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London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

the holy altar to be wed, no corpse cleseend with bkasing to
the grave.
Bat the Conseil of Tea decree ofierawbe. AU mai
every one of the foregeiffis rites shall be sisrairmed as wank
under strict paisley.- The pearls* slaw of the mobile
ars but too happy of ties peelleable illng-tits papal inherits*
to the winds. One say data was Mind with deed
doors. The Council of Tali orders a galleys te be NOMA
before the meted paresis, wlikk ere observed to be sees
open The head Plairrially et l'ailus in the laud lima=
0 the republic, having esseked artless to forward to the
Senate any despatch he adobe rect4ve how Bane,
that he would set as Ss Hely Ghost toad bispir•lV
He got for answer, that the Holy Spirit had already is,
spired the Council of Ten is bang the Ant who disobeyed
the orders of the commonweelth. _ _ .

Paul V., under these circumstances, had the incredible I
folly to match all hie disposable troops to the Venetian I
frontier, and got together a quatlty of artillery at Fulani.
It is true that weilerimail /pie, which had some crow to I
pluck with Venloe. ea ON weak pontiff to this display /
of imbecility, just as aistrlit at the present moment might
be prompting and abstales Pie Nono against Piedmont.
But in each case at tie decisive moment the temporal 1
powers chose to back out of the business. The war was, 1
however, carried on by pamphleteers on both aides. Beller-
mine was ordered to wield his ponderous pen on behalf of 1
the absurd doings of the papacy. The "blue books" he 1
pat forth are quite laughable when react at the present day '
under the glare of international jurisprudence. But the
serene republic had a champion unrivalled in dialectics,
in civil and canon law, as in manly independence. Tho
vigorous mind of Fro Paulo was exerted in the cause of his
country, and ho pulverised to atoms the pretensions of the
Roman court, just as the wigged lion of St. Mark was ready
to trample into the dust the papal soldiery, should they
venture to violate the Venetian territory.
Tho affair ended by the tiara drawing in its home and
taking off the interdict.
Fro Paulo's history of the Council of Trent is a com-
plete exposure of that packed and partial aesembly. So
formidable was he considered to papal interests that he
was deemed worth assassinating at any cost, and was in-
debted to Bellarmine for a friendly caution on one occasion.
But the emissaries of the Vatican took another opportunity ;
and on the sth October 1607, not far from his residence,
ho was waylaid by five assassins, and received several
wounds, being left for dead, with a stiletto imbedded in his
jaw. The senate summoned from Padua Fabricius Aqua-
pefidente, the tint surgeon in Italy, to attend on him ; and
: when he died, in 1623, public mourning was ordered
throughout the-Venetian dominions. it is known that he
had formed a party of more than three hundred patricians
of Venice for the introduction of the reformed faith into
that great Italian commonwealth, which was quite ripe for
its reception.
One more extract and we have done. It refers to

ANTONIO DE DONINIS.

Dorn in 1566, in an island off the coast of Dalmatia,
of a family which produced a pope and many cardinals, he
studied among the Jesuits of Loretto, stnd graduated at
the University of Padua. He wax promoted to the bishopric
of Segni by the Emperor Rudolph. and subsequently to the
archiepiscopal gee o 1 Spalatro, the old palace of Diocletian,
in Dalmatia, in which archdiocese he proceeded to introduce
many salutary, reforms. the outrageous conduct of the
Pope in the eactian business just referred to opened his
eyes still further to the untenable position of Roman usurpa-
tions; whereupon he resigned his metre, and retired into
Switzerland, and shortly afterwards to Heidelberg and Eng-
land, where he was made Dean of Windsor by James the
First.

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Ile wrote in this country his work, "De Republica
Christiana," demonstrating the inadmissibility of the papal
claim to monopolise in one person the whole episcopacy,
and utterly annihilate the independence of Christian
bishops throughout the world. Assured by the Spanish
ambassador of the desire which Gregory XV. had to wel-
come him back to Italy, and desirous of revisiting a more
genial climate, he returned to Rome, where his letters to his
friends in England were violated, and he was treacherously
thrown into the Castle of St. Angelo, occupying the same
dungeon in that fortress lately tenanted by Dr. Achilli,
where he died from harsh treatment and torture in the
=2l. Not content with this bitur revenge, the
Inquisition arraigned Win before their dark tri-
bunal after his death, pronounced him guilty of heresy,
mad, ordering his bones to lie exhumed, proceeded to re-
enact the dismal doings adopted in the previous cases of
Arnaldo and Savonarola, and reduced washes in the Campo
di Fiore the inanimate remains of their antagonist. Ile
was a man not only of great theological acquirements, but
conversant with all the various branches of physical science,
and wrote early in life the remarkable treatise, De Radiis
Lucia in Vitra* l'erspeetiois a hide, 4W., Venice, 1611, in
which, for the first time, the discovery of the real nature
of the rainbow was propounded ; and Newton pays homage
to this great Italian reformer as a natural experimentalist
and reasoner of the first order
Those who wish for more should refer to the work
itself, which may be most strongly commended to
all enemies of papal aggression—to all foes of priestly
intolerunce. But, before leaving the subject, wo
must make room for a graphic sketch of Oavazzi
himself. "The Padre entered, says a writer in the
Sodtialk Press," and we were startled to find him
received with loud cheers. He was dressed in the
double robe of his order—a close frock reaching to
his heels, on the breast of which was a large em-
broidered cross, while a medal was suspended from
his breast. Over the frock he wore a loose gown, on
the left shoulder of which was another cross. He is
a swarthy Italian, aged about fifty, with hair as black
as a ravens wing, with an eye like au eagle's! But
how shall 1 describe his sermon-oration ! He sat
down on a chair placed towards the one side of the
platform, and commenced calmly and deliberately to
'enunciate his sentences. Anon the fire began to burn,
and he rose to his feet. By and by lie paced the plat-
form rapidly. 116 blood was now careering through
his veins ; and as he poured his withering scorn on
!tome, on its purgatory, its cunning, its cruelty, its
lies, the impressiveness of his action, and the lire of
his denunciation, were truly sublime. Talk of grace,
of grandeur, of earnestness, of fervid eloquence. The
man who has only seen the comparative staidness of
pulpit oratory in Scotland, and much more in Eng-
land, can form no conception of the molten torrent
which rushed from Gavarzi's lips, while his action
was beautiful and chaste beyond conception. When,
ever and anon, ho reached a climax, and every eye
was riveted, and every car greedy of each word, the
excitability of his audience prevented them from
listening in quietness, and they completely drowned
his perorations amid their irrepressible bravos and
shouts ; and as he likened protestant England, its
free institutions and its religious liberty, to the Crys-
tal Palace, which let in light at every point, with
Rome bolting and barring its gates, the laughter
and shouts of his excited audience showed how
thoroughly they appreciated the illustration, and
adopted the sentiment. Gavarri's oratory is not
merely the most wonderful that I ever listened to,
but exceeds all that any imagination ever pictured.
If Luther preached like this man, no wonder that
he revolutionised Europe r

Manton and Cafar ; or the
_Tav Races. A Tale. Simpkin,

Mar.h.dl and Co.

The two races who figure in this work and come
into continual contact, are the descendants of Cain
and the offspring of AbeL Those of Cain arc of
course the bad genii of the story—those of Abel its
redeeming angels. The story is supposed to be told
by Cain ; and professes to be neither more nor less
than some of his experiences after his doom. The
author pretends to deal largely with human pas-
sions—to touch the springs of human emotion with
the muterhand of a philosophic poet—and to im-
press on his readers' minds a particular part of the
Bible by means of a story. To assort that a keen
poetic insight and a profound philosophy have been
expended upon Hanson and Cater, and, therefore,
that the author is justified in the assumption of so
grand and sacred a theme, would be to overestimate
his capacities. There is little poetry in the book
nothing grand and fur:king—none of tho require-
ments of sacred scenery or action. Yet there is grace,
and there is a tact in writing. Perhaps a striving
after effect, in short, spasmodic sentences; but alto-
gether the book is amusing, and the story is well
put together. Developments of love are given here
to satisfy the craving of sentimentalists—but the
heroines arc in the mould of the nineteenth century
—and Hanson might just as fitly be called Sir Row-
land Kalydor, Bart. All the accessories arc studied;
but the actors never allow you to forget that
they are acting. Formon's palace is broadly
painted—but Formon himself is a personage who
has figured span many a scene. There is even the
comic man of the drama, one Gondan—who, at
Formon's banquet, sings some comic verses of indif-
ferent humour; there. arc also other verses of an

amatory nature profusely scattered about the volume
—stray leaves, we suspect, from the author's ..rt-
folio. *With these drawbacks, however, the ...k
may pass as an interesting story ; but as a philo-
sophic and poetic romance it has no value, and we
should strongly advise the author, when he is called
upon to prepare a second edition for the press, to
withdraw Cain from the position of a showman, in
which he now stands, crying at the conclusion of any
paragraph—" Alas! alas! I am falling !"
As a specimen of the conduct of the story we ex-
tract the description of

roarox's sexcwrr.

The hall It as worthy of Forman's inasmiiimet palate. It
was of vast length anti height, but it same& even new
than it really was. The pilLan which supported the ma