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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1869, 16 May 1863, Page 5

At Rome, a few days ago, a body of gens d'armes in uniform invaded the apartments of Lady Herbert, at Lazzano Palace, to protest against the too Italian combination of scarlet and white drapery with greeu laurel branches at her Ladyship's balconies. The danger of a demonstration before the palace, which the gens d'armes. appeared greatly to apprehend, was avoided by the addition of a few yards of gold brocade ribbon, twined round the laurel branches by Lady Herbert's orders, thus combining the Papal yellow with the Italian tricolor Mr Ira Aldridge, the African tragedian, who has been for some time eclipsing (literally) the Continental "stars," and gathering laurels — not nightshade— -in Northern Europe, is creating a furore^ so a Bussian friend informs us, in the interior of the Muscovite empire. He has turned the head of St. Petersburg, and he has thrown the provincial, town of Kharkoff into ecstacies. ; Mr. Aldridge has been received in the best Bussian society,: where his-intelligence and gentlemanly bearing hare made hiih a great favorite.] '