The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-03 00:00:00

INDIA.

The following heads of intelligence, dated up to July 7,
are extracted from the Times of India :
Mr. Balfour, the newly-appointed secretary of the Bank
of Bombay, has arrived in Bombay.

It is understood that Colonel Merewether will at
once assume the duties of his office as Commissioner n
Bind.

The new viaduct over the Mhow-ke Mullee, on the
G. L P. Railway, has been reopened, and the traffic of
the line between Bombay and Poona is now without a
break.

Messrs. Alexander H. Campbell and Abdullah D.
Bassoon, C. 5.1., have been appointed additional members
of the Legislative Council of Bombay.
A dividend at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum for the
half-year ending 30th June last, has beeu declared by the
13ank of Bengal.

The commission appointed to inquire into the losses of
the Old Bank of Bombay resumed their sittings last week,
when some of the principal witnesses were examintd at
great length. Mr. J. Stuart (the liquidator of the old
bank), Mr. Justice Westropp, Mr. Foggo, and Mr.
Lidderdale (two of the old directors), and one or two other
witnesses have been examined.

Major-General the Hon. A. Gordon has been ap-
pointed Provisional Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay
army.

OBITUART.—Captain Harris, Veteran Establidluntnt ;
and Lieutenant Gosling, 60th Rifles.

Oatmeal has been milled from corn of this year's
crop at Aberdeen. It was part of an early field belonging
to Mr. John Byers there.

SIGNOR ARDITI.— This distinguished conductor
and composer, already decorated with the Order of the
Medjidie, has just received from the Sultan, in recogni-
tion of the Turkish ode written by Signor Arditi on the
occasion of the Sultan's visit to England, the diploma of
an officer of that order.

A MONSTER COCOONERY. —ln Nevada a Mr.
Hoag has a cocoonery fifty feet square and eighteen feet
high. His nursery and hatching room, containing 1,000
feet of shelves, are sufficient for making 2,000,000 cocoons.
His nursery is heated artificially. lie is now feeding
nearly 1,000,000 silkworms, and he hopes soon to feed
3,000,000.

A letter from Ems relates that the King of
Prussia, while walking under the colonnade in that town
a few days back, with his aides-dc-camp, Count de
Lehndorff and Count de Ifymnen, perceived in a shop a
marble bust of himself, crowned with a wreath of laurcl.
Going in, he said to the dealer:—" Take off the poor inan's
head-dress ; he does not like to see himself made such a
show."

To obviate the danger of poisoning by coloured
sweetmeats, Dr. Artus shews how a beautiful green colour,
devoid of poisonous properties, can be obtained, which
appears, moreover, to be very economial. Five grains of
saffron are shaken up with ioz. of distilled water, and the
mixture allowed to stand twenty four hours ; at the same
time 4grs. of indigo carmine are shaken up with ioz. of dis-
tilled water, and the mixture also allowed to stand for twenty.
four hours. At the end of this time, the two solutions are
mixed together, which produce a very fine green ao:ution
capable of COlollring 110 than 011. otatia'ar.

ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.)

ROME, July 25.

From what I hear it seems likely that the
Pope will not go into the country this year ;
he is, however, expected to pay another visit
to the camp about the 3rd or 4th of August.
His health continues flourishing, and. all
through this hot season he has continued to
perform all the public duties required of him,
both as King and as Pontiff. This is the
more remarkable that his age, though it has
been commonly reported to be seventy-seven,
is in reality seventy-nine ; the error arising
from some confusion in the record of the date
of his birth at the time the revolution broke
out in central Italy.
Contradictory reports continue to reach u. 4
from Austria, and I am not in a position at
present to send you any very reliable informa-
tion on the subject. Reports are received
here of strong popular movements in Hungary
in favour of the maintenance of the Concordat ;
and the disgrace of Beust is still considered
imminent by many. Meantime, a curious ex-
ample to revolutionary states has been set by
Portugal, where the late crisis has ended in the
appointment of a Franciscan, FrA Antonio,
made Bishop of Viszen in the Consistory of
September, 1862, to the post of Minister of
the Interior.

Count and Countess Girgenti embarked at
Civita Vecchia on Tuesday night on board the
Isabella 11. They make first for Austria,
where they will visit the Court first, and after-
wards the Queen of Naples. They will then
visit the Count de Chambord, and then the
Emperor of the French, returning to Madrid,
where the count holds an appointment of
colonel of a regiment of hussars, in the
autumn.

The commissions charged with preparing
the minutes for consideration of the General
Council are pursuing their labours, and a new
one has been appointed to take cognizance of
Church ceremonial. The Pope has lately
summoned several ecclesiastics from Spain
and America to come to Rome this winter and
take part in this work, it being his desire
that all countries should be represented in
each commission.
The debates in the French Chamber of De-
puties on the 10th, on the subject of the Coun-
cil, have not passed without notice here. M.
Gneroult, in his long speech, betrayed all the
intense hatred with which the subject inspires
the revolutionary sects. M. 011ivier, a man
of more imagination than judgment, while
repeatedly rendering his testimony to the
courage the Pope has displayed in summoning
an (Ecumenical Council at a moment when
he is attacked on all sides, yet drew the con-
clusion that the Bull, 2Eterni Patric, is a pro-
clamation of the separation of Church and
State, than which no statement could be more
false, seeing that the Syllabus expressly con-
demns the proposition that Ecclesia a Stahl
Statusque ab Ecclesid seiungenclus est. M.
Baroche undertook the reply to these two
speakers, and did so in a rather involved
speech, in whieh he, of course, took care to
protest against the principle, being one that
would not at all suit the Emperor's Govern-
ment, which lays claim to be admitted to the
Council.

M. de Sartiges has been some little time in
communication with the Roman Government
on this subject, and speaks of it as if he expected
to succeed. He has every motive to press the
matter, first in order to blot out by his success
the check the Emperor received through him
in the refusal of the cardinalate for Mgr. Dar-
boy ; and, secondly, because such a triumph
bears with it hopes of a place in the Senate
when his time comes for retiring from diplo-
matic life. The line of argument he has taken
up is this—" that the holy Roman Empire "
having ceased to exist, and France having
rendered signal services to the Holy See, she
has, ipso facto, ascended to the position so long
held by the holy Roman Empire.
General Zappi's Brigade returned into Rome
early this morning, looking all the more soldier-
like from the dust of their march and the
bronzing the sun has given them, notwith-
standing the white linen head-gear which has
been serN ed out to them. They started at
eleven last evening, taking the cool night-time
for the march. The next brigade ordered to
make experience of the camp is nominally un-
der General de Courten, but as he is absent on
home-leave, Colonel Allet will probably preside
over it, at all events at first. It takes up its
quarters early next week, but eight men from
each company will go down to-morrow to
make all in order. General Zappi's brigade
had a very pretty field-day before breaking up,
and of course a crowd of spectators went out
to assist at the spectacle, who rendered due
justice to the admirable appearance of the
troops. The conduct of both officers and men
has indeed called forth the highest praise dur-
ing their stay, as well for regularity of dis-
cipline and for assiduity in all the offices of
religion, as for their good feeling towards the
inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The King
of Naples paid a visit to the camp on Wed-
nesday, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel de
Charette and Don Alfonso of Spain. The
troops were put through several manoeuvres,
in one of which the King took the command.
He afterwards slept in General Kanzler's apart-
ment in Rocca di Papa.
The Zouaves continue to receive accessories
of volunteers. They are asking impatiently, , '
however, when the promised rifles from Eng-
land are going to make their appearance. A
few, indeed, have come, but only a few, and
there have been reports of the arrival of more, 1
but it has turned out to be only report. I
know one spirited lad at least, though really
probably there are more, who, needing change
of air, gave up availing himself of his conge,
in order not to lose the opportunity of practis-
ing himself in the use of the new arm, and after
all it has not come! I hope our people at
home will consider the disappointment, the
long—now more than six months'—delay is
calculated to cause, as well as the fact that if
we are to have another campaign, as many ex-
pect this autumn, their weapons- will be of
tenfold value if they are sent in time for
the men to be familiarized with them, than if
they can only be dealt out at the eleventh hour.
If the delay is occasioned by an increase in
the number, it might be more easily borne. If
people in England could see the earnest looks
of those who, feeling that they have offered
their young lives and all they hold dear to the
cause, think perhaps that the donation of a
couple of pounds to provide them with a suit-
able weapon is no great matter in comparison,
I am sure they would be moved to respond to
their anxious and natural wish.

The French troops are going on very quietly
at Civita. Vecchia. I hear they have just re-
ceived a considerable importation of fresh
stores, including some thousand new beds.
A commission, which was appointed to audit
the accounts of the army administration de-
partment, has just brought its labours to a
close, and seems to have found the whole in a
very satisfactory condition. Though some
purchases had to be made at high prices dur-
ing the pressure of last October, this is com-
mended as a wise economy under all the cir-
cumstances, and the general arrangements
arc pronounced to show a very careful manage-
ment of the funds.

This creditable report may serve to set at
rest the idle stories which have been circu-
lated to discourage the generosity of the faith-
ful. It would not appear, however, that they
have exercised any very seriously damaging
influence, as the even flow of material aid,
whereby Catholics are determined to support
the head of their religion as long as there is a
head, proceeds unchecked. The Giornale had
to publish a supplement the other day to con-
tain the lists of offerings it had to announce.
The Archbishop of Bruges sent 25,000 francs
as the offering of his diocese on St. Peter's
Feast, and every day there are new offerings.
The census of the year 1867-8 has been
lately completed. The increase of the popu-
lation was materially checked by the ravages

of the cholera last autumn. It made 500
orphans, who are being well taken care of
through the charity of the clergy and nobility.
The total number of the population is given
at 201,183, of whom 103,560 are men.
Another interesting report has also been
brought out—that of the committee for the
care of the wounded of the Mentana campaign.
It consisted chiefly of those noblemen, gentle-
men and townsmen, who had formed the corps
of volunteers for supplementing the defence of
the city. Their co-operation with the military
having been superseded by the arrival of the
French troops, they sought another sphere of
usefulness in tending the wounded. Besides
going on to the field to gather them in, they
opened hospitals in Rome to receive them.
The Prince of Sarsina (Aldobrandini) gave
the house for one of these, where, through the
kindness of Romans and visitors, everything
necessary was provided, and the prompt organi-
zation of the service was due to the zealous
labours of Count de Bianchi, Marchese Cap-
ranica, and Signori Gatti and Patti.
Prince Lancellotti was among the most in-
defatigable in searching the field of battle, as
well as in looking after the sick, and still more
in organizing the volunteer watchers, who for
three months continued in relays to watch for
four hours at a time by the bedside of the
wounded, rendering all the help of which they
stood in need. Circumstances threw the Gari-
baldians chiefly under their care, which did
not diminish on that account. The Surgeons
Tancioni, Lang, Sirolli and Laborde, saw their
gratuitous services recompensed by the most
satisfactory results ; four only out of forty-six
having died, a very small proportion in cases
of gunshot wounds.
Don Luigi Sbordoni and other ecclesiastics
administered the sacraments, and two, at least,
of these four Garibaldians died giving every
testimony of sincere penitence. One was not
a Catholic.

The society which had for its president Mar-
chese Patrizi, for its treasurer Marchese Cava-
letti, and for its secretary Signor Frenza, further
provided warm clothing for the discharged
prisoners, many of whom were, of course, from
the nature of their antecedents, in a very desti-
tute condition.

A curious remnant of mediteval customs has
just received its due observance. Formerly
several Confraternities were endowed with the
power of obtaining on stated festivals the grace
of a criminal under sentence of capital punish-
ment ; now, only the Confraternity della inorte
retain their privilege, and the remission is
further confined to prisoners condemned to
penal servitude for life. This Confraternity,
one of whose special works is to bring into
Rome and give Christian sepulture to bodies
of persons who may die or be killed in the
open country twenty miles round Rome, met
on Sunday last in their oratory, in the Via,
Giulia Sta. Maria dell' orazione, to deliberate
as to the case most worthy of their intervention
on the feast of the Assumption. They finally
decided in favour of a young man who, having
been jilted by his innarnorata under peculiar
heartless circumstances, and meeting her sud-
denly, after trying to avoid the temptation, had
yielded to the sudden impulse and taken her
life.

To-night, Cardinal Antonelli's fete, he gives
an open reception at the Vatican.
The Emir of the Libanus, Joseph Karam,
has been staying here some days. He has
had an audience of the Holy Father, which
he attended in a superb oriental costume.
He also paid a visit to the camp, on which oc-
casion he presented General Kanzler with a
magnificent white burnous, richly embroidered
with gold.
The weather continues all that can be desired.
By leaving the windows open at night, the
outside persiani shut all day till evening, I
generally keep my rooms under eighty degrees;
the highest they have been up to is eighty-
five degrees. Still, leaving the persiani open
even for a few minutes will send the thermo-
meter up ten degrees. The agriculturists who
raised so loud a cry against the unprecedented
visitation of rain, begin now to think that it
was rather a good thing after all. The harvest,
though unusually late, will be very fine ; and
it is a year of such abundance, that, notwith-
standing the damage done to the vines by the
hail, there will yet remain more than the ave-
rage of ordinary years.