Like our Premier, the Roman Pontiff has completed his Go-
- vernment, and constructed it well. Cardinal Gizzi, who was too . liberal to command a majority of suffrages in the Sacred Col- - lege, has been appointed Secretary of State ; Cardinal Amati, friend to M. Rossi, the French Ambassador, has also taken office. Divers measures for the improvement of the state are said to be under consideration, and among them are projects for railroads. • Meanwhile, a movement has been going on about the country, beginning at Bologna. Petitions, numerously signed, pray that effect may be given to the memorandum which certain foreign Ambassadors laid before the High Pontiff in 1831, giving to the people such representation as enables them, not to legislate, but to declare their wishes, and admitting laymen to official employ. These petitions have been signed by several influential persons, and among them by the Pope's elder brother. There are, there- fore, signs of a healthy activity among the people, and of an un- precedented disposition to advancement in the ruling body.
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