Tuesday, the 12th [March, 1850] —Called early on Sir Gardner Wilkinson and others. No news of the Pope. Attended the function at the centenary jubilee of a church in the Corso. A Bishop officiated. The object of the frequent changing of the mitres, jewelled and simple, puzzled me. The music and the singing were good; but the conduct of the people was irreverent. The decoration of the church was beautiful, but inappropriate; it was too sprightly and luxuriant, and did not suit the solemnity either of the place or the occasion. The lighted candles at mid-day, and the altar decked like an opera-box, jarred painfully upon the feelings of such as came for higher purposes than the gratification of the eye.