The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-15
LETTER FROM ROME.
THE HOLY FATHER.

last Friday. during which the electric fluid
struck the Chamber of Deputies at Monte
| Citorio, caused n great change in the at
rnosphere, which after and during heavy
hailstorm became absolutely cold. The
| Holy Father, who has been occasionally In
a room adjoining that which he usually
occupies, STAYED there rather too long,
considering the temperature was some tif
teen degrees lower there than in his own
room, and in consequence had a slight re-
turn of the rheumatic pains from which he
has lately suffered. The Government and
Republican papers of course made the most
of this, and said he was dying and even
dead. The answer to this is that on the
18th he received fourteen Cardinals besides
a large number of prelates, and other gen.
hemen who went to the Vatican to con-
graduate him on his entering on his e2nd
| year. His HOliness is quite sufficiently
we'll to rise at past O'Clock, which he
has done all the current week, and to meet
his physicians, who arrive early at the pa
! lace, with cheerful and often witty greet
| ing. 1t is needless to add that His Holt
| ness transacts as usual ali the business con-
nected with his august Office, and reads
dispatches, writes, dictates, converses, and
| commands-all with the same clearness
and promptitude as ever-for five or six
hours consecutively. The malady or rather
inconvenience is simply local asd his gene
| raj health is excellent.
RIOTS IN ROME.
On Sunday the populace, hitherto the
paid tools of the italian Ministers, thought
fit to exceed the usual license permitted to
them and resolved on demonstration of
their own" This rabble, whose varied &C
cents prove them to be Italians from the
scam of all the cities of the Peninsular,
had advertised meeting in the open air
theatre called the Correa, formerly the
Mausoleum of Augustus-" to such base
uses may we come" This intention was
however frustrated by the Government,
the interior of the theatre being held by a
the sovereign people" adjourned to the
Piazza s. Lorenzo in Lucina, and with
cries of "Down With the religious Orders,n
=" Down with the Ministry" and here and |
there "Viva la Republica," took their
way up the Corso With the intention of
Emmanuel to change his Ministers, whom
they plentifully abused, and to "demon-
strate P" to his Majesty their wishes in gen.
eral. They, however, found all the streets
and lanes leading to the Quirinal strongly |
guarded. Some Of them attempted to as
from Via della Dataria to the Quirinal, and |
here a conflict took place, the carabineers
| making use of their swords and revolyers |
Several on each side were wounded and |
carried to the hospital of the Consolazione,
and woman who was shutting window
| seriously, by bullet from revolver. The |
mob was at length dislodged rather than
dispersed, and returning to the Corso met
with the blind Duke of Sermoneta, who is
sort of tribune of the people, an "Ega-
lite " in duodecimo. He was soon sur
his palazzo, where he thanked (!) his es-
| cort, and wisely recommended them to 20
peacefully home. AS there was nothing
| else to be done, and the police were busy
| making arrests, they took the better part |
| of valour and did as recommended. While |
Barili, who had been to s. Agnes outside |
the walls, and was quietly returning to his |
own residence, fell in with portion of the |
mob in the COrso. The windows of his |
carriage were broken, aud he was insulted |
and spit upon. Shortly after two English |
ecclesiastics who had been out'in the coun-
try, and were quite unaware of what was
going on, crossed the Corso in small open
carriage. They were perfectly inoffepsiye.
but were spit upon in the most disgusting
manner, and one of them received q blow
on the head with an umbrella. A French
against the wall insulted, spit upon, push
ed about and beaten. Among the cries
uttered not only in the Corso, but also in
the streets adjacent to the Quirinal, "Viva
Ia Republica," Viva Carroll" "a Red Re-
publican), and Abbasso la Monarchia, ~
VOA0 VoS0CAVh0iy A01LUs Ou MO0Q8Y there
were numerous groupes of patriots on
the Piazza of Moate Citorio and also in the
Piazza Colonns who spplauded or hooted
the deputies "a they came ont according an
they belonged to the Right or Left sections
Of the Chamber. There was, however, a
strong force of police and Carabineers. and
some companies of sharpshooters have been
stationed in the Custom House in the
plazza De Prelia: The streets adjoining
the Qolrinal and the Piazza itself are
watched and guarded by the Guards Of
Public Safety, police, and Carabineers, and
a strong body of soldiers are within the
cortile. With such very strong precau.
tons any attempt to renew the disturb
Dances of Sunday is simply impossible.
sUFFERINGs OF THE CoSscR1prs.
The soldiers of the second category or
reserve corps have been called out for
forty days of military instruction and dis
clpine their treatment is of the hardest, I
and 1t must be remembered manv of these
young men are of noble or well-to. do
families, many unhappily young cierics
taken from the seminary and the college.
and though not accustomed to lnrnries