Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-29

of Strength.-CoHege CderdHi.
The JEsUITs IN lTALY.-A correspondent of
the New York Evening Post, writing from Flor
ence under date of Sept Dist, says:
"The chief topic of discussion in the press
continues to be the agitation with regard to the
Jesuits, which, beginning at Pisa, has since
spread throughout Italy. The declaration of
Father Curci and his associates was made public
last night, aud has already been commented
upon by nearly all the newspapers. The history
the affair is briefly as follows; short time
since several individuals, prominent among
whom were Father Curc, the Cavalere Eugenio
Albert, the Duke Scipione Salyiari, Lorenzo de
Principi Alticri, and Nicola Rafiaelli, resolved
to open in Pisa a university which should be
devoted exclusively to purposes of general moral
and scientific education, There were connected
with 1t two circumstances which tended greatly
to excite public apprehension-tirst the fact
that the proposed institution was to be under
the direction of the Jesuits and secondly, the
selection of the city of Pisa, already celebrated
Tor the university at present established there.
To make matters worse, Father Curci issued,
as a prospectus, pamphlet in which he vio-
lently asSailed the government the king and
the national institutions. Such was the state
of affairs when, on Friday of last week, a
large crowd assembled during the even
ing, before the Pisan railway station, to
await the arrival of the train, which, accord
ing to announcement, would bring Father Curci
to the city. When the train at length arrived.
and as the passengers issued from the station
there appeared small group attired in tue
gaTb of priests. The mob at once fixed upon
one of these as being Father Curci, and great
upr0ar immediately ensued. The object of
the rioters was to prevent the father from enter
tering the city, and not few were intent upon
putting him to death. An unsuccessful attack
was made upon the station; alter which the po-
lice, assisted or rather protected by the troops,
| took possession Of the individual against whom
the violence of the populace was aimed, and
locked him up some where in the interior of the
building. The rioters were under a false i'm
preston. telegram had been sent to Father
Curci, and in consequence he was not upon the
train. 1t was, however, long time before they
could be convinced of their error The disturb
anceS were eventually suppressed by force, but
not until the canon who sent the telegram lust
referred to, having unfortunately fallen
into the hands of the mob, had been
very severely maltreated. Another riotous
demonstration occurred last Sunday night
in the streets Of Pisa, and this also was
suppressed by the military. Padre .Curci aud
his associates now come forward with Il 'declar-
ation, dated in this city on Tuesday last in
which they announce that they have abandoned
all idea of founding the university, retiring for
the present and awaiting until better days shall
dawn upon their country The 'grieYous and
scandalous' disturbances, above related, in
NhlNhy NeSululllS " tHG bOtuilltuL Ill question,
is manifest mot merely the connivancc but the
completely of the government, are assigned as
the cause which has induced them to renounce
their project. The declaration Furthermore says
that the difficulties OF the work had been almost
entirely overcome, and that with the ensuing
November the new institution would have been
duly opened. Great expense has been incurred
an edifice, specially appropriate, had been Sc
cured, and its adaptation to the purposes of the
university had been already begun; there had
been many applications for admission, and
more than one from the prineely
families; finally, negotiations had been
entered into with professors highly dis,
tinguished. But to employ the language
Of the declaration, ALI had been rendered vain
by a cause against which the exertions of pri-
vate individuals would be i'll advised as well as
useless, cause, nevertheless, which will give
the Italians much food for reflection upon the
civil and political conditions of their country ,
These expressions have called forth the most ye-
hement indignation through all the non-clerical
press. In general, the public PRINTS strongly
denounce the Pisan demonstrations, but there
has hitherto been much difference OF opinion as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of permitting the university
to become firmly established, the radical and a
part of the liberal press contendng that a Jesuit
institution should not be permitted, under any
servatye liberal sheets are of the opinion that il
would have been of far greater advantage to the
cause of liberty had it been allowed to die a nat
ural death after two or three years Of precarous
existence"