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FROM ROME.
ROME, May 81, 1s71.-The health Of the
HOLY Father continues all we can desire,
and, though the hot weather has now set
in, his Holiness seems not to suffer from it.
This week has been q succession OF trlduOs
for the express purpose of imploring of God
the preservation of that health SO dear and
precious to the Church. All were crowded.
By q most extraordinary coincidence,
which we might almost regard as miracu-
lous, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Ia movable feast depending on Easter)
will fall this year on the 10Th of June, the
will attain his twenty fifth year as Pope.
The Osserratore Romano, of the 18th,
publishes a leading paragraph which, If
true-and we have no reason to doubt it
is q favorable omen of what is thought of
the Pope's present position by men who,
through the clouds which, from time to
time, cover the political horizon. 1t ap-
pears that an important banking house,
we'll known in the financial world, on being
led to believe that the Holy Father had an
intention of contracting loan, lost no time
Holiness for any amount, no matter how
large.
On Ascension Thursday the Holy Father
said Mass in the Sistine Chapel and gave
Holy Communion to seventy ladies. After
hearing his Thanksgiving Mass he passed
out, blessing all, but it was sad differ
ence to other years, when the contddint
from the neighboring towns in their pic
turesque and varied costumes collected on
the Piazza of st. John of Lateran for the
f. lsokS frrp, tho hoo
church of the world, making with their
brilliant colors that exquisite spot, with
the distant hills lying SO calmly in the
bright sunshine, look doubly beautiful.
The contadiai, who have lovely idea that,
as Christ on leaving the earth blessed it,
was principally meant for them and their
crops, stayed gloomily at home. The few
who were about in various parts of the city
were loud in their lamentations.
On the morning of the 10th his Holiness,
surrounded by cardinals ard prelates, re-
ceiyed, in the Throne-rOoln ,,f the Vatican,
another Austrian deputation composed OF
seven parish priests of the Eiocese of vi
emma. They presented him an address in
the name of the Catholic Unions of the
German portion of the Austrian Empire.
The address was in Latin, aud the sigma
lures, to the number of 81, 922, were con-
tanned in eleven beautifully bound volumes,
and was Of the same tenor as that present.
ed by the late Syrian deputation, which
appeared in your number Of the 9th May.
The reason of the similarity of the two
addresses is that both populations repre-
cent special part of the Austrian Empire,
and the protests are prompted by one As
sociation spread over the whole monarchy.
The signatures to both the addresses
amount to 967 GOA.
alone, the number of signatures to the ad-
dress to the King of Belgium in favor of
the Holy Father amounted to over l72, 600.
To the many proofs already given of the
Roman question being not only OF interest
to the Catholic, but also Protestant Gov
ernments. / have to add that given lately
by the Minister of the Grand Duchy of
Besse, who, in answer to the petition pre-
senfed by the Catholics of tGat State to the
Grand Duke, calling on him to interest
himself in the actual situation of the Pope,
said I" That he should transmit the petit
ton to the Chancellor of the German En-
pire, its object being one which regarded
the general interest of Germany"
We are informed that the Minister OF
Marine has decided, as q fulflment of the
guarantees, to rebaptizse the steamship
San Pietro, belonging to the late Papal
Government, as "The Goth of September
The parish priest of San Tomaso, going
last Saturday night to attend q dying per-
son, was attacked by three individuals,
who snatched from him his walking stick
and beat him SO severely, leaving MIN Will
a cut on his head, that he has been some
days confined to bed. Remark that here
no attempt at robbery was made; 1t was
the priest in his sacerdotal character who
was attacked.
The Count d'Harcourt since his arrival
here has been now and then the object o
attraction in the columns of some of ouI
Liberal journals, who waxed angry at his
not having paid visit to the Royal 0cca-
pants OF the Quirinal one, although semi
factious, has gone SO far as to challenge the
Ambassador 10 a duel, for which it was at
usual sequestrated, but, notwithstanding
easily to be bad by those who required it.