Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-06
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Present Pope.

Fanny Kcmbls Butler, which illustrates the
character and position Of Plus TX.
"The extreme interest which we, IN COM
mon with all the inhabitants of Rome, whe-
iher native or foreign, have felt in the cha
racter and measures Of the new Pope, has
induced me to gather together all the infer
nation, and every anecdote which | have
been able TO obtain relating 10 him. OF the
latter, II may be, that some have no other
foundation than the general character and
known disposition of the individual TO whom
they are attributed but, even in this point of
view, they are valuable, as indicating clearly
the opinions entertained of him, the esteem
in which he is held, that which is generally
believed, and that which is expected Of him.
1.-THE youngest of the Cardinals in the
Conclave, it became his dnty to collect the
votes and proclaim who had obtained the
suffrages of the majority having reached the
number at which his own election became
the evident result, he paused, and reminding
the Conclave that it was yet time to alter
their proceedings, solemnly abiured them to
take heed to what they were about 10 d.
This conscientious appeal probably only af-
iected more favorably an assembly, bent prin-
clpally, at all hazards, upon defeating the
election OF a most unpopular member, the
Cardinal Lambruschini, to achieve whose
election no effort of intrigue and intimidation
had been spared and Cardinal Mastai, pro-
ceeding in his office, proclaimed himself the
object of the preponderating votes. On his
first interview with one Of his devoted friends,
and now one of his most efficient officers,
Monsignor Pentini, his first exclamation
vas, Vedete, che cosa hanno fatto = and it
was some little time before no became recon-
ciled TO the exchange Of his habitual cardi-
nails costume for the Papal habiliments, or
his more private apartments for those usually
by the Pope. In one respect Plus
and the people he is called to govern,
enjoy a good fortune in the circumstance of
his not belonging 10 any monkish fraternity,
like the last Pope, and most indeed of his
predecessors, or having ever been bred to the
priesthood. His training and education was
liberal and general, and his first choice Of a
career was in favor Of a military one, having
applied for admission into the Guardia No
bile, which, however, Cardinal Barberini, on
whose acceptance ii is alone obtained, re-
fused. On the late occasion of the homage
OF the Cardinals TO their new sovereign, the
Pope reminded his Eminence of this circum-
stance, when the Cardinal, with a happiness
that caused some surprise, Gas he is not gen.
orally suspected of much ready witt replied,
that he had refused the admission to the
Guardia Mobile, persuaded that the applicant
Tor it was reserved for infinitely higher
things.
Zone of the earliest proceedings Of the
new Pope, which obtained currency by pub
lie report, was his reformation of his own
household, and his unsparing curtailment of
It's most useless expenses. He Immediately
suppressed the confectionery department.
an enormous item of expenditure in the for.
mer Pope's establishment; and having OBJ
served in the accounts which he demanded,
and OF which he examined himself the de-
tails, a most eXhorbitant daily charge for
lemonade, remarked that when he was a pri-
waite individual, he used to refresh himself at
a cafe with lemonade at so much a glass, and
requested that he might be furnished with il
thenceforward upon the same terms |; indeed,
he added, that the increase in the val lie Of
his sustenance as Pope, compared to what il
was as an Abbate, appeared to him entirely
disproportionate and that, allowing that a
Monsignore required a more costly dinner
than an Abbate, a Cardinal than a Monsic.
more, and a Pope than a Cardinal, he still
could not tring the gradually ascending scale
to anything like the estimate made for him,
and which he therefore requested might be
lowered to a more rational one. He has once
or twice invited som of his cardinals TO dine
with him, a thing unknown during the late
Pope's reign; who, according indeed to the
usual pontFs"al etiquette, invariably ate alone.
Some persons have suggested that this inno-
vaiion may be merely a measure of security
against poison ; but it is better accounted for
by The liberal and rational character of the
Pope, and the corresponding changes both Of
a lesser, as well as a greater nature, which
may be expected from him. He has given,
too, a splendid dinner to his Guardia Mobile,
during which he presented himself in the
room where they were assembled, TO greet
and bid them welcome.
The measures Of public improvement
most urgently needed, both for Inc city and
the country, and which were in vain petition
ed from the late Pope's timid and tyrannicaS
policy, have obtained the ready sanction of
his successor; and gas 10 the streets of Rome
and railroads in the Roman States, will soon
Sea' witness 10 a more enlightened spirit