The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-26 00:00:00

CHURCH AND CARNIVAL AT ROME.

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ROME, FLA. 19.
An unusual ecclesiastical ceremony, and one of
peculiar interest to the host of British sightseers now
in Rome, took place an Sunday morning at the
Sixtine Chapel, being the consecration by the Pope
himself of Dr. Clifford, nominated to the Roman
catholic ace of Clifton. Dr. Errington, Archbishop
of Trebizonde and coadjutor of Cardinal Wiseman,
and Monsignor Mlles, Bishop of ',neon, assisted
his holiness in the ceremony; at which were present
also the new bishop's father (Lord Clifford), his
brother, and a great number of spectators, especially
English, whom the official journal, in its description
of the ceremony, states to have been " grateful and
touched to see the common father of the faithful direct
his thoughts with such solicitude to the spiritual
welfare of England." The same journal alludes to
the distinguished persons in England "who are re-
turning every day into the bosom of the true church."
Dr. Clifford, having gone through the numerous
formalities of the consecration, was at last affection-
ately embraced by the Pope, and, being armed with
the pastoral staff, poceeded, mitre on head and ring
on finger, to exercise his new attributes by impart-
ing his blesaing to the assembly before him. It is
many years since a Pope consecrated an English
bishop, but a French prelate, Monsignor Guillemin
apostolic prefect of Canton and Hai-non in China,
was consecrated by his holiness on the 26th of bat
month.

On Tuesday morning Pio Nono gave an widget
proof of his not being agitated by the same species
of alarm as that which keeps the King of Naples a
prisoner within the guarded walla of his own palace.
His Holiness went to the Caravita Oratory, where,
after having adored the sacrament, he received the
General of the Jesuits, and several fathers of the
same order. He then proceeded on foot across the
Corso, crowded as that central thoroughfare is during
the present Carnival season, and walked to the nun-
nery of the " Vergini," where he went over the esta-
blishment, and paid some consolatory visits to the
sick and infirm nuns. From the nunnery his Holi-
ness returned to the Vatican with his customary
efluiPae.
The Carnival has proceeded thus far without the
slightest disturbance. There are the usual amount
of capering harlequins and flour-faced clowns ; the
usual collection of pretty women in contadina Co..
tunics, driving up and down the Corso, giving and
receiving bouquets and confetti: the usual crowds of
spectators at the tapestried windows and balconies
engaging in missile warfare with the carriage pro-
menaders below ; the usual number of hate knocked
off by the rough practical jokes of the French sol-
diers, and the usual number of eyes put out
by the too furious pelting with lime and mortar
bonbons, carried on by combatants unused to the
due amenities of Camivul combats. Witticisms are,
alas ! on the decline since the prohibition of mists,
for the glibtontrneci arrotati, etarlatani and coati,
whose legal discussions, quack harangues, and per
of pedigree, used to form the delight and
amusement of the piazzas and calls, are now some-
what shy of holding forth to their fellow-citizens
with their own natural undisguised faces. But the
race, which winds up each day's entertainment, has
the same bizarre character as ever, and the un-
mounted steeds gallop leisurely up the Corso, staring
at the spectators to the right and left like frightened
sheep, only urged onwards by the hooting, of the
mob and the stimulus of the spurs dangling at their
flanks.

The great bell of the Capitol announces the setting
out of the &nator on his state progress down the
Corso. I hasten to put this in the post, and to wit-
ness the deportment of the new dignitary, Prince
Orsini, surrounded by the pompous paraphernalia of
municipal office.

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