The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

A missive has arrived from the Pope, conveying
stringent censure of the Bishops of Ghent and
Bruges, for having deeply injured the cause of
Rome by their vehement and insensate pastorals.
Allowing them credit for zeal, the Holy Father
commands for the future a less ingenious line of
conduct, and, whilst approving the holy (?) determi•
nation to obtain the desired object, enjoins a policy
less obtrusive, but not less favorable to success ;
because prudently carried on " par dessous main."
When the head of a Church charges his subordinate
agents to compass their design by moans not strictly
legitimate, "per insidie e lacci," it may be truly said
that the principle of action and the " modus
operandi" stand in a just proportion of value to
each other.

The condemnation of M. Lindenberg, at Berlin, to
nine months' imprisonment for a libel against the
Prince of Prussia, contained in a letter to General
de Gerlach, inconveniently resuscitates the question
of the stolen despatches. T—, the real agent and
purloiner of the private papers, had been bribed by
a foreign power to procure and sell the State secrets
of Prussia. Having accepted "the thirty pieces of
silver," the respectable agent immediately sought an
audience of M. de B—, the Russian " employe "
in delicate affairs, produced his credentials, and de-
manded another thirty pieces, of gold this time, to
betray the betrayer. The Russian was incredulous,
but the other persisted in and swore to the truth of
his statement. A meeting was arranged at Stutt-
gardt between the agents, the briber, and the
bribed; but beforehand the Russian Prince L--
had been lodged in a closet of the chamber in which
the interview took place. The intelligence was
afforded and the secret papers delivered according to
bond ; the price was paid, the agents separated, and
the Russian walked out of the closet. This was
sharp practice, awl without blame to Russia.
The marriage law, according to the provisions of
the Austro-Papal Concordat, is to come into opera•
tion throughout the Austrian States on the Ist of
January, 1857. By this statutary enactment abso-
lute power is given to ecclesiastical tribunals to pro-
hibit marriages either from diversity of faith, bad
conduct, infirmity of health, poverty, or any other
cause. If an Austrian, having been married in a
foreign country, declares before a competent and
clerical tribunal that the ceremony had not been
performed according to the rights of the Roman
Church, then such marriage may be annulled upon
a simple affidavit of fact. A marriage between a
Roman and non-Roman, according to the rites of
Rome, is to be valid ; but any other contract
entered into without the pale of the Roman Church
is to be held as void and of no effect. This is made
to touch Protestant property, except under fines
amounting to confiscation. These courts matri-
monial and ecclesiastical can peremptorily compel
separation of married people without appeal, and
disobedience will entail excommunication and a sus-
pension of civil rights. In Hungary the discontent
is alarming.

The Roman and Ultramontane Association of
Germany, at a congregational meeting held at Linz,
on the Danube, passed censure on the professors of
natural and physical sciences of Vienna for having
discussed at their late meeting the phenomena of
physic and geology without declaring as the primary
condition that in science cause and effect should be
attributed to the immediate action of the Deity
alone. The professors were strongly reprimanded
for not constantly using the name of God (sic) in
their lectures, and from abstaining to trace to his ex-
clusive power the disposition and the revelation of
the secrets of nature.

It is to be regretted that the English press should
tolerate and publish appeals to the public for the
assassination of kings and for brute revolutions
without a defined object of government. " Mort aux
Rois" comes with a bad grace from the subjects of
a sovereign cherished in the hearts of all her sub-
jects. There is this unavoidable result, also, that it
ben }fits the very cause which is sought to be sup-
pressed. To the Emperor of Austria and the King
of Naples is given a "to quoque " argument espe
cially damnifying to Liberalism. A delinquent can-
n)t justly be called to account for crime if the
misuser and judge offer a premium for trespass of a
nature precisely similar. The edict of the Holy
Inquisition, placed everywhere on the walls of Rome,
and which gives the lie direct to those who have
asserted that the Roman religion is modified in any
essential either of superstition, intolerance, or
cruelty, will require a lengthened notice. It is a
bold demand that 'tome shall be triumphant, that the
priest shall be the archruler, that he shall be
above the executive, and control the government of
man. It follows, in its proper place, the Jesuit
demonstrations in Austria, Spain, and Berlin.
The Russian Ambassador at Naples, Count Kakos-
chine, is in constant communication with M. Carafa.
Although expressing himself with some degree of
bitterness against the Western alliance, and con-
demning the withdrawal of the English and French
Embassies, yet the has questioned the conduct of

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the authorities and that of the King in the prose-
cution of Mignogna. In a conversation with the
Minister, he made use of the words, " les details
affreux de ce proces iname." He is endeavour-
ing to persuade the King that his position is
untenable, and that he ea snot expect an armed in-
terference in his favour. The preparations of de-
fence, however, are not the less active. The adv 3.
cate Pascal Amodio has been released from prison,
where he had been since 1852. He was an able
man, of moderate and constitutional opinions, and
was the deputy elected for the province of Basilicata
in 1848. C. A. H.

BURGOS, SPAIN, Oct. 23.
MARSHAL SERRANO continues, as I told you in my
last he would, Ambassador iu France. The Ministry
of Narvaez Aill last for the present, but there are
already rumours that he will soon be succeeded by
Serrano, or, as some say, by General Prim. Tho
latter is not likely. He is harsh and disagreeable.
One of the largest Spanish silver-mines is said to be
in a bad way, and that the shareholders therein will
have to refund all they had received. Senor Sala-
manca, the Financier, San Luis, the ez.Minister, and
Count (le Purnard (a relation of the Premier), are
said to be deeply interested in it, and the first and
last are accordingly on their return from Paris,
where they have resided for some time past. What
I told you of the dislike of a French protectorate
here is daily confirmed. It would not be tolerated
for a day; in fact, no foreigner is liked in Spain, no
matter who he may be. L.

foreign an dolonial 3ntelligenre.

FRANCE.

The French papers during the week have been
entirely taken up with the continued occupation of
the Principalities by Austria. The French journals
generally assert that the Porte has protested against
the occupation, and doubt the official denial given by
the Austrian Correspondance.
Baron Brenier is expected from Naples in Paris
to-day (Saturday).
Arrests of workmen for posting up seditious pla-
cards continue to be daily made.