The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16

sum fixed npon to he paid to them annual
Is too, but out of this annual payment
one estaoIlsned taxes have to be taken
amounting to IL per cent! You eau now
make your own business calculation upor
TINS transaction, and contrast it with tile
statements made by tho Italian Ministe,
scarcely two years ago. l mention this
inc because have the detail upon
sne very pest authority, and because it is
out sample Of the conduct of the Italian
severn ment towards the forty or fifty
houses already suppressed, and of hat it
| VIII De towards the twenty other houses
| tne Municlpality is asking for leave to take
possession or: Let me give you one other
example OF the Italian mode of procedure !;
Y VIII come n arer home, for it touches the
rights OF British subjects. Sir Augustus
Paget writes Oct. %, 1870, to Lord Gran
VILE as follows 3" T received from TSie
nor Visconti Venosta] the most emphatic
| assurance that all property belonging to
1,r,: subjects would be respected by the
| Italian Government" We learn from the
same Blue Book that Mr.. Jervoise obtained
an exact list of the property belonging to
brltlsh subjects in Rome and among what
he calls. Jan, 15, 1871, |the eiqht British
ana a. IRISH ecclesiastical establishments in
ZONE, ind the property of the Rev. E.
Douglas, Provincial of the Redemptorists
at the Villa Caserta. F. Douglas bouoht
this property. consisting of large wilder.
ness OF garden and a palazzo, in 1855. and
went TO live there with his friends. He soon
enlarged the house, which now, having
nue staircase, large corridors, spacious
rooms, and central courtyard. presents
every convenience which he and his friends
REQUIRE: But the Government thinks that
IL might suit their purpose ALSO and can
not deny that F. Douglas has spent so much
money 10 changing and enlarging the old
paiazzo, that the place might suit very we'll
for public offices, il public Offices were
wanted at such distance from the centre
OF Rome. SO with this idea before them.
the Government has actually sent an of3
cial inspector, n deputy of Siguor Gadda.
to visit the house, take measurements, and
report upon what it can be turned into.
ihey have not actually taken possession,
nor have they positively given notice that
tney intend to do 50, and dare say, if
they were pressed upon the subject, thew
would make declaration as strong as the
one which satisfied Sir Augustus Paget
ana LORD Granville in Oct, 1870. But
mean while they have actually appropriated
the whole of F. Douglass garden up to his
door, and that in spite of his protestations,
and ofhis being British subject. The
garden was between four and five English
acres in extent-it served not only for
necessary relaxation and exercise, but it
furnished the Community with vegetables
all the year round, with the means of keep
ang COW or two, besides supplying a sale
OUTSIDE. The money he has spent on the
garden, and the trees he has planted, of
course, are all lost /; and the value official
people are already specul..r g.. -. en-.
ormous profit the municipality $50 n ~.
put of it. l think it worth VIII, g. ,ri,
public attention to these facts. t.. jag
arations of the Government seem Ia ,,,,
ust the force and value they intend them
Tn
nay be their interest to deceive for tn.
Lord Granville and Sir Angus
,us Paget appear to have been it's victims
Is well as other people. AS the Govern
neht has suppressed all theological chairs
n the universities, 1 suppose practical
he general suppression. At all events the !
Italian Government appears to be too :
much for the diplomatists, and fear it
will also become too much, Whenever it 8
ults Its purpose, for ''the eight British U
nd Irish ecclesiastical estabiishnentsn for l
he present existing in Rome. r
II cielo 6 di bronSo-there appears to he y
10 chance of any change of affairs in Rome. >
The Pope 1s as completely despoiled as
'eter was when licked up between iron
lare in Jerusalem. But the Catholics of o
IDme have been stirred into activity which Ii
efore that time they were miserabIy def b
lent in. There are now ten lay Societies. Z
which are formed into Federazione Pia
a-the Confederated Societies. These
Onsist of ~ The Society against the read c
ng OF bad books and papers (2) The Cir II
olo of S. Peter for Italian Youth C3) v
ociety for the promotion of good works v
spread all through Italyl ~ Society of !,
aIholic Interests, comprising most of the :
obility (5) Society of Catholic Ladies'
obility and middle class !: (6) The ReducI C
the battles for Religion-Zouaves, SOL
iefs, &c. :; ~ Society for the diffusion OF
nod books: (s) Suciety for continual prayer =,
mong the youth for the Church : 10y So =,
leta arttstica ed OPeraria di carlta recip- a,
'ca qO) Society for protection of poor
smale servants. Ali of these Societies ex- a,