The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1869,

THE WEATHER...-SUN OFFICE, Mac. 23, 1860.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS,
33--highest since noon yesterday.
23—lowest this morning and during the night.
28—this day at noon.
BAROMETER- 2b.63.
WIND--Westerly to South--. :ry light ; with line sharp
frosty weather, the hardest we have had yet.
DEC. 24.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SEADR.
29—highest since noon yesterday.
24—lowest this morning and during the night.
27—this day at noon.
BAROmazEn-29.45—n0w up to 29.48.
WlND—WesteTly, inclining to South—light ; with con-
tinuous frosty weather, but fine.

HIGH WATr*R AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Cale DAY.—Morning, 10h. 51m.—Afternoon. 11h. 23m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. —m.—Afternoon, --h. —m.

THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1860.

Another Austrian Reform Bill Not the last,
however, we expect. There have been several
already which might ll date from Solferino. There
was first the Patent for the Hungarian Protestants
in September of the same year; then the Reichsrath,
and the Hungarian scheme such as it was; then the
plans for all the other States ; but all would not
avail. Hungary would hear of nothing but histori-
cal rights, and the most faithful old provinces
kicked at the shabby constitutions offered them.
At last, therefore, another move was made. Baron
VON SCHMERLING, who was a good Liberal in 1848,
and who has not been a very bad one for Austria
ever since, was made Minister of the Interior in the
place of the memorable Count GOLUCHOWSKI ; and,
as was understood at the time, with the concession
to him of such liberal demands as it was hardly
expected the EMPEROR could have digested. What
the chief of these are Mr. REUTER now tells us.
Our information is from a circular addressed by
the Baron to the Governors of provinces, apprising
them of his intended policy. Referring to the
' Imperial manifesto of October, the value of which,
dOßbtless, depended far more on the spirit with
whielh it was worked than on the letter of the docu•
ment, he
declares that it is " the mission of Minis-
ters of State to carry out fully and effectually the
resolutions szud intentions of the EMPEROR as
therein expressed. And since Austrian charters
ys meant to admit of the
of every kind are o.lwa
narrowest or most ;latitudinarian construction
according to circumstances, we may hope that the
EMPEROR is convinced that he must adopt the
most liberal interpretation of his own document.
If we are to interpret Baron SCIIMERLING'S own
circular, as liberally as he proposes to construe his
master's character, with two great exceptions, the
promise to the ear is almost marvellous. Religious
worship, education, the nationality question, the
press, municipal administration, the administration
of police, the provincial statutes, the Council of the
Empire, are all adverted to, and past concessions
retouched in the liberal sense. Freedom of reli-
gious worship is spoken of in singularly circumlo-
cutory phraseology—civil and political rights, it is
said, shall in that respect be preserved against
encroachment. A sentence which in England must
express the common creed of our country, that no
man should be damaged in his civil and political
relations by his religious views ; but which in
Austria might mean that such civil and political
rights as the different religions confessions already
enjoyed, should not be interfered with. We will
hope, in such a circular, that the former is the real
meaning, since with characteristic German senti-
mentality we are told that the different confessions
are to be placed on an " equitable footing"—and
more than that, on the footing of" real love for our
neighbours." Happy sects ! Baron SCHMERLING
might do us some*good here too.
Education is of course to be promoted in every
way ; but what means the clause that " the free
develops: ent of nationalities is to be accorded ?" It
can be, from the clause relating to the Reichsrath,
but a federal development ; it is not intended that
the union of the provinces should be merely per-
sonal under the Crown of Austria. The Press is
promised the removal of " every preventive inter-
ference." For some little time the Vienna papers,
even under the former Minister, have been writing
with unwonted freedom on public matters; we
may hope, therefore, that even more freedom is
intended than French editors yet enjoy. Agricul-
ture, commerce, and industry, Von SCHMERLING
seems to think, like all Continentals, it is in his
power to develope ; he means to work in the paths
already pursued, which are in great part the
paths of protection, not unmixed, however,
with some liberality in the Customs' tariff.
We fear the Baron will also need Mr. COBDEN
for a guest, before he comprehends the gain of
commercial liberty. The independence of the
Communes, we in England hardly understand ; our
municipalities are all so perfectly independent
that we think of them in no other form. Pro-
bably the heads of the Communes have been
hitherto nominated by the Crown. The admi-
nistration of justice is to be separated from the
Government administration, and trials are to be
public, and oral forms of proceeding introduced.
But here we find one of the great omissions
adverted to—there is no provision for trial by
jury before irremovable judges. An open trial
and a free press will do much, very much ; they
are great securities for justice; but we in this
country know full well that, at certain times,
despotic governments will face both these, and
juries only have saved patriots from the vengeance
of the Crown or a Cabinet.

From the two paragraphs relating to the
provincial statutes and the Council of Empire—the
Iteichsrath, we gather that the provincial assem-
blies will be elected in a tolerably liberal manner,
and have power to originate business independently
of the Government which had not at first been con-

ceded. it is especially mentioned that the provincia

Diets will be competent to legislate only on provin

cial questions; that the Council of the Empire will
be composed of members elected unconditionally
by the provincial Diets, and that it will, besides,

"receive additional members." Who, and what
will these additional members be ! We who have

a House of Lords, however, cannot say much on
that delicate subject. The Council is, however,

:o have the right of originating "projects of law

with publicity of debate." It will be, on the whole,
therefore, a body enjoying vastly greater constitu-
tional powers than tha Chambers of Louis NAPO-
LEON, which can originate nothing, and are but

scantily trusted even now with the right of discus-

sion and of amendment. Indeed, with the very
important exception of trial by jury, if Baron

SCHMERLING'S views are fairly carried out, Austria
will be a country enjoying far more of civil and

religious liberty than the nation which asserts
itself to be at the head of European civilisation.

But this leads us to the second important ex-
ception before adverted to—there is no mention

of Ilungftry. Is it the intention of the Baron to

assume that she is one of the provinces, and is that
powerful kingdom to occupy a position similar to
that of oilZ Cf. thO petty provinces of the Empire.
He must know that will never do. He
cannot govern Hungary, now, from Fe
ought not to be able to do so. The kingdom of
Hungary, with its free dependencies, is the half or
nearly so, of the Austrian Empire, and supplies the
best part of its army. Not only its historical
rights, but its actual importance at this day, de-
mand for it a very much higher relation to the
Empire than one which may suffice for Styria or
Carinthia, or even the Tyrol. This is the difficulty
SCHMERLING has to meet. Hungary contributes so
much to the strength of the Empire that it will not
submit to have its soldiers and money voted away
by others. She will not rest till she secures
those only guarantees for liberty, the power
.0 say what military and pecuniary strength she
will furnish her SOVEREIGN. We expressed a fear
the other day that our Government would need
looking after on this subject. If M. KOSSUTH be
right, and on such a subject he is not likely to be
wrong, it seems our Government, is, as we feared,
not unlikely to pursue a course, in regard to
Hungary, the opposite of that which has made
it so popular at home as well as abroad in re-
gard to Italy. If Ministers do they will hear of it
with the opening of the Session. The charge is,
indeed, a serious one, that they are allowing
again Russia and the Principalities to help
Austria ! We refer the reader to M. KOSSVTH's
interesting letter to the Glasgow meeting; and we
warn the country that it must be on the alert.
Our Court always leans to Austria, and all Cabinets
incline to their Courts. We also fear that, in
addition, even Lord JOHN RUSSELL, unlike his
country, cares more for Austria than for Hungary.

The Frost is suggestive of the State of the
Drainage. In reference to which latter subject
the Registrar-General's accounts have recently
shown how directly that affects the amount of the
annual mortality. If anything could have tended
to hearten the authorities at the Board of Health
and at the Board of Public Works to the develop-
ment of the Main Drainage scheme, it would have
been the record given by the Registrar-General
throughout the chief part of the expiring twelve-
month. That record was demonstrative of the
remarkable fact that the last spring, summer, and
autumn, the most humid seasons consecu-
cutively almost within any one's recollec-
tion, have constituted at the same time one
of the most salubrious years of which London holds
remembrance. This—not in spite of, but by reason
of, the extraordinary quantity of rain that has
fallen flooding the streets, flushing the sewers, and
thereby sweeping them clear of all their feculent
and pestilential contents. Nothing, we repeat, could
more distinctly have proved than this has done,
the direct manner in which the Drainage of a
great city affects the state of the health, affects the
extent of the mortality of its inhabitants. The
result of that prolonged rainy season beginning, as
far back as September, 1859, and ending only in
September, 1860—a steady and almost uninter-
rupted downpour of one whole twelvemonth, the
lengthened cataract of rain, rain, rain, very nearly
without any intermission. The result of that unusual
humidity has shown quite clearly, now for once and
for all, that by clearing out the shores of a great and
populous capital, the deaths numbered up among
its inhabitants are inevitably brought down very
much indeed below the average. It is no longer
matter of conjecture. It has become, in regard
to 1859-1860, in reference to London, matter of
absolute certainty. Given such and such a fall of
water to bear away the impurities of the metro-
polis from the subterranean channels through which
those impurities are ordinarily allowed to pass
sluggish on Iowa: 4s their destination, and you may
be quite sure that within that current season and
the season immediately following the mortality will
be found to have appreciably diminished. This
happy consequence of the heavy rains, the Regis-
trar-General has recently -computed through the
medium of his periodical statements. And it is a
consequence that has come upon us at the very tithe
that the destination of the contents of the slums
of London has still continued to be
the River Thames! The tide of that river
or open sescer of the metropolis twice every day,
carrying the filth poured into it up and down be-
tween bridges to the pollution of the water itself
and to the inevitable pollution, more or less, of the
whole atmosphere.
Let the outlet of our drainage system be
removed to a reasonable distance from the
capital, and the dimunition recently noted in
the amount of the annual mortality among its in-
habitants must inevitably under similar circum-
stances—that is to say with a recurrence of plen-
tiful and prolonged rains like those excessive rains
of the last year—be far more noticeable. Diminu-
tion upon diminution, in point of fact,
might be insured equally well by the diver-
gence of the' channels of the Main Drainage
from the river Thames itself, the great tidal river,
almost bisecting the twin cities of London and
Westminster—by the divergence of those channels
from the river away either to a sufficiently remote
part of our coastline or (after the deodorisation of
the sewage matter) far and away, for the purposes
of manuring, into the agricultural districts. Only
let the drainage of London be facilitated—only let
it be diverted from the tidal river—only let it be
carried away with sufficient rapidity and with suf-
ficient completeness either to the distant seashore,
there to be emptied as rrefuse into the
great deep, or (better still) to the agricultural dis-
tricts, there to apply the deodorised sewage matter

to the purposes of cultivation—and the already
diminished and diminishing mortality of the metro-
polis must be brought down to a still more remark-
able minimum.

Happily for the people of this vast metropolis
the simple truths here insisted upon have already
long since come to be recognised, not as they
were a few years back by an inconsiderable
minority, but by a very considerable majority of
the thinking part of the population. Nay, these
wholesome and most salutary truths are more
than merely recognised—they are being energe-

tically , acted upon to the general satisfac-
tion of the public, under the express autho-
risation of the Legislature, and through
the resolute labours of the active officials
working under her MAJESTY'S Government. The

Herculean task of cleansing more than an Augean

stable, of purifying a city ten miles in length,

seven miles in breadth, and peopled by 3,000,000

of inhabitants, this immense Herculean labour is no
longer being talked of, it has literally and posi-
tively been commenced. The excavations are
being made simultaneously in various parts of Lon-

don and Westminster. Larger and larger channels
of purification are worming their way under this
wilderness of dwelling-houses. Little by little,
inch by inch, gradually it will come in
the end to be mile by mile the main

Drainage Scheme resolved upon to be carried out by

,he Imperial Legislature, will have bored and moled

its way under the whole of the metropolis, until
London shall hayebeen undermined by the salubrious

network of one completely organised subterranean

labyrinth. The hastening of this admirable work
towards its conclusion ought to be among the most
cherished designs of every Administration in
this country holding the reins and entrusted with
the responsibilities of Government.

Professor Sterndale Bennett is busy upon a new
oratorio to be brought out at the Leeds Festival next year.
Mr. Bailey, curator of the Soane Museum, died
on the 17th inst. The appointment of a successor rests with
the Royal Academy.
The R0y2,1 Mail steamer Tasmanian left South-
ampton yesterday for St. Thomas. She will bring home
the West India mail due at Southampton on the 29th
proximo. She took out a mail for St. Thomas, and cargo,
but no passengers.
We are authorised to state that there is no truth
whatever in the very scandalous report which appeared in
the Manchester Guardian, and copied into several other
papers, of certain proceedings on board the yacht Sylphide,
at Naples, letters having been received from Captain
Grandy on the 23d inst., dated Dec. 11, at Naples, all well
on board at that date.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR NEW ZEALAND.--The
Bombay Government, in pursuance of instructions from
England, have chartered the Castilian, 1,064 tons, at £24
per head, and the Star Queen, 836 tons, at £l9 10s. per
head, for the conveyance of her Majesty's 57th Regiment
from Bombay to New Zealand.
THE CATTLE TRADE.—NORWICH, Dec. 22.—To-
day's market was only tolerably supplied with store cattle,
but the miserable state of the weather—snow falling at in-
tervals all day—caused a thin attendance of buyers, and
trade was extremely dull. Prices tended downwards, and
were ss. to 10s. per head below the quotations current three
weeks or a month since. Sheep, which were in small supply,
were also dull. Fat beasts and sheep made full rates.
THE RISCA COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—NEWPORT)
SATURDAY.—PubIic announcement has been made to-day
of a meeting in aid of the sufferers by the Risco. Colliery
explosion. The meeting will be presided over by the Right
lion. Lord Tredegar. The notification has been received
with general satisfaction, as a desire to subscribe had been
already manifested in many quarters.
SUICIDE OF A GAMBLER.--At Frankfort two
suicides were committed three days back from the same
cause—losses at play ; and in the same way—the discharge
of pistols at the head. One of the victims was Prince Von
proprietor of a large estate in the Grand Duchy of
Posen, who is said to have lost at Hamburg about 100,000
thalers (380,000 fr.) ; the other was a commercial traveller
named Mayer, who lost at Nassau 2,000. thalers (7,600 fr.),
belonging to his employer, a merchant of Lubeck.
The following particulars have been furnished
of the accident that occurred to the William Cory while
laying the submarine telegraph cable destined to connect
Toulon with Algiers. The shore end of the cable was safely
landed in the Bay of Sablettes on Friday, the 14th inst., and
the William Cory got under way in the afternoon about 3
o'clock. The following day, at noon, having run a distance
of 89 miles, she signalled the Gomer (a frigate appointed
by the French Government to attend upon her) to commu-
nicate for the purpose of exchanging observations. In
doing so the Gomer ran stem on into the William Cory,
striking her on the port side just abaft the main rigging,
and carrying away funnels, rnizenmast, steering wheel, and
paying out machinery. It being then impossible to pro-
ceed with the operation, the cable was buoyed in about
1,300 fathoms' water, and the Gomer towed the William
Cory into Toulon harbour. Up to the time the cable was
cut (after being buoyed) the communication between the
ship and the shore was perfect, and there is said to be every
hope that as soon as the 'William Cory is repaired the
operation will be successfully completed. The steam cor-
vette Caton has been despatched by the French Govern-
ment from Toulon to watch the buoy.
SHIPWRECK ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—RAMS.
GATE, Saturday.—During the sharp snow-squalls of yes-
terday, the wind blowing fresh from the north, a shocking
shipwreck took place on the Goodwin Sands. A Deal lug
ger, which has come in, reports that about noon yesterday
they were cruising near the North Sand Head, where they
observed a brigantine with painted ports (apparently laden)
go upon the Goodwin. The snow was falling heavily at the
time, and almost immediately after the ill-fated vessel
struck. She disappeared, and there is little doubt that
the whole of the unfortunate crew perished. The
state of the weather prevented any assistance being ren-
dered them, even if the destruction of the ship had not
been so rapid.

TILE HENLEY-HILL MURDER.—The inquest on
Martha Anne Greenway, who was murdered by her husband
a few days ago, was resumed on Saturday morning at Ease-
bourne Union Workhouse, near Midhurst, before Mr. R.
Blagden, coroner for the western division of Sussex. The
accased, William Greenway, was present in the custody of
the keeper of Petworth Gaol, and appeared much depressed.
"Witnesses were examined whose evidence corroborated the
account already given of the occurrence, and the jury, after
a brief consultation, returned a verdict of "Wilful Mur •
der" against William Greenway, who was committed to
Petworth Gaol, to take his trial at the next Sussex Aaaizoa.
SEMI. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS,—We under-
stand that Margaret Hannah, the young woman recently
sentenced to death at Edinburgh for the murder of her
infant, will not bo executed, and that her Majesty has been
pleased to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life.
No female kas been executed for an offence of this descrip-
, tion for several years. The sentence of death passed upon
Thomas Richardson at the last Lincoln Assizes for the mur-
der of a police-officer has been respited during her Majesty's
pleasure. It appears that the deceased officer was entirely
unknown to the prisoner, who could have borne him no ill-
will, and that the fatal shot was fired at the impulse of the
moment, probably without any intention of destroying life.
Mr. Henry Thring, conveyancer, of Lincoln's-Inn, who has
had considerable experience in preparing Government bills,
is appointed Parliamentary draughtsman to the Home-office,
in the room of Mr. Waller Coulson, Q.C., deceased. The
Rev. Hamilton Dicker is appointed chaplain to the British
Consulate at Dunkirk.
THE MURDER OF A FRENCH JUDGE.—The
Journal de la Haute-Saone publishes the following docu-
ments :—" A murder was committed on the night of the sth
December in one of the carriages of the Eastern Railway,
on the person of M. Poinsot, President of the Imperial Court
of Paris. The murderer carried off the following articles :-
1. A black and white travelling rug, of English manufacture;
2. A leather travelling bag, containing some books on gar-
dening, a work of Debreuil, and a knife with buck-horn
handle; 3. A gold watch, No. 2,638, by Souriau, Rue de la
Paix ; 4. A gold chain having a key attached, set with a
ruby, engraved with the letter P ; 5. A porte-monnaie, in
black morocco, with a steel clasp. The undersigned requests
all officers of justice to arrest any person having such articles
in his possession. Paris, Dec. 3, 1860. Cordoeu, Procureur
Imperial." The same journal gives the following description
of the murderer :—" Murderer of M. Poinsot—Charles Jud,
27 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches in height, brown hair, high
forehead, long and thin face, a scar above the left eyebrow,
some of his teeth broken; beard reddish brown, and, if
worn, not more than of ten days' growth. He has some
times gone by the name of Jud, and at others of Montalti
and Matricou. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
The undersigned requests all officers of justice to endea-
vour to arrest him.—Paris, 10th Dec., Cordoeu, Procureur
Imperial."
FATAL EXPLOSION.—Some additional particu

lars are now known of the fearful and destructive explosion
which occurred in Hetton Pit, in the Wear coalfield, on
Thursday night. The colliery where the sad calamity has
taken place belongs to Messrs. Archibald Cochrane and
partners, and is under the management of Mr. N. Woed, the
well-known north country viewer, and president of the
Northern Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. John Dag-
leish is the, resident viewer. The accident, the exactnature of
which has not been ascertained, occurred about 9 o'clock on
Thursday night, destroying, it is feared, 23 men and lads in
the pit, for that is the number unaccounted for. The ordinary
pitmen, about 200 in number, left their work about 6 in the
evening and came to bank, having completed theirday's work
and the men who went down about the time when they
came up, and were employed in the mine at the time of the
explosion, were stonemen—masons whose duty it was to
,repair the road or roller-way, and do other work of a similar
character in the pit. The very valuable stud of horses and
ponies employed in the pit have been destroyed by the firing
of the hay and straw in the stables near the shaft. The
Hetton Pit was reported to be one of the best ventilated in
the north of England. Through its down-cast shaft between
170,000 and 200,000 cubic feet of air is stated to pass to the
workings every minute. The pit is a very old one, and the
regulations appear to be of the strictest character. The
surgeon of the colliery, Mr. Edger, has been most diligent
in his attentions to those who have been rescued. The men
saved are 12 in number. Four bodies have been recovered,
and according to the last intelligence from the colliery either
18 or 19 men and lads are missing.

TERCENTENARY OF THE SCOTTISH REFORMA-
TION.—At its meeting in May last the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland appointed Divine service to take
place in all the churches and chapels on Thursday, the 20th
of Docembei, being the tercentenary of the first meeting of
the Assembly and the establishment of the Presbyterian
Church. The Free Church and United Presbyterian
Church also appointed the day to be observed as one of
thanksgiving for the blessings of the Reformation. The
celebration, though a Presbyterian rather than a national
one, received the sanction of theinagistrates of Edinburgh.
who recommended the suspension of business, but in Glas-
gow and various other towns the magistrates declined to
issue any such recommendation. In Edinburgh, n.itwith •
standing magisterial patronage, the atte'.idance at the
churches was extremely small, this bei!ag partly owing to
the fact that the law courts, banks; and public offices were
all open as usual, and at leP.St half the shops and work-
shops, and partly owing; to the very severe snowstorm.
Several of the church es held only one diet of worship
through the tbv, and others met only in the evening, and
various public meetings were held at night and speeclies
delivered on the events of 1660. On the whole the demon- .
stration may be pronounced a failure, having been felt by
the great majority of the people of Scotlandto be whollysuperfluouv, and only serving as an occasion to the
Popery" party.

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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
ROME, DEC. 21.
The posting up of the bills in favour of annexe
tion to Sardinia has not led to any arrests.
Crowds of people are reading the bills.

NAPLES, DEC. 21.
The insurrectionary bands have intrenched them
selves in the mountains.

It is said that a decree is in course of preparation
ordering an extraordinary levy of men between 18
and 65 years of age.

NAPLES, DEC. 21 (EVENTNG).
It is stated upon reliable authority that the French
fleet is about to quit its station off Gaets.
Great demoralisation prevails among the besieged

army.
The batteries planted on the heights of Tortola
reply to the fire of the city.
Naples is tranquil, and the state of things in the
provinces is satisfactory.
A reactionary conspiracy, organised at Rome, has
been discovered.
The city of Naples will give a grand ball to the
army.

A. great rise in the Neapolitan and Sardinian
funds has taken place here.

VIENNA, DEC. 21

The official TViener Zietunq of to-day publishes a
circular addressed by Baron von Schmerling to the
governors of the provinces, explaining the leading
principles of his policy. The Baron says :

" It is the mission of the Ministers of State to
carry out fully and effectively the resolutions and
intentions of the Emperor as expressed in the
Imperial Manifesto of the 20th of October.
As regards freedom of religious worship, it is
the will of the Emperor that political and civil rights
shall in this respect also be preserved against any
encroachment, and that the mutual relations of the
different confessions shall be established upon an
equitable footing, and upon the real love for one's
neighbour (Nachstenliebe).
" Public instruction will be promoted by every

possible means.
" The free development of the nationalities is

accorded.

" With respect to the public Press, every pre-
ventive interference is removed.

" The development of agriculture, commerce, and
industry will be pursued with redoubled energy on
the path hitherto followed.
"The communes will enjoy an independent exis•
tence.

"The administration of justice is to be separated
from the Governmental Administration.

" Publicity and the oral form of proceeding are
to be introduced into the civil and penal courts of
law.

" As regards the Pontifical Statutes, thCAlinistry
of State has been authorised to introduce into the
fundamental laws the principle of representation of
the different interests by means of direct elections,
and the extension of electoral rights and eligibility,
the right of initiative, and the publicity of debates.
" On the Council of the Empire, to whose pro-
vince belongs the general legislation—while the
Provincial Diets are only competent to legislate on
provincial questions—is therefore conferred the
right of originating projects of law and publicity
of debate.

" The Council of the Empire will be composed of
members unconditionally elected by the Provincial
Diets, and will besides receive additional member a.
"The provincial Governments of the minor
Crown lands, recently suppressed, are to be re-
established."

In conclusion, Baron Schmerling exhorts the
public functionaries to a conscientious discharge
of their duties, to the furtherance of the interests
of the inhabitants of their provinces, to a strict
observance of the laws, and to candour in their
official reports on the condition of the country.

ROME, DEC. 21

The Pope delivered an allocution in the -Con-
sistory held on the 17th inst. His Holiness spoke
of the persecution of the Christians in Syria and
China. He condemned the pamphletrof M. Cayla.
entitled Le Pope et l'Empereur, and announced
that the Grand Duke of Baden had violated the
Pontifical Concordat.

The Roman patriots have posted up on the walls
of Rome bills bearing the arms of King Victor
Emmanuel, and the words, " We desire annexation
to Sardinia.

DRESDEN, DEC. 22

The official Dresden Journal of to-day announces
that the King, after having suffered during six
days from a severe cold, was attacked en Friday by
measles.

BERNE, DEC. 23.

The sittings of the National Council and the
Council of the States were both closed yesterday
by their respective Presidents, who in their speeches
reviewed past events, and exhorted the members to

union.

Dr. Blumer, President of the Council of the States,
especially alluded to the internal differences which
had arisen in reference to the question of Savoy,
and warned the Press to avoid raising suspicions
against those who may entertain a different view
of things to their own.

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