The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1867.

ception of Burke, were closely shaven. Six constable
of the C division and an acting sergeant and prison
warders'accompanied the convicts to Holyhead.

The Poor Law Commissioners have declined to
appoint a Presbyterian chaplain to the South Dub-

lin Union, on the ground that there are only three
Presbyterian paupers in the house, and they are at
liberty to go out to worship on Sundays.
The half-yearly meeting of the Mining Company
of Ireland was held yesterday, Mr. Thomas Bewley
in the chair. The report, which referred in favour-
able terms to the proceedings of the past year, and
which recommended a dividend of 10 per cent., was
unanimously adapted. At an extraordinary meet-
ing, subsequently held, the board"of directors were
empowered to reduce their number from 15 to 11.
A meeting was held last evening at Kingstown
to support the Clerical Vestments Bill. Tha meet-
condemned ritualistic practices, and expressed its
cordial sympathy with the Earl of Shaftesbury for
his zeal and perseverance in conducting the bill
through the House of Lords. The attendance was
large, and the feeling against ritualism was very
strong.

EVENING.

The Fenian General Halpin and a Fenian agent
named Breslin were brought in this morning from
Cork and lodged in Kilmainham Gaol. They were
identified on board the outward bound American
steamer it Queenstown by Corydon and Devany.
Captain Condon, retained in custody since his
acquittal, has been released at the request of the
American Minister, and sailed for the United States
yesterday, bound not to return.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

ROITE, June 26.

The day before yesterday the Pope held a Cap-
pella Papale, according to custom, on St. John's
day, at the Lateran Basilica, and assisted at the
Mass celebrated pontifically by Cardinal Alfieri,
archpriest of St. John Lateran. Notwithstanding
the overpowering heat, he was surrounded, both on
the road and during the function, by a countless
crowd.

Romans have a very picturesque custom for
Midsummer Eve : rows of flower stalls are set up
in the open space round St. John Lateran, which
form a pleasing promenade for a number of holi-
day makers, to the sound of rustic music ; and as,
under ordinary circumstances, it is an abstinence
day, an appropriate dish is prepared for the occa-
sion—in tents of striped sailcloth of many colours,
decorated with wreaths of verdure—consisting of
lumache (snails), prepared with herbs and bread-
crumbs and fried in oil.

Yesterday the Pope was pleased to give audience
to the foreign priests in the large hall called of the
Cena, over the vestibule of St. Peter's. He first
made an address on the duties of their condition,
and then they all defiled before him, and he gave
them his blessing as they passed. Each was to
have had a bronze medal and a copy of the Pope's
address, but it was impossible to get anything
like a sufficient number ready in time as there
were above 10,000 within the Sala and without,
vainly striving for admission. The Pope was heard
very well by all, but had to read very loud, and at
the close appeared somewhat fatigued. I hear,
however, that he was quite recovered by the
evening.

The excursion trains continue to bring us in three
flocks of pilgrims a day. A deputation is expected
shortly from Turin of a religious confraternity
which counts Victor Emmanuel among its digni-
taries. The members will appear in their habit,
and bear their insignia with them.

A commission of bishops, selected in duo pro-
portion out of the various nationalities, in which
Mgr. Manning has his appropriate position, has
been appointed to draw up the address of the
Episcopate to the Sovereign Pontiff. An interest-

ing incident, which occurred at one of their ses-
sions,'.has been mentioned to me. A bishop of
the United Greek Church, who was one of the
number, asked why, in a general assembly of
bishops of the whole Church, the address should
be written in Italian rather than any other tongue.
He spoke in *perfectly fluent and very elegant
Italian, so he was actuated by a catholic, and not
a personal motive. Cardinal Mattei rose in reply,
and taking the address in his hand, dictated it off
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in Latin.
The Pope held a Consistory early this morning.
After conferring the red hat on the Cardinal
Archbishop of Seville, he pronounced the Allocu-
tion, which will reach you before you go to press.
Subsequently he distributed to the bishops the
brief, authorizing them to wear the violet berretta
and zucchetta (skullcap).
I spoke in my last of the efforts being made to
tamper with the soldiers of the foreign legion and
bribe them to desert. It was, in consequence,
found necessary to adopt some stringent measures
which will have a better effect than too great leni-
ency. A picket of gendarmi overtook a party of
deserters on Sunday, about four miles out of
Rome, going towards Correse. Being summoned
to surrender, they showed fight, and in the fray
one of the gendarmi was slightly wounded, and one
of the deserters fatally. You have probably heard
of the exploit of a party of idle youths (some
150 in number), belonging to the neighbourhood
of Terni, secretly banded together, who were found
marching on the night of the 19th towards Rome,
uttering revolutionary cries. At the very moment
they reached the frontier, just beyond the woods
round Farfa, a detachment of Italian Infantry
came clown upon them, and called them off—an
order which it seems they very quickly complied
with, and without venturing a single shot. Some
forty or fifty were made prisoners, but the re-
mainder took to their heels. Whether this was an
act of genuine good faith on the part of the
Italian Government, or was a concerted movement
to, make a show of friendliness towards the Ponti-
fical regime, or merely an excuse for concentrating
troops on the frontier, cannot be made out decid-
edly. A telegram, announcing that such a move-
ment might be expected, was received by General
Kanzler, who sent a few Zouaves in the direction
indicated. Not the least importance is attached
to the circumstance here.
he officers of the Pontifical army give a soiree
in their Casino in the Piazza Colonna this evening
in honour of the foreign bishops. To-morrow
they are themselves invited in turn to a lunch
given at the Minerva Hotel by the visitors to
Rome.

June 28.

We have been visited this week by an event
which has produced a very sad impression in
English circles here, and will throw many families
at home into mourning. The eldest daughter of
Mr. Ifoward, of Corby, who has been spending
some little time here with him, was taken ill at the
end of last week, shortly after their return from
an excursion to Naples and Capri. On Sunday
alarming symptoms were developed of typhoid
cerebral fever, which terminated fatally on Monday
night. She was in the first bloom of youth,
having but lately completed her twentieth year.
The funeral had to take place on Tuesday night ;
there was a most beautiful and impressive service
at Sta. Maria del Popolo, at 9.45, some. forty
bearded "Capuchins, an equal number of Augusti-
nians, and about as many of a Morti confraternity,
with their red capes, standing round the body to
chant the solemn office, their torches and tapers
relieving the gloom with a subdued and congenial
light. The Office of the Dead was at 8.30 next
morning. The Archbishop of Westminster and
many other bishops were prevEnted being present
by having to attend the Consistory at the Vatican.
The Bishop of Edinburgh, however, assisted, as
did Monsignori Stonor and Howard. Many of the
Italian nobility, and the principal English resi-
dents
had a storm
ltdeaalgroefatrainon
Tuesday, which everyone and e a good
boon.
has felt
It is a curious speculation how many more thou-
sand visitors than we have (between
90,000 and
100,000 up to the present time) would have crowded
in for this ceremony if it had been • appointed for
a pleasanter season ; and then, what would have
become of them ? Mgr. Talbot told me some days
ago the applications for tickets were
then just
fOux Mmes as numerous as the places. Bishop

Vaughan and a good many English intend to
make their way to cooler regions as soon as to-
morrow's function is over. Thefunction is expected

to last six hours. Grand processions have been

going on every day during the octave of Corpus
Domini, from various churches in different parts of
Rome, all numerously followed. I was not able
to attend that at St. Peter's yesterday, but I was
told the Holy Father carrid or followed the

Blessed Sacrament on foot, which he has never

done before to my knowledge. In the evening,
there was a prova (rehearsal) of 300 singers, in
the gallery of the dome, with beautiful effect.
To-night, the Vigil of the Centenary festa, we are
to have the unique spectacle of the illumination of
the dome of St. Peter's. Allthc other festivities, I
find by the official programme, will be just what I

announced in a former leiter. This evening,
after Vespers, the Holy Father blesses the bishops'

pallia, ready for distribution in the course of the
year. The pallium is a narrow strip of woollen
stuff, marked with six crosses in black silk.

Borne on the shoulders, it symbolizes the type of
the Pastor bonus bearing the erring sheep back to

the fold, and the crosses represent that on which
suffered the Lamb who taketh away the sins of the

world. Every year, on St. Agnes's day (21st
January), there is a very pretty ceremony at St.
Agnese fuor' le mura ; the Pope assists at the

Mass, and, while the choir is singing the Agnus
Dei, the Chapter of St. John Lateran present him
with two young lambs bound on a satin cushion

and covered with flowers, which, after being laid
on the altar and blessed, are consigned to two
sub-deacons, who afterwards give them into the
care of a community of nuns. Some of their
wool is interwoven with the material of which the
pallia are made, and which are always consecrated
_ _ _

after the first Vespers on SS. Peter and Paul's
day by the Pope, or whoever assists in bis stead
on the occasion, at St. Peter's. The pallia are
afterwards kept in a gold urn in the Confession,
under the High Altar of St. Peter's. The use of
the pallium is of very ancient observance in the
Church. We read that in 335 Pope St. Mark con-
ferred it on the Bishop of Ostia : whose successors
have always worn it. For many centuries, however,
it has been considered to belong tai the peculiar
insignia of archbishops, who, indeed, have no right
to the title till they have received it, and under
normal circumstances must come to Rome within
three months of their con secration to be invested
with it at the hands of the Sovereign Pontiff. It
has, however, at various times been granted to sim-
ple bishops besides the Bishops of Ostia : thus the
present Pontiff gave:it, in 1847, to the Bishop of
Valence, in acknowledgment of his care of part
of the mortal remains of Pins VII., who died in
exile in his episcopal city.
After the blessing of the pallia, the chair of St.
Peter was borne in procession from its ordinary
position to the altar of the Madonna del Soccorso,
where it will remain exposed io the veneration of
the faithful during the Octave, by order of his
Holiness. The Pontifical Zonaves have applied
for the honour of guarding it in turns, night and
day.

The proclamation of the RevDlutionary Commit-
tee, of the 31st of May, speaks of the happiness
enjoyed by the people of Italz, which the Roman
population " sees, hears, and reads of, but may not
taste as yet." A Roman paper commenting on this,
points out as a curious evidence of how little truth
there can be as to this boasted happiness, seeing
that from all points of the new kingdom the
scanty population is driven to emigration. The
Calabrese and Sicilians have for months past been
seeking refuge by thousands in Tunis and Egypt ;
and the Florence official journal has lately been
publishing a warning that the labour market of
Switzerland is overstocked with Italian emigrants,
in spite of which the flood continues to set in that
direction. It would seem they had rather be any-
where than in the midst of the new " happiness"
of Ita'y.

A priest, who accompanies Mgr. Hassoun,
Patriarch of Constantinople, has just been giving
me an interesting account of the consecration of
his new cathedral of the Catholic-Armenian rite
which, though it took place some few months
ago, may not be known to some in England.
Mgr, Hassoun
The function was solemnized with a pomp long
unknown in Catholic ceremonies in this locality.
Therewor
wore
some were eleven bishops
ts which,ishvoepstsmpernesent. I believe,
were presented to him by the Empress of the
French. At the same time he went through the
ceremony of inaugurating the palace at Pera, built
for him at the expense of Bogos-Messili-Bey and
his two sisters.
Liszt has been on a mission to Buda, from the
Holy Father, to present the Emperor of Austria
with a very precious reliquary, on the occasion of
his Coronation. He has returned to superintend
the rendering of his new oratorio of " Christ."

great and glo-
rious before
June 29.
seven, and, though the
riolusam just
ceremony.
function was
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ttoota-dkaey'os
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concludedby
one o'clock, it was past two before we got away.
There are always many friends to be met on such
occasions, and, with me, it is always a favourite
part of the Roman ceremonies to watch the melt-
ing away of the immense multitudes they collect.
The good humour, politeness, and order with which
they break up and literally depart in peace, is more
like a military evolution than the spontaneous
dispersion of a promiscuous crowd, in which the
lowest and poorest orders muster in large propor-
tion. It gives one an impression of a greater dif-
fusion of civilization than one can witness in any
other capital of Europe. The heat was intense,
but I don't believe anyone thought of it ; and yet,
after some nine or ten hours' exertion under it,
one does not feel adequate to give you anything
like a worthy account in the haste which to-day's
post would render necessary. M. Veuillot is here,
and from his ready pen you will have the fullest
account that could be rendered to-day. There
was, however, an accident of an alarming nature,
which threatened to have defeated the whole cere-
mony, which I must tell you of. The lighting of
the vast multitude of tapers was nearly completed,
when the draperies before one of the high windows
of the transept caught fire—draperies of such thick
silk that one would not have thought it could have
burnt. A murmur rose through the crowded
church, which was more alarming than sight of the
fire, which, for a moment, we thought might burn
itself out without dainage. Aminute after, how-
ever, it communicated itself to the central and
larger window, and most unaccountably, for the
distance between them is not less than fifteen or
twenty feet.'this
Was a more serious affair, and
large flakes of burning matter floating about soon
set fire to the woodwork scrolls, from which the
candle sconces start, While the candles, guttering
down and melting in the heat, stimulated the
flames. Apparently, it was quite unperceived by
anyone in authority, and people began to whisper
reminiscences of the catastrophe of Lima, and
some turned to force their way out of the throng.
The quickly communicating impulses of a large
body of people have something in them very
moving. We seemed to be living through a long
danger, and ideas of personal suffering, and of the
mocking exultation of the enemies of the Church,
mingled themselves strangely—the ladies in the
palchi, bereft of the support of the masculine ele-
ment, were turning pale, and the more courageous
were gallantly preventing the outburst of a panic
among their sisters. And yet so admirable is the
forethought and order with which everything here
is managed that, before three minutes by my
watch had elapsed, a band of pompicri had made
their way in through the windows, one body set-
ting themselves to remove the rows of candles
which twisted round their arms like snakes, and
all decorations in any danger of ignition, while
another body slung down buckets of water from
the upper part of the roof, where a perpetual
fountain plays, and directed them on to the burn-
ing mass with all the precision of a daily-repeated
manoeuvre rather than the haste to be expected on
so trying an occasion. Within the lapse of a quar-
ter of an hour all was safe again, and outer cur-
tains supplied to the windows where the accident
had happened, to prevent any further mischief from
the draught ; and meantime the great procession

had begun moving in in serene unconsciousness
of danger.

The intense heat of the day again and again
made the tapers at different points bend and fall
over, with their wicks downwards, and then blaze
up ominously, threatening their fragile and in-
flammable sconces. About ten o'clock a large glass
chandelier at the back of one of the transepts,
came down by the breaking of its cord,-,with a
clash which sounded like another cannon, for they
were firing from St. Angelo, trumpets flourishing,
and all the bells of Rome ringing. Yet no harm
came of any of it. St. Peter was decidedly at
watch over his beautiful Basilica, no less than over
the faithful assembled in his honour, and if the
decorations were blemished here and there by a
hiatus in the p tterns of flame, each such hiatus
but showed forth as a memento of a signal mercy.
Of the musical performance, I scarcely dare ven-
ture to speak. It is like criticizing the Apocalypse ;
every one knows either by experience or fame of
the marvellous acoustic perfection of St. Peter's ;
and when the choir, placed round the dome answered
, the choir over the entrance, the swelling and dying
away of the responsive sounds may be called magi-
cal. The Offertory was intensely beautiful, and
I was inclined at one time to admire it more than
anything else. But when, not merely the multi-
tudinous choirs, but the whole countless throng of
sonorous-voiced people poured out their souls in
the Veni Creator, the Te Deum, and the Litany of
the Saints, I knew there was nothing on this earth
could surpass that.

The soiree at the Minerva last evening was very
brilliant and well attended. The large rooms de-
voted to it hardly sufficed for the crowds assembled.
They were very tastefully decorated with flowers
and trophies of arms, and busts of Pius IX. and
General Lamoriciere. Mgr. Mermeillod, Bishop of
Geneva, who entered in company with Colonels
d'Argy and de Charrette, was asked by General
Kanzler to address a few words to the assembly
before it broke up. Mgr. Mermeillod complied. He
spoke with great earnestness of the joy which
bishops all over the world, labouring in the ser-
vice of souls and contending for the faith once
delivered to the saints, felt in the reflection that

there was ever round the Holy Father a guard of
noble hearts kindled by faith and devotion, who
are rallied round him by the sole force of their
convictions and determined to vindicate the liberty
of the soul. The worthy bishop was frequently
interrupted by hearty cheers, and shouts of Evviva
it Papa Re were raised at its close and taken up
by the crowd in the Piazza outside.