The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-01 00:00:00

Niscellaneous Foreign News.

A letter from Rome, dated Sept. 13, says :
Pius IX. has at this moment two. great affairs
n hand--the improvement of the sanitary condi-
:ion of his little kingdom and the convocation of
the General Council.

The sanitary state of the Roman territory has
remarkably improved. The attacks from cholera
have almost entirely subsided. For several days
there has been at Albano no new case nor death.
There still remains about 120 patients on the way
of recovery. In the province of Frosinone the
disease does not seem to be making much pro-
gress. At Rome there has been since my last
letter 180 cases and sixty-four deaths. The
orphans left by the cholera engage the active
attention of the Government. They amount at
Albano to the number of eighty, and at Rome to
that of 500.

A Roman curate (a solitary instance) having
evinced little zeal in assisting the cholera patients,
has been deprived of his functions by the Pope,
who nominated as his successor the vicar of the
parish.
Many descriptions of the ravages of the cholera
at Albano have been within the last few days pub-
lished by eye-witnesses. In one of them I read
as follows : "An opulent American, by name
R. S., who passed the summer season in a coun-
try house at a little distance from the town of
Albano, lived in vice and in utter forgetfulness
of God. A native servant left him in the begin-
ning of August, saying he no longer wished to
remain in a family where the anger of Heaven was '
so audaciously provoked. The good man was not
deceived. Six days afterwards the disease attacked
the villa, in spite of all the precautions taken
against it, and carried off within a few hours ano-
ther servant and two women, whom R— had
brought from his own country. One morning, at
an early hour, a venerable priest, who came in
great haste from a neighbouring town to assist
the cholera patients, passed under the windows of
the villa. It—, frantic with terror and despair,
called out to him, insulting him in the most brutal
manner, and even, it is said, threatening him with
a revolver which he held in his hand. The priest
came in ; the three dead bodies were stretched out
in the garden, where R— had flung them, hoping
thereby to escape the epidemic. But the wretched
man had just been attacked himself. The symp-
toms were frightful ; he foamed at the mouth and
writhed on the floor. The priest, well understand-
ing this fearful malady, exhorted him to think only
of the salvation of his soul. R— howled out " No,
no ;I do not wish to die ; I cannot die. I am too
young, too rich, and too happy. Away, priestly
impostor, bird of ill-omen. I called you to nurse
me, and not to confess me." Then the wretch
blasphemed God, and offered up his soul to Satan
in exchange for life ! The poor priest in vain
poured forth prayers and words of consolation.
He even offered up his life to God to save the soul,
and, if possible, the life of that wretched man.
God, in His impenetrable designs, did not accept
that sacrifice. It— died, uttering one last blas-
phemy against Heaven."

The preparatory commission is being gradually
formed. Among the cardinals, members of that
commission, we may name Cardinal Reisach, for the
Department of Ecclesiastical Diplomacy and Public
Instruction ; his Eminence Cardinal Barnabo, for
Oriental Affairs ; Cardinal Panebianco, for Matri-
monial Cases and Dispensations ; Cardinal Bezarri,
for Monastic Discipline ; Cardinal Biglio, for Doc-
trinal Matters; and Cardinal Catterini, for Canon
Law. The consultors, like the cardinals, have each
his allotted part. Among them we may name
Fathers Perrone, Tarquini, Franzelini, Jesdanuits ;
Fathers Spada and Carbo, Dominicans ; and Father
Mura, a Servite, &c.

Garibaldi has returned to Florence. We shall
see if the Italian Government will permit him to
resume his peregrinations around the Pontifical
State.

An allocution against the spoliation of the Italian
clergy, to be pronounced by the Pope in a Consis-
tory which is to be held, it is said, on the 23rd
instant, is now being printed at the secret press of
the Quirinal. _ _

Sept. 20.

The Holy Father has this morning held a Secret
Consistory, in which he has pronounced a Latin
Allocution relative to some circumstances of the
time. This Allocution has not been published,
and in all probability will not be so. In the
Giornale Romano we find, however, the following
summary of what his Holiness said :—The Holy
Father bas solemnly condemned the recent decree,
having for its object to complete the sacrilegious
usurpation of the property of the Italian Church,
and he has declared null and void this decree, as
well as all its effects, and confirmed the penalties
and censures pronounced on this matter by the
Sacred Canons. His Holiness next pointed out
the wretched calumnies in a work published by
Amyot at Paris, under the title of " The Court of
Rome and the Emperor Maximilian "—a work in
which the author seeks to insinuate that the Holy
See has had a large share in the misfortunes of
Mexico, and affirms that the Holy Father had given
to that Emperor assurances which never have been,
and never could have been, given. In the condem-
nation of this work, his Holiness makes mention
of recent and important documents, and especially
of a letter which the Emperor Maximilian wrote
to him from the prison of Queretaro, on the 18th
of last June—a letter sufficient to prove the false-
hood and the hypocrisy of the assertions and
insinuations in question. His Holiness afterwards
recalled, in words of sorrow and regret —yet of
eulogy and consolation—the holy death of Car-
dinal Altieri, Bishop of Albano. He bestowed
especially commendations on the secular and re-
gular clergy of that town, and on the garrison
which, under those painful circumstances, had
displayed such Christian zeal and heroic self-denial.
Lastly, his Holiness terminated the Allocution in
warmly recommending recourse to prayer, the sole
but powerful weapon of Catholics at all times,
and especially in these days when so many grave
calamities weigh on most of the nations of Europe.
After the Allocution, the Pope made several
important promotions in the Roman Church, and
instituted several bishops to sees in different coun-
tries. Space prevents us from giving the entire
letter of our correspondent, as it arrived late. The
remainder shall appear in our next issue. One more
passage, however, we must insert. The tenour of
the Emperor Maximilian's letter to the Pope is
not known, but it is said to contain very strong
expressions against the fatal influence exercised
by the Emperor Napoleon on Mexico. The letter
forms part of the Allocution ; but if that docu-
ment be published, the Pope will most certainly
suppress the letter in question.

It is said that nearly 30 suicides have been coin.

mitted in St. Louis during this summer. A suicidal
epidemic is supposed to be raging in that locality, and
should engage the attention of scientific investigators.
Among the rumours of Cabinet changes Charles
Francis Adams is talked of as the successor of Mr. Seward.
The Republicans of Minnesota on Wednesday, the 11th,
nominated W. R. Marshall for Governor ; S. H. Armstrong
for Lieut.-Governor; Colonel Rogers for Secretary of
State; Emil Munch for Treasurer; and R. E. Cornell for
Attorney-General.

The Democrats of Wisconsin on Sept. 11 nomi-
nated J. J. Tallmadge for Governor, G. L. Parks for
Lieutenant-Governor, Emi Rothe for Secretary of State,
L. R. Wetherby for Attorney-General, Ole Higginson for
Commissioner, Peter Pupp, of Fond du Lac, for Treasurer,
L. C. Draper for Superintendent of Public Institutions,
and R. J. Harney for Bank Controller.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan Anthony are
talking to the people of Kansas in favour of woman suf
frage so effectually that the question will be voted upon,
though there is much doubt about the result.

General Charles Windham succeeds Sir John
Michel as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian forces.

Attorney• General Stanbery has returned to his
work at Washington, and Assistant Attorney-General
Binckley is now taking his vacation.

Colonel Dwight Morris, of Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, has arrived in Europe from New York, to assume his
post of United States Consul at Havre.

Charles Burrell's claim against Boston, tried on the
2d inst., before Judges Clifford and Lowell, amounts to
$100,000,000 for making up the quota of men for that
city during the war. B. F. Butler is one of the plaintiff's
counsel.

The well-known authoresses, the Misses Hale, of
Boston, left that city Sept. 7, on a visit to their brother,
Charles Hale, Alexandria, Egypt.

The well-known author, Charles Kingsley, has
arrived in New York. It is to be hoped that his visit to
America may correct many erroneous impressions he for-
merly held.

Mr. J. S. Wright, a button manufacturer, who
formerly worked at the bench, and Mr. J. A. Langford,
whose pursuits have been literary of late years, but who
was formerly a working man, are each spoken of as the
working men's candidate for the third seat for Birming-
ham.

Mr. Jerome Wells, President of the first National
Bank of Chicopee, was to sail for Europe in the Ville de
Paris.

At the meeting of the Wisconsin Republican
State Convention, on the 4th inst., Lucius Fairchild was
renominated for Governor, and the remainder of the ticket
was made up as follows :—Lieutenant-Governor, Wyman
Spooner; Secretary of State, Thomas S. Allen; Trea-
surer, William E. Smith; Attorney-General, Colonel R.
C. Hill.

General Gordon Grainger is to succeed General
Howard as Commissioner in the Freedman's Bureau.

Pending the election of a successor to the late
Governor Helm, of Kentucky, the Government will be
administered till August, 1868.
The Governor of Maine urges the United States
Government to direct Admiral Farragut to carry the Jaffa
colonists of his State back to their homes.

Mr. Dunbar has issued a fourth number of the
Globe with the usual charges of fraud against the Treasury
Department.

Henry H. Haight, lately elected Governor of
California, on the Democratic ticket, is an eminent lawyer
of San Francisco.

Surratt, it is now said, will not be again tried
until Congress alters the laws of the District of Columbia,
so that negroes may serve as jurors.
.... _

Ex-Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, has
paid one-half the cost of a $6,000 church, building at
Buckingham, Tama county, lowa, which place was named
after him, beside giving a bandsome carpet and Bible.

Hiram Powers, when asked how he could preserve
such sympathy with the feelings of his countrymen as is
shown in his " Columbia," " California," and his other
distinctively American works, replied, " The truth is I hat,
although I have studied for thirty years in Italy, I have
always lived in America."

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier, nominated
for the command-in-chief in Abyssinia, entered the Ben-
gal Engineers in 1827. He was present in the first Seikh
war, and had a horse killed under him at the battle of
Moodkee, and a second at the battle of lferozeshah. At the
second Punjaub war he was Chief Engineer of the force
that besieged . Mooltan, where he was severely wounded.
Ho was Chief of the Staff of the Lucknow relieving force
under Outram in 1857, when he was again wounded, but
recovered in time to take an active part in the subsequent
campaigns. He was divisional general under Sir Hope
Grant in the last China war, and he afterwards relieved
Sir William Mansfield as Commander-in-Chief of the Bom-
bay army. He is well known in the East as a most
scientific and energetic officer, and a better selection could
scarcely have been made.

Major Hayden M'Lellan has been appointed
special agent of the Post-office Department to take charge
of mails conteyed by the new line of steamers from San
Francisco to Honolulu. He will leave New York by the
steamer of the 11th inst. for San Francisco, and the latter
post for Honolulu by the first steamer which sails on the
11th Oct.

The Emperor Theodore was at Debra-Tabor
with his camp on the 11th July. The captives were at
Magdala on the 27th July.

General N. B. Buford has been relieved from
duty as special Indian Commissioner, and has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Browning Commissioner to examine
the tenth section of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern
Division, in place of General Frank P. Blair. General
Buford left for St. Louis on September 5.

The President has recognised Alexander Bellaigne
D. Bughas as Consul of Franco at Charleston, S.C.
Baron Albert De Vaux, Consul of France, at Richmond,
Va. ; J. A. Quinton, Consul of Belgium, at New Orleans ;
and Ignatius Sargent, Vice-Consul of Spain, at Machias,
Mobile.

The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone de-
livered a speech at the opening of the now docks at Bar-
row-in-Furness.

Although so many monuments were proposed to
the memory of Abraham Lincoln at the time of his death
not one has yet been raised. _

At New York on Monday, Sept. 2, Henry
Simpson informed tho Society for the Suppression of
(rambling that he had lost $35 at a faro bank at No. 42,
Bowery. The society made arrangements for breaking up
the place, but Mr. Simpson told his story in the neigh-
bourhood of the bank, and the gamblers gave him a sound
thrashing, and $lO on condition that ho would not molest
them. Consequently the society was defeated.

The President has appointed Thomas N. Still-
well of Indiana, and an ex-member of Congress, Minister
resident to Venezuela.

Dr. Hall, of Dublin, has accepted a call" sent
him by telegraph for the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York City. The terms are $6,000 in gold,
a parsonage, and travelling expenses.

We regret to hear that Cyrus W. Field is
seriously ill at New Hamburg, New York.

Chief Justice Chase was present at the meeting of
the General Association of New Hampshire, where he ob-
served that the success in the late conflict was largely due
to the instructions from the pulpit, and that it was the
moral and religious element that had made the people so
strong.

Mrs. Crow (the celebrated Miss Bateman) has
arrived in London from New York to fulfil a theatrical
engagement. _

Professor Watson, of the Michigan University,
who lately discovered a planet, asserts that on Friday, the
6th instant, he perceived another, in the Right Ascension,
14 deg. 15 min., and declination 6 deg. 10 min. North, of
brilliancy equal to a star of the 11t•h magnitude.

Doche, the French actress, is announced among
many other foreign celebrities to visit America.
James Sullivan publishes in Wilkes' Spirit the
following challenge, which is tantamount to an announce-
ment that he is the most agile monkey in America:—
"Valley Falls, Rhode Island, August 22, 1867.—1, James
Sullivan, am open to climb one hundred telegraph poles
for the sum of one hundred dollars a side, with any man
between Boston and New York, if the privilege can be got ;
if not, to climb a fifty-foot pole one hundred times. Man and
money ready at any time at Bernard Carroll's, Valley Falls,
R.l.—Yours truly, "JAMES SULLIVAN."
The Central College, Courtland county, New
York, has forwarded, through its president, the Rev. C. P
Grosvenor, D.D., the degree of M.A. to the Rev. E
Matthews, of Bristol, in recognition of his devoted services
in the Anti-Slavery cause. The opinions of Mr. Matthews
have been too clearly expressed in our columns by himself
not to be well-known to our readers.
Mr. Eastman's street rail invention gains daily
in favour in Paris, and a plan is, we believe, on foot for its
introduction into that city on a very considerable scale.
Surely the subject is worth the careful attention of the
authorities of this metropolis.
Colonel llillyer, formerly on General Grant's
staff, now a revenue collector in New York, has been at-
tacked by a writer signing himself " J. W." The campaign
opined with a letter from "J. W." to the general, calling
attention to the moral defects of his late staff officer. This
Grant very properly forwarded to tho colonel, who there-
upon opened his battery on "J. W." The firing became
general, the Commercial Advertiser furnishing the field to
its own profit, for people are sure to gather where a row is
progressing. This was a charming little excitement in
the present dull period, the combatants belabouring each
other to the amusement of the lookers-on, who were
forcibly reminded of good old times now seldom thus
pleasantly recalled.
Mr. Philips calls Mr. Fessenden " a dyspeptic
Scotch terrier."
Denham (Canover), the perjurer, first appeared
publicly as the New York Tribune's Canadian corre-
spondent in 1865, when it may readily be imagined that

his intelligence was more " sensational" than truthful. He
is said to be one of the most plausible liars that ever lived.
John Morrissey won $50,000, in the recent fight
for the championship of America between Mike M'Coole
and Aaron Jones.

General Rufus King, late Minister to Rome, is
at Washington urging a claim to a mission to Greece.
_ _

Mr. Harvey, Minister to Portugal, is expected to
arrive at Washington itnmediately.
Samuel Wilkenson, late of the Tribune, has be-
come connected with the eastern division (Kansas
branch) of the Pacific Railway, as writing financial
agent.

When Artemus Ward lay on his death-bed at 1
Southampton he turned to a friend by his bedside, with a
flash of the old humour in his kindly eyes, and mur-
mured, " What have I done that I should die so young ?
I never was guilty of a burglary, or ever committed the
minor offence of killing a publisher or even a newspaper I
man ."

The Conference of Biaops at Lambeth Palace
received an unexpected addition last Tuesday by the arrival
of Dr. C. M. Williams, the American Bishop of China, who
reached London on Monday night.

. ... !
A San Franciscan paper informs us that the King
of Hawaii is dying, and that his successor will probably
be Mrs. Bishop, a lineal descendant of a powerful chief,
and now the wife of an American banker at Honolulu.
The Round Table informs us that the " University
of Wisconsin, which has been reorganised in accordance
with acts passed by the state legislature in 1866 and 1867,
is henceforth to maintain these departments of instruction :
A College of Letters, with a four years' course in mathe-
matics, ancient and modern languages, literature, and
science ; a College of Arts, with a three years' course in
mathematics, modern languages and literature, and the
natural sciences in their application to agriculture and the
arts, beside a wide range of optional studies; a Prepara-
tory Department, with a three years' course, which will be
strictly limited to the preparation of boys for the University
course and will not do the work of common schools ; and a
Female Department, with a three years' course in language,
literature, and science, in which the recitations, conducted by
the University professors, will be distinct from the college
classes, while students, in addition to the prescribed
course, may pursue any optional study taught in the Uni-
versity for which they are fitted, and may also attend all
University lectures. For this department it is proposed
to provide buildings and make a fully organisedfemale col-
lege as soon as may be. After the present year there is
also to be a post-graduate course of one year for the study
of engineering and natural science. There is a legal re-
quirement that instruction shall be given in military
tactics; in this the assistance of the general government
is expected, and the matter has not yet been matured.
Whether it is purposed to make this compulsory upon the
students we are not aware, but we should have little doubt
in that event, that it must either soon be abandoned or
create much embarrassment and unpopularity for the insti-
tution.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER-SETT. 28.

This market was poorly supplied with wheat to-day, and
the trade was brisk, at fully is over last week's prices.
Barley was in demand, and prices advanced is per qr on
the quotations of last week. Beans and peas were is
dearer.

Wheat, white 678 72s Beans, Mazao-an......388 408
red. 6'B 6751 Middle and 5ma11...44s 48s
Barley ........ 3Bs 4481 Peas, white 38s 42s
Oats ..... —s —al grey ...36s 428