The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-10
LETTER FROM ROME.
THE MINISTRY.

ROME, July 13.-Tbe Ministerial crisis
has at length terminated by the formation
of q Cabinet out of the most discordant ele-
meuts. 1t is regarded as a remarkable cir
stance that the Ministry went to Florence
to meet the king aud to be- sworn in. On
Saturday they were all in Rome, and made
their appearance before the Icalian Parlia-
ment with the Royal decree constituting
them Cabinet. The session thereupon
closed and members will. take n vacation
until November next, which the leading
politicians are expected to employ Ia the
preparation of projects de loi on matters of
urgent legislation. Never was q Cabinet
formed with greater d, tficulty than this one
has been. The mere fact that Visconti-Ve-
nosta should have consented to talks office
under Chief who had been the most active
agent in overthrowing tireSiate Ministry in
which the Foreign Secretary had borne SO
important part, might fairly be taken as
an evidence of the great scarcity of consul
is, however, that possible Office holders
were terrified at the number and gravity of
the questions that will have to be faced by
the new combination.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Looking abroad it cannot be forgotten
that the Kings Government has never yet
| rendered to the Powers of Europe any &C
count of that lawless invasion of Rome,
which Visconti Venosta himself, before it
had taken place, declared would be an act
worthy Of a Savage Turk, and would be in
| valid without the sanction of the great
Powers. 1t is a Question that still remains
| to be weighed in the balance of interna
tionaf law and adjudicated on by the COM
petent authority. Aud it has now been
| tiou of the Religious Houses which is an
International matter in two ways:-I. AS
it touches the Spiritual Power there is a
diplomatic circular Of the Italian Govern
ment, declaring all that relates to the Spir-
itual Power to be Of an international char
acter. 2. AS it affects the interests of the
Catholic subjects of Foreign Powers !;
whether those Powers be themselves Cath
Ollie or Protestant matters little, they are
| bound to protect the possessions of their
own subjects. Here then are the elements
of serious difficulty in the future, of ques-
lions that may not be without their intlu
ence on the peace of Europe.
| HOME QUESTIONS.
And if we look ut domestic affairs, ques
tions of no less gravity are seen to loon, liz
the future. Minghetti has been forced t.
add the Portfolio of Finance to the bur
thens-in themselves quite enough for one
man-of the Premiership. 1t had been re
fused by all others co whom it had been of
fered. The greatest possible reluctanc,
to take charge of the military and nava
administrations. These departments ma,
grow up into terribly important one
| whenever there is menace of foreign
| war.
| PRUsSIAN INFLUENCE.
In Rome the Catholic view of the new
italian Ministry is that it has not been con
stituted without concert with Prussian in
| duence. Prussia's ambitious designs are
bringing her nearer and nearer to tn.
Adriatic; she is, above all things, ambi
tious of maritime power. Once mistress o
the lines of the Gothard and the Bremen
Alps, and Prussia will have free access t.
Italy, and there will be danger for Venice
INSULT TO THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
The Voce della Verita of last Sunday, as
serts, on the testimony of "many respect
strangers to Rome, the other day insultet
and hisaed the French ambassador to the
| Holy See as he was passing through the Pi
azza Nicosia in his carriage. The Toce also
| says that the denial to the above statement
which had appeared in all the Liberal pa
pers, was inserted in them in obedience to
orders issued by the Questara.
THE VATICAN.
By the latest accounts the health of the
Pope Is excellent; and his bodily vigor and
spirits unimpaired. The audiences and
receptions gwen by the Holy Father at the
Vatican have been continued during the
week. On Sunday, July 6, the Pope re-
ceived the College of the Prelatura and of
the Tribunals, when Mgr. Enea Sbarretti,
sub dean of the Tribunal of the Rots, pre-
sented an address. Or the same day, there
were several private audiences; one to the
Minister of the State of Ecuador; one to
Prince Borghese, who presented his second
son on his marriage to the daughter of his
brother, Duke Salviati. On the 9Th in
slant, the Holy Father received deputa-
ton from the "Opera dell' Adolescence
Cattolica," consisting of young girls and
boys belonging to good families in Rome,
and presented by the Signoria Maria VAL
enziani GiOvenah, the premotress of that
good work. The address was read by a
little girl, and the Holy Father replied,
and distributed presents among the chill
dreD, and blessed them. On the 18th, His
Holiness received q large number Of pro-
| fessors of the fine arts-all of them beng
persons of distinguished reputation in their
respective branches.
THE HOLY FATHER ON THE PLAQUES OF
ITALY.
In his reply to the address of the College
Of the Prelatura and the Tribunals, the
Holy Father said: