Other selections from the Imperial correspondence will be shortly laid before our readers.  Remember, the only genuine letters are those in PUNCHINELLO.  All others are garbled forgeries.

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Roma!  Roma! non e plu com’ ora Prima.

With the downfall of the Pope’s temporal power, comes the report that several newspapers have been established in the Eternal City.  Thus the “great world spins forever down the ringing grooves of change.”  For Papal Infallibility, the Romans will have that of the editorial WE; for the canons of the Church Militant they will have ubiquitous reporters discharging themselves in the public ear; the testimony of the pillars of the Church will be replaced by the assertions of the editorial columns; the Inquisition will become a press club-house for Reporters and Interviewers, and the Propaganda an office where ‘extras’ are concocted and forced on the unsuspecting public.  At least let us hope that the change will offer a reputable business for the army of beggars which has formerly been licensed by the church.  A chance will now be offered them to become newspaper agents, thus making a living respectably by selling accounts of other people’s deformities, instead of disreputably by exhibiting their own.

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A CAPITOL MOVE.

The immediate probability of the formation of the United States of Europe, suggests how wise we were not to change the location of the Capitol to some facetiously distant western metropolis of the future.  The Capitol buildings are quite large enough to receive the delegates who will of course come on here to study the art of log-rolling, while the Chesapeake, being navigable almost to the Capitol steps, will save them the fatigue of a luxurious journey in the palace sleeping cars.

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Sublunary Observations of the Sun.

From a careful analysis of the daily appearance of the Sun, it has been satisfactorily settled that it is completely enveloped in gas.  By the application of the literary spectrum, it is also shown that this gaseous vaporization is the result of brass in a high state of incandescence, while the indications of alkalies, and, in fact, all kinds of lies, are no less distinct.

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Forethought.

One reason why this country is so earnestly opposed to the Napoleonic dynasty, is that there is no probability that the descendants of the Prince Imperial would give us any assistance in settling the Alabama Question.

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Prompt.

The Methodists recently opened a school for young ladies in Salt Lake
City, and BRIGHAM’S third son is courting it already.

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VERDICT ON A BARBER’S WHISKERS.—­Dyed by his own hand.