RATTAZZI'S FUNERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 30, 22 November 1873, Page 11

RATTAZZI'S FUNERAL.

oST .rf ? , corr f PO^eat of the ' Times,' in giving an account of the last solemn obsequies in Rome" of the late Signor RatazS andaddr-Ti^r 61 ' 611 ?^ 6818 ° r monk 9 itt thfl procession?' and adds,. "I do not know whether it will be good policy for the priests to prove to the Italians how easy ifc is to be born.CaiJied and buried without them." The 'Standard' shows us that Ital an progress is even »ore advanced. Wot only can they dispense with priests and monks at a funeml, but even a Scad body Is not absolutely necessary. <It was known," says the Conservative journal, « thafthe body of the deceased statesman was not in the hearsa wh eh we saw drawn by its sjx horses up the hill to the railway Nation. . yfSb is the good they thought, of carrying the body from the station to what was its home m Rome, only to be brought back thence to ffc« station next day? Excellent imon sense*! But i made tSt which we are apt to call a mockery at the best, yet more distinctly and almost avowedly a mockery." If this had occurred in DubSn don i wi^ we esa am ' Bir ' yours trul y--°° r ' • j2S