The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

NG, JUNE 15, 1868.

has devoted himself so untiringly to their
interests.

In confirmation of the opinion expressed as
above by Mgr. Stonor; that the secret intrigues
of Piedmont are still at work here, I may men-
tion that five men were taken in a boat in the
Tiber last night, provided with all sorts of im-
plements for mining, which they had hoped to
have brought in thus quietly, and in the dark.
Admission has been gained for other conspira-
tors, by detaining at the trontier the passports
of visitors to Naples, and using them in their
absence. _ _ _

Cardinal Capalti will take possession of his
title church, Sta. Maria in Aquiro, on the 14th.
Cardinals Ferrieri and Barili will receive their
hats at the next Consistory, they could not
receive them in that in which they were
conferred on the Cardinals created at the same

time, because they were then detained abroad
by their diplomatic functions.
We have this week been called to lament

the loss of a very amiable and distinguished
prelate, Mgr. Giraud, Auditor of the Apostolic
Camera, Master of the Fabric of St. Peter's,
Visitor of the Manicomio of the Fabbrica of
Mosaics. His death was caused by indigestion,
brought on by having to dine off eels fauto de
mieax at Fiumicino. His brother died of apo-
plexy only three days later. Oddly enough,
two of their brothers died in a similar way
only a year or two ago. He -was buried on
Tuesday night. The procession left his palace
in the Piazza del' Ara Cceli at 9.30: passed
round the Minerva Piazza, then back through
the Corso to S. Marco, his parish church. Two
or three Confraternities, with which he was
associated, vested in their various habits, and
a body of Capuchins and Franciscans bearing
torches followed the bier, on which lay the
purple mantelletta of a Monsignore. The next
day had been appointed for an audience on
his appointment as uditore della camera.
A fresh detachment:of twenty-five Canadian
volunteers, as hearty as those who have pr€
ceded them, arrived on Tuesday. The Cana-
dians have now a very commodious and well-
situated library, reading and billiard room of
their own.

A manual of devotion, proposing to keep
June as the month of St. Peter as March is
the month of St. Joseph, has become very
popular. The devotions of the month of May
have been well attended, and by none more
regularly than by the soldiers. Most of the
companies arranged a little chapel in their
quarters, where they daily recited Litanies
together. The most conspicuous was that of
the 7th company of the Ist Battalion, now
stationed at Tivoli, the soul of it being the
Peraviarr Sergeant Sevilla, whose gallantry in
the late campaign extorted a mention in my
letters more than once. Ile is now happily
recovered from all his wounds, and his un-
bounded devotion to our Lady, which made
him accept his sufferings with so much en-
thusiasm, prompted him to lead his fellow-
soldiers in this devotion. • The Bishop of
Tivoli, hearing of their daily gatherings, was
pleased to attend on the last evening and give
Benediction, which was received with military
honours, nearly the whole company having
received Communion athis hands in the morn-
ing.
I think I forgot to mention at the time that
Rome was also visited in May by a large band
of Tirolean peasants, who were often to be met
at the various shrines, habited in their pic-
turesque national costume ; dark green coat
with scarlet facings, white stockings and green
velvet knee-breeches, confined round the waist
with embroidered belts and high pointed hats,
ornamented with plumes and feathers and little
silver images. They brought 300,000 francs as
an offering from their parishes to the support
of the Papal army.

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THE PRESIDENT'S ACQUI2TAL.

(From ti,el Avio-Anuricati Tinvs.)

The Democrats predicted that the acquittal of
the PRESIDENT would be fatal to the Republicans,
or that his conviction and deposition would be fatal
to the Constitution. It is not, as will soon be
proved, such proceedings, but the motives from
which they spring, that de4roy parties or Constitu-
tions. Ila 1 the design been, as some allege, to
establish an oligarchy in the supremacy of Congress,
then the motives of the leaders being corrupt and
selfish, the party, if the Obre remain virtuous,
must eventually collapse. But if the Impeachers
regarded ANDREW JOHNSON as a wilful and obsti-
nate obstruction in the way of necessary and bene-
ficial legislation, if they believed his motives to be
improper and his action as unrestrained as illegal,
then they were justified in treating the question of
removal as the Constitution directs. Precisely as
in the trial Mr. JOHNSON'S guilt or innocence
hinged on his motives, so does that of the party
in'the prosecution. If they intended well, they are,
or will be, justified in the eye of the nation ; if not,
then the course might be fatal. Supposing, as is in
truth the case, that with a full mixture of greedy,
selfish intentions in individuals, the party in the
main meant well, there are reasons for believing
that the effect, instead of being injurious, will be
advantageous. It is notorious that the party de-
sired to remove ANDREW JOHNSON —that four-fifths
of the representatives we -Republicans, that out
of nine Sanators seven were Republican—that Mr.
giving them deadly off.3nce, hal faile I
JOHNSON, in
to draw the opposition to his side, and that he was
not oily without a back, but unpopular throughout
the country. The power of the purse, of the sword,
and of the law, were all with Congress, for the
PRESIDENT had clearly infringed a statute, and ex-
posed himself to the penalty his enemies so desired
to inflict, and the Senate could, had it been guided
only by political objects, have deposed him by a
breath. The circumstances warranted the world in be-
lieving that those who had such power would use it
to ace nroplish this end ; yet, to the honour of Repub-
lican institutions, to the honour of the party holding
the obnoxious PRESIDENT'S fate in their hands, to
the honour of the august assembly before whom he
was tried, they refrained from taking advantage of
legal quibbles, and honestly decided on the motives
which appeared to them to actuate the accused.
This was done in the full belief that it involved a
great injury to their party, and political ruin to a
certain section of their best men. Yet the action
was endorsed by many of the most esteemed
and influential of the Republican p arty. As usual
in such cases, those best able to judge, and
actuated by pure motives, will be seen to have been
only in advance of the national sentiment. When
the p:.ople have time to form a correct opinion, it is
more than probable that they will endorse the ap-
proval of the Senate's Verdict given by numerous
good Republicans. If so they will sanction the
course of the party, and award to it both credit for
, checking a President in. what was considered an
illegal course, and in acquitting that President

when on trial his acts were not shown to be dictated
by guilty motives. The leaders of the Republican
party may appear to the.country to have been the
zealous guardians of the people's liberty, yet the
scrupulous dispenser of law and equity and the up-
holder of the national honour. Sinking all the
paltry intrigue that so debases and sullies political
action in America, the verdict of the world and of
history may be what we have stated, for the broad
facts will stand forth, while the minor details upon
which all eyes are now fixed at Washington, and
generally throughout the Union, will sink int) obli-
vion. If tha trial redounds to the honour of the
Union, as a movement of. the Republican party, it
may roasonably b 3 expected in benefiting the na-
tion to benefit themselves.
It is a matter of doubt and discussion in the
United States whether a conviction weak! have
ben for the national good, and on the whole it
is believed that the ve.r het best promotes the public
weal. The present and all future Presidents have
been taught a useful lesson. Previous to his trial Im-
peachment was a vague threat, a dead letter in the
Constitution. It was a power of removal the dread of
which never influenced the Chief M tgistrate's actions.
It has now been shown to be an effectual means of

testing his conduct, and of cutting short, if illegal;
his career. Henceforth it cannot be ignored, and
wilt act as an incentive to gaol behaviour.
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jOLINSON'S motives really been impure, he