New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-15
Nsw1lmk Daily Gribm,te
FROM ROME.


zion Of ST Petert; but from the Ripetta the great
dome is .tl black as pitch, though all the world
in in the Piazza or the Pincio 70 see its light
ing. Gradually, impatient, yexed, disappointed,
We all sulk home. We are not Russian dOTager
Empresses, and there is no Ere or fun for us. We
must wait til .he c0mes-tO-mOuOw -ne1t week
no matter how long. Thousands Of strangers have
remained in Rome all Lent on purpose to witness
the illumination and fireworks, which always take
place on Easter Sunday and Monday evenings; and
these thousands have taken their carriages t. leave
On the Tuesday or Wednesday fJllOwing-their
time at their apartments is expired, and they must
20. But what il al this Inconvenience or disap.
poiDtment Of thousands weighed in the balance
against one Empresss wish And then thought
who, that knows who made bin, aud accepts the
heritage bis Maker wed him in bis manhood
would be d monarch for man is more than king
Then in charity tried not TO hate all hereditary
rulers, but to pity the degrading egOtism and self
ishRess which be or she nherits who receives a
crown, and to pity the serf who paves the way to
throne. Our republcanism will flame up such a
night as this TO hiss the free stars above in this
gIeat Italian sky; then it Is silly that those born
men will still play fools and clowns to please
the gracious mountebanks they call their "betters'
and this is how the comedy has gone thus far The
Pope to-day has been carried on the shoulders o
xix crimson. coated men, in his great armchair
with a ring on his finger and triple crown on hls
head, and all the faithful bow down before HIM a.
be passes by, devOtces TO Jucgernaut and though
he is sea-slck and takes pinch Of snuff, and takes
out his red bandanna, they have no suspicion that
be is of their flesh and blood. Then there is the
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the circus and the Duke Constantine and his sister,
and Queen Christina ana her daughters, all pent up
together in velvet and gold hung pen, 10 look down
on the risen Lord, not Iaccheus-like, because they
are small Of stature, but because they are great aud
wish TO do him honor. There are tue Cardinals
big and old, i'll their white robes grand as whited
sepulchers, and the puppy princes, all TIM
SEIZED, and sleeked, and muzzled with de-
yotiOn and decOIun and soldiers to keep
them straight III helmets and cOrslets az bright
as new buttons. Then at noon, III the Piazza,
an antlke swarm Ct peasants are huddled about
the Obeisk and around them glitter the im-
perial and Papal foot and horse, with French aud
Roman eagles, aud the keys of St. Peter aud the
triple crown, their standards; and around these,
crowds Of strangers ard eqmpages, and In the col
onnade still other hives; and up IN the balconies and
under canopies, crowned heads, all faltbiu and up
i'm the middle Of the front of the Church, III high
balcony over it's middle door, some mers on pOes
and in a moment the Pope again, with arms out
spread blessing Orbem ct Urbem, and a the faith
full inspiring ndulgences. Then they all turn home
to eat hard-bOed eggs and saus0ges-princes, peas
ants, pilgrims, Pope, all OF the same blessed flesh
and blood, swallowing the same blessed pork and
eggs with only this difference-part have them pre-
sehted by prm, Iyeried, privileged Plenty, and
part by stark naked, sore and bruised Poverty.
Monday / am awakened by chanting. Throwing
open my blinds see the street is strewed with box
and bay, and procession approaching. double
file OF men come carrying long, lighted, cane like
candles; and below them is priest beneath silken
canopy, attended by shayen-headed monks, bearing
the sacred Communion to the sick or nfirm, who
cannot 90 to church for the Pascal Communion.
By Papa law every subject must take the Com
munion i'll some way at Easter. If an obstinate one
refuses, his is posted up on the church door
and peTtinacty leads him on TO imprisonment and
accommodation. Fifteen days is allowed at this
season for the whole nation to take the sacrament
receive its absOlutiOn, and become spOtless as
lamb. Tho bells ring as the Communion passes
along the street; gems darmes follow with heads
uncOyered; devOut women JOIN the train bearing
tapers. Every person stops and kneels I'LL the Host
passes. Beneath my window the aqua vitae man,
with his basket on bis arm, Is dropped on one knees
the baker s man, with platform full of Oaves on
his head, is ON his KNEES, too; the chccOry women
across the way draw their white cloths over
their heads and take their attitudes. The flock OF
goats coming to be MIXED at our doors, are
stopped at the corner Of the street, and the driver
in bis shaggy goat breeches lifts his hat and bends
his knee; donkey carts are turned out Of the way,
carriages 90 around, and the street criers are
hushed by the chants till the procession passes by.
8 O'clock.-NO illumination promised either to-
night-all Rome boiling over with vlsltors-pllgrlms
with their stalls and scallOp shells waiting 10 see
the fnale-King OF Bavaria likely to be cheated OF
deliveries, royalties, beggars, peasants and people
all pell-me in the promenades Besides II is
demi festa-that is, those who wish may play or
lounge. The faithful are obliged to hear mass IN
the morning, as yesterday ana tO-horro"'
Tutsday, Aprd l4.-Tbere is the same morning
procession as yesterday, only the first candles are
carried by double files of men in gay footnens
coats with long skirts and embroidered bands.
Behind follows the priest under the canopy wrap
ping the post in his white silk cloak, and alongside
men with tall glass lanterns and, bringing up the
rear more men with their long tapers, themselves
in white cotton gowns, with capes Juunuly bordered
with pink. Young boys, neatly dressed, JON III the
procession, as polnpOus with their great candles
longer than themselves, as drHm-majOrs with their
statis-the nicer ones spreading their pOcket-hand-
kerchiefs on the pavement whenever the cue comes
TO kneel.
In the evening, the hand-organs, that were
klenced in Lent come into full play. Horse-races
are advertised, to the supreme solace OF the En-
ghsh. The padrOna Is introducing 10 my table va
rious native tries and stews sow the hastings are
ended Wild asparagus | have had for the hrst
time to-day. ArtichOkes are still dear, but sutii-
ciently abundant. Green peas are two Paus
pOund-that is, twenty cents-and new potatoes as
large Ms the end of your thumb arc hawked about
the streets.
Friday and Saturday give are all on the qai rice
about the TumOrs of a revolution in Paris. Some
say there has been firing Of an hours, OF weeks
duratiOD-that the news reached here by telegraph
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