The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

BOLOGNA, Dn. 11.

The wrath of his Eminence the Archbishop of
Bologna has at last reached its highest pitch. A
few days ago, when I read the decrees of Parini,
abolishing ecclesiastical tribunals and the right of
asylum, I was greatly puuled to imagine how the
bishops of the Legations would accept them. A
week afterwards, in couvereation with an Italian
rient, with whom I travelled from Bologna to
Modena, I was informed that Cardinal Vials Peels
seemed to have resigned himself to accept calmly the
wise decision of this government. Such was not,
however, the case; for the day before yesterday a
most tremendous protestation against the two
decrees of the Governor was sent to the
Palazzo del Govern() by the femme au-
thor of the Concordat imposed upon Aus-
tria. I had an opportunitx of glancing at the
aolemn and wrathful paper of the Bolognese curia,
and I could not help laughing at the insolent brag-
gadocio which characterises every phrase of this
half Latin and half Italian paper. It is as insolent
in its form as it is absurd in its arguments. You
must not forget that what hasbeen done hereby Parini
in the promulgation of the two above-mentioned
decrees is nothing more than was accomplished in
Piedmont nine years ago. Ecclesiastical jurisdic-
tion in civil and criminal matters, and the right of
asylum formerly granted to the church, of with-
drawing from the action of the common law those
criminals who had sought refuge within its holy
precincts, were abolished in Sardinia by the effects
of the famous law of the 9th of April, 1850, which
is generally known as Sicardi's Law, from the en-
lightened minister who devised it. The sixth pro-
vision of that law completely cut away the system
of tyranny which the court of Rome had exercised
over the lay power of that country. This very same
thing has now been done here by Parini ; jade ire.
Would you believe that Cardinal Vials Prela has the
temerity in his protestation to lay down the princi-
ple that the catholic clergy of this country has the
right of being cousidered a caste of citizens
exempt from the operation of the common
laws. To abolish the ecclesiastical tribunals,
says the worthy Cardinal, is tantamount to
destroying the respect which common people feel for
the ministry of God. To deprive the churches of
their ancient right of shielding even the greatest
criminal is tantamount to putting the temples of
oar Lord on the same footing as the taverns of the
state. What will English people say of a Prince of
the Roman church who in our times has the auda-
city to advocate a theory which is in direct oppo-
sition to all the principles sanctioned and accepted
by the most enlightened communities of Europe?
Such is, however, the case. The blindness and mad-
nese of the Roman priests have reached such a point
that if they were not strongly resisted we should
sae this country become a prey to the moat
terrible persecutions. In their eyes Spain
is the model according to which the future career of
Italy ought to be shaped. The development of the
moral sciences, the wonderful civilisation of our
days, the mo.t sacred rights which belong to com-
munities of men, are literally nothing ; the power of
the Roman church, with its endless immunities and
privileges, is the only thing they have at heart ; to
ensure its triumph is the only aspiration of their
mind.. Happily enough they have to deal with a
people determined to resist this aspirations, and
Cardinal Viale Peels has found in Parini a man who
will bails the plans he cherishes in his heart. It is true
that at the end of his protestation the worthy prince
of the Roman church takes the greatest care to
state that he is obliged to bow before the power of
the government. Of course he must, for no govern-
ment in Europe can allow an insolent priest to dis-
regard laws which are sanctioned by his country in
accordance with the wishes of all classes of CitiZ.lll,
and of the spirit of the age in which we live.

BOLOGNA, Dec. 12.
Cardinal Viale Prela" has given us a new proof of
the crafty spirit of opposition by which ben actuated
against the present government of this countil.
Yesterday morning, after high mass had been per-
formed in St. Peter's, his eminence called around him
all the rectors of the town and country, who hrd been
previously summoned to meet him iu the sacristy of
that cathedral. lie then reed to them a pastoral, in
which he said that numberless dangers were brood-
ing over the heads of his faithful flock. Of course
he did not point out what were thaw dangers, bat
the intention of his eminence was clearly
enough to make his subordinates understand
that they were charged to exercise through
the confusional an influence over the poyu-

lotion of both Bologna and the provinces.
Although the pectoral of the archbishop constitutes
by itself a disguised but bitter attack against the
liberal government of this country, I have been
informed that Governor Farini will not take notice
of it, for he is curtain that only a few bigotted old
women, and still fewer old mow, will take into serious
consideration the hint given by the Prince of the
Roman Catholic Church. The horror that theprriui.ple
of this province feel for the priests is too powerful,
too inveterate, to be removed by means of a Jesuitical
manifesto. His eminence will thus have lost his
time, and made much ado about nothing.

TUSCANY.

The Tuscan Monitore of the 10th contains the
following:

Ia a circular to the Prefects and Governor of Lefthern,
dated from Florence, the Bth of December, M. B. Lomeli,
President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of the
Interior, gives an 'moult of the steps he bad been induced
to take on the question of the regency. In substance the
following are the arrangements that have been adopted.
The present government of Tuscany and the Trews-
spennine government will continue to be what they are now,
with satin freedom of action for maintaining order and ob-
taining national union under the sceptre of the King Victor
Emmanuel.
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Besides the two governments, Commendatore Booncom-
pagni, who, in taking the title of governor-general of the
Mine of the Italian Central States, will serve ea a direct
link between those states and the King elect, will give a
uniform direction to tailitery affairs, sad will see to the exe-
cution of ell the collective acts that the two goverment'
shall believe it their daty to do for the common weal.
Be than nooniamida them to tell the people gads' their
administratios that he is eatiefied with bringing bask front
Turin their King's greeting to the Tuscans, u else the wet
honourable declaratioaa of esteem and affection for 811. Whee-
-1 ever has not seen this magnanimous king devoting him whole
life and all his thoughts to Italy, does not know what a grand
idea le personified in the highest expreesion of military
and civil power loyally placed at the service of a great
cause.

—lZoold like, he adds, to repeat with the same havistation
that they hid on his august Up, the recommendations made
by him to penman to order and concord, move amessary
now than ever, la likewise his pagerations that he would
watch anxiously ova our interests, =scantly defend them,
and maintain the rights we have conferred on him at the
Conroe. AU the world knows that the word of the King
has never been given in
' I wish now that the consolation and confident* with which
1 I was filled upon leaving the King should be transmitted to
the entire country, to which I make it my duty to commu-
nicate every possible communication respeoring the affairs of
the state. in presence of the Congress about to amiable, to
maintain concord and the firmness of our resolutions is the
most sacred duty of vry citizen. Tb, government will set
resolutely and an y; let others do the wens, sad a
I will go on well.