The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

ROM E .

PARIS, Sept. 20.
The Paris papers publish the following intelli-
gence from Rome to the 16th inst.

"The second procession of the jubilee in favour
of Poland took place yesterday with far more
splendour and pomp than on the first occasion.
One hundred and fifty thousand persons were
assembled around the basilic of St. Jean de Latram,
at the Colysee, and in old Rome. Prince Constan-

tine Czartorvski and a few other Poles, who were
provided with special authority, followed the pro-
cession of prelates through the city. The Aus-
trian Ambassador, M. Bache, having returned
from Albano, attended the proceedings at St.
Marie Majeure, in a State carriage.
" The Pope arrived at the Basilic yesterday with-
out having been expected. His Holiness met the
precession of Poles singing in their own language,
and exchanged signs of sympathy with them.
',The deputations from the towns and villages
of the Appenines have succeeded in obtaining a
prolongation of the jubilee until the 20th Septem-
ber inclusively.

General de Montebello has caused the eeptano
station to be occupied by the French, in order to
prevent fresh collisions between the Italian troops
and pontificial gendarmes.

" A.dvices received from Naples to the 16th inst.,
states that the brigand ;chiefs returned upon the
day which had been fixed, bringing with them 45
wounded men who had been concealed, and other
brigands now capitulating.
General Sirtou hes published a proclamation
urging the Calabrian chiefs to submit.
" The Duke de Morny has arrived, and the Duke
de Galliera is expected."

A Comic Funeral ; being an Anglo-Italian

Ceremony.

Once, I dwelt in an Italian city, where there
dwelt with me, for a while, an Englishman of an
amiable nature, great enthusiasm, and no discretion.
This friend discovered a desolate stranger, mourning
over the unexpected death of one very dear to him,
in a solitary cottage among the vineyards of an out-
lying village. The circumstances of the bereave-
ment were unusually distressing; and the survivor,
new to the peasants and the country, sorely needed
help, being alone with the remains. With some
difficulty, but with the strong influence of a purpoez
at once gentle, disinterested, and determined, my
friend—Mr. Kindheart—obtained access to the
mourner, and undertook to arrange the burial.
There was a small Protestant cemetery near the
city walls, and as Mr. Kindheart came back to
me, he turned into it and chose the spot.
He was always highly flushed when rendering a
service unaided, and I knew that to make him
happy I must keep aloof from his ministration.
But when at dinner he warmed with the good
action of the day, and conceived the brilliant idea
of comforting the mourner with " an English fune-
nil," I ventured to intimate that I thought that in-
stitution, which was not absolutely sublime at home,
might prove a failure in Italian hands. However,
Mr. Kindheart was so enraptured with his concep-
tion, that he presently wrote down into the town
requesting the attendance with to-morrow's earliest
light of a certain little upholsterer. The uphols-
terer was famous for speaking the unintelligible
local dialect (his own) in a far more unintelligible
manner than any other man alive. When from
my bath next morning I overheard Mr., Kind-
heart and the upholsterer in conference on the top
of an echoing staircase; and when I overheard Mr.
Kindheurt rendering English Undertaking phrases
into very choice Italian, and the upholsterer reply-
ing in the unknown Tongues; and when I further-.
more remembered that the local funerals had no
resemblance to English funerals; I became in my
secret bosom apprehensive. But Mr. Kindheart
infotreed me at breakfast that measures had been
taken to ensure a signal success. As the funeral
was to take place at sunset, and as I knew to which
of the city gates it must tend, I went out at that
gate as the sun descended, and walked along the
dusty road. I bad not walked far, when I encoune
tered this procession : 1. Mr. Kindheart, much
abashed, on an immense grey horse. 2. A bright yellow
coach and pair, driven by a coachman in bright red
velvet knee-breeches and waistcoat. (This was the
established local idea of State.) Both coach doors
kept open by the coffin, which was was on its side
within, and sticking out at each. 3. Behind the
coach, the mourner, for whom the coach was in-
tended, in the dust. 4. Concealed behind a road-
side well for the irrigation of a garden, the unintel-
ligible Upholsterer, admiring. It matters little
now. Coaches of all colours are alike to poor Kind-
heart, and he rests far North of the little cemetery
with the cypress trees, by the city walls where the
Mediterranean is so beatt,tiful.—CHAßLES DICKENS
in his last " Uncommercial'," just published.