The daily gazette., 1877-09-20
THE ETERNAL CITY.
ITS ASPECT SINCE 1T BECAME
- THE ITALIAN CAPITAL.
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
POPE AND VICTOR EMANUEL
POPULARITY OF THE ROYAL
FAMILY-GARIBALD AND
GENERAL GRANT.
Special Correspondence of the Press.


RoME, August 23.-This is not the time
for forestleri Cor strangers) to loiter in
Rome, far less to abide there, But nee
essity, which in my case means business
has detained your humble servant
throughout the summer, and this with
out any injury to health. The secret is
to live in an elevated region of the city
rise early, adhere to a simple diet, avoi d
the midday sunshine as well as the night
air, stay at home after dusk, take good
deal of exercise but not enough to tire
you. and dress rather warmly than light
ly. Closely observing their conditions
and restrictions, have remained here
con the line, all the summer" ana have
not had occasion to spend one franc on
medicine. The most dangerous months,
especially for strangers, are August and
September. Early in October the higher
class who have summered in the country
and the visitors. who are very numerous,
begin to crowd, in, and the rent of lodg-
ing, as well as the cost of living, mount
rapidly up.
Rome has justly been called the city
of hotels. Very few of its 250,000 in
habitsnts live in these expensive places.
As general rule the Romans of to-day
are in rather moderate circumstances and
live within their means. Some few are
wealthy-but careful. Since the Court
was transferred from Florence, some half
dozen years ago, there has been good
deal OF money expended here by royalty
and its satellites. But when the courtiers
came in the clericals went out. The Pope
has always been extremely moderate in
his expenditure, but such of the Cardi-
nails as resided in Rome kept great deal
of rich and elaborate state just like
the nobility of France in the days of the
olden monarchy, and of England, when
Charles the Second, two centuries back
We'd in splendor and display with Louis
the Fourteenth of France and Leopold
the First of Germany. The presen mag
mates of the Church in Rome mingle very
little with the secular society here, and
where they used to ruffle it bravely with
gll1ed carriages and numerous retinues
of gold-laced attendants, now seem to
creep obscurely through the streets, as if
anxious to avoid notice There is lot the
slightest prospect of any change in this
respect while the relations between the
Pope and the King of Italy continue in
their present state.
Victor Emanuel, whose annual int
come from the public treasury is
about 81, 5000, or nearly double what
Victoria of England is paid, filngs his
money about in a prodigal manner as
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Fortunatus in his pocket. His family
have an additional $500,O00 a year
among them. They live within their
incomes. but his Majesty is consider
ably and continuously in debt, and
every now and then his Minister of
Finance has to execute the difficult
and delicate duty of obtaining large
money-vote, Parliamentary "benevo
lence," to pay off the most pressing
demands of the royal tradesmen.
The King is rather popular than
not with his Roman subjects. Accus-
toned as they have been in the Papal
title to gentle manners and delicate
ways, they scarcely understand the
King, whose chief delight is in the
sports of field and forces Cat his mo-
ment and for weeks past he has been
away in his native Piedmont, hunting
and shooting game and wild beasts OF
prey, and they smile, sometimes con
temptuously, at his rustic dress which
certainly have nothing princely in
them.
The rest of the Royal family are
popular in various degrees. The Prin
cess Margarita, who was married seven
or eight years ago to Umberto, the
Crown Prince, her cousin, is almost
idolized by the populace for the chari
ty her gentleness. and her beauty,
which as she is not yet twenty six
years old, is still in its prime. Her
husband, perhaps because his man
ners are rather stern has not yet made
his way into the hearts of the Roman
p.pulace, though they are beginning
to understand and like him. Amadeo,
who was King, of Spain for two years
in lS70-73, is greatly beloved and lat
terly more than ever since a great
domestic grief scared his heart last
autumn, As for the Princesses Clotide
and Pia, Victor Emanuels daughters,
they have passed out of Italy. The
first is the wife of Prince Napoleon
(Jereme,) the other of King Louis ol
Portugal.
| Garibaldi, to whom Victor Emanuel
is mainly indebted for the crown of
united Italy, and who occupies seat
in the Senate, has been in CAprera, his
island home in the Mediterranean.
ever since the Parliamentary session
closed. One of the projects of the Ital
llian government was TO surround
Rome with strong Notifications, such
as Theirs placed around Paris, at vast
lexpense. This idea is not new. for ii
has been under consideration since
the fall, of 1870, and is seriously enter
tanned seeing that eighty heavy can
non have been sent from Naples to
the barracks at Macco. Garibaldi has
written a letter simple ami strong, in
which he condemns This subject de
eIaring that England has n OF taken
lhe trouble to fortify her c)asts; that
should England be Invaded, her vol
unteers would rise In arms, backed
by the entire population; that Italy,
with her immense seaboard must al
ways be accessible to Invasion, AMI
That should this take place the only
lining 10 think about wood be how u
nrevent the enemy once landed from