The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-16 00:00:00

ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.)
ROME, March 7.
Before this is published, namely on the
13th inst., the Consistory will have been held,
in which will be created the cardinals to whose

elevation to the purple I have already ad-

verted.

On the day above named the Pope will be
borne in state in the sedia gestatoria, to the

aula consistorialis, where he Will take his seat

on the throne, surrounded by the dignitaries
of his household, whence he will announce, in
a Latin allocution, his intention of conferring
the cardinalitial dignity on the first of those to
be created, who on this occasion will be his

Imperial Highness Mgr. Lucien Bonaparte.
According to prescription, he will then address
to the assembled cardinals this question, " Quid
vobis videtur?" and the cardinals having one by
one given their adhesion, he will pronounce the
formula for the creation in these words :
" Auctoritate nostra et beatorum Apostolorum
Petri et Pauli creamus et publicamus cardi-

nal em presbyte rum Sane tae Ecclesiae Romanae,
N.N. cum omnibus clusulis et derogationibus
opportuniis et necessariis."
After a pause the Pope then proceeds to
announce the names of the other prelates he
intends to make cardinal priests; who will be
Mgr. Moreno, Archbishop of Valladolid; Mgr.
Gonella, Bishop of Viterbo; Mgr. Ferrieri,
Archbishop of Syda, in partibus, now Nuncio
at Lisbon ; Mgr. Barili, Archbishop of Thya-
nia, in partibus, Nuncio at Madrid; Mgr. Ber-
ardi, Archbishop of Niccea, in partibus, now
Under-Secretary of State ; and Mgr. Monaco-
la-Valletta, assessor of the S. Congregation of
the Holy Office. Also of those to be made car-
dinal deacons, who will be Mgr. Borromeo-

Arese, Majordomo of the Pope; and Mgr.
Capalti, Secretary of the S. Congregation of the

Propaganda.
The cardinalitial berretta, raozzetta, and
zuchetta, are conferred by the Pope's own
hand on those new cardinals who are present
in Rome. To those who are absent, it is sent
by the hands of a prelate bearing the title
of ablegate, accompanied by a guardia nobile.
In this case it is customary for the new car-
dinal to make a handsome present to the ab-

legate and the gztardia nobile, and that the
latter should receive a decoration from the
sovereign of the country.
The three who will be absent from Rome on
this occasion, will be Mgr. Moreno, Mgr. Fer-

rieri, and Mgr. Barili. - -
On the evening of the 13th, the new cardi-
nals will hold their first ricevimento, that is to
say, they open their rooms to receive the com-
plimentary visits of the members of the corps
th:plomatique, the nobility and prelature, minis-
ters and public functionaries. The exterior of
the palace is brilliantly illuminated, tar barrels
full of blazing shavings light up the surround-
ing piazza, and military bands lend their aid to
the festivity.
Mgr. Bonaparte will give his ricevimento at
the French Embassy ; Mgr. Monaco, at the
Holy Office ; Mgr. Berardi, and Mgr. Borro-
meo, at the Quirinal ; Mgr. Gonella and Mgr.
Capalti, at the Propaganda ; and the Spanish
Ambassador will give one at the Palazzo di
6c_pagna, in the name of Mgr. Moreno.
A second and less formal ricevimento will be
given on the morning of the 16th, the day of
the Consistory, in which the hat and ring and
cardinalitial title are conferred. The new car-

dinals will be presented to their places in it,
after taking the customary oath. To be in-
vested with the hat they kneel before the Pope,
who places it on their head, saying : Accipe
pier-ton rubruln, &c. He then places on their
finger the cardinalitial ring, and assigns to each
a title of one of the churches of Rome.

The hat, which is red, with gold. tassels, is
carried home to each cardinal's residence the
same evening by the canterieri segreti, with con-
siderable ceremony.
The title of Mgr. Bonaparte will be from
Sta. Maria della Pace; Mgr. Gonella's, Sta.
Maria sopea Minerva ; Mgr. Berardi's, SS.
Pietro e Marcellino; Mgr. Monaco's, Sta. Croce
in Geezisale»zme ; Mgr. Borromeo's, SS. Vito e
Modesto ; and Mgr. Capalti's, Sta. Maria in
Aquiro. I have not been able to learn as yet
what titles will be assigned to the three absent
cardinals.
Mgr. Borromeo will be succeeded in his
post of majordomo by Mgr. Dacca, who cedes
his of maest►•o di camera to Mgr. Ricci.
Mgr. Franchi, Archbishop of Thessalonica,
and formerly nuncio at Florence, will replace
Mgr. Barili at Madrid, and Mgr. Oreglea di
San Stefano will succeed Mgr. Ferrieri at
Lisbon.

While the Holy See is thus steadily fulfilling
the routine of its functions, grave complications
are forming all around it. There seems little
room left for doubting that, without conclud-
ing a new Convention, which would have
created too much noise, France and Italy have
agreed
to add certain clauses to that of Sep-
tember, 1864, amounting in substance to this
—" Italy recognizes the temporal power of the
Pope within its present limits, not only as a fact
but in principle. She undertakes that she will
not attack it nor permit armed bands to attack
it. On the other hand France confirms the
principle of the Unity of Italy, and pledges
herself that it shall be respected. In presence
of the above formal declaration of Italy she
engages to withdraw her troops from the Papal
State, while Italy undertakes no responsibility
as to any complications which may arise within
the Pontifical frontier, hut reserves to herself
full liberty of action in any such case."
A new pretext of invasion is thus ingeni-
ously created.
These mutual engagements were hardly
signed (on the 21st February) when the Flo-
rence Government set itself to put in motion
the " complications within the Pontifical fron-
tier which it had so sagaciously provided for.
On the 23d, but two days later, orders were
given to the so-called Roman emigrants to
assemble on the frontier, at Terni, Rieti, Orvieto,
and hold themselves in readiness to show them-
selves on the stage whenever the strings are
pulled. About the same time came the attempt
I told you of last week to make the search after
brigands a pretext for crossing the frontier at
Acquapendente and Montefiascone, and vari-
ous messages to the authorities to negotiate
for the restoration of the arrangements en-
tered into last year between the Pontifical and
Italian officers for the suppression of brigand-
age, which it is needless to say received no
countenance, for they took in no one.
We have good information here that numer-
ous enrolments are going on in Italy, and that
the sect is working in the shade. Only a day
or two ago a quantity of muskets and ammu-
nition were found hidden in an island of the
Tiber, near Acqua-Acetosa, a little way outside
Rome.

It is very generally thought that everything
is being thus got into a state of due preparation
against the French troops evacuate Civita Vec-
chia. But at the same time the question re-
mains for consideration, why such quantities
of war materiel were accumulated at Civita
Vecchia, that at least boded a longer stay.
Nevertheless, there is no doubt that tactics
of the same nature as those with which last
year's campaign began are being resorted to by
the sect. Thus, a band of " brigands " made
a raid at Fresinone and kidnapped two chil-
dren, demanding an enormous ransom. At
another place they entered the church, and
scattering everything right and left, forcibly
carried off the priest. Two companies of
Zouaves were sent to Frosinone on Monday,
which will suffice for the protection of that
neighbourhood. But the frontier is straggling,
and in its nature the most difficult it is possible
to have to defend against members of the bri-
gand fraternity. Nature has provided them
with such perfect cover in the inequalities of
the ground, woods and brushwood, rocks and
caves, that troops who, from the nature of their
antecedents, are less practised in the art of
climbing, and hiding, and lurking, have fear-
ful odds against them. Still they have ever
shown themselves shy of encountering the
Zouaves, and when these are assisted by the