one of the finest palaces in Rome, built out of the travertine taken from the Colosseum: the forty-four red granite columns which support the portico came from Pompey's Theatre. At the foot of the staircase Count Rossi was assassinated in November 1848. [Illustration: THE FARNESE PALACE.] Adjoining the palace is the CHURCH OF SS. LORENZO E DAMASO, lately restored. _A short lane, Vicolo Regis, leads to the Braschi Palace, at the side of which is_ THE STATUE OF PASQUINO, a mutilated torso found here in the sixteenth century. It took its name from Pasquino, a tailor, who lived opposite, and whose shop was the rendezvous of the wits of the city, who wrote their jokes and stuck them on the statue: these were replied to by the statue of Marforio, now in the Capitol Museum. Some of Pasquino's sayings were very witty, and have been published. Now, under a free government, he seldom speaks. PASQUINO'S REPLIES IN REFERENCE TO THE What the barbarians did Barberini family having not, the Barberini have done. destroyed the antiquities. Public, thou liest; they Inscription put up over were not public vows, but the door of the Sacristy were vows of thy vain of S. Peter's. despotism. Canova has this time made Statue of Italy by Canova a mistake: he has clothed exhibited during the French Italy, and she is stripped. invasion. The Most High above sends Some decrees of Napoleon's, us the tempest; the most and a severe storm which high below takes from us visited the city. that which remains; and between the two most highs we are very badly off. The French are all rogues; French occupation of Rome. not all--but a good part of them (Buona parte). _Pasquino._ Beware, Cæsar, Marriage of a man named lest thy Rome become a Cæsar to a girl named Roma. republic. _Cæsar._ Cæsar governs. _Pasquino._ Therefore he will be crowned. A heretic had the Appointment of the preference; after him, a librarians of the Vatican. schismatic; but now there is a Turk. Good-bye, Peter's Library! _The Via del Governo Vecchio leads to the_ CHURCH OF S. MARIA IN VALLICELLA, (_La Chiesa Nuova_,) containing three paintings by Rubens; they are at the high altar. _From the Statue of Pasquino, by the side of the Braschi Palace, we enter the_ CIRCO AGONALE, one of the finest squares in Rome, sometimes called Piazza Navona. It takes its name from being the site of the Circus Agonalis. _Fêtes_ are held here during Carnival, and a fair at the Epiphany. Notice the three fountains--the centre one by Bernini: four figures, representing four rivers, recline on a craggy rock; on its top stands an Egyptian obelisk, at its base a lion and a sea-horse. THE OBELISK.