The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-03 00:00:00

THE BTATEB OF THE CHURCH.

THE IMMACULATE
GAMBLING; THE £II8ti1•N8.
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; HOLY

ROME, Nov. 27.
The approaching solemnity of meting the moss-
mestal column in bosom. of the Iseaseniate
empties just now espies the mental and physical
nemesis of many different classes of his Holiness's
subjects, from the Cardinal Vicar, who puts forth as
Arid; 13sero for the prayers of the faithful upon the
groat festival and for nine days before, to the chained
galley slave and stalwart buffalo driver who toil
amidst the muses of Moue sad timber that strew the
Pima di Spain. The Cardinal having received the
Pope's express sommaado to invite the faithful to
for the coming festivity, aaaennoss at some
the various motives which urge his Holism,
to call them together is prayer so as to offset an
tharease of grace on Christian secist/i by " •
aft violence to the heart of Clod (" vas
doles violeasa al emirs di Die')
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the intereessice of the Immaculate Virgia.ll%
ionversioe to the catholic faith of those who as
Yet tread the paths of error is the first and prinsipal
object adduced, an object of extraordinary i
doing the great events that now agitate the
and fears of toe world. His Daises*, WPM hen-
tie that they seek is vain for salvation where there
whim "no infallible muter, and no chair of troth,"
and urges them to open their hearts to the truths
which their intellects mat have already received.
Bet the chanty of the Supreme Paster is sot limited
to those who are outside the fold of Christ—the lam.
pie, the indifferent, the worldly-staid, and the
worshippers of plessure, amongst times whocujoy the
VIM faith, come in for a share of the loars
exhortations and invocations of celestial intereseine.
The following paragraph gives his Holieese's wishes
epee the weighty question of pose mad war :
Malty. tit. Hely Felber km meanie most Importent
eldest is view to hie levitation, pews. whisk late
a was mad Mesita pease la the wail;Thus lesellnmals
pit semes sup free ads en lOW anirinibe 114 asl
tuaewing what it h, sal AID ewes* of wiesesee win
'lest to we it beeitheddosse the earth. Taos pow osalhOl
isiforeeity of leading le W reel vieUere of
me& and is s maim a than wishes widelh wads do"'
eliendird sad plank art tie true saaesd MmeghaWaOf!
spirita, the lie wise words sad writings. wad tit, esmml►
Nee of moms mow to be astlehtatly deplored.
The /hello Sacro concludes with a ponds, ou the
part of his Holiness of soon years' isdalgesos and
MIS times forty days for every. visit to the worn,,
and indulgence for five visits.
Meanwhile a solid iodised plans has beset coo-
existed on the Patin di Spagna for the
edema to be dragged up to • level with its Mirmad
many a sylvan monarch has fallen beneath the weed-
mast axe is the lofty pine forests on the sea meet In
mettrilmte its straight and rigid trunk to the almonds
thiSoldieg. The 9th of Deoember was fixed on for
the solemaity, as being the snood festival, but it will
be paths* deferred till the octave, in ceder to gain
e lbw mere days.
A tombola, or pabile lottery, took place on Sunday
last, by government authorteatioo, part of the pro-
ends being devoted to the cholera orphans. The
ousnathy rime off es the asspis Pins. Naves%
where, land by prises amounting to 10,000 bases,
all Rome resorted to gamble, tickets is hand. Just
when the great prise was announced to have been
woo, sad the happy individual wee seen asseedieg
the step, to the official platform, a mighty wave of
tumult agitated the &Wily-wedged crowd, and the
meal panic, which sow invariably meempanits
numerous meetings in Rome, took place, people tread-
ing one another under foot is all directions la their
frantic efforts to escape. The same of the row was
the capture by the ponderosa of a thief dierdsse as
• meek, who left his *polio opine (a false beard) is
the heads of his mmeremoohme assailants
A. event bee recently occurred not ealealthed to
reflect credit upon a pertain class of goverment per- I
times in this root:try. Tte Governor of the Custom.
'loess at Ferrara has just been sondenened by default