New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-13

RoNE, January, lsis.
think closed my last letter without having
lad time 10 speak Of the ceremonies that precede
AMI follow Epiphany. This month, no day, scarce
Is no hour, hiss passed unmarked by some snowy
spectacle o. some exciting piece Of news.
On the ISIS, day Of the year died Don Carlo Tor
lonia. brother Of the banker. man greatly beloved
snd regretted The public felt this event the more
tha,its p-oximste cause attack made upon his
b-oihers house by Paradise, now imprisoned in the
Castle Of ST. Angelo pending n law process for
proof Of his accusations. Don Carlo had been Ill
before. and the painful agitation caused by these
circumstances decided his fate. The public had
been bv no means displessed at this inquiry into
the conduct of Don Aessandro Torlona, believing
tbs, his assumed muuihcence is in this case, liter
ally robbery Of Peter to pay Paul, and that all be
gives to Rome is taken from Rome. But it sym
ptthized no less with the aiectona.e Indignation
Of his brother too good to be made the conf
dant OF wrong or have eyes for it, II such exist.
Thus IN the poetical Justice which does not fail
20 be stfeast done in the prose narrative Of life
while men fastened, the moment one CHANGED TO
raise the cry against Don Alessandro, to echo 1t
back by all kinds Of imputations both on himself
and his employees every man held his breath and
many Sept while passed the mortal remains Of
Don Catlo feeling that in him was lost beneiac-
tor. a bother, simple, just man.
Den Carlo was Knight of Malta, but with him
the celipate life had not hardened the heart-but
only Left 1t free on all sides to general love. Not
less that half dozen pompousfuneras were given
in his hoaor by his relatives the brotherhoods to
10 n Ia hoft nj Hp
Guard y which he was commanderinchief But
in his dYn house the body lay in no other state
than tilt Of simple Franciscan. the Order to
which 4 FIRST belonged, and whose vow he had
kept ;F9ugh half century, by giving all he had
for tbs FOOD Of others. He lay the ground in the
psin,Cs.rk robe and cowl-Do unfit subject for
modem picture Of little angels descending TO
shower lilies on a good mans corpse. The long
files ossarmed men, the rich coaches and livered
re,inuas of the princes, were little observed in
compe5;son with more than hundred orphan glrls
whonslis iberality had sustained and who followed
the bikr in mourning robes and long white wells
soirit6ke in the dark night The trumpets wall
and soft melancholy music from the bands. broke
At times the roll Of the muiiled drum the hymns
Of the Church were chanted and voleys Of musket
more musical was the whisper in which the crowd
a, passed his mortal spoil, told anecdotes of his
good deeds.
do not know when have passed more conso-
atory moments than in the streets one night OF all
this pomp and picturesque show-tor once not
empty of all meaning to the present time, recog-
nizpg that somewhat healthy which remains at
bottom in the human being, ineradicable by all Ill.,
and promises that our poor injured natures shall
rise and bloom again from present corruption to I'M
mortal purity If Don Carlo had been thinker
man Of strong intellect he might have devised
mean, of using his money 10 more radical ad-
vantage than simply to give it 10 aims he had
only kind human heart, but from that heart dis
titled a balm which made all men bless 1t. happy
ia finding cause 20 bless
As in the moral little books with which our nur'
series are entertained, followed another death In
violent contrast. One of those whom the new ar
rangements deprived Of power and the means OF
unjust gain was the Cardinal Prince Massimo,
man little younger than Don Carlo, but who had
passed his forty years IN very different manner
lie demonstrated; the Pope was firm, and at lastis
ssid 10 have answered with sharp reprool Tor the
past The Cardinal contained himself 10 the audi
ence but. going out literally suffocsted with the
rage he had suppressed. The bad blood his bad
heart had been so long making rushed to his head
and bs died on his return home. Men laughed and
'proposed that all the widows he had deprived OF
maintenance should combine to follow his bier. IL
WAS .sd bows Kissed as that bier passed. Now a
splendid suit of lace being for sale IN SHOP oil 'ne
Corso, everybody says Have you been 10 IooA
at The lace Of Cardinal Massimo, who died OF rage
because he could no longer deyour the Puoio
goods" And this is the last echo OF h'S requiem
The Pope is anxious to have at least welfinten'
toned men in places Of power. Men OF MUCK aoll'
ity il would seem not to be had; his last Prime
Minister was man said to have energy, good dIspo'
sitions but no thinking power. The Cardinal Bo-
fondi whom he has taken now, is said 10 be man OF
scarce any ability. there being few among the new
Councillors the public can name fitted for import
an, ,,p.,. in consolation We must remember that
the Chancellor Oxensteirn found nothing more wor-
thy of remark to show his son than oy how MILE
wisdom the world could be governed. We must
hope these men Of straw will serve as toatoh 10
keep out the rain, and not be exposed TO the as
ssults Of deyouring flame
Yet that hour may not be distant The disturb
snces Of the FIRST Of January here were answered
by similar exctements in Leghorn and uehoa'
produced by the same hidden and malignant Zoe
Al the same time the Austrian Government IA
Milan organized an attemp, to rouse the people to
revolt. with view 10 arrests and other measures
calculated TO s,ife the spirit Of Independence they
know to be latent there In this iniqaitous attempt
they murdered eighty persons, Jet the citizens on
their guard refused them the hoped for means Of
ruin. and they were forced TO retrsctatons as Inn.
pudently vile as their attempts had been. Tho
viceroy proclaimed that he hoped the people
would copfde in him a. he did in them = and no
doubt they will A, Legboru and Geooh the viles