The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-01
FOREIGN CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

ROME, July 2-The Pope, previous to the
delivery of the Allocution, on the 18th of last
month, conferred the Purse of the Camerlngo
of the Sacred College Oh Cardinal Milles.
The Pope went on the eve of st, Peters to
the Basilica, and there assisted ut solemn Yes
pers- He looked much atigued, and even
more SO during the High Mass next day and
it would be very wonderful were it otherwise,
as the exertion and anxiety of the last few
months have been enough to affect the strong
est temperament at the venerable age of Plus
TX. On Wednesday, however, he seemed per-
fectly recovered, and went to st. PauPs, as
usual, and is busily occupied this week in Civ
ing audience to the architects, decorators, etc,
who are to prepare st. Peters for the Council,
The Italian difficulties increase, ana the
Party of Action is more exasperated than ever
since the arrests of Canzio and MostO, its most
active organizers. A dissolution of the Cham
bers is deemed certain, and q change of Minis
try. The work of the Sect has recommended
in Rome, and numbers of its agents are now or
have recently been in Rome; among Others
Menotti Garibaldi is stated on good authority
to have been here three days in disguise.
July 2.-What mentioned to you in the
earlier part of my letter is fully confirmed
Rome has escaped great danger, of which she
was unconscious till all was averted by the
prudence of the authorities.
1t appears that the evening of the GiFandela
had been fixed on by the Mailman party as the
moment for an instruction, 600 strangers and
large quantity. of arms having been secretly
introduced into the city.
Menotti arrived three days before, and kept
in close hiding, but his moBements were known
and closely watched by the Roman police, who
thus POSSESSED themselves of all the threads Of
the conspiracy, of which no single Roman ap-
pears to have been even cognisant, SO foreign
was it to the native population.
When the evening came, the police, in plain
clothes, were dispersed among the crowd, and
made several arrests, and then, entering the
centre of the Sect, took about thirty of the
principal agitators, on whom they did not even
confer the honor of Imprisonment A train
was ordered to be ready, and they were placed
in it and escorted to the frontiers of 0rte, and
then set free. Menotti, whose prudence is one
of his most salient qualities, seeing the game
was lost, started the next day for Ferni So
ended the Vendetta at Montana" rather
the first act of it. So far it is merely comic,
but it shows in what days We live, and what
the Holy Father daily incurs and conquers.
Compare this with the repression just now
exercised in Upper Italy. Fort Bormidde at AL
lessandria is literally full of Garibaldians, i'm
prisoned by Victor Emmanuel; whereas Plus
TX makes use of the simple and contemptuous
measure of expulsion to get rid of dangerous
characters. The cardinals elect for the Sep
- tember Consistory received their Bigietto," or
official notice. on Wednesday. They are Mgr5.
ChiEi, FllcinelH (nunoio in Vienna), Ferraris,
and De Merode. At this last appointment there
is not Catholic in any part of the Christian
world who will not rejoice, identified as he is
in every MUD with the first and most trying
moments of the attacks on the temporal power
and its glorious defence by hamOrfciere. That
the PapHl army is what IL is is owing mainly
to his zeal and his initiative, and his later acts
of charity, IF devotion TO every holy cause and
to every goud aud pious work, will make his
name n household word for ever in the Eternal
City. t-'i tf's' s7
. have to announce the death of one of the
best known officers of the army of Plus TX,
the Vicomte de la GHiohe, who has served as