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London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

The Negotiations Between Rome and Italy.

(REUTERS EXPRESS.)
FLORENCE, July 15.

The following is the full text of General Lamar-
mora's report to King Victor Emmanuel upOn the
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negotiations with Rome, of which a telegraphic
summary has already appeared :
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letter itself, which only concerned the rights of the execu-
tive power, and interests entirely religious and spiritual,
which, however, should be considered, out of respect to the
belief and sentiments of the great majority of the nation,
and as connected with the efficacious action they exercise
upon moral conditions and the concord and the tranquillity
of the country. We were confirmed in this opinion by the
consideration that important advantages might follow from
an agreement with the Holy See upon the three points to
which the Holy Father directed your Majesty's attention,
viz. :—The return of the bishops absent from their sees,
the filling up of the vacant dioceses, and the admission of
the titular ecclesiastics already nominated in some pro-
vinces of the kingdom without the consent of the Govern-
ment. The first point has already claimed our attention for
some time past, in consequence of the petitions of the
populations favourable or adverse to the return of their
pastors, and we could have no objection to a measure
which would maintain intact the dignity of the Govern-
ment and satisfy the requirements of civil prudence.
The second point gave us the opportunity of informing
the Holy See upon the intentions of the Government rela-
tive to the diocesan circumscription of the kingdom, and
of requesting that, until this should be definitively fixed,
those episcopal sees should be left vacant which their
exiguity or other reasons rendered it advisable to sup-
press. The third point put us in the way to effect the
reform of a certain state of things contrary to the pre-
rogative of the Crown and State, and which had given rise
to observations and complaints. On the other hand, while
confident that the Holy Father, in addressing himself to
your Majesty, must have had in view conditions befitting
a representative Government, especially those suitable to
the kingdom of Italy and to your loyalty and firmness, we
believed that the Holy See would be influenced by those
wise traditions which, on many occasions, induced it to
separate the settlement of spiritual affairs from all political
controversy—traditions solemnly sanctioned in the bull
Solicitude Ecclesiarum of Pope Gregory XVI., bearing date
August 7, 1831. Consequently we decided that the request
of the Holy Father, that a layman should be sent to Rome
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The instructions confided to them established be-
fore all that no political question was to be introduced at
the conferences, which would also exclude any subject not
connected with the three points above mentioned, and par-
ticularly any matter which might be within the compe-
tence of the legislative power. In the second place, the in-
structions declared that while, in the course of the confer-
ences on subsequent negotiations, it was not necessary to
touch upon the recognition of your Majesty's Government
on the part of the Holy See, in order that the conferences
and negotiations should not lose their true character of an
arrangement concerning interests entirely religious and
spiritual ; yet it could not, and ought not, to be allowed,
either in the whole, or upon any special point, that these
conferences and negotiations should imply the negation de
facto of the existence of the kingdom of Italy. If your