roomed cottage. Stand-
ing upon a piece of ivaste land in one long, straggling
village, near this hovel, are two cottages, and about 11
o'clock on Tuesday night the neighbours occupying them
heard the poor old creature screaming murder, but, from
her constant habit of doing so at all times of the day
and night when she fancied anyone was approaching
her dwelling, no notice was taken of it. About
nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, however, the neigh-
bours, seeing or hearing nothing of " Old Sally," some
misgivings for her safety seemed to have disturbed them.
One of them went to the hut, and finding the door un-
fastened looked in, when he saw the lifeless body of the
poor woman in her nightdress, doubled almost head and
heels together, and resting upon the foot of the bedstead.
Mr. Hemmings, surgeon, of Kimbolton, made a post
mortem examination on Thursday, and his opinion was
that deceased, after being mercilessly knocked about, was
violited, and that life was put an end to.by strangulation.
The coroner's inquest was held yeste.-iftlay, and the evidence
left no doubt that the woman had been murdered, as sup-
posed. The inquest was adjourned. A man named
William Bull, who has been imprisoned for twelve months
has been arrested. He, or a man answering his descrip-
tion, was seen outside the cottage a few minutes before
the screams were heard. He is a powerful, rough fellow.
A BOON FOR LADIES.—Highly as sewing machines are
prized, there is one great fault to which they are addicted—they
make a great noise while doing the work ; a noise so great that
for a worker herself to talk at the same time is out of the ques-
tion. We need not say how trying this must be to a lady. To
be not only prevented from talking, but also from listening to
the gossip of those around her—the very thought of such a
thing is unendurable. Well, an inventor has come to their
rescue with a SILENT SEWING MACHINE ; and as it comprises
all the appliances said devices for varied work with which all the
best sewing machines are provided, and several in addition, and
exercises then all so NOISNLESSLY that the ladies may gossip
even in whispers, and the infant or invalid sleep en in peace, we
expect that most of the old machines will ere long be heard, or
heard of, no more, and that "LA SILENCIEUSE," the Silent
Sewing Machine (at Messrs. POLLACK, SCHMIDT, and Co.'s,
210.1, REGENT-STREET, LONDON, W.), will quietly take their
place, as the universal domestic helper.—" investment Circular
and Financial Record," September 7, We.