THE FUNERAL

\ '^,,The Pope is reported to hâve said that Victor Emmanuel died like a cristiano, rè, e galantuomo ; and certain it is that the clérical organs generally supposed to express the sentiments of the Vatican breathed nothing but Christian charity in the notices of the king’s death, while the popular joumals poured forth the most passionate laments. One clérical paper in Venice ventured on some offensive comment, which caused the populace to break into the office and destroy the printing-press.

The grief of the other cities and provinces was not less than that felt in the capital. In Piedmont it was deeper ; for Victor Emmanuel, liberator and regenerator of ail Italy, and as such beloved and revered, never could be to ail the Italians what he was to his faithful Subalpines, who had known him from infancy, and shared ail the struggles of his early manhood.

Telegrams expressing the most ardent sympathy with the royal family poured in from every town in Italy, and everywhere the démonstrations of national grief were solemn and touching.

On the i6th Parliament met, and the aged minister, Signor Depretis, announced to a crowded and agitated