The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, July 31.—The mail last night from
Marseilles brought no news of the squadrort.which
left Toulon the 18th of July for a cruise at sea.
Her Majesty's screw frigate Endymion, 35, Capt.
C. Wake, which arrived lately from the Piraeus,
leaves to-morrow to join Lord Clarence Paget on
the coast of France. She has been relieved in
Greece by the Racer, 11, screw corvette, Com-
mander L. Brine. The Cruiser, 5, steam corvette,
Commander M. Singer, came into port on the 28th
inst. from cruising in the Malta Channel, and will
remain here for the present. The Italian corvette
Eurydice, Capt. Cavaliere Bertello, arrived yester-
day from Algiers, and leaves this evening or to-
morrow for Cagliari. The Turkish Government
screw steamer Kady Kedy H. left on the 26th inst.
for Constantinople. The Governor of Tripoli, Ali
Rigs Pasha, who has been absent from the province
on leave, returned here on the 28th inst. from Con-
stantinople on his way to resume his post. He left
for Tripoli in the Trabulus Garb on the 29th. Dr.
Burke, Royal Navy, left in the Byzantin for Eng-
land via Marseilles on the 28th inst. Sir Victor
Houlton,K.C.M.G., chief secretary to the Govern-
ment, leaves for England by the same route to-

keeper.
As soon as one arrives at the revolutionary
frontier, the Italian gendarmes make their appear-
ance, ornamented with incredible plume:- These
gendarmes with plumes are without end. Mignon
ought now to sing :
Connais-tu le pays oh. fleurit le gendarme ?
I was not subjected to the fumigation, as I judged
it better not to leave my seat in the carriage, where
—thanks, no doubt, to my character as layman—
the gendarmes left me in peace ; but in revenge
my fellow-passengers had to undergo the opera-
tion, in various forms, five times in twenty-four
hours. These absurd formalities, sanatory, or
appertaining to the Custom-house, which, moreover,
only extended to a section of the travellers, taken
at hazard, were freely accompanied by words of
insult. A venerable, wearied out with the arrogant
minutia of these visits, cried out, " What do you
take us for?" " For priests, and that's enough,"
was the reply. Many examples of such ill
pleasantry are related.
Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that
towards those who resisted them they were yielding.
Near Ancona, where they showed themselves par-
ticularly troublesome, a French bishop refused
point-blank to be fumigated. He said to the
Italians that it was they, and not he, who had the
pest, and ordered them to withdraw. They obeyed;
but the bishop could not compel them to allow him
to continue his journey, for the corresponding train
had started.
The present aspect of Florence is not contagious.
There we behold a people ragged in every sense ;
scandals of every kind, utter degradation of the
intelligence, in the form of pamphlets, of adver-
tisements, of photographs, and of caricatures, are
to be seen among the chefs-d'oeuvre of the past ; and
also, this is without inventive power or dash; an
insipid and hideous copy of all the insipid and
hideous things which have been done elsewhere.
Florence, in which the intellectual life of revo-
lutionary Italy finds its centre, has not a man, not
an artist, not a pamphlet writer, not a caricaturist
to show to the world. It is a contemptible workshop
of contemptible counterfeits.
Beggars abound, and a greater number are to be
' met with in the short distance between Florence and
Firsole than are to be found in the whole of Rome.
But scandalous exhibitions eclipse even the beggars.
This evil moves about; grimaces offend the eyes,
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the ears, and decency. Sucb, in its glory of being
capital of Italy, the proud city which once acknow-
ledged only the Christ as its Sovereign Lord, the
city of Cimabrue, of Dante, of Brunelleschi, of
Savonarola, of Michael Angelo, of the Medici—now
the city of the Garibaldis, of Dolfis, and of the
Egeria who is called Madame Urbain. Poor Dante
is held in Florence in great honour. His statue is
set up in the salons of every inn, by the side of those
of Garibaldi and of "Victor Emmanuel. His Etruscan
profile, with its austere majesty, seems strangely
out of place in such company. We fancy we hear
his haughty words :-
0 souvra tutte mal creata plebe
Che stai nel loco onde parlar 6 daro
After a certain fashion, then, the Moniteur speaks
the truth. It is certain that those who were com-
pelled to prolong, as we have related, their voyage
On his return from Rome M. Louis Veuillot of pleasure in Italy, have not repented of it—
comments, in his accustomed brilliant and incisive although the " pleasure" was wanting.
style, on the account which the Moniteur gives of But there are mishaps about which it is not be-
the celebrations at Rome, and of the present poli- seeming to speak more. The pilgrimage of Catholic
tical and religious state of Italy. After describing Europe to Rome in 1867 will have, of a certainty,
that account "as meagre, very unintelligible, with- other consequences, which the Moniteur will be in-
out transparent ill-will," he says it yet contains formed of later, and which the world will know,
some errors which spring simply from the ignorance even though the Moniteur were always to be silent
of the editor—an ignorance which is neither in- I upon them. None of those who witnessed that
voluntary nor premeditated, but proceeds from the scene will ever forget it. I must accuse myself
of
noble disdain which such inconsiderable things as having related it very indifferently.
Down there, or to speak better, there above, there
Papal Allocutions and the Address of the Episco-
pate inspire in such men as the writers in the was no time for waiting, much less for word-paint-
Moniteur. After these introductory remarks M. jug. The matter and the light overpowered the
Veuillotthus proceeds : workmen. They who lived in that vortex of ideas
Even though the Moniteur does not know Latin and of wonders will excuse me. Alone in Europe,
so perfectly as it knows English, its scholarly ver-' Rome has preserved the elements of spiritual mag-
sions seem to be not without malice. We cannot nificence. It is the unique theatre of a unique
conceal from ourselves that the Moniteur has a thing ; it is Rome, and it bas the Pope. But Rome
slight contempt for us. But, after all, it is a gentle itself for centuries has never seen the Pope in
such splendour, and perhaps no Pope ever appeared
contempt, and we are only too glad that that which
so manifestly in his character of head of the human
has just taken place in Rome should not be more
race, surrounded by the pastors of all nations holding
openly ridiculed. the keys of heaven and speaking the words of life.
The official journal seizes the opportunity of com-
menting once more on the general pacification We are told in tones of anger that Rome at the
same time is besieged and mined, that its words
which has arisen in Italy in regard to the religious
of life fall on a multitude irritated or indifferent
question. It is a long time now since the Moniteur
from whom the only response is words of death.
has looked upon Italian matters in so favourable
We are not ignorant of it, and none of those who
a manner. It does not do so without a purpose.
were at Rome but on entering it came across this
Moliere sketches somewhere a Dorine or a Vienne
multitude which presses round its walls on every
who shrinks from no difficulties, and who is woman
enough to marry the Grand Turk with the republic side. The crowd is dense. Those who came from
of Venice. The Moniteur wants to marry the Pope !I the ends of the earth could not take a step without
to modern Ital it would all be well were it ; meeting it, and without having the opportunity of
y ;
learning its indifference and of hearing its blas-
stipulated that the children should be brought up
in the Catholic religion ; but, on the contrary, the Phemies•
condition is to omit this clause, and hence the There are Free-thinkers and hangmen in China,
is enlightened minds in the Mallaccas, subscribers to
difficulty. nirine, that is to say, the Moniteur,
not discouraged by so slight a matter. To believe the statue of Voltaire among the Flat Heads and
it, the love is such on both sides, that this paltry Pierced Noses. In the Oceanic isles, among those
dispute is being quickly put aside. Let us marry, people who would not be thought to belong to the
and the children shall be brought up as they like.
human race, if they had not the essential charac-
teristics of the race, the brewing of intoxicating
We, however, did not see that matters were so
forward, either on the Catholic side or the Italian.
drinks, and the art of prolonging tortures as soon
According to the Moniteur " the Italians (Catholics) as any missionaries show themselves—a third talent
has ma le itself known in the production of a kind
who curie to Rome abstained from all manifests-
of Charivari. In less than no time the nomad
tions that might appear to have a political mean-
population has poets, engravers, wits, who furnish
ino• ;" and in the welcomes with which the Holy
arguments against the priests; and all this is as well
Father was everywhere received, " no utterances of
as at Paris and at Florence, and destroys even with
a political character were remarked." Will the
_ greater facility. Yes, verily Rome is besieged, and
Moniteur allow us to-say that this account is erro
ncous ? In the first place, the Italians of the the besiegers are multitudes, nevertheless the spec-
hundred cities who were presented to the Holy tacle was none the less sublin..e of beholding the
Father by the Marquis Boschetti, to the number Pope in the midst of five hundred bishops, showing
of twelve or thirteen hundred, never gave them- them the world, showing them Paris, London,
selves as partizans of Italian Unity, and the Holy Florence, Honolulu, and Pekin and Llassa, and the
Father did not receive them as such. If the rest of the earth, and saying to them : Ite, docete !
Moniteur will reproduce their Address and the They passed and repassed ; they pierced through
answer of the Holy Father, all the prefects, all the the multitude, through walls and empires; they
mayors, all the officials of the empire will be con- crossed over the sands, over waves and mountains
winced of it. Secondly,
Italians and
others,
all and rolls of paper, and nothing will hinder the
those who welcomed the Holy Father, took particu- Gospel from being preached to every creature.
lar care to cry out, " Long live the Pope-King !"
an utterance eminently political. Were the Moniteur
to maintain the contrary a thousand times, not one
of those who were at Rome would believe it on
its oath. About Italy, the Moniteur gives other
assurances " of perfect tranquillity," which likewise
are not verified by facts. "The railways," it says,
" having offered special facilities, numerous parties
of pilgrims resolved to follow up their religious
pilgrimage by some excursions simply of pleasure,
and it is certain that they did not repent of it—
thanks to the spirit of conciliation which is begin-
to spread throughout Italy." 0, M‘miteur,
what a French fashion of speaking ! 0, Nerine,
what illusions ! 'The truth is that these worthy
Italians did what they could to vex, to insult, and
to annoy the " pilgrims ;" and they did not suc-
ceed ill.
Among the prophecies more or less authentic,
which have pervaded Italy for the last twenty
years, and all of which announce misfortune, there
is one which the pilgrims to Rome have seen ful-
filled to the letter. It declares that in the reign
of Charles Albert Italy shall fall under the yoke of
a puerile People—popolo puerile—which shall heap
derision on it. It is the people of the Revolution
one cannot be mistaken—a people insolent, wicked.

night.
The Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Corn
manding-in-Chief, paid a lengthened visit to Alder
shot yesterday and reviewed the whole of the divi
sion at that station. The Commander-in-Chief bad
expressed his intention of visiting Aldershot on
Friday week, but the heavy rain on that day pre-
vented the review and field-day taking place, and
the Duke postponed his visit until yesterday.
The division, to the number of 6,667 of all ranks,
paraded yesterday morning, and, marching to the
common, formed upon Eelmoor-hill, facing
south, the infantry (12 regiments) in line of
contiguous column at quarter distrance in front,
and the cavalry, with the Royal Horse
Artillery, on either flank in rear, and two field
batteries in open column of batteries in rear
of all. His Royal Highness—who was accom-
panied by Colonel C. R. Egerton, Deputy-Adjt.-
General ; Col. E. R. Wetherall, C. 8., Deputy-
Quartermaster-General ; Col. Gloucester Gambier,
C. 8., R.A., Deputy-Adjt.-General of Artillery ;
and attended by Col. T. H. Clifton, Aide-de-Camp
—travelled by the ordinary train, arriving at Farn-
borough at 10.30. The Prince of Teck also accom-
panied the Commander-in-Chief. The Royal
party rode slowly across the common to the division,
which presented arms as soon as the centre of the
line was reached. Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir James
Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., having joined his Royal
Highness, the troops were inspected from right to
left of the front line and from left to right of the
rear line. Position having been taken up at the
saluting point, the division marched past, the artil-
lery and cavalry in open column of batteries and
squadrons at a walk, and the infantry in open
column of grand divisions in quick time. The
cavalry, royal horse artillery, and field batteries
afterwards passed the saluting point at a trot, and
the infantry in mass of brigades at quarter dis-
tance, and again by brigades, in contiguous column
also at quarter distance. The troops then formed
up in order of battle on the ground occupied by
them prior to the march past, and sundry
manceuvres were gone through in opposing an
enemy marching from the southward on Aldershott
camp. After a very fatiguing day the troops re-
turned to quarters about 3 o'clock. The field state
of the day showed 1,097 cavalry, 749 artillery,
4,770 infantry and engineers, and 54 military police.
The day was fine, but the dust, as usual, was a great
drawback, the troops being occasionally hid in dense
clouds of it. His royal highness and suite returned
to town by an afternoon train.
Brigadier-General Sir Alfred Horsford, K.C.8.,
commanding the id Brigade at Aldershott, having
been granted leave of absence from the 22d of July
to the 31st of August, on account of ill health, Col.
Greer, C.B. (68th Regiment), has assumed the
command of the bvigade, and will continue to com-
mand until the Brigadier-General's return.

31. LOUIS VEUILLOT ON ROME.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

We hear that negotiations are in progress for the
acquisition of British Columbia to the United States.
The inhabitants of Vancouver's Island and the settle-
ments on the mainland find themselves left out in
the cold by the consolidation of the British Pro-
vinces into the dominion of Canada, and, at the
same time, hemmed in by the transfer to the United
States of Rus:iian America. Under these circum-
stances they appear to desire annexation. Another
report is circulated that Mr. Seward contiln-
plates the purchase of the Island of Madeira.
The treaty with the Sandwich Islands is about to
be submitted to the Senate. Though termed reci-
procity, it is made wholly in favour of Hawaiian
sugar planters and the sugar consumers of the Pacific
States, by which a loss will accrue to the revenue of
half a million dollars. In 1866 the exports of the
islands to the United States amounted to over
51,500,000, while the imports from the United
States were little more than half, of which a large
portion were stores forwarded to American whalers
cruising in these waters. The goods consumed by
the islanders do not exceed $?,,000,000, of which
only a portion comes from the Union. The