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WYDON, NATURD4r, AUGUST 31.

TO OUR ARAM&
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SPORTING INTILLIGENCE.

A !ate e.litiun of the RepreasispubTished every
eveni,eg during. the racing seseao, containing the
m•nits ut the day's races.

utotem Circular Despatch to the
diplomatic representatives of the Kingdom of Italy
at the courts of Europe, is in effect an appeal to
that grand tribunal of last resort—the public
opinion of the civilized world. It is an authori-
tative, explicit, and complete statement of the
difficulties which in the Neapolitan provinces have
distorted and disturbed the national will, and
arrested the pacification of the country. The
MINIsTI.U. of Italy confronts the actual
position of areas with a steadfast and unshrink-
ing courage, and with the resolute frankness of a man
who has faith in his cause, and goes out to meet
his enemies with his vizor up and a brow as bright
as truth.

There is no "shadow of turning" in that
energetic purity of conscience which spurns
all subterfuges and abhors all deceits. It
was time that Europe should be taught the full
significance of the fact, that the horrors which are
perpetrated under the flag of the &wallow and
the express sanction of the successor of Sr. Peva,
are "the hope of that reactionary party which
" has set its citadel in Rome." This, indeed, was
notorious enough ; wo may do the authors and
abettors of all these atrocities the justice to admit
that their central operations have been conducted
with a shammies* audacity in the open street, in
the broad noonday, before thousands of eye-wit-
nesses, under the tutelary auspices of the French
General, in face of the army that protects the
spiritual authority and " independence " of the
HOLT FATHER. The " brigands" psas out of
the gates of Rome with muskets and
daggers supplied from the arsenals of
his Homilies with passports which defy the
curiosity of French sentinels, with definite inetruc-
tions, with avowed designs. Dos General DI
Gown presume for a moment to lay his finger
upon one of theme pious agents of the Borne/is
league returning red-handed from the holy war, or
going out upon a cannibel errand with a royal note
of hand for the wages of blood ? Next day the
GENERAL apologises for his indiscretion, bends his
knee at the Vatican, and vows that, like his Impe-
rial master, he is ever the very humble and de-
voted servant of " the Church." " Our dear
" General" is in favour again, and M 01114102 DI
MERoDI. smiles with mixed compassion and con-
tempt at these airs of patronage and antics of
seal in the perplexed but well-meaning Cam-
mander-in-Chief. Such is the sorry farce Francs
is condemned to play. France, the liberator, the
annexe?, the enslaver of Italy, because that famous
"omnipotence" which M. Da LA Gossowirreas

worships, is a rod of iron which the Court of Rome
can taint like • reed. It is really the work of
Austria, and of the clients of Austria, that the
soldiers of Imperial France, transformed into
soldier, of the Port, are doing at Rome. It is
with his face towards Vienna that FRANCE% 11.
prays ; though it is • French General that
the Court of Rome uses and despise and the
ruler of France that it flatters and detests.

All this, however, is the affair of our neigh-
bours : let them look to it. Nay, let them look
at home, where the same comedy is being played
at the cost of self-respect, justice, and common
sense. There we find one semi-official paper
highly eulogising Baron Itteasou's despatch, and
another at the same time instructed to declare
that Baron RlrLsou's despatch will not "modify
" the attitude "of Francis at Rome. Whom,
ea may ask, is this eternal singsong supposed to
dupe? Not the Court of Rome, it should seem ;
for the estimation in which the policy of the Em-
pesos is he'd at the Vatican is no secret ; the fiery
coruminations and sarcastic blasphemies of French
pe are the echoes of distant thunder, and the
reflected glare of lightnings afar. is it foreign
Governments, or " the Catholic world", or liberal
Europe that this running duet of two voices is
supposed to charm—the voice of the defender of
the Papacy, the voice of the champion of Italy I
It is vain to seek to penetrate a mystery which is
probably no spier, at all. The Second Empire
is afraid of " the Church," to whose hands it en-
butted ten years ago the training of Young
France. The Church knows its own mind, and
cleaves to one clear purpose—the Empire halts
and haggles between two.

And yet as Protestants it is not for us to
regret this protracted and tedious my ...it cation.
For one result at least is certain. y day's
delay in the settlement of the Roman question—
every day's visible communion of the Papal Power
with Austria and the Boonnosx, and the bandits
and assassins in their par—springs a mine under
that towering fabric of corruption, and is worth an
army of schismati,3 to the cause of spiritual eman-
cipation. We do not say to the Protestant cause.
Italy may not become Protestant, in a Lutheran or
Anglican sense ; but she will learn to laugh at the
terrors of excommunication, and to prosper as Rag-
land has prospered under pastors and masters of
her own. Radix amens, fructuA delcia. Italy is
learning a bitter lesson, but the fruit of such ex-
perience is freedom. As Protestants, then, we
should be eintent to counsel patience to Italy.
But as Englishmen, and heirs to hard-earned
'liberties, as lovers of right and justice, we pro-
test against the flagrant desecration of the flag of
France ; against the intolerable pretension and