The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-21 00:00:00

ROME.

We extract the following from the letter of the
correspondent of the Morning Post at Rome :
His eminence Cardinal D'Andrea arrived on Saturday
evening by the train from Naples, accompanied by a Capu-
chin monk and his maestro di rasa, and slighted at the
Alborg() di Cesari, the most modest hotel in the city,
where a supper was procured for him from the Trattoria
dell' Archetto, On Sunday morning the cardinal aban-
doned these unassuming quarters, and repaired to his
residence in the Gabi:elli palace.
There are great rejoiciegs at the Vatican at the return
of this stray sheep. No doubt the cardinal has taken the
wisest step for his own interest, and perhaps for that
of the cause which he advocates also, in presenting
himself ad pedes before the term allowed for his re-
turn (the 29th instant) expired, for as his alleged
offences come entirely under the head of in-
subordination, his submission will deprive his ene-
mies of the power of urging the Pope to inflict
upon him the final chastisement of loss of his cardinalitian
rank, bishopric, abbacy, and all other ecclesiastical bene-
fices. It is inferred that his eminence will not be main-
tained in these honours and dignities without some severer
penance than the mere act of submission, aud a temporary
residence in some monastic establishment for the perfor-
mance of esercizispirituali will probably preparehis mind for
theserious admonition which will be administered to him by
the supreme Pontiff. It will be well for Cardinal D'Andrea
if, having ventured back to Rome, his misdemeanours are
visited with no more weighty punishment than reproof,
and it is a proof of his courage that he should have come
back at all, considering the enmity existing between him-
self and Cardinal Antonelli, and his own hardihood in re-
ply to the Pope's last autograph letter, prncariter atque
iajuriose. The dinouement of this affair is looked for with
much curiosity, although it will very likely go off as
smoothly as the return to right sentiments of the long-
erring Father Pamela.
The official statement gives the number of Garibal-
(liana captured at Monte Rotondo and Mentana (3rd and
4th Nov.), as 1,393. Of these latter the official list speci-
fies that 185 were brought in wounded and three dead.
With such evidence before us, for the proportion of
wounded who re-crossed the frontier was certainly
very small, one cannot help being surprised at the
singularly rhodomentade tone of the French and
Pontifical reports of the battle of Mentana, scatter-
ing the field with the corpses of 000 Garibaldians and
wounded in proportion—i.e., at least 3,000 ! It is ad-
mitted by the Pontifical medical authorities, who ought
to know, that the Pontifical loss was fully equal to, if not
greater than, that of the Garibaldians. With regard to
the stamina of the wounded men, the Dutchmen are said
to heal most readily, and the Swiss least so, the Italians
and French offering a medium between the two extremes.

A letter from Rome of the 16th says :—" Up to
the present time Rome is unusually empty of foreign
visitors, so that hotel-keepers and shop-keepers are conse-
quently despondent. Some distinguished families are
expected about Christmas, among which is that of Lord
Clarendon, for whom apartments have been secured at the
Europ► Hotel. Fox-hunting has commenced with but a
limited field, and I regret to say that a severe accident
took place on Thursday during the run near Ponta Mara-
molo, Dr. Berridge having been thrown while charging a
high fence, over which his horse fell upon him, breaking
his oollar bone and three ribs."