The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

His
Holiness celebrates Mass twice a week in
behalf of Rome and of the other cities in his
States which are visited by the epidemic. All, priests recite at Mass the prayer pro tempore pes-
tilentia. In the name of his Holiness, the Cardinal-
Vicar has enjoined certain religious communities to
beseech of the Almighty, by fervent novenas, the
cessation of the dreadful plague. The Blessed
Sacrament is exposed in the principal churches,
particularly at St. Roch and at St. Sebastian.
A police ordinance, published by formal order
from the Pope, prohibits all assemblages from two
to nine o'clock in the vine-yards where wine and
eatables are sold in the environs of Rome, as well
as in the public-houses of the city. Moreover,
severer penalties than in former times are ordained
against all persons introducing fruits reputed un-
healthy.
The journal Osservatore Romano has instituted a
collection in behalf of the families afflicted by the
cholera. This has already produced fifteen thou-
sand francs.
His Holiness sets no limits to his generosity, for
his Eminence the Cardinal-Vicar has received the
power of expending in his name, and charging to
his account, all such sums as may be needed by
the sanitary condition of Rome.
A solemn funeral service was yesterday cele-
brated in the Church of the Holy Apostles for the
repose of the soul of the Princess Colonna, born at
Alvarez di Toledo, wife of the head of the illustri-
ous family Colonna, whose history is so closely
connected with that of the Papacy.
The testamentary dispositions of the Queen
Dowager of Naples, and of Cardinal Altieri, are
now known.
The Queen prescribes that her body should be
transferred as soon as possible to the burial-place
of the Bourbons. She leaves her fortune to her
eight children, to be divided among them, share
and share alike.

The cardinal expresses the desire that his
mortal remains should be buried at Rome, in the
church of Santa Maria, in Portici, or in Campitelli,
where repose many members of the celebrated
Alfieri family. He remits to the Prince, his
brother, all the arrears of the annual pension to
which the younger sons of the patrician family are
entitled at Rome. Moreover, he founds ten chap-
lainries ; he bequeaths to each of his domestics a
life-pension equal to his wages, and leaves the re-
mainder to the hospitals, and to the hospice for the
cholera orphans. By a codicil, his library is
annexed to the seminary of the Roman diocese.
A vigorous protest against the law of confisca-
tion in regard to the property of the Italian Church
is shortly expected from the Pope.
Pius IX., with an unalterable serenity, is taking
measures for the convocation of the General Coun-
cil. He has named a preparatory Commission,
such as was instituted for the Council of Trent.
It is composed of seven cardinals and fifteen con-
sultors, men well conversant with the religious in-
terests of the East, as well as of the West.

Nothing more is heard of the Abbe Passaglia
or of his retractation.

Father Carnelli is still in prison at Santa Maria
delle Grazic. He has not yet been tried.
The day before yesterday, we were put for a mo-
ment on the qui vive. Garibaldi, with three of his
generals, was within a gunshot from the frontier,
on the side of Radicofani. But nowhere were
bands of volunteers in red shirts to be seen.
The province of Viterbo, the most turbulent in
the Pontifical State, is tranquil. The Government,
without making any show, is taking sound precau-
tionary measures.
The Pope has just sent 2,000 francs to the sick
in the province of Frosinone.

A TYPE-WRITING MACIIINE.—A Machine has
been invented by a Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, by which, it is
assumed, a man can print his thoughts twice as fast as he
can write them, and with the legibility of a printed page.
The alphabet, with figures, &c., is formed in a solid stereo-
type plate, with the bodies of all the letters uniform in
size. Ho prints a letter by the blow of a minute hammer,
of a size uniform with the size of the type body—strik-
ing the face of the letter, with a shoot of carbonised
paper, and that on which he would print interven-
ing. Each letter, as wanted, is moved into posi-
tion under the hammer by compound levers, actuated
by keys, like those of a piano. The subject of type
writing is an interesting one, and may be one of the ac-
complishments of the future; but it is hardly a thing that
can spring fully developed into existence at one effort.
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so as to preserve untarnished the mark which Christ
has set upon His Church—unity of faith ! West-
minster Gazette.

The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 29, says :
The violence of the scourge diminishes at
Albano. Since my last letter, dated the 22d inst.,
the number of deaths from cholera in that town
has never exceeded the average of twelve a-day.
It is true that out of six thousand inhabitants,
which it contained, it now comprises scarcely more
than two thousand, the rest having fled or been
carried off by death. Since the sixth of August,
when the cholera made its first appearance, that
unfortunate town has witnessed not fewer than
eighteen hundred deaths.
His Eminence Cardinal Sacconi, formerly Nuncio
at Paris, has of his own accord taken the place of
Cardinal Altieri in the episcopal charge of
Albano. From the sedulous concern he displays
in everything relating to the spiritual welfare of
the population, all feel convinced that if circum-
stances should require it, he would exhibit the
same self-devotion as his predecessor. There are
still about one hundred and fifty persons sick or
convalescent, lying for the most part in a lazaretto,
hastily got up. His Eminence finds the most zeal-
ous co-operators in the secular and regular clergy.
The Jesuits of Galloro, the Capuchins of Castel-
Gondolfo, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood of
Albano, have especially distinguished themselves
by their self-devotedness.
Mgr. Appolloni wishes to remain up to the last
moment at his post. We have already informed
you that, in the very first days, the malady or
terror had utterly dissolved the municipality of
Albano. Invested with extraordinary powers,
which will cease only with the termination of the
epidemic, the prelate in question is engaged in
promoting the material wellbeing of the population.
He provides that the town be supplied with the
adequate number of physicians, of Brothers of St.
John of God, of Sisters of Charity, and of grave-
diggers ; that the streets, the sewers, and the
dwelling-houses be kept in a desirable state of
cleanliness ; that prompt assistance be given to
the sick; that the disinfection of linens and of the
mortuary chambers be carefully carried out ; and
that the interment of the dead take place accord-
ing to the prescribed rules.
The spectacle of the ravages committed by the
cholera at Albano has strongly impressed the
imagination of the inhabitants in the neighbour-
ing communes. At Genzano, for example, the
population wish by all means, fair or foul, to pre-
vent people coming from Albano and other in-
fected localities, even if they do not stay, from
traversing the country. The Papal Government,
always so paternal, endeavours to dispel by degrees
these exaggerated alarms ; but as revolutionary
leaders are seeking for their own seditious pur-
poses to excite the popular discontent, the task
of the Government is not so easy.
At Rome the scourge continues its ravages.
Since the day before yesterday we notice even a
notable increase in the malady. There were sixty
cases and thirty-nine deaths on the 27th instant,
and sixty-two cases and forty deaths on the 28th.
On the other hand, hope is entertained that the
rains of September will purify the atmosphere,
but as yet there is no sign indicative of rain. And
irregular,
besides, the course of the cholera this year is so
that it is better not to indulge in any
illusion.