The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-03 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.

Tin POPE has come forth from the ecclesias-
tical barricades behind which he has been peeping
so timidly and so long, to take a fuller view of
those powers of this world which in Italy have of
late years molested his ancient solitary reign. He
very recently surprised Catholic Christendom by
making the first direct move towards reconciliation
with the Government of the King of ITALY, and a
Minister of that Sovereign has just been at Rome
settling the terms of a compact between Vieroa
EMMANUEL and the Holy See. For the last fifteen
years every alternate Bull, Allocution, or Ency•
clical Letter issued by the POPE has been a denun-
ciation of the "Sub-alpine Government." Five
years ago this spring the SOVEREIGN PONTIFF
announced by Apostolic Letter that after having
implored celestial aid and taken counsel of
a special congregation of Cardinals, he excommuni-
cated and anathematized by his own authority and
that of the Holy Apostles Prren and PAUL, all
who had taken part in the annexation of Umbria
and the Marches, with the R magus, to the King-
dom of Italy, cutting them off from all graces and
indulgences, and forbidding the priesthood to give
absolution to any of them before penance suffered
and restitution made. There never was any
doubt that this formidable spiritual sentence was
aimed at King Vicron EmmaNnin, among others,
as being one of the procurers, instigators, abettors,
and adherents of the measure condemned. And
it is to this excommunicated and anathematized
monarch that the POPE has just written in terms
which, if our Catholic contemporaries are correctly
informed, express the native and habitual kindness
of his heart rather than the ecclesiaatical rancour,
which fill so large a place in the official acts of
his reign. The Pore is said to have addressed
the Kixo in the language of paternal tenderness,
and to have appealed to his religious sentiment.,
which, it now appears, have long been known to
the HOLY FATHER.
The object which the Pors has had in view
in making this advance is a very limited one. He
has sought in it the means of filling
up a number of sees which remain
vacant in consequence of the estrangement be-
tween the two Governments. The deplorable
evils which the POPE sees in this state of things
would hardly be perceived by an ordinary observer.
The Italian dioceses get on very well at present
under the administration of the Cathedral Chap-
ters, and even while so many sees are vacantthere
are more bishops in Italy in proportion to the popu-
lation than in any other country in Europe. How-
ever, the King of ITALY has not pretended to be
impressed by the spirituel destitution which so affects
the POPE ; he has merely sought an opportunity to
show himself obliging, and to re-establish friendly
relations with a neighbour whom he is
not permitted to strike and turn out of doors. M.
Vuezzi appears to have been instructed by his
Government to show himself extremely em-
planing at Rome. Indeed, looking at the pre-
tensions which have been so frequently put for-
ward on behalf of the civil power, we might my
that the HOLY FATHER had in this case got by far
the better bargain. The bishops appointed by