The Sun. — 1850-09-03 (London, England)

THE SUN,  " 0-r.hr and :.ecusity for life and pro2erty had mver 1,-.:aasiqi to Fevail sinco the aci.o..ion nt the Ilt,W Pope. app';ino„-ncart W 3. th, frr murder and rob• bery to ree.orou.nee threnlioiet kale P.palAt-ob. We iivel in tire eay and h rtol with al.,ral every moming the nigh disastnre. Now it was I aivocafe who had b::en murdered; and his house rob eu: next it was Macbean, the English banker, who bringing 4.000 dollar, to R)rae had been waylaid out:.,ide the gat-, to Civita Vecchia. Then it was MI. Macy!;:-rape, the well-Kneen artist, whose apartmen s, in C-ie derize.A part cf the etty, had been entered and cleared of 200/. worth of valtrabl.oi. People dreaded an application to Rossi fur redr:.ss or friendly int,Tierence a, an amino (la Reset,' but, in the lauguage of insurance companies, a lif; climb!). lota irdcus. The parliament of la3men (Tested by Pio Norio, such as it was, having been prorogu:-d, the public voice could find ho other exponent. The premier, who wrote newspaper articles him wlf, would nut tolerate nth. r journalists in reply. He wanted to suppress • Punch' (Don Pirlone) for caricaturing him, bat when he viewed hiinself depicted with desperate charcoal' on every stable gate he sa-w it was useless, and braved unpapularity with unblushing front. " Ooe of the mast exasperating of his brataloes against the Rom Alic, and which noire than all his :,cenraulati.-d sins in the ,stimajon of those who marked at the time the beating of the public pulse, aail watched the current of the town te -ling, sealed his doom, was an article from his pen against Carlo Alberto, whore, under the insulting term of 11 Pe &Lando or Le Bei Savoyard, he agempted to denigrate in the most odious colours. We marked the furious eye and gesture of the University students engaged in groups in its perusal. It Rossi had venturtd but ou that single act we felt at the time that he had done quite enough in the prevalent excitement. He had snuffed himself out by an article.' " But the chamber of lay deputies, such as it was, had to be met on the 16th of November. Not a single supporter could he count on in the Senate Iloupo, though composed exclusively of men chosen for proper ty, loyalty to the Pope, and freedom f, °ln merely popular tendencies. He called in, heaven knows why, from various country barracks, seven hundred Carabineers, a force like the mounted gendarmerie of France. These mon he actually harangued in person the night before his death, calling on them to act against the people in the event of any disturbance. The ten thousand National Guards heard in the morning that the city was not conaidere by Rossi in still:joie:4 sate keeping without a garniture of regular troops. Every shopkeeper who shouldered a firelock took this as a personal insult. The frantic fury with which in Juvenal, Tecitus, and Suctonius we find this same Rowan people gloating over the strangled body of Sejattus is merely proof that human nature is not changed, and if the same causes produce the same effects atter the lapse cf centuries, it is sheer folly to lay the blame on Republican principles." Alison's fallacies anent the fall of ancient Rome, which he attributes to the free importation of corn, are exposed in a most complete manner—not only his politico-economical fallacies exposed, but also his pretensions to classical scholarship. The writer thus concludes : " Perhaps we have been wasting space in disproving Mr. Alison's scholarship. There are blunders of such a nature, that one of them instantly betrays the mere superficial reader of the classics. At page 45 of this volume we find the following specim&l of Mr. Alison's Latinity, which, in a re-edited essay cannot be set down as an error of the press. Mr. Alison's words are: When the Mantuan bard wrote • &ape exiguus mus Sub terrain posuit domes atque horrea fecit.' " The writer who can foist such u hideous false quantity upon Virgil, needs no elaborate refutation, when he dabbles doginstically with classical literature." The " Inedited Letters' of Mrs. Piozzi are continued. The present batch relates to the publication of her anecdotes of Dr. Johnson. Mr. W. Cover gives us an interesting paper on the " Shakes and Serpent Charmers at the Zoological Gardens," and in the course of it states that he was informed by the elder of the snake-charmers, that the reptiles used by them in their exhibitions are deprived of their poison fangs b: fore they are exhibited. This at once explains the whole mystery of snake-charming. The other articles in this month's Bentley are above the usual average. It is an excellent number.