The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

rights of others have been usurped against tier law
of nature and of God ; every law has been over.
thrown, and the bases of all temporal power and
human society have been undermined. We perceive
on one side, with the greatest grief, how useless would
be all further complaints against those who,
deaf adders, close their ears, and who do not listen
to our complaints and admonitions ; and on the
other side we feel what the cause of our Apostolic
See and the whole catholic world requires, for stig.
matising the attempts of those wicked men in order
not by tarrying to prejudice the dignity of oar
grave office. It resulted that, faithful to the
examples of our illustrious predecessors, we exer-
cise that authority which gives us the power to
'loosen and to bind, in order to employ the !leers.
nary severity against the guilty and to give a
salutary example to others.
" Having invoked the light of the Holy Spirit
in private and public prayers, and having take,, the
advice of the reverend brothers, the Cardinals of
our holy Romish church, we declare, in accord-
ance with the authority which we hold from
Almighty God and the most Holy Apostles, Peter
and Paul, and also in accordance with our own an-
thority, all those who have taken part in the emu-
ful insurrection in our provinces, in usurp-
ing, occupying, and invading them, or
in doing such deeds as we complained of
in our above-mentioned allocutions of the 20th
June and 26th September of the last year, or those
who have perpetrated some of thoneacts therneelves,
as well as those who have been their warranters,
supporters, helpers, counsellors, followers, as well
as those who connived at executing the above-men-
tioned deeds under whatever pretence, and is
whatever manner, or who perpetrated them them-
selves, to have taken on themselves the atonement
of the major excommunication, and religious
punishment as they are determined iu our apostolic
constitution, and by the decrees of the general
councils, especially that of Trent (seas. 22,
chapt. 11, on reforms), and if necessary we ex-
communicate them again, we anathemise them,
further declaring that they are to lose all privileges
and graces and indulgence which they enjoyed
until now from our Papal predecessors, and that
they cannot in any manner be released or absolved
of these censures by any one except ourselves, or the
Romish Pontiff then reigning, except at the moment
of death, but not in the event of their recovery
when they are again subject to the above punish.
ment, and are unable to receive any abso-
lution until they have retracted, revoked,
annulled, and abolished in public all they
have committed, and have brought every-
thing back fully and effectively to its former
state, and have given complete satisfaction to the
Papal power. Therefore, all those who in the
remotest manner have participated in those deeds,
and also the successors in their offices, are liable to
such revocation, retraction, abrogation, and aboli-
tion of the above-mentioned sins, to do so pets
smelly, in reality, and in truth, and to give the
full satisfaction they owe to the Holy See, and
under no pretence to be released and freed, but to
always remain bound by it until they are worthy to
obtain the benefit of absolution ; thus we declare
by the present letter.
" But in being obliged by sad necessity to fulfil
this part of our duty we do not forget that we
represent Him on earth 'who wishes not the death
of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted
and live, for He came into the world to seek and
to save those who die.' Therefore, in fervent
prayer we implore and we ask unceasingly,
in the meekness of our heart, the mercy
of the Almighty to enlighten by the light
of His holy grace, and by His Almighty
virtue to lead back to the path of 'salva-
tion all those against whom we have been
obliged to employ the severity of the religious pu-
nishments. Herewith, by this letter and all its
contents, and all that has been said above, we
order all who have participated in any way or in
any manner, of whatever rack, dignity, or class
they may be, or whether they are individually
mentioned or not, for whose sake the present
letter has been written, and who are not
sufficiently designated, or who for any reason
or pretence whatever should doubt the signature or
the value of this letter, or who should
be brought before indices said should appeal
against it, or who should ask for grace, that this
document is, and shall always remain and be con-
sidered valid, and shall be invariably and Mem-
testably observed by those to whom it refers, they
shall be responsible before every judge or deputy,
also before the auditors (auditures) of the apostolic
palace, and before the cardinals of the Holy
Roman Empire, and before the ad Were kgatutx
and nuncios of the See, and before all
who possess or will possess similar power ;
and they shall be deprived of all faculty
and authority of judging or interpreting, and that
if they do, it shall be declared invalid. As the pre-
sent letter, as is well known, cannot be safely pub-
lished everywhere, and especially in such places
where it would be most required, we will that this
letter, or copies of it, shall be posted on the doors of
the Lateran Church, on those of the Church of the
Prince of the Apostles (basilica Prinripie dposto-
loritm), on those of the apostolic chancery and
general curia (eerie eenerafis), in Monte eitntorie,
and at the corner of the field of Flora of the city,
(in nrie eampi Florae de tube), as is usual, and the
so posted and published letters, aud each of these
letters shall have the same power upon every cue
whom it concerns as if they had been presented
tiomioctint and personaliter. We order that trans-
lations as well as copies of the printed letters shall
be signed by some public notary, and sealed by
some person who holds an ecclesiastic
their testimony shall be receivable in every place
and in every country, as well in courts of justice as
in any other place ; they shall be as valid as if they
were presented and delivered personally.

" Dated at Saint Peter, Rome, under the ring
of the fishers, 26th day of March, 1660, in the 14th
year of our popedum.

(MO

"PIUS P. P. IX.

" In the year of Our Lord. 1890, Indict. 111.,
the 29th day of March, the 14th year of the pole`
don, of our Most Holy Lord and Father in Christ,
Flue the Ninth, the present Apostolic Letter Iras
published, and affixed to the doom of the Lateran
and Vatican Churches, the Apostolic Chancery.
the Great Church of Inuocencia, aml at the top .4
the field of Flora, by me, _

" ALOYN SERAFINO, AIN rAtolical CurMrc
" Pgiurrtis OssAra, Cur r•"

Isoar.Aing or life TURKIIIII ARMY.—Iu Viet' of
the asiettled 'date of western politics. mid of the 10,41.
lectionary aspect of affairs in Bervia in particular, the
Porte has decided on raising an additional eorpa itardk
of 40,000 men. Thia new force will be recruited horn the
redifs of Roumelia and Anatolia, mid portly from the ganiwo
of the capital and the imperial guard. It head immure
will be at Shumla, under the command of b.inail racil, and
brigade* will be poste,' along the frontier—with a
strong one at Nich. When strengthened by this new
force, the army of Roumelia will number upwanlo of
70,000 effective troops.—L:rant ?braid.