The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following documents were posted on the walls
of Rome on the 20th :
MANIFESTO OF THE POPE.

POPE PIUS IX. TO HIS WELL-BELOVED SUBJECTS.
Scarcely had the valiant armies of the Catholic powers,
who, with a true filial devotedness, have co-operated in
the're establishment of our liberty and of our independ-
ence in the temporal government of the States of the Holy
See, delivered you from that tyranny which oppressed
you in a thousand ways, than we not only addressed
hymns of gratitude to the Almighty, but we at the same
time hastened to send to Rome a governmental commis-
sion, in the person of three considerable prelates. They
were charged to resume in our name the reins of civil
government, and to advise on the measures which were
called for by circumstances for the interest of order,
security, and public tranquillity. We are occupied
in establishing the bases of institutions calculated
to secure to you, our well-beloved subjects, suitable
liberties, and at the same time to secure our indepen-
dence, which we are obliged to preserve intact in the
face Of the universe. This measure has for object to
satisfy those who have merited our kindness and our
esteem, and to undeceive those unfortunate, misguided
men who had taken advantage of our concessions to
overthrow social order. To convince every one that we
have only at heart your true and permanent prosperity,
we have, of our own accord and with the full know-
ledge and plenitude of our autaority, decreed as
follows:
" Art. 1. There is instituted at Rome a Council of
State. It shall give its advice on bills before they are
submitted to the sovereign sanction. It shall examine
all important questions in each branch of the public ad-
ministration on which it shall be consulted by us or by
our Ministers. A special law shall determine the num •
ber and the quality of the councillors, their dsities, their
prerogatives, the rule of their discussions. atia all, that
may be conn,i'cled with the regular working•of s impor-
tant a concession.
" Art. 2. A State Consulta shall be institufea fi5V the
finances. It shall give its opinion of the budget° of the
State, it shall examine into the expenses, it shall advise
on the establishment of new taxes and on the reduction
of existing ones, on the best mode of assessment, on the
most advisable means to be adopted for the re-establish-
ment of commerce, and on all which concerns the ia
terests of the public treasury. The members of the
Consulta shall be chosen by us from lists presented by
the provincial councils. Their number shall be propor-
tioned to that of the provinces, which number may be
increased by a determinate addition of persons which we
shall reserve to us the right to name. A special law
shall determine the mode of presentation cf the members
of the Consulta, their requisite qualifications, the mode
of managing the affairs of the finances, and all which
may effectually and promptly contribute to the re-
organisation of that important branch of 'the public
service.
" Art. 3. The institution of the provincial councils is
confirmed. The councillors shall be chosen by us from
lists presented by the communal councils. The provin-
cial councillors shall discuss the local interests of the
province, the expenses to be laid to its charge, and the
accounts of receipts and expenses of the interior admi-
nistration ; that administration shall be directed by an
administrative commission chosen by each provisional
council, and for which it shall be responsible. Some of
the members of the provincial council shall be chosen to
form part cf the council of the chief town of the pro-
vince, to assist in the functions which fall on the munici-
palities. A special law shall determine the mode of pre-
sentation, the qualifications and the number of the coun-
cillors for each province, their duties, and the relations
which are to exist between the provincial administrations
and the great interests of the state, and the limit to
which the latter is to extend.
" Art. 4. The representatives and the municipal ad-
ministratiors will enjoy the most extensive franchises as
far as regaris the local interest of the communes. The
election of the municipal councillors shall be based on a
largo number of electors, principally having regard to
property. Those elected, besides those qualifications
which aro intrinsically necessary, must he iu the pay-
ment of a certain amount of taxes which shall be deter-
mined by a law. The chiefs of communes shall be
named by us, and their deputies by the governors of the
province from a triple list presented by the communal
council. A special law shall determine the qualifica-
tions and the number of the communal councillors, the
mode of election, the number of members of the mu-
nicipal administration, and shall regulate the duties
thereof, making them consistent with interests of the
province.
" Art. 5. The reforms and ameliorations shall also
extend themselves to judicial. order, as well as to the
civil, criminal, and administrative legislation. A com-
mission shall be named to occupy themselves with this
important object.
"Art. 6. Finally, being always led by the inclination
of our paternal heart towards indulgence and pardon,
we wish on this occasion to perform an act of clemency
towards the misguided men who were impelled to felony
and ,to revolt by the seductions, the incertitude, and per-
haps by the inertness of others. We must have, present
to our mind in this circumstance what is walled: for by
justice, by the rights.of others oppressed•or destroyed,
by the duty which is incumbent on us.to protect yol
against the return of the, misfortunes. which have eve:re
whelmed you, by the obligation to resoles you itiom
the pernicious influences of the cornuptera of all morally,
and (Tom the enemies of the Catholic religiose, that eternal
source of all happiness, of all social prosperity,_ which
has caused your glory, and. . which distinguishes
you as an elect family of God, and favoured with
his especial gifts, With these feelings we will
that there shall be published in our name an
amnesty, for the penalties incurred by all those who,
within limits which shall be determined, shall not be ex-
cluded from this benefit. Such are the dispositions
which, for your welfare, we have thought it our duty to
publish before God. At the same time that they aro
compatible with the duties of our Apostolic functions, we
have the firm conviction that they may, if faithfully
executed, produce the happy result which is desired by
enlightened and honest men. I have for guarantee the
just sentiment of each of you, whose heart sighs for
happiness in proportion to the trials undergone. But,
;shove all things, let us put our confidence in God, who,
even in the midst of a just anger, never forgets his mercy.
" Done at Naples, in the Faubourg of Portici, the 12th
September, 1849, and in the fourth year of our Pon-
tificate. "Pius P.P. IX."
With the moth proprio of his HOLINESS has been
published the following notification
" GOVERNMENT COMMISSION.
" His Holiness our Lord the Pope, having regard to
the circumstances which extenuate in a certain number
of his well beloved subjects the culpability of their par-
ticipation in the political troubles which have recently
afflicted the Pontifical States; desiring to show more
and more the truly paternal kindness •of his heart, and
using his full power in favour of misguided men, rather
seduced than seducers, has ordered us to make known, in
his august name, what he has deigned to decree in con-
sequence of Art. VI. of his sovereign motes proprio of the
12th of this month. We, therefore, in conformity to the
venerable command of his Holiness, hasten to publish
the following dispositions, according to the terms of the
sovereigh idea expressed to us:—To those who have
taken part in the last revolution in the Pontifical States
is granted the pardon of the penalty to which they will be
liable for the political offences for which they
shall be responsible. The members of the Pro-
visional Government, the members of the Consti-
tuent Assembly who have taken part in the delibera-
tions of that assembly, the members of the Triumvirate,
and of the Government of the Republic, the chiefs of
the military corps, all those who, having already. on a
former occasion enjoyed the benefit of the amnesty
granted by, his Holiness, have forfeited their word of
honour to Joining in the late political inovementa ; in