The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-12-18
FROM ROME.

POhllCal PTlsoDeFS, ON the proposition or
Mr.. j. Slattery, seconded by Mr.. Hartman.
FROM BONE.
ROME, Nov. 49, Victor Emnonuel.-The
Kings visit is, it seems, again postponed
until more convenient season, {. e., the
Greek Kalends. The real reasons are, lst,
the refusal of the Corps Diplomatique of
Florence to accompany him; I'd, the COM
plications occasiOned by the Prussian note;
ana ID, the extreme repugnance of the
King to the journey, and his terror of lodg-
IN the Pope's apartments in the Quirinal.
Not all the water in the four seas of Italy
will wash from his hands the stain of noble
and innocent blood sacrilegiously shed
during the last ten years of rapine and
tyranny. "Pilate's wife" is said to be re-
presented by the Contessa Mirahores, who,
in spite OF past errors, is Piedmontese
Catholic, and who does all she and her
daughters can to dissuade the King from
coming to Rome, aud is said to have posi-
lively refused to share his lodgings at the
Qnirinal.
The Pope.-If the Royal visit is uncer-
tain, the movements % the Holy Father
are equally SO. If the Intentions of the
EnglshQ Government in his regard are
honest, the presence of the newly arrived
corvette at Civita Veccbia is o matter of
rejoicing, as it affords certain means of
his leaving Rome at any moment it may
become necessary. The Imparsiate, of this
morning, states that q mob demonstration
is being organized to drive the Pope from
| the Vatican to the Lateran. In spite of the
tremendous injury the Pope would inf1ict
| on the official position of Italy, there is an
other and undercurrent at work. / own to
faith In miraculous protection of the Va
! tican, although humanity speaking the
Pope's situation is uutenable for any length
ened period, and it may please God at any
moment to withdraw it when it has been
| sufficiently displayed, and when it is we'll
that the Pope should be free to rule the
| Church in exile and abandon the Revolu-
ton to its inevitable consequences. The
sign may come to him by day or by night,
as it did in his fight to Gazette, and he may
go forth and leave Rome to it's fate-the
fate which has never failed to Overtake it,
when the Wears of Christ have not been
free and sovereign within it's gates.
a Free Church and a Free Pyess.-An un =
happy man died three days since in the
parish of ST. Maria del Popoio, obstinately
refusing the Sacramento. The curate was
denied access to him, and sent away with
insults and menaces during his illness. On
his death, the family insisted on the curate
performing the usual burying rites, which
of course, he could not do, and the Giunts
are about to institute legal proceeding,
against him.
The Roman COllege.-The work Of demo.
lition goes on, and the masons are busily
occupied in removing the s,..ne escutcheoI
| with the name Of Jesus. they will begin
to destroy the second Tomorrow. The
foreign semiDaries have signed AZ joint pro-
test against the suppression OF the lower
and restriction of the upper, schools, Of
which a copy has been forwarded to Lon
don. 1t is suspected here that the English
Government was a warm supporter of the
attack on Rome, and only counseled rapid
action on the part of Italy, as did the rep
resentative of the Republic of France, M.
Senard.
| British Policy. - Sir Augustus Paget,
English Ambassador at Florence, has just
left Rome. He was received by Cardinal
offer of Malta, and of the frigate Monarch,
| to the Pope. The Cardinal is said to have
replied that his Holiness departure would
depend on the attitude of the Powers in
regard to the transfer of the Capital, and
| Sir Augustus fastened to observe that the
English Government tcas too cordially allied
| ,cith that of Italy to lend her influence in
any sense save that of the fnlfilment of the
Irrational aspirations" This, at least, is
defntive, and Catholics have no further
excuse for deluding themselves as to the
| intentions of the present Cabinet. Local
measures are as nothing before the policy
of our rulers towards the Holy See.
Latest.-The Kings visit is indefinitely
postponed in consequence of the refusal of
| the Powers to permit their representatives
to accompany his Majesty to Rome, and OF
the protest of Russia, Prussia, Bavaria and
Austria against the occupation of the Qui-
rinal. The existence of this note is officially
denied, but it is known to have been COM
municated to the Italian Cabinet, and to
have caused the postponemert of the Royal
entry. Sella has given his resignation in
consequence, and Ratazzi publishes his bid
for office in the form of letter to his
electors, putting forward as his programme
the immediate transfer of the Capital, the
assimilation of the laws of Rome to the
rest of Italy, and the abrogation of all de-
crees to the contrary. The elections take
place on Sunday, and it is feared that de-
monstration at the Vatican will take place.
1t is under discussion whether a represen-
tave of each Foreign Legation shall not be
lodged in the Vatican to insure its lmmu
nity; a circumstance which will suffice to
show you at what point matters stand. The
Capitale of last night contains q violent
reclamation against the immunity of the
Vatican, and calls daily, as do all the
democratic organs, for its surrender. An
order has just been given by the Italian
War office to begin the fertilization OF
Rome on vast scale and on modern sys-
TENS. The Commissioner will arrive next
week to make the necessary inspection
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