The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-12 00:00:00

ROME.

The following is the Pontifical edict which has
restored tranquillity to the Romans :
" The agitation which has seized upon the public
mind la consiquence of the different events which are
taking place require .us .to make every effort to restore
confidence, :Ina with confidence calmness. The Mi-
nistry, which had for a lung time past tendered its re-
signation, has this day requested to be allowed finally to
withdraw. As things could not remain in this position,
we have summoned to Rome Count Edward Fabbri, Pro-
-1,, gate of Urbino and Pesaro, who haa already arrived,
amt a ho will take office in the new Ministerial arrange-
r:fn'. These cares on our part ought to awake confidence
in the minds of all good people, which will be still further
strengthened by the measures. which the Government
itself shall think fit to adopt. Meanwhile some complain
that we have not made provision in consequence Of the
events which have occurred in the Ferrarese, and these
complaints are uttered, although we lost no time
in making known our sentiments, which were published
by our Cardinal Secretary of State, and have been also
repeated in "Vienna. We have also said, and 'we repeat,
that it is our will that the confines of our State be de-
fended, and for this purpose we had authorised our late
Ministry to make, suitably arrangements.
" For the rest it is but too true, that in all times and
under all governments extreme dangers are put to
profit by the enemies of order and public tranquillity to
disturb the minds and hearts of their fellow-citizens,
whom we have always desired, and desire particulsrly
at the present time, to see united and at peace with
one another. Almighty God, however, guards and
watches over Italy, over the States of the Church, and,
commits the immediate keeping of it to the,Great Pro-
tectress of Rome, Mary, ever blessed, and to the
Princes of the Apostles ; and although more-than one
sacrilege has desolated the capitsl of the Catholic world,
still our confidence does not fail, that the prayers of
Church will rise before God, and bring down blessings-
to confirm the good, and to recal His enemies to justice
and honour. •
" Givni at Rome, at St. Mary Major's, under the ring
of the risherman, Aug. 2, 1848, the third'year of our,
Pontificate.

" PIUS, P.P.

CHOLERA.- _
' ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
(THIS DAY.) •-•
A lecture was this afternoon delivered ia the theatre
of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, by the geutletnan
who has recently attracted a large share of the public
attention by his investigations into the phenomena,
of thunder-clouds and the cause of lightning. The
subjt'ct which to-day elicited the scientific knowledge
of Mr. 'ahem Boggs, was one. which recent
,occur
reuces have invested with an enthralling , interest—
we mean the devastating epidemic called the Asiatic
cholera. A more absorbing theme could not by
any possibility have been selected, and that theme could
scarcely by any possibility have been treated in a Man.
ner more darieg or admirable. We say admirable in a
twofold sense, admirable for the nervous energy of the
lecturer, and admirable in a particular manner for
profound and philosophic sobriety which imparted
weight to his many startling and..extraord.nary
ptoroepsotsiiintiaotne properly the gene
s.
Itwould ber al .
eiffipecptos produced however,ced by
the
lecture just delivered in the Polytechnic Institution,
would -
without considering for a moment the position of events
under which it was introduced, and the thrilling sound
of the tidings which had already announced the ap-
proach of this dread visitation. Last year the antici-
pated arrival of the.,, Asiatic cholera, or the cholera
morbus, as it is called by physicians, was spoken
of for a considerable time. The circumstanci cannot_
be forgotten. Since then the winter of 1847-1848 has
elapsed, and as yet no cholera has made its appearance.
Time has flitted past, it is true, but the mysterous dis-
ease is nevertheless striding towards us rapidly It has
emerged from the pestilential swamps of central Asia,
it has passed the frontiers of Persia, it ' has
moved over the vast plains of Russia, it has
progressed from Novgorod to Moscow, northwrrds to St.
Petersburgh, southwards to Odessa, it is-ravtging the
cities of Gallicia and the crowded ports of Egypt;
it has spread from the remote tributarits of the
Ganges and the Vistula, to the mouths and stag-
nant places of the Nile. ln all tle more
western kingdoms of Europe, with scarcel3 another
exception beyond Belgium, the Government ofieers are
making preparations for the mitigation of the severity
of the scourge. Even in England this movement is per-
ceptible,
not only in the metropolis itself, ,hit in se- ,
veral of our remote municipalities. At such a
period, therefore, it becomes a matter of pe-
culiar importance to hear a theorem adduced
of such an extraordinary character as the one
propounded this afternoon by Mr. Bags. Histheorem
is ieehing less than that the cholera is pubducttl by the
peculiar condition of the atmosphere whedcliata with
a superabundance of magnetic electricity. :iothing
co'tld be more cogent than the reasoning of the 'ecturer,
illustrated as his deductions were by experimeit, eluci-
dated by the. graceful and comprehensive flueiey of his
delivery, and enforced by a multitude of aguments
drawn from the storehouse of natural philosophr •