The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Semaphore of Marseilles says :—" General
Ulloa, Minister of War to Francis IL, the Duke de
Villanova, and a detachment of 50 Swiss for the
Pontifical army, has just left this port by the
steamer Vatican, for Civita Vecchia."

The Opinione of Turin, in what appears to be a
semi-official article, distinctly confirms the truth of
the statement that Garibaldi had demanded to be
appointed Lieutenant-General of the kingdom of
the Two Sicilies for one year, with unlimited
powers ; and adds that, if his request has been re-
fused, it is only because it would have been uncon-
stitutional to grant it. On the same subject, the
Nationalites says : " Garibaldi's demand is easily
explained ; he has but one object in view, and
he wanted to reserve to himself the means of
attaining ft, But a constitutional ministry
could never consent to see a state formed within
the State, and one-half of the kingdom removed
from under their power. We are not flatteras,
but we sincerely believe that as regards Garibaldi,
the Ministry have done what they could, and that
it was impossible for them to gci any further.
The Nationalites of Turin, alluding to the story
of Garibaldi's having found great embeflishments at
Caprera ; as also to another, to the effect that, in-
stead of such a compliment, the gallant general
had found a distress levied on his furniture by the
tax gatherer, contradicts them both in the most
positive terms.
A letter from Turin of the 19th says :—" I have
this day seen a person who has arrived from
Gaeta via Rome—a journey which for some time
past has been rarely taken. This traveller is a
simple contractor, sent by the Government of
Francis IL to different places to purchase for Gaeta
provisions of all kinds, and even wheat. He tells
me that it was impossible to buy anything at Civita
Vecchia, all articles having doubled in price in the
territory which still remains to the Pope. The
town of Gaeta, he says, is full of soldiers ; 2,000
men are lodged in barracks, and 3,000 with the
inhabitants. What has been said about the garri-
son having been doubled by the arrival of bodies
of troops, is quite inexact. The same person con-
firms the news brought by telegraph ; that is to
say, that great confusion prevails at Gaeta, and that
defections are numerous. Above all, discord pre-
vails among the chiefs, and insubordination among
the soldiers; the extra duty of removing stores,clean-
ing out barracks, &c., imposed on the latter, is very
generally refused; and, among other things, the
men would not carry a quantity of projectiles to the
batteries, and yet the latter have so little ammuni-
tion that they cannot fire long in case of an attack.
The King scarcely ever goes out, and it is only at
rare intervals that members of the Royal family,
who are clothed in black, were to be seen in the
garden of his residence."
Another from Turin of the same date, in the
Constitutionnel says :—" M. Matthieu and M.
Daziani, Governors, the former of Cagliari and the
latter of Sassari, in the island of Sardinia, have just
arrived in this capital, accompanied by a deputation
of the councillors-general of those two provinces,
who demand that they may have the same advan-
tages on the continent a 3 regards railways and
other means of communication. It cannot be denied
that the island of Sardinia, notwithstanding its
riches, has been hitherto much overlooked. The
Minister of public Works has already received
those deputations, and has promised soon to occupy
himself with satisfying their demands, but he at
the same time explained to them that they had
chosen a very bad time to ask for a railway. From
10,000 to 12,000 men have just been embarked for
Sicily in the different parts of the Italian penin-
sula. The King will proceed to Palermo when the
island shall have been occupied. When all the
Piedmontese troops have reached Sicily the garri •
son of the citadel of Messina will be, for the last
time, summoned to surrender, and in case of refusal
hostilities will recommence. M. Mordini is to re-
tain the prodictatorship until the arrival of the
King, which will not take place until the 25th
or 26th."

THE FRENCH MAILS.—Mr. Blake, M.P. for
Waterford, Dr. Gray, one of the directors of the Royal
Atlantic Steam-boat Company (Galway line), and Mr.
',oyster O'Beirne, secretary to the company, have been here
for some time negotiating for the conveyance of the French
mails by the above route, as well as for that of telegraphic
intelligence to and from America, via St. John's. In the
event of Government granting a subsidy, it is intended
that a weekly service shall be substituted for the present
fortnightly one. Interviews have been bad on the
subjeei with Prince Napoleon, who is favourable to the
project, and on Sunday last Dr. Gray and Mr. O'Beirne
had an audience of the Emperor at St. Cloud, for the
purpose of giving all necessary information, and his
Majesty is said to be also favourable. There are still
some difficulties with reference, I believe, to other
companies, but it is expected they will be removed.
As it was deemed desirable to have resolutions from the
Chambers of Commerce of the leading commercial cities
Prof
France in favour of the Government countenancing. the pro-
posal, applications were made to Paris, Marseilles, Bor-
deaux, Havre, and NL.rites. The last three have answered
favourably; the Paris Chamber of Commerce meets to-day
to consider the subject; and the resolution from Marseilles
is expected in a few days. I understand that the duty of
communicating with the mercantile bodies devolved on the
member for Waterford, who, I hear, reports very favour-
ably of the results of his efforts.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 23.

The Unit,..d States' steamer Fulton, Captain
IVolton, with dates from New York of the 10th
inst., has arrived. She brings 90 passengers and
40,500 dols. in specie for England.

The secession excitement in the South continues
to gain strength. The most painful apprehensions
as to tho future prevailed, especially in Virginia
and Washington.
The citizens in Charleston assembled in mass
meetings and adopted resolutions demanding im-
mediate secession.

In Washington most serious apprehensions pre-
vailed. The Cabinet meet in council to deliberate
upon the condition of affairs.
The secession movement in South Carolina is
rapidly gaining strength.
}lavannah advices are to the sth inst. The
sugar market was unchanged. Freights dull. Ex-
change on London, 13 to 131 per cent.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 23.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Vigo, Captain McGuigan, from
New York on the 10th inst., has arrived. She
brings 117 passengers, but no specie. The Ameri-
can ship China, from Mobile to Liverpool, with
cotton, had been burnt at sea. The crew were
saved.

TIIE JESUITS AND VICTOR EMIII4.I47UEL

The Superior of the Jesuits has addressed the
following protest to the King of Sardinia :
" Sire,—The Superior-General of the Company
of Jesus approaches respectfully the foot of the
throne of your Majesty to obtain justice and repa-
ration fo: the grave wrongs bis order has recently
suffered in Italy, and, if his demands are vain, at
least publicly to protest against such acts of in-
justice.
" After the first agitations in Italy which took
place at the end of 1847 and at the commencement
of 1848, all the establishments and colleges pos-
sessed by the Company of Jesus in the Sardinian
States, whether in the Island of Sardinia or on the
mainland, were suppressed, its goods confiscated,
its members ignominiously dispersed.
" To give an appearance of legality to those acts
of injustice, a decree was published, posterior to that
which suppressed the said company, which confis-
cated its property, and imposed sundry gratuitously
vexatious obligations upon its members.
" That decree was issued without the knowledge
of your august father, Charles Albert, and even
contrary to his intentions; for during the whole of
his reign that King showed himself favourable to
our order, and when the storm burst he exhorted
the fathers to remain firm; perceiving the fears of
some of them, he complained to the superiors that
they did not place sufficient confidence in his word
and intention to protect them. Although the de-
cree could not have a retro-active effect, it has been,
nevertheless, invoked to legitimise the act of our
spoliation—it has been maintained and put in full
force by the Government which, since then, presides
over the destinies of the kingdoms.
" Dating from the war of Italy, which took place
last year, up to the present moment, the company
has lost in Lombardy three establishments and col-
leges, six in the Duchy of Modena, 11 in the Papal
States, 19 in the kingdom of Naples, and 15 in
Sicily. Everywhere the company has been lite-
rally stripped of all its property, personal or landed.
Its members, to the number of about 1,500, have
been turned out of 'their establishments in the
towns ; they have been led by armed force like
malefactors from country to country, thrown into
the public prisons, and grossly maltreated ; they
have even been prevented seeking an asylum in the
bosom of some pious family, and in many localities
neither their age nor infirmities have been re-
spected.
" All these acts have been committed without
anything culpable in the eye of the law having been
brought against the victims, without judicial form ;
the proceeding was most savage and despotic.
" Had such acts been done in a popular rising by
an ignorant and furious populace, perhaps we
should be able to put up with them in silence ; but
as an attempt has been made to legitimatize them
by the Sardinian law; as the Provisional Govern•
ments established in the States of Modena and of
the Church, as the Dictator of the Two Sicilies
himself have supported them on the authority of
the Sardinian Government; as, finally, to give
strength to these iniquitous decrees and sanction
their execution, the name of your Majesty has been
and still is invoked, I can no longer remain a silent
spectator of so great an act of injustice, and in my
position as supreme Head of the Order I feel myself
rigorously bound to demand justice and satisfaction,
and to protest before God and before man, so that
religious resignation and meekness may not appear
to have degenerated into a weakness which might
be taken as a confession of culpability or as an
abandonment of our rights.
" I therefore protest solemnly, in the form which
I think best, against the suppression of our esta-
blishments and colleges, against the proscriptions,
banishments, imprisonments, violence, and insults
inflicted upon my brethren in religion.
" I protest, before all Catholics, in the name of
the rights of the Holy Church, sacrilegiously vio-
lated.

"I protest in the name of the benefactors and
founders of our establishments and colleges, whose
wishes and express intentions in founding those
pious works in the interest of the dead and of the
living are thus deprived of effect.
" I protest in the name of the right of property
discarded and trodden under foot by brute force.
"I protest in the name of the right of citizen
and inviolability of person, neither of which can
be despoiled without accusation, trial, and sentence.
" I protest in the name of the rights of humanity,
so scandalously outraged in the persons of so many
feeble old men turned out of their quiet asylum,
deprived of all support, thrown into the public
highway without the means of existence.
If, unhappily, I can give no other aid to my
brethren, they will see, at least, by this step that
their common father is not indifferent to their sad
position.
"I address this protest to your Majesty's con-
science. I place it upon the tomb of Charles Em-
manuel IV., illustrious predecessor of your Ma-
ljesty, who 45 years ago voluntarily left the throne
now occupied by your Majesty, came to live and
die with us, dressed in the clothes and bound by
the oaths of the Company of Jesus, and professing
in our novitiate at Rome, where his blessed ashes
now repose, that mode of life which the Govern-
ment of your Majesty has persecuted with fierce
calumny and hatred.
" The remembrance of benefits constantly con-
ferred in past times by the illustrious House of
Savoy on the Company of Jesus, and the sublime
character with which your Majesty is invested,
give me hope that my supplications and protesta-
tions will not be unavailing.
" But if the voice of so many rights trodden
under foot should not be listened to by earthly tri-
bunals, I will then appeal to that supreme and ter-
rible tribunal of a holy, just, and all-powerful God,
before whom oppressed innocence will infallibly be
re-established by the Eternal Judge, the King of
Kings, the Lord of Lords. It is in the hands of
that God that I place our whole cause, and, fully
reassured as regards ourselves, I supplicate Him to
inspire your Majesty, and the men who advise
you, with sentiments of justice and equity towards
so many innocent men, my unjustly persecuted and
oppressed children.
" Moreover, under all circumstances my brethren
and myself will console ourselves in having been
found worthy to suffer for Christ's sake, with the
satisfaction of our consciences of not having given
any ground for this revival of ancient hatred, 'un-
less it is to have preached the Cross of Jesus
Christ, respect and obedience to, the Holy Church
and to.its Head the Sovereign 1 ontiff, submission
and fidelity to Princes and to all authorities esta-
blished by God.--I remain your Majesty's most
humble servant,
1, PIERRE BECEZ, Superior-General of the
Company of Jesus.
" Rome, October 24, 1860."

THE BANNS OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE.—Under
the arrangement described between the Bank of England
and the Bank of France, the Bank of England are to have
full power to deal with the £2,000,000 of silver either by
sale or otherwise, as they may deem fit. in fact, it is an
absolute purchase from the Bank of France at a specific
price, although the Bank of France will be allowed to take
it back on the same terms. should tiny desire to do so.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma were admitted members of the College at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 15th inst., viz. :
Messrs. Charles Walls Boothby, Spilshy ; Thomas Savage,
-Wolverhampton; Samuel Lloyd, Smethwick, near Bir-
mingham ; William Pitt, Willenhall ; George Valentine
Theodore Manly, Free Town, Sierra Leone; Henry Gooa-
all, Madras ; Edward Parker Young, Delamere-crescent;
Richard Henry Milson, London ; Felix William Isher-
wood, Clitheroe, Lancashire; William Henry O'Toole,
Dublin ; Edward Julian Sharood, Brighton ; George Ed-
mund Young, Mechlin ; Branthwayte Beevor Ford, Long-
ton, Staardshire ; Frank Harvey Browne, Stowe Maries ;
Alfred Frederick Stafford Clarke, Gordon-square ; George
Augustus Hicks, Torquay, Devon ; John Sampson Levis,
Skibbereen; Henry J.,seph Altmann, Islington ; John
March, Hounslow; Edward Buller Hicks, Grecnhithe ;
Theodore Orton, Littlebourne ; and William I/onside,
Kenhothmont, North Britain.