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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13.

Tiivr pour old body, the German Diet, only just
raised from what was thought to he its death-bed,
and replaced in its easy chair to mumble once more
over its. protocols, has been thrown into eons ulsions
by a note of Lord PALMERSTON'S. His lordship, it is
kris:;, caused Mr. GLADSTONE'S pamphlet on
the doings of the King of NArtEs to be
printed in the usual official form, and forwarded to
the several diplomatic agents of England; and they
were ordered to lay • copy of the pamphlet v. ith a
note before the government to which each was accre-
dited. Mr. Gt. eusroteel shot at absolutism was cer-
tainly hold and well-aimed, but what tipped the
point of his arrows with poison was, that they
came inscribed with the name and the sanction of
Lord ANERDEEN. It was no doubt because of their
being tory missiles, bearing the official stamp of
ADLIWEEN. that Lord PALMER,TON has taken such
nrilieints pleasure in firing them from his own offi-
cial bow into all the courts of absolutism, and all
the old dens of continental diplomacy. We
wonder bow the Gladstonian epistle has been re-
ceived at St. Petersburg, and what length of logical
bitterness Count NES,ELEDDE will indulge in an-
swering it.
Lord Cowttr's presentation of the letter to
Loral AUERDLEN came before the German Diet
on the Moth ult. The note of Lord Patstrne-
sroN, which accompanied them, besought the
Bred Serene Diet ;the epithet becomes singularly in-
npplicaldr: at the moment) to take colmisance of certain
nets of barkrion in the south of Europe. As it once
was inclined to exert itself on behalf of the African
slaves, the Diet was now begged to employ its good
offices in favour of the victims of Neapolitan cruelty.
'I he President of the Diet, Count 'I HUN, who has
the reputation of being the most bigotted and zealous
Homan catholic in Europe, denounced the heresy of
WA:tense-test send Cord Patnresrux with the unc-
tion of a Grand Inquisitor. He maintained that
to criticise the criminal justice of other coun-
tries is a most flagrant breach of the
rights of n:!I ions. The King of NAPLEs
thought fit to imprison some thousands of his sub•
jerk for the crime of constitutionalism. In Austria,
Faxony, and in Haden, the German governments
Lad nut indeed imprisoned people for the same crime,
but had shut them after a summary trial by court
martial. If the King of NAI'LLY had sworn
to the constitution which he imprisoned and
tortured his subjects and his es-ministers for
cc :staining true to, the kings of Germany had also
swore to that German constitution which they after-
wards shut their subjects for defending. The ease of
Ge;anan princes was therefore as Lad, if not worse,
than the case of his Majesty of NAPLE,. If English
statesmen interfered with the one, they might equally
ai;athematist the other. And if no, what was to
become of kingly freedom and independence?
'the Prussian envoy to the Diet haring, of course,
said ditto to his master the Austrian, it was agreed
v.'s. cm. that Count Tiers; should be empowered to
mid a lecture to Lord Petum:sroN. The lecture
was to be conflictd as follows:

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Th.it thi nn 'tie Diet twine tAken tagnirtnee of the

unte—tithe 1:66 .h government, its -clalimb a
ot a 10. rot unusual nature ; that It aisockrree
rites which gene rally regulated dtplomary, no go-
vernment ever having done such a thing; and that
the Diet would not do what was asked, or make
may r, presentation t.. the Neapolitan government, especially
ilrealOW by thus mt dating with the Internal alfairs or a
for... and an independent government, it would authorise
the interfer, nee in the affairs of the Confederation of cer-
tain cabinets. whose intervention the Diet was determined
to r, pudiate. whatever their pretensions. For this reason
the Diet repudiated and reproved the slip which Lori
l'almerston proposed to it in the name of the British
government.
After all, we think that Lord I'ALMERATIIN will
oililirt• the ponderous blow her. aimed at him by the
• German 1/ht ; the more so, as the I diet cheese to make
France a party and an ally toEnglish interference; for
tliis is the moaning of the wads certain cabinets."
Thus the sapient Count in parrying a blow
from the English secretary, hits the French minister
a blow upon the shins. This is in the highest degree
edify rig and amusing.
e cannot touch upon the sub;eet of the outrages
offend by the Neapolitan government to humanity,
without pointing out the ulole article on the subject
whit h appears in the new number of the Edialairo
Re, :rm. The evidence which it adduces is most
fall with regard to Poyetto and SETTi SinitlNl. and
must. we think, put the Times to shame. Thu Times
took for gospel the assertions of the Neapolitan go-
vcrnment.that Mr. 0 I...instt t. had committed a great
error iu calculating the prisoners at twenty
thousand, when there were but two thousand
and old in prison to meet their trial. The
Ediarmryh Iterien- exposes the barefaced trick of
this assertion, mendacious on the face of it, though
so coolly admitted as true by the Times. That
journal also assumed, on the credit of police
evidence solely, that the- existence of the society of
tin:Unita /toliocor was proved, and that l'oEmowati a
member of it. The ZlMlmegh Rerime concludes' ns
did the Daily Ai era. that such a society neverexisted.
The reviewer might have strengthened that
opinion by showing that the acensations
against Pomo° and the I"Mht Itationa were
fur having brought about the insurrection of the
lath May, an insurrection of the KING'S provoking,
and most certainly the result of no conspiracy, and
of no association, beyond that of a universally in-
dignant people. But the reviewer, like Mr. GLAD-
srt,N v. molds the historical and political proofs of
what he advances, in order to spare the KING per-
lonally,and throw the fault on his minister. As if the
constitutional fiction held in the kingdom of Naples,
where it is unfortunately but too evident that the
monarch'spersonal duplicity and cruelty are to be
charged with the whole mass of crime,mendacity and
horror.

Tit tr the claims of meddling and ambitious pre-
lates. like the primates of Sardinia and Savoy, to
the favourable notice of a certain portion of the tng-
fish public. should be urged by Cardinal \YrsEnv;
and Dr. CULLEN, and their organs of the press, is
natural enough. The Archbishop of TVRIN denies
the temporal Jurisdiction of the crown over the lives
and fortunes of the clergy. and excommunicates all
who assert it. The Archbishop of CAGLIARI backs
Lis brother prelate in the same pretensions, and
menaces au interdict, as the surest way to
stir up the superstitious and brutal popillace
of his province against the law. %o won-
der. therefore, these excellent and amiable
personages should be amongst those whom the
orions of WiSEMAN :Ind of Cr LLEN delight to honour.
eek after week their praises with those of the
devout King of NTart.ns and his confessors, and
many another calf of questionable metal are sounded
forth. and Israel is bidden to the worship. All this
is very remarkable, yet natural, and needs no expla-
nat _ _

'that the very different example of another Ito-
mini tatholie metropolitan and a much nearer neigh-
bour of ours.—the Archbishop of PAItIA —should at
the same time hare altogether escaped their notice
is a fact not less remarkable, and quite u compre-
hensible withal. as the first. _ _ .

hlgr. SIBOVIi. the present Archbishop of Paris.
laid the bCC of I)igne at the time when, be the I
death of his immediate predecessor. Mgr. ArrnE,
who fell at the barricades of June. ISIS. the archi-
episcopal see became vacant. '1 he piety, zeal, and
capacity of the Bishop of DIGNE pointed him out as
the fitting successor of that lamented primate, and,
to his astonishment—for, as he tells us. he believed
hiniselt to be " profoundly unknown to men in
lower"—Mgr. Sworn, upon the recommendation of
General Cay.ttuN.te's government, found himself
preferred to the high dignity of metropoLtan of
France. In his first pastoral to his arebdiocese,l
dated the 9th of October, laiv, he thanks
(Jou that the wealth, the pomp, the worldly
power, the luxury, and all the false and
borrowed brilliancy-which once belonged to the
dignity of Archbishop of P.m., have successively
disappeared iii the :wig course of political tempests.' ,
lie proclaims " his unalterable faith in the final

triumph of freedom." lie congratidates hie church
on her alliance with a free state, and dealer's his
confidence in " the support she has acquired from a
government tempered in the fire of revolutions."
Three years have gassed away, and still we see
this excellent and loWly-minded prelate faithfully
and steadfastly adhering to those honourable ante-
cedents, in a country where apostasy from liberal
principle appears at present to be the rule, and
fidelity the exception. When the renegade MON-
TALEMSEKT and Lthe bigots of the part;
protre were hailing with savage delight the
triumphs of It lie-ail, the Archbishop of PARIS
was nobly endeavouring to awaken the French mind
to a sense of the injustice which threatened Venice,
and the disgrace which would redound to France
from her abandonment of that heroic republic.
When Dr. ect.t.e.s was electrifying the Irish world
with his Roman fulminations against freedom of
opinion and publication, and the Roman world with his
diatribes, against GALILEO and COPERNICUS, the pri-
mate of France was sedulously labouring to persuade
his clergy of their own necessities iu matter of science,
I oftheinjusticeandabsurdityof thoseantiquated appre-
hensions w hich had made them unlearned, and had so
long kept them so—of the intellectual advantages
which that great constitutional privilege, a free press,
brings in its train ; and of the social calamities which
flow from ignorance. When the synod of Thurles was
putting down the secular education of the laity in
Ireland, the Archbishop of PARTS was secularising the
education of his own ecclesiastical students. When
Cardinal WISEMAN and the papal bishops were
monopolising the management, confiscating the
funds, and breaking the limitations of charities in
England, the Archbishop of PARIS was organising (in
concert with his clergy and the laity), a general
scheme of charitable administration, of which they
alone were to be the managers, insomuch that "no
one shall ear, or think, that we administer at our
discretion the funds of the diocese ; for we love
better to be your pastor than your administrator;
and it is your spiritual government which particu-
larly regards us.' When the same cardinal was
framing measures, such as his own Motu Proprio
and that of the l'ore, for taking out
of the hands of the clergy the little share they had
in the government of themselves and the church of
which they were ministers, the Archbishop of PARIS
was giving an increased action to the presbyterian
clement in his province of the church, and telling the
world that " the ecclesiastical government is essen-
tially constitutional." When the same Cardinal, in
fine, and the prelates who follow him were by every-
possible means coercing. their clergy into obedience
to their tyranny, and intriguing to obtain new powers
from Rome for maintaining it, the Archbishop of
PARIS was taking measures for giving more freedom
to the clergy of France, and fur securing to them a
species of trial by jury, in place of the summary
jurisdiction, in canonical cases, which the Cuncordat
of 1801 had conferred upon himself and his suf-
fragans ; " for the honour of the priests ought to be
respected as the honour of other citizens: they ought
not to be at the mercy of a single and sovereign will,
and that ono very susceptible of evil counsel; when
the episcopal authority ceases to be liable to the
charge of caprice and tyranny, it will gain in respect
—it will gain, above all, in affection." And, not to mul-
tiply instances, when Dr. ULLATIIORNE was pledging
himself to exasperate his protestant townsmen and to
disturb the peace of Birmingham by the needless
assumption of titles and powers, vain and worthless,
uo doubt, in themselves, but important in the eyes
of the law, which was defied, and of the QUEEN and
people, who were insulted by the assumption—when
his priestly ally, Dr. CAIIILL, was threatening the
protestants of these isles with the imaginary dangers
of invasion from France, and recounting with delight
his distempered visions of bayonets reeking red
with English blood ;" and when that most approved
and cherished organ of episcopal opinion, the Tablet,
was putting forward its unblushing " plea for per-
jury" (we quote its own words), and showing the
way to impunity through the prevarications of the
jury-box, at that very time the Archbishop of PARIS
was inculcating amongst his clergy and his people,
with all the emphasis of his high authority, doctrines
of law and order, doctrines of peace and goodwill,
doctrines as opposite to those of the ungrateful and
disloyal fanatics whom we have named as the heaven
which inspired his pen is to their source of inspira-
tion.

We need not give instances. Evidently Mgr. &DOUR
is not one of the Wisottx and CULLEN school ; and
the silence of its champions is at once explained.
Their favourites of the French church are prelates
like the Bishops ofAirrnES and Le, us. %%ien
the former prelate read the decree of the Council of
Paris against sacerdotal internicddling with elec-
tions, and the noble pastoral from which the above
extracts arc taken of the Archbishop of Ruffs,
through whose influence the council was induced to
adopt it, "his lordship," shrugging his shoulders and
elevating to heaven his eyebrows, exclaimed, "If
they take away our politics what shall we have left
as'" The Bishop of LUCON, as we learn from the
ruirers, has been pastoralising also, but in a very
different sense from the Archbishop of PARIS. Ms
pastoral, which appeared on the ith inst. in the
columns of that godly journal, must have been the
very thing for the cardinalitcs. It condemns
W.itvitskSeutt's:works without exception, to the in-
' dex. It does the same by CIItTEACHRTAND, and the
"Arabian Nights" and " Don Quixote." The first was
condemned as a protestant; the second as an insuffi-
cient catholic; the third as no Christian; the fourth
' as being of no religion at all. One unhappy writer
of school books is condemned because he cites

" ariLor and TIIIERRY;" another because he
blames "the massacres of Saint Bartholomew," and
thinks that they were caused by " religious fano-
ticistu." But first of all, and more than all, it con-
demns "that irreligious journal La Prem." The
number of its ahontp,s is deplorable; but they are
becoming and shall become less —no priest must
subscribe to it. No priest must be seen with it. No
Ipriest must " ordinarily" read it ! Let every priest
become the ahottnel of some one catholic print, like
, the lisircrs, and stick to that. Such is the mandate
lof the Bishop of Luco,r.
What says the Archbishop of PARts ? Alas!
quite the contrary. The three following paragraphs
are extracted from as many different pastorals of the
same prelate, viz., those of the Bth June, 1851, the
13th January,lB:ll, and the 21th August, 18,30.
Is there on earth anything more excellent than religion t
and eon wo find anything more fatal than superstition and
fisoatieisat
We would therefore advise the priest who denim to keep
his mind free from exaggeration, and to remain superior to
contrary opinions, in judging them with impartiality and
41,114i:tare—him we would advise to read with great pre-
caution the public prints. The .0%111146—we speak gene-
rally—are dogmatic, sweeping, severe. They are exag-
gerated and exclusive—pushing to extremes in the interest
of tlyL hour. They see nothing good but on their own
system, they tolerate only their own opinion, and they
neither accept nor appreciate what does not relate to that.
If it be so, may dear fellow-labourers, that you would devote
some part of time—so precious to the priest—to the study of
the newspapers—and it is, perhaps, one of your duties,
were it only to keep you informed of the distary of your
comitry, and of the world—do not attach yourselves sla
vishly to the word of the journal which you have adopted,
if you would not become almost imperceptibly, and some-
times even in spite of yourselves, CARTY•AIT:S. 111 what
you tied there accept all that is true, just, noble, and gene-
rous, and repel, as the religion whose ministers you are re-
pels, all that is passionate, rancorous, and exclusive. Sec
their opinions yourselves, each in its true light ; not as die-
figured, by opponents, but such as they are exposed to you
by their authors. Listen seriously mad with sincerity to
those who are not of your opinion ; and then you, who
sometimes are so unjust to your adversaries. so harsh to
those who have not your nuance of seeing things ; even
you wits end by believing that a man may be of good faith,
and an honest men, and yet not think as you do !
We warn you not to confound two things ESACITIALLT
utertessr—the catholic press and Me teaching of the
church. Unfortunately, that press in pretending to be ca-
tholic, even more so than the bishops, not only holds itself
out as the organ and prop of the church, but it confounds
itself a ith the church, by abusing, so far as it can, Cranks oi-
ni..n of the public; and thus drautne her into its it
compromises her in the eyes of many ; scandalises a great
number of the faithful; and, by its violence', so opposed
charity, drives trim her bosom a large body of her chil-
-1 deem, I.st, blinded, or indifferent ; or only opposed to Yeti-
, gion so far as men have mingled there of frailty or passion.
And, after all this, they boast still of being devoted to Mi..
goon, and teach others every day, in the columns of the
Uosrers,
I further titan, we sce it to-day. The religious press
teaches and governs in the church. Misled by their in-
' discreet ardour of dogmatising, they habitually ex-
aggs rate and falsify everything—affirming as truths
iscontestible opinions the most questionable, confounding
wh.,t is essential to church government with what is sem-
i dental, int. riveting, after their manner, Is ithout the
bishops, and sometimes in their teeth, acts emanating di-
rectly or indirectly from the Holy See, casting ridicule,
disfavour, and odium—often even the suspicion of schism
and heresy—on the opinions and sentiments of all who do
not agree with them, and exercisia.: a kind of tvranny over
the clergy, and a sort of moral violence over the bishops.