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London, England, 1849-12-05 00:00:00

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ITALY.

ROMAN STATES.—Oar correspondent writes:
ROME, Nov. 26.
I hasten to communicate the intelligence of • hor-
rible scene which has just taken place at the Quirinal
Palace, staining with blood the audience chamber
of the most eminent cardinals commissioners. The
case, as far as I have been able to make ont, is as

follows :
Soon after the institution of the Roman civic guard
in 1847, it became manifest that instructors practi-
cally acquainted with military manceuvres would be
necessary to drill the peaceable burgesses, and accus-
tom their hands to the unwonted nee of arms. For
this purpose a number of officers were selected from
regimen ts uf the line, besides several old soldiers, retired
from active service, who prc seated themselves u fully
capable of undertaking a similar duty. These officers
were permently attached as adjutants and adjutant-
majors to the several battalions of civic guard, and',
resolved the pay suitable to their rank; amongst
them was an offier of the line, named Ceccarelli, who
bad formerly served under Napoleon, and who was
appointed adjutant to the third battalion of the Rione
Colonna, commanded by, Prince Piombino. When
Rome was taken by the French, Oudinot, amongst
other meritorious acts, took upon himself to disarm and
dissolve the civic, or, as it was then termed, the
national guard, with a promise, however (which has
never been realised) of re-organising it immediately.
Tne adjutants who, with the exception of the musi-
cians and some few individuals in the administrative
department, were the only paid members of
the guard, found theme elves suddenly thrown
out of employment by this step. Ceccarelli
had a wife and family dependent on his exertions,
and lost no time in applying for re-admittance to a
regiment of the line, with the rank which he had
previously occupied, in order to get into pay again as
seas as possible ; but his repeated applications to the
Mar-slacc failing to produce the desired result, he
rosined to loss no more time in that quarter, pre-
lim*" to appeal directly to the triumvirate of m-
aim& for redress. His petition was drawn up, the
andlemes was granted, and yesterday morning fixed
for bin to attend at the Quirinal. When his turn
for entering the audience-chamber came, he appears
to have handed his petition, as customary, to Cardinal
della (lenge, who sat at the head of the table, and
after reading the document through expressed his dis-
approbation of its contents byjleliberately tearing it
up. Irritated by ouch a contemptuous refusal, and driven
to despair by the crushing of last hopes, Ceccarelli
drew forth a dagger, and plunged it into his own
breast, falling at the feet of the triumvirate, whose
consternation at such a spectacle may be easily
imagined. The rumours that immediately spread
abroad in the city were, as usual, varied in a thou-
sand ways. According to some the three cardinals had
been murdered ; according to others, only Della Ong*
bad fallen victim ; and the most general version was,
that Ceccarelli, in order to intimidate their eminence.,
had approached them with his dagger,but wu repulsed
by Della Deng*, who knocked him down with a chair,
and that he only stabbed himself when he saw the
attendants and carbineers rush in from the ante-
chamber to secure him. The idea of any struggle
whatever having taken place is however erroneous,
nor does the official paper, in the account of the event
published yesterday evening, hint at anything of the
kind, although it states that Ceccarelli was imperious
and impatient in his manner, and demanded a sum of
money for his immediate relief.
The act appears to have proceeded more from de-
spair than from irritation, as had be seriously medi-
stated an attack on the cardinals, he moat probably would
have been able to murder all three before any assist-
ance could have been got, since no one was present in
the audience chamber save the eminences and the sup-
plicant. He is proved to have made every effort to
procure employment in other modes as well as in a
military capacity, repecially as a bookbinder, being
acquainted with that trade, but in the present stagna-
tion of business he was everywhere unsuccessful. The
official report declares that he stabbed himself, with-
out waiting for the cardinal's answer to his re-
quest, bat this is too improbable to be admitted.
The result of the catastrophe was that the car-
bineers raised him from the ground and took him into
confinement. The wound does not appear tobe mortal.
A grand review was prepared for this day, and the
prefect of police had announced that no carriages
were to appear on the Corso, because the troops would
extend from the Piazza di Venezia to the Piazza del
Popolo, but the ceremony h-s not taken place. It was
thought by many to be an operation meant to distract
the attention of the people whilst his holiness entered
the city, but the idea seems only to have originated
in the circumstance of this being St. Catherine's day,
the anniversary of Pio Nono's celebrated hegira.