The Sun. — 1855-12-28 (London, England)

XIV., before appointing rulers t. the vacant churches, we have determined to aggregate in your most ample college an ecclesiastic, most acceptable to ourself and to the very pious prince, and well deserving of Catholicism and the Holy See, who has given his most earnest endeavours to the formation of the convention. This is our venerable brother, Joseph Othmar Rauscher, Archbishop of Vienna, who, sprung from a noble line, powerful in acuteness of intellect, illustrious by his learning in philosophical and divine subjects, and especially his sacred eloquence and tried fidelity to this chair of Peter, learnedly and skilfully displayed his knowledge of the sacred canons and the ecclesiastical history of Saltzbourg, to the great glory of his name and the utility of his hearers, and wrote and printed a highly esteemed work concerning this same ecclesiastical history.  Our readers will probably not have forgotten the case of Edward Murray. It will be sufficient to recal him to mind as the Englishman arrested at Ancona in 1849, charged with being associated with known assassins,and of having been an accomplice in the murder of Count Severino, for which he was condemned to the guillotine by the secret tribunal of the Sagra Consulta, which sentence would certainly have been carried into effect bad it not been averted by the energetic remonstrances of our consul, Mr. Freeborn, acting according to the instructions of the British government, not on the principle of wishing to save the prisoner, if guilty, merely because he was a British subject, but because the trial was, according to British ideas of justice, secret, inquisitorial, and unfair. The papal government was obstinate, and never would communicate the evidential documents of the trial even to Sir Henry Bulwer, who, during his residence in Rome, endeavoured to procure them from Cardinal Antonelli ; but the Pope mitigated the capital sentence to that of the galleys far life, and subsequently to that of imprisonment for life in the state prison of Palliano, where Edward Murray was consequently sent after having been confined at Ancona and Rome for nearly five years. Since that period exertions have not been wanting in his behalf, and the charity of British visitors in Rome has been abundant towards his mother, an lonian by birth. Oa Sunday night, the 16th inst., Murray was released from prison, and sent secretly to Civita Vecchia, es• corted by gendarmes, there to be embarked on board the French steamer for Malta.  We have much pleasure in recording a contribution of 20 guineas to the funds of the Brighton and Hove Lying-in Institution—ten guineas from Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, and ten guineas from Mr. Otto Goldschmidt. These contributions, which were forwarded to Lieut. Dixon, R.N., the treasurer, through Mr. Beale, of the firm a Cramer, Beale, and Co., music sellers, North-street, were accompanied by the following letter from Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, in reply to a letter enclosing a copy of the report of the institution, addressed by Lieut. Dixon to Madame Goldschmidt during her visit to Brighton last week : " Sir,—l beg to send you enclosed, in reply to your letter to Mme. Goldschmidt of the 20th December, accompanied by a report which I have perused with great interest, ten guineas for Mme. Goldschmidt and ten guineas for myself, as a small contribution to the funds of your valuable institution. " I are, dear Sir, your obedient servant "