The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-01 00:00:00

A MIRACLE FOR FATHER NEWMA

The Univers contained the following in its number
of Saturday last. As Dr. Newman is so eager to
swallow everything miraculous, this new miracle will
gratify his taste :
There is much talk at Rome of an extraordinary
cure which has taken place in the very palace of the
Vatican. The following is the manner in which this
prodigious fact is described, and which will, without
doubt, become the subject of a judicial inquiry :
"A young girl, of about 20 years of age, whose
family is employed in the domestic side of the palace,
had contracted a bad fever, owing to the loss of her
father a little time before, as well as to the influence
of the season, which has multiplied at Rome diseases
of this kind, and by which a great number of victims
have fallen within the last few months.
" Notwithstanding the enlightened efforts of the
doctor of the pontifical family,' and of her parents,
the young invalid was soon at the last extremity. The
vice cure of the palace (which, as is known, is a foun-
dation), a member of the Augustin order (Monseig-
neur the Sacristan of the same order is the titular
cure) had administered to her the sacrament of ex-
treme unction, and had recited the prayer recom-
mending her soul. Her last sigh was hourly ex-
pected.
" For the sake of enabling our readers to under-
stand the prodigy about to be related, it is necessary
to state that during the course of the malady the vice
cure had several times engaged the pious patient to
invoke the aid of a venerable servant of God, of the
Augustin order, whose beatification is about to
be declared, and he had even mixed in the potions
given to such girl some little fragments of the
clothes of the venerable man—(old clo'). On the other
hand, according to the usage of religious families,
they had carried into the chamber of the dying per-
son the Santo Bambino de l'Ara•Cceli, demanding of
these last resources of the faith a cure no longer in
the reach of human science to bestow.

" Let us return to the bed of the dying girl, whom
we find in a profound sleep from which she shall soon
awaken to relate with smiles on her lips how she
had seen the infant Jesus, having at his bide a
venerable servant of God, clad iu the habit of the
order of St. Augustin. She adds that she feels
herself cured, but very weak, and she asks for a cup
of broth to give her strength. The broth is given to
her, although the request is regarded as coming from
ono in the last agitation of dying; but the sick girl,
who had felt the action of grace, and who knew well
that she was cured, rises, throws off all the blisters, of
which not a trace was left on her body, and on the
following day repaired to the Church of l'Ara Cceli,
at more than half a league distant, to thank the Santo
Bambino and the servant of God who had restored
her to life and .health.

" You may easily comprehend the sensation that a
fact of this kind must have produced upon a popula-
tion so full of faith, especially upon the eve of the
ceremony of the 21st, which will put solemnly upon
the altar, in placing him amongst the blest, the vene-
rable Father Clavier, of the. Society of Jesus, and at
the close of the expiatory triduo which has been cele-
brated at Saint Andre del la Valle in reparation of
the sacrilegious outrage committed against the Ma-
donna du Vicolo dell' Abate Luigi., ,

Our readers will be obliged to us for saying some
words about this ceremony, and the cause which led
to it.

Last year Colonel Nardoni, assailed by two assas-
sins, providentially escaped death. It so happened that
the theatre of this event was precisely under the Ma-
donna placed at the corner Du Vicolo dell Abate
Luigi. The Colonel attributed his escape to the pro-
tection of the Holy Virgin, and out of gratitude caused
the image which had so protected him to be carefully
restored, for owing to the isolation of the place it had
been much neglected.
Demagoguism, as it appears, owed a grudge' to the
Queen of Heaven, for having saved a man whose
death would have been so precious to the Republican
cause, and a sacrilegious and democratic hand some
time ago smashed with stones the crystal which se-
cures the sacred image, and mutilated its blessed fea-
tures. This brutal outrage having filled the town
with horror, his Eminence the Cardinal Vicar,
yielding to entreaties, ordered a solemn triduo,
which took place the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the
month. The image so outraged by demagogues was
placed on the grand altar of the church in the midst
of an infinitude of tapers, which crowned it as with a
diadem of fire, and for three days she received the
homage, the invocations, and the tears of a faithful
people. On the evening of the third day, in the midst
of singing and illuminations, the holy image was
borne in procession and replaced in the corner it had
occupied, the people crying " Viva Maria !"
To this account the Univers adds the following :
" Our correspondent, in a postscript, states that on the
night of the 19th, the Madonna du Vicolo Deo Met-
cante, near the place Trajan, had been, to use the ex-
pressive language of the Roman people, assassinated
and thrown into the dirt. It supposed that, in this
instance, Heresy has lent its hand to Demagoguism."

MR. FOX, M.P., AND THE HOUSE OF

LORDS.

" The House of Lords is as safe," says Mr. Fox,
" as it deserves to be." Whatever may be Mr. Fox's
estimate of the deserts of that body, we think he will
not find the country so ready to sweep it away ; and
while the House of Lords remains, the training of its
future members in the popular arena of the Lower
House is one of the best guarantees for the
harmonious working of the Constitution. Wben
some one expressed to the King of Hanover
his surprise at the marked success with which
that monarch had weathered the storms of 1848,
when all other German thrones were shaken or
overthrown, he answered, " It would be a strange
thing if I, wbo have passed forty years
in an English Parliament, did not know better
how to conduct my affairs than these hereditary
despots." What the House of Lords was to the
King of Hanover, the House of Commons is to the
heir of a peerage ; and whatever Mr. Fox may say to
the contrary, the prudence and moderation which the
Upper House have shown on those occasions in
which the will of the people and the supposed inte-
rests of the aristocracy have clashed, are due to that
sound political training, and that practical apprecia-
tion of the popular spirit, which a large number of its
members have acquired in the House of Commons.
The condemnation which Mr. Fox passes upon
Lord John Russell is, we fear, scarcely less appli-
cable to himself :—" His tendency is always to
look to the narrow, rather than to the broad and
expansive." The member for Oldham is the slave
of words—he cannot endure the name of a " lord,"
and he loses his temper at the bare notion of a
bishop. It is not by efforts made in such a
spirit that the cause of reform will be advanced, or
any real and solid popular progress be achieved. That
is a work which must be undertaken in a statesman-
like temper, and with generous and comprehensive
views—views alike devoid of the class jealousies which
Mr. Fox imputes to Lord John Russell and the
Whigs, and of those which he unquestionably displays
in his own person.—Morning Chronicle.

A FATAL DUEL.
In Mr. Commissioner Phillips's Life of Curran," he
gives the following anecdote connected with the cele-
brated duel between Mr. Daniel O'Connell and Mr.
D'Esterre:—" Being one of those who accompanied
O'Connell, he beckoned me aside to a distant portion
of the very large field, which had a slight covering of
snow. Phillips,' said he, • this seems to me not a
personal but a political affair. I am obnoxious to a
party, and they adopt a false pretence to cut me off.
I shall not submit to it. They have reckoned without
their host, I promise you. I am one of the best shots
in Ireland at a mark, having, as a public man, considered
it a duty to prepare for my own protection against
such unprovoked aggression as the present. Now, re-
member what I say to you. I may be struck myself
and then skill is out of the question ; but, if
am not, my antagonist may have cause to regret his
having forced me into this conflict.' The parties were
then placisd on the ground at, I think, twelve paces,
each having a CSEO of pistols, with directions to fire
when they chose after a given signal. D'Esterre rather
agitated himself by making a short speech disclaiming
all hostility to his Roman Catholic countrymen,sin and
took his ground, somewhat theatrically
o
pistols on his bosom. They fired almost
_etoicigretshmcorr,g his
mortally
instantly on the signal. D'Esterre
these details in
wounded. The greatest self-possession was displayed
by him. I deemed it a duty to narrate
no
O'Connell's lifetime whenever I heard his
couragew
questioned, and justice to his memory prompts me
to record them here."

FRENCH RAIL WAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross ro-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :--
NORTH-ERN.—From Sept. 17 to Sept. 23: Passengers,
457,892 f.; goods, 238,768 f.; total, c96,660f.
ROIIEN.—From Sept. 14 to Sept. 20 : Passengers,
192,2921.; goods, 81.290 f.; total, 203,5821.
HAVRIL—From S:,pt. 14 t• Sept. 20: Passengcra,
46,8451.; goods, 37,058 f. ; total 114,495 f.
—From Sept. 15 to Sept. 21• Passengers,
LE
108,9081. ; ANs.
goods, 117,181 f.; total, 226,0891.
E
13ORDEAIJX.—Proui Sept. 9 to Sept. 15: Passengers,
81,8081.; goods. 46,405 f.; total, 128,213 f.
VIERZON.--/;1'01.0 &rt. 15 to Sept. 21 : Passengers,
42,249 E; goods, 38,036 f,; total, 80,285 f.
NANTES r Sept. 13
Lpt. to Sept. 19 : Passengers,
46,813 f.; goods, 23,7641.; total, 70.577 f.
STRAsuunG.—Prom Sqt. 17 to Sept. 23: Passengers,
139,076 f.; oodl, 84,936 f.; total, 224,012 f.
13.41.E.—Fr0m Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 : Passengers,
35,4831.; goods, 18,1111.; total, 53,594 f.
MoNTEarAu.—From Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
16,271 f. ; goods, 12,636 f.; total, 28,9071.
2tIARSEILLES.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 16: Passengers,
55,227 f.; goods, 26,464 f.; total, 81,691 f.
LIONS.—From Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 : Passengers,
goods,; 284 308f81 7881 • total 366,096 f. , .

CHARTREB.—From Sept. 8 to Sept. 14: Passengers,
35,460 f.; goods, 38,213 f.; total, 73,673 f.

Rose Tamisier is to be tried again by a Court of
Appeal.