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THE EMEUTE OF ST JOSEPH'S DAY.
The feast of San Giuseppe is the only _festa_ day in Lent, when the Romans eat fried fish in honour of the occasion,--St Joseph alone knows why.

Henceforth the day will have other and less pleasing associations.
The garland-wreathed stalls, with the open ovens and the frizzling fritters, were reared as usual at every corner; the shops were closed; the _osterias_ were full; the streets were crowded with holiday-people in holiday-attire, and the day was warm and bright like an early summer-day in England, though it was only the 19th of March.

The news of the Romagna elections, with their overwhelming majority in favour of annexation to Sardinia, had been just received in Rome with general exultation.

No doubt the festive appearance which marked the city throughout the day was not altogether accidental, but was meant for, and regarded as, an expression of public sympathy with the revolted provinces.