The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-03 00:00:00

THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT SAARBRUCK.

Little more than seven weeks ago upwards or
5,000 wounded soldiers had to be attended to at
Saarbruck, whilst 1,000 men lay dead in the fields a
mile away. At present not more than 700
wounded are left, the others having gone
to various places in the vicinity. Still there
are twenty-five hospitals, the riding-school, barracks,
casino, large schools, beer-halls, and other buildings,
having been converted into establishments for the
reception of the sufferers. The rapidity with' which
patients with severe wounds become convalescent is
a sufficient evidence of the care with which they are
treated. The large number of fractures of arms
and legs is
.a fact which does not fail to attract
observation. Gun-shot wounds through the chest
are said to be very common, and, in the more severe
cases, the sufferers in time die. The Dutch have
had a complete medical and surgical staff since the
commencement of the war. The Belgians, too, have
been very energetic and serviceable, and the
English National Society, by grants of money, stores,
and miscellaneous articles, suitable for the wounded,
has contributed, in great measure, to the satisfactory
results which have been obtained by the workers in
the good cause.

CATHOLIC VIEWS OF THE ROMAN SITUATION.
Lord Denbigh writes to the 'limes to contradict,
the versions which have been given of the Italian
occupation or Rome, representing that the Pope was
quite willing to treat with the invaders. English
Catholic residqnts in Rome give dismal pictures of
the disturbance and riot, and altogether deny that
the Italian troops were welcomed as friends and
deliverers. " While I write," says one, "my
house is threatened by a mob of escaped
convicts and others, • because I have not
illuminated." "A. Catholic Priest," also takes the
same side. Popular enthusiasm is, he maintains,
no criterion of the merits of a cause. Venice has
sung Te Deums ' with frenzied joy, as it became in
turn French, Austrian, and Italian. The experience
of a Free Church in a Free State in Italy has taught
him and his friends to define it as liberty to all reli-
gions but the Catholic ; exile or a long imprisonment
without trial for their bishops, and the worthiest of the
clergy; confiscation of ecclesiastical property, and inter-
ference with priests at the altar, the confessional, the
pulpit, and the school. Formerly, says this corres-
pondent, lie believed there were few advocates of the
temporal power in Italy, but a residence of some years
among the people has taught him a different lesson.
As for' the charge o€ tyranny in the disarmament of
private persons in Rome during the siege, he
answers that the disaffected were disarmed during
the siege of Dublin. No Italian Liberal can hate
the Pope King more than the Irish Fenian hates the
English rule, and the " Catholic Priest " is.appre-
hensive that Ireland will learn the new morality of
the clay, and rise without scruple as soon as she can
get a few American filibusters and exiles, and state
prisoners to give the note.

THE AMERICAN CENSUS.

The census of the United States is not
yet completed; but some facts which are
known are of interest. The greatest increase
is perceptible in WashingtOn itself, which has
risen from 01;122 to 111,195 in the decade—an
increase of 82 per cent. New York, it is said on the
other hand, has actually decreased in numbers, but
of that, as of Philadelphia, nothing definite is yet
known. The effects of the war aro painfully evident
in New Orleans, where the population has only risen
10,000 in the ten years. Chicago, where emigants
are always pooling in, rather disappoints thf.
expectations of her people, but the indigna-
tion of the residents in the empire city at
the rumoured decrease of their number is such
that they threaten to take a new census, believing
the first one to be inaccurate. The manu-
facturing class, which at the last census was almost
entirely in New England, is now to be found in great
force south and west. Though the manufacturing
establishments, however, are numerous, there is some
insufficiency about the returns of the manufactures
themselves. It is thought that information is with-
held for fear of taxation. The increase in the
agriculturists is the most remarkable feature. Their
number has far outstripped the largest estimate, and
this is generally considered as a satisfactory state of
things. The collectors mention a ludicrous difficulty
which they meet with in their returns among the
negroes. Not one in twenty knows his or her own
age, and even their children they can only reckon by
"Jemmy wp,s two months old when Masta got
wounded in the war," or " Jim was born in de.
Christmas week when de frost killed de taters."