, 1881-03-31
ITALY.

RUSSIAN "sESATn1la.h
HOME, March 10.-rlie Russian Senators
l3ontoMnieif and AlossoleH havc arrived hero
TO negotfato tic settlement Of questions pclll-
Ing III regurl to the Catholic Church III Rus
sin.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE ANr1-rl.oTEsT-
ANT H1oT AT MAItsAI.A.
A dispatch from Rome, dated March II, to
tho London Nclus says: "Tlo account In
one Of your contemporaries Of tho anti-prot-
estant riot ut Afarsala Is incorrect. The fa!.
lowing, as far as 1 cn,1 ascertain, Is the true
version: According to letter from Marsha
III tho Nlfor1nu tho quarrel between tho
l'r0testants and Catholics III that city dates
clnss-lenlcr, SIgnor 1.eltteri, was sent there
III compliance with the repeated invitations
Of the Protestant Church, and ut once be.
GAME, tho object Of the litter persecution OF
pulpit and the scliool-room. and the less OBJ
truslye,. but morU potent, instrument, the
confessional: At length SiKnor Let
teri replied by, challenge TO n pub
lie discussion, to which tho clergy n1l-
swercI in d violent manifesto: SolIe
further correspondence wns succeeded by u
prolonged lull, but with the advent. Of Lent
there cainn II preacher from Palermo, the
Jesuit Father Frevtti. WHOSE violence as. n
into collision with tho authorities, and whose
nttnclsB OH the Protestant Church ut l'alcrllo
wero SO itccssant that the WAltlenslal,s
started n newspaper to defend themselves.
With sucl. u ttrebraMl,
DIsoHDEits wERE INEVITABLE.
The placartls Which formed tho pretoxt for
Tic riot contained, rs the Clerlcals admit,
nothing more Irritating to their susceptible
tiles than tho words Lent and the tiuspcl.
Nor Is It .true TINT S!gnor Letttesi>pa1d men,
With STICKS, to quart tllehIls from, lolne torn
NntApRn tfn III Iii vi r!nn1 uni 1l7ru
assert this. while Sfgn0r Lettiert explicitly
denies 1t, alleging tllat tic only circumstance
giving any color to the cl.arge ~ TINT IL class
member from, curiosity watched n placarl to
tho day before. As for the riotGrs. tlloir u,,r-
pose seems to have been fur nloru serious than
was Mt first supposed. l am assured on good
authority that when they broke Into the house
colleague. bit 4 laylnall viii, whom hc re-
aitles, tile i!llIl,lteS WGru III bed Wurnutt by
savage s!lolts that Ills llfo was III danger,
Slgnnr l.ettiorl hurried o., s0nu clothes, nut
dragged out Of beI, and being takcn for arl
Evangelist, Il rilffin drew on him with Ills
kRlfe. Tho error WIS llRuptly discovered In
TING, and thus. rs tho Minister Of the H.
terl0r. SfgMor Depretis, said, blontfsslcd WIS
Of tho clergy IN tiEs rlnt, hear from lctter
to Deputy t1lat while h1l auto tin fu WIS he
ltg tl,atlv III the Cathedral Squire of the
WreckaEo Of the Protestant house. tho priests
not only lent the collsecrated banner. usually
carried beforu tho Host. but stood OH tlio
steps rubbing tho!r ha1lds IM .gieu, wflu from
tho balconies nround Intlfes Wnyel their
llaNdkcrcEIiefs, shouting Viva In Madonna
tlo III Tufa.' When .tltb mischief was done
md the authorities began to iutgrpose,
Father Provltt, Il would Indeed appear, .atl-
mtnlsteroh a prudent r1bnkp to his ilouk, hut
this must by tAken for whit 1t IL wortli mid,
In conjunction with tho unanimous opinion
Of tho Catholic press Of tho PENINSULA. that
tho Protestant have had 4 Eo0t( lesaun.'