The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

ministration, and the regulation of those in its employ- 1
ment. This is one of the wants of the period.
"Under these circumstances, it will be your duty,
gentlemen, to charge yourselves with the establishment
of the administration of the law in a constitutional
spirit, with the establishment of sovereign laws instead
of patrimonial and communal ones, to act with decision
upon matters relating to the administration of justice.
" Even so, also, to put down the abuse of the press by
repressive measures, to aid in regulating the laws re-
lating to combinations, to apply to the objects of the
State well understood principles, and to consider of the
establishment of a National Guard. So also will the
Ministry make the circumstances of freedom their own,
and will consider the furthering of a secure state of the
laws as a holy duty.
n The Ministry demands the active and dutiful concur-
rence of all public officers, and that the organ of Govern-
ment shall be placed in the central point of the monarchy;
and as regards the provinces, it will be their chief care
to give the mos& energetic support to their official obli-
gations.
" Circumstances to be regretted have taken place. The
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THE REVOLUTION IN ROME. armed power must be brought into force against a frac-
tion who, in the capital and place of state residence, have
The following details connected with the revolution made an exhibition of their anarchical tendencies.
at Rome are datedital
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given in a letter fromp,
Deep wounds have been given. It will be our duty to
the 21st ult. :
make every effort to heal these, and, so far as is possible,
" The situation is still the same—fear rules all. The to bring back Vienna, the heart of the kingdom, to its
common people await the will of God. Most of the former prosperity, so that the exceptional state in which
princes, prelates, and nobles are not sorry to behold their it now stands through the requirements of an imperious
rancour satisfied, rancour which they felt against the necessity, may be removed so soon as circumstances will
liberal measures and tendencies of the Pope. The permit. l
sons of M. Rossi wanted to see
the body of 1 "In Italy our glorious army has prevailed over perfidy
their father. The youngest had enrolled himself and treason—the ancient valour of the Austrian army,
amongst the. Italian volunteers. He had obtained leave 1 the brotherly co-operation of all ranks, the courageous
of absence to come to Rome to see his father. He is a suffering for Austria's honour, glory, and greatness
young man, full of fire. When the civic guards wanted to have been shown in the most brilliant colours. Still
prevent his entrance to where the body lay, he drew his must it continue to be shown to uphold the integrity of 1
sword and forced his way through them, crying out, the kingdom.
' What! you murdered him, and you want to insult "In the organic connexion with constitutional Austria
him after his death! My crime is to have served will the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom find the securest
your cause, but I will expiate it!' He then tore
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.. guarantee for the continuation of their freedom, and the
his
cockade from his cap and the epaulettes from shoul . preservation of their nationality. The responsible Minis-
ders, and trampled them under his foot. The crowd re-ters of the Crown will establish these upon the founda-
mained wonder-struck. The two young men hurried tion of treaties.
to the Pope, and, falling at his feefa ,
my children, feet, demanded
demanded yen-1 " The violation of the first rights of nations has led
geance on the murderers of their
we The Pope, to the Burgher war in Hungary. A party, whose chief
raising them up with gentleness, said,
object is trouble and the dissolution of the connexion
have no resource except in the tribunals; an expression with Austria, is still upheld by crazy people in their un-
which has been wrongly blamed, in my opinion, for the : justifiable claims. It is not for freedom that this war is
Pope could do nothing, and bravadoes would have carried on, but for the sake of those who would rob
been misplaced. The conduct of M. d'Harcourt cannot be 1 them of their freedom. The upholding of the same
too much praised. He received at his house the family of I monarchy, a close connexion with us, the acknowledg-
theyietim,protectedthem, and sent them away in safety. meat and preservation of their nationality, are the ob-
You know what horrible scenes took place under the win- . jects of their endeavours.
dows of the hotel inhabited by M. Rossi during the night " The Ministry will support measures for this purpose
which followed the murder. I saw them from a dis-1 with all their power ; but with the armed power will
tance, and I can affirm that the mass of the population they strike down all their criminal rulers who have col-
had nothing to say to them. It was a band composed of lected a traitorous party, who stand in the way of recon-
about a hundred madmen, who with torches in their ' ciliation, and who would set themselves against internal
hands danced round a fire which they had lit, bellowing 1 freedom.
forth a hymn to the avenging dagger, and demanding the " Gentlemen—The great work which requires the co-
heads of the victim's widow and children. In M. Rossi's operation of all our people is the settlement of a new
pocket was found a letter from a Roman lady, telling boud, in which all the countries and people in the
him not to go to the Chamber; also a speech which monarchy, shall be united under one great govern-
would have had the effect of conciliating the public mind, meat body.
and restoring order in Rome for a long time. Already "These points will show you generally the road
several murders had taken place in Romagna, and which the Ministry will follow with regard to the
amongst the rest a Roman priest. The whole of the German question. It 43 not by breaking up the
city which I went through on foot during the follow-I Monarchy, nor is it in the weakening of Germany,
ing days resembled a garrison town, when the that its strength consists. The position of Austria in
soldiers had left and the enemy was expected. a state of unity is a German as well as an European
Shops and windows were shut ; women were requirement. It is with the weight of this conviction
hurrying away with their children in their arms, that we watch the natural unfolding of the still unac-
and the men—the men were flying. It was whilst the i complished absurd projects for this purpose. If re-
piece of cannon named the St. Pierre was directed novated Austria and renovated Germany require new
against the palace of Monte-Cavallo, that the diplomatic and other forms, would it be even possible to reconcile
corps arrived to offer their services to the Pope. He their opposing interest? Nevertheless Austria will go
received them with his usual calm and courtesy. How- ion in the fulfilment of her duties to her allies.
ever, the attack began; the Swiss closed the doors, and "ln all the outward relations of the kingdom we will
some shots, fired from the windows, wounded, it is pre- know how to support the interests and the dignity of
tended, five or six persons. The assailants then set fire Austria, and shall allow of no improper interference
to the upper part of one of the gates, and just at that from foreigners, in the independent settlement of our
moment Mgr. Palma was killed. At once a rumour was ' internal affairs.
disseminated through the erowd that a prelate had been 1 " These are the principal foundations of our policy;
seen with two pistols in his hands, and that he had we have set them forth with most perfect openness, be-
fired at the people; their fury redoubled. It was i cause, without truth, there can be no confidence, and
then that M. Martinez de la Rosa offered, in the I confidence is the first requirement for a cordial co-ope-
name of old Catholic Spain, and of his Sovereign, to 1 ration between a Government and a Diet."
place a vessel at the Pope's orders, and to give him
an asylum in Spain. The Ambassador of the French
Republic then said—' have not received any in-
structions to that effect, but I do not fear to be dis-
avowed if I offer to the Holy Father my assistance to
protect him and secure his withdrawal.' However, out-
side, Cuerovacchio was calming down, or was appearing
to calm down the popular frenzy; the few troops on
whom Pins IX. thought he could reckon fraternized
with the assailants ; the Transteverins did not stir.
Several times the Pope wished to satisfy himself if some
persons remained faithful to him, either in the troops or
in the population, but he found none. 'You see,' said
the Pope to the Ambassadors, 'all is impossible.' A
list of a new Ministry was then presented to the Pope ;
' I cannot sign that,' he said ; 'it is against my con-
science.' However, the crowd augmented, the danger
increased, and the people demanded with loud cries the
heads of Cardinal Soglio and Cardinal Antonelli. At
last, about seven o'clock, the signature was given; with-
out that, the Quirinal would have been set on fire, and
all the Swiss massacred. Rome was then illuminated,
and the people went through the streets crying out ' The
Sovereign has given us the Republic.' "
The following is a translation of the protest
handed by the Pope to the foreign diplomatic
body :

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH

(From the Liverpool Albion.)
We have been favoured with .tho following copy of a
letter from the Colonial Under-Secretary to Sir Thomas
B. Birch, M.P., on the subject of steam communication
with Australia:—
" Downing-street, 30th November, 1848.

" Sir,—l deferred answering your communication
of the 18th August last, because the arrangements
were still in progress for the establishment of a sys-
tem of steam communication with Australia. I am
now directed by Earl Grey to acquaint you, that,
from a letter which has very recently been received
from the Board of Treasury, it appears that there is
every reason to believe an engagement will soon be con-
cluded with the India and Australian Steam Packet
Company for the conveyance of the mails between Singa-
pore and Sydney, for a period of not less than ep.en
years.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient
humble servant, " W. HAWES.
"Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., mai."

THE CHOLERA.

THE HAGUE, No'r. 28.—0 n the 27th there occurred
at Rotterdam 15 new cases of cholera—deaths, 10; re-
coveries, 7. Total since tho appearance of the disease,
854 cases; deaths, 447; recovered, 279 1 under treat-
ment, 128. At Amsterdam no new case occurred in the
cholera hospital on the 26th, where only one patient re-
mains under treatment. At the cholera hospital at the
Hague only one new case occurred last week. At Dor-
drecht, 5 new cases had occurred; deaths, 5; recovered,
2; under treatment, 25.
BERLIN, Nov. 28.—T0 the 23d inst., 2,400 cases of
Asiatic cholera have occurred. Of the-e 1,593 have
died, 810 recovered, and 3 remain under treatment. No
new cases have occurred since the 23d.

THE SICKNESS AT MALTA.—The epidemic which,
more from the uncertainty of its nature and almost cer-
tain mortality attending it, than from the number of its
victims, has for the last three months kept the entire
population of Malta in a feverish state of anxiety, and,
indeed, alarm has, since the first week of November, been
on the decrease, abandoning almost entirely the mili-
tary. The msdical society, rather tardily, have appointed
a commission to inquire into and report upon the disease,
but we much fear that no very certain data will result
from this measure. Sicily, however, has, to the great
prejudice of trade, inflicted upon all arrivals from
Malta a quarantine of twenty-one days, with an addi-
tional week for gnois of a susceptible nature. At a re-
cent meeting of the Malta Board of Health, it was re•
solved to reduce the quarantine on arrivals from Egypt
and the Levant as folluwa:—

am, gentlemen, a prisoner. They have taken away
my guards, and lam surrounded by other persons. My
conduct at this moment, when all support tails me, is
based on the principle of avoiding the effusion of all fra-
ternal blood. I make all yield to this principle; but
know, gentlemen, and let all Europe and all the world
know likewise, that I do not take, even nominally, any
part in the acts of the new Government, to which I
con.ider myself as altogether a stranger. I have, how-
ever, deaired that my name should not be abused, and
I wish that they would not even employ the ordinary
formalities."

Fuom EGYPT.--1. Ships of war and steam-vessels
provided with a medical officer, and with a clean bill of
health, will be admitted to pratique after twelve days
from the day of their sailing, seven of which to be per-
lJrmed in port. In else of any arrival within five days,
the quarantine in port will be fixed at so many days as
may be necessary to make up the twelve.
2. Merchant vessels, without susceptible goods, will
perform seven days' quarantine in port, without refe-
rence to the length of her voyage. Vessels with suscep-
tible goods on board, will perform ten days' quarantine
in port after their discharging them in the Lazaretto.

The Contemporaneo, Roman journal, of the 23d
ultimo, mentions as a report-that the Abbe Rosmini
had been ordered to Paris by the Pope to request
the French Government to send an expedition to
put down the Roman revolution, and that his
mission had obtained the entire adhesion of the
corps diplomatique, including the Ambassador of
the French Republic. The Contemporaneo then
adds,—
" That report has been circulated by a prelate who is
no longer at Rome, but who took a very active part in
the plot against the Roman revolution. We can neither
confirm nor deny the correctness of those rumours. But
we cannot help observing that France would cover her-
self with infamy if she suffered herself to be caught in
the net of the old diplomacy, and if she sent ships to
land soldiers against a revolution now accepted by the
sovereign Pontiff himself. The Pope's sacred person is
not in question. His person would be inviolable even
amidst the flames. The Roinan people assembled before
the Quirinal to combat the Swiss bad sworn to protect
at any price the Pontiff, who would have suffered no
outrage on the part of his people."

3. Susceptible goods will b subject to twelve days'
purification in the Lazaretto.
4. Passengers disembarking in the Lazaretto will be
subject to the same number of days in quarantine as the
vessel by which they arrived.
5. Vessels carrying pilgrims, and pilgrims themselves,
will be subject to twelve full days' quarantine.