The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-03 00:00:00

Turin, Naples, and the cause of Italian independence
is matter of public notoriety just now, The wisdom
therefore of NAPOLEON BOVAPARTE is 'Wisdom also

for LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPAZTE.
In France, as everywhere else, the Ultramonist
Roman clergy are the political nuisance of the day,
On behalf of the stupidest of causes, strong in the
superstition and ignorance which distinguishes the
peasantry and lower priesthood of all Catholic
countries, they fight the battle of Papal pretensions
with the very scum of the nations, The hosts
whom they do their best to keep in illiteracy and
darkness, they drill before the altar of superstition
to howl down everything like intelligent religious
liberty, To civil liberty they are almost as much
opposed, except in the rare instances, in which, as
in the days of the late French Republic, they think
they can use it to their own purposes. Then, in-
deed, they can plant and consecrate "trees of liberty,"
to be quickly plucked up again and crushed if only
an Emperor comes upon the scene, whom they may
purchase by adulation in the days of his efforts to
stand securely. Let him, however, but show that
he dares at all more for men and nations than for
Popes and priests, and henceforth he becomes a
PoNTIIIS PILAFF, and even an army at Rome can-
not save him from priestly
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and
for
protecting the POPE again h
keeping the necks of the latter beneath the POPE's
feet, is the ht.tred of Popes and priests, the half angry
wonder of Italians, whom otherwise he has benefited
so greatly, and, worse than all, a noisy, troublesome
set of ecclesiastical agitators at home.
The PRINCE dwells rightly enough on the per-
verse obstinacy of the POPE—" He can do nothing"
—and the venerable obstinacy is as crafty as it is
mischievous. His hope is in waiting for events.
If he can keep a nucleus of temporal power, who
knows, he thinks, what may one day gather round
it again. It is nothing to the shepherd of the faith-
ful that Italy is filled by his wordly-minded ambi-
tion with brigandage, nothing that Romans hate
the Prince, as much as with abject superstition
they reverence the PONTIFF—nothing that
France is disquieted by Papal emissaries from
one end to the other—still less that Prussia or
Great Britain—which he regards as partes infi-
deliton—shonld be plagued with disloyal Arch-
bishops and contemptible brass bands, All means
are holy ; religion may be used as the plague instead
of the balm of the nations, if a few square miles of
worldly dominion can be kept or regained for the
professed representative of Him whose only King-
dom was the kingdom of truth. Satan has been
more successful in showing all the kingdoms of the
world to the "Vicars of CHRIST," than in showing
them to our LORD himself. They are far wiser
in their generation than their Master, whom they
profess to serve.
What the EMPEROR means by allowing his cousin
to declaim with such manifest truth and right,
while, through his speaking Minister, he proclaims
more trimming counsels, no one can be sure. It is
not easy to believe that the EMPEROR is seriously
opposed to the Prince. It is more natural to
believe that he at least thinks with him, and
wishes the NAPOLEON family to have the
benefit of popular personal opinions, what-
ever the modification of them which he is
compelled to act on. It is remarkable that the
finance minister, M. FOULD, from his quarter, was
allowed to publish to France and the world that the
occupation of Rome had proved a heavy drain
on the Imperial Treasury. When the Prince
politically, and the Minister financially, are allowed
to expose the disadvantage to France of her pre-
sent relation to Rome, something ought to come of
it. The wrong to the Romans, the utter nnjus-
tifiableness of the prolonged occupation of another
country against its will, all go, we know, for
little ; but it really is surprising that the EM-
PEROR consents to be bearded by a set of fanatical
and ignorant parish priests, headed by a set of
truculent and ambitious bishops. Had he the
boldness to do his duty to the Romans, to Italy,
to Europe, and to .France, and to withdraw his
troops, he would find the whole agitation subside
at once, like froth into a few drops of water.

At Willis's Rooms on Friday there was an assem-
bly of the Institution for Milliners and Dressmakers.
This fourteenth annual meeting presents us with
some very interesting information regarding the
subject in question. It appears, though it may be
contrary to the opinion of many, that there is much
need of this charity, and that its recipients are in
great need of the help that is afforded to them.
Dr. BREWER, the Chairman, observed that it was
both expedient and practicable for milliners and
dressmakers to make some provision for the day of
difficulty, of sickness, and inability to work. He
instanced that a quarter of a century of his own
experience showed how sad were the diseases to
which such persons were liable. That it was practica-
ble was shown from the fact that members of the so-
ciety had made some provision for the future, while
they had no more means than others of their class.
Surely there can be no wiser endeavour than to
induce those in early life, with a business which,
I though prosperous, may be but temporary in remu-
neration, to lay by against the winter of old
age or the dark day of sickness. Persons
of that class, from their very profession
being that of ministering to the pomps and
vanities of the world, are under peculiar tempta-
tions, to indulge in expense, and therefore it is, in
every sense, the best thing they can do to take
advantage of the opportunity afforded them of
sparing from present abundance for future emer-
gency. The Secretary read the report, which is
well worthy of attention. The institution now con-
sists of 127 members, of whom 52 are life, and 75
are annual subscribers. A hundred pounds have
been given last year to various members of the in-
stitution. It was stated that the directors had
ascertained that there existed a greater amount of
distress among the ill-used milliners and dress-
makers, than among the worn-out-workers of any
other class. " The usual lot of the majority of the
persons engaged in those trades appeared to be a life
of unvarying toil, too often closing in absolate
destitution or in dependence upon the charity of
friends." The report closed by stating that there
was a smaller addition to the permanent fund this
year than formerly, owing to the demands made
upon the institution by the necessity of its members
The directors trusted, however, that the nobility.
and gentry, and persons who felt interested in the
prosperity of the workers of all classes, would bestow
that patronage upon it which would expedite the
work. It is to be hoped that their wishes will not
be disappointed, and that many may be found who
will give of their superfluity that is lavished on
ornament to the real necessity of these unfortunate
beings
angswho have toiled and struggled through the
best and brightest years of their lives to
independence, and, after all, have not
succeeded.
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These
feel
le
respect
and
the donorssympathy,
not pity for their fellow-creatures, who, in toil,
doubt, and often despondency, have spent their
energies in the moat enervating and exhausting
pursuits, and are left with but little hope of comfort
to cheer them through the sad years of life's de-
cline. Worse still, they may have to encounter the
pains of sickness unaileviated
solace or remed7,