The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY. MABC,I:f Si.

A now= narrative has reached this country
from the western coast of the Adriatic. A number
of unoffending people, not fewer than four. and,
according to some accounts, as many se twelve,
have lost their lives in a savage weal* made in
the name of the religion of peace. At Barletta, a
Neapolitan town of 23,000 inhabitants, about 33
miles from Bari, GO or 70 Italians have been
accustomed for some time past to meet for religious
worship and instruction, under the guidance of
Pastor METRE. No other charge is made against
them ; nor in the eyes of many of their neighbours
could it be possible to imagine a more heinous
crime, constituting as it did a breach of the Catho-
lic unity, and an impiety which might well draw the
wrath of Heaven upon the town and neighbour-
hood. These poor people were denounced for a
long time before they were attacked. During the
whole winter the priests thundered against them
from the pulpit, declaring them to be pests and
plagues. Their appeals at length produced just
such a state of mind as might have been expected ;
a crisis approached, and on Sunday week last the
authorities were warned that " something was
" about to happen to the Protestants." The next
day, Monday, was dedicated to the memory of a
brave and good man, who in his day did what was
right and noble notwithstanding the priesthood—
St. JOSEPH of Arimathea. On that day, a priest
named RUGGIERO POSTIGLIONE, described ease/MOO,
stimulated his hearers against the heretics, and
as soon as his discourse was over a large multi-
tude appeared in the streets, cheering for the POPE,
and devoting the Protestants to perdition. They
attacked the latter with sticks, and set fire to the
house where they assembled. The Italian papers
state that three persons were burned on a pile
formed of their own household goods. This is too
horrible to believe without confirmation ; it is
sufficiently sad to know on the best evidence
that several persons died the victims of fanatical
hatred, and that a very large number were severely
injured. The local authorities appear to have
behaved with great pusillanimity, even if their pre-
judices did not make them passive accomplices in
these foul deeds. The National Guard declined to
go out on the side of the law against their infu-
riated neighbours. A handful of custom house
guards—Barletta being a seaport--met the mob,
drove them back, and arrested one of their leaders
as he was hounding them on with a crucifix in his
band. Soldiers subsequently arrived from Trail',
and charged the fanatics with fixed bayonets,
but encountered a fierce resistance, and had
many wounded. Ultimately they prevailed ; and
the priest who stirred up the mob and sixty-four
others, including some monks, are in custody, and
will be brought to trial.
Such a narrative as this powerfully brings home
to us the identity of human character in ages
widely separated from one another, and the per-
sistence with which its types are maintained, in
spite of the revolutions of time. In reading it
we seem to be carried back to the thirteenth cen-
tury, to the days when Popes proclaimed a gene-
ral crusade against heresy, and authorised
the people to supply by outrage their
Prince's lack of zeal. Roomy.° Parrtorsonz, of
Barletta, is the legitimate suoeesaor of ROBIRT the
Pitaacaaa, the Halloo Hareticorum of Marrirzw
PARIS. ft is of COMBO impourible that Pope Pius
can regard acts such as these, worthier of INNO-
CENT 111. than of his own mild character, other-
wise than with disapprobation and sorrow. Bat
it is another question whether they are not just
such consequences as might have been expected
to flow from some of his most formal
teachings. IWe cannot forget that the POPE
has expressly taught by his allocutions and pas-
toral letters, and especially by his latest Ency-
clical, that "the civil ruler has been invested
" with authority from GOD to punish offences
" against Catholicism simply as inch ; that there is
" nothing intrinsically unjust in restrening all
" non-Catholics by material force from the profs.-
" lion and practice of those various religions which
" they sincerely regard as true ; and that liberty
"of worship conduces to moral corruption."
(Dublin Revitto, April, 1865.)
We do not say that these doctrines expressly
warrant acts like those which have just occurred at
Barletta ; we do not say that the Pore does not
authorise the inculcation of other principles which,
if allowed their full weight in a complete system of
Catholic ethics, might not in some measure pre-
vent or restrain them. Bat see how the denial of
gm eight to religions freedom works. The cen-
sures which the Pori has pronounced in special
all3cutions against the Governments of New Grre-