The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

any man, be he of North or So'ith." Of North or
South ! Yes, for there are unhappily as yet but
too abundant specimens of each ! Against them—
es classes, not invidiously naming any one of them
as individuals, the finger of irony,almost of scorn, has
been time and again pointed of late by other Cen-
sors, though by none more directly than by S. G. 0.
Eventually, if yielding to no nobler motives, these
virtual do-nothings will yield, we doubt not, to the
mere dictates of shame. Meanwhile the ore gene-
rous contributors are uninfluenced by the ill exam-
ple set to them by these their hard-hearted contem-
poraries. Let some of the latter before th mgrand
gathering in aid of the Relief Fund, the ting
announced for the 2d proximo,let some at any rate
among the great landowners yonder in Lanca-
shire weigh well orce of the compari-
son already applied to their stinted and
niggard contributions—the comparison of their
doings in aid of the distress by the side of the doings
recorded in the name and on behalf of the benevo-
lence of the great mercantile classes. Princes there
are (in Fortune), landowning princes as well as
millowning princes—there in the midst of that
afflicted, thickly-peopled countryside in the North
—who, if they but listened to the dictates of their
own consciences, would, by promptly coming in aid
at last of the bitter distress around them,
almost at once scatter our solicitude as to the fatal
effects of the advancing winter. Then, when every
spontaneous and volunteered effort shall have been
made in earnest, and continued to the very utter-
most,then when the worst comes to the worst, Go-
vernment would step in with its last beneficent
istance in the shape of a National Grant.

While Irishmen are fighting in Hyde Park, and
shouting on Blackheath for the temporal power of
the POPE—while Sir G. BOWYER and Popish priests
are excusing such holy violence, Prince NAPOLEON
and his editor, M. HUBAINE, are exposing the in-
tolerable vices of this Irish idol. It appears
that in connection with his famous speech on the
Roman question in the Senate, the Prince collected
a large number of documents bearing on the sub-
ject, but they were of course too voluminous to be
read as part of a speech. M. HUBAINE now gives
them to the world, and a pretty decisive testimony
they are, if any at this time of day were really
needed, to the historically unbearable character of
what all Catholic Italy now denounces as its 1
worst enemy. The pamphlet goes back to the
17th and 18th centuries, exhibiting the vicious
and rapacious character of the Papacy from
the testimony of a succession of diplomatic
persons, whose evidence is unimpeachable. It all
combines to show that, under the old monarchy,
rapacity, nepotism, vicious administration, and ex-
tracting enormous sums of money by every device
from every Catholic kingdom, were the acknow-
ledged characteristics of the Papacy. On perusing
the whole, the only wonder is how those who knew
all this could have any faith in a religion thus
administered. Indeed, the outrageous infidelity of
the French Revolution, and the universal disbelief
in the Church, of public men and educated men,

seems only natural. They knew no Christianity
but that of Rome, and they were quite sure that if
that were Christianity, the heathenism of a
SOCRATES and PLATO was as good or better.

The next portion of the pamphlet brings us to the
times of the BONAPARTES and the First Empire.
The documents, which are fully given, relate prin-
cipally to the year 1810, when the French Govern-
ment had an earnest struggle with the-Papacy to
effect some reasonable reforms ; but all in vain. In
all those documents, the necessity of separating the
temporal power from the spiritual is affirmed in the
strongest terms and with every imaginable kind of
argument. But the everlasting non possunius was
as potent then as now in warding off anything in
the shape of salutary political remonstrance.
We then come to documents on the Papacy sub-
sequent to the Restoration. Still they bear the
same 'general character. It was impossible for
statesmen of any Eohool to witness patiently the
abuses practised in the name of Religion at Rome.
M. CHATEAUBRIAND himself, after a few caustic re-
marks on the reigning Pontiff, adds some remarks,
which we commend to the notice of the POPE'S
" brass band" in our House of Commons. He

says:—
" The radical defect in the political constitution of this
country may be readily discovered. They are old men who
choose as Sovereign an old man like themselves ; and this
one, having become master in his turn, appoints aged men
as cardinals. The supreme power turning in this defective
circle is always exercised on the edge of the tomb. The
PRINCE never remains long enough on the throne to carry
out any of the plans of amelioration which he may
have conceived. It is necessary that the POPE should
have resolution enough to make at once a numerous
promotion of young cardinals so as to secure a majority at
the future election of a young Pontiff. But the regulations
of SEXTUS V., which give the hat to those holding office in
the palace ; the empire of habits and customs ; the interests
of those who receive gratifications at every change of the
tiara ; the individual ambition of the cardinals, who prefer
short reigns in order to multiply their chances to the
Papacy, and a thousand other obstacles too long to mention,
are opposed to the introduction of this youthful element
into the Sacred College."
Some remarkable passages from a despatch of M.
CHATEAUBRIAND in April, 1829, of course not long
before the Liberal revolution in France, which in-
spired vain hopes in Italy, read now like prophecy
—and they were political prophecy. Describing
what he thought of Italian movements, he says—
" The world takes for conspiracies what is only a general
uneasiness, the result of the times, the struggle of old
society with the new, the combat of the decrepitude of the
old institutions against the energy of young generations,
and, lastly, the comparison which every one makes between
what is and what might be. Let us not dissemble the fact;
the great spectacle of powerful France, free and happy,
that grand spectacle which strikes the eyes of nations which
still remained, or have again fallen, under the yoke, excites
regrets and nourishes hopes."
But what follows further on seems almost a
prevision of 1859 and 1860 :--
"At Naples the weakness of the Government is only
saved by the cowardice of the people. The antipathies of
the territorial divisions also adds to the difficulties of an
internal movement ; but if any impulse were to be given
from without, or if any Prince within the Alps were to
grant a charter to his subjects, a revolution would take
place, because all is ripe for it. More fortunate than us
and instructed by our experience, the people would econo-
-1 mise in the crimes and misfortune of which we have been

so prodigal."
A series of remarkable documents follows, a
pointing definitely enough to one conclusion.
cardinal himself, BERNETTI said to the French Am
bassador in December, 1832 :
" My personal opinion is that secularisation is inevitable
it will take place a little sooner or a little later, but never
will the POPE pronounce it,
and he will be right—
" let. Because it will not suit him to take on
himself
all the hatred which an existence ruinous and humiliating
for the cardinals will provoke.
" 2dly. Because that measure, spontaneously proclaimed
by the Pope,
has for speedy consequence the complete de-
struction of the ecclesiastical Government. . It will be
better for him to resign himself to the formally expressed
will of Europe than to confess himself vanquished by his
band to allow a concession to be wrested from him
f
fatal in its consequence than in itself."
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