The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN PERFIDY AN- D AItiRD.E`R.

There are some crimes' so -horrible ' and -undatural
that the bare report of them cannot force itself upon
human belief without strong confirmation. ' Stich a
one is the . assassination in. cold blood by • Au§trian
troops of the Roman Tribune, Angelo Briinettl; bet-
ter, knoFn as giceruacchia, tokether with , hisi two
sons, one of 19, the other of 13 years of age and
four other persons-. General than •whom a
more upright and, honourable .man has not .adorned
the modern annals of Italy,- is the author of this re-
port; and,. although we would fain..disbelieve-it, we
fear that upon such authority it must be received as
correct. If this should prove ;rue, this most horri-
ble abib,iniiinitous butchery will do wore. to assist the
cause of revolution--not the cause of. moderate 'and
temperate reform—in the Italian Peninsula than all
that Mazzini has been able to accomplish in a .quar-
ter of a century of agitation. This man, _Angelo
Brunetti, had in his time rendered gre,t service to
*the.P.ipal cause when it was in 'very serious danger.
He had been courted:and caressed by Pio Nono, and
if, at last, he abandoned the party, it was not until
it • had ' beeti abandoned by its chief. If `Britnetti at
length to* • the extreme popular • side -at Rowe, it
must not be forgotten that the Pope himself fairly
ran away in disgdise. Re bid g'rest' inailericetover
his fellow-townsmen, an-d this influeace'was usa,d on
the side of peace and order. That in common with
the population 'of Rome he endeaVbu're'd- to resist
the Invading armies of France is most - true=4-true
also, that he wished, ill tp the cause of Austrian despotism
in Italy. ' He was not, however, an Austrian subject.
He owed no allegiance to Ferdinand br' his successor.
What treason he 'nay have committed was committed
againsrt the Pope in his character of temporal Vince,
and was not certainly ti be • Av'enzed- by .A.ustrian: bul-
lets or. Austrian bayonets. All that .we know. as yet
trammel-11Sn" se -cuntailied in the
following`briefletter, addressed by General Garibaldi
to a Genoese journal :

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"Mr. Editor,—Since my retreat from Rome until
this day I flattered myself that I might find Ciceituac-
chin and, his sons iu some concealment in• the Apen-
nines ; but to-day the sad certainty reaches me that the
virtuous townsman of Rome wag shot at Contains,
near the mouth of the Po, by Austrian soldiers,!com-
'landed by an officer of .the Imperial family. The
pevons shot were seveu-.Ciceruacchio, two sons' (one
of 19, the other of 13 years), the young chaplain Rollie-
lino Stefano. Parodi Lorenzo, Captain in the Italian
Legion of Monte Video, and two other individuals
whose names I don't know.
"1 claim your favour to ask, in the name of soolety,
through the public press, an account of these indivi-
duals from the- authors of this misdeed, which certainly
is necessary in the interests of the lamilies of the de-
ceased, remembering at the same time that not one of
the Austrian prisoners of 'lnico or of the Romagna
was over shot. Observe also that Ciceruacchio, his
young son, and Romarine, although they accompanied
me in the retreat, never carried arms.

" \Yith respect, yours,
"Genoa, Aug. 6. "G-. GARIBALDI."
The infatnour pitons who directed this execution
seem to forget that so bloody a deed rouses against'thern
and
.the Uoveroment they represent tho sympathies
of Europe, just as the massacres of September in the
Abbaye during • the days of the first-French ..Revolotion
consigned the authors of them to the universal execration
of mankind. Who is to plead the canto of inm;who
violate every good feeling of litunsn. nature, and who
imbrue, their hands in innocent blood ? Who can do
more than deplore the reprisals with which those who
authOrised this bloody deed will one day sure'y be visited ?
Thu wonder is that the Government of any countryfpre-
tending to civilieation can coldescend to do such
shambles work for another. Why cannot the Pops be
left tp hang, decapitate, or destroy in priioa rebels to
his authority ? The Imperial foully of Austria are
literally poaching on their neighbour's manor for: the
b beer pastime of shedding blood. It is strlone indeed
that officers and men wearing the Austrmn uniform csn
be found willing to submit to such deep degradation,
It is i itelligible that they should shoot down tha dis-
armed l ungarians, or.knock the Viennese on the head
at the word of 'command ; but one would have sup-
posed that something like military etiquette, if, not
humanity, would have inspired them with, disgust
when called upon to be the `mere executioners for
a foreign Prince. Nor was the present case one be-
tween combatants in which it was possible, that a
soldier's rough logic might go 'astray. This RO-rnan
Tribune was not a soldier, nor was the chaplain a " fight-
ing man," nor the little boy who was so foully murdered.
It is difficult to find any mail in our own day in Eng-
land to Whoin Cic.irnacchio could be rightly compared.
Henry Hunt, perhaps, cr Williaus Cobbett, ac, iectpcer
and detnagoguo, not as writer, may perhaps serve as an
illustration, although, in point of morality, if not of
ahilit this unfortunate Roman was better than either of
our Euglish demagogues'. Cit.eruacchio was a man of
far milder. and more Persuasive character than either
Hunt or Cobbett, and had attained immense influence
over his townsmen by far less questionable means than
thoy at times einployed in the pursuit of their political
objects, Even had .he remained in Rome when the-city
fell into the hands of the French, it would have been as
itnpolitie as it would have been unjust to have 'con-
demned him to death for that which, after all, was but
opposition to a foreign foe. We are living,in a happier
land; and neither directly nor in their consequences can
such acts affect us, but, were we responsibly mixed up
with the direction of public affairs in most countries in
Continental Europe, we could not at the present moment
divest ourselves of an uneasy feeling of coining retribu-
tion. This massacre of Ciceruacelsio, of his young cti 1-
drein and of his friends, will help to swell the bloody
debit, of which payment will one day sorely be exaet...d
to the last item in the foul account.— Timm.

THE MEDITERRANEAN SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH --The
Mediterranean Electric Telegraphic Company has con,.
municated the following :—By a despatch received
'from
Mr. Brett, and dated Saturday, Aug. 16, near the, Isle
of Galita, on the Algerian coast, he sends intelligence of
his arrival with the cable and communication in excel-
lent condition, after having successfully pasted depths of
00') metres. Between this point and Bona the water is
only 150 fathoms deep. The currents and fogs Com-
pelled the vsssel to go out of her course, and instead of
reaching Calita at 8 o'clock in the morning, She did not
arrive till 6 o'clock in the evening.. M. Delatnarche and
the commandant of the Tartar. have gone to Bonn to
procure materials for fastening. the cable on the Isle of
G.4'ita a.n i a •
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frog! Mr. White, of Cowley, near Oxford, informing
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~--:.• many persons as possible, even .%•*,ado bk. -Ott' differences of interpretation of dectrPie. APtis *As
the very basis of the Gorham judgment. It was
I never pretended that Mr. Gerhatn's views were in
accordance with the Articles. It was simply con-
tended that they were not, Contrary to them, and
the reason why he was alloWed to be inducted into
his living was that the latitude allowed by the
Articles did not exclude him. We need not
remind the reader how much Churchmen were
shocked by * that judgment. It was—not,
indeed, an ecclesiastical judgment, but it was
the judgment of a secular tribunal upon an ecclesi-
astical question, and exhibited the lax view which
the State was disposed to take of the doctrines and
authority of the Church. But one consoling thought
remained—if the Articles were of such latitudinarian
signification, at least high Churchmen might have
the benefit of the latitude as well as Low. But here
is a Case in wh lob .the very Archbishop who, in the
Gorham case,;subscribed to the judgment that a cer-
tain latitude of interpretation was permitted by the
Articles, proceeds upon au entirely opposite princi-
ple, and narrows -down the interpretation of the
Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Articles within
limits which, however clear to his Grace's judg-
ment, now clashes altogether with what he so-
lemnly assented to as an assessor in a great juaicial
tribunal 6 years ego. Without going into the ques-
tion of the exact orthodoxy of the sermons in dis-
pute, it is beyond doubt that the Archdeacon has
fortified his position by a long catena of authorities
of the highest; repute in the ChurCh. The very cir-
cumstance that Bishop Overall, Bishop Bull, Bishop
Taylor, Archbishop Tillotson, Archbishop Wake,
Bishop eosin, Bishopßidley, Archbishop Bramhall,
and Bishop Bsveridge held and taught similar views
and were not censured, is evidence of the liberty
accorded within the Church, which, in our humble
judgment, ought to have shielded the Archdeacon,
especially when the very Primate who was his judge
did, in the year 1850, treat a .similar case in Ihese
words :—" We express ne opinion on the theological
soeuracy of thesompinions, (i.e., certain ecclesiasti-
nai.wribers).. The writers whom we have cited are
not always consistent with themselves,. nor are
the reasons on which they found their positions
always valid ; and. other writers of great .emi-
'i'enee, and yr.rthy of,. great reSiseVtrh-itiis ex-
pressed very different opinions. -•But- the mere fact
that sw:h opinions have been propounded and main-
tained by persons so eminent and so. mu4i re-
spected, as well as T)y very many others, appears to
us sufficient t I prove that the liberty which was
left by the Articles and Formularies hastbeen actu-
ally enjoyed and exercised by the members and
ministry of the Church of England.'' Such was the
basis of the Gorham judgment.- in 1850:;* the case
of ArchdeaconDenison in 1856 ought to .filave been
dealt with by .the same process.. A far greater
array of authorities may be marshalled in favour
Of Archdeacon Denison's proposition than in .f.,vour
of Mr. Gorham's ; and if the latter were all Owed
.to be inductpd.iuto . a living because. there were
conflicting interpretations in • respect. of the ' one
Sacrament, we do not see why Archdeacon Deni-
son is to be deprived because. he has.- espoused a
'particular' Fide in respect of the other.-.-...lilopeing
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