The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The following letter, dated Rome, Aug. 26, says :
44 The cholera continues its ravages, and it is
very remarkable that as in 1837 and 18,54, it is
all the lowest part of the town by the river which
is spared, while heights of the Coalien, the Aven-
tine, and the Esquiline are the worst stricken.
What is more remarkable, Frascati, Tivoli°, Alban,
and Velletri, generally so healthy, are now more
suffering than Rome, so that those who had taken
refuge there have made their way back in all
speed, and some are trying Viterbo and Civita
Vecchia.

" Two Lazarettos have been appointed in Rome
for, the poor—one near the Hospital of St. John
Lateran, for women,and one for men at the Hos-
pital of San Spirito. The Pope has added ano-
ther donation of 25,000 francs for distribution
among the poor and suffering. The people had
begun getting up among themselves processions
with Litanies and prayers against the cholera, but
thelr have been stopped by authority as tending
to excite alarm in the people. Triduos, however,
are going on at many churches.
"The attacks of cholera are every day decreas-
ing, and even in Albano it is on the wane. When
it was at its highest the gallant bearing of the
Zouaves had a wonderful effect in allaying the
excitement of the people. One of the officers
was frequently seen fearlessly bearing the bodies
of those who had died of it on his shoulders to
their last resting place. Many have received de-
corations from the Pope in acknowledgment of their
conduct. Besides the fund already mentioned for
the relief of the poor of Rome, the Pope has sent
2,000 scudi for distribution among the distressed
Jews. Those. who could afford it have gone away
to any near place. of refuge. Thus Ardra and
Pratica, two poor villages by the sea, usually the
resort of none but shepherds and goatherds, have
been crowded with visitors. We have had none of
the fearful scenes which have been enacted at
yi:thh and in re.eleateinst report of the number
ninety-sixof
.deaths
Nwaasplfifest.
at Sta. Maria, in Vallicella (the
Pa-
lermo. A solemn Requiem Aolassratowliaasuceclehburracteh)d,
Naples, on the 20th. As she
by the Pope's orders, forthwea ga uneoetn-rMeigotahiaerg
at
the time of her death, it could not take place in
the Vatican.

" General Kanzler has just been named Com-
mander of the Legion of Honour. There has been
some hesitation in conferring this distinction, be-
cause when the French suddenly abandoned
Frosinone, as if to leave the place free for a Gari-
baldian incursion, in 1862, he wrote a letter, which
was afterwards published with his name in a Ger-
man paper, in. which he said that, " in spite of
the treason of the French the Pontifical army
would do its deity." The French Government
demanded his surrender, and it was only by great
firmness on Mgr. do Merode's part that the ,de-
mand was resisted.

" Don Carlo Passaglia's affair is not yet arranged.
The Sacred Congregation is not satisfied with the
form of his retractation. If he amends it satisfac-
torily, it is likely he will go to England, where he
is calculated to be of great service in controversy
with Protestants. At present he is gone to the
seaside."

A SCAIiCZ MOTH.—A gentleman residing in
Wribbenhall last week caught an extremely rare moth
upon a birch tree in Bewdley Forest, called the Straussus
Fag:, or lobster moth. This is one of the most rare spe-
cimens of the moth found in England,— ToPcester
Or°nick,