The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

A letter from Rome, dated Sept. 6, says :
Garibaldi has gone away. From this fact people
infer that M. Rattazzi has promised this hero that
by some other course than that of invasion Italy
will march on Rome. Will France permit this?
"That is the question." It has already permitted
so many things ! It is whimsical enough that
Garibaldi, the man of the million guns, should go
to attend a Peace Congress !
Here people are quite at their ease ; but the
police exercise a careful surveillance over all pas-
sengers traversing the Papal States, whether from
Florence to Naples, or from Naples to Florence.
Three Garibaldian emissaries were the other day'
arrested at Ceprano, just as they were seeking to
make their way into the Papal territory. Among
these was a woman who had formerly under the
Bourbons played the part of a spy at Naples for
the revolutionary party.
La Giunta Nazionale Romana (the Roman Na-
tional Junta) no longer gives any sign of life.
Everybody believes that it has dissolved itself, or
at least is about to do so. M. Rattazzi, doubtless
to force the Roman Revolutionists to despatch
quickly their business, does not give them any
money. Now, you know, that money is the nerve
of revolutions. Besides, the absurd loan issued at
Florence by the party of action, failed in the very
outset. Not more than 1,500 francs were raised.

Lastly (and this is the matter of the greatest
significance)—the Roman population does not wish
to revolt. Except a few desperate men who specu-
late on revolution with the view of filling their
purses, the 700,000 subjects of the Pope are con-
tent and proud to live under a Government which
imposes few taxes and no conscription.
The Cardinal Altieri has left by will to Pope
Pius IX. the hat worn by Pius VII. when, in 1809,
the French carried him away into captivity. The
Pope has also received from Valence a no less
precious memento, namely, the plain arm-chair on
which, in 1799, Pius VI. died in that city, a pri-
soner of the Directory. These two objects will be
placed in the sacristy of St. Peter.
In despite of all the efforts of the King of Naples
to prevent his Queen Maria Sophia from coming to
expose herself to the cholera, this courageous prin-
cess persists in undertaking the journey from Zurich
to Rome. She has begged the Queen of Spain to
send a vessel to Marseilles to transport her to
Civita Vecchia.

The Pope enjoys excellent health. He expects
to open the General Council on the Bth December
next year.
It is calculated that this year the population of
Rome amounts to 215,000. This is an increase on
last year of 4,700.
The cholera at Rome and Albano remains sta-
tionary. But the extraordinary augmentation in
the heat after the storm portends that this scourge
will not abate its intensity.
The inhabitants of Genzano, Marino, Anagni,
Frascati, Palestrina, and other places are a prey to
a panic which the authorities are endeavouring to
allay ; but they are not always successful in such
endeavours. To explain the cause of this panic we
must know that within the memory of man the
cholera has never made its appearance on those
mountain heights.

Everywhere the population would wish to be
secured by a sanitary cordon, but so imperious is
the need of communications that such a measure
can rarely be applipd. The course .of the disease
is also so irregular, that the greater part of the
precautions recommended by experience become
illusory.

At Ceprano, for example, where all travellers
coming from the infected provinces of Southern
Italy stop for the examination of their baggages,
not a single case of cholera has appeared. On
the other hand, at Piglio, a little mountain hamlet,
far removed from all the thoroughfares of com-
munication, the fatal disease :has, relatively to
the population, committed as dreadful ravages as
at Rome.

The sanitary condition of the army is com-
paratively good. At the military hospital there
are scarcely sixty cholera patients under medical
treatment. They are the objects of the most
anxious care. The Minister of War has received
for the Zouaves, from many cities of France, chests
of tea, casks of Bordeaux wine, and flannel gir-
dles. .

Here is the order of the day published by
his Excellency General Kanzler, to announce to
the army the recompenses accorded to the gar-
rison of Albano :
" The unforeseen scourge, with which the city
of Albano has been visited, has furnished the mili-
tary there holding garrison with an opportunity
of giving a noble manifestation of their zeal
and their charity.
" The gene-d'armes, every ready to fulfil their
duty, have not failed to display on this occasion
all the zeal that was to be expected from them.
" The Zouaves, following the noble example set
by their superior officer, and shrinking from no
danger and no fatigue, undertook of their own
accord a work of the most devoted charity. They
attended on the indigent sick--they dug graves,
and even carried thither and buried there very
many dead bodies. This is a fine page to be
added to the history of that corps.
" The generous heart of his Holiness, so well
formed to appreciate like acts of courage and self-
' devotion, has been highly gratified. Wishing to
give to the army a mark of his satisfaction, his
Holiness has commanded the undersigned Minister
to submit to him the names of the officers and
soldiers who have the most distinguished them-
selves on this occasion, deigning to confer on them
honorary recompenses as follows :—Six knight's
crosses, sixty-four gold medals (to the Bene-
meranti.) An ex-Zouave, a native of the Pond.
fical States, and who was passing the summer sea-
son at Albano, joined his former comrades in
their work of charity. He also has received a gold
medal."

One hundred and twenty children 0 both