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Xx PIUS qecaitiaaneteceeaineen . | lady pilgrims of his “Bug: An Interview with the Holy Father. femarks of His Holiness to a} Herald Correspondent, A VATICAN AUDIENCE SCENE. | Appearance of the Venerable Head of | the Catholic Church. THE RAVAGES OF TIME. Warm Expressions of Admiration tor the New American Cardinal. “Your Archbishop is a Wor-} thy and Noble Man.” ALWAYS PLEASED 10 MELT AMERICANS. The Departed Glories of Easter in the Eternal City. Poetical Pictures of Rome by Victor Scheffel. THE GARDENS OF THE VATICAN. A Pitiful Threat to Cut Off the Water Supply. A CONVERSATION WITH CARDINAL ANTONELLY What the Papal Minister of State Thinks of the Future of the Catholic Church in America, | TS INTEREST IN OUR CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. | Rome, March 31, 1875. Bome has become a sad disappointment for Easter pilgrims. The good people have pro- longed their stay in Rome until after Holy Week, expecting to see something of the ancient Easter ceremonies to reward them for the penance the pious of them undergo. But Pope Pius IX. still withdraws his presence from the great public, and only celebrates mass now and then in the Sistine chapel and gives his customary audiences. The proces- sions to St. Peter's, the consecration of the palms by the Pope, are of the past, and Easter Bunday passes over us like any commonplace Sabbath The many beautiful ceremonios that usually fell on this day, the bearing of | His Holiness on his throne into St. Poter's, bo- , fore him borne the two fans of ostrich feathers, on his head the triple crown, symbolical of the temporal and the spiritual dominion and | the unity of the two, are seen no more. Neither the bells of St. Peter nor the artillery of St. Angelo raise their | chorus at the final celebration of the resurrection. Victor Emmanuel now rans the “girandola’’ or fireworks which formerly took place from the Castle of St. Angelo and later from Monte Pincio, The Pontifical blessing of the crowd from the bal- cony of St. Peter's is withheld, and will be, | of course, so long as Rome is occupied by the | Italian government, or until « reconciliation | is brought about with the new election. / THE LOST POETRY OF EASTER. | Rome has lost all its Easter poetry to the visitor. It is now a place simply for religious penance, not of rejoicing and exultation, The pictures of Rome by Victor Scheffel aro no longer applicable, though pleasant and in- teresting to read. True, he describes the Rome of some ages past; but his descriptions | held good till the present decade, when the | temporal dominion was takon away from the | head of the Church. Now old Fathor Tiber | has no cause for excitement about the vast- | ness of the crowds hurrying over the bridge of | Bt Angelo :— Through the narrow streets a humana (Prong in jestai gard and spirit, Hasteued to the Vatican; On St. Angelo there scarco was Room to pass, and elvowiog on came Dark Signort tn their Spanish Mantes, and perruque and rapier, With the durk Franciscan paters Cawe the brown-garbed Capucines—then Roman burguers—uere and there a Sunbarnt herds from the neighboring Drear Campacna, and he feit an Abiique pride in ail his tatters; And among (oes¢, stepping ligutiy, Came toe dark-eyed Reman maidens | | Deeply vetied, but still the ganze could Not conceal their Gory Ob, what are the glow! Bon when caught by cau Ja tue burning gisss com ‘These brigus eyes of Auma’s daughtera? Poor scuthod heart, on stop thy beatiag! | Gayiy on the brosas there Satter’d | On St. Madrian’s tomb the standards | With tue Papal see's insignia Mitre aud the two big cross .oys— Uh St, Potor's square the iomutans Sprang ond foamed in ratubow colora, Splashing o'er tho arauive basins, TEMPORA MUTANTUA, The throng that gathered in St Peter's on | Bastor Sunday morning was small, and com- powed chiefly of undovout tourists and Eng- lish clergymen, who said that evon the benutle tal singing of tho papal ‘“Kopelic’ was | “operatic.” How they Mutter around Rome, | | | past with pleasant stro}: NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1875—TRIPLE SHEET. these tight-throated gentry of the Gospel, im- bibing very graduolly the charms that finally hold them bound! And the new Cardinal hopes to get them all over the fence eventu- ally, and to all appearances he will get many. | Scheffel describes an Easter procession of the The two Gorman | ar” have come to the church and ex Great And, Grandeur of toe Wondrous churen, where H Mortals look such puny creatures, In the central uisi¢ the statue Of St, Peter stood, and many Pilgrims kissed the foot, adoring, Music swept throughout the aisles, and Through tue side door that dota lead one From the Papa! palace came the Holy Father, holding solema Entry into the Cathedral. Stalwart Schweizer halberdiers, Marching, headed the procession, And then followed the renowned Singers of the Papal chapel, Pantiug ‘neath their heavy burdens Came tne choir boys, bearing with them Ponderous tollo books of music. Followed violet Monsignort! ‘Then the abbots and the prelates, And the canon of St. Peter’s, Pauting with his weight of body. Tottering on bis stuff then came the General of the Capucines—a Burden of tuil ninety years aid Rest upon his aged shoulders, Though he still bore many a youthful, Daring plan beneath his skull-cap. With Franciscan paters from the Convent Ara Coell came the Prior trom Palazzuola— Looking down on Lake Albana, ’Mid the shady Wonds that clothe the | Sides of Monte Cavo, stands the Pleasant convent where the heart may Dream unharmed its playful fancies, As in thought be followed with the Rich processiou, and who knows why Bren his murmers did not sound like Prayers—out more as 1f he mutter’d:— Pare thee weil, Palazzuoia, Followed, then, the train elected— Cardinals in purpie raiment ; Then a train of cavaliers; with Gu:tering swords, they marched in rank and File, These were tue Guard of Nobles, And the Pope himself approached, Seatea on tie throne in state the Servants, eight, did bear him onward, O*er bis head the pages held the Brilliant ‘am of peacock’s feather: Snow-white was his linen sole di 3 And he raised his hand to bless the People, who bent low velore him. And St, Peter's Meker’s ring blazed Brightly in the giowing sunshine, Soon the long procession halted At the altar, und the Pontr Held high mass and solemn o’er the Grave of the Apostle Peter. Sweetly then the chant resounded, And the aged princesa-abness Prayed in pions, calm devotion. Bat lair Margaretha raised ber Eyes—she thought the music scunded Like angelic strains—she wished to Turn her gaze and thoaghts, too, heavenward; But her eye was first attracted ‘Lo the singers’ loge; she trembled, For amid the singers stood a Stately wan with hair oi blona, though Stul half hid by marble pillars, And again ane glancéd toward him, Looked no more then toward the Pontit, Nor the red-robed carainais, nor At the nine-and-eighty lutops that Hang above St. Peter's tomo, i “Dreams long gone, why now return ye? Dreams long go>, ‘Vny do ye greet me Hero in these m: jacred procinots 1” Then the singers in procession | Fil'd by where the two were seated, “Lora be gracious! Heitis. Ob, 1 know weil the scar upon his Brow. itis my long lost Werner!” Margaretha’s cyes gfew Misty— “Beart, why veatest thou so wildly?” And her limbs gave way beneatn her— Fainting sank the iatr youag maidea On the cold bard floor of marvie. THE SWISS GUARD OF POETRY. | But stay. Idid not intend to give you a | iove story—only a few poetical descriptions of | / St. Peter's, which I believe will be new to you, | and love stories, even from Rome, are not. I commenced tnis letter with the intention of | giving you some account of my audience with | the Pope and my reception by Cardinal Anto- | nelli, but Victor Scheffel has led me astray. I will, nevertheless, not resist the temptation | of giving you the poet's description of the | Swiss Guard, who give you greeting as you j enter the palace of the Popes: — | In the Vatican's broad hallway, *Neath the miguty colonnades, the Hajberdiers of Swissianad pacéa, Hoiding guard, a8 "tis thei¢ duty; And tueir heavy steps resounded Far away up to the palace, To the gray-naired corporal spake & Youtomi “iancekneont,” and lamented: «Vine we are, ‘tis true, we Schweizera, And no other soldier marches Through tne streets of Rome so proudly, Clad in handsome etoet coirasses And ip garb of biack-red-yeliow. Mauy a flery giance is sent as Snyly from the palace windows: But the heart o'er fondly yearneth Homeward, Lomeward, to tue mountains, To the Alp horn’s gentie calling, Giadly 1 would al! reuoquisn— Trinkgeld, pay. e silver scadi, Even tne iloly Father's biessing, Even the wine of Orvieto That so sweetiy pearls ana Sparkles, Could 1 see once more Mount Pilate, Seo the rocks and avalancnes; Aud as hunter chase (be chamois O’er its high and dangerous pathways, Or could wander in tue moonlignt, O’er the jragrant Alpine meadows, ‘To the A w-nut’s pleasant greeting, To the Tennin, to tue pretty Appenzeiiian Cuoiguadas,, And then jodelo, oad exalting ‘To the rising sun of Moratag, Oh, St. Peter's, all thy glories And toy grand Old Sacred music, Lsboald soon forget! ( coud Hear the anrill aod \ojlow piprag Of our oative Alpige marmot, Still we may doubt very much whether the | Swiss Guard havo #9 deep this feeling of Helm. | weh os the poet describes, Tho Roman maidens have woulerful black glowing eyes, | that would win the hearts of even colder mon | | than these same honest guardians of the Va ti- | can, I wish Victor Sohofel bad given us aa weil a poetical description of the Noble Guards, one of whom will be with you before | this letter reaches ila destination, inatead of which I have only an arousing story from the | | Vatiean. COUNT MARBFOMCH!, THE NOBLE GvaaAD, | who is now on his way to New York, ace companying Mgr. Roncetti with Cardinal MaGiautay's berretia, 9 9 young man not yor | j the ocean, | colleges and other persons who have the per- ! great breaches of etiquette; have refused to | bend the knee when His Holiness deigned to | few of us who go to see him who are not will- , Rome who omit to make the pilgrimage to the | occasions he has kindly imparted to me his | | mark of his appreciation of America, buta | journal not strictly religious, though, to tell | thirty, but with an unconquerable tendency | | to obesity. Some wicked monsignore in the Vatican, with a gift for making carica- | | tures, has represented the ship on which | | the Ablegate and the Noble Guard are making the journey, as in usinking condition, Count Marefosehi has thrown himself overboard in his despair, but the waters refuse to swallow | him; bear up his body triumphantly, precious message he bear, And Mgr. bearing aloft the berrefia, has found safety in sitting | knowing the from Rome, Roncetti, astride the body of his floating companion in This is a private caricature, and | only circulates in the Vatican in a single copy, which quite accidentally fell in my way. T trust, however, no such misfortune as that depicted will befall the worthy Count and | Monsignore. The former is a most agreeable | gentleman, and will win esteem and hearts, being, I believe, still ummarricd and not under any vows of celibacy. AN AUDIENCE aT THE VATICAN—HIS HOLINESS GRANTS THE PRIVILEGE OF AN INTERVOUW TOA HERALD CORRESPONDENT-——-HIS LOVE AITD AD- MIRATION FOR CARDINAL Mf CLOSKRY;—CON- VMRSATION WITH CARDINAL ANTONELLI—I0E GARDENS OF THE VATICAN. Roms, April 1,.1875. It is not such an easy thing nowadays to procure an audience at the Vatican. His Holiness the Pope suffers considerably; he is not at all strong, and the rectors of the various mission to procura audiences now present | only a very limited number of persons. And | this is well: those that really have an earnest desire for an audience are not refused, while | those who wish to go simply to gratify | curiosity are, for the most part, excluded, Nevertheless, day after day the long audience room iscrowded with people of all tongues, and among them are usually a good number of English and a few Ameri- | cans. Some very wicked people assert that some of our worthy countrymen have not conducted themselves with the necessary amount of grace; have indeed committed address them and to give them his benedic- tion, and have, thereby, caused no little dis- comfort and mortification to the persons who presented them. But Iam assured this is not | so, andam told that very frequently persons of another nationality are mistaken for Ameri- cans, upon whom all the unpleasantness has to rest. The Pope likes to see Americans, no | matter of what faith, and I think there are ing, even if weare not his spiritual subjects, | to submit to the etiquette prescribed by the rules of the Papal Court, APPLYING FOR AUDIENCES. There aro few Catholic Americans visiting Vatican. As a rule they apply to Dr. Chatard, the rector of the American College, who, although his tims is, as we may well suppose, pretty well occupied with the duties connected with the institution over which he has charge, | ia always ready to assist those who apply to | him. lowe hima thousand thanks. On all time and his knowledge, as he does to so many. Through him Iwas granted, on Wednesday last, a semi-private audience with the Holy Father, to which I have the intention to devote this letter. My wish in applying for an audience was not ior the sake of pro- curing what is generally styled an interview, but to thank His Holiness in person for the favor shown to the Hxnatp a few weeks ago in furnishing you with an advance copy of his Allocution containing the nomina- | tion of the new cardinals, Not only did His Holiness show on that occasion a peculiar decp interest in the workings of a great American journal. It was the first favor of the sort ever granted by His Holiness to any the trath, a halo of pious glory has gathered | about the Henan, its proprietor and itsrepre- sentatives ever since thedifficulty you had with Prince Bismarck in Berlin, about which | nearly every eoclesiastic to whom I spoke had | heard. : TRE AUDIENCE. | The general audiences at the Vatican are of | various classes—public, semi-public or semi- | private and private. The former are given in | one of the loug loggie, the second in the hall | of the Arazzi, immediately adjoining the Throne Room. The latter is His Holiness’ pri- vate studio, The great public collects in the loggia, while the members of nobility, dis- tinguished persons and cloricals, assembie in the room next to the Hail 6f the Throne. To | the latter group tho Holy Pather gives a pro- portionately larger share of his time. He stops to talk familiarly with the persons presen!ed and listens patiently to all that is said to him. Thon he passes slowly, followed. by chomborlains and cardinals and Noble Guards, on through various rooms to the | long audience room, where he usually delivers | & briof addross, It was my fortune to have a place among the more favored individuals | wembled in the balf adjoining the Hall of the Throne, among members of the Italian aristocracy, in plain dress suite, and a few young brothers of the Order of St, Cammillus | of Loilis, A slight commotion in the Throne | Room announced that His Holiness had left | his private apartment, First appeared two of | observe the Holy Father's features and gen- eral appearance befor he approached me. I | noticed that he walked heavily, shufilingly, the Noble Guard in undress uniform, then | been monsignori and cardinals, and in their midst’| and in the religious journals of the United the Holy Father, all forming a group of har- | States. The Holy Fat a red red and dark | cloak over his white ¢ or, still wearir d tl monious colors—robes of pas ce to the purple and black, and in the midst the | e the the only ¢ white robe of head of the Catholic Chu nearest the Pope wer Mertel, while | Mgn bey e in adva: nt m0; the former to receive the perniess t n Then Holy to His Holiness. nt. WIS HOLINESS THE POPE. , snow-while vestine and the the entire audience knolt, Holding in his right hand and resting | Father addressed them in heavily upon a handsome walking stick, the | Pope approached the group of earnest young EARNEST, ELOQUENT LANGUAGE, Pope Pius IX. is a good orator, and loves to make theso addresses to the poople who come to pay him homage. He speaks in French fluently, though his voice has lost much of its ancient clearness. priests who had consecrated themselves to the work of mercy of attending the sick in the hospitals. The Holy Father’s features brightened as he received their customary | salutation. He spoke a few words to each and then placed his hand upon the head of each in his kind, fatherly manner, evincing in a striking manner the paternal feeling he entertains toward all who consecrate themselyes to works of charity and human welfare. I had time to He took tor his text the words of the Gospel referring to the Saviour and Em- maus, and spoke about the necessity of | our having fortitude and asking assis! the disciples at ace of Almighty God in our need. It was a sin: moral and instructive sermon whi His Holiness delivered to his hearers, without any reference to polities or the present condition of the Catholic Church in the various parts of Europe. Tho address over, the benediction over, the red mantle was replaced, and the audience | His Holiness then proceeded as old men do who have threescore years ten ; though ¥ could sce traces of the early | passed and and, was over, so froquently described in the Henan | the beautiful view and the th a about the Henan, | Holiness and the new election. am health-givingy breezes. But the villa was appropriated by @ government, and he has since then kepf ral niike tetirement in the Vatican. persons in the pe and Cardinal even the more ems CARDINAL ANTONELLR general ine He spoke of, th he lad heard had beem ed States by the creation of. , and said he should take. sin reading the accounts of the aud ceremonies that would be rew w York journals, He made respecting the working of the: n journals and more especially, He recalled my former go and, smiling, thought my; Amer presence in Rome was not the most auspicious: ast time,” he said, ‘fearing that have to record the death of His :; but he lives still, in spite of youall.’* indeed, a great pleasure 6, but astill greater on€ without having undergong tement that would be a core, spondent’s share in case of the death of His I said that E hoped to come to Rome on many more une! ions of the same kind as the one! you come,” ho said, ‘do no& forget the way to my apartments here,” THE WATER SUPPLY. | ravages nobility of carriage and happy, bright dignity of teature, yet the form before me was | no longer that of a few years ago. The firm contour of face has been lost; the features seem to hang heavily down, and the old, bright, penetrating eye is dimmed and weakened. There is no concealing the that old age and conflicts and disease have wrought upon this once noble iigure. I would indeed gladly be- lieve that His Holiness has yet ten years of life and usefulness before him, that he may yet live to see the final victory of the Catholic Church over her enemies; but Icannot. Pope trouble and | Pius IX. is but a wreck of his former self, | but a magnificent wreck nevertheless. [ would be unjust to myself were I to describe him not according to the impression left upon me in my brief interview. all probability not long hence, Pope Pius IX. will take to his bed never more to rise from it again. But God grant that day may be still far away. WORDS OF THE PONTIFF. His Holiness approached the prelate by my | toan address of homage and admiration to tne Some day, and in | , countrymen), 86 he has preserved in bis beart a | | further along one of the corridors for his Wishing to procure a ticket of admissioi | for viewing the Vatican gardens, which haver | usvally ends in the Vatican.gardens, been tor years closed to the public, the Car! dina! told me a very interesting fact, Some Kop rts ol oer at | weeks ago a commune! councillor of Romeq The Holy Kather is said to refer very fre- | with an eye for filling up the city treasury, / usual morning's walk, which in fine weather quently to the United States, and to entertain had called the attention of the body to | great hope for the future of the Catholic | which he belonged to the fact that Church there. The Voce della Verita recorded |* Yast quantity af water was being L supplied from the public aqueducts to tha not many days ago some account of the rela- | Vatican, for which no revenue was red tions that had existed between Pope Pius IX. | ceived. An excited discussion took placey and the people of the United States. This is | and, strange to say, the majority | what Mgr. Nardi, the writer of the article re- | of the speakers demanded that the Vaticam | ferred to, says: — should be charged for its water supply like On tne 29th of November, 1847, the compatriots | ‘ny other institution.’’ One went so far as of Washington aud of Franklin assembled in great | to demand that the water supply should be numbers in New York and subscribed their names | ent off in case the Vatican refused to pay. A VERY UNGRACIOUS THREAT, when we take into account the fact that the Vatican had not been asked todoso, Even, the most democratic paper of Rome, the Capitale, could not conceal its disgust and anger at this instance of narrow-mindedness shown by the wise fathers of the Capitol, and, atter calling to mind the fact of the many, great benefits which had been at one time conferred upon Rome by the pontiiir while they enjoyed their temporal sover« eignty, the aqueducts which they themselvex present Pope, then hardly seated on the throue of | St. Peter, And as His Holiness (continues tne Voce della Verita) commeuced bis religious career in Americ? (of course Mgr. Nardi mixes up South America and the United States, like all his special affection ior that young and noble nation, Mgr. Nardi then goes on to note what His Holiness has done for the American Col- | lege in Rome. He established the college in the Via dell’ Umulta, and presented it, with the | restored church, in order that these young | in the Consistory. | nature were very gratifying to him, especially 7 | American theologians should receive their | side, who introduced me, and who, after the | education. The present college was solemnly | usudl ceromonies, had the kindness to inform inaugurated on the 7th of December, 1859— the Holy Father of my name and my duties the eve of the Immaculate Conception— in Rome. the patron of the Church of the United States. | | A Latin inscription over the door of the PR EAEe eave tie Bis sighs bank which college records the fact of the Pontiff’s benefi- I saluted, as is etiquette. My companion | cence. After devoting a passage to the South then recalled to the memory of His Holiness | American College Mgr. Nardi proceeds the fact of his having sent (o the Hxnatp hia | to tell how His Holiness looked upon the | Allocution on the evening before the delivery | slaughter ot the civil war. | On the 18th of October, 182, he wrote an | | affectionate letter to Archbishop Hughos, ask- ‘Yos,"’ said His Holiness,"’ I was pleased to ing him to employ all the means at bis com. | know, by the desire shown to have it, that so | mand in order to bring about a reconciliation | great an interest existed in your country of the conflicting sections. | about it.” | ‘REPRESENT ALSO IN OUR waxce,"? ! ‘his Holy WPathad | wishéd iad the great | he said, ‘‘to the people and to the chief of the » hae government the great advantages that would journal would make it known how rejoiced | result from a sincere reconciliation. I trust he was to hear of the pleasure that that they will listen to our paternal admoni- had been given to so many Americans | tions, and listen to us the more willingly when in the creation of the new Cardinal. they understand that we are not moved by po- He said ‘hat he had already received | litical or any other temporal considerations, but that the motive of our conduct is only thanks from many prominent American Cath- | olics in Rome, and the many messages of this fatherly charity, which. makes us desire that they should return to peace.’’ “On the 17th of Novem#r, 1863, two Commissioners were sent by Jefferson Davis to Rome, with the mission | of asking for the intercession of His Holiness. Mgr. Nardi says that nothing came out of this mission, because President Lincoln ‘did not too, not in New York in order to describe the at the same time send an ambassador to in- festivities that aro about to take place there?” | bison = acary ina age sg — Beene conferred upon New York ci in the creation BORE oe trek eoese were = cere cer] of the new Cardinal puts aouven upon the more capable persons than myself there who | ¢,yors which Pope Pius IX. has shown to would do that; besides, my presence was America. needed in Rome, which had still great interest | Pic ara Almighty God,” concludes the | Monsignore, “is preparing in the Catholie for the | a Une bos meses Church of North America a large compensa- His Holiness paused 2 moment, and then | tion for the griefs and the losses which it is spoke of the Ablegate and the Noble Guard | suffering in Europe and in that unfortunate who had been despatched with the official no- | America of the South.” tifleation and the berreita to America. AUUERNOR WEEE CARDINAL: AHPORNRLLE. | ee ” oa P | The audiences over, I then ascended to the sig liaen fotos ant ree ash yclcned | next story above, intending to pay my respecta for them to cross the ocean? I shall be glad | ¢, His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli, who hod to hear when they have arrived safely at their | expressed’ his willingness and pleasure to destination.” | Teceive @ representative of the Hxaarp, I replied, “From ten to fourteen days, Holy though the a kta Rinks him dis- » | cussing any o @ politico-religious ques- Father, de wives be “ogee! _ chorea | tions that are at present agitating the “Ab, fourteen days!" Then, as if his mind | entire civilized world. After waiting a few had wandered for a moment across to New moments in tue anteroom I was ushered into York, he said:— “I told one of your country. men, a few days ago, that | the Cardinal’s presence. He rose from his | secretaire, and afterthe usual greetings mo- Fe | tioned me to take aszeat beside him on the ne Sees 6 ee ae vee | sofa. I hardly recognized His Eminence, Two years ago [saw him in the same room, when he appeared in the best of bealth, aad his features had, as near as I remember, a | now, amid the troubles and persecution of the Church in Europe. “But,’’ said the Holy Father, ‘why are you, MAN. He has tho dignity of a prince and makes @ great impression upon everybody when he | ; ea here, bh 1 pleasant, ruddy glow about them. The two a i gt tae and bee cer | years that have since then elapsed have ppcplenaedintese terete teres cd bets cand ecad I NG Wp often with therm."’ CHAKGE IN MIS APPEARANCE, THE DENEDIOTION AND ADDREEA. To is now apparently a great sufferer from With these words His Holiness gave me his | rheumatic affliction, His once strong ‘trame | is bent, and his features, pale ond ry, had repaired, the many public fountains they had created, the many works of art with which they had enriched the Eternal City,) asked if it were not an insult to the people of Rome and of Ituly to thus make demands fox a paltry tax on water supply on the Vaticom when so many other sources of revenue wore left uncultivated. It is very probable that the | Vatican will, indeed, pay the tax whenever it is demanded, and in so doing will evince a fag more elevated spirit than have the shopkeeping city fathers in raising the question. Legally,: of course, the city is entitled to collect the. tax; but I think there does not exist any other communal body in the world whichy would—living among the manyand beautifak works of art created by the Papacy—demeant itself to send in the tax gatherer to collect such miserable claims. WAU DES ADEILLES. Cardinal Antonelli did not make any come ments on the conduct of the wise men of the Capitolian Hill, but simply called my attention to the fact that in the courtyard of the Belvee dere portion of the Vatican there issued forth a spring of delicious water called the “Eau des Abeilles,” a supply of which was pumped to the uppermost story of the palace and fornished its inhabitants witht all the water for drinking purposes im pro-. fuse quantities. ‘So,’ said he, ‘if, as im threatened, our water supply should be cut off we shall not be left to die of thiest.” We spoke of minor matters and, among other things, the fact that Cardinal McCloskey was, preconized before an answer had been re ceived from the Archbishop saying that he, accepted the dignity. "The answer came two days after the preconization on the 17th of March. The first notification was only do- spatched from Rome on the 24th of February, and thus no time was allowed for the answex to return before the meeting of the Consis< tory. This is ail 1 remember. The Cardinal then kindly gave me the neow essary permesso to visit the Vatican gam dens, of which I made use the following morning. Perhaps in some future letter Z may give some account of this large and in~ teresting garden, which may be called the prison garden of the Pope It isa place fulll of lawns and fountains and leafy archwoys, and long shady,waiks under aged trees and amid relics of ancient sculpture, But of all the objects to be seon in the garden the most interesting to mo was the aviary, with the beautiful snow white doves, which ooo an@ make love fo each other, and are great pets of the Holy Father. THE VATICAN GARDEN FROM A PORTICAL POINR OF VIEW, ‘The viait and scene reminded me of Victow Scheffel's desoription, which I trunsiate:== Over Rome tue sun did rise with More than ordivary splenuor; Covlingly the Tramonwana Pano'd the cypress trees aad myrtios Tn the Papal Pi And the Sowers raig’d toeir sunbarnt Beads again in jorous fragrance. hand for tho customary salute, and then he | paased to ihe group of Italian nobles kneoling beside me, each of whom had some slight favor or other to ask, such as the blessing of mementoes and relics. After enoh person bad been addressed His Holiness gave tho cus. tomary benediction, and we rose from our | knees to follow the group of cardinals and monsignori and His Holiness through the anterocoms to the long loggia, whera some two hundred persons were awaiting the gen- eral audienos, 1 need not give you any long acount of Hise audienges, cinos thoy have | exbaustion that almost startled mo, seem to shown degree of completes physical j I heard afterwards that His Eminence is suffering | from Bright's disease of the kidneys, and that he lives under the strictest and soverest rogic | men. Yet he allows himself no rest and but | little recreation, but is continually ccoupied with the affairs of the Oharch, Dor woos | together be never leaves his apartmonts, and | when Poun\a.os play'd, She birds were singing Wow the pale waite marble sterwes # 10%, AB If be wished to Danes adous tie giorious garden, Warningly Caen spake Apolom “¥eieud, those times are jong gone by, and Thon Wowdst oUt Pulse how @ seandai i” Ads Old Rome, seroan the river, Bothod in happy, gu wing *onsoine, then he does it is only for) Bow! to the Vaticonn salutings. & short walk in the can = gnats O'er (he 4a OF ROUNeS, CONFINED dens. Before 1870 hie posseasod a bewutiul Aud tho many princely dwellings Proudiy rose te Quiring, avd Purtner baox the Copiioling Vid row? Op ja Moraisg / esbaees, ‘Vioies Beas apread au about at villa in the suburbs of Rome, where every afternoon he apent some hours on the flat roof caring for foward atid sheube and enjoying |