The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-03 00:00:00

FARINPS PROGRESS THROUGH THE
ROMAGNA.

PROM THE CORRESPONDENT OF TIII! DAILY NEWS.

RIMINI, FEB. 24.

Had the supporters of the temporal power of his
Holiness followed Parini in his triumphant journey
through the iEmilian provinces, an opportunity
would have been offered to them of revising their
opinion about the sentiments by which the Romag-
nols are animated. llere, as well as at Ferrara,
Lugo, Ravenna, and Cesena, the outburst of popular
enthusiasm for the representative of Victor Emma-
nuel's authority was too manifest, too solemn, to be
mistaken. Had the Marquis of Normanby been
present at the demonstration offered last night by
the people of this town to the Governor-General
within the walls cf their magnificent theatre, I

think he would have been converted. Our former
ambassador at Florence may quote as long as he
likes the correspondence of the clerical papers, or
his friends' letters, but the eloquence of facts is too
much for him. There has bren no not up or official
enthusiasm; the very simplicity of the public fes-
t ivit.le.s is the most striking proof of their sincerity.
Fermi has been received as your Queen would hays
been were she unexpectedly to arrive in one of your
towns, in a manner in fact in which Popes and
dukes have never been received here in our century.
I was myself present when the Governor-General
made his appearance in the vast theatre, which
by the way is one of the most splendid buildings
of the kind I ever saw. The large and lofty edifice,
which, although modern, presents the aspect
of an ancient Roman theatre, was thronged
by a crowd which, considering the population of
Rimini, about 16,000 souls, one migh call impos-
ing. Venetian masts had been placed on each side
of the stage, and over them the national colours
were floating, with the arms of the House of Savoy
in their centre. On the appearance of Farini in the
large box on the second tier a shower of green,
white, and red papers fell upon the crowd in the
pit. On those papers sonnets and epigramshad been
printed in honour of the man who by his civic cou-
rage and wisdom had snatched the Legations from
the grasp of the Vatican. It is difficult to describe
the popular excitement at that moment—excitement
the principal element of which was the joyful feeling
of escape from the worst government that ever af-
flicted humanity. To form an exact idea of the cha-
racter of the Roman rule in these late yearrs, it is
necessary to come hare and talk with all classes of
the people themselves. There are facts which no
man in England would believe, and which I should
not have believed were not the proofs offered to me,
and had I not been permitted to read the official
documents which confirm them. Yesterday Marquis
Rem the Intendente of Ravenna, was kind enough
to show me the original sentence by which the
famous Legate a latere Rivasola condemned 500 i-
ndividuals of that town to the police surveillance.
By one article of that sentence those persons were
also subjected to the obligation of presenting every
month a certificate from the rector of their parish,
proving that they attended confession and com-
munion, thus turning the sacraments of the Chris-
tian religion into an aggravation of a penal sen-
tence. It is necessary to observe that out of the
500 persons put under the surveillance of the police,
300 were notoriously bad characters, who, from the
fear of being arrested, were induced to confess and
communicate, although they knew it was for them
an act of barefaced sacrilege. Between a sacrilege
and the Papal prisons they did not, however, hesi-
tate a moment. It is unnecessary for me to com-
ment upon such an application of religious obser-
vances. Moreover, this is but one, and not the
most iniquitious, of the numerous chapters of Papal.
misrule.
The Governor-General will leave this town in
two hours' time for Cesena and Forli. At the lat-
ter of these places he will pass the night, and by
to,morrow evening he will arrive at Bologna, after
having paid a short visit to the towns of Faenza,
Castel Bolognese, and Timola.