The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-10 00:00:00

ITALY AND THE POPE.

M. Erdau, the correspondent of the Temps, sends the
following letter from Florence on September 6th :—" The
Ministry is unanimous in favour of ordering the entry of
Italian troops on the Roman territory. I have formerly
told you their point of view. Without wishing to engage
the French provisional government in diplomatic com-
munications respecting Rome, they consider they maY
occupy Civita-Vecchia, Viterbo, probably Rome itself, in
the character of a neutral country, in pros-
pect of a possible evacuation demanded by the
Pope from Bavaria. It •is said that M. Nigra has
officially given notice to the French Government of the
state of affairs, and of this resolve on the part of the
Italian Government. It is not known whether the Pro-
visional Government desired Italy to abandon her neu-
trality. At the moment .I write the most authentic ac-
counts state that the Italian troops have not yet crossed
the frontier, and Vice-Admiral Isola is simply cruising in
the waters of Civita with his ironclad fleet. But the be-
lief is that events 'will hasten on. General Car-
dona, the Commander-in-Chief of the troops,
came to Florence to confer with the Minister of
War, and has left to-day by special train.
General Bixio has arrived here from Bologna, where he
had taken a command, and he leaves to-night for the
Papal frontier. It is he who, in case Rome should not
defend herself, will make the entry.

Will the Pope defend himself ? It has been expected,
t has been said positively. Engineers have been sent to
cut the railway lines, to blow up the bridges, and take
other measures ; but there are still hopes of avoiding
collision. Two or three personages have been sent to the
Pope to offer him guarantees, such as the right bank
the Tiber, &c. He has been assured that should
Italy be forced to enter, she will proceed to the
end, and if he was anxious to avoid the effusion of blood
he would yield to the force of circumstances and take
any guarantees he liked. I believe his reply to this kind
of ultimatum is expected. Ido not know what persons
have been selected to endeavour to effect this compromis.e
in, extruai;.

Ta ; ent is partly confirmed by a paragraph in the
Italia, Cance, which says that an eminent man
it Rome to offer the Holy Father all the
gua: s he may desire for his safety and for the frees
exero ,i his functions.

a t bat Sir Roderick Murchison has resolved
to g. 6, u 0 to yards the endowment of a chair of geology
and it, ei..,108y in Edinburgh University, if the Govern-
ment .-, Lqual liberality in the matter.
'l`. 'Mtn of Wells has resigned the living of St.
Cuthbert, in that city, inasmuch as it has been proved
that it is illegal to hold it with the deanery. The
dean has held both since 1854. The living is worth £BOO
a year. A question arose, and was submitted to the la"
officers of the Crown, whether the dean had not forfeited
his deanery.
A great decrease in the emigration to Australia
from Liverpool is attributable to the giving up by the
Government of the emigration depot at Birkenhead. The
chairman of the Mersey Dock Board has been requested
to communicate with the Government. It was stated
that the depot at Birkenhead, which had originally cost
the Government £l,OOO, had been bought by the Dock
Board for £99.

The preparations for the Argentine National El-
hibition at the city of Cordova are in active progress.
The building is approaching completion, and the trauwaY
to connect it with the railway station has been cow:
menced. The tramways in the city have experience"
great success, and caused an amount of building specula-
tion in the suburbs beyond the available supply of
labour. Several important railway proposals, involving
prospective loans of magnitude, are under discussion in
Congress.—Nature.

It will interest the friends of Keshub Chunder
Sen., the Indian Reformer, to know that just before her
Majesty left Osborne she commanded him to attend her
there, and conversed with him for a considerable time on
Indian affairs. After the interview, the Queen was
pleased to present her books to Mr. Sen, and to order
him to send her his photograph, with some of his publi-
cations. A farewell meeting will be held at Hanover-
square Rooms on Monday evening, preparatory to Keshub
Chunder Sen's return to Bengal. If all Hindoos were
inspired with such feelings as those of this gentleman
towards England and the English nation, we need have
little fear of mutinies at Allahabad, or anywhere else ill
the Peninsula.
Intelligence reached Liverpool on Thursday by
telegraph, from Galle, in advance of the incoming
Australian mail, of the loss of the new Liverpool iron
ship Harlech Castle, which after discharging her cargo
from Liverpool at Melbourne, had gone round to New
castle, N.S.W., and loaded coals for Calcutta. The tele-
gram merely states that she had been lost on the
Australian coast. She was built by Evans and Co., at
Liverpool this year, and was 1,112 tons, and the propertY
of Messrs. Cole and Co.

Early on Wednesday morning the house of Mrs.
Martha Wormington, lady of the manor of Sandleworth
Heath, near Fordingbridge, Hants, was broken into by
three men, who seized Mrs. Wormington, tied her hands
behind her, and beat' her severely about the head. TheY
then ransaeked the house, and took away about £6 in
cash. Mrs. Wormington remained in the condition in which
the burglars left her the whole of the night, and Was
released soon after daybreak by a passer-by, who heard
her cries for help. It appears to have been her invariable
custom to remain alone in the house, and the burglars
' were no doubt aware of this fact, and were well acquainted
with the premises.
THE POPE AND 1115 SUPPORTERS.—A writer in
the Tablet, who dates his letter from Rome, Sept. 2nd,
says the Pope has driven out frequently this week, and is
perfectly well and cheerful. The internal state of the
city, happily, continues tranquil, as is that of the frontier,
but every precaution is being taken against emergencies.
The same paper understands that Keyes O'Clery, Esq.:
of the Middle Temple, who served in the Zouaves vi
1867, is on his way to Rome to rejoin his gallant corps in
the impending crisis.
General Trochu is a Breton, and, like a true son of
Catholic Brittany, lie is said to be simple in his tastes,
brave and honest, frank and resolute. When military
arrogance prevailed in the army—when luxury and sensual
extravagance were rampant in the capital, he dared to
rebuke the one and to despise the other—

To scorn delights and live laborious days.

An anecdote of Trochu's private life, which has created
some interest as indicating the character of the man to
whom Paris in her dismay confides her destinies, may be
unknown to many of our readers, and is not without its
significance. On the death of his father, some years ago, he
became entitled to the moiety of the small patrimonial estate
in Brittany, which was to be divided between himself and his
brother. His brother had eleven children. The General
has none. He simply remarked that his brother needed the
property more than he did, and relinquished his share of it.
Not long afterwards his brother also died. Upon this oc-
currence the General observed that, having no family of his
own, he was the better able to provide for that which Pro-
vidence had bestowed upon him. He adopted his eleven
nephews and nieces, laid down his carriage, reduced his
domestic expenditure, and assumed with cheerfulness the
duty of providing for the whole of his late brother's family
and household.—Tablet.

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BIRTHS.

On the 6th inst., at Staple-hill, the wife of John Mordeunt,

Esq., of a son.
On the Bth inst., at Portsdown-road, W., the wife of C•
Lindsay Nicholson, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

On the Bth inst., at Tottenham, Middlesex, Edward, the
eldest son of E. S. Pryce, Esq., of Upper Tulse-hill,
Surrey, to Sarah, the youngest daughter of the late W.
Ayres, Esq., of Shingay, Cambs.
.

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On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's, Stratford-le-Bow William
Henry, eldest son of the late Hammond Chalk, Esq.,
M.R.C. S., to Agnes, fourth daughter of Thomas G aster,
Esq.

DEATHe.

en the Bth inst., Mr. George Hooper, of 47, Wood-street,
and St. Mary's-road, Canonbury.
On the Bth inst., at Twickenham, Matthew Ewing, Esq.,
aged 85. •

London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of
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