The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-17 00:00:00

ITALY

The Pope received the news of Count Widewski's
dismissal on Friday week, while celebrating the festival
of the Epiphany—that of the three Kings of the East
paying homage to Christ in the cradle. According to a
telegraphic report, he immediately collected those mem-
bers of the Sacred College that were within reach, and
delivered an address to them, betraying the great
excitement under which he laboured, and announcing
to them his resolution rather to suffer the worst, as ho
VII. did from the hands of Napoleon 1., than to give
up • particle of the rights of the Church. There was
a report early this week that his Holiness had resolved
to leave Rome, but this is now denied.
Both the Due de Granimont and General Guyon, at
their own request, are about quitting Rome, we are told.
Marshal Canrobert is going to act in place of both,
combining the diplomatic and military service in that
French protectorate. The withdrawal of the garrison
from the city and its removal to Civita Vecchia will
occur, as predetermined, early in the current year.
A correspondent in Rome writes :- -
" Money is coming in from Ireland. Bavaria, and the
Catholic States of Germany, but the Papal Government
wants men. Recruiting is going on by the Nuncii.
The recruits from Vienna and Munich arrive here via
AnCOl3ll and Trieste. Cardinal Wiseman has promised
an Irish Brigade. The pamphlet "Le Pape et le
Congres" was known at the Vatican the same day it
appeared at Paris. K. Sscconi, the Papal Nuncio at
Paris, had received the proof -sheets of it, which he
forwarded by a special courier to Rome. The effect
produced upon the Pope was immense.
A council of Cardinals was held on the 28th of
December, in which the following decisions were
adopted :-1. Suspension of the departure of Cardinal
Antonelli for Paris until the temporal rights of the
Church were recognised as the basis of all discussion in
the Congress. 2. Immediate increase of the Papal
army for the defence of the States of the Church. 3.
Publication of a solemn declaration condemning the
pamphlet "La Pape et le Cougres." This last decision
was put in execution next day by an official protest in
the Oiernaie di Roma.
It was asserted that the Austrians, disguised as Papal
soldiers, were passing the frontiers in whole battalions
to join the Pontifical army. To this it is answered,
" The enlistments abroad for the Papal army have no
other object than to bring its effective force, which
numbers 18,000, up to 20,000 men. This augmentation
of the Papal 'my was agreed upon by the Holy See and
France before the war in Italy.
The Sardinian Government has, it is said, definitively
decided that that the frigate Eurydice shall be sent to
China, in consequence of the events which are impend•
ing there. It is said that • high functionary of the
Sardinian Government is to go out in her as Minister
Plenipotentiary, charged to negotiate treaties with China,
Japan, and Siam.
Mr. Bowyer, M.P., has arrived at Rome, and taken up
his quarters in the palace belonging to the Knights id
Malta in virtue of the privilege he enjoys as belonging
to that order. On the Thursday preceding Christmas
day, Mr. Bowyer had the honour of being received in a
private audience by the Pope. who decorated him with
the Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory.