The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, June 18.
The Committee of Congress appointed to exa-
mine the bill for the settlement of the public debt
are proceeding actively with *heir labours. It is
believed that they will present their report in the
course of this week.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, June 19.

In yesterday's sitting of the Italian Parliament
the debate on the interior budget was concluded.
The Chamber then commenced the discussion of
the Budget of Justice, and approved the Small
Arms -Conversion Bill. The committee nominated
by the Chamber to consider the subject of the
responsibility of the Ministers has appointed
Signor Macchi as their President.

The Times' Florence correspondent, under date
June 13, says :

There is a report in Florence of the Pope's being
ill, and one of to-day's papers hints the probability
of his being prevented from taking a part in the
great religious ceremonies and celebiations which
will begin with the festival of the Corpus Domini,
and will fill up the last ten days of June and extend
into July. But, unless there has been a very re-
cent relapse, I suspect there is no present founda-
tion for such gloomy anticipations. The Pope has
been lately indisposed. On the 6th inst. he walked
round the Villa Borghese-park, and perhaps the
heat and exertion were too much far him, for in the
night he was seized with diarrhcea and vomiting,
and alarmed the Vatican not a little. Up to the
9th all audiences and business were suspended.
On the morning of the 10th his Holiness felt
much better when he got up, and he received
some bishops, and was considered off the sick list,
and quite well again, although much weakened by
the attack. Notwithstanding his age, he is strong
and healthy, and soon comes round after illness.
Reports of cholera in Rome have lately been spread,
but they have obtained little credit. A letter of
the Bth,, in a Florence paper, says that the timid
have exaggerated the evil, and that upon the pre-
vious day there was not a single case in the hos-
pital of San Spirito. I have private letters from
Rome up to the 10th inst. from persons on the cor-
rectness of whose information I place perfect re-
liance. They informed me that the heat in Rome
is intense (as it continues to be in Florence at the
time of writing), and there have lately been as
many as three or four deaths a day from diarrhcea.
This the people naturally call cholera. On the
other hand, the Government press denies the
existence of cholera ; the publication of the
numbers of cases and deaths is prohibited, and
the doctors arc desired not to talk or know
anything about it. It is, however, on Roman
medical authority that I am able to inform
you that the malady is not cholera, but violent
diarrhoea, combined with malignant fever. Great
heat and cheap fruit, doubtless, tend largely to in-
crease the number of patients. Up to three days
ago the doctors were agreed that the cases were
sporadic, and that there had as yet been none of an
epidemic character. This spring a report was for a
moment spread of cholera in Paris, and people began
to ask what would become of the Exhibition. Next
to the consternation and desolation which such a
terrible calamity would have spread through Babel
Fair would be the terror and discomfiture caused by
its outbreak just now in Rome. At the beginning of
the present week upwards of 200 bishops and between
3,000 and 4,000 priests had arrived in the capital
of the Papacy, and many more were expected. The
southern Europeans are quickly alarmed by the idea
of cholera, and a few authenticated cases would pro-
bably cause a terrible scattering of the black-robed
gathering. The reverend gentlemen who have
flocked to celebrate the centenary of the Fisherman
are, however, by no means all of southern birth.
The French arc said to be more numerous than the
Italians. Archbishop Manning has arrived, as have
most of the English Roman Catholic Bishops, but
few lay visitors have as yet made their appearance.
A letter says that in the course of this week a
steamer is expected at Civita Vecchia, freighted by
the order of St. Vincent de Paul. The pre-
parations making in St. Peter's for the canoni-
sation are very grand, and endless festivities are
announced after the Corpus Domini to celebrate
the centenary. Judging from my private letters,
the ceremonies promise to be successful, and the
whole affair is likely to go off quietly and with-
out disturbance. Persons here, who are supposed
to have more or less opportunities of knowing,
think that something is brewing among the Italians

with respect to Rome, but that it will not come a
until the latter part of the summer. One circum-
stance worthy of note, and of which there seems
scarcely a doubt, is that a good many Roman emi
grants, especially of the more necessitous class, have
disappeared from their usual haunts in Florence and
elsewhere. The continued presence of Garibaldi
within a few miles of this city is another fact that
attracts notice. It was lately said that he was ill,
but he looked well enough when he passed through
Florence, and a person who saw him only the other
day could not detect anything to be the
with him. " It can hardly be with a view to mend
his health that he remains on the Continent, for it
is known that he is never anywhere so well as at
Cuprcra. matter