The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1868

occupies a spot on the western slope of the •
Aventine, which tradition assigns to the house
of SS. Priscilla and Aquila, the first where
St. Peter stayed in Rome. It may, therefore, be
considered to have sheltered the nucleus of
the first Christian congregation of the Eternal
City. It was at a later period he occupied
that of St. Pudentius. The vessel out of which
he performed many baptisms is preserved with
great veneration in a crypt under the church ;
it has something of the form of the capital of
a pillar, richly sculptured and set on a modern
pedestal. In more ancient times there had been
a temple of Diana in the groves which clothed
the hill-side, and possibly some remains of
this found in the saint's garden may have been
dug out and preserved as a work of art, just
as happens every day now, and the cherished
ornament, probably the choicest the house
afforded, was naturally offered to the apostle
for the use of his sublime ministry.
The St. Prisca, in whose honour the church
is dedicated, suffered martyrdom under Clau-
dius 11. in 275, and her remains were con-
cealed from the faithful. St. Entichianus, the
Pope at the time, having learnt their hiding
place in a dream, went out attended by his
clergy and many of the faithful, and, having
recovered them, interred them in this sanc-
tuary. St. Priscilla, mentioned by St. Paul
both in his Epistles to .the Romans and in that
to the Corinthians (for she and her husband,
St. Aquila, when driven out of Rome by the
persecution under the first Claudius, took up
their abode in Corinth), is called Prisca in one
of those to St. Timothy, and from these cir-
cumstances the two saints have often been
confounded in the guide books. This is one
of the earliest churches chosen as titular for a
cardinal, there being mention of a cardinal
priest of SS. Prisca and Priscilla as present at
the second Roman Council. It now gives the
title to Cardinal Puente, Archbishop of Cam-
postella.
There is already much speculation and in-
quiry as to whois to be invested with the
purple on the 17th of March. The names I
gave you last week are those chiefly canvassed.
It is said if Mgr. Bonaparte is one (and there
seems little doubt of it) he will not be nomi-
nated to any French diocese, but will reside in
Rome as one of those cardinals who more im-
mediately compose the Court of the Sovereign
Pontiff. The next in order of probability is
Mgr. Borromeo-Arese, major-domo of the Pope.
Ile is a descendant of a brother of St. Charles.
Then Mgr. Berardi, Under Secretary of State ;
the Portuguese and Spanish Nuncios, Mgr.
Monaco-la-Valetta, of the Congregation of the
Sacred Office ; Mgr. Capalti, Secretary of the
Propaganda ; Mgr. Gonella, Archbishop of
ViterbO ; and Mgr. Moreno, Archbishop of
Valladolid. As there are twenty-one vacant
hats it is not likely the above will be all the
creations. I have on a previous occasion men-
tioned other names as more or less likely. Two
are already conferred in petto. I believe it is
pretty generally known that when this is the
case, though the nomination may not be made
public, even for years, yet the place by seniority
in the Sacred College of the cardinal so nomi-
nated dates from the day of his creation in.
pelt°. This mode of nomination is employed in
favour of persons whom the Pope desires to
honour specially, but who cannot for a time
assume the cardinalitial state, either on ac-
count of their age, or because they are in a
position of serving the Church in a way it
would be desirable to interrupt or other such
cause.

Cardinal d'Andrea's submission has subjected
him to rude comments on the part of the re-
volutionary papers who before vied in extolling
him. His eminence had an audience of the
Pope on Monday, at which Mgrs. Antonelli
and Patrizzi were present as witnesses of the
interview of reconciliation. Of course there
h
not been wanting voices to predict that
work so nearly carried through would be de-
molished under the pressure of this last finish-
ing touch ; happily, such auguries were fully
belied. The Holy Father seems to have spoken
in uncompromising terms of what had taken
place in the past, but his Eminence listened
with great submission. There was one moment,
indeed, when he spoke of having been pro-
voked or driven to the course of action he had
cam to the audieannlcedesnad:obtehisasnnegdd
adopted, but he was met by a circumstantial
narrative of the sufferings patiently endured
by the Holy See and the Sacred College. Yield-
ing to the weight of testimony brought against
him, the Cardinal renewed his submission in
terms' which could roe fail to satisfy the Pope.
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other words,
more, for cardinals only have the privilege of
by very ancient concession, have
wearing the zuchetta (or skull-cap) in the
m simply
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taa, bnilnaocttkhec wearinggasasrobck of'
Pope's presencwe.earThtehree are, indindaeelidti,ablyitnsheigwnaiya
a few bishops, such as those of Lucca and Salz-
burg, who,
the right to
but they, also, are required to lay aside the
scarlet zuchetta in presence of a cardinal.
The Pope signified to Cardinal d'Andrea
that he had resolved to convert the Abbey of
fseneadosttw council,oti otf ha ost a y
Subiaco into a bishop's see, and that he would
let him know later his decision regarding his
Eminence's
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on
further, rtthhaetr ,d tahya t(
(to-
day).
would receive on the 18th—festival of the
Chair of St. Peter—the Brief autthhoeriz6iinapepheillma
calumnious, to resume the Roman Purple, wearing which,
Immaculate Concep-
guhrteeaiatadyeal that s violent
he could din
tphreessenixttin
tioSninhcaes promulgation of
the generallae
us, has been
published on the subject.
and absurd
It would take up
too much of your space to enter •
into a de-
tailed refutation of such attacks. There is no
' reason however, as yet to believe, as has been
asserted, that all idea of holding it has been
abandoned. The commissions
charged to pre-
pare the preliminary materials are
sedulously
at work ; and the Holy Father has specially
directed that the recent work of the Arch-
bishop of Westminster should be published in
Italian, two facts which show that it still oc-
cupies a place in the mind of the
Pope.
The amount received from the Diocese
of Mayence for the Papal y, up to the end
of the second week of this
vear, amounted to
upwards of 10,000 florins:
the pattern it has set, continue
in many of the towns of bothto be held
Prussia and Aus-
tria, and very considerable collections offered
for the maintenance of
the Pontifical army are
lbeing sent. The movement has likewise ex-
I tended into Hilnga , the collection in Buda-
i Pest alone amountedr
40,000 lire. It within a few days to
will be well nl Y be augured this move-
mentwith which the kept up, from the readiness
appeal for subscriptions of the
Peter's Pence was
which it has beenas met, and the steadiness with
: the Diocese of continued year by year—
! under that head 65000
for instance, sending
ead 65 000 scudi annually, and
other dioceses in '
proportion. And it is not
without reason that Germans who wish well
to Rome should
bestir themselves now, for
the enemies of Rome are receiving substantial
help from Germany too. I have it from a
most undeniable source that Prussia is most
vigorous in the
work of supplying Italy with
needle-guns. 45,000 were received at the port
of Genoa up to
the last day of 1867, and every
week large
ca
-by the land ses of the same are consigned
route also.
On the other hand, again, we have a number
-of men lately
arrived who will be invaluable in
filling up the
companies of the carbinieri esteri,
as they have served some time in the Prussian
army, out of which
they have volunteered.
No one seems to have any faith
in the
new Italian 3,1* •
mistry. The crisis has laid bare
pretty plainly the utter want of accord reign-
ing in the country. There is no cohesion
even between
watchword,m embers reputed. of the same
party. The" United Italy," has
introduced nothing but disunion.; it is all very
well for foreigners to sit over the map and give
favour of dividing sentence in • • • g people by geo-
graphical boundaries, but those who are of the
people and
acquainted with the people know