The Sun. — 1867-07-06 (London, England)

NOMENCLATURE. Mr. E. Jones's Yearlings and Foals.  forwards, apparently no biggl ..z crows. r. Twenty-five thousand tapers were made to shed their light upon the building, gikg tOrt`he-crimson tapestry a deeper hue, now that all d4ylight was excluded, and lending increased brilliancy to the gilding. Sometimes a puff of wind blew aside a curtain, and then down streamed on one particular spot a sunbeam so bright and unexpected that it seemed like a flash of lightning, startling those around as if danger were near. G ran der, 12 owever, the n all else in the way of light was a colossal inverted cross formed of prisms of glass, which had been sought for far and wide. Above it were the keys. gigantic in their proportions and formed of the same material, while above them still was suspended an enormous tiara of coloured glass. Hanging, as (lid these brilliant symbols of the Roman Catholic faith, in the centre of the nave, al: i flashing and glittering with direct and reflec'ed light, the spectacle was indescribably beautiful. We were looking and wondering at these grand effects of light when a general confusion ensued among the masses who were underneath the cupola. There was a murmur of many voices gradually swelling into a storm. Ladies were rising in their scats, and Guards rushing hero and there,—indications, as some thought, of the Papal procession, but instead it was a panic created by the curtain of one of the windows taking fire. Thera could be no danger in so substantial a building as St. Peter's ; but people do not reason on such occasions, and had it not been that the fire was extinguished, it is difficult to say what might have been the result of the panic. Another, and this was the only other painful incident which occurred was, as it was reported, an act of suicide by a man named Achille Rossi, a native of Cremona, before the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. The poor fellow, it appears, was so dazzled by the wonders of .the scenes that he lost his head, and cut his throat. with a penknife, that he might enter at once on the enjoyment of a Paradise which the glories around him were supposed to typify. Meantime, all the great people are coming in. Above me are the French and Prussian and Austrian and Spanish and Mexican, in fact, all the Ambassadors now in Rome, not including the Ambassador of the Grand Duke of Monaco, who has been recently appointed, together with the wives and families of those who have the good fortune to possess them, and their attaches. In the opposite loggia were the exKing of Naples and the Dowager Queen with her family, and a large suite better adapted to better  Chesnut yearling filly by Newcastle out of Eastern Princess Bay filly foal by Thormauby out of Tomyris Hester. Chesnut colt foal by Thormauby—Eastern Princess Camel. Black colt foal by Citadel, dam by Kingston out of England's Beauty Tom Tuck. Chesnut filly foal by Citadel out of Danish Rose ... Palmyra.  times. The Portuguese Princess, the aunt of the present King of Portugal, is also there, together with her ladies in waiting. There are few English of the laity. Lord Northesk and Mr. Howard of Corby, who has lately had the misfortune to lose his daughter, are in the same loggia with me, and not far from us is the General of the Jesuits, who attracts much attention. Cardinal Pentini, unable from ill-health to take part in the procession, walks in feebly and seats himself. Soon after 12 o'clock some minor Orders began to enter, and then came the bishops, two and two, amounting to 480. Wearing a red cope in honour of the martyrs, they presented a grand spectacle. Many of them wore a violet-coloured berretta on the head, instead of a black one. Each carried his mitre, white for the most part, though there were varieties, as in the dress. Some had mitres resembling Imperial crowns, studded with precious stones, while some wore over the cope a dress resembling a Hussar's jacket with upright collars rigid with gold. Of European bishops France has the greatest show, Austria perhaps the smallest, being represented only by.the Primate of Hungary, who is followed by four servants in hussar uniforms. England sends more than half her bishops ; Ireland, contrary to the information I received and communicaed, has 14. Scotland, too, is not behind. There are bishops also from Canada and the United States, four from India and China, besides many other arrivals. As to the Chinese bishop, I learn on better authority that he is a Frenchman. Each bore a lighted taper, and as scon as they were seated and the archbishops, among whom I recognised Dr. Manning, had arranged themselves on either side of the throne, the silver trumpets in the cloister announced tl,e 11 approach of the Pontiff. They always perform the same music, but sweeter notes it is impossible to conceive. In advance were the Cardinals, Dr. Cullen among them, and Antonelli, looking as he has done for 20 years, calm and imperturbable. These took their seats on the lower benches on either side of the Presbytery, 43 in number, and in the centre of 523 Princes and dignitaries of the Church Pius IX. was borne in on his chair. So large a number has never, I believe, been assembled together, at least in modern times ; in 1862 there were not more than 250 bishops. Altogether the Church possesses between eight and nine hundred, and fifty-three or four cardinals ; so that more than one-half of her staff, so to speak, met on this occasion. Call it vanity or what you like, Pius IX. must have been more or less than human had lie not felt deeply moved and gratified at the homage which he received.