The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-09 00:00:00

General Kanzler, in presence of the preparations
of the French troops for departure, has obtained the
authdrization to increase the effective force of the

army by several thousand men.

The regiment of

Zouaves, which, I told you last week, had been
made to consist of three battalions, is to be raised
to four. Every day we have fresh arrivals of
volunteers, who are sent to the depot, where
they are practised four hours a day in the use of

,heir weapons ; 250 arrived yesterday. Some,

also, but in small numbers, continue to volunteer
into the Roman Legion, where not only French

soldiers, hat any Frenchmen possessing the neces-

nary qualifications are now received.

Others

apply to be enrolled in the battalion of Rifles,
a regiment composed of Swiss and a large pro-

portion of Italians. The army, which now consists
of 13,000 men, will probably be raised to 15,000 or

16,000. This number is more than sufficient to
hold in awe all the genuine Garibaldiaus who can

be got together ; but who shall provide against
the Italian soldiers, travestied as such, whose name
is legion ? The determination which late events
have stirred in the Catholics of France to defend

the temporal power is so strong, and so uncom-
promising, that in the face of it the Emperor will
hardly be led by anything but the most over-

whelming political necessity to leave Rome a prey
to them. If he should, I am credibly informed there
is a well-organized movement set on foot through-
out the country to send one Zoun.ve, thoroughly
equipped, and paid for year by year, if necessary,
from every parish in France, which would provide
an army of ninety-seven thousand men ! There
seems something almost fabulous in this grand
promise, but the following simple fact is scarcely
less grand—that a subscription lately set on foot
by the Bishop of Marseilles for the Papal army,
produced in one day 50,000 francs, and 200,000
in less than a week.
Some of the foreign papers, in speaking of
the Irish and English contingent of the Papal
army, were led, by a simple misapprehension of
nationalities, into a curious fiction, which it would
be well could it be realized. A short time ago a
band of between fifty and sixty Irish volunteers
came out under the leadership of a Scotch gentle-
man named Gordon. The account of this event,
after undergoing various transformations, ap-
peared at last in this form :—That a band of 100
Scotchmen had come out equipped in their own
national costume, and paid by Scotch Catholics,
to be called the " Pope's own Highlanders," or
" The Pope's Scottish Guard."
I am glad to find that the barricades, which I
mentioned last week were being taken down at the
gates, are not to be removed altogether, for the
best way to keep the Garibaldians at bay is to show
them they would have no easy prey here. The
barricades will be maintained, but they are being
arranged so as not to interfere with the traffic
through them. This is particularly interesting to
visitors in the case of the Porta del Popolo, as it
is through it you pass for the English, American,
and Presbyterian Sunday service.
We have had one or two instances this week of
the ungrateful results of the too great lenity of
the Pontifical Government towards political
offenders. Had it a little of the ferocity ascribed
to it, it might be better. So far from any unneces-
sary arrests being made, there are well-known Pied-
montese agitators,Mazzinian andGaribaldian agents,
suffered to be living here at large. Government
knows the temper of the people, and that it has
nothing to fear from their attempts to tamper with
them. But there remain their bomb-throwing and
gunpowder-plot propensities, and in consideration
of these it might have been wiser to have locked
them up, out of the way of mischief, or to have
requested them to return to their own country. A
poor young Zouave was murdered in a dark alley,
near the Piazzi di Venezia, a few nights
ago, and the same night, almost at the
same moment, a bomb was thrown near
the Capitol, fortunately without doing mischief.
The malefactors were luckily caught in both in-
stances—the one with his freshly-used dagger yet
in his possession, and the other with an Orsini
bomb in his pocket. It is much to be hoped that
the Government here will take a lesson in firm-
ness from our own, and make an example of these
two wretches, which would probably be sufficient
to cure any others who may have similar dastardly
inclinations. About fifty more Orsini bombs, and
a barrel containing 100 lbs. of powder were found
in the cellars of the Capitol. A quantity more
were thrown into the Tiber to escape the hands
of the police, as soon as it was found they were on
the right scent. What would have been gained,
beyond the satisfaction of brutish passions, in the
destruction of a building which has been the centre
of all popular movements in former ages, and is
now the deposit of many priceless gems of art, it
is difficult to see.
Another instance of the savagery of these gentry
is an official programme, which is in circulation in
Florence, and everywhere else where they can
push it, declaring what they would do if they
could get the upper hand here. Fired by the
glorious example of the first French Revolution,
they would begin by a similar Reign of Terror,
and lists,of persons are marked for the guillotine
to the number of between 8,000 and 9,000 ! It is
confidently reported here, and that in well-in-
formed circles, that among the various takes of
murderous weapons which the police have made
were no less than four guillotines, with all in readi-
ness to be put together for use.
This is hardly more remarkable than the dis-
covery, in certain large and heavy cases, addressed
to Mr. Odo Russell, of Orsini bombs. Of course,
au English diplomatist could not have lent himself
to a scheme for the introduction of these " in-
fernal machines ;" but as he is known to be on
terms of intimacy with several who pass for being
heads of the revolutionary movement here, it
seems to have been calculated that in his absence
from Rome this liberty might be taken with his
name. The police, however, who had only the fact
of the bombs arriving with his correct address to
deal with, naturally considered it their duty to
visit an apartment thus rendered suspicious. It is
situated, by an odd coincidence, in the Chigi
Palace, belonging to the Papal Nuncio in Paris.
On his arrival, Mr. Odo Russell complained to
Cardinal Antonelli of the indignity offered him,
and the Cardinal, with great moderation and de-
licacy, only referred the visit of the police to
another circumstance which had also occurred,
namely, information received that the Palazzo
Chigi was one marked out by the Revolutionists
for blowing up, and the police were seeking traces
of a mine. It is not surprising, under the cir-
cumstances, that the telegraph announced on
Wednesday evening that the English Government
had pronounced itself perfectly satisfied with the
Cardinal's explanations.

This is, I am 'afraid, not the only instance in
which English names have got mixed up in this
dirty work. A quantity of gas pipes, sent out
from England one day this week, were found by
the police to be packed full of rifles. Of course,
the English agents of the gas company disclaim
all knowledge of the affair, but somehow the rifles
there are, though fortunately now divested from the
mischief for which they were destined.
Before the new movements on the frontier, men-
tioned above, were declared, the French troops
had been getting ready vigorously for departure,
and as a preparatory measure they have been re-
turning to Rome from the provincial towns, and
reinforcements of Papal troops have been sent out
to take their place in garrisoning them. Every-
where within the Papal State the greatest tran-
quillity and content prevails.
Protests have likewise been published from
Viterbo, Bagnorea (the first scene of Garibaldian
attacks on this occasion), Monte-fiascone, Acqua-
pendente, Bolsena, Toscanella, and other towns,
denouncing the farce of a plebiscite, by which
the pro -dittatori pretended to have annexed them
in pursuance of popular will to Italy. I shall be
curious to see if the English Protestant papers
have the honesty to reproduce these. Nothing can
be more outspoken nor better calculated to unmask
the nature of Garibaldian tactics. That from
Viterbo says :---" . They have put down
more thousand votes than allowing for women,
minors, sick and absent, our town ever had
inhabitants at all ! A few emigrati we know
were there, and they it was who filled up the urn
with voting-papers. The pacific bearing of the
population on the night of the 24th of October,
on which the aggressive horde was put to rout by
the Pontifical troops, the public execration in
which they were held during the invasion, the
untiring vigilance of the Civic Guard (Guardia
Cittadina) in, the defence of the constituted au-
thorities and the religious communities, their
lively exultation over their sudden departure itself,
caused by the threatening attitude of the people
towards them, and the spontaneous and cordial
ovation with which the allied troops were re-
ceived, are themselves so many acts of protest
against the above-named pretended popular vote,
and at the same time eloquent demonstrations of
the sincere attachment and filial devotion of the
whole city to the Holy See."
Bagnorea writes :—" . . . Our city was in-
vaded and retaken more than once by the Gari-
baldians after being delivered from their horrors
by the valiant troops. For they had no sooner
turned their backs than we were inundated by
above two thousand Garibaldian invaders, and
we will not 'here detail all • the many difficult
and painful trials we were called to endure, nor

the depredations, waste, havoc, and sacrilege com-
mitted in the religious buildings of the place—at
the church of St. Francis in particular, little
escaping beyond the bare wails. All we have to
do here is to state the naked truth with regard to
the character shoWn by our people respecting the
so-called public voting or plebiscite. Finding,
themselves under the pressure 'and alarming influ-
ence o this turbulent disorder, and called upon
by public notices to flock to the urn for a most
important demonstration, it would have been no
great cause of surprise if some of the citizens had
presented; themselves out of sheer fear. Nit there
was not even so much as this. And we are pre-
pared to guarantee, upon our honour, and by the
proof of the notorious public fact, that no one,
literally no one, appeared in answer to the appeal
in the room when the solemn experiment was to be
tried. . . . If it has been represented that
there were even the very smallest possible number
of voters, we, in the name of the whole town, pro-
test aloud, and are prepared to repeat it in the teeth
of all corners, whoever they may be, that it is the
most outrageous and shameful falsehood that was
ever invented."
Montefiascone writes :—" On the late occasion
when this town was subjected to the tyrannical
domination imported by the Garibaldians, a certain
public act, they called a plebiscite, was put forth
which pretended to represent the votes of this
people. The pressure and terror which prevailed
at the time would have sufficed to have neutralized
its importance. But, notwithstanding this, the
undersigned, charged with the public representa-
tion of the municipality, think it due to truth
and justice to protest against the said demonstrax
tion, which, so far from expressing public opinion,
was, on the contrary, viewed with general indig-
nation. The voting-papers, which were thrown
into the urn- in numbers far larger than that of
the supposed voters could have been made out to
be (?), were thrown in by the very Garibaldian
rabble (torme) which was oppressing the town.
The citizens of every class abstained most coura-
geously from all participation in it."

A second letter from Bagnorea says :—" . . . .
That in the interests of truth, and to the honour
of the magistracy as well as that of the population,
the undersigned think it right to protest against
any act which the subversive party may boast of
or produce as having taken place in this city under
the specious- title of a plebiscite, as we declare
solemnly it was never accomplished, for not one
out of the whole population would take part in it."
The protest of Bolsena discloses the same ter-
giversation, declares how the whole population
held back from the affair, and how four or five of
the lowest of the people were dragged up to the
voting place by force, and concludes by protesting,
in the name of the people, against the whole thing,
and declaring " that they will always remain under
the regimen of the Pontifical Government, and
ever preserve their faithful attachment and devo-
tion to the Holy See."
The French fleet arrived at Civita Vecchia from
Toulon on Wednesday, and the embarkation of
one division was at once proceeded with. There
will remain, however, for the present, at least, not
less than four battalions in Rome, and a brigade
at Civita Vecchia. Or, according to some reports,
one whole division will remain in Civita Vecchia,
and none in Rome.

A very remarkable fact, showing the utter vena-
lity of the Italian revolutionary press, has just been
mentioned to me. A person from Florence came
here a few days ago, commissioned by several of
the well-known " Liberal " papers to treat with
the Roman Government, their undertaking being
in consideration of a certain subsidy to prepare
public opinion for the return of Italy to the terms
of the treaty of Zurich, that is to say, to the Italian
Confederation. As might have been expected,
the only answer he received was that it was not
the custom of the Roman Government to seek to
influence public opinion in this way,
I must plead guilty to having let the fascination
of political events entirely absorb my attention of
late, making me overlook peaceful events. As a
first instalment of returning attention to these
things, let me mention the festa at St. Clemente last
Saturday (St. Clement's day). The most extra-
ordinary and interesting excavations under this
church are well known to all visitors to Pomp, anri
have been often described on the festa. It is custo-

mary to light up the subterranean works, and throw
them open to the concourse of faithful, who never
fail to attend on the occasion and listen to the
explanation of the ancient mural paintings which
adorn it. On this occasion, if it was not so full
as in former years, the numbers of foreigners pre-
sent showed that little by little all the world is
pouring into Rome as usual. St. Clemente offered
an additional attraction to pilgrims this year in
the consecration, by Cardinal Guidi, Archbishop
of Bologna, of a new altar in the subterranean
church, thus restoring to Divine worship a temple
which dates from the very time of the Apostles.
The new altar is of handsome marbles, bold in de-
sign, and somewhat similar to that in the Basilica
itself. Over it is a simple baldachino, supported
by four columns of cipolino. In front has been
laid a tablet commemorating the Dominicans of
former ages, whose bones have been disturbed in
digging out the old church.

Prince Cesarini was married on Monday to a
Princess Colonna. The wedding took place at
Naples.

THE VERACITY OF BRAZIL.

When stock-jobbers and brokers get up for their
special benefit lying telegrams, fabricated in con-
nivance with their brother courtier on the French
Bourse, or some other continental stock exchange, or
even the black hole in New York, the general
public very seldom hear of these dishonest pro-
ceedings, the dupe of the Exchange pockets his
loss, but does not- complain in public print, and we
are sorry to say these occurrences are only too
frequent. But what shall we say when a respect-
able Government, through its agents, accuses an-
other equally respectable Government of spreading
before the world lying telegrams, and warns the
world not to believe such news, but only to believe
those they, the complainant Government, makes
known. Such a proceeding, although not very
diplomatic nor worthy of a great nation, would be
excusable if true; but what will the public think of
a Government when the events prove that the very
news against which the public are warned are fully
borne out, and prove to be facts, and those which
are recommended for their veracity prove to be
false. The above remarks have suggested them-
selves to us on reading a small brochure just pub.
lished at Paris under the title of " The War in
Paraguay : Falsehood and Truth," and which
ought to have some interest to us, besides the facts
it sets forth by an English gentleman in H.M.
service being mixed up with it. The little
brochure alluded to states "that in several
of the Paris journals, but particularly in
in the Presse of the 10th of November, the following
were published :—" The Brazilian Legation begs of
us to*publish the following" :—Regularly on the days
of departure of each packet certain journals in the
Plate publish some false news, or some military
feats disfigured in a sense favourable to the Presi-
dent of Paraguay, and contrary to the Allies. It is
calculated that those lies (which there is no time to
contradict on the spot) will be believed in Europe,
at least during the interval between the arrival of
one steamer and the other. In this way, on the
same day, and after the last packet had left, a
newspaper of Bueuos Ayres, partisan of the Mar-
shal President of Paraguay, has published a letter
of a certain Mr. Caminos, Paraguayan agent, Can-
taining propositions and counter propositions of
peace, officiously presented to the belligerents by Mr.
Gould, Secretary of the English Legation. The
object of.this publication is to make Europe believe
that Mr. Gould, in accordance with the Allied
Generals,' had presented to the President of Para-
guay a proposition of peace, in which the Allies
bad renounced part of the object of the war they
made against .him, who, without motive, or even
without•pretext, had broken peace by an entirely
unexpected aggression." As soon as the Braziliai
Minister at Buenos Ayres knew of this carious,
publication, he hastened to transmit by telegraph to
the Imperial Government at Rio the following de
spatch
(By the bye, the Imperial Legation at Paris must

not be aware that there exists as yet no tale'
graph communication between the River Plate
and Rio ; perhaps this is also one of their true
telegraphic despatches, or else a ship by that Dar°
is meant.)
" Buenos Ayres, 29th September, .1867.--The
Brazilian Minister at Butnos Ayres to the
Minister
of Foreign Affairs at Rio de Janeiro was °°4l/
after the departure of the packet that'we sawt'e
letter of the Paraguayan •Caminos to Mr. Gould:
We are occupied in making very clear the falsity o'c
the assertion of a previous understanding of Mr.
Gould with the agents of Brazil."
" This telegraphic despatch was published inthe
Diario Official do Rio Janeiro, the sth of October,
and reproduced in the other journals. Now if apt
one wishes to deceive, he ought to state at leas'
things which had the appearance of truth. 1t 2s.
not very likely that when, by the taking of the
town of Pillar, which intercepts the fluvial cony°.
nication which has remained between Asunci°°,
and Humaita, and the ver7 moment that the lines
of the siege had been closed, and that in all Pr°',
bability that fortress is expected to fall by famine'
that the Allies should give up pretensions winch
they did not, when the war was much farther fr°ll2
the end."
"If any one wishes to deceive one ought to state'
at least, things which have the appearance of
truth," says the Brazilian Legation at Paris. This
sentence we must return fully to its author. Thst
part of America which the Brazilian Legation calls
i,
" the Plate," are the Argentine Confederation an'.
Uruguay, which means the two allies*Brazil
against Paraguay ; consequently the journals "who,
regularly publish on the day of the departure 01
each packet false news, in a sense favourable to
Paraguay," are journals, if not authorised, at least]
permitted, to be published at Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo, and it is not very likely that they are
permitted to speak against their own country, par'
titularly in time of war, as it would be rather •
dangerous for them to publish false news in favecr
s
of the common enemy. But this, it appears, sodajournals are guilty of, according to the Brazilian
Legation ! In the River Plate States, the Govern'
meats are no more tolerant in that respect than in
many other countries, and even are less so ; they
have very often suppressed journals, and prosecuted
their editors, for only having criticised the policy °f
their own respective Governments. The America'
of Buenos Ayres, and the Reforma, of .Monte-
video, besides several others, are ample proof of tb;
Besides the strong hand of the Government, tlo
editors of Buenos Ayres and Montevideo are also
exposed to the fury of the mob, easily excited
itsbi
the political opponents of the journal and
editors. The office of the Reforma, for instance'
was plundered and sacked by a political mob; there-
fore it would be rather dangerous for the Dews-
of
papers in those cities to publish news in favour
Paraguay, and still more so if that news proved to be
false. The agents of Brazil are very anxious to wake
the world believe that Mr. Gould, her British 3ja
•
jesty's Secretary of Legation at Buenos Ayres, had
gone to Paraguay to negotiate a peace without al?:
previous knowledge of the Allies. This is not very
likely. Mr. Gould, residing at Buenos Ayres' 10
daily intercourse, through his position, with 6uo
Argentine Government and the Brazilian Ministers...,
was not likely to go to Paraguay without hal
communicated his intentions to them, and must ha
been fully aware of the stipulations they world
abide by for making peace. Mr. Gould could 00
have acted differently. Mr. Gould must have b.eeo
sure of the determination to abide by the stipulations _
on the part of those with whom he resided befor
he left Buenos Ayres, as well as of the Allied gene,
rals commanding, with whom he had several con )
rences at headquarters. The letter of " cetr,
taiu Mr. Caminos," extensively published in
Europe and America, showed clearly 4'at
the peace proposals emanated from the
lljes
through Mr. Gould, and the "Paraguai.faur.
Caminos was shrewd enough to exact from r‘-'
e th
Gould the promise to declare that- such was
case —" Where the voice of Paraguay could not toa,
heard." With all these proofs the Brazilian Leg a
tion at Buenos Ayres, according to their so-call:I,
telegraphic despatch, which took seven days
Rio, is busily engaged in making very clear ~,
false assertion that Mr. Gonict previntig ri
derstandiLg with the agents of Brazil." the
The rest of the communique' to the Presse of has
same true nature. The town of Pillar as Yet
_jai
not been taken, nor does Pillar command the /10
communication between Asuncion and Humaita' 0,
nor has Humaita been invested—quite the fin,
trary !--nor has it fallen through famine.
se
The news from the seat of war in Paraguay,
published here via Lisbon, if favourable to Paraguay' ,
to reathe
"Par e
are styled " Paraguayan news," or from a
guayan source," and have invariably been true, an
borne out by letters and journals received by
so
packets ; but we are sorry to say we cannot sal
00,
much of the telegrams from the seat of war c
totted at Rio, as nearly all have been wan
he'
truth. Neither the Brazilian Legation nor
friends can get oiler the fact that, for nearly th
en
tens
beating they have, according to their news,
~05
beating and slaughtering the Paraguayans by
of thousands on all points, by land and by to
but up to this very hour they have not been able
reduce the first Paraguayan fort, Curupaith
have they been able to march an army, when the j 4
had one, ten miles into their enemy's countrY%rs..
is not more than justice to heroic and devoted?' to
quay, and its gallant Marshal and brave pet3Pl
reit
lly
put before the world, in its true light, the t pla e
wonderful events as they pass in the River
.00er
and to declare the truth, as Mr. Commisslvoice
Caminos remarked to Mr. Gould, " Where the cali
of Paraguay cannot be heard."—Anglo-Alnerl
Times.

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