Year: 1870

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that 1t should be- but great number Of Italians viii
certainly insposed to visit the Eternal City, prices
generally are very high doubt, too whether hotel
keepers host OF others win scquesce in the cry lit
orally being much more inclined 10 shout Rome for the
Americans and the English. Up to the present time few
OF the fsyorte race have made their appearance and
croakers beginning to predict that there will be no
These are. however, early days. and many may
still come the Brenner Pass, and many who make
their veggatura OF tho shady retreats or on the
coasts Of Italy may down to how Rome looks un
der the system. Though much reioced ut tho dow
which has struck down the temporal power OF the rope


canno. but think that the disappointment VIII DC gen
era undoubtedly the Eternal City has lost those cha
acterstcs which used TO recommend II to Foreigners Lie
in Rome was as ii entrance ON new world OF


may rather say on an old in which medieval ideas
governed everything and medieval customs and objects
everywhere presented themselves 10 the eye. Coming
therefore from lands in which tread on each others
heels and live In atmosphere Of feyersh agitation,
the solemn tranquility and digned repose of Rome wore


refreshing novelty, creating ul In existence which
repaired the ovorweared systom. Well, all these pecu-
iar features have disappeared. and the solemn long
drawn Ccrso is now rs noisy and tumultuous as the
Toledo. Imagine troop OF noisy gsmns rushing
through It, and announcing the publication OF 20 news
papers even moro Groups Of idlers and gossipers
block up the pathway at every settling the affairs
OF the nation rather than their Rome at present
indeed is regular garden presenting such an
aspect that which prevailed in moments OF extreme
agitation that used to alarm the Government OF good
old Grandmama Changed 1t is then, 1t has no longer
any OF those characteristics which pleased by their
novelty and lulled by their soemnity, so that future
visitors must expect to garisb, tumultuous town
such as Florence or Napes Much 1t may offend the
taste Of many this is however, believe, far healthier
state than which existed previously, and am quite
rsconoed by the conviction that all this exuberance
life the necessary consequence OF the freedom now
given energies long underrestraint Let us hope that
there IL moral strength in tho Romans sufficient to
sustain this action.


a decree announcing the dissolution Of Parliament
apd calling tho Electoral College to meet OH the lh
Ds has at last appeared, and has given general salts
faction, the that ministers seemed at first re-
solved summoning only deputies from the Roman
States and at later period on dissolving Parliament
In such times these. however, when such extraor-
dinary changes are In progress it most desirable
that opinion OF the country at largo should DO de-
manded, and the Government will require all the sup
port that be given It, What the result OF the cleo
tons will be is impossible to calculate but there can DO


little hesitation In predicting that the next session will
be stormy for 1t seems to be thrown all the re-
sponsbty of the occupation of the Roman States and
the dependent upon It, According to strict law
Rome, by Its annexation. becomes subject TO tho
conditions which imposed the other parts Of ITALY,
but the circumstances 30 peculiar that the Govern


ent still hesitates to enforce them. 1t will bo for the





the extremes will be violent may look out for squalls
There are true Liberals who yet disposed to grant
many privileges to the Pope almost Incompatible with
the supremacy OF the King and there are also large
numbers In Italy who look on the Holy Father with
deep veneraon and who regard any interference with
his position desecraon TO be punished by the wrath
Of Cod These will have their representatives and the
consequences may be imagined. letter from member
n the first class OF persons have described, Signor
Brog has just been published and created considerable
sensation member OF the Right party In the House
and he contends that the questions affecting the modus
ppendi with the Pope not 70 be determined by the
by Parliament but by the genius of the
people, though by what other possible means knowl
edge OF this is to be arrived at, except through
the voices Of their representatives cannot understand
In developing this idea he recommends that Florence
should be the capital until the death Of Plus IX when
Rome shond receive its King As act Of tenderness
towards who cannot be far from the close of fe the
proposition intelgble but II 1t Is the expectation of
signor that 1t will smooth asperlties and that
new Pope will be amenable to the will Of the Gov
prnment 1t may terminate In disappointment There are
many vacancies in College of Cardinals and Plus TX.
will certainly not lose the opportunity Of filling them with
men devoted to his views ANY delay, therefore, con-


der to be useless and dangeronswhatever the in
tenti0ns OF Government they should be announced at
bnce carried out immediately 1t is useless for the
National party to expect any arrangement with the
Church, which is at issue principle with them from





will to any terms for these would palpably
knock at the foundations Of tho rock on which the
Church claims to be built Moreover starting as the
Pope does from principle IL is vain and unreasonable
20 expect any other answer than "noa possumus" To
walt for better feeling therefore, to arrange modus
spendi ia only to postpone the contamination Of the
acpes Of Italians sine die giving the Church time to avail
itself of all accidents and to those ntrgues which
L has such skill in preparing.


Tho King cannot even find fitting palace for royalty


the Eternal City. 1t said falsely that the Quirina
sss to receive him. and had taken possession of by
ihe officers Of his household. Plus TX, however re-
,ained the kcys, and will not give them up The case
was submitted 10 the most learned lawyers OF the Roman
'orum as whether the Qurinal was an ApostOlical
palace They decided that 1t was national prop


y, but refused to put their names to it, Such ia the
lear Of that invisible power His Holiness is supposed to
possess. and the King was compelled TO look some
where else for house Proposals were made for the pur
hase OF the Villa Albani now the property Of Prince
Alexander Torlonia but the Prince declined to sell it
though he offered it residence for His Majesty. Ne
rOtations again entered into with the Austrian
for the purchase OF the Paazzo d VenOzia
out though not obecng 10 tho principle the Austrians
thought they could not in decacy complete the sale
snti the nodus ppendi was arranged Now 1t is said
that tho King his entering Rome will take up his res
dence In the PalGzzo Barberini but more probably in
he PalazzO Braschi though nothing is certain except
ho fact that Victor Emanuel has no house Of his
In his future capital and all because the Pope holds
The keys Of the Quirinal.


The journals have just published second circular note
from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the representa-
tves OF the Italian Government at foreign courts 1t
communicates the fact OF the annexation of the PJn


hoal States with the full of the Romans, to the
constitutional monarchy Of Yictor Emanuel The pie
sisctum taken with all the guarantees of publicity
and sincerity. This act brings under discussion of
The greatest questions Of modern times, the putting in
national sentiment with Italy
,eels her responsibility while declaring the cessation of
the temporal power. 1t the last relic of medieval
institutions political sovereignty which does not re-
pose on the consent OF the population and cannot be