The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

the Pope in Rome with extraordinary demon...
dons of joy, in order to let Europe see that the Poe,
title* subjects are well satisfied But his manimera
are attended with little success, and his star app..
about to decline. It is as well you should know by
what artifices that empurpled minister has kept his.
self in power, and you may thence derive arm.r
criterion to judge of the disposition and ways of the
papal government. Antonelli is a man of eked.
knowledge, and particularly ignorant of theology:
but in natural ability, wariness,and dissimulationha
has no superior. He has had more than ord..,
experience in business, and his address, though out
very elegant, has something about it persuasive an
seducing. He laid the foundation of his power by
the muted proprio which allotted the differeal
Ministries of State. Thenceforth, while appearing to
leave tomb tribunal its own proper authority,hemeao
the Secretary of State (namely, himself) the hid
and master of all. All his endeavours were, there.
fore, applied by distributing favours, appointment,
privileges, gifts and promises, to create for himsrle
large and devoted set of clients. His next artifice
has been that of transforming himself like a chime.
leon from one character to another, to suit the pike
and occasion, which he has done in such a manner.
to be detect.* by few. He makes those foreign an.
baseadors believe, who have any scent of liberal..
about them, that but for him the elem.;
reaction would raise its head again, accompasiay
with blind fanaticism. On the other hand, he gr.,
the Neri party and Austria to understand that with.
out him the Pope would do some foolish things god
repeat the errors he committed in 18413. The col,
dinal's third artifice is that which he employs naa
the Pope himself, all whose inclinations are by hay
studied and seconded, especially those of vanity ay
bigotry; and those wishes of the Pope's which he
cannot or will not promote he leaves to coalman
themselves by lapse of time and forgetfulness Only
he was not able to get out of the Pope's head the
idea of visiting his provinces and entertaining hist,
self awhile at Bologna. Knowing the Pope's**.
navy, however, he omitted no means to secure that
thejourney should remain a fruitless one, and shada
nowise interfere with the system hitherto adapted.
I have told you before of the jealous guards wham
he has posted around the Pope, and the other
precautions he has taken that the Pope chow
have but little or erroneous information al
the state of the people's minds and the
deplorable situation of public affairs. Bet
wherever the Pope arrived, he found visible taker
of the Cardinal's great eagerness to serve and plea.
his sovereign, even at a distance. For exsanyk,
when the Pope came to Ancona, he perceived tilt
by too frequently, and with& too excessive liberality,
bestowing gifts in the shape of precious articles of ifs:
votion and church furniture, the chest was already
empty, which he had had filled at Monte Cavallo,
and he lamented over this, with his attendant ma..
signori ; when, lo and behold ! arrived a man p*.
haste from Cardinal Antonelli, who, foreseeing the
too abundant munificence of the Pope, had thus seat
him, as a timely supply, a great quantity of chalices,
ostensories, relics, rosaries, and the like, to gratify
nuns and friars withal. " That dear Cardinal As.
tonelli," said the Pope, gratefully affected—" he
provides for everything." But where the cardinal's
wonted prudence and dissimulation fail him is in the
pomp which he displays, the extravagant splendour
of his mansion and furniture, and in the inordinate
enriching of himself and his relations. He hes
obtained for his brother monopolies whisk
are something more than lucrative, and mob
him, so to speak, the arbiter of the Roman Bank. It
is true that these monopolies were enjoyed by other;
but here comes in the fable of the Fox who wall
not have the gnats driven off him, which had ask*
their fill of blood, to make room for others to tin
him, greedier and more relentless. Antonelli
removed the old ones, against the patient's will, sad
supplied their place with fresh tormentors. I as
peat, then, that this rage for the acquisition of money
is the only vulnerable point which the Cardinal lean
exposed ; and, in Rome, Pasquinade, are confines/II
directed against this weak part of the Cardinal
heel of Achille..

Oar clergy here have been, for some days put,'
an ecstasy of festive admiration on account of the
Madonna worshipped at the shrine of Varallo. Every,.
thing which can be collected to render the oeremonin
most sumptuous, and to awaken the faith tat
devotion of the assembled people, has been pet
in requisition with an infinite deal of trouble tad
care. Eight bishops have met there, and for to
days they have not ceased to conduct processions,
recite homilies, and to revile liberty, especially tlit
liberty of the press. Money has not been hacking to
defray these great expenses ; and visitors have ear
thither front 30 or 40 miles distance, attracted cer•
tainly by curiosity rather than piety. I should not
have alluded to this if it had been a local and sea
dental matter; but it is one thread of an extensin
web, which the Catholic clergy have for some yeast
been weaving, and of which I would say more bet
that my letter is already full. I will return to the
subject, however, as it is an important one, and ow
which marks a noticeable page in the history of the
present generation. A.