The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-22 00:00:00

WIESBADEN.

JULY I7.—Disturbances of a serious nature took
place at Wiesbaden on the 17th. Some privates having
been incarcerated for insubordination, their comrades
attempted to liberate them. The citizens interfered,
and demanded that the whole battalion should be dis-
armed. It carne to blows, and some persons were
seriously wounded, and the generale beaten. Almost
all the foreigners have left Wiesbaden. Additional
troops have been sent for.

ITALY.

ROME.

The following is the reply of the POPE to the ad-
dress of the Chamber of Deputies:—
" We accept the expressions of gratitude which ar
I addressed to us, and we receive the reply to the speech
delivered in our name by the Cardinal delegated by us
for that purpose at the opening of the two Chambers,
declaring that we only welcome in that Assembly what
is strictly in conformity to the fundamental statute.
If the pontiff prays, blesses, and pardons, he has also
the duty of binding and releasing. And if as prince,
with the intention of better fortifying and protecting
public interests, he call* on the two councils to co-ope-
rate with him, the prince-priest has need of all liberty,
in order that his action may not be paralysed with re-
gard to the interests of religion and of the State ; that
liberty he preserves as intact as the statute and the law
of the Council of Ministers which we hare promulgated.
"If great desires multiply themselves for the grandeur
of the Italian nation, itis necessary that the whole world
should know that for our part we consider that war can-
not be the means of attaining that object. Our name has
been blessed throughout the earth, for the first words of
peace which fell from our lips; it would no longer be so
if words of war were now to be delivered by them. It
was therefore a matter of great surprise to us when we
learnt that that question had been submitted to the deli-
berations of the Council, contrary to our public declara-
tions and at a moment when we had undertaken to nego-
tiate for peace.
" Union between the princes, and good harmony be-
tween the people of the Peninsula, can alone realise the
happiness for which we sigh. This want of concord is
such that we ought to embrace equally all the princes of
Italy, in order that such a paternal embrace might give
birth to that harmony which may lead to the accom-
plishment of those hopes.
" Respect for the rights and the laws of the Church.
and the persuasion with which you should be animated
that the special greatness of this state depends on the in-
dependence of the Sovereign Pontiff, will act on you in
such a way in your deliberations, that you will always
respect the limits traced out by us in the statute. In
this will be manifested the gratitude which we ask from
you for the ample institutions which we have founded.
" Your resolution to occupy yourselves with the inter•
nal affairs of the country is a noble one, and we exhort
you with all our soul to persevere in it. Commerce and
industry must be re-established, and our principal desire
which we are assured is also yours, will be, not to burden,
but to alleviate, the people. Public order requires con-
siderable resources, and to obtain them it is indispen-
sable that the ministry should begin to devote its ideas
and its cares to that subject. The public administra-
tion of the finances requires great and minute precau-
tions. After those vital elements have been attended to,
the government will propose to you, on the subject of
the municipalities, those ameliorations which it considers
the most useful and the moat in conformity with the ex-
isting state of things.
" To the Church, and by her to his apostles, her Di-
vine Founder has given the right, and imposed the duty
of teaching.
" Be in good fellowship amongst yourselves, with the
High Council, with ns, and with our Ministers. Call
frequently to mind that Rome is great, not by its tem-
poral domain, but principally because it is the seat of
the Catholic religion. That truth we wish engraved
not on marble, but on the hearts of all those who take
part in the public administration of affairs, in order that,
each respecting our universal primacy, no one should
give way to certain limited theories, or even to party
desires. Who with exalted sentiments of religion can
think otherwise? And if you are penetrated with these
truths, as we hope is the case, you will be the noble in-
struments in the hands of God to secure to Rome and
to the state those true and solid advantages, the first of
which will be the extirpation of the seeds of mistrust and
party spirit
" July 10, 1848."