The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin, of the 4th, an-
nounces that the judicial authorities, have determined
to proceed against a priest, named RUMIANO, curate
of Villar-Alinese, by appeal for abuse (the same plea
on which Munsignor FxAxzoNl has been exiled), for
having refused the sacraments to Sig. GIUSEPPE
DARIO, the tax-collector of that parish, for having
contributed to the subscription for the monument to
be raised in honour of the Siccardi law.
Some time ago the Opinione, of Turin, mentioned
an attempt of Monsignor CONTRATO, Bishop of Acqui,
to punish a priest for having adhered to the Siccardi
law. The facts of the case are as follows :—Advocate
Caaaozzr, a priest, one of the Syndics of the Com-
mune of Cassins, and Director of Public Instruction,
had subscribed to the monument for the Siccardi law,
and invited the municipality, of which he is
president, to do the same. On hearing this,
the Bishop of ACQUI summoned him to make
a public recantation by declaring his conviction
that his adhesion to the Siccardi law was contrary to
the laws of the Church. Sig. CAIZUOZZI demurred,
upon which the Bishop wrote to him, enjoining him
to have the required protest inserted in the Gazzetta del
Popolo,withiu five days, on pain of suspension a divinis.
Instead of complying with this injunction, Sig. CAR-
Eozzr had now appealed to the laws of the country
against it, and we learn from the Opinione, of the
4ch, that the Advocate-General of the Magistrate of
Appeal of Monferrato has declared his intention of
taking into serious consideration the case presented
by Sig. CARROZZI. The position of Monsignor CON‘-
TRATTO is further aggravated by the circumstance of
his having intimated to another priest, Don AIOR
BELLI, who is not in the habit ot saying mass, and
who therefore would be little moved by a suspension a
divinis, that he (the Bishop) would refuse him the
Sacraments in case of an illness befalling him, because
he, too, had subscribed to the Siccardi monument.
The Opinione mentions several other similar cases
that have occurred in the diocese of Fossano, Novaro,
and Genoa.

LORD COCKRURN.—We are happy to learn that
the latest aceounts of his Lordship's health are favourable,
his recovery being gradual, though necessarily tedious. We
learn that his Lordship is expected to be able to undertake
the journey homewards from Dumfries to-day or to morrow.
HEALTH OF THE LORD ADVOCATE.—We under-
stand that while there is not much apparent improvement
in his Lordship's health, he has been no worse during the
last few days. Monday's account represented his Lordship
as no better.
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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—A quarterly meeting of
the governors of the Royal Free Hospital was held yesterday
in the board-room of the institution (Captain Roxburgh in
the chair), when the report from the weekly board stated
that 6,1i91 patients had been under treatment during the
last quarter—that the expenditure had exceeded the income
by 2271., but that the committee felt the strongest hope
that, through the benevolence of the public, there would be
no necessity for diminishing their sphere of usefulness.
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The usual monthly
meeting of this society was held on Monday evening, Mr.
G. R. Waterhouse, president, in the chair. Mr. Guyon and
Mr. Potter were elected subscribers to the society. Mr. S.
Stevens exhibited some beautiful new Lepidoptera he had
received from Mr. Bates, from Ega, on the Upper Amazons ;
Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Aphomia.nuella, from
Dover; Mr. Bond exhibited an Hermaphrodite, Arctia Caja,
and a curious variety of Sphinx, Ligustri ; Mr. Westwood
exhibited a Coccinella Septem-punctata, and a Lepidopterous
larva impaled on the thorns of furze bushes; these had been
found in Scotland by Mr. Gould, and'in this case they could
not have been so impaled by shrikes, as those birds are not
known to occur so far north. An extremely interesting
paper by Mr. Newman, on the various ways different species
of bees have of abstracting honey from snap-dragons, was
then read.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—WOOLWICH OCT. 9.--Abou
half-past twelve o'clock yesterday a boat belonging to the
Dolphin revenue cutter, containing five men, one a custom-
house officer and five rowers, when leaving a brig they had
boarded off Woolwich Dockyard, cast off at the moment the
Sylph, Woolwich Company's steam-packet, was approaching,
and before the boat could get out of the way and the steamer
eased, it was cut in two, and the whole of the men went
under the wheel of the steamer. Four of the men were
saved with the assistance of the boat belonging to her Ma-
jesty's dockyard lighter the Ann, and taken on board the
Lightning steam-vessel. One of the men, named Manning,
was drowned, and another severely hurt. There is no blame
whatever attached to the Sylph, as her captain and crew did
all in their power, under the circumstances, to avert the
melancholy ~.coident. The drowned man has left a wife and
three children to lament his loss, and the body has not yet
bie:i found.

THE FILIMLEY MURDER.—We have been informed
that in the chain of evidence accumulating sgaimt the parties
in custody for this atrocious crime. not the least important
will be the incident that a token, which might be mistaken
for a penny, has been found on one of them, and can be iden-
tified by Mrs. Holiest as having been given to her the day
before by the village schoolmistress.
COLOSSEUM.—The Panorama of Paris, which has
been so attractive, is about shortly to be removed, to be re-
placed by another picture by Hanson and Sons, and which is
NOW in a state of great forwardness. We would, therefore,
strongly recommend a visit to this extraordinary work of arc
before ita anal ieplinal• , _