The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-28 00:00:00

ITALY.

THE MEW
liiitilb—MlJEßAY.
ROUX, Dm. W. '
On Monday morning the Pops held the expected
ionatstorrartfie Wilton, and added four cardinals to
the sacred college. From his harangue on themes..
elm, which I partly quoted below, you will pew
aim that the promotion of the Archbishop of Vienna
miaow. lwen7 stilt
of the ?deist:al:Tot be
dn grietitalithe'
*web by the Austrian concordat. ,
Tanorable brotbree.—Ton all well Ithow,
Mahn% what emssistiss has bees .forded to eh
the edemas sans of ear readiest* by the soaves
ens In neatly isideted yids our very dam son is Christ
Francis Joseph, Bowser of Austria sad apostolic king.
ethos we eertalaly trusted that by rise help of OM tie
greatest bleatsp meld redgmed hem it te the at=
iamb sad ell the faitWal of hie met empire.
'burger* desirous of ear joy by some Isseark-
mene,-eatt at the Temps ems of grainiag .set
nvereifo. ead Isfaly o
of penly sad mall*
tho Cisiteneddied sad altogether -stapler
beemslease with wbbh we saes; deer
rly reppil Ibis
isms smesest milikkg, therehre, follow's; the wompfes
of so predsessesse. espoisily of Urban VIII.,
VII., sad !earths* XIV.. biters
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is the mesateliambps, we have de S. Se iiis
yeas s
same etisswell' le
isniabfasil le tile mssagyi, Siemollig of
ii
oatheileinn—end Ile Holy lies, who has emu lb met
earnest slopes is ths iseassee et tbs ma
Tbb b ear manstsbie brother, Joseph Otimar
Arsithishop of Thane, oho, sorting from a . lbw
sessedhern;reellillisiegazodossksicsiludu,yiedipialdislimyedbj yule thiskaeery saodwekwlrlos biinesesirpot.
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laiirol seams sad the sethodastieal Macey of fielts=vtie,
the peas glory of kb same and the utility of kis
sad mete sad printed a highly esteemed work ~ern*
tea same soolesisstioel history.
After enumerating the suommive eoelesisetkal dig-
nities somained by the prelate in most exemplary
guise, his Holiness proceeded to the customary for-
mula: "How seams it to you ? By the authority of
Almighty God, of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul,
and our own, we creek Joseph Othmar Rancher,
Andthishop of Vienna, cardinal priest of the holy
Mama church, with the neogisery and opportune
dispesestiose. derogatioce, and alums."
The Pope than appointed peelatse to the several
vacant ssss,and next proceeded to inform his venerable
brethren that, mindful of the sapient advice of Bt.
Bernard and the dictates of the Council of Treat to
have doe regard to the maim of foreign ecclesiastics
in oonfemag the dignities of the church, he bad re-
solved to enrich their order by the promotion of three
religious, learned, and prudent men to assist in go-
verning the universal church in these troubles times
and establishing catholic unity, " which will stand
the more Anal3r, es we shall more westi show that,
in ionise:tog honours the Roman ehs
se distance of place, bat lovingly embraorenrg:
faithful of whatsoever nation as inhabitants of one
hems, where there is one consent and one and the
,tame confession of faith." His Holiness Ironton ex-
' *biting upon the merits and ecclesiastical services
of hie venerable brother Charles Rakich, Archbishop
let Meake, who, amongst other dices, held fer several
pets that of Rector of the Propaganda College. and
sasaistled the eulogy by observing that he had no doubt
that the honour In was conferring on the prelate
would be a 'object of " no alight rejoicing to oar
'very dear Son in Christ Maximilian, Ling of Bava-
ria' The praises of the Bishop of La Rochelle next
ocospied•the Pope, winding up with • compliment to
Louie Negro
And we the more willingly cell
this preleis torn place in your college, be by so
doing we are sure of doing a thing most acceptable
to oeg Very doer Boa in Christ, Louis Napalms, the
suet eghlerated and distinguished Emperor of the
French, so highly well deal-nag of amend of this
Holy Bee." Finally the Piedmootese prelate, Father
Geode, general of the "mast religions and respected
family of Saint Dominick," was liberally eulogised
and his various professorships enumerated by his
Holiness, who, however, forbore from alluding, as in
the previous three oases, to the pleasure which the
promotion would probably confer on the sovereign of
the newly:created cardinal'. native country. An
excommunicated king, like Victor Emanuel, could
not of course be described by Pio Non° as his "very
dear Son in Christ."
The Archbishop of Vienna is Afty-eight years of
age, and the Archbishop of Munich fifty-Ave. The
Bishop of La Rochelle is the oldest of the four oardi-
;mist being sixty-eight; and the youngest is the Do-
minican genera 4 who is only forty-six. The Inqui-
sition, the Dominican moisten and nunneries,
and the churches belonging to them, were all bril-
liantly illuminated is hooour of the promotion of
their superior, as were the French establishments
sad the embassy (where the new made cardinal held
a agissilid reception) in honour of the Bishop of La
llsebelle.
lossellistely after the coesiitay. Count Pietro
Ognal4 ems of the noble guards of 'his Holiness, set
oat upon the mission entrusted to him as bearer of
the scarlet cap to the Cardinal Archbishop of Vi-
sas., the only one of the four prelates who was not
present at the consistory. The other three have this
messing received their hats from the hands of the
Psp Marelf.
The Austrian archdukes have left Rome for Tes-
cony. The Archduke Ranieri and the Archduchess
Maria est oat on Saturday afternoon; and the Arch-
duke Albert, atter attending the Papal chapel on
Sunday, had a farewell audience of his Holiness, and
lift-the Eternal City for Florence on Monday, by the
way of Tern'. The Romans are laughing at the arch-
deke's complimentary speech to the captain of the
French gendarmerie, at the review on the Pinsk).
° Vora ;ma ion beau amps, illeurieur," sad his impe-
rial highness. The captain, whose detachment con-
sisted of only about fifteen-men, did not at fret eons-
prebend whether this eulogy was intended for him-
self personally, being a portly, obese man, or for his
few veteran troopers, ulna the stehduke relieved him
heath* embarreasinent by adding," Ma &tuna's
veil sea pen goombreux." Austrian prepossessions
would be naturally to favour of the gendarmerie.
Your. readers will probably sot have forgottea the
case of Edward Murray, so much dimmest in your
columns, and elsewhere, three years ago, and which
then gave subject foe repeated remonstrances from
the British government to that of his Holies's. It
will be sulkiest to meal him to mind as the Bag-
lisbman entered at Anima in 1849, charged with
being associated with known sawing and ef lupin
bees as accomplice be the ender of Geent lessino,
ter which he wee coedemsed es the piths by the
sesta tribunal of the lissestismealta, why ',stenos
wadi seetainty have bees earned into east had it
not been averted by the energetic rentondeeness of
oar immesl, Mr. Freshen, alum itaissilag to the
hafted's. of the British goverament, wit ea the
principle of wishing to save the primer, if pilty,
merely because he was a British subject, but because
1 the OW was, wording to British ideas ofj astioemoret,
inquisitorial, and unfair. The papal government was

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