The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

THE INQUISITION IN ITALY.

(PROM Ora sraciAl,

TURIN, Oct. 20.
There has for some time back bun as unet=se
ken of increased dissembles is thanks sleet
matters. The easeeirse a letheindepnetarke
creation. Men wore only of a growing reti-
cence and osptiounsss on the pan of "beilsphdves,"
daughters, and sisters, and ota tendency on the part of
the priests to hold their beads higher, and strut more
ostentatiously than they have done of late years. At
last the murder is out. The enclosed document, which
has not bees alaislly promulgated in Piedmont, has
been bully tireslated by father confessors
their female penitents. Soma person connectediaZin
the press hu got hold of it, and dragged it to light.
It has beers extensively used as an instrument toasts-1
Mash domestic espiovisage. It bears, u will be sown'
b. iow, the date of August 8, 1866, and the signature
cf the Inquisitor General.

We, la terms of the duty imposed spla us by the Holy
keratin, that the sathola faith (without whin, r wee
wraps by the Apostle Pawl to the Jim, it is impossible to
please Almighty God) be kept pars tad free of all esategke
sod berry; sad r experiens hes shows as that laessash
so away pusses, some from main, sad others fres a spirit
of disobedionn sad also maay from issuance, de art sarry
through ate strut obtlittior imposed upon them, In de-
nser t 3 the dies of the Holy lequitinon re% as do
not hail these deer great Isecanaieses sad sup
errors have rept le, sot oily hurtful to good 111111111, bat
earlier, wrest the C trolls fair. Neutrals's, we, who
esprially ban at rut ths glory of God, sad is whim is
entruned the preservation sad augmentation of the holy
faith OM the later safety of sore, is order to avert say
disorders iatetferiag with oar spostolie authority—we,
to virtue of oar power, sad of the *brass, dr
to the hay WOW, eorman—vader the purairest
of

.• do MM moromm, " bodies
ethos poise sad pentane prmeribed by the belir
elbow, dooms, sonstitatioas, sad balls of the sovereign
pontiffs, la Dumdum with tin penes* edict—alt
sad every person, whatever be hY pllilitmt mkt
employment, or dignity, be he ea mokillintif a Was..
that daring Um sisals( atestli—lim digs Say aas
allowed to the prat Saes, tea days for the amoods
for the third sad last summeas—he Worm and kipilly asAlfy
sea, sr to ear Moan, se to their respective priests, the seas
of every one of those whom they haw, or when they have
heard of, or of whom they may have knowledge that they
hs hereties, or mewed of henry, or sappoted to be mints If
heresy, or nosiven of heretics, or who dsfeed heroism, as
who have adhered or do odium to the rites of the Jews as
of llakemet, or idolaters, er who have been spondees lo the
holy cathode faith, or of Woo who hose easoseilait ent
oommatiois acts which th. j Nes, be suspected ghoul"
smiths* or certain eon/moans with the dna, or who prep
tim esath wermsastr, Indy*, or omen. or "5 4,3 dna', MOM
°for perfumes, or who Miami rite dorsi to Asir fir lA..
eroossorts or rider abet ads, or who pray to MS* aredprojer
obedience to Mos, or see in moo WV •rs which 41 yew to
the legit; or of am who ors to. (frosts fomihero," or
stir thossestres is ths peeress of 1100001•1141, or .as sal of
i.sugUwhi magle; or of those who defame eared things,
or sack se have bop hlseesd—or who, not 1,64 11 holy
Mors, have had the morilogioas audacity to usurp the
light of amisp imam, or who h toe been suspected of having
admisitts red the saseunents of absolution to the faithful
*entail' of Jethe Christ, who have abased or do
sham the soonsmat of shoolation, or !nand of that,
set matrary to the themes sad the apostolic cow
ninnies ; ee of those who have held OT do hold mast
assa mblies. where fa those amesablios words may be used to
the prejudice end contempt of the holy catholic religloo ;
or of those who have sawed, or do utter, heretical War
Odom+ words against Almighty God, the Triaity, sad the
Virgin Mary, or who have amnia with aostempt as Mom-
/peat of eel sacred images ; he of those who having taboo a
mama oath in the pro/lesion of a roligious order, as monks
whisk, if approved of by the hely thatch, Or after badger
;eyed sawed rites, have eatseed tato. at crematoria( lath or
who me attempting M same late, a osatmet of marriage; or
of those who barn the lives of their Antitheft Mks woad
wives; or of thew who while their fill hothead* is living
take a mooed, or of the.. wives who have attempts or do
attempt to have a sewed hashes& before their Ant hothead.
me deed; or of them who have impeded or who la gay
manner whatever may hoped' the salons of the Hob Us
gooillies, or who hem in say mamma whatsoever mod is
opposition to the ball of Pio V. of holy ..nosy, whisk
ball osmateness is those worth, "a do pretegesdis;" mot
the.. who have written satime,or who ham tried to both,
lath Mink the finersiga Ponta, the Holy flee, the
saparter 1111140SintIO, or the military poising, or who haws
published thy writings which may is say =Eau briar lass
mamas moor 'pp/rightist to the chards; it of thou
who, without regular pirmiaLoo graated, have fa their
peemasion writiags or engravings irlish may lead to heresy,
or lave heresies! books which month as profiles* artistes
minuet rellgioa, as who reed, petal, or tames to be prlit• ed,
or who iativdsem such books, or who, wader say pmts..*
whatsoever, keep seek hooks b their roommates ; or If these
poems who, without permission sr necessity, have masa
or have gives to eat, animal feed, ma, or mils
on the days tabloids's by the church, or hold
sash orders of the thank Is contempt; or of those
vice strap le convert say Christion to Judaism,
or to say other sect, in opposition to the holy catholic
• or who boos, direeti=ddiremly, tried to potent
Jews ow Turks from bsiag

We aloe hereby declare that La the et el above N-
ona end damson by the Holy Isepieltles, If
gay other Fran be as. ben virtually set forth mob
OM SIM be tram late couideraties, gad be Wilde Is
is pastrami by the hely MOOS, dean, tonalitadeas,
sad bale of the Holy Peale This present dean
don sot La say way abrogate theism osier' apostatised ai-
rman% sad say gran rains whisk may /moats frees lie 1
Holy Isgabide. Lad we farther dean not all those 1
whe do sot diseases is ewe way or mother, or nnal to
the, latiaisitles the saint of the delioquem, tbey then.
Men shall be ipso facie eseasmazeicated ; that although
the delay of a meta has Me greeted for each Melanins;
sod revelation, this eznemaniestion wi.l take plan, so
natter to what tine they say delay laforenisg. That mese
may peeked to plead naoratice of this pretest rain, sad
that the tame of the edict be needs kl)wa to
the wieJle meld, we busby order • a coma.d
that oath idiot be ailed la all owed plena Mai
rang to either nalgalanin or laymen; sad anther,
that me ore slimmer may peened ipotesi* of the
poem, orders, sad ea that asmat disobey, we ..messed
to a platers, hooligan% lawgathange, enintals dubs!,
paten, hotel.keepers, sad bearboseee sad all sans el
andueepere, all and every egg et then, to ban in their
penewia• • copy of the present edict, sad to place it me is
to be molly eras, is rho r primitive:am, libraries, tas-
alsee.gates sad doer, betels, beerboesee, sod &hope, wed
that sit cum Me the proper tame for reading it ta their
roopeetive clearest&

We farther, Is the kindest spirit, 'abort and idyls, all
to tabs lots ofosileretioa that the only object of the lioly
'equal sots is, as ls well knows, the glory of Ood, hhe
esalticioa of Mu holy fall., sad the s f.•y of seek
After we have thus omitted sad ccnamenCed, we
now, es had inmate, beseech all arse who have
bees psflty of say miedetareaour against the Holy inqui-
sition, that they preseat themselves before as or our v:cume,
or the prises el their pristies,freely sad of their ova sassed,
before ethers eats have aa opportstil of &nutrias, sad
&ahem with every Maturity sad humility their errors sad
their faCts. Is sub s sue, if they have sot bees before
reported :egelly to some other eeelaissCed even, we s►all
gladly missive thee late oar bowels of charity (sitcom, di
sterita), sod they will be Vested with that pecieist hada
sass sad mercy whisk appertais to the Holy luquisitioa,
sad thty will be let hee without say espouse or say
}oldie posttests'. Regarding our studio" offers u b the
geese, that all take portleelsely good ere that they baronet
the sadeeify to latredses or 1• say way facastage bed or
prohibited book., as we an deeply interested that
those loeslitiw wheels are seder oar jetisdislisa
prawns tbet purify of faith which, thanks be the
AlsOshl, prevails at this peelestaosteot, sad that so
books be mad but gush as have bees szasoloed sod passed
by the sifts of tbe Hely latisisitiou.
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Lull,. We order sad emend net so person panne
to %stews* thews orders, doers's, ocentatiose, asd p.•
tifi•el bells, ►y v\!& it k 'sprawly fabiddew to
Jews sad Christkes to ►new emelt cosaasuarkess
with nth 0......er—5s In innate ►'eepisg. eating, plgiai,
dowels, or amnia/ %behalves ',jabot; sad beaded MC
It ti a tinny to abash 1 every way km say tesalfarity and
031gdam with those ; °Aetna al sock Jaws sad C\rie•
was become Male to the psanheats so kid li4llllll the
Sall al Pope Chant the Bill. of hely sad Seas seassy.