The Sun. — 1848-12-02 (London, England)

LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1848.  The telegraphic dispatch which tells us of the secret departure from Ro:ne of the Sovereign PONTIFF is the best justification that could possibly have been afforded to General CAVAIGNAC'S Government. It proves that the fears entertained as to the perils by M bleb Pio No no was surrounded, were far indeed, from being without foundation. When we are informed that the POPE hastened from the Quirinal so soon after its bombardment, and proceeded to the seaport of Gaeta, to take shelter in one of the French vesels dispatched to his assistance, there can no longer he any doubt as to the position in which that ilustrious but unfortunate Prince stood in reference to the rabble of Roman murderers. Never was any race so degraded in the eyes of the whole world as the people of the Papal States are at this moment, and especially the infamous population ,:f the Eternal City. Acts of such cold-blooded atrocity as those which have polluted the streets of Rome have never been witnessed even in the sacred precincts of Mecca, or in the holy purlieus of Benares. S) much brutality, ingratitude, callousness, and cowardice have never been displayed with more atrocious unanimity in the most infamous of all the Rebellions recor led in the pages of History. It was with profound r ason that the National Assembly of the French Republic expressed its abhorrence of the crimes and the turpitude which have just emanated from Italian So. ciali' m. It was with reason that the representatives of France, on hearing that the Roman Deputies continued their sitting impassable to the events- occurring around them, and without mentioning the assassination of the Chief Minister of the Government, although that unfortunate statesman had been murdered most barbarously on the threshold of the very building in -which they were assembled—it was with reason that the reFresentatives of France greeted the announcement of that cowardly fact with groans of horror and indignation. The Roman Deputies have by this one proceeding stamped their names for ever and ever with infamy. And not only the Deputies, but the whole mass of the population, with a few brilliant exceptions. Saving by afveewr rniests and about a hundred Swiss soldiers, the Sovereign was deserted by every one in the houeigronf dangperii. had the Not a amongst the whole rabble of courtiers courage to stand forward in defence ot. culpability was his excessive gentlenesse whose sole whose only blunder was his ever having conceivedndafr moment that the Roman mob wms capable of regeneorne tion. It has been well said by the Count )3; AIONTALEMBEET that the whole of this most excellent and most innocent man's political career might be summed up in the two words amnesty and reform. And yet Poo NONO, with the exception of the little domestic group already mentioned, was entirely abandoned when the murderers of Rossi came with eann:m and muskets to storm the palace of their INfoxaacu, their Father, and their Religious Chieftain. The Roman Legion, the infantry of the line, even the dastardly members of the Civic Guard were not asha-ned to join issue with the band of assassins and to sit down with colours flying and bands playing lively tunes before the walls of the Quirinal, to discharge their artillery for three hours against a building defended by a handful of fai hful soldiers, and containing merely a few ecclesiastics and a venerable on:l noble-hearted