Glasgow Courier. — 1860-04-12 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

XVI., which assuredly did more for him than all the Christian virtues A Christian minister, however little he understands his business, can lay by more money in aix months than all the brigands of Sonnino in twenty years He got hold of the new Pope (Pius IX.), as he had of the former one, and made it appear that there are other modes of murdering people than that of seizing them on the highway The murder of Rossi frightened him.... When a man takes the trouble to be born at Sonnino, it is not in order that he may let himself '— Mated—quite the r .He wishes the absolute power in order of it at his ease.... daily to fortune after the f He old; he has kept the appearance . is supple and robust, and he has a. mountaineer. The breadth of his 1,, brilliancy of his eyes, his nose hooked like. beak, and all the upper part of his face, insi. • beholder with a certain feeling of admiring There is a sort of flush of intelligence upon his and almost Moorish countenance. But his heavy , his long teeth, and his thick lips, are expressive the grossest appetites; you perceive a minister , on a savage. Beholding him in a drawing filled with fair and delicate women, your imagination is irresistibly reminded of scenes of night attacks upon travelling carriages and their helpless omit, pants. He resides in the Vatican, above the Pope. In allusion to this the Romans ask, jestingly, which is the highest, Pius IX. or Antonelli? In what' do you imagine that he left mountains feonnino? Do you really thought -' mining the benefactor of • the p• a the Papacy' or the L the "arch? Not such a fool. first of himself, then of his „good plight. His brothers net pitied at Sonnino. Sit. they who know him State, . he leads a pilsasant life.. Were of keeping his g.7.3tina ,w giving daily audience, So mountaineers. His taste . simple scarlet silk robe, unlimited pewer. an i, tune, a European reputation, and every men are wont to enjoy. This little satisfies One day an idiot threatened him, him brandishing a fork. The idiot but the cardinal conferred a pension To guard against similar attacks his to go at full gallop through the should happen to run over a child he b.. to the parents. Antonelli has been occasionally corn• to Mazarin, both being characterised by great fele of death, inordinate love of money, regard to family interests, and certain other accidental features. They were born in the same mountain, or nee. The one insinuated himself into of a woman, the other into, Both have governed unscrupulously, the hatred of their contemporaries. One speaks as comically as did the other, yet they have an equal " tion of the delicate niceties of the language, selfish Mazarin dictated to Europe the treaty of Westphalia and the peace of the Pyrenees, laid by diplomacy the foundation of the greatness of Louis XW., and managed the affairs of the nation without neglecting his own. Antonelli has made his fto the detriment of the country, the Pope church. Mazarin may be compared to a roguish tailor, who, though he dresses his customer' well, contrives to cabbage sundry yards of cloth' himself. Antonelli resembles those Jews of the die ages, who demolished the Coliseum tr old iron it contained.—Edmond Aboure FREAXS OF i YOrNG Lo.—We are 1„ hear that a venerable and respected Marquis Marchioness have been compelled to endure Misery from the sad career their grandson, to a most noble house, is pursuing. The gentleman in question has suddenly become e. lagly interested in the ensuing match or prize between an American and the champion of England, and, in debating their relative claims to the support of the patrons of the ring, spends his time inglori. misty in the company of stablemen, betting men, and pugtiede ruffians. He recently threw a public house in Piessrlilly entirely open for the reception of such worthies, -and has already exhibited such extraordinary freaks of a like deseription, that his relations have serious thoughts of instituting a painful snit tuchin is maaity.—Court Circular, s. yr 44;,, • •