The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-17
Msrciag Star and Catholic Messenger.
LETTER FROM ROME.
txsx-rEsx or TIE LATE CARDINAL DARNABo'i
EFFECTS.

ArrS1 tic furniture and effects OF the late
G-sKszxeaai Barpabo were sold by auction al
<aSsssams in the College of the Propaganda
yEsxsa was numerous attendance OF
SaEk.7zsr,a, among whom were many friends OF
Sdya deceased who were anxious to purchase
Ssszss memorial of the deceased Cardinal.
EKas pictures were few and OF no great
SssfSsza, and some of them were bought In or
SzENzarawn. A picture representing the
yxxwSa aud Child, supposed to be 10y Iitian,
-zrzssoid for $50 lire. The valuable IioIary
OF cie Cardinal will be sold, on sixteen
sae1.xa1 days, beginning on the 2sth April,
ausH cooling on the 18th of May. Each
Sazzsa sale will consist OF about III lois.
-EJne u.1n Der of works to be sold amounts
saaN sa3s, but as many of these works com
sxsaa several volumes, the total number OF
Rz11mcs must be estimated at over ., 0oO.
1-z<nvsrANT coNTRovERsIALlsTs IN ROME.
asser tine departure of Mgr. Capel, the
g,,aEestant agents in Rome got up some
4rsaAasngs and lectures with q view of an
aM<Evog the arguments of the Catholic
zEssnEciser. Cavazzi was employ ed to deliver
R'1DouCse of sermons and to take part In
112tcal conferences, and used bitterness
aacHf coarseness of language in his haran-
14saS which offended many Of the Protest
aazszs- He termed Plus TX. the reptile OF
saAs Tiara The managers of the Scetch
Esnesby terrain Church outside the Porta del
Ps1solo were much ar noy ed by this offensive
esxY3s of preaching. One of the Elders
aEvute TO the Diritto explaining that the
CHsscch to the Italian Bible Society,
afipuiated that no violent language should
ssss employed against any individual.
NEW BISHOPS FOR AUSTRALIA.
DO Thursday, the 10th, DIR. Fortune,
Skactor of the College of Allhallows near
u eslin, was declared Bishop Elect of the
Ese~ See of Sandhurst; and the Rev.
Michael O'Connor, parish priest of Rath-
Gayuham, near Dublin, was named Bishop
Ess s1sfragap to Melbourne, the new metro
ss1itan See of Archbishop Gould. The
yyxsogress of the Catholic Church in Austria
sia during the present century has been
,zssst rcuoarkable. There were only two
Cz&tsoiic Missionaries in Australia at the
ass27rsiencement of this century, while now
SlscEe are thirteen dioceses. There are now
Suro ecclesiastical provinces in Australia,
Efn,se namely, of Sydney and Melbourne.
EKne latter province embraces Victoria and
<4s2ksc portions of the Australian continent.
e no Catholics in Victoria now number
gIAt52O persons. In 1871 there were but
EfEf114. New South Wales counts 147 ,627
CiESSaoiics. In South Australia are &c, 66s,
sKzE1 in Queensland 81 800 Catholics. In
West Australia are " 6s, in New Zealand
= ES85, and in Tasmania 2,09l Catholics.
.Atsogether there must be at present,
OE1klu2 allowance lot Tue increase BluCS
ESfTS nearly 500, 900 Catholics in Australia
a. country wherein. half a century ago,
s.1ssee were hardly 10000 members of the
Catholic Church.
MGR. DUPANLOUP.
CSse Bishop of Orleans, Monsignor Du-
1szzdoup, has arrived in Rome, and has
ezsEzsn up his residence in the Palazzo
AMZtese.
DEARNEsS OF FOOD IN ITALY.
al. l4o 81
lsz7ssziSions, not only in Rome but in the
SaruStuces, engage the attention OF Gov
ssualent and the local authorities. Al
EfaE1etta the Municipality appointed q
.s=zRzaaittee of fifteen citizens to devise
.4.zaxxsures to assist the poorer classes in
SIT 8aTi determined, in consequence of the
nigh price of food, to give a months pay
sIt ali the persons engaged in public Offices
1zGd1i0 this district. firm in Ancona
1S$sE4ai used to sell butchers meat to per
szsszss IN distress at about sixpence pound,
SaeS <seeu obliged to discontinue that mode
SR eslatity. In Messina the population ia
txsIeSsn 20 desperation by poverty and taxa
EzSsu- tax gatherer in that city was shot
Sxo cse l4th of April, by an unfortunate
.z.c~y .Sxs,lo as he discharged the pistol at his
Sz4sCsn exclaimed: :" Death to you and to
N<&2r taxes" Rome has daily instances OF
GsEx2HeC, and the police constantly find poor
tazsEtares lying in halls or staircases in an
-szzd1sQsted state from inanition. A young
uzan. was discovered the other day in the
est& Giolio Romano, who had been two days
OgEsS1so1t food. In the afternoon of the same
dig man was seen to stagger and fall il
11an Via della Botteghe Oscure, who had all
tS1Es signs of extreme want and privation
z3s. 9'as carried, not to the hospital, but to
IN eating house. The following morning
- E'oQth of twenty years was found lying
&xE q street in the, Trevi quarter in gate
SRRy, helpless and without strength through
1SN1GS of food
THE MARRIAGE BILL.
EsSe Bishops OF the Province of Genoa
6EaNe forwarded u protest to the Italian
gacIament against the proposed Bill
rSzAz<log it imperative to celebrate the civil
zEzEriage before the ecclesiastical one. The
EGE4sops point out the injustice of abolishing
1fsss 1acient rights of the Church regarding
IREEsimony among Christians, rights which
SN=ae not created or conferred by the State,
SnsS which arise from the divine character
IL tic Sacramento of Marriage in the
C>E{Eotic Church. They assert that it is a
saSs'aship to attach penalties to. the celebra-