The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 15,

says :

The city of Rome and all the neighbouring
places have been smitten by the cholera. It has
now reached the epidemic stage. Since my last
letter the approximate number of deaths is reck-
oned at 300 in Rome itself, and as many in the
country. The greatest number of cases have oc-
curred in the town of Albano, which, since the 6th
instant, has been literally ravaged by the pestilence.
A body of persons, numbering from 1,000 to
1,500, had fled from Rome to Albano, which is
celebrated for the healthiness of its air. They
thought to be perfectly safe there from the cholera.
A great many of the visitors had, during the sth
and 6th, been partaking of social and festive en-
joyments ; others had amused themselves with
walks on the borders of the lovely lake. All at
once, on the night of the 6th, the temperature sud-
denly fell, and without further warning the epide-
mic broke out. When people rose from their beds
on the morning of the 7th above 140 cases had
already occurred in the town. The confusion and
panic were indescribable. The authorities sent off
to:Rome in hot haste for medicines, doctors, and
priests, the supply of these in Albano having
failed. The aspect of the place was most distress-

ing. Every minute a window was thrown open in
some house or other in the street, and a terrified
inmate besought the passers by to send a priest or
a doctor to some member of the family who had
been seized. But what could eight or ten con-

fessors, and a couple of medical men, do in Buchan
emergency? People literally seized hold of them
whenever they showed themselves in the streets.

The single apothecary's shop in the place was be
sieged. On the 7th, by twelve at noon, that shop
did not contain a single drop of castor oil nor of
solution of camphor ; and the people had already
obtained all that was to be obtained from the
neighbouring one at Ariccia. Women ran hither
and thither with dishevelled hair and terrified
looks, supplicating the Holy Virgin to come to
their aid and to appease the anger of Heaven, and
at least to obtain the grace of a good end for the
dying. "To Rome ! to Rome !" they cried ; " oh,
for priests ! oh, for doctors !" ,But the inexorable
scourge redoubled his violence. We do not even
now know the full number of his victims.
The Cardinal Bishop of Albano, his Eminence
Monsignor Altieri, usually resides in Rome, where
he has to discharge the offices of President of the
ConSUlta of State and of Arch-Chancellor of the
University. When he received the telegraphic
despatch informing him of the outbreak of the
pestilence he was assisting at the annual examina-
tion of the Clementine College. He rose up and
said, with that calmness which only true courage
can give—"Gentlemen, a moreurgent duty than the
present summonsesme to Albano. Godihath smitten
my flock: Pray to Him with me that the life of the
shepherd may suffice." He instantly entered his
carriage and drove to the residence of his noble
family, took all the money he had at command,
gave orders for all the medical aid and medicines
that could be obtained to be forwarded at once to
Albano, and then, without taking any refreshment,
started for Albano by a special train. In one hour
his Eminence entered the ill-fated town. The
people flocked round him just as if they looked for
some miracle to be wrought for them by their

zealous pastor.
Alas ! he could work no miracle ; but he did his
duty like a true priest and like a hero. For four
days he was continually occupied in going from
house to house, hearing confessions and giving
medicine, assisting and comforting the survivors,
attending funerals to the cemetery, and, in some
instances, actually helping with his own hands to
carry the corpse to the grave.
The members of the Town Council arc all either
dead, or sick, or in flight. The infirmaries have
broken down under the extraordinary pressure
on their resources. Even grave-diggers could
not be obtained. The Zouaves of the garrison
worked as infirmarians and as grave-diggers.
Three of their number are dead, and several have
been seized with the malady. On the Bth, at
noon, the Queen Dowager fell ill of the cholera
as she .was attending to her two children, the
Princess Pia, and the Prince Januarius. The King
was at the bedside of his illustrious • stepmother,
holding her head between his hands, and praying
for her. At six o'clock the royal sufferer received,
from the hand of the Cardinal Archbishop, the
last Sacriments, and the Benediction in articulo
mortis of. the Sovereign Pontiff, which was asked
and sent by telegraph. At eight o'clock her. Ma-
jesty breathed her last, just as she' had. besought
her- royal stepson to take care of his own health,
and exhorted him to forgive all his enemies.
A few hours afterwards there arrived at Albano
Monsignor Borromeo Arese, Maggiorduomo of his
Holiness, who was unable to come in person, but
had sent his high officer of State to console the royal
family, and to convey to his Eminence the Cardinal
Bishop the sum of 3,000 francs for the relief of
the poor of Albano.
On the 9th was announced the death of the
Princess Colonna, chief lady of the illustrious
family of the name, and of her youngest daughter.
On the 10th and 11th, the violence of the pestil-
ence seemed to have reached its climax. On the
11th it snatched away the belo.Ved and heroic
Cardinal Bishop from his loving and admiring
flock. He expired at 3 p.m. The gciod shepherd
gave his life for his sheep. He was only ill about
ten hours. The news spread consternation at Rome,
where the Cardinal was held in great esteem ; so
much so, that he was commonly spoken of as the
probable successor of Pius IX.
In five days after her death, the Prince Janua-
rius followed his young mother to the grave. The
Holy. Father (it may be easily conceived), is in
great affliction. He has, in addition, been seized
with severe pains in his legs, which have pre-
vented him from visiting the hospitals, and it is
still uncertain whether he will be able the day after
to-morrow to assist at the Mass of Requiem for
Cardinal Altieri.

'The Iron' Age calls upon Mr. David G. Wells,
Uuited States Commissioner of Revenue, to contradict a
report circulated by the London Engineering, that his views
and policy, as expressed to the editor, are that too great
protection is already granted for the true interests of
American manufacturers, and that lower duties should
prevail. The Iron Age very naturally expresses the hope
that the Revenue Commissioner will authorise it to con-
tradict this statement.
On the Ist of October Commodore Joseph Lau-
man will succeed Rear-Admiral Bailey as commander of
the Kittery navy yard.
A record of all his mercantile acquaintances,
kept by Amos Lawrence, of Boston, during his long life,
shows that of every hundred of those who entered busi-
ness 97 failed of success.
Mayor Norcross, of Boston, has appropriated his
salary to'works'of charity, having given $2,000 of it to
Old Men's Heine, and smaller sums to various other chari-
table institutions.
One day the last week in July George Papen-
dick was drawing the cork from a bottle, when it burst,
and his hand was badly cut. Intlamniation set in, and on
Saturday, the 27th, he died at his summer residence at
Milton. Mr. • I'apcndick was a German, the consul of
Mecklenburg at the port of Boston, and a member of the
banking-louse of Metcalf and rapendick at the latter city.
Ile leaves a wife and three children.

Rev. C. H. Hanaford, of Athol Depot, having
been obliged by ill heal.li to resign his charge, has opened
in that town a wholesale and retail boot and shoe store, a

liuc cif Inminess in which ho has had ex verieueo in the

Ex-Prehideut Day, of Yale Culler, 11.0w1. near the
close of his life, says ho is going.on the eight-hour Fin-
dlay, rising at eleven and going to led at seven.
•
The late Capt. John Gilinful, of Stanstead, C.E.,
(me of the d:reciors of the Connecticut and Passunipsic
Riven.; Railroad, Iwilucathed 55,010 to found an academy
at North Derby, just over the Canada line.

Henry Sevens, a distinguished citizen of Ver.
!flout, died at his residence at Barnet, Tuesday night, Jul
30. His ago was 73.

Rey. Dr. A. C. Osborn, of St. Louis, has been
elected president of the New Hampton Institute at Fair-
fax, to succeed the Rev. J. Upham, now one of th© editors
of the Boston. Watchman and Reflector.

The Rev. Dr. Todd, of Pittsfield, has recently re-
ceived from the Rev. Mr. Corning, the boating clergyman
of Poughlieclisio, a present of a beautiful shell wherry, of
the same pattern as that in which the latter has made save-
rzd trips down t`•he Hudson and Connecticut rivers.

1.11 making his will the late Paschal P. Pope of
Boston remembered, Out of $706,00) estate, tho insti-