The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-17 00:00:00

It is announced from Montreal that during the
nomination meeting in the city on Thursday, 29th
August, the mob assaulted Mr. M'Ghee and the
other candidates. The Dragoons charged and dis-
persed the rioters, wounding 30 persons. The New
York, Tribune, in allusion to this, states that the
" first nominations for members of the new Parlia-
ment were attended at Montreal with a fierce riot,
and the Liberal member would hardly have got
home alive if the police had not given him a strong
escort. They are a rather barbarous people up
there beyond the St. Lawrence, and we see little
hope for their regeneration unless they can be ab-
sorbed into the United States."

A revolution was announced from Hayti as hav-
ing broken out against Salnave, and it was reported
that Port-au-prince was besieged. The latest intel-
ligence from Hayti is to the 12th August, which
reports the insurrection as quelled.
King William of Prussia in person opened the
North German Parliament at Berlin on Tuesday
last. The Royal speech dwelt only on internal
affairs. Among the legislative measures promised
are reforms of postage and of weights and
measures. One of the first bills to be introduced
relates to the postal law, on which the commission
appointed for preliminary deliberation had finished
their labours and furnished their report. The
draft comprises the provisions of the postal legisla-
tions of Prussia, Saxony, and Brunswick, abolish-
ing postal compulsion. Modifications are intro-
duced in favour of private enterprise, under which
letters and packages may be forwarded. In con-
nection with this we may mention that Mr. Kasson
has arrived at Berlin, charged with a postal mission
from the Government of the United States to
London, Paris, and Berlin.
A committee is being formed to arrange the pre-
liminaries for organising a universal exhibition to
be held in Berlin next year.

THE BISHOP OF ORLEANS ON THE DEATH
OF CARDINAL ALTIERI.

After alluding to the noble resolution of the
Holy Father renouncing a journey deemed most
necessary for his health, on account of the out-
break of the cholera in Rome, and the impulse
that this sacrifice gave at once to the Roman ad-
ministration, Mgr. Dupanloup goes on to say that
in one night, as it were, by the blowing of a hur-
ricane, a pestiferous wind burst over the usually
salubrious and deliciously-situated town of Albano,
and brought the cholera in all its virulence. On
one of the hills that surround the Eternal City,
crowning the horizon of the Roman Campagna,
its houses studded over it like gems in a coronet,
embosomed in a setting of green verdure, offering
a retreat from the glare and heat of the capital
about five leagues distance, the little town of Al-
bano has become the scene of desolation and
sorrow, attacked by the strange scourge which,
for the last five-and-thirty. years, has by turns
visited and ravaged all the countries of Europe,
bidding defiance to all human art and science,
baffling all man's skill, and setting at nought all
earthly precaution.
One day four cases of cholera showed themselves
in Albano ; the next night a violent wind rose,
and, as if it brought the pestilential fluid in its
breath, that very night more than 100 persons were
attacked, of whom 50 died before the morning ; in
the next 48 hours 135 more had fallen victims to
the plague.
To judge of the alarm, we have only to say that
hundreds ran from the scene of horror, and fled
into the adjacent woods and neighbouring hills,
and some went as far as Rome. The sick and the
dying were in a fair way of being left unattended,
for houses were left tenantless, and many dead
bodies were found unburied some days after.
Cardinal Altieri, the Bishop of Albano, was at
this moment at Rome, where the duties of his im-
portant position detained him. He no sooner hears
the news of the disaster that had fallen upon his
diocese than, without an instant's delay, he has his
horses brought, and, calling together physicians
and nurses, and sending for his servants, calls
nobly on them to accompany him. He waits no
delay, and, starting himself at once with one valet,
leaves orders for the rest, who had the courage to
sacrifice themselves, to follow at once. His chaplain
accompanied him ; he took his will with him,
adding hurriedly a short codicil, and was soon en
route for his noble work.

On reaching Albano he passed his own door, and
went at once to the scene of death, and thus going
from house to house, and street to street, he en-
couraged both those who tended the sick and those
who were sinking from the dire disease, and gave
an impulse even to those who were ready to fly
from their abodes and to neglect their relations
already attacked. He was deeply gratified to find
the most ardent devotion on the part of all the
clergy.

Two cardinals were already at their post in the
scene of action when he arrived—Cardinal Sacconi
and Cardinal Pietro. He at once divided the town
under three heads, and each cardinal took his post
accordingly.

The Holy Father did not leave Albano without
succour. He no sooner learns the state of the
town than he sends sisters, religious, both Capu-
chins and Jesuits volunteer, and rush to the spot.
He also sends 45 Zouaves, whose conduct deserves
the greatest praise. 'They performed all kinds of
offices towards the dead and dying.
The Pontifical gens-d'armes rival the others in
all their painful and charitable operations.
The Cardinal Bishop continued to spend himself
unceasingly for three days and nights in the midst
of the thickest part of the malady. He adminis-
tered remedies himself, and performed the sacred
offices of confessing and preparing the dying. lie
followed even to the graves to see that everything
should be done to his dear parishioners which
religion could command, duty impose, or charity
require.

Such devotion to so sacred a cause merited the
glorious crowning end he was so soon to go
through.

The day before his death he wrote a letter with
is own hand to the Holy Father, to thank him

for some alms lie had sent to the relief of the sick,
and he said to his visitor :—(4 What a tremendous
visitation is this disease ! But in my desolation I
have much consolation, because I feel and see that

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my clergy are supported by the Holy Spirit of God ;
they have none of them shrunk from the most

revolting scenes and duties. The civil authorities,
it is true, have left the town, but not one of tho3e
who are devoted to God have shown any defection,
and by a wonderful mercy it is that every one who
has died has had time to receive the Holy Sacra-

went, and thus I believe that this calamity will
have been a mercy. It kills the body but it f3aves
the soul."

11le Yery next night, between the 10th and 11th

pated. But the most striking feature of the Con-
ference was the speech of Monsieur Lemonnier, who
maintained that the Republican system of govern-
ment alone could put an end to war. The senti-
ment was in accordance with the programme, which
asks the assembly to consider "whether the reign of
peace, to which humanity aspires as the completion
of civilisation, is compatible with those great mili-
tary monarchies which despoil the peoples of their
most vital liberties, maintain formidable armies,
and tend to suppress small States to the profit of
despotic centralisation. That the committee who
framed the programme have made up their mind on
the point is pretty evident from the second proposi-
tion in their first question—namely, is not the
essential condition of a lasting peace between
nations liberty for every people, and in the inter-
national relations of all, the establishment of a con-
federation of Liberal democracies to constitute " the
United States of Europe ?" At the conclusion of
Monsieur Lemonnier's speech Garibaldi embraced
him with great enthusiasm. The Congress closed
on Wednesday, and Garibaldi left for Italy, having
met a warm reception in Switzerland. He had
visited the Polish General Bossak the previous
evening. But the Congress did not close in peace.
The scene appeared to end in marked disunion ; and
had it not been abruptly terminated (if we may
judge by the confused telegrams which have reached
London), it would have broken into open war—a
strange spectacle, and a remarkable illustration of
theory versus practice.
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