The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-23 00:00:00

THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.

The Dublin Mail says that preparatiomaave been com-
menced in St. Patrick's Cathedral for the accommodation
of the large number of persons who will be present on the
occasion of the installation of the Prince of Wales as an
extra Knight of St. Patrick. It has been arranged that
the installation ceremony will take place in the centre of
the cathedral, and in front of the Eagle. The screen sepa-
rating the choir from the Royal Chapter Room will he
removed, so that an uninterrupted view will' be afforded
of the entire length of the edifice. In the nave the seats
will be changed from their present position, and placed
laterally, so as to permit a wide passage to be kept for the
procession. In the aisles, galleries will be erected, and seats
placed upon them. "Friar's Walk" will also be devoted to
the accommodation of spectators, for whose protection iron
bars will be placed as guards to the open niches. The
musical arrangements have been committed to the efficient
charge of Dr. Francis Robinson and the sacred music on
the occasion will be rendered by the gentlemen of the
cathedral choirs, and those of the Chapel Royal and
Trinity College. The body of executants will be plaCed on
a gallery in the neighbourhood of the Grand Master's
Throne. Admission to the cathedral will only be obtained
by tickets, to be procured from Sir Bernard Bnrke's com-
mittee, which will commence its duty of selection early next
week. We believe it is understood that all present must
appear in full dress. On the day of the installation the
knights, with their esquires, and the officers of the Order,
will assemble in the Upper Castle Yard at an early hour—
the former in their mantles, habits, collars, &c., anti the
latter in full dress—to proceed to the cathedral in a pro-
cession, which will most probably be marshalled in the
following order :—Squadron of cavalry ; State trumpets
and drums ; messengers; pursuivants ; sergeants-at-arms,
with their maces ; Athlone pursuivants ; the knights, in
order of juniority, , with their esquires ; H. the Prince
of Wales ; and the Lord-Lieutenant, Grand Master of the
Order ; Ulster King of Arms, with his Usher/ the Secre-
tary, Chancellor, and Prelate.
The procession will be closed with a squadron ref cavalry,
and proceed along Dame-street, George's-street, Aungier-
street, Bishop-street, Kevin-street, and the new sticet to
the west gate of the cathedral. The streets through which
the procession will plss will be lined with infantry. On
arriving at the western portal the knights, the Grand
Master, and the Prince of Wales will be conducted to the
Royal Chapter-room by the dean, prebendaries, vicars-
choral, choristers, and verger.
In the Chapter-room the Lord-Lieutenant will take his
tat at the head of the table as Grand Master, and the
knights will take their respective seats, their esquires
standing behind them. The Prince of Wales, as the
knight to be installed, will stand at the table, and before
him will be deposited his mantle and sword, his banner
being fixed by one of his esquires in the place appointed
for it. The Chapter having been duly constituted, the
Grand Master and the knights will proceed to the choir,
where his Excellency will take his place upon the throne,
and the knights will occupy their respective stalls, their
esquires being seated in front of them. The dignitaries
and prebendaries will proceed to their places, after which
a " Te Deum " will be sung.

At the conclusion of the anthem, Ulster King of Arms,
the heralds, pursuivants, and esquires of the Prince of
Wales will proceed to the Chapter-room for the insignia.
On re-entering the choir, Ulster King of Arms will bear
the collar on a blue velvet cushion, and the esquires will
carry the banner, mantle, and sword.

The Prince of Wale 3 will then proceed to the table
where the Prelate—the Lord Primate—will read the
Admonition, and the Grand Master having commanded
the two senior knights present to descend from their
stall 3, his Royal Highness will be by them invested with
the sword and collar, and the mantle being placed upon
him, he will be conducted to a stall specially prepared for
him as an extra knight. The senior esquire will then
unfurl the banner, and Ulster King of Arms will proclaim
the style of his Royal Highness.
All will then sit down, except the officers of arms and
the esquires, who will hand the banner to the registrar,
to be deposited in its appointed place.
The National Anthem having been sung, a procession
will be formed by the Ulster King of Arms, and the
knights, dignitaries, and attendants will leave the
cathedral.

An important and influential meeting was held
at No. 1, Whitehall-gardens, on Saturday afternoon,
when it was decided to adopt energetic measures for de-
fending the Irish Church, and with this view a great pul
lic meeting will be held in London next month.

It is now ten years since the Indian mutiny was
suppressed. In August last the roll of men of the 27th
(Inniskilling) Regiment entitled to the medal was sent to
Sir W. Mansfield, but up to the last week nothing was
heard of it at the India Office, and the men have not got
the medals won in 1858.

At a meeting of Liberals held at Berkhatnpstead
the following letter from Mr. J. Bright, M.P., was read :
" I thank you for your invitation to your intended public
meeting, and regret that I am compelled to disappoint
you. I have so much to do that I cannot attend meetings
during the session of Parliament, and indeed I am obliged
to give up platform work to a great extent. After twenty-
nye years of it (and indeed more than that), I think I may
claim some relief, and leave to other and younger men
some of the lab Dur which I have been accustomed to under-
take."

THE T6DMORDEN MITUDERER.—ThE English In-
dependent, in an article on the Todmorden murders, with-
nit any wish, as it says, to extenuate the murderer's
tells the following story :—" When Miles Wetherill
was an infant in his cradle his father happened to come in
one day during his mother's temporary absence, and was
seized with some cruel impulse to take the child out of his
cradle and put him in a drawer. When his mother
returned and inquired for her child the father professed
ignorance, and aggravated her distress by telling her that
he had seen a woman pass by some time before, who had
loubtless stolen him. For two hours he allowed her agony
to continue, until by accident she found the child in the
drawer where he had placed it. Such story any one may
hear in Todmorden to-day. If vices run in the blood as
well as other things, surely here was a germ of murder,
or any cruelty that might develone itself in generations 0
come.7_

ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster dazette.)
ROME, March 14.

Lent is proceeding with its usual quietness
here. The churches are busy and well filled
at all the various offices which are provided at
all hours in the different quarters of the city.
The schools of Christian Doctrine, too, are as
usual at their special work of training the
young during this season for their first Com-
munion, and daily their little messengers may
be observed perambulating the streets, cross
and bell in hand, and with their infantile voices
calling on Christian fathers and mothers to
send their children to be instructed, and not
incur the condemnation of suffering them to
grow up in ignorance of the truth.
Among the stational churches this week was
that of St. Vitale on Friday, the church whose
title accompanied the cardinal's hat which
Paul 111. sent to Bishop Fisher so shortly
before his execution. That of Thursday was
Sta. Maria in Trastevere, which claims the
merit of being the first church dedicated in
honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. CaEx-
' tus consecrated it in 222, on a spot where an
oil-spring was discovered at the very time of
the birth of our Lord—a singular circumstance
which is recorded by several very early writers,
and in the following terms by Eutropius:—
" Just about this time there sprang up from
the ground on the other side of the Tiber a
source of oil, running over the ground like a
stream, signifying the Grace of Christ, which
was to be communicated to the Gentiles." A
local inscription thus preserves the tradition :
Magna Taberna fui, tune Emeritoria dicta
Emeritis adscribens virtus, vitaque relicta
Hine oleum fluxit, cum Christus Virgine luxit

Hine, et donatur venia quodeuinquerogatur.
The allusion of the two first lines is to its occu-
pying the site of the taberna meritoria, a resort
of the emeriti, or soldiers, who had fulfilled
their term of service, or merited exemption from
it. Among its multitude of other objects of
sacred interest it preserves a marble slab
marked with the blood of St. Barbara ; a
round stone with spikes, a terrible instrument
of the martyrdom of another saint ; a very
ancient mosaic from the catacombs of St.
Calixtus ; and the first picture of our Lady
ever exposed for public veneration in Rome.
The whole church has been lately under
restoration at considerable cost, and affords in
its frescoes the opportunity of observing the
productions of modern Roman artists. In the
ceiling is formed a magnificent Assumption of
Domenichino. Among its many former restora-
tions the most noteworthy was that by Inno-
cent 111., who, to give it greater solemnity,
performed it at the time of the Lateran Coun-
cil. St. Charles Borromeo was wont to pass
much time here in prayer and meditation, in
memory of which a chapel was subsequently
erected in his honour, and the same occurred
with St. Philip Neri.
The Pope held a Consistorio Segreto early yes-
terday morning, in which Cardinal BarnabO
was appointed Chamberlain of the Sacred
College, vice Cardinal Reisach. St. Maria
in Via aLata was nominated Cardinal Auto-
nelli's titular church; but he is still to hold St.
Agata in commendam. Several bishops were
proposed for various dioceses of Spain, Hun-
gary, Holland, and both Americas.
The creation of nine cardinals also took place
according to list sent you in my last. All are
Italians, with the exception of Mgr. Bona-
parte, who was, however, born in Rome, and
Mgr. Moreno, Archbishop of Valladolid, who
is a native of Guatimala.
Rome was alive all day with the ceremo-
nials to which the creation gives rise ; the cor-
teges of the new " Porporati " proceeding
solemnly with their carriage windows closed,
and their serving men walking by the side,
to pay their visit to the Vatican ; the equi-
pages of the hundreds who, by official position
or other rank, have any reason to pay visits
of congratulation at their palaces; the mounted
dragoons at the street corners directing with
their drawn sabres all this extra trlaffitenceti;catenhwde
in the evening the carriages running between
the
palaces and churches different localities of
with which of the ricevin
the
cardinals have any tie illuminated, and military
; bands playing before their own.

Other and more public receptions are held
to-night and to-morrow night.
Mgr. Stonor has been named to be the bearer
of the new cardinals' hats to Spain, an office
which, however honourable to him, will cause
a temporary loss to the English-speaking
Zouaves, to whom he is doing such good ser-
vice just now. But he will not leave without
making provision for their Lenten retreat and
other needs, spiritual and temporal ; he takes
the last arrived English to an audience of the
Pope this afternoon. He has lately been taking
advantage of the comparatively short spell of
weather when Rome is available for the pur-
pose to get up some cricket playing among
the men, and they seem highly pleased to
renewacquaintance with their national pastime.
Having obtained access for them to the so-
called amphitheatre of the Villa Borghese, a
match was arranged between Zouaves and
civilians, that is English visitors, on Tuesday.
The weather was exceptionally unpropitious,
and kept away many who took an interest in
the proceedings. The Zouaves, considering
that they had no practice whatever out here,
and counted some first-rate players among
their opponents, have every reason to be satis-
fied with the day, for, though on account of
the weather the game could not be played
out, it was the general opinion that they would
have won. There is to be another on Thurs-
dayO.
ne of our English Zouaves had a good op-
portunity of showing his mettle the other
night. Being, as a passer-by, witness, with a
companion, of a street fray in which knives
had been used, he without hesitation gave
chase to two who, by their violence, had made
themselves amenable to justice ; after a long
run he succeeded in capturing one, and then,
having handed him over to the keeping of
his comrade, who came up a Minute or two
later, started off again after the other. Before
he could reach him, however, he turned into a
house, where his friends rendering him assist-
ance, the Zonave was overpowered in the dark,
and the miscreant effected his escape. The
agility and cool courage of the Zouave, how-
ever, elicited the cheers of the people who saw
it, though it occurred in the Trastevere, the
place of residence of the most lawless. This is
the second occasion this week reported to me
from personal observation in which our coun-
trymen in the army have been so applauded by
the Romans. _ _

The Piedmontese machinations on the fron-
tier have not ceased, but they have had no
success. The Pontifical Government is on
the watch, and has been able to counteract all
their schemes so far. There was a report
current here a few days ago that Garibaldi was
at Terni ; it is not unlikely, for he and the
" emigrants" are very convenient tools. The
power of his name is quite used up now, how-
ever, and the circumstance excites no appre-
hensions here. We have heard nothing serious
of any further brigand depredations, but the
whole of the first battalion of Zouaves has been
ordered to Frosinone, and the French troops
are expected to be spread over other towns
of the provinces of eivita, Vecchia and Viterbo
than the two they now garrison.
There is no talk of their coming into Rome,
but also, less than ever, of their departure.
The following account has just been sent me
by an eye-witness of the war material they
have accumulated at Civita Vecchia, the trans-
port of which would hardly have been incurred
so lately had a proximate recall been contem-
plated :—" . . . During a recent visit to
the arsenal I counted six thirty-two pounders ;
twelve mortars of twenty-seven ; twelve mor-
tars of fifteen. These pieces are provided with
an aggregate of 3,000 charges. I saw also
twelve rifled siege canons of twelve, provided
with 7,200 charges. The French engineers
have constructed several redoubts on salient
points of the town and neighbourhood ; and I
even heard it asserted that application had