The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-19 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

The Royal Sussex Artillery Militia, under the com-
mand of tient- Colonel Carr Lloyd, left Eastbourne on
iklonday morning for Lewes (the county head-quarters
town), and was disembodied the same day. This regi-
ment was embodied on the Ist Feb., 1855. The men
have been constantly practised with both garrison and
field guns at a floating target, and attained a high state
of efficiency, and during the time the regiment has been
embodied 150 men have volunteered to the regular
forces, principaliy to the Royal Artillery.
The Royal Berks Regiment of Militia arrived from
Corfu last Friday, and met with a hearty reception from
the inhabitants of Reading on their reaching the railway
station. An order for the di-embodiment of the regi-
ment is daily expected from the War-office, and the ser-
vices of the men will be gladly accepted in agricultural
districts, as even now a scarcity of hands for haymaking
is much felt. The mortality in the regiment during its
stay at Corfu was very great., for out of little more than
600 men nearly 100 died soon after reaching the garri-
SOD.

PIO NONO.—" Our travellers could not be better placed to
see the approaching pageant. A small body guard slowly
cleared the way ; and, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses
and surrounded by running footmen in the richest liveries,
came the gorgeous carriage of the pontiff. It was the state
carriage built by Leo the Twelfth ; and we cannot pause to
describe the gorgeous and classic workmanship that adorned
it. Gilding and bronze castings, of most exquisite taste, sup-
ported and formed the body of the vehicle ; which large
plates of rock crystal enclosed on every side ; so light and
transparent that nothing appeared to intercept the person or
the benedictions of the pontiff. And in that gorgeous car-
riage sat the spiritual father of the Catholic world, the tem-
poral sovereign of this excited people. It was the first time
that any of our travellers had. beheld Pio Nono ; and they
had full leisure to study his handsome and interesting fea-
tures. For interesting, not only to his own eubjects, lent to the
world at large, as affording an index to the character of him
who had undertaken to re:•orrn the abuses of centuries, and
whose name was invoked by liberals and. revolutionists
throughout Europe—interesting was the expression of those
features to every physiognomist and thinking man ; and the
Englisliman grieved to mark the shade of vacillation and
anxiety which rested upon them, like a slight vapour ou the
fairest landscape. Nothing could be more noble than that
ample forehead —more serene than those full blue eyes—more
perfectly formed than that chiselled nose, lip, and. chin ; but
there was a nervous softness about those parted lips, a
shrinking of that full blue eye which showed that no settled
purpose animated the mind within. Good-nature, kindness,
affability, thoug,it, intelligence, piety—all these were legible
in every line and feature of hat beaming face ; but the very
openness, the very frankness with which these characteristics
shone forth, proved that the scheming brain and the iron will
I of the statesman, who s .ould originate and carry through
vast changes, had no place in a character so amiable and good.
With a beaming countenance the pontiff gazes from side
to side, and gently blesses the people, who tall devoutly on
their knees to receive the well-prized benedictions. Slowly
the crystal coach moves on ; while the Civic Guard muster
gallantly around it. Banners wave, drums beat, flowers are
thrown up in the air, and the old walls of Rome echo and
re-echo the unwonted cheers with which Roman thousands
greet their popular sovereign." —Beste's " Modern Society in
Rome."
CARDINAL ANTONRLLI. " His was, indeed, a striking
appearance. Slightly above the middle size, but spare
and thin, he carried his emaciated head erect on
its slender neck, and moved it from side to side
with the incessant activity that animated his sparkling
sloe-black eyes. Wide open, and almost showing the white
all round the black pupil, those eyes seemed to look through
every person they fell upon ; and they fell, almost at once,
upon every person iu the room. His large nut-eraker jaws
moved as though they were eating; more particularly when
he had to reply in French to the greeting of any who passed
him. To Mr. Agelthorpo he spoke in Italian ; and nothing
could be more pleasing than the whole expression of his ani-
mated countenance while he spoke, When in repose, or when
listening attentively his bushy eyebrows drew down and
tightened the yellow skin over his high forehead, and his
face assumed a shade of severity which was almost repulsive.
He looked the grand inquisitor of Rome."—Bc,ste's " Modern
Society in Rome."

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THE PRINCE OF CANnio.—" It was impossible to antici-
pate the conduct and wayward vagaries of this princely
mob orator. Without a moment's consideration, he
interrupted every speaker iu turn; was ever on his
legs ; spoke again and again on the same subject; and
when the murmurs of the house intimated that they would
hear him no more, he would raise his stentorian voice—that
nothing could drown—and, addre-sing himself to the stran-
gers in the gallery, secure their applause with theatrical ges-
tures and vehemence suited only to such an audience. The
Prince of Canino was, indeed, the marplot of constitutional
Igovernment in Rome—the night-mare of Pius the Ninth, and
of all who wished, like him, to establish rational freedom."—
Bate's " Modern Society in Rome."