The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FIRST CONVICTION UNDER THE NEw VACCINATION
ACT.-At Wandsworth Police-court James Bovingdon
was summoned for neglecting to have his daughter vacci-
nated within three months afterbirth. The defendant
said that on principle he objected to vaccination. It
seemed that at the time of birth notice of vaccination was
given to the mother. A fine of 10s. was inflicted.

THE FOREIGN GIRLS PROTECTION SOCIETT.—At the
Middlesex Sessions Henry Bedwell was charged with
stealing five brushes. The prisoner went into the prose-
cutor's shop and represented himself as the secretary of
the Foreign Girls' Protection Society. He said that a Home
was about to be established, and the committee wanted to
see some samples of brushes. The assistant shewed him
some, and he selected five, and then said he wanted two of
a better quality for the Lady Superior. These were also
shewn him. He then said something about measuring the
lower rooms of the Home for some cocoa-nut matting.
The assistant said they would attend for that purpose in
the morning, and send the brushes at the same time. The
prisoner said that would be too late, as the committee
were about to sit that afternoon, and he wanted to submit
the brushes for their approval. On this be was allowed to
take them away, but instead of taking them to any committee
he took them direct to a pawnbroker's. He had produced a
prospectus of the society which he assumed to represent,
and this contained the names of seven persons of apparently
respectable position as a committee. Two of these were
called to spew that their names had been used without their
authority. Another, named Weston, whom the prisoner
alleged to be the promoter of the society, was said to be
dead. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. There were
a number of other cases of the same nature against the
prisoner, and sentence was postponed.
IMPORTANT TO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES.—At
Bow-street Police-court, Mr. James Block, secretary
to the Breadmaking Company (Limited), was charged
with infringements of the Companies Act—neglecting
to have the name of the company painted over the office
door, at 449, Strand, and also for using a seal on which the
name of the company was not legibly engraved. For the
first offence a penalty of 10s. per day was inflicted, and
for the second a fine of 20s. bad to be paid.

THE " FEMALE BARMAN" AGAIN.—At the Worship-
street Police-court, Mr. Parrott, landlord of the Duke's
Head public-house, Norton-folgate, was charged on
remand with having assaulted Mary Anne Walker, his
barmaid. The complainant was engaged for a term by the
defendantto act as barmaid ; they quarrelled, and she was
about to leave the house, when defendant pushed or stuck
her. Mr. Ellison was of opinion that the charge was not
substantiated, and granted a certificate marked "No
assault in law."

M. Tremy bas obtained the privilege of establish-
ing a Credit Fonder in Spa!n.

The South London Press says a musical con-
temporary has announced to the world " that the great sen-
sational preacher, Mr. Spurgeon, has been engaged for a
lecturing tour through tho United States, to commence
early in the fall." We are authorised to give an un-
qualified denial to the statement, and to say that the
gentleman's engagements at home reach over the period
mentioned above.

FUNERAL OF MR. COMMISSIONER GOULBURN.—
The mortal remains of Mr. Goulburn, Commissioner of
Bankruptcy, were on Saturday removed from Seymour-
street, Portman-square, and conveyed to the catacombs of
Kensal-green Cemetery, where they were deposited by
the side of his late wife, the lion. Catherine Goulburn.
The funeral was strictly private, in accordance with the
wishes of the deceased gentleman, and consisted of a hearse
and four horses, and four mourning coaches containing the
Immediate relatives of the deceased. The coffin bore the
following inscription :—" Mr. Serjeant Goulburn. Dicd
1868, in the 81st year of his age."

FITTING OUT OF THE GREAT EASTERN.—III a few
weeks the Great Eastern will leave the Mersey on another
cable-laying expedition, having been chartered to the new
Franco-American Telegraph Company. The big ship,
which is now lying in the Mersey, is undergoing a com-
plete overhaul, and preparations are being made on board
for the construction of the cable tanks. Up to Thursday
next the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Com-
pany (Limited) will receive tenders for the supply of 5,000
tons of best South Wales steam coal, to be delivered and
trimmed in the bunkers of the Great Eastern. The ship
will, as a matter of course, be commanded by Sir games
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ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.)

ROCCA DI PAPA, August 19.

Before proceeding with any local news of
the week, I think it important to give you
some more particulars from the official report
of the trial of the conspirators of last autumn
than I had time for last week. The moment
was well chosen for its production, as there
are abundant evidences of the preparations
even now secretly making for renewing similar
attempts. The revelations of this report, thus
viewed as a picture of horrors from which
extreme vigilance and energy alone can save
us, are most thrilling to the reader resident
on the spot. To any who have the cause of
the Papacy and of Rome at heart, they can
be scarcely less so, however.
The ranks of the sect were made up, as we
usually find, of a few ambitious men, having
for their tools the lowest of the populace. Men
who had gained the position of deputies to
the Piedmontese Parliament, and officers in
Garibaldi's army, are found in continual con-
clave with bricklayers out of work and dis-
banded soldiers. The mason who, goaded by
a continual threat of assassination, fired the
mine which ble ry up Serristori, received a
reward of fifty-three francs.
One of the plans at present brooding, it
would seem, is an attempt to draw profit out
of the failures of last year. With a fatal
superstition, the anniversaries of those various
failures are selected as the meet occasion for
revenging their loss. In fact, la vendetta di
Mentana is an expression which is fast becom-
ing a watchword among them. Fortunately,
these things are not unknown to the police,
and much mischief may be averted by two
arrests which have just been made. One is
of a man named Sagrini, one of Garibaldi's
soldiers in 1849, and a confidential agent in
Rome of the Piedmontese ministers, Della
Minerva and Teccio, in 1858, 1859, and 1860.
He has been long suspected of being the as-
sassin of Signor Evangelisti, brother of the
present colonel of the gendarmes. Letters
found upon him show that he was employed
here as the secret agent of Crispi and Menotti
Garibaldi last October. The other is a Pied-
montese named Muzetti, who also served under
Garibaldi in 1849. He was indicted on the
return of the Pope from Gaeta for several
atrocious crimes, among others of stabbing a
gendarme, and causing the parish priest of the
Minerva to be shot. He was, however, re-
leased from prison about three years later, and
in 1859 he became a member of the Revolu-
tionary Committee. By profession he is a
contractor for building operations and railway
constructions, and has some money. He owns
a villa near one of the gates of Rome, where
he harboured for some time last October
Cucchi and Guerzoni, two deputies of the
Italian Parliament, who took an active part in
directing the various Garibaldian movements.
Further, by bribing the excisemen at Fiumi-
cino, he was instrumental in introducing a
thousand muskets, several cases of revolvers,
and 300 pairs of boots. This was the booty
which Captain d'Arcy and his company had
gone out to seize at the time when the attempt
was made to blow them up at Serrsitori bar-
racks. On the occasion of the present arrest
of this Muzetti, a quantity of arms were, again
found on his premises.
Another nest of conspirators has been found
in the frequenters of the racket court of the
Villa Barberini. Racket is a popular game
with the Romans, and many young men of good
family, and even some of the princes, are wont
to try their skill against the players. Prince
Lancelotti, who formed the urban patrol in
October, is one of the foremost amateurs. The
other day, as he was preparing for the game, it
fell to one of the men, called Cialdini by his
comrades on account of his likeness to the
Piedmontese General of that name, to bind
round his arm the handkerchief which is thus
used to deaden the force of the ball in striking.
As he did so he was heard to whisper to a man
near him, " Last year his party was putting
manacles on us ; it is our turn this year !"
This is only one of many tokens that this
place has been made a rendezvous for members
of the sect; it has, consequently, been closed.
Another source of mischief has been stopped
by a contract entered into by the Pontifical
Government with a Catholic shipowner at Mar-
seilles, M. Cazeneuve, to bring over the Vol-
unteers and material for the army. This will
preserve the men from the temptations to de-
sert, with which they are plied on board the
steamboats of the Compagnie Valery.
The devices of the Revolutionary party are
endless for introducing their agents into
Rome ; at one time they are poured in by
twos and threes as chance visitors ; at another
they are sent as honest tradesmen seeking to
open some business necessitating the employ-
ment of a couple of hundred hands, who might
all be Garibaldians in disguise. The police are
well to be on the alert, but this alone is not
enough. It is absolutely necessary that the
moral effect be sustained of displaying the de-
termination of Catholics in every country to
fill up the ranks of the army, and to be more
untiring in the defence than the revolutionists
can be in their attacks.

Cardinal Reisach, Bishop of Sabina, one of
the suburbican dioceses, is making a visitation
of his See. It is said he will not leave out
that part of it which has been annexed by
Italy, whatever opposition or annoyance he
may meet with. The Germans in the Pontifi-
cal army now amount to 2,300. A reading-
room has been opened for them at Palazzo
Peretti.

The Pope held a Cappella on the Assump-
tion, or as people call it here, the .kadonna di
Agoslo, at Sta. Maria Maggiore, so-called be-
cause it is the largest church in Rome with
that dedication. It is alio called the Basilica
Liberiana, because it was built in the Ponti-
ficate of the Pope Liberius, ad presepe because
among its relics is the manger in which the
Divine Infant was laid, and ad nives because a
pious Roman noble, Giovanni Patrizzi, having
resolved in thanksgiving for the birth of a son
to build a church to our Lady, he had a vision
telling him that the spot on the Esquiline where
he should find in the morning that snow had
fallen was the chosen site of the future temple:
This occurred on the sth of August, 352, and is
commemorated by a shower of white flowers
let through apertures in the cupola of the
Lady chapel, also by a similar ceremony in
the chapel of the Madonna del Soccorso, at S.
Peter's. If I remember right, "S. Maria ad
Nives " was one of the celebrations thought
of sufficient importance to be retained as " a
black letter day" in the English Protestant
calendar.

The Pope was warmly greeted on entering
and leaving the church, and the Roman throng
was swelled by crowds of pilgrims who had
come in from the mountain villages around
for the feast, which procures them a complete
respite from labour.
The Mass at which he assisted was sung
by Cardinal Asquini, in the place of Cardinal
Patrizzi, who is ill. He was then borne in
the sedia gestatoria to the portico of Benedict
XIV., in the façade of the church, and gave
the postolic Benediction to the crowds
gathered in the vast piazza, in the midst of
which was stationed a detachment of the
troops with their band and colours. After-
wards, a number of people were admitted,
according to custom, to kiss his feet in the
sacristy, and I am told the slipper he wore
on the occasion, which bore the cross richly
embroidered as usual, was brought him last
week from the East by a Mussulman lately
converted to Christianity. In the evening the
city was illuminated.

The French, of course, had a special cele-
bration and a Te Deum at the Church of S.
Louis, M. de Sartiges going up from Frascati
purposely to attend it ; all the members of the
Legation, and several officers from Civita
Vecchia were there also.

Down here, we had also quite a grand pro-
cession for a village affair. There was a pon-
derous machine bearing a painting of th.cs