The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-09 00:00:00

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ROME, JAN. 8.
At a Consistory held to-day the Pope nominated
a Patriarch, three Archbishops, and 12 Bishops.
Msgr. Ledokowski has been appointed Arch-
bishop of Posen.
The Bishop of Osnabruck has been named Arch-
bishop of Cologne.
His Holiness did not deliver any allocution.

VENETIA.

VENICE, JAN. 8.

The Central Congregation of Venice has elected
a committee for the purpose of examining the
reforms necessary for the development of the
autonomy of Venetia.
Several ordinances of the Governor of Venetia
have been published, suppressing the district com-
missioners and creating 22 vice-delegates. The
communes are in future to correspond directly with
the Provincial Congregations. Venice is placed
directly under the Governor, and the Central Con-
gregation of the provinces is suppressed.

FRANCE.
PARIS, JAN. 9.

Count Walewski and the Duke de Mouchy have
been elected members of the Commission for the
Exhibition of 1867.

CHINA AND JAPAN.
SHANGHAE, Nov. 26.

Sir Rutherford Alcock has arrived at Pekin at a
critical moment. The anti-foreign party are en-
deavouring to carry out an exclusive policy.

The Inspector-General of Customs has been dis-
missed without a cause.

Articles of war are being manufactured in large
cptautities.

General dissatisfaction is felt at the irregularity
of the mail service. Several mails in succession
have been days behindhand.
Trade generally is brisk.
The cotton crop has failed.
Advices from Japan state that the combined
expedition had returned in consequence of the
Mikado's refusal to open the ports of Ossaca and
Hioga.

Advices from Shanghae to the 9th December,
received via Galle, and published on the sth inst.,
announce that the Mikado has sinoe sanctioned the
treaty, and that the ports would be opened on the
Ist January.
A chamber of commerce had been established at
Yokohama.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 26 (via Alexandria).
A motion of want of confidence has been intro-
duced in the Legislative Assembly, and resulted
in a majority for the Ministry.
The Tariff Bill has been rejected by a large
majority in the Legislative Council.
The Ministers refused to bring in the Appropria-
tion Bill, and announced the prorogation of Par-
liament and an appeal to the country.
A petition to the Queen to recall the Governor
has been signed by members of the Executive
Council.
Great dissatisfaction prevails.
SYDNEY, Nov. 22.
Advices from New Zealand announce further
skirmishing with the natives. They had been
attacked at Opotiki, and several were shot ; among
them one of the principal murderers of Mr. Volk-
n er.

The natives at Poverty and Hawkes Bays were
laying down their arms.
Kawa Pah has been captured by the volunteers.
The rebels suffered great loss.

New Year's Day at Rome.

ROME, Jan. 2.

Yesterday the Pope held the usual reception at
the Vatican, at whibh the Diplomatic Corps, the
members of the various episcopal colleges, the Mi-
nisters, the Council of State, the Municipality, the
officers of the Pontifical army, and many other high
functionaries, offered their congratulations for the
New Year.

General Count de Montebello and the officers of
the French army of occupation paid their respects to
his Holiness at noon in the Hall of the Consistory.
In reply to their congratulations, the Pope is stated
to have expressed himself in the following terms :
" I accept with pleasure the good wiskes expressed by
your General. As in previous year; I give you my apos-
tolic benediction. I have been informed, and have re-
peatedly heard, that the French army is to leave Rome. It
is, therefore, the last time that I have the satisfaction of
giving you this benediction. I bestow it upon you, then,
with all my heart, full of affection and love.
" I will remind you of what was said by the great Apostle
Paul Scio quoniam intrabunt post discessionem lupi
rapaces ;' and, applying it to present circumstances, thus
translate it,— I know that after your departure the savage
beasts will enter.' Then I shall be like Jesus before ascend-
ing Golgotha, when he prayed in the garden of Gethsemane
and an angel came strengthening Him. lam too miserable
to be compared to Jesus Christ ; yet I also shall pray to
obtain consolation. I shall pray for poor Italy, which has
been made an unhappy country, and has been precipitated
into an abyss of misery, impiety, and irreligion. But I
am departing from the subject before me. I shall pray for
France, for the whole French army, whom I esteem, and
for the Imperial family ;—I shall pray for you all, to whom
I owe so much. May God, therefore—God the Father,
Author of all good—bless you ; may the Son, eternal wis-
dom of the Father, communicate to you that wisdom so
necessary amid the difficulties of life ; may the Holy Ghost,
eternal love of the Father and the Son, inspire you with
that love, so that you may love one another !"
All the officers were subsequently permitted to
kiss the ring of St. Peter.
In receiving the Finance Minister the Pope is
represented to have again expressed his unshaken
resolution to ignore the September Convention,
and not to accept, either on the question of the debt
or any other, any arrangement implying the aban-
donment of the rights of the Holy See and the re-
cognition of facts accomplished in defiance of those
rights.
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The Holy Father is also said to have communi-
cated to the Finance Minister a letter that he had
written to the Emperor on the subject of the pro-
posal contained in the Convention, that Italy should
pay that portion of the Pontifical debt due from
the former provinces of the Church. His Holiness
promised to acquaint the Ministry with the Em-
peror's reply as soon as he received it.
A telegraphic despatch from Frosinone announces
that five other brigands namely, Andreozzi,
Marino, Colella, Silvestri, and de Filippi—had sur-
rendered themselves to the authorities. Up to the
30th ult. twenty-three brigands had surrendered in
accordance with Article 9 of the Edict of the 7th
December.

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HER MAJESTY.

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OSBORNE, Mond*
Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Princess,
Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur attended
Divine service at Osborne yesterday, which viss
performed by the Rev, G. Prothero.
Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice attended
the service at Whippingham Church.