The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

It will enable her to consolidate her liberties, and
settle her form of government, without the neces-
sity of listening to transalpine counsels and orders.
It will also have the advantage of becoming a bond

of national union.
Together with these gratifying particulars of the
military success of the Piedmentese movement into
the States:of the Church, we receive also the
particulars of the much less important pa-
per war between Count CA yowl. and Cardinal
ANTONELLI. The Countis of course the aggressor.
He describes in language truthful enough the
character of the POPE'S mercenaries, and adverts
to the effect of the " recollection of the massacre
and pillage of Perugia" on the minds of the in-
habitants, and the insult which the very presence
of foreign troops is to the inhabitants; and,
having remarked on the intimate connection of
the KING'S dominions with Umbria and the
Marches,without furher ceremo, adds that "King
VICTOR EMMANUEL'ts conscience does not permit
him to remain a passive spectator of the bloody
repression with which the arms of the foreign
mercenaries would extinguish every manifesta-
tion of national feeling in Italian blood. No
Government has the right of abandoning to the will
and pleasure of a horde of soldiers of fortune the
property, the honour, and lives of the inhabitants
of a civilised country." The practical determina-
tion of the KING is conveyed in the following
pretty plain terms :—" The KING'S troops are
charged to prevent, in the name of the rights of
humanity, the Pontifical mercenary corps from re-
pressing by violence the expression of the senti-
ments of the people of the Marches and Um-
bria. I have, moreover, the honour to in-
vite your Excellency, for the reasons above ex-
plained, to give immediate orders for the disbanding
and dissolving of those corps, the existence
of which is a menace to the peace of Italy."
No CARDINAL could be wanting in the skill to an-
swer a layman ; especially, when the latter has
little to say which the diplomatic usages of Courts
would justify, and must rely on the principles of
justice and humanity merely. The CARDINAL
could write with truth of his opponents " new prin-
ciples of public law," and:appeal to the practice of
other Governments for the employment of foreign
troops. Cardinals, however, can be too ingenious
sometimes. Thus the astute ANTONELLI says—
"ln fact, many Governments of Europe have
foreign troops in their pay. On that subject it
may be expedient to observe that, owing to the
character with which the Sovereign PONTIFF is
invested as the common father of all believers,
he ought to be less subject to criticism than any other
for receiving in the ranks of his troops all who
come and offer themselves from the various parts
of the Catholic world, for the defence of the Holy
See, and of the States of the Church." Now it is
obvious to reply—these wretches, whom you call
troops, offering themselves for the " defence" of
the Holy See, are not hired to defend it in the
usual sense of the word. No foreign force menaces
the Holy See ; on the contrary, one defends it—
these mercenaries are hired solely to enable a
number of ecclesiastics to oppress their fellow-
citizens, and to keep down all civil freedom
by the terrors of massacre, pillage, and vio-
lation of women. We do not know whether
it be any symptom of shame before the
execrations of all Europe, that the brutalities
of :the Perugian massacre, all planned by AN-
TONELLI himself—are thrown upon those who
prompted the liberal movement they were in-
tended to repress. We can only say that this jus-
tification places ANTONELLI in a blacker light
than ever. What a fiend, in the garb of a Minister
of Christ too, must a man be, who could call what
was done at Perugia the " legitimate action of the
troops of the lioly See." If indeed it be sn, then
assuredly the sooner such a Holy See be swept
into eternal perdition the better. If such deeds be
Holiness, Europe may well ask what then is
Devilry Y? The world may well be thankful that
VICTOR EMMANUEL has brushed away formalities,
and commenced a course of practical instruction to
the _Holy See, on the Christian duties of humanity
and mercy.

Since the above was written we have received
further news all in the right direction. The Army !
—say rather the combined Ruffians of Lormu-
CIERE, are dissolved, and, like the baseless fabric
of a vision, leave only a wreck behind. The
General has only been able to escape into Ancona,
there to save his life, with but a few followers, by
the fleetness of their horses, and by a stolen path !
What a contrast between the yesterday and to-
day Thus may the Impious perish ! Ancona cannot
long be a place of rest or even refuge to the forlorn
outcasts—it is besieged, and must soon surrender.
We refer to Mr. REUTER'S Telegrams for the very
latest news.

A ludicrous incident has but very recently served
to illustrate afresh at Constantinople, the extraor-
dinary anomaly characterising the position occu-
pied by Turkey among the European Governments.
The Sultan-Caliph ABD-UL-MEDJID is' suddenly
seized with a panic, lest England should have re-
solved upon his assassination and dethronement
through the agency of her Ambassador ! His Ex-
cellency, Sir HENRY LYTTON BULWER, is proceed-
ing one fine evening over the glowing waters of
the Golden Horn, in his cailue, on his way to
Therapia. Somewhere off Dolma Bakschi his rowers
bring him abreast of a steam yacht, immediately
(but, as it happened, erroneously) presumed by Sir
HENRY to be that of his Highness IL HAMI
PACIIA, with whom his Excellency, our Am-
bassador, had previously arranged to make a brief
excursion together a few days afterwards in the Sea
of Marmora. As accident would have it, however,
the steam yacht in question chances to be that of
his Highness Aziz EFFENDI, the brother of the
SULTAN, ABD-UL-MEDJID. So that when his Ex-
cellency, Sir H. L. BULWER—acting altogether
under a misapprehension as to the ownership of the
vessel he is approaching—draws near to the yacht
anchored off Dolma Bakschi, and (finding, in an-
swer to his inquiries, that her captain is not on
board) promises to return next morning on his way
back from Therapia—intelligence of this mysteri-
ous incident is forthwith conveyed to his Majesty?
the SULTAN-CALIPH, and conjectures are at once
afloat as to its sinister significance!
As a matter of course the British ambassador—
directly his Excellency has learnt the odious and
alarming construction put upon his purely acciden-
tal movement, in thus hailing the steam yacht of
Azrz EFFENDI, mistaking it for the steam yacht of
IL HAUL PACIIA —as a matter of course, we say,
Sir HENRY LYTTON BULWER at once disabuses the
agitated mind of the SULTAN from any further
misapprehension of an occurrence so wholly and
purely fortuitous. The explanation is simple enough
--the rig of the two vessels bore, the one to the
other, we are told, a singular close resemblance.
Hence the blunder of the ambassador. Hence the
misconstruction put upon that blunder—in itself,
of course, to us, Western Europeans, sufficiently
trivial to be allowed to pass by without
a moment's observation—but viewed through
the' jealous eyes of orientals fraught with the
portents of a half-covert malignity. " How