The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-26
MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY JULY 90 Is

This the ladies declined to do. At last car
rlages came and all drove to the Questura, tn
the Questura the escort disappeared, and th
ladies' on entering the police office were asked
what brought them there. No charge being
lald against any of the party. the ladies
| having been detained while clerk photographed
tor instructions, were suffered to depart. They
| first wrote down their names and addresses
lhe American ladies applied next day to Mr.
Tinker, the representative temporarily of Mr
loe!arsh. Mrs. Nimmo sought the aid of Mr.
Herries, who in absense of Sir A. Paget
represents Her Britannia Majesty. Mrs
Nimmo requires an apology from the Italian,
Government for the unwarrantable rudeness
aud ruttianly conduct of the Questura officials
Four persons, Berioli Civil engineer and
valnator), Colletti (ex-Papal soldier), Tardani
(gcldsmith), and Freliziani Ga printer on the
Cp.n'o"e newspaper office), were arrested, tried
before the Correctional Tribunal. and SEN
fenced respectively to terms of two years,
eighteen months, and six months imprison-
ment. NO witnesses were examined on their
behalf 1t is evident that such q terrible in
fiction as that of two years for such al offence
was imposed to punish that which was no
offence legally, namely, the devotion towards
inc doly Father manifested on Sunday even
ing. The Government seems to think it
necessary to put down such expressions of
loyalty to the Pope, and if possible pilgrimages
will in future be prohibited on the plea that
they may cause public disturbances. The
appearance of the Pope at the window was
purely accidental. He had been listening in
one of the loggio of the Basilica to the To
Deam, and returning to his apartments looked
for an instant out of one of the windows open.
ing on the Piazza which happened to be open.
COUNTER DEMONSTRATION BY LIBERALS AND
INFIDELS.
The demonstration evoked by bis momeptary
appearance gave terrible offence to the Lib.
erals, and led to a INSTRUMENTATION on
the night of Wednesday the Oath, of which the
Liberia gives q tolerably fair account TIE
band of the Second Grenadiers played that
evening i'll the Piazza Colonna, which was
unusually crowded. The last piece of music
performed was the Breccia d Porta Pia,"
long, tedious composition, in which the
national hymns of 1545. 1s49, and 1860 are in
troduced. 1t occupies in playing no less than
AZ minutes. The fantasia concluded With the
demanded repetition of the March, aud the
final portion OF the Breccia. The hand COM
piled readily, amid cries of Tira IL Re! Tira
'ItaHd etc. At last stentorian voice ex-
mp by many. Two thousand persons left the
Piazza Colonna, and marched, unimpeded by
the police. to the Vatican. They held lighted
torches, and shouted under the Pope's win
dows, Ab6asso II IaticanO AbbGsso pellagrin-
agys! Iire Gd,iLaldi -ibbdsso le chiese i, Morts
al Prefi and Morte al Clerical The Pope was
then in bed, the hour being quarter TO
twelve, and was asleep. Mgr de Merode.
however, was awake, and heard the cries and
saw the crowd from his windows. . The rioters
seemed to him to be between t~or OF three
hundred. AIter some time the police, who
might of course have stopped the mob at the
Bridge of ST. Angelo where soldiers arc always
on guard, Thought it time to dispense the
crowd, and made few arrests, including that
Oh one angelo iognettl, brother to the unfortu-
nate wretch who was hanged for blowing up
tue Serrlstorl Barracks. The mob retiring
from the Vatican raised tho cry Dial Cardinal
'cdrt0, and marched to the residence of
Cardinal Patliz, where they shouted before
his windows for d short time and then broke
up. The demonstration was"-to use the
words OF the Liberia" nothing but counter
demonstration to oppose that on the Sunday
previous at st. Peters" That the Government
permitted and encouraged this demonstration
was evident. The selection of such partizan
Porta Pia the permitting the repetition of
the most offensive portion-the allowing 1000
men to march in procession and to pass the
bridge OF st. Angelo at half past eleven, and to
carry lighted torches into the Piazza of ST.
Peter, all show the connivance of the authori-
ties.