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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAWR 23, 1868.

been made to Paris for larger pieces of artil-
lery, and the reply received was that' thig
should be sent immediately—there was eve!.33-
reason to apprehend that they would be re-
quired. The division is composed of two bri -
gades. It is commanded by General Dumont,.
who was comandante di piazza during the first.
French occupation. The appointment is mos t
satisfactory, as it would not be possible to find
a French officer more devoted to the Pope and
the Papal Government.
I have already spoken of overtures made by
the Italian to the Pontifical Generals to renew
the convention of last year for the suppression
of brigandage. Notwithstanding the evil use
then made of it the Papal Government has
shown its readiness to forgive injuries, and at
the same time its fearlessness before the ma-
noeuvres of its enemies, by yielding to the pro-
posal.
Colonel Azzanesi went down to Ponte-Cen-
tino on Saturday to arrange details, and to in-
troduce certain clauses calculated to assert the
dignity of the Pontifical army. With those.
modifications the Convention is now re-estab-
lished.

Nor was the measure hasty or ill-considered.
The Papal Government has by it's means cut
away the pretence for grievances which could
have been made out of brigands hired for the
purpose, while its own measures are taken to
provide against the abuses of the provisions of
the Convention, which may be foreseen, and
nullify the sinister intentions which all believe
to have prompted the application for its re-
newal.

The Papal Army has received a notable
accession this week in the arrival of the first
instalment of the contingent promised by
Canada for the Zouaves. One hundred and
forty of them marched into Rome on Tuesday,
the band of the Zouaves meeting them at the
Railway Station, and conducting them to their
quarters at St. Francesca a Ripa. In spite of
the fatigues of the journey they visited the
shrine of the Apostles, in a body, the same day.
They are a remarkably fine-looking body of
men, full of spirit, enthusiasm, and determi-
nation. Many of them belong to the wealthier
classes, and bear all their own expenses. The
Canadian Committee provides those of all the
rest, so that they arrive without any cost to
the Pontifical exchequer. They bring with
them also their own chaplain.
That the movement has been a national
one may be gathered from the above, and fur-
ther from this that their Zouave uniforms, as
well as an undress uniform of very convenient
cut, of substantial coloured cloth, with a white
foraging cap, has been provided by the ladies
of Canada, who have also worked their colours,
a very marvel of cunning embroidery, and
estimated at 1,000 dollars in value.
They have engaged for two years, with only
the privilege reserved of returning to their own
country in case of necessity for its defence.
The greater part have already been trained
to arms in the native volunteer. and militia
regiments. •
A. second detachment of 150 is promised by
the end of the month.

They will shortly have an audience of the
Pope, and as few of them require more train-
ing than they have already had they will
almost immediately be draughted into various
corps, and there is no danger but they will do
credit both to the appearance and the strength
of the army.
It may be imagined that Italy does not see
this inpouring of volunteer antagonists, which
her attempts against the rights of the Holy
See have raised up against herself, with-
out seeking to revenge herself by whatever
means she can command. Thus her efforts at
tempting the Pope's soldiers to desertion have
not ceased, and it is singular that it can be
worth while to keep up all the machinery it
requires, and furnish the expense it requires,
to compass one deserter, for with all her golden
bribes an occasional Swiss or Legionary is all
she obtains.

General Caroll Jervis, of the Confederate
States, has just received the honour of being
named cameriere di cappa e Spada, or honorary
chamberlain to his Holiness. He is very desir-
ous of working in the Pontifical cause, and has
been promised a place on the staff of the
General-in-Chief in case of future hostilities.
In the meantime he is engaged in organizing a
committee for subsidizing the Papal army from
America, to be called the Society of St. Michael,
and has already had an opportunity of laying
at his Holiness's feet the small first fruit of
his exertions.
On one of the early days of this month ap-
propriated to the honour of St. Joseph, M.
Buffet, editor of a monthly Paris journal en-
titled le Propagateur de la Devotion, a St.
Joseph, was admitted to present the collection
for the same object made at the office of his
paper, and the Pope wrote on the margin of
the address accompanying it, " Dominus bene-
dicat tibi et dirigat cor tuum et intelligentiam
gdaetvotthieon of St. Joseph was
same time his satis-
tfaueatmie,n" etxhpartestshine
every where on the increase. Numbers of
Roman churches commenced on Tuesday their
usual novena in his honour. The Irish College
begins to-day a triduo in honour of St. Pat-
rick.

Among the works in preparation for the
Council is, I hear, an important one committed
to the section presided over by Cardinal Biz-
zarri, Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops
and Regular Clergy. It proposes the reunion
into the great family of St. Benedict of orders
such as the Olivetans, Camaldolese, Sylves-
trians,B46c., who profess St.
special constitutions,
enedic Vteraomlberousniadnesr,
and for the most part but one house of their
kind. Cardinal Bizzarri is said to have written
to the generals of these various orders asking
for their views of this reform.

The Queen of Naples goes to-morrow to
Vienna to be present at the accouchement of
her sister, the Empress of Austria,

AUSTRIA AND THE CONCORDAT.

The Archiv fair Kirchenrecht, an Austrian
paper edited by Herr Vering, and chiefly de-
voted to questions of Canon Law, gives the
following details of the negotiations that have
been for some time going on between Austria
and the Holy See on the question of the
revision of the Concordat. The excellent cha-
racter which this paper enjoys allows us to
believe that the account it gives of .the subject
is correct.

In the month of August, 1867, says the
Archly, Herr von Rye, the Austrian provisional
Minister of Worship summoned to Vienna Pro-
fessor Schulte of Prague, and employed him
to draw out designs for several changes in the
Concordat with the Holy See, which changes
Professor Schulte was to assist Baron von
Hiibner to negotiate at Rome. Von Rye en-
tertained hopes that Rome would grant to the
whole of Austria a general dispensation from
the formalities prescribed by the Council of
Trent for the due celebration of matrimony—
a dispensation that would apply as well to the
marriage of Catholics as to mixed marriages.
The ground for this hope was that (as the
Viennese authorities pretend) the Tridentine
decrees on marriage not having been suffi-
ciently promulgated are not binding inHun-
gary and in the countries connected with Hun-
gary. In like manner hopes were entertained
that they would obtain a modification of the
laws regarding the religious education of the
children born of mixed marriages ; likewise
the dissolubility of marriage, and the right
to marry again on the part of the Protestant
party (after a divorce from a Catholic) ; civil
jurisdiction over mixed marriages; the annul-
ment of the civil prohibition of the marriage
of apostate priests and monks ; and modifica-
tions in the law regarding ecclesiastical sepul-
ture. They hoped that Rome would either
explicitly or implicitly accede tothese requests.
Baron Hahne; however, delayed his depar-
ture for Rome for some time, and at last re-
fused to have anything to do with the mission.
Meanwhile, the Austrian bishops met inVienna,
and drew up an address to the Emperor de-
precating these proposed changes. Alter this