Those who have taken any interest Wall of Rome Manicipal Council in cutting gaps through it for the gratification of a want which would appear to have existed chiefly in the alleged imagination of the Council, will be blessed to learn that the course of further outrage has been stayed. In answer to the popular indignation which Rome paid s solemn visit of inspection to the old wall, and thereupon pronounced that no more openings were to be cut, and that of the four alresay made the one near the Porta Pinciana was to be converted into an archway. Nothing, however, has been said about the remaining three gaps which presumably will remain, so long as the fifteen-hundred year old wall itself remains, @ hideous testimony to one of the most needless works of defacement ever planned by a public body against an incomparable relic of antiquity. For the time being, however, we may be thankful for small mercies in that the wall which so stoutly resisted the Goths from without " not been altogether powerless against th Goths withi But as " The Times" correspondent aptly says "it is to be hoped that the next time the Municipality contemplates the destruction of ancient walls and monaments it will go and look at them before and not lifter they are partially pulled down."
March 2.
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