The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-25 00:00:00

Foreign Intelligence.

A letter from Rome, dated June 12, says :—The
arrivals for the feste of this month numbered five
Italian, one French, one Spanish, and one Belgian
cardinals—eight in all.

Three patriarchs--one Latin (from Jerusalem),
one Marmite, and one Greek.
Twenty-one archbishops—two Mexican, one
French, one Prussian, one English, one Spanish,
two Italian, and thirteen Oriental. _ _

Fifty-eight bishops—four English, six French,
seventy-five Italian, one Belgian, two Spanish, and
the others Oriental.

So that there are already, reckoning those who
habitually reside here, some hundred and fifty
members of the Sacred College and episcopate;
150 to 200 more are expected. All come accom-
panied by several priests, and, in many instances,
by some of the faithful of their dioceses. The
Oriental bishops especially bring a very numerous
suite. _ _

The great Piazza of St. Peter's presents at this
moment a significant and striking scene, continually
crossed as it is by carriages driving to and from the
Vatican, and filled with pilgrims full of devotion,
or tourists laden with guide-books, but all evidently
impressed with the grandeur of the spectacle be-
fore them, from the rising to the setting of the sun.
In the interior of the Basilica the sound of saws
and hammers and the whispered consultations of
artists and upholsterers mingles with the sacred
music of the Divine offices. The works make
rapid progress, but materials and machinery en-
cumber the building too much to judge of the ge-
neral effect as yet.

At the end of the apse, behind the Pope's throne,
a colonnade has been fixed, bearing the inscrip-
tion, " Cathedra Petri, magisterium veritatis,
centrum unitatis." The top of this colonnade just
reaches to St. Peter's Chair, preserved, as you
know, inside a bronze copy., surrounded by gilt
rays.

At every variety of giddy height swing the San
Pietrini (a band of 120 workmen, who have been
employed for generations on the repairs and deco-
ration of St. Peter's), adjusting the hangings,
tapers, and flowers.
The Archbishop of Westminster arrived last
Friday, and has put up at the humble house of the
Oblates of St. Charles at San Nicolo in Arcione.
He had an audience of the Holy Father yesterday,
who received him with cordial affection. Eng-
land was naturally the subject of their conversa-
tion, and I have just had from the lips of his Grace
a stirring account of the earnest and affectionate
way in which the Pope spoke of the people under
his care, and charged him to convey his benedic-
tion to them ; raising his hands to Heaven he
blessed God for the wonderful way in which,
through the adverse vicissitudes of the world, lie
brings about events for the greater diffusion of the
faith.

I found his Grace greatly impressed, as all Ca-
tholics who have the glory of God and of His
Church at heart must be, with the wonderful in-
terposition of Divine Providence, which has united
the widespread episcopate of Christendom at such
a moment as the present in Rome. " And," he
observed, " of all this large number there will be
one-fifth whose native tongue is English. , Who
would have ventured to predict such an event a
hundred years ago ? And what a glorious destiny
is reserved to Pius IX. in being called to preside
at so signal a triumph !" The Pope was a good
deal fatigued by all his labours at the end of
last week and unable to receive the Austrian
Ambassador, who came to solicit his benediction
for the Emperor and Empress on the day of their
Coronation. The doctors also absolutely forbad
his assisting at the ceremonies of Whit Sunday,
and required him to keep to the sofa all that day.
Though weak and languid, he was, as usual, calm
and cheerful. On Monday he was much better,
and admitted several persons to audiences in spite
of the warnings of the faculty, for he has never
been very docile to directions which require him to
spare himself.
There have been one or two cases in the hospitals
and prisons of a disorder which may or may not
be cholera. A post-mortem examination is ordered
in each case which it is suspected of being cholera.
There had been nothing, however, to create any
alarm ; and, except the lowest classes, who take
fright easily in all countries, the people understand
very well that we have no epidemic, thank God,
but one or two isolated attacks of a sporadic
disorder.
You will probably be curious as to our chances
of any revolutionary jineute, or I should not have
occasion to allude to the matter. General Kanzler
was asked his opinion on the subject the other
day, and his reply was that he felt no difficulty
in answering for the security of the place.
We have several high Italian functionaries here