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London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News

A letter from Rome, dated July 20, says :
I was obliged to send off my letter rather early
last week, as I was engaged for a few days' change
of air in Albano, so that I could not bring my nar-
rative of events up to the end of the week. On
Friday (12th) the Pope held a Consistorio Segreto.
In his Allocution he announced to the Sacred Col-
lege the execution of the Emperor Maximilian, and
that his solemn obsequies would be celebrated in
the Sixtine Chapel. New bishops were appointed
for Sens and for Oran in Algeria, which has lately
been made an episcopal see. The Pope himself in-
vested Mgr. Antonio Hassoun, the new Armenian
Patriarch of Cilicia, who has taken the name of
Antonio Pietro IX., with the palliurn, with the
accustomed ceremonies, all the Armenian bishops
in Rome being present, as well as the Siro-Maro-
nite Patriarch of Antioch and other prelates of
Oriental rites. Afterwards he received the peti-
tion for the pallium from the Archbishops of Sens
and Quito, who were invested in his presence, and
conferred the cardinalitial ring on the new car-
dinal.

We hear every day threatening rumours of the
preparations of the Garibaldian party, which, it
is hinted, are subsidized by the Italian Govern-
ment. In spite of the protests of the official
journal that Government is determined to arrest
anything of the sort, they yet receive no effective
check. It is not that there are not now and then
secret meetings disturbed, a marauding party in
the frontier overhauled, and a few arrests made,
but from all I hear there is more going on than
could be managed without assistance in high quar-
ters. A handful of men spurred on to the attack
will form an excuse for sending a whole army in
pursuit, and, once in the Roman State, may they
not cry, "it is good for us to be here !" At the
present moment, at all events, the excuse is seized
for concentrating large bodies of troops on the
frontier, which, under the title of cordone d'osser-
vazione, present good grounds for suspecting in
them the materials of an invasion. The "National
Committee " and the " Centre of Insurrection "
have contrived somehow to effect a fusion at last,
and have constituted a new administration with
the title of Junta Nazionale Romana. Its first act
is the circulation of the following proclamation :
" Romans !—Rejoice that there aro no more dissensions
among us ! All sections of the Liberal party are to-
day united in the resolution to crush once for all the Papal
Government, and to give Rome to Italy.
" The National Committee and the Centre of Insur-
rection are alike superseded by the Junta. Nazionale
Romana, which henceforth will take the Sovereigik.direc-
lion of the movement.

"Rejoice over this holy concord, and second it by
union in faith and discipline--union in intentions and
sacrifices. The Roman fasces are truly formed this day,
and will lead you to victory, but beware of another
fracture.

" Romans !—The honourable citizens who compose the
Junta, into whose hands we resign our office, are worthy
of their exalted mission, but they can do nothing unless
seconded by your courage and confidence. You have
but to will it, and 25,000,000 of our brethren will acknow-
ledge Rome for the capital of Italy.
(Signed) " THE NATIONAL ROMAN COMMITTEE,
" Rome, July 19." " THE CENTRE OF INSURRECTION.

It is not from within, however, that we have
anything to fear. The Junta may issue as many
circulars as they will ;
they won't get the Romans to
rise against the Pope, and if we had no subsidized
attack from without to expect, we might rest con-
fident that the boast of this new Roman fascio
would turn out another fiasco.
The Pope still continues too much occupied to
leave Rome. His departure has been postponed,
but no day has as yet been named for it. The
heat is very great, but the general health is not
much below the average of the time of year. 'The
obligation of abstinence, on Fridays and Satur-
days, has been dispensed, however, as a precaution
against possible inroad of cholera, and because the
season is considered trying.
There was a Solemn Mass for the Emperor
Maximilian on Wednesday in the Sixtine Chapel,
sung by Cardinal Reisach. The Pope pronounced
the absolution. Nearly all the cardinals and pre-
lates in Rome assisted. The King of Naples and
Count Trapani, many Roman princes, and the
Corps Diplontatique were present, and a consider-
able crowd of faithful.

Letters from Vienna describe the obsequies cele-
brated there on the 12th as very grand. The cata-
falque was surrounded with the arms and banners
of the imperial houses of Austria and Mexico. At
the foot of the coffin were two velvet cushions, on
which were laid the arch ducal and imperial
crowns, together with the imperial orb and scep-
treuar ; around were placed 120 tapers in massive
guard. The Emperor of Austria
silver candlesticks, and beyond these were sta-
teinotneerdedtthhee
bodychurch
about eleven o'clock, preceded
by the Archdukes and officers of State. The
plenipotentiaries and envoys of England, France,
Russia, and Turkey were present, as well as all
the resident nobility.
The man who cut his throat in St. Peter's left
the Hospital of San Spirito, cured of his wound, on
Saturday last. I believe he has been removed to
a lunatic asylum ; it is the third time he has
attempted his life.
The Defesore, a Modenese newspaper which has
been some little time in abeyance, reappeared on
St.a t
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Peter'so. day with the new title of II Diritto
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I have just had my attention called to a
number of the Semazne Religieuse of Nevers
giving an account of a most interesting ceremony
near that town on
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age and infirmities ; in order also to prevent the
manifestations which the sight of him would have
called forth from the people along the route it was
arranged to have a number of posting stations pro-
vided with relays of horses at some little way out of
the towns. Thus it happened that on the 19th the
cortege came through Nevers, and the horses were
changed at a little place named Barbeloup, be-
tween Pougues and La Charite. The Pope left
the carriage during the delay, and sat down to
rest under a cherry-tree by the wayside while
he sent into a cottage to ask for a draught of
milk. A peasant woman brought it to him on her
knees ; the Pope thanked the new Veronica, and
presented her with a piece of money,
always afterwards wore hung round her neck like
a sacred medal. which she

The cherry-tree was long an object of veneration
for the whole country side, but somehow perished
in some subsequent storm either moral or atmo-
spheric. The Bishop of Nevers had the happy
thought of replacing it by a more durable memorial,
which might serve in future ages to mark this sta-
tion in the Via Dolorosa of Pius VII. The Mayor
of Trousage, in whose parish Barbeloup is situated,
was most assiduous in seconding his pious wish,
and subscriptions were not wanting. A local archi-
tect, M. Bouveault, accordingly has just erected an
elegant column of sculptured marble, surmounted
by a gilt cross and bearing this inscription :

Die XIX Ric
jvnii M.D. CCC. XII,
Pies VII P. M.
Peregrines et regrotans
Modico lac te reficiebatvr.
De torrente in rid bibet, propterea exaltabit caput.
A large crowd assembled at its inauguration, and
after the psalm, "Quare fremuerunt gentes," had
been sung, the bishop made a short address on the
text, "Et venient ad te curvi filii corum qui
humiliaverant te, et adorabunt vestigia pedum
tuorum." "The children of them that afflicted thee
shall come bowing down to thee, and all that slan-
dered thee shall worship the steps of thy feet."
(Is. lx., 14.)

A letter from Turin, dated July 22, says :
The new bill for the liquidation of the Church
property continues under discussion, and seems
likely to pass. It is the most sweeping
measure yet
proposed. By it, the State lays ith hand on every
kind of ecclesiastical property, even on what was
spared before ; the very subscriptions of Confra-
ternities do not escape notice. The Chamber is
hard at work in its struggle to make up for lost
time and is holding three sittings a day. The second
and third clauses were passed on Saturday. The
attempt At accuracy in the wording

barely escapes being ludicrous, the ente morale—
the moral being—of ecclesiastical bodies ceases.
Their corporate possessions become national pro-
perty, bene del demanio, as it is called, or as an
Italian paper suggests would be more appropriate
in this instance, del demonio. The pittance to be
doled out to the dispossessed owners is prescribed
in Article 3. By a report presented to the Chamber
it appears that the estimates for 1867 amount to
1,114 millions, and the deficit will be 217 millions,
without counting arrears.

The Commission appointed to inquire into the
general administration of the Naval Department
has sent in a report which, from the extracts that
have been allowed to transpire, reveals a deplorable
state of confusion and malversation. When the
Commission found that the receipts and payments
were a long way from balancing, they were told it
arose from economy in the personnel of the office.
There was a sufficiency of clerks to look after the
receipts, but there were only two or three to note
the payments, and these were so frequent that it
was often impossible to register them all ! This is
a specimen of the frivolous answers given to the
gravest charges of the Commissioners.

With reference to various secret gatherings of
small knots of Garibaldians, of which we hear now
and then, the following appears in the Corriere
Italian°, the official paper : —" The King's Govern-
ment is not only resolutely determined to oppose
every attempt of an attack on Rome, but the most
complete measures have been taken to prevent any
infraction of the pledge on that subject already
given." This is said to be the result of a late
warning from the French Emperor, recalling the
convention, and stating he has so much now on
his hands, that a Roman complication must be
avoided at all hazards.

The same paper states that Cardinal Antonelli
has addressed the three following questions to the
representatives of the four Catholic Powers, France,
Austria, Spain, and Portugal :—What course they
would pursue if it should appear plainly that the
Italian Government was conniving at the invasion
now being planned by the Garibaldians, in spite
of the convention ? 2. What they would do in
case the revolutionary party made their way up to
the gates of Rome ? 3. And what, supposing there
was any outbreak in Rome itself ? I give you the
paragraph as it stands, on the faith of the Corriere ;
I have heard nothing from Rome itself of any such
application.

The only public notice which has hitherto been
taken in Italy of the execution of the Emperor
Maximilian has been by the Pope. A Turin paper,
while raising its voice against this apathy, accuses
certain papers of not being, content, like the Go-
vernment, with an ignominious silence, but of
publicly applauding this frightful act of Juarez.
I have not heard that this has met with any official
reprobation, but a printed sheet, entitled, " Sogno
di Napoleone 111. e l'ombra di Massimiliano," which
was in circulation at Milan, has been seized.
From Austria it was rumoured that the Arch-
duchess Sophia had been so horror-stricken by the
terrible news of the loss of her son that she had
entirely lost her reason. The Vienna Gazette of
the 15th denies this report, but it says she has been
most painfully affected by the intelligence, and it
is said she seems continually to have the picture
of his last sad moments before her eyes. The Press
of Vienna announces that the visit of the Emperor
of Austria to Paris is definitively abandoned ; he
has, however, invited the Sultan to spend some
days at Schonbrunn on his way home. The
Tagsblatt says the Sultan will come by way of
Berlin about the end of the month, but that he has
expressed his earnest desire that his coming shall
in no way interfere with the Court mourning, and
that it may not occasion any public festivities
which would be out of season at such a time.
Count Crotti's re-election for Verres has just
been completed and declared valid in the Cham-
ber. It remains now for the battle of the oath to
be fought over again.
The Florence journals are beginning to wake to
a perception of the irreparable injury to art which
is resulting from the public contempt of its reli-
gious sanctuaries. The instance which has spe-
cially roused their ire is the vandalic treatment of
the cloisters of Santa Croce—Santa Croce, where
the great Dante festival was completed by the
inauguration of the statue which now commands
the piazza ; Santa Croce, where so many great men
of Italy are inhumed, till our guide-books have
called it the Westminster Abbey of Florence ;
Santa Croce has a claim on the halianissimi
which would be wanting in a mere church.
But they have sown the wind, and they
are now reaping the tempest ; the smooth,
green turf beneath which are laid a Sabatelli, a
Santarelli, a Gazzarini, a Virginia Blasis, is con-
verted into a yard " where rubbish may be shot !"
The traceried arches which enclose it--the work
of Arnolfo de Colle, in the fourteenth century
—are covered with obscene and ribald scrawls.
The marble tablets destined to record the merits
of the departed, are covered with offensive and
derisive epithets. Small boys, brought up in com-
munal schools which have succeeded the pious
teaching of religious, delight in giving a practical
effect to the anti-ecclesiastical lessons they are
taught by spending their play-time in shying
stones at the monuments and defacing the frescoes.
They are brought up to see religious edifices
turned into barracks, and prisons, and army stores,
and, more logical than their elders, they deem it
less of a sacrilege to make places of sepulture
serve for a playground.

Our Sindaco issued an order a few days ago re-
lative to precautions against cholera, which, among
other things, forbad the hawking of fruit and vege-
tables. A number of poor people are thus deprived
of the means of existence, and we had quite a little
entente last Friday. The itinerant vendors of fruit
and lemonade, who had thus been condemned to
starve, collected in crowds, and after parading the
streets for some time, surrounded the Palazzo di
citte, the female element predominating, and com-
menced tearing up the pavement to provide mis-
siles with which to assail the building. The police
came out and restored order by carrying a consi-
derable number to prison, where they will, at all
events, be fed. The same day we had another affair
which has made some noise. A woman, very
respectably dressed, and of prepossessing appear-
ance, attempted to commit suicide in the streets.
She was observed to point a pistol at her head,
but before anyone could reach her, she had pulled
the trigger. The ball entered her mouth, tearing
away part of the lower jaw ; but the case is not
considered likely to prove fatal. The act is attri-
buted to despair excited by jealousy.
A letter from Paris says :
The Chamber, on the eve of dissolution, conti-
nues to be occupied almost exclusively on the
Budget. M. Berryer took occasion on Saturday
to inquire of Government what reports had
been received regarding the cholera, and what pre-
cautionary measures had been adopted. M.
Forcade, Minister of Public Works, said in answer,
that the Mecca pilgrimage had passed off without
giving any grounds for serious apprehension of
mischief, owing to the favourable conditions of the
atmosphere, and the precautionary measures
adopted during the last two years at the instance
of the French Government, such as preventing the
overcrowding of the Red Sea steamers. Cholera
has, however, appeared at various points of the
Mediterranean coast., first at Tunis, then in Sicily,
then in Italy. In Sicily it was not the towns that
were attacked, but the small villages in the open
country. The affrighted village populations col-
lected in the towns—at Palermo to the number
of more than 40,000, and, strange to say, they
did not take the contagion with them. The reports
that have been circulated about Rome are greatly
exaggerated ; there is no cause for alarm there. In
the north of Italy, however, at Brescia and Ber-
gamo, it broke out, but has not spread. Some
isolated cases have also been reported at various
points of the coast of Brittany. With regard to
precautionary measures, M. Forcade stated that,
though the system of quarantine had at one time
been abandoned, there had been a reaction in
scientific opinion, and last year permission had been
given for its adoption in certain cases, as when a
vessel arrives in port which has had an outbreak of
cholera on board. Government was, therefore,
armed against the wore but, at the Da= time, it

hadbeen determined not to have recourse to a means
so calculated to impede trade, except in case of
great necessity. M. Berryer replied that he was
glad to hear that the opinions of anti- contagionists
were not paramount in France.

The bishops, on their return from Rome, have
been received throughout France with the most
marked expressions of rejoicing and veneration. In
most instances they were met at the railway station
by Confraternity processions which conducted
them to their cathedrals, where they addressed
their flocks on the glories they had witnessed in the
Eternal City, and dismissed the congregations with
the Papal Benediction. The towns were in. gala
array with flags, and wreaths, and triumphal arches,
and illuminated in the evening. The Bishop of
Rennes, who was prevented from going to Rome
by grave indisposition, but sent 20,000 fr. for the
support of forty Zouaves, has published in his dio-
cese a letter of sympathy and thanks addressed to
him by the Holy Father. Mgr. Godelle, Bishop
in partilnts of Thermopylae, Vicar-Apostolic of
Pondichery, who intended to spend a few days at
the House of the Missions etrangeres in Paris before
returning to his diocese, was taken ill in conse-
quence of the fatigues of the journey, and obliged
to lay up at Chambery. He desired to be taken to
the Hotel-Dieu, which is a very extensive institu-
tion at Chambery. The Sisters of St. Vincent
lavished every care on him, but his constitution
was already undermined by the labours and priva-
tions consequent on the duties of his apostolic mis-
sion, and he died on the 15th at the age of 62.
It may well be doubted whether, with all his
foresight, the Emperor had any suspicion of the
comments that would be passed on his late letter
and present to M. Rouher. According to the fol-
lowing details of the circumstances of its presen-
tation, published in the Independance, the latter
would seem to be better acquainted with the state
of public opinion :—" As he was entering the
Council Chamber, M. Rouher was requested to
attend the Emperor, who then gave him the cross
and the written testimony of friendship which ac-
companied it. The Minister, casting his eye over
the document, observed the line which implied it
should be made public, and, in order to make
quite sure, asked the Emperor if he meant it.
The Emperor replied that he expressly stipulated
it. The note did not, however, appear in the
Moniteur till after the lapse of another day, M.
Rouher, in his exceeding discretion, having thought
it advisable, in the interim, to give his imperial
master the opportunity of reconsidering his deci-
sion." The diamonds are said to be worth £1,600.
The King and Queen of Portugal and the
Infant, Duke of Coimbra, brother of the King,
arrived on Sunday evening. The Viscount di
Paiva, Portuguese Ambassador at Paris, met them
at the Belgian frontier. The Emperor, 4ccomp-
anied by Prince Joachim Murat, received them at
the terminus of the Nord Railway. The Empress
came down to welcome them at the foot of the grand
staircase of the Tuileries. After spending some
time in the private apartments of the Empress,
they drove together to the Pavilion Marsan. The
Empress left on Sunday morning for Havre, to
embark there for her private visit to the Queen.
The Emperor accompanied her to the pier and re-
turned to Paris in the evening. King Louis 11. of
Bavaria also arrived on Sunday, and paid a visit at
the Tuileries ; he travels under the title of Comte de
Berg.

The Moniteur reports that the Prince Imperial
appears to have already derived great benefit
from his stay at Bagneres-de-Luchon. He bathes
regularly every morning, and takes a walk of two
or three hours on the mountains. "He has never
been better; it need hardly be said that he is the
theme of all conversation and of all thought in
the neighbourhood. His pleasant, healthy coun-
tenance, his vivacity and amiability, have won all
hearts."

The Paris prints are a good deal occupied with
speculations concerning the fate of Dano, the French
representative in Mexico, who was accredited in
June, 1865. The Emperor Maximilian sent to
Paris as his plenipotentiary General Almonte, in
May, 1866. Juarez, on his success, demanded
that General Almonte should be given up, threat-
ening, in case of refusal, to shoot Dano. Of
course, France cannot give up Almonte ; but, with
the specimen we have had of Juarez's recklessness,
the safety of the French plenipotentiary is doubt-
ful indeed. The Courrier Francais reports that he
has effected his escape, but there is no notice of
such an event in the official journal.
An ancient town has lately been discovered in
Russia in a curious way. A fort was in course of
construction at Orembourg. The Kirgis had un-
dertaken to supply the bricks, of which they seemed
to have an exhaustless supply of a v ery fine kind.
The Russian engineers at last became curious to
know whence they were obtained, and, in answer
to their inquiries, were told they had a mine of
them. The officers required to see the mine, and
found that there was a town of considerable extent
buried beneath the soil. The Kirgis had already
destroyed the dome of one large edifice for the sake
of getting the bricks. There was no one on the
spot, however, capable of determining the date of
the constructions.

The Abbe Sire, one of the professors of the
Seminary of St. Sulpice, while in Rome for the
Centenary of St. Peter—l believe on St. Peter's
day itself—presented to the Pope the very labo-
rious production on which he has been engaged for
a long time. It is a collection of translations of
the Bull Ineffabilis Deus (defining the doctrine of
the Immaculate Conception) into three hundred
languages and dialects. lie has been at pains to
render it as correct and complete as possible, each
translation having been verified by the bishop of
the diocese in which the language or dialect is
spoken. Each is . written, adtrned and bound
according to the prevailing style and taste of each
country; the precious metals, jewels and enamels,
corals and mother-o'pearl, have been put in requi-
sition for their ornamentation. It is curious that,
of all the European versions, those from Poland
and Portugal are said to be the most costly and
elaborate.

A letter from Brussels says :
Great astonishment has been expressed here at
the rumoured retirement of M. Van de `Meyer, and
all sorts of conjectures are afloat as to the probable
cause of that Minister's tender of resignation.
Nothing can exceed the gratification of the Bel-
gian nation at the more than cordial and handsome
manner in which its representatives have been
received by the English people. The souvenirs of
the Belgian volunteers seem to rest with peculiar
satisfaction on the entertainment offered them by
Miss Burdett Coutts ; but. they seemed at first to
have some difficulty in understanding why that lady
was singled out for one special occasion in their
programme. The public spirit which prompted
this individual liberality, however, and the peculiar
circumstances which suggested to her the wish to
receive them on her own responsibility, upon being
explained to them, it was both felt and appre-
ciated.

The awkward incident of the disproportion be-
tween the number of medals distributed by his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Wimbledon
and the number of recipients has excited some
comment and remains to be explained, and Colonel
Gregoire has been severely censured for a laxity of
discipline and a want of method, without which
such an accident so vexatious to all parties, and
principally to his Royal Highness, could not have
occurred. _

The magnificent annual procession known as that
of the " Tres Saint Sacrement de Miracle," took its
accustomed circuit on Sunday last from the Cathe-
dral of Ste. Gudule, amidst an immense concourse
of the faithful, and followed by upwards of 2,000
pilgrims. Every accessory that could contribute to
the imposing richness of the occasion was supplied ;
and, although those who took part in it began their
preparations as early as three in the morning, it
was five in the afternoon before the different groups
put themselves in order to gain their respective
homes.
The first stone has just been laid of a new bridge
across the Vesdre, which is to unite Verviers to the
Ensival.
The " Grand Serment Royal et Noble " of cross-
bowmen and carabineen of Drikiaelf4 celebrated, on

the 15th inst., at eleven o'clock, a funeral service
for the repose of the soul of the late Emperor
Maximilian, honorary member of this Societe create.
Among the numerous congregation were most of
the notabilities of the capital, the Ministers, and
foreign officials, and the whole of the Austrian
Embassy.