The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-29
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Tn,.Leeu,ue city, for the Pope.


As the organs Of the Sandman Government
Ia the Italian press have very Recently CO
the attention of their readers 20 the proposed
plan of investing THE Leonine City" WIN q
neutral character, and of rendering 1t the io-
ture seat OF the Pope's restricted sovereignty
as the renewal of these discussions ana recon-
mendauons somewhat significantly Comedies
with reports OF the attempted IeneWai oI ne.
Sotiatioas between the Courts of Turin anu OF
Rome--it may perhaps prove neither inexpe-
d,ent nor uninteresting to examine more
closely this proposed ISOLATION, ana 10 state
what is strictly meant under the term"tae Lee
outue Oty." "rne Lsoniue Ctty" Is that
part OF X ,me which Pope Leo ". carrying
out the design Of Leo ILL.,, surrounded with
walls, In the period from SIS to $50. On the
oStn of une (tu the iast OF these years. Leo
Nv, attended by ali his clergy, made a solemn
progress along the whole extent Of the newly
srec,ed walls, and blessed the completed WORK
The boundary line Of the Leonihe Guy, a.
thus traced out, began at the dttch OF tue Gas
lie of ST. AngeIo. and stretched from thence 10
the site OF the present Papal Pa'ace IL AS
ceuded the hill n the point where there Is now
the Mint" and after reaching the summit
took westerly direction, ending at that part
on lhr hank of the Tiber where now stands
the Hospital of Santo Spirito. Inc enare
"LAonine City" was thus enclosed ny wall
two and q baif Roman mics IN elrcumfer-
encs Down 10 the sixteenth century the
boundary wall had suffered very little change,
aud there Is stiiI standing one part, with Its
three towers, IN thePspAi Garden, whilst ano-
Their bart has been preserved near the Porta
Cavelleggert. But the Roman Senate Ia the
middle ages, ard Popes Paul III, Plus ~,
but especially Plus V, renewed and extended
the walls of " the Leonipe City," which were
strengthened by the bastions erected after the
designs OF Antouio de SangaIio and OF Mich
aei Angelo. the Leonine City," with ITS
prese at enlarged boundary, is somewhat more
InaA three mites in circumference, AID might
con tain a population OF thirty thousand souls.
l con laius four squares, those OF Scossava-
yalll, Rusticucci, Santa Marta, and ST.
Peters. The Italian journalists who recon-
mend the restriction OF the Papal sovereignty
10 the boundaries OF "the Leonne City" do
not fail siyIy To remark that there Is vast
difference, after ALL between the position OF
the first Popes ia the Catacom os, and The Pom
lifts who should enjoy undIsturbed security
aud ease within the limits traced out by Leo.
They do not fsli to recall 10 mini that 81.
Peters Is still the wonder OF the world that
the Palace OF Branante Is unsurpassed IN
beauty; that The residence OF the Pope Is une-
Quaied an extent and sPlendor; that ten thou
saud persons can dwell comfortably within its
walls that in lsiS, ten thousand NATIONAL
Guards performed their evoiutious in one OF
It's courts; that Michael Angelo and Raphael
have adorned ii with the highest triumpns of
their genius; that Its gardens, with their ter
races aud partefres, and tenn pies and statues,
and groves and grottoeS, and artificial rocks
aud ponds, and waterwoTks, reproduce, IN
their scenes of varied beauty, all that poetry
has tabied of the enchanted gardens of rmlda.
The FIRST announcement eighteen months ago
OF the proposed Scnsme called down on the
bead Of It's author perfect storm OF abuse
from the oiiiei Il and semi official scribes OF
the Court OF Rome, aud the organ or the
jesuits, the CiyIlta Cattoiica, was instructed
10 refute ii at great length and with great We
hemence. Not the less (rrobibly, indeed,
much the more) on that account, the plan is
stated 10 have struck deep root in the couyic-
lions and hopes of the ipna oitants of Rome it,
self aud We are informed that lis realization
is regarded furnishing Al least some ap-
Proclamation 10 pacific settlement or the ko-
lpau q ues tiun,-L oHdoa Post.