Ever since Guerroniere's pamphlet fell like a bomb upon the Vatican there has been a perfect array of paper-champions, sent forth to do battle for the Papal cause.

They are mostly, it is true, of foreign growth.

Extracts from Montalembert, De Falloux, and Berryer's speeches, patched together and re-garnished; reprints of the Episcopal charges in France; editions of Count Sola della Margherita's much be-praised work; and, I regret to say, translations of Lord Normanby's speeches in the House of Lords, are advertised daily on the walls of Rome.

Of native and original productions there have been but few.
Literary talent does not flourish in Rome, and what little there is, is all retained against the Government.

The _Eye-glance at the Encyclical_, the _Widow's Mite_, and the _Tears of St Peter_, are the titles of some of the anonymous pro-Papal tracts published under Government patronage; of these the _Independenza e Papa_, which is sold at the printing-office of the _Giornale di Roma_, is decidedly the ablest and most respectable..