The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-26 00:00:00

to recognise the privileges of the State; of the
Church"—and France has "announced a firm de-
termination to maintain the POPE in his present
territory''—and " Italy must renounce her preten-
sions to Rome." All of which look very much like
keeping up the barriers between Rome and Italy.
But what is the POPE'S part then to be ? He is to
"return to ancient traditions, and to recognise the
privileges of the municipalities and provinces, so
that they may govern themselves." Does any one
of our readers understand all this? If he is mysti-
fied, perhaps another sentence or two may put him
in the way to guess the enigma. It was placed be-
fore M. THOUVENEL on the 20th of last May. On
the 30th the Minister wrote to the French Ambas-
sador at Rome, M. LAVALETTE :
"The words of the Emperor have never held out
a hope to the Cabinet of Turin that Rome could
become the capital of the kingdom of Italy with the
consent of France.

" All the declarations of France announce a
firm determination to maintain the Pope in the pos-
session of his present territory. The only possible
arrangement would be the maintenance of the terri-
torial status quo. Italy would have to renounce her
pretensions to Rome, and engage with France to
respect the Papal territory and assume the greater
portion, if not the whole, of the Roman debt."
And this M. THOUTENEL calls a policy of conci-
liation, says that there is nothing in it of a minatory
character, exhorts ANTONELLI, the holy butcher of
Perugia, to lay aside the doctrine of immobility,
only adding that if he does not, the EMPEROR
would be compelled—we suppose it is what he
means—to withdraw his troops from Rome : which,
from no love to the PoPE, but from love to the
BONAPARTES alone, he will certainly not do. This,
the holy murderer for his Holiness knows as well
as the EMPEROR, so he still coolly replies " we are

immoveable"—non possumus.
Europe is sick of these farces—but what cares
the master of sixty legions ? And what care the
Cardinals at Rome ? The position of the French is
confessed to be unjustifiable, but the despot is
strong enough to confess and go on. A pretty
woman weeps to him, and the woman's POPE must
be sustained in his unrighteous power over the
bodies and soils of the poor Romans. An ignorant
clergy, and yet more ignorant peasantry, worked
up by designing and thoroughly worldly bishops,
threaten to vote wrong ; so, the poor Romans must
be kept out of votes altogether to please them. And
so it is that, to the infinite scandal of religi:n,
and the joy of all the atheists and infidels of
Europe, the head of one of the largest of Christian
sects is exhibited to all the world as the trampler
on all human rights—and that for the basest of all
motives—in the eye of religion—worldly ambition.
Disguise it how men will, but for the worldly ambi-
tion of the POPE'S advisers (for the good old man
himself is, we are told, as well meaning as he is
weak, notwithstanding his allocution curses) all
this wickedness would be at an end. The POPE
would be advised not to "lower," but to destroy
the barriers between Roman and Italian Catholics
—to assume the independence of freedom from
worldly ambition—to tell the French that he no
longer wanted to murder his fellow-citizens' liber-
ties by foreign bayonets—and to set all the bishops
of Christendom an example worth following—that
of renouncing temporalities, and being content
with spiritualities.