The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-07-14

At the recent municipal elections in Rome
only 10 121 electors voted out of total of 2l,-
$50 on the registration books. OF course q
majority of those who failed 20 cast their bal
lots were persons upon whom the Catholic
candidates depended. or the fifteen Offices
the Catholics secured two, the out and out Re-
publicaps none, and the candidates of the
newly formed party, called the "Conservative
Party" twelve. This result is the more aston
ishing as great interest was, apparently, mani
tested in the elections for some time before
they took place, and among the candidates
were the highest officers in the kingdom and
several members of the great patriotism fami.
lies. correspondent writing to an English
paper slys:
A municipal election in London would b % q
more stirring matter than it now is if among
tho civic rulers in otfice and the candidate put
forth as their succe es5ors were to be found the
Earl of Beaconsfed and the Marquis of Hart
ington, with half q dCzen more Cabinet Minis
ters past or present, if q new party suddenly
made its appearance represented by its oppo-
nents as backed by the influence of the Jockey
Club, if in the list of the electoral committee Q
might be seen the names either OF the actual
| heads or the most prominent members of the
noble houses of Norfolk, Northumberland,
Sutherland, Devonshire and Westminster. II
| the contest was conducted by one set of cleo
| tors in the belief that their triumph would be
that of the Rev. Messrs. Maokonoohie and
| Tooth and by another set of electors in the
| hope that it would increase the political pres
tiGe of Sir Charles Dixie and if, finally, the
| avowed candidate for the next mayoralty bad
not long before signalized himself by giving
| to the world history, penned in a highly
liberal spirit of the Vatican Council. Now
this is the exact description of the contest for
the municipal elections of Rome, which have
lust been brought to q close. SlGnor Carroll
the present Premier, has been a candidate fol
reelection Siguor Sella, the leader of the Ol
position in the Chamber of Deputies, s mem
ber of the Council q new party calling itsel
Conservative has come into the field, one de
cared by it's opponents to have been organic 81
in the card and smoking rooms Of the Circol
dele Cscoie, the Jockey Club of Rome th
presence of this new party on the scene ha
been marked by the presence and participa
tion in the struggle of the heads or member
= or the great Roman families of Orsini, CelonnG
, Doria, Borghese and Torlonia the election
would, it WAS affirmed in one quarter, shol
that he;Ultramontsnes had the majority, an
in another quarter that the Republican
would Garry everything before them and tn
3 result of the voting has been to place at th
= lead of the poll-Above the Premier Carroll
the Msrquis Vitelleschi, Senator of the Kinl
dom of Italy, the chief candidate of the me-
q Conservative party, the author of that histor
of the Vatican Council which is 80 uupalatt
BILE to Cardinal Manning but who from th
? mere fact of his coming IN at the head of th
poll has, according to regular municipal usag
| the beat right to - nominated the next Syl
\ dio or Lord Mayor of Rome.