ROMAN STATES.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 464, 12 January 1850, Page 3

ROMAN STATES.

News from Rome to the 18th August had been received. The reaction is proceeding with lapid strides in the Roman States. The Pope is as far from returning to Rome as ever, and will not vouchsafe a direct reply to any demand at to when he intends coming back. The deputation named by the municipal commission of Rome to proceed to Gaeta and congratulate his Holiness on the restoration of his temporal powers left Rome on the 28th of July, and was received by his Holiness at Gaeta on the following day, with his Holiness's customary kindness. The Pontiff assured the deputation that he still nourished the same paternal sentiments towaids Rome, and that be would make every effort to introduce into the public administration those improvements and institutions which would be compatible with the free exercise of bis temporal power. On the 28th, the deputation was admitted to a private audience by the King and Queen of Naples, and, after having had the consolation of kissing the Holy Father's feet, it set out again for Rome, where it arrived on the 29th.

Private letters from Rome state that a Consistory has been held at Gaeta, at which it was resolved that the Holy See should be transferred to Bologna, leaving the French to settle the affairs of Rome as they best can. The same letters state that the £ope positively refuses to return to Rome so long as that capital shall be in the hands of the French exclusively : and that be has proposed that the garrison ot Rome should be composed of Neapolitans and Spaniards. We learn from Gaeta that the Pope is very unwell, and presented a swollen appearance. M. de Courcelles was also ill. It is insinuated that poisonous drugs have been administered to both of them.