The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

GOSSIP FROM ROME.

A letter from Rome dated Nov. 8, says,—The
stormy weather which has displayed itself with
such violence in the northern seas has visited the
Mediterranean also, and will, I fear, have delayed
the arrival of my letter of the 29th ult., as the
French postal steamer Philippe Auguste, which
should have called at Civita Vecchia on the follow-
ing morning for the mails and passengers, continued
her course direct for Marseilles without venturing
to encounter the somewhat dangerous entrance of
the port. Two English sailing vessels, however,
whose captains were probably made of "sterner
stuff" than the French commander, entered the
harbour boldly and successfully the same morning
with cargoes of salt cod for the recreation of the
more scrupulous observers of fasts among his Holi-
ness's subjects. The Philippe Auguste gained no-
thing by her caution, as after beating about from
Sunday to Wednesday, the 2dNov., she wasobliged
to put into Leghorn, whence, on the following day,
she pursued her voyage, coastwise, to Marseilles,
resolved to avoid the further fury of the open seas.
The Durance, French screw-steamer, was indeed
kept in durance at Leghorn by stress of weather,
having made several fruitless attempts on the same
day to continue her course towards Civita Vecchia.
This vessel having been struck by a heavy sea which
injured her machinery and swept overboard two
unfortunate deck passengers, was obliged to return
into the port of Leghorn.
We are still in the midst of contradictory rumours
with regard to•the Pope's intentions respecting the
future fate of his dominions, but the last version is
that he is disposed to accept the conditions hinted
at in Napoleon's letter to Victor Emmanuel, per-
haps anticipating that difficulties will be raised
this time by Victor Emmanuel himself, whose obli-
gations contracted towards the people of Italy
counterbalance those contracted by Napoleon at
Villafranca. At any rate, propositions pending
have the effect of preventing any immediate effu-
sion of blood in the Legations; and it is to be
hoped that the supplies of lint, bandages, medi-
cines, surgeons, and sisters of charity, recently for-
warded to the head-quarters of the Papal army in
expectation of an immediate exgagement, will not
be required by the foreign or indigenous supporters
of the Papal throne.
Apropos of supporters of the Papal throne, the
recently augmented palatine guard, consisting of
Roman shopkeepers and masters of trades, selected
from the most zealous partisans of the present Go-
vernment, made its first public appearance on the
festival of San Carlo, when his Holiness repaired
in state to the chuch dedicated to that saint, in
grand gala. his reception by the people was an
entirely silent one—so much so, indeed, as appa-
rently to confirm the previous report that a silent
and chilling demonstration had been contemplated;
'but there were few spectators to make any demon-
stration either of one kind or another.

The same varying reports which alternately
affirm and deny the Pope's pliability to the wishes
and suggestions of the French Emperor alternately
state and contradict the proximate departure from
Rome of the French garrison. On this head I can
merely repeat to you the conviction of several French
officers of high standing here—namely, that there
is no probability of the French troops being with-
drawn for the present ; and that there is every pro-
bability of their occupying the same position a year
hence that they do at the present moment.
Mr. A. H. Layaril, who is upon intimate terms
with Cardinal Antonelli, is stated, before his de-
parture for Florence, to have given valuable advice
to his Eminenec with regard to the most judicious
course to be steered by the oft-mentioned " mystic
barque" in the present emergency ; but his Emi-
nence's political opinions are of so decided a calibre
that they will hardly be influenced by any con-
trary counsels. In the present state of the Italian
difficulty every delay is looked upon as a gain by
the partisans of the old regime. who affirm that with
the mere condition of a little time everything will
return to its former state; and that the riding of
Austrian cannon is synonymous with the restora-
tion of Italian legitimacy. Nor is it supposed by
politicians of the same class that the forces of Ro-
magna will hold together so long as to be able to
resist Some not very distant onslaught of his Holi-
ness's cosmopolitan warriors at the Cattolica, aided
by the disembarkation, at Rimini, of the Neapoli-
tan army, now collected for that purpose in the
province of Aquilla, and a simultaneous invasion of
his hereditary States by the Duke of Modena with
his Austro-Estense army, concerning the existence
or non-existence of which so much has been said.
I do not put forward those contingencies as likely
to happen, but merely in elucidation of the means
proposed by the partisans of a vi et arnais
restoration of Papal and Ducal despotism in
the Italian peninsula Meanwhile the trading and
artistical portions of the Roman community are
dismayed at the slowness of arrivals in the Eternal
City. The hesitation displayed by wealthy fo-
reigners in venturing to fix their winter residence
in this city occasions serious loss to the numerous
classes who have looked forward to the winter sea-
son for the acquisition of their usual annual re-
sources, and they are the more mortified because the
perfect tranquillity of Rome, where the decision of
political eventr is looked for from abroad, and the
presence of the French army, itself a guarantee of
public tranquillity, might well suffice to inspire
the most timid with confidence.
The Duke de Grammont is still anxious for the
recovery of his eldest child, a fine boy eight or nine
years old, and fond of active games, during the
prosecution of which in the duke's-presence he had
a very sevege fall, in the greunds of their villa at
Frascati, some days ago, which fractured his arm
at the elbow in a manner which has hitherto proved
beyond the skill of the surgeons to reduce, especially
as inflammation has set in during the period neces-
sary to convey the child from Frascati to Rome.

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COUNT CATOUR's OPINION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
—Not long since, M. de Cavour said to a personal friend :
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land represents the one great principle of abstract freedom ;
it it were possible that she could be worsted in a struggle
with France, no freeborn man would anylonger be in safety
on the entire continent of Europe."
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