New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-12
ROME.
IBE JEWS OF TIE Observation-Disclosures I'M
MiNENT-MEETINGs or THE PORE AND TIE
CARDINALS-PONTIFCAL VISIT TO TIt ART
L NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ArIn sElrIIN

TIE JEWS OF TIE GHETTo-ISFALL1BILITN I'M
BiNENT-MEETINGs OF THE PorE AND THE
CARDINALs-PONTIFICAL VISIT TO TIE ART
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECRECY.
IRON OUR own CORRESPONDENT
ROME, Feb. 2O.-I wandered down 10 the Ghetto
last SATURDAY. II was the Jewish Sabbath, conse-
quently all the shops shut and the people were
summing Themselves in the piazza OF the streets.
have a special tenderness for the chosen people OF
God, whose Characteristic features, wherever they
may be- have been generated in great measure by
the mcrciless persecution of Christians and IL may
interest many to know what is the present position
Of the Jews iniROne. That name, as also that Oh
Hebrews Is offensive 10 the ear-they cal! tlemsclSes
Israelcs So ct leas, their highest authorities ia
this city told me-and in number they answer to
about 5000. How it is possible 10 squeeze many
into so small space puzzled me- but in suffering per
sons are apt TO cODgregae together aud put up with
many disacreeable things for the sake of sympathy
and protection Here. however, IL Is not mere mat
ter of choice. They have been compelled TO reside
within the limits of certain quarter. and though tAls
compulsOn has in few cases been relaxed iaey NIB
only by favor OF the YicarGeneral that some have
obtained permission 10 reside in the immediate neigh
borood of the close and foul Ghetto. Tbrce thousand
of their number in a state of great misery and
earn a wretched subsistence by wandering about
Rome-tbs remaining two thousand are in varlons
degrees better of, and are engaged IN trade Ol
course the Government does nothing Tor tbeI poor
whom it almost condemns to be poor, by closing
many of the roads which lead TO weatb-on the
contrary il taxes the community to the amount OF
600 scadi or dollars year for the coed OF then
souls. That is to say, they are made 10 contribute
that 10 the institutions OF the Catechuineh ana
the Conyeltit and cooperate with the Government IN
their own conversion could not discover howevel'
that much of this money is expended on the objects
-. thoI itto q II
to send their children TO be drilled into Roman
Catholicism and since the affair Of MOrtara no other
case Of kidnapping has occurred. Eor MOrtara, a.
may be supposed, now bids far to be SAINT III
Heaven-be is pursuing the career OF the PRIESTHOOD
and has already edited his spiritual guides by some
incipent public performance. Let the truth, how
ever be spoken: during the POntlhcate OF nus Ia
their position has been improved One OF his earliest
acts was TO remove the walls or gates which shnt
them in, They are not obliged 10 attend peTlodi-
c.Ilv at church and hear themselves abused.
are thew called upon to contribute to the expenses OF
the running horses at the carnival nor annually TO
90 down to the Capitol and to thank the Senate, as
have seen them do for the protection they had re-
eeyed during the past year. do not think that the
Council which seems resolved on imposing fresh
conditions on mental liberty. will do much fox the
Jews So LET US leave them.
Such an amount of blasphemy az has been elected
by these discussions since the Council was opened
il has never been my misfortune to hear through
long life. Don't speak any more OF the lrlnity,
say some "but Of the Quadrinity for Plus TX. 10
henceforth to be the fourth person in the Godhead
Pasouino two days ago, exhibited some biting sar-
casm on the subject but the police discovered IT 80
carly that up to the present time II has not got into
. circulation DO you know the last dogma said a
highly educated gentleman yesterday. Well 1t II
| that God became man and Pins TX. has become God
| for human salvation Pulling questions suggest
themselves IN the event of Infalliblty being car
ried. "Supposng the Pope become insane y "A
new one would be elected" it is answered. yes
but an interval has passed, and mnst yet again pass
| before it can be verified and what would DC the
consequence it, in that interval, he has spoken eI-
cathedral" 1t is clear. says friend that Ills hoh-
| pess must always have physician by his side.
| Another Bishop, Gil Bueno of Huesca and bar
| bastro. has died. and "a have asked permission to
lsave not for the next world but for their Dioceses
MANY Of the American Bishops eomo Of whom are
lodged in the American College, in rooms certainly
large enouqb 10 turn round n anxious to be OF,
| Though thew are not more inpatient than Others
They complan of the dict Of the climate, OF the ex-
penses. and long to be over the Atlantic and far
away Bnt until Infallibility be defined IN its abso-
Lutte or modified FORM there lie little chance OF ther
| moving.
Information lust received, and known to even few
| of the Bishops throws much light on what nave
already communicated Infallbility is positively to
| be brought forward and hence the encouragement
though not the dimnution of the opposition Al
meeting Of the Pope and private depnta'on o.
| % Cardinals and Bishops held IN the van
can Sunday the 9th inst the f0s'ata'"a
! or PostsiatQ. for i believe there were se'efA'