The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-20 00:00:00

THE PAPAL STATES.

ROME, MAT 13.
The news of the day is that the ex-King of Naples
announced last night to Cardinal Antonelli his intention

of leaving Rome for several months' absence in Germany
and Switzerland. His Majesty has never left Rome save
to go as far as Albano since the fall of Gaeta, and the
change of purpose has made a great sensation. The
Carlinal desired him to reflect very seriously before
leaving, as the affair was a very grave one. The Prince
replied that he had perfectly decided on the course
he meant to adopt. His Eminence probably alluded
to the difficulties of returning, which will pro-
bably be raised by the Emperor Napoleon at
the instance of the Court of Florence. It is, however,
his Majesty's intention to return to the Council, and he
will spend the summer at Munich, Vienna, Frohsdorff
(the chateau of the Comte de Chambord), and, with his
sister, the Duchess of Parma, near St. Gall. The Queen's
health imperatively requires absence from Rome during
the hot season, and the use of mineral waters. It is also sur-
mised that the ex-King is not sorry to break up the Court
of the Farnese, with which known spies of the French
police and the Italian revolution had contrived to
obtain an understanding, so much so that very recently
the Prince's private papers were stolen from his desk and
sold to the Italian Cabinet. A temporary absence is the
best means of breaking up the establishment; but there is,
on the other hand, a certain amount of discouragement at
such a step manifested by the Neapolitan emigration. My
own opinion is, that King Francis does very wisely, as his
partisans of weight are not those who form his Court here,
but those who remain on their estates in the Two Sicilies.
It is to these the King must look for support, and not to
the needy courtiers of the Farnese, whose jealousies
and treasons have been of vital injury to him, and who
have done all they could to disgust his most devoted
adherents, the French royalist noblesse.
Some details of the disastrous collision in the Mediter-
ranean have arrived, and the survivors of the catastophe,
thirty-nine in all, have arrived in Rome from Leg-
horn. The Abattucci was run down by a heavy
Norwegian brig just before daylight, and while all her
passengers were below decks. The crew deserted their
captain and made off with the boats, leaving him and his
passengers to their fate. The Norwegian brutally
refused assistance, and made off, as she was
herself slightly injured in the concussion. The cap-
tain, with the aid of one of the Legiouaires—an ex-sailor--
took the wreck in hand, getting up steam and going in
chase of the brig, hoping her captain would relent. The
Abattucci plunged, as best she might, with a broken
waist, through a heavy sea for two hours, the soldiers and
passengers in many case jumping overboard and trying to
reach the shore by swimming, an'attempt in which most
of them, and all the women, perished. The packet at
lengl h foundered, and thirty-nine of her survivors were
Leg-
horn. (Donoghue and C7.<7.11iy, Zouavo rpnrnitS, are
picked up by the Norwegian and brought into Leg-
among the fifty-nine drowned, as are the Papal Consul at
Marseilles, Signor Ferraris and his wife and family, a French
colonel returning to his regiment at Civita Vecchia, and
most of the military. The captain's courage and heroic
self-forgetfulness were admirable when deserted by his
cowardly Genoese crew.
A consistory will be held in June, and another in Sep.
tember. At the latter, Mgr. Chigi and Mgr. Falcinelli,
Nuncios in Paris and Vienna, will probably be raised to
the purple.
The Pope went on Monday to Castel Gandolfo, and was
admirably received. He walked down the Corso yester-
day, and looked remarkably well and strong, walking
entered with the greatest firmness and rapidity. The crisis of the
Italian Government seems to give the King very little
concern. Victor Emmanuel has left Florence for Val-
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The King and Queen of Naples leave this day week,
Thursday, vi 4 Marseilles and Lyons, by Geneva and
Zurich, for St. Gall.

THE ALABAMA DIFFICULTY.

(From. the Anglo-American Vass)
Numerous letters have appeared in the English
papers on the relations between England and Ame-
rica. The Ilev.iNewman Hall wrote to the Star to
give his opinion on Senator Stunner's Speech, as he
had heard that Americans in London much de-
sired to learn it. Mr. Newman llall is a thorough
New Englander, although an Englishman ; a
man after Senator Sumner's heart, and, to a cer-
tain extent, endorses what his model says, which
he asserts to be but a repetition of a more exciting,
and even more explicit speech delivered in 1863,
when the cruisers were carrying on their ravages.
Mr. W. S. Lindsay denies, in the same paper, that
say leading men, or party, or any other person