The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-25 00:00:00

TILE 11-41CGMAIT IN ROME.

Tug mercy invariably extended by His holiness
the PorE to those faithful eons of the Church, the
Italian brigands, has not been shown to the poli-
tical offenders who raised their hands against the
temporal power. The Vict-Raomer of Heaven
has put the two offenders against his earthly state
to death. Justice before mercy is the Papal read-
ing of the New Testament morality, and the
wretched Morn and TOONETTI were executed yes-
terday morning. The fret thought inspired by this
last political slaughter is not so much whether the
sentence was just, as of the shocking anomaly it
suggests. The PorE governs Rome as t!;,T, uireCt
representative of Heaven, and one curliest hear of
blood deliberately shed Et Lis command without
shuddering at ti2f: sacred pretensions which can
only le kekt np by the gaoler and the sword,
The justice or injustice of the fate *of these two
criminals is beside the question. It is the utterly
irreconcikable character of the two claims
upon mankind made Ly the Pope-Xing—the
spiritual and the earthly—which will strike men
most forcibly when they read of this execution.
His Holiness Prim IX. has been long credited
with an aversion to talking life, and it oily be
assumed that ho has only yielded now to the
pressing arguments of his ministers. But what a
satire is it upon the system under which be rules
at Icrue ; that his descent from ST. PHTIIIL and
Lis spiritual authority over the world have to bo
u 1 hdd, not merely by the bayonets of a foreign
soldierly, but by the knife of the executioner !
" Forgive your enemies, my son !" a representa-
tive of Lis Holiness is reported to have said to
the dying NARTATT., and the reply ; " I have no
" enemies—l have shot them all," embodied the
principle acted upon yesterday in the name of the
Prince of Peace.

Tni VITAL AocllkTY. The following is Vie
lint of Yellows of this society nominated for the different
offices and reale in the Council on the 30th iirst.—nauvly,
President, Lientenant-Gene; al Edward Sabine; Treasurer,
Dr. W. A. Miller secietariea, Dr. W. Sham and
Prt ferrcr C. G. Stokes; foreign secretary, W. H. Miller.
Other members of the Conned :—Mr. F. A. Abel, Sir 11.
C. Drodie,• Dr. W. It. Carpenter, Mr. J. Lockhart
Clarke, Mr. Frederick Correi.,* Mr. Warren De la Itue,•
Fir William Ferguritin,* Mr. W. 11. }lower,* Captain
Delights Oalton, Mr. J. P. GRAM% Mr. John Hawk-
r haw,* Mr. John Matshall,* Mr. Joseph Preatwitii,•
Captain O. H. Richards,* Mr. Archibald Smith,• and
Lieutenant-Colonel Aleiaoil,r Strange. Thom gentle-
men whore names appear with au asterisk were not memo-
hew of the but Cooneil.
LANDLORD COEUVOY' AT WAPREFAM.—In the
Pere elbdriet. on Tueaday hurt threw porrone voti d for
taleraft. One of them war Mr. Mundell; he
iritts hip chop at Morden of a portion ranted Fodor, who
Is under Mr. Drax, the um- net...pistol tory candidata. For
the ardaeitr of voting agreeably with his iron e of duty ho
Ides received notice to quit his burliness prorai es within
lowly-eight hours.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 23. --Lior Malady's
Chapel Royal
_Bt. Jamie% win be re-opened for Diem,
service ea •Say a$ lie sepal Itotirs.—.
EISPOIII Quasar,