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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 9, 20 June 1884, Page 5

Rome, April 13.-The French railwiy* hiving sold excursion tickets at reduced rates, we have bad a large iuflux of strangers this week. The Tenedras services have beeu attended by an immensS crowd at St. Peter's, where almost all fashionable Roms attendei in the afternoon. St. John Lateran and St. Maria Ma°-giore had a more quiet lot of attendants. The bulk of the curious were in the Vatican Basilica. The behavior of the crowd was scandalous Ihe most scandalous was the behavior of the young Roman swell's ■ As the Pope is no longer the ruler of Rome, they seem to think that the y are privileged to insult even the Almighty in the churches of the Vatican. These young bloods deserted the Corso and the Pincio to follow young ladies to the Basilica. There they talked as loud as if they were in the street. They walked up and down the aisles, and kept up the most scandalous conversation, making jocular remarks about the services and the statues in the church. Some of these impudent young men indulged in pranks for which the Piazza Navona is celebrated at carnival or on Epiphany nigbt St Peter's sextons are unable to restrain the unruly boys. The temple is profaned by their presence. English and American girls flirted and earned on outrageously. They were seated on the floors aad on the prw dieu* and on the confessional with the same ease as though they were seated on the srass f O r a picnic or a coach on race davs^ New York Sun, "*v».— '