The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1869-03-02 00:00:00

A VISIT TO ITALY.

A large sod highly respecitable audience aawabled at
the Mideast 8ehool•roorae, Mslamb* Regis, on Thurs-
day mu's, lest, to bear the Rev. Robert Memoirs
deliver his promised lecture In eonnection with the
Young Mea's Christian dasocietion. The sapations
rooms wens well filled, all dasominstions appearing to
have united to evils( a esteems to Mr. Maguire, end
although through a misnedermending the eveniag bad
to be altered fres Friday to Tharsdiq, tbe manures
hakes by the scomittes were so proms as that seareely
any dialiaation of interest iss ta• result. The *hair
was takes by the Rev. T. Grease, aad the Rev. R. 8.
Asbtea arm aim on the platform. The letter rev.
gentleman haeieg offered prayer, and the chairman
kOvsdaced the lecturer.
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~ Rosgir Manures rose and wee received
with applause. He first eongretulated the mamitles
on having been able. at a moment's notice, to slter the
evening devoted to the lecture. Of worm Mr. Greece.
said the original mistake was his fault, and he replied
that It was Mr. Groaves's, and so they had settled it up
.I:ably between them—Gaughtui. But it appaued
UM no one had suffered, became • very good oodienee,
especially considering the weather, had responded to
the *huge. Is the country and sepecially the city, his
experiences mourning whisk he would attempt to
communicate, the thoughts of Christians were deeply
absorbed, and they rode need very little quickening to
awake an interest in Italy and Rome. But there was •
diffleelty to know where to begie, and a still greater
difficulty, when once started, to end. Should be
commence from the time ti• set foot in the Eternal
City, Sr whim he came tumbling down into Italy from
the Alps, as from a samr aid roof Or from the time
be left Harked, or farther back still, whim be grit
massived the molest desire to we Italy and Boom?
He oappened this wish was tether to the thought, sad
brought it into preetisal aothea resulting is the journey.
Bat that journey wee not of a oontroversial character.
His object, was not to have • row with the Pope,
aitkeeali that might be more edifying for Men to hoer
of- -(taughter). Yet his mud eras throw, into the
controversial groove when he observed • few days before
he left Bagland, a dispatch front Br. Odo Rowell, who
advised all intelligent tourists who might proem to
visit Rome daring the Boater al...monies, not to include
In their travelling b an English Bite ore Colt's
revolver. It was a jturtspositiou. and he had
no intention of taking • Oolt's revolver; but he did
mean to tab • Bible, and that iodation he earned out
—(uar). Pablie opinion in Italy wise than is • tesuition
Mate as to religious mealier& He was sojourning in
Florence on the 19111 Marsh, the Me day of
St. Jamb, end the filia days &hived are always
eatertelning with gacg.vus processioas sad attesetiat
ser•koak and • 'card display of fireworks at the sloes.
So he had loess kakis( formed with very grou pleasure
to speed the day in Mimes ; but it was a very relay
day, sad this damped their spirits, end kiipt the pro-
cessions indoors, was damp and abiserkei in the
Marsh. The pilleries were eloetcl, the shops
were he sallied forth into the damp *Milt
med ••••111.71 the greed theatre, whore • mating woe
being hold In support of LW Mints of Magrial It was
totem** to me the vast mused sad hear Mir &pekoes ;
but a damper wee put an it when the pollee came
stepped forward and commanded 10,000 people to ogees.
The political sustain of Mu time showed • great deal
of the 'tat, of religious feeling, which wa. inwrought
Into the political, and, to dealing with the Ecoperoe of
the Free* the input* el Amnia, sad others
Implicated In the akin of Day, the Pope WY sure to
be made to eon,. at @mad bail Os. reprimated •
high altar; round CM altar were piles of muskets
representing oandimieks, gad beside the altar stood •
man dressed as the high priest of Wiika libutY, while
the autoo• bore Llio issuiption, "The less St. Joseph
—Jamb Garibakir —(bmar). Deputies esethwsMs.
Mr. Maguire mot se fee as the trigli meld ferry the,
whisk wee to. pleas called Nanclatelli, • met neatly
plain for a number of traveller, to be turned out at
half-past eleven at night in the rain. Tbt they had to
leave the carriages, and stand in pools of water, every
one only intent on seeking a comfortable corner for
himself, with the additional comfort of knowing that
the rood over whisk they teem to travel was infested
with brigands. However, they posted off in &diligence.
and arrived gaiety at Civita Vecchia. TM lecturer west
on to describe the destruction of Heroulaasum and
Pompeii, in the latter of whieh you could seemly lona
the ashes withoet uncovering some lovely from, or
object of interest. A matter-of.fast West of FaMind
lawyer had deimibed the plea as like a Devonshire
town in ellsen; but Mr. Maguire considered the
ruins of Pomerb an illustration of how true hiatory
ought to be written—that you should take off the rods
of the houses sad see how too people really lived, not,
an history is too frequently written, • mere Moriptioa
of hosile.gelds—(hur). You mold see the provision for
Manliness in the memoss bathe, and the dB.-
lomat truism practised by the Mae that relegig.
After iseeribing the • found in Pompeii,
siad the masoelleasous articles depotited in
the museum, the lecturer passed on to Naples,
and gave the history of the English Marsh.
After tuhearkelmes had beet reload by the English
residents, and the foundation stone laid, the lower
Mau took it as in Malt, pulled out the ponderous
foundation stone and threw it into the street. The
ambassador, die W. Tempi., had not the jelnek of his
noble brother, lord Palntereloe, and the English had
to intenit enlstli• In MD. hewene. Slay *retread
heads loot their egolns, and aotonpt them was Bombe,
and as be fled, Garibaldi eatored, sad mied an dictator
till he could hand over Heels' to Mae Kiegikes of
United Italy. During the dictatorship of Garibaldi,
the English residents Med parmana to perebase a
Igos o 1 ground fore chunk aad be progested cm to
than with • mtilfitl itekauldedgipeatof the *gm"
England had lakes In Italy's mac Oa this the eldissrlp-
gion gig wag re-opsesd. They now hid en &ebb
°Web mood to nose in cailinestal Mien. Mr.
Sagulf• NPPIe. $41.146d • widow*, of the Emu.