The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

THE PAPACY IN ITALY.

If we may judge from the tone of certain in-
fluential Italian papers, a spirit hostile to Papal ecclesiasti-
cal rule is pinin3 ground M the Peninsula. Witness the
following extract from a lead*, article in the Opinione of
Turin, headed :—" !Summon, the Pharisees, tho Popes, sad
their noxious dominion." It says : "It is a pity the rick
glutton in the gospel was not born is our humpy aselsoiestiool
days. Were he now living, he would dad himself
already arrayed in a cardinal's robin sod Mori Armonk
(the ultra-clesioal organ) would undoibtedly proeinst his
the most slicked prawn's of Christian mortiflanioe.
But the fact ia, that opulence was proscribed by the
apoetolate of Nivaroth ; our Saviour himself having
declared that it was easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle, than for • rich man to
enter the kingdom al Heave.. Hews, while wealth is not
forbidden to Christina, notwithetanding the sednction it
offers, Christ on the other hand forbad the Apostles to
seek it, they being chosen as examples of perfectioa, to
teach that voluntary poverty smooths the way to heaven.
And what figure then must a pope cut, who, seated
on • princely throne, and surrounded with his gaudy
sourtases, pretends to be marlin:ad of the truths
he temelles, while he is the first to violate them
by the opulencs and splendour in which he lives'"
To this instanos we may add a more significant one still ;
via., that tho F,ecloinatical Society of Milan assembled on
the 25th to pan • resolution calling for the re-establish-
neat of the ancient institution of diocesan synods, the
object of which was to provide for the want. d reSgicis
onording to the requirements of the times. Then
synods bad always been regarded with jealousy by the
popes, sod openly discountenamied, nay, (mimeo* con.
domaedon was the cue with the celebrated Tuscan Synod
held at Piston, by order of Scipis de Rind, bishop of that
place, under the patronage of the enlightened Grand Doh
Leopold L Scipio do Ricci was openly cooderuned for this
act of his by the bull dueturem lidei, and languished throe
yews ia prison in eousequencia. He died in 1810.

801110 of the German journals state that Prince
de Metternich, the Avy4iaa ambassador at the French
court, me seeing IL Richard Wegner leave Parts after
the failure of hie renahouser, sent him twayive bottles
of his Johannisberger u a cossolation. This wine, the
Falernian of the nineteenth century, produced on the Yet.
Watch estates, is kept by the family for thew own use, sad
prunate of It are seldom given to any but mewund lade,
The few exceptions to this rule, within the proud 'eatery,
have bees tweetplive bottles each to Goethe, Clams, Jules
Janis, and Wagner.

The following appears in the Coariturione of
Naples:—" The Vioe•Govereor of lindsai, in Sardinia re.
quests the Soured, the Conitssioss, to inert the following
declaration, in larp characters :—'l &Wars, by gamier
authorisation, that it is eteaphiely faker although the
rearm hes been spread by the jenerseie d all opinions, that
the,. wan ever any goodies of the winkle of Sardinia to
Free" or to soy ether newer. I &aim, besides, that
sea dinissie have se ether *bled thee to create distrust
ef the geneenseent, awl I. eaves discard anwag citizen&
I ISA" mad will dime remain se. I am, &c.,
Rocca. Oweesner."