The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-21
MATTERS AT ROME,

The London Times Rome correspondent, writing
on the 9th ut, states that the foreigners who had
arrived for the ceremonies of Holy Week were
leaving in disgust. New domiciliary visits and ar
rests were making, and the people were becoming
incensed against the government. After auding
to the bloody scenes which took place on the 10Th
ult., the writer observes
There is every reason to believe that the Papal
Government, not sated with the blood that was
split in the COrsO on Monday, the l9th has been
trying to excite the people to disturbances
towards the end of last week, and especially on
Sunday last, when it was expected that the Corso
would be, as usual, swarming with prOmenaders.
On Saturday, the 2lsh, printed bills were seen
stuck up at the street corners, which said, Gro
mans, do not to. morrow bring the women with you,
nor yet the children, for we must have our re-
row we await you at the COrsoP Up to late
hour in the morning of Sunday | saw those bills
with my own eyes in the COrsO; and yet, mark
well! the COrso had been all the foregoing night
like an encampment, thronged with troops of every
description. Towards on Sunday morn
ing two guns went out of POrta Angelica, and
were taken round to the barracks of the Piazza
del POpolo,-a clear hint of the precautions taken
by Government, which harbored designs evidently
in the style of King Bomba. In the morning, how
ever, nothing happened, The tanners, who really
thought those bills had been stuck up by the Lib
eral Committee, were preparing for vengeance.
the popotdni of every description. These same
bills had been spread in the adjoining country, so
that from several villages men in arms came to
town to have their reUdnche. The Liberal Com
mittee, aware of the danger, and knowing the in
stigators of the impending strife, IS quick as light
ming printed and distributed the proclamation
which here translate and enclose ''Romans-
An atrocnus and bloody outrage has been perpe-
trated. You wish for vengeance, and it is due to
you. 1t goes hard against our own hearts to have
moderate the nasSiOnS of a DeODle provoked
to the greatest by the most abJect OF Gov
ernments, but in public no less than in private life
we must learn to endure and wait, to conqner
our feelings, and give them vent only when we
have at least chance of success. Certainly, if
our object were to show the priests that
you did not dread their cut-throats-
those sJirri whom, with a cruelty unknown to
the Bourbon or even to Austria, they, the Min
isters of Christ, have armed with daggers-you
we'll know the trial would be neither long ardu-
Gus. But our purpose is to free Rome from their
yoke. The time for it is not far Off but it has not
come yet. Any movement at this moment would
be not only unreasonable, but we might increase
the difficulties the noble defenders of the national
cause have to contend with; and might come into
collision with the French, to whom you, as Ital-
ians, owe debt of gratitude. For the present
then, give proofs of discretion. Those who are
provoking you will see at proper moment wheth.
er you lack courage. Those who are now prompt,
ing to violent revenge act in the interest of the
Government; they would wish to shed fresh gene
rous Roman blood-a blood which would dC
harm, not good to the country. These suggestion:
come from the priestly and Austrian party, tht
foes to our regeneration. Beware of themP'
This proclamation had wonderful effect In tn,
afternoon, when the Pope proceeded to the Mi
nerva, the Corso was almost entirely deserted, ant
the scheme miscarried. The correspondent add
that the Romans entertaia the most profound ha
tired towards the Neapolitans, so that their en-
trance would be the signal for an insurrection.