ROME.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 379, 1 December 1849, Page 3

ROME.

Tlie most important facts added to the intelligence published in our last is that, on the 15th of July, the re-establishment of the Papal authority was proclaimed with great formality. We shall however, endeavour to make our account of the proceedings connected with this eventful period of Roman history more intelligible and complete, by recurring to the entrance of the French into the " Eternal City," on the 3rd of July, a»d introducing the most interesting of the official documents which were issued afterwards. The entry of the successful invaders is thus strikingly described in the correspondence of the Morning Chronicle : u Wednesday, July 4. " Yesterday several siijnll parties of French troops entered Rome during the morning. These it appeared were only the advanced puaid, avant couriers of the force which is to occupy Rome. About 6 o'clock in the evening several regiments of all arms crossed the Tiber, and look up their quarters in the different posts assigned to them. They were evidently the French array — all Hue men, with arms and equipments in splendid ord"r, and each regiment marched through the C.u-80, by way of parading their force before the population. I wisat the time in one of the coffeehouses of tint beautiful street, and witnessed the procession, and the manner in which it was received by the inhabitunts. Firbt came a squadron of horse gre nadiers, wiih a fine band. Immediately on turning the cotner of the long street leading from the bridge of St. Angelo to the Car^o, the head of the column was received with a burst of groani, hootings, and ■houts of ' Vive la Rcpablica Liomana !' from the promenaders, by whom the Carso is always crowded at this hour. The trumpets instantly pealed a triumph* tint flourish by way of response. Theie seemed a twang of wanton insolence in the notes that announced the triumph of the modern Gauls. The byotanderi in the street and the spectators in the windows, were evidently galled to the quick — I could read their thoughts in their lacci. Next came a battalio/i of infantry; then dragoons, with magnificent biass he!meti, mounted on better horses than the French unny could bjast of ten yearu sgo ; then chasseurs a cheval (a sort of husiars, but less absurdly diesied than our own, with light caps on their heads, and long carbines or rifles slung at their back*) ; and, lastly, more infantry. Each corps was reciiveJ in exactly the same in inner, and each made the same characteristic reply — diumi bcd'inij anil trumpets sounding. I must think this triumphant procesbion in v ry bad taste, considering the origin and character of the F. ench aggreasion on Rome, and exceedingly ill-judged, if their commander wishes to encouiage anything like good feeling between his troops and the inhabitants of Rome. But it is of a pipce with all the measures of General, or, aa the street hawkers call him, Cardinal Oudinot. In the evening, the French pa'rols, and even single officers and men, were greeted by the people in the streets with such epithets us "brigonti," " assassmi." The troops endeavoured to preserve as much indifference an possible in their manner, but they did not seem mo r e thau half comfortable under their reception."—lt was a bitter moment for the Romans, out of those momen's tlut cink deep into the heart and meraoiy of a nation. Immediately after taking possession of the city, General Oudinot announced his first arrangements in the following Proclamation, in which, it will be seen, he reiterates those professions of attachment to liberty, and friendship to the people, the hypocrisy of which excites as much disgust and contempt as the grossness of the French outrage on Roman rights arouses indignation. Rome, July 4. Inhabitants of Rome, — The nrmy sent by the French Republic to your leintory has for its mission the reestablishment of order anil security. A factious or bewillered minority has forced hi to asiau't your ramparts. We are masters of the place. We accomplish our mi»sion. I Amidst the general marks of sympathy by which we have been received, some factious clamours have been heard, und we have beau foiced immediately to repress, t em. Let the People and the true fiiendk of Liberty have confidence. Let the enfinves of order nnd of society know that if hostile manifestations, piovoked by a foreign faction, be renewed, they will be severely punished. For the purpose of providing proper guarantees for the public secunty, 1 ordain as follow! : — 1, Provisionally, all powers ore concentrated inthe

The Legislative Council of New South Wales, which had been prorogued to the 20th of November, had been further prorogued to the Ist of January. Sir Charles Fitzßoy had been visiting the Windsor District, where he was received with every token of lespect. A congratulatory address from the principal inhabitants was presented to his Excellency, in reply to which he made especial reference to the luxuriant appearance of the crops, and the prospect of an abundant harvest. The election, of City Councillors took place

on the Ist of November, when the successful candidates weie, Messrs. Thomas Ryan, John Williams, David Peden, Henry Thomas, William Moffitt, William Roberts, and Charles Jenkins. The spirit of contest ran very high. One gentleman — a rejected of Brisbane ward — vents his wrath against the electors in an address, which is quite a curiosity in its way — It begins, "0, ye Brisbanites ! My rejection is your disgrace, not mine. The very heavens wept at your election ; and the clouds, lowering at your choice, spread their black pall over you j" — and ends with — " Yours for ever, oh never !". . . .On the 9th, the election of Mayor took place, when Mr. George Hill was chosen to fill the civic chair. The question of the introduction of convicts had been raised again by the arrival of the Havering, and the expectation of the Adelaide, with their cargoes of criminals for distribution in the colony. But the protests against the pollution now are feeble and vacillating, compared with the thunders of the " patriots" a few months ago. It is quietly said that these vessels were probably chartered before the remonstrances of the public meeting could have reached home, and therefore that these importations were unavoidable ; but, says the Herald, "if when made acquainted with our views the Government should still persist in sending convicts to our shores, then,"— well, what then, good Herald 1 Why, your money-loving folk will just repeat the conduct lately denounced by yourself ; they will " pocket the affront,' ' and pocket the gain to be derived from convict labour, undeterred by such small considerations as principle and consistency. The Californian fever was not raging so fiercely as a few weeks since ; but the People's Advocate states as one consequence of it, the extent to which it had spread, — " at no period do we recollect to have seen the well known symptom of emptiness (' To be Let') fc so generally displayed from shops, houses, and all sorts of tenements throughout the city as at the present time."

Charitable Collection. — We observe that on Sabbath (to-morrow) a collection will be made in the Free Presbyterian Church, in aid of the widow and six orphan children of the Rev. W. Ross, Missionary fiom the Free Church of Scotland to Melbourne, who was one of the victims to the criminal parsimony of the owners of the barque JSerbudda, from Glasgow (to which, in connexion with some other recent transactions of the same nefarious class, we purpose calling attention so soon as the present pressure on our columns is lightened). All the sufferers through the cupidity of those sordid speculators have claims on public sympathy and assistance, but the case of Mrs. Ross and her family is peculiarly interesting, and we feel pleasure in recommending it to the kindly consideration of our readers.