The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

THIS EVENII),IG,

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and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Evening. The enter-
tainments will be varied, and each performance include—The Won-
derful Orange Tree, the Safety Casket, the Fans and Cannon-balls,
the Cabalistic Clock, and tho, Inexhaustib' e Bottle. Concluding with
Seconde Vue Escainotage de Robert Houdin file, and Suspension
•Ethereene.
DOPIA open at Eight, the Exhibition to commence at kalf-past
Eight, and terminate before Eleven.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s.
Boxes and stalls. may be had at Nr. MITCHELL'S Royal Li-
brary, .33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre,
which is open daily from Eleven to Five.
In compliance with numerous applications, a DAY PERFORM-
ANCE will be given on WEDNESDAY MORNING next, June 14.
Doora.open at Two o'clock.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.
Proprietor, Mr. W. Ratty.
Entire Change—Brilliant Spectacle—Grand Equestrian Fete.
Last ti 4 Nights of the present brilliant Spectacle, which must give
place to the forthcoming splendid Whitson Novelties.
THIS EYENINU,
Will .be revived, with great splendour, M. G. Lewis's Grand Ro-
mantic .Eques:rian Drama of TIMOUR TIIK TARTAR, in which
Mr. Batty's unrivaled stud of highly-trained horses will appear.
To 15e followed by THE SCENES OF THE ARENA, introducing
the British Artistes in their unrivalled performances. Flat appear-
ance of Mr. Batty's highly-trained Hanoverian Palfreys.
To conclude with a favourite Farce.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Five.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. West.

ROYAL SUITRZY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
Cern bination of Ai tractions unprecedented.
JULLIEN and MONSTRE BAND.
VIEW of ROME, by Danson.
Grand Display of FIREWORKS, by Southby.
Re-engagement of Mdlle. LOI.TVARi Y.
No Extra Charge.
MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and
FRIDAY.
Daylight View of Rome.—Promenade Concerts, Vocal and Instru-
mental conducted by Mons. JULLLEN, whose splendid Band of 100
Performers, includes Messrs. Koenig, Prospere, Lazaru=, Baumann,
Riehardson, Collinet, Barrett. and Ciofft—Two Solo; each Evening.
—Mdlle. Lovarny, who is re-engaged, will also sing two favourite
songs each evening.—The beautiful Menagerie--Shakspere's House—
The Magic Bridge—Chinese Pagoda—and other novelties will be ex-
hibited, the whole concluding with a most magnificent and not to be
rivalled display of Fireworks, by the Messrs. Southby, representing
the Girandola during the Holy Week at Rome.
Gates open at Ten, Feeding Time Five—Jullien's Concert at Six—
Fireworks at Dusk.
Notwithstanding the obvious extra expense attending the engage-
ment of M. Jußien and his splendid band, there will be no advance of
prices.

Adralysion, as usual; One Shilling.

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
No communication can be attended to unless autheeti.
cated by tie name and address c. the writer.
Rejected conamunioations cannot be returned.

TILE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 8.
TstaltmoirETzu, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 67; Noon, 62.
EA.RoMETER, 29.84. WIND S.; showery.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
-3 ➢corning .. 50 rain. after 6 Evening •• 16 min. after 7

that the progress of affairs in the metropolis, instead
of being in unison, at least to some extent, with the
progress of affairs in other quarters of the United
Kingdom, is altogether of a retrogressive character,
we cannot but strive to force this fact upon the slug-
gish comprehension of Parliament. Take, for exam-
ple, the scheme which has been fully resolved upon
as to the site of the London Fever Hospital. Was
there ever any scheme of a more insane tendency ?
Was there ever any proposal more certain to aid
disease in decimating the citizens of a populous capi-
tal? Never : we undertake to say that with all the
emphasis of deliberation. Here, because the site of
the present edifice is required for the erection of a
terminus to the Great Northern Railway at Battle-
bridge—it is proposed to remove the establishment to

—where on earth does our reader imagine ? a
spot in the Liverpool-road, situated between The-
berton-street and Barford-street, confronting
Cloudesley- terrace, and right at the back of the
High-street, Islington;, So that the patients will
be accumulated together in such a position that the
hospital will be surrounded by tall houses, the air
being prevented from circulating, and the fever being
enabled to spread most advantageously in the neigh-
bourhood.*
Again, the Government have betrayed a singular
want of capacity in the very preliminaries to a
movement for the adoption of sanitary alterations in
London. Instead of employing the professional and
civil surveyors of London in the labour of surveys
already chalked out for the capital and its environs,
they have granted that employment, in preference, to
a corps of Royal Sappers and Miners.t By that
arrangement the time to be occupied in the under-
taking is virtually extended, and the expense entailed
upon the nation materially increased. Nothing could
prove to us more forcibly than these incidental
facts the necessity of observing with vigilance the
sanitary wants of London, and the manner in which
those metropolitan wants are being treated by the
Legislature.

An apparent truce has been at length patched up
between the:Old and Young Irelanders; reconciliation
is to take place between the repealers of Conciliation-
hall and of the Irish Confederation. So at least it
appears from the statements made by Mr. JOHN
O'CoNNELL on Monday, and of Messrs. MEAGHER
and DUFFY on Tuesday. If the wishes of the respec-
tive leaders should be fully carried out both associa-
tions are to be forthwith dissolved, and a new and
united body is to arise from their ashes, founded upon
principles upon which all can agree. We have yet
to learn, however, the real nature of the arrange-
ments for the proposed amalgamation of the hitherto
conflicting elements. If Mr. O'CONNELL has cor-
rectly stated the terms the Young Irelanders have
succumbed, have consented to abandon the most of
their ways, and henceforward to

" Roar as mildly as a sucking dove."

within the scope of the law. For these reasons, then,
each party may for a time agree to the coalition ; but
it does not require any great degree of foresight to
prophecy the speedy repeal of a union standing on
such precarious foundations.

The Hon. Gentleman says, " that there is to be
nothing illegal in the new body. It would be per-
fectly legal and constitutional, all violence of expres
sion and suggestion of counsel contrary to law would
be excluded. No matter of consequence would be
brought forward publicly, until it had been discussed,
and fully approved of by the council of the new
association selected from the members of both
Repeal sections." If this be so, the seceders might
have rejoined the original association, for they
will, in every respect, have conformed to the
rules which they formerly refused to obey, and
which they so strenuously and indignantly de-
nounced as mere humbug, only calculated to delude
the people, and to prevent the speedy attainment of a
separate nationality. On the other side, however, we
find Messrs. MEAGHER and DUFFY declaring " that
the principles on which they were invited to join the
second association were the same as those of the Irish
Confederation." Here is a clear and decided contra •
diction in the very first instance ; and if we were not
so well aware of the distinction which sometimes
exists between " Irish sayings" and " Irish doings,"
we should consider it fatal to the pending negotiation,
and believe that both associations would still con-
tinue their separate existence. There are, however
good and sufficient reasons to induce the opposing
parties to abate something of their respective pre-
tensions, and to waive what had heretofore been
considered as indispensable to any coalition.
The Conciliation Hall Leader honestly declared the
cause that induced him to yield a reluctant consent to
such a course, and candidly acknowledged that " he
entertained some doubts and fears respecting the
propriety of the step he was about to take." An
irresistable necessity, however, in the shape of an
exhausted treasury, impelled. Money was wanting,
and money could not be procured under present
circumstances ; and therefore something must be done,
however repugnant to his feelings. The following
extract from the funeral oration of the defunct
Association manifestly explains the motives by
which the Old Inlanders were actuated :
"Under any circumstances (said the Honourable
Member for Limerick) that Association could no
longer exist if the country did not support it. It was
clear that without better support they could not keep
their doors open much longer, with such unmistake-
able signs of a decreasing rent. It could not be de-
nied that last week the rent only amounted to 12/,
and he regretted to add that the rent of this week was
considerably beneath that amount. He confessed
that this circumstance showed that the feeling of the
country was against the Association. The country
was, however, the proper judge, and it was their duty
not to remonstrate against the will of the People, but
to bow to their decision." This is perfectly clear and
intelligible. It is the case of a bankrupt concern taking
a new partner, whose capital may enable the former
members to carry on their transactions, and avoid the
Gazette for a brief space. The closing of the shop
from want of funds to meet their liabilities and defray
the necessary expenditure would seem a rather lame
and impotent conclusion of the struggle for nation-
ality. Something, however, may be achieved by a
union, however temporary. Every member must
contribute his subscription on joining the new associa-
tion. A considerable fund may thus be realised ;
the empty exchequer will be replenished, and the
real sinews of war once more be forthcoming.
It is not quite so easy to understand the reasons
which have induced the war party, those who
pine for the honours of martyrdom, who are
compelled to take pledges from each other, that no
opportunity should be seized on to give to any indi-
vidual the coveted distinction of being " the next
felon," before it fell to his lot in due order of pre-
cedence, to join with the party they formerly repu-
diated, and to agree " that legal and constitutional
means only should be adopted, and that all violence of
expression and suggestions of counsel contrary to law
should be excluded." Perhaps, however, a sufficient
motive may be discovered why these fiery spirits
should for a time abandon their fierce defiance of the
law and of the authorities. If a professed duellist
should assume a garb of sober drab, and desire to be
admitted into the Society of Friends when en-
I gaged in a quarrel which should be brought
to a mortal arbitre meat if be retained his former
opinions, it might be considered that he was influ-
i enced as much by considerations for his personal
safety as by conscientious convictions in favour of
his new doctrines. So it is with the Young
Irelanders. They have committed themselves too
deeply to withdraw from the conflict which they
have themselves provoked. They see that the Go-
vernment is firm, and that every violator of the law
will be brought to condign punishment; that sedie
tious language can no longer be indulged in with
impunity. The fate of their former coadjutor
warns them from an insane perseverance in
the perilous way on which they bad entered.
However agreeable it may be to bluster and
stimulate the populace to open insurrection, it be-
comes rather serious when the hulk or the transport
may follow as the result of their eloquence ; they,
therefore, can now perceive the necessity fir an lin-
: mediate union between all classes and sections of
repealers ; and at the moment when their rivals were
failing from want of pecuniary resources, they don
the sober drab of the moral force repealers, and of
course will be bound by their compact to refrain from
any acts, or any language, which may bring them

* " Report of the Proceedings of the Committee ap-
pointed to oppose the Erection of the London Fever
Hospital, in the Liverpool-road, Islington," pp. 24. Lon-
don : J. H. Jackson. 1848.

t " Letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Morpeth, from
the Council of the Surveyors' Association."—A forcible
and argumentative document.
A

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1848.

official notification in relation to the rumoured strike
of the French workmen on the Boulogne Railway :
"It having been rumoured that the engineers on the
Boulogne and Amiens Railway intended to strike in con-
sequence of the directors refusing to discharge the Eng-
lish engineers in their employ, we are happy to announce
that those tears have not been realised, and that the in-
tended strike has, at least, been postponed. We can,
besides, assure the public that precautions have been
taken by the company to prevent any interruption to
the service of the line under any circumstances."

The Moniteur publishes the acceptance by the
Minister of the resignation, by M. JULES FAVRE, of
the office of Under. Secretary:of State. This seems to
give a sort of contradiction to the rumour that the
members of the Executive Committee had resigned.
"Those who have resigned," says the Constitutionnel,
"do not accept resignations." It is, however,
understood that, had M. Cr ARNIER PAGES been de-
feated in his motion for giving precedency to the
railway debate, which was only carried by 387 to
362, he would have resigned, and that his resignation
would have been followed by that of all the members
of the Government.

General PERROT has been appointed to command at
Vincenne.:. There are already inscribed the names of
130,000 ouvriers anxious to attend the banquet on
Sunday. General PERROT has, it is said, warned all
persons occupying houses within range of the guns
of Vincennes to be prepared to quit them at a mo-
ment's notice. •
_ _ _

A telegraphic dispatch has been received, an-
nouncing the outbreak of a legitimist insurrection at
Perpignan, and the proclamation of HENRY V.
The Prince DE JOINVILLE and the Duc D'AUIIALE
are both concealed in Paris. The police are engaged
in endeavouring to discover their retreat.
Prince Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has been re-
turned for the department of the Yonne.
M. DitouiN DE Lnurs is to be appointed Under-
Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs, in place of
M. JULES PAYEE.
The Committee on Finance have received a de-
tailed account of the receipts during the months of
March and April. In March there is a falling-off of
14,238,000 f. over the corresponding period of 1847,
affecting principally the import duties, which are
lower by 6,451,000 f. ; the registration dues are
3,487,000 f. lower, and the stamp duties 1,310,000 f.
The difference for the month of April is, as
we mentioned some days back, 17,230,000 f. ;
the falling•off in the Customs for im-
ports being 7,385,000 f., in the registration
dues 4,894,000 f., and in the stamp duties 1,389,000 f.
The Committee heard the report of MORTIMER-
TERNAUX on potable liquors, in which several
changes are proposed. The duties on potable liquors
before the decree of March 31, brought in 42,000,000 f.,
but now will produce only 32,000,000 f.; neverthe-
less, it has been received with the greatest disfavour
in the departments, as it divides amongst 2,500,000
wine-growers the charge which formerly weighed
on 350,000 wine-sellers, rendering it impossible for
the growers to sell their wines, at the moment when
the land-tax is doubled.

The Committee on Labour has heard the report of
M. PASCAL DUPRAT on several projects, sent in with
a view to raise public credit—such as a Banque
Hypothecaire ; the issue of notes by the State to land
proprietors at a low rate of interest; the establish-
ment of a bank in each department, to perform the
duty of receivers-general for nothing, and discount
bills at a small charge; and the issue of two milliards
of notes on the guarantee of national property. The
report states that the principal point in all these plans
is to relieve public credit ; and the next, to issue
paper money, to replace specie in commercial trans-
actions.

The Committee on Public Works, in its meeting
of yesterday, adopted the following resolutions :-
1. That all railways shall be purchased by the Go-
vernment, and become the property of the State.
2. That the purchase shall be made by giving the
shareholders renter on the State. 3. That the com-
panies, on being purchased, shall be dissolved, and
that each shareholder be called upon individually to
accept or refuse the proposition of the Government.
4. That the shareholders refusing shall be required
to refer their claims to the arbitration of a Committee,
to the nomination of which they will be called upon
to consent.

It will be seen from this that the report of the
Committee of Public Works is in direct opposition to
that of the Committee on the Finances.
Some attempts at disorder having been manifested
in several brigades of the national workshops, M.
LALANNE, on Tuesday, issued an order, dissolving
the brigade of carpenters employed in the interior of
the Palais National. The brigade, previously em-
ployed on the outer boulevards, between the barriers
of Ivry and La Gare, is also dissolved. The head of
this brigade has been struck off the lists of the
eational workshops. The men of the dissolved bri-
gades who can produce certificates of good conduct,
and who took no part in the disorders which rendered
the dissolution necessary, will be re-admitted as
members of the Ateliers Nationaux.
The Prefect of Police has issued a proclamation,
which speaks in strong terms against the acts of
certain journeymen bakers, who have been of late
attempting to impose illegal conditions on the masters.
The Prefect declares that all such attempts shall, for
the future, be most severely punished.
The National Assembly met yesterday, and was
engaged in discussing the measure for the prevention
of armed assemblages, presented to it by the Execu-
tive Committee, which appeared in The Sun of yes.
terday. The discussion, which was very animated,
had not concluded when the post left; but many of
the articles of the proposed measure had been agreed
to, and there was little doubt but that it would be

carried-
BOURSE--PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7.

THREE o'CLOCIK.—The Bourse was firmer to-day than
it has been for a long time. Thera is a considerable rise
in Railway Shares and in Foreign Funds, and the French
Rentes remain as yesterday. The recent news from
Italy, and the belief that the French Government would
not persist in the scheme for the spoliation of the rail-
way shareholders, was the principal cause of the im-
provement. The turn taken by the debate in the
House of Commons on the Spanish question has had
a good eff'ect. It was reported that M. Duclerc, the
Minister of Finances, was about to retire. The divi-
dend was taken of the Three per Cent. Rentes.
For the account the French Three per Cents. are the
same as yesterday. Five per Cents. are also without
any change. For money, the Three per Cents. and Five
per Cents. are also as yesterday; Bons du Tre3or are at
23 discount; Bank of France Shares have risen 351.;
Belgian Bank Shares remain at 700; Belgian Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. are not quoted; Spanish Actives not
quoted; Roman has_yisen per cent.; • Rothschild's
ReCeipts have risen per cent. Railway Shares for the
ons, . 50c.;
account, settling of the 15th of June:—The only busi-
ness done was in Northern, which have risen 61. 25c.!For
rasbur
cash, Orleans have risen 6f. 25
2fc.; Norßouentherns, 25c.;
S
3f
Ma
.75c.; y , 7f. 50e.;
t Havre, sgf.s: and rseilles, Bf. 25c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, JUNE 7.
Boulogne and Amiens, Ci—Northern of France, 4
Rouen and Havre, 4.

GREAT ORATION TO THE

ROMANS.

BY VINCENZO GIOBERTI.

[We have great pleasure in at last laying before
our readers a translation, carefully revised by our-
selves, of the splendid oration recently delivered to
the Romans by the renowned VINCENZO GIOBERTI.
It will be read, we are certain, with peculiar atten-
tion, and especially at the present moment, when the
triumph cf the cause of Italian independence appears
to be secured by the victory achieved at the bridge of
Goito by the Piedmontese, under King CARLO AL-
BERTO. It may not be uninteresting to men-
tion some of the most striking incidents in
the life of VINCENZO GIOBERTI—a great orator—a
great patriot—a great historian—and a great re-
former. A priest and an innovator like SAVONAROLA,
GIOBERTI is, nevertheless, regarded in a very different
light in the Eternal City ; he is net viewed as a
schismatic by the PONTIFF, neither is he scouted as
heretical by the Propaganda. Deprived of his pro-
fessor's chair at Turin several years ago through the
influence of the Jesuits, GIOBERTI settled at Brussels,
and from the obscurity of his remote study in Bel-
gium moved the whole heart of his fatherland by the
eloquence and passion of his writings. his genius
became one of the glories of Italy, and his books
awoke the admiration of his fellow-countrymen from
the first volume, entitled " Prolegomena," down to the
last called "Gesuita Moderno." Admired by the liberal
Monarch of Sardinia, GIOBERTI received from him
a noble solace for the miseries of his expatriation in
the offer of a pension of 3,000 francs. The patriotic
priest would, however, only consent to receive this
tribute of friendship and homage on the condition
that the pension should be appropriated to the support
of a hospital in his native place. This beautiful
incident is one which redounds to the honour of VIN-
CENZO GIOBERTI'S heart. Here is a description of
his personal appearance from the pen of one who has
seen him recently. " His appearance," says the
writer, "is not distingue. He is forty-five; dresses
in a plain black suit without canonicals ; he is stout-
built, of middle size, bull-headed, the forehead con-
veying the intimation of power and determination ;
hut I do not fancy the expression of his eyes:'
Howl:wit though the expression of his eyes may be
a matter of taste, the vigour of his genius as an
orator is undeniable. GIOBERTI is now the rage in
Rome. He is the friend of CICCEROACIIIO, the Roman
Tribune, and the panegyrist of Pio Nozio, the
Pontiff Liberator.—ELF. Sun.]

VINCENZO GIOBERTI 710 THE ROMANS.
" ROMANS,-When any one comes for the first time
among you, and looks with admiration on your city,
the power of his words weakens in proportion to his
want of language. The sublime produces admira-
tion, and admiration begets astonishment, which cannot
properly be expressed, since the rough arts of speech are
incapable of eliciting from the understanding the ideas
which naturally emanate from it. In Rome, now, all
is sublime ; it is a city unique, and sprung forth from
Heaven to ratify its works with the seal of grandeur-
She is almost, as it were, the mirror or the microcosm
of centuries, and the living image of the
various progresses through which the human
kind has passed—progresses, which elsewhere
divided by place and time, are here collected
together, and harmonised. Here the wonderful re-
mains of antiquity are combined with the rnonument•
of subsequent ages, and represent by contiguity of
space the connexion they had with each other in the
succession of time. By this means the spirit is car-
ried without interruption from the one to the other,
and sees, if I may so speak, the Christian civilization
springing up from the rottenness of Paganism. The
extended, solitary, and silent tract of land* which
surrounds the Holy City, increases the sublimity o
the spectacle, forming, as it were, an area propor-
tioned to the majesty of the sanctuary. It is thus

proved in the end a dreadful despotism. The French
empire ingrafting a false love of religion upon a
boundless cupidity, was an egregious act of hypo-
crisy and of civil imposture. Thence the ne'v
Charlemagne, instead of bestowing on the Pontiff-
..s
Benefactor the protection promised to him, became
i
most. cruel persecutor, and not even satisfied with
unjustifiablethis proceeding he presumed (supreme
in adn ess !) that Rome, the head of Italy and the Queen
of the world, could descend to the rank of a French
municipality. The new Italian kingdom will
devotion,rclarcl the Holy City with friendship,
with
and with respect, and the lineage
,A
.11 the person of the Royal Founder
and
a, be the guarantee of its piety. The
immaculate faith of the House of Savoy nieeti
with few rivals among the reigning dynasties,
and the Prince who in our days wields its sceptre
adds to the virtues of a hero and the wisdom of
a re'
former, the piety and zeal of a son devoted to
the'Cnurch. Who does not see then that if it was the lot
of one Pius' to lament his having yielded to the de•
manes of BONAPARTE to found a foreign and Vs°
nical empire, it is the lot of another Pius, by proclann •
ing.the Italian kingdom, to rejoice in his work,
AO' i
f
to receive the blessings of contemporaries and s
posterity.
" The •• I olitical League will be the consummation _
the union, by rebinding together with indissolubl
ties, the different Italian principalities and formi°
of them all an almost unique state. erfecSec a
a
ptie
state will attain a greater
in proportion to the lesser number of its comPenel t
parts, and consequently any event which aims
reducing our divisions, however mournful in its n5O e
may prove a boon from PROVIDENCE. / shall
o; I
undertake to speak of the recent and noels
events of Naples, because I am unwilling tosses
any grief to disturb the joy of my words. This, t
to shall only say, that the generous Neapolitans oug:
console themselves fur contemptible calumnies bit A
shocking deeds, in consideration of the effects wu/
must
no, follow, and that the blood shed by brethren!,
without consolation when it proves useful to Oil
co.
untry. Let us solace ourselves by anticiPatiegh'e
our imagination the pleasure we shall feel on t
she
two joyous and long wished-for day of ch
hl
consummate our regeneration ; the one of w
011
will be solemnized in Milan, and the other in Retie
peril:Ts the first as well as the second being sane
titled by the august presence of the PONTIFF-L`s.lfbe !
Toe. What beautiful days, 0 Romans, they e
Ido not know who will have the largest 511110,r
joy,
undertaking
broughtt he good
oa and d
happyg rea t e eaSnidli embrace 5
the whole of Italy, or Italy grateful and unaill
at the feet of Pius. e fes
" But the Italian union infers another still more vet
damental, like that which is the first basis
ef
Pipse en
co. co
concord that is to say the union between
unite'
his 1
people. how could the Peninsula be
bar.f•
Rome does not give it the example ?
inony cannot be effected without Roman °hot ol
because here dwells both the heart and the for till
'
the lovW whole nation. Sons of Rome, EllO m°ei
icorshir
trieiae so mlc nto speak to you freely. You e ano
immortalworld
PONTIFF d
ever who does hen
and to the bg
pll
enough for your pre;
of wicked persons willing to disturb this distrastl'
praises. But
utuhtis
theresole tiistloeo
concord, persons who are striving to OW chit tae
suspicion, and dissension between the •nst th°
and the father. Oh ! be watchful 801- do no'
deceitful arts of these individuals, nots(i
beha seduced by their sophisms. Pc' COOPle-
tthet in
the sacred person of Fins are dog
two most sublime dignities on earth, the, .0 100
and the high priesthood. These dignit/oletie
different duties and governraents, which °,,,:ipseb'ess
may seem to be at variance amongst tPnotligter's
although the conflict is only apparent- P° both gee
then, to those who, confounding togetherititioas gee
vernments, assign to the Prince the resergions
the Pontiff; and to the Pontiff the delibe- you tlq,
the Prince. Rejoice to see Pius giliegorSers sell
,
living example of the perfection of Otlicoice is
far as human nature permits ; ant ry'sje sche
more his
hi in the consideration that whilew: *fit- ‘l'
soofmldi trhse Moderatoratho
holy of
wltaly,
ocuo os
epee ras ttlie 130:eepilta
to
it the Universal Church endeavouring aoe. to
honourably by the reasons of pt-he 01' as
not be afraid that a Pontiff who Wasis-aerle ores
restore, between the people and the cl'e,ooo
alliance interrupted during three cep
re
yet` do
be alienated from his people. There 3re and' •
enough who would destroy the alliance' ; the,4';beit
not scruple to adopt any means to ensur
ill hole ' hos
cess. But the great heart of PIO nod lee
iniquitous plots, and the good sense of :tea tb to
already, at least in a great part! de:6,100
Where are now those who thought it if tee fi°oter
eparate the legations j' from Rome ? if Al' of
union were not the Italian union, and the ruel e treed
sceptre of humanity could rival wit Where
e;it au'
meek regimen of the living PolsTirf• the ei/'• no
t
who loudly spoke of a republic ?as if ePere
laical monarchy just now founded by bliss. set I,
the best and the most beautiful of rePniStieisais bola
" I have until now spoken as e 11°./08, soi•
perceive that, addressing a Roman 5041 e ion§ :11)00
do wrong to the Holy City, and to her Piso at
tants, were I not to consider the theme e
acts Itoef
to Christianity. The two conspicuous
are me
pd
of
h til
tulnvoions,olweinhinchalotshaovfe
raeliriegaidoyo,alluded t°, are
Win s
fraternity but Christian charity aPPlie bf ,'oobir3
of a sieceerlf'
ivsvoprotil?rcadi
etoootobre
the State
Unity is the principal clewejYcsely:sill'
State may reflect the image
represent in its under 011050
turn one foci'
hose who in political orders erii,il et'cooli
equality,:and the other characteristics 0 yspei,
resist the social practice of the Gailot Or pro'
dereliction of fundamental principles 011110 001
teas''
happen in Rome, its supreme she
pia
agator. What wonder, then, if the r'' th3L'
from Pius ? The Pontiff inspired in himt,optitf. *ties
and the Prince admirably testified the seaseeet,•: Abe
" In the same manner as the of
jouself'coai
sprang from the Christian idea, of whie derive 50)",
seat and the oracle, so the latter will e.
the former no little good and advantregderat'Pe.l,oo
the Italian kingdom and the political le, d,
ensure to the Holy See that tenirra' the 1-'"
which proves so beneficial in protecmog,..4o ofo,
the elitrha
pendence of its government within
ligion. Whence originated, in fact, al fto/0,e14
which Rome was often doomed to end; deas,lo,De
barous Emperors and Kings, but froth rotec 0;
of a strong and powerful state able to
and to tall'
north the passages of the mountais, veal'
f the he 4)
with good arms for the defence 0 staelif sos
Indeed, if such a kingdoin had been. e of OA 0
bygone times, the sacrilegious audacitf „to!' te
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RoSSA. and of BONAPARTE WOU.-
complete failure. 0 could some orie hYL.Pti,tioni 0,54,
found who regards the same ItaliSU °it; Vele
jealousy under the impression that hYbe cep° or
stronger than other states, it might 5,0 V
threatening the Roman autonotnia.: .1 the '
prehension might have been justified / forceiglP
ages, when arbitrariness and brute cod
the upper hand, even over the most 511.00 tent)'ol‘er'
but not so in our day, when public Opin' t neio°`
urbanity overpower every other influence des CO te
efficacious manner, and domineer over the
vi
Xoo'
nations. What Prince would now dar 001 i tl
the least degree the temporal rights of theit
sole
and if there was any one to atternpt its
tthe ob°
opposed, not only by Italy, but hi to
Europe. g red
" Only last year the same Austria r...encdrelie:ll°(
gte
pretext in order to invade Ferrara .
obliged, by an universal cry, to abandon..„lso;cietorttler
will. Besides this, the subjects of the
refer °lee"
no longer any substantial reason t the trill
dif(
dominion to their own. When once, the °
siastical principality has submitted I°ooessiii°ooo
of the law, the people sir© in Psto eoli
the same advantages am elsewhere; it
the Italian States be still variolles_. 00
one civil em th
pire which governs t ;0, reoe:ed
the Italian Federation will, at all eye,,, by
efficient guardian of the peculiar righo,
Italian Prince, and chiefly of the one "

that the astonished pilgrim is prepared by a great
desert to contemplate the remains of the prodigious
Palmyra ; but Palmyra has been dead in its ruins for
many centuries, whilst Rome lives with an everlast•
ing life, with memorials, and with hopes. She is the
antique and Eternal City which preceded, which
prepared, which produced the modern world,
and which couples with the inheritance of the
past the possession of the future. By this means she
becomes the natural confluence of the antagonistic
privileges of a venerable antiquity, reinvigorated by
an immortal youth.
" The idea of Rome rises still more in our admiration
if, from the beauties of her prospect (unique and un•
rivalled in their own nature), the imagination is ex-
alted by the reflection of her spiritual destinies,
and of the moral responsibility which has been
imposed upon her by PROVIDENCE. She is, in fact,
the principle of the new covenant which GOD
made with men, the centre of that religious
society which was destined to comprehend the whole
earth, and the maternal city of the regenerated for-
tunes of Italy. it is within her walls that dwells an
adored Porrirr, who►n our progenitors did not even
dare to wish for, and whom it is our glory to possess.
What language or what eloquence is adequate to
enumerate so many wonders ? Roman people ! who

receive with so much love an exile come to visit and

admire you, help me, I beseech you, to express
what I feel, or rather to strengthen the weak-
ness of my words with that deep understanding which

you derive from your ancestors, from those men who
taught the world all the schools of eloquence. Re.
turned to this country after an absence of three lus-
trums, I have already traversed several provinces,
and I have thus been enabled to know in what high
degree each of them, in its own peculiar and admirable
manner, co-operates in our regeneration. The special
task of Rome for this universal enterprise con-
sists in religion, which, as a creative and perfective
power, has a double duty to fulfil—viz., the duty of
beginning an undertaking, and the duty of achieving
it. No civil or moral ordinance can last and flourish
unless religion forms the foundation and the whole of
the edifice. Italy lay prostrate for a long while, and
although snore than once she attempted to rise, it was
in vain, because the combinations of the promoters
of her redemption did not emanate from the creative
city. Consequently, when the hour predestined in
heaven for the great regeneration arrived, GOD
raised up a Pontiff-Liberator, and it was his
will that the first cry should come forth
from Rome and begin the miracle of rege-
neration. From this commencement originated
the pious and meek character of the Italian movement,
which far from being stained with violence, impiety,
and blood, like the revolutions of other countries, was
in every sense holy and Christian, and having sprung
forth from Rome, it was not an imitation of foreigners,
but was moulded by the Italian genius. It is then
unique in history, and as it had no precedent, it will
become itself a prototype.
"It now remains for Rome to put the last seal to
the heroic work, in a manner adequate to its com-
mencement. Our regeneration originated from re-
forms, proceeded with liberal institutions, and will end
with the independence and the union of the Peninsula.
Union is the head and the aim of this universal
movement, because unity is the ultimate result and
the supreme perfection of created things. But union
cannot be had without religion, since in the same
manner as there are no lawful nuptials with-
out a sacred ritual, so the alliances which
are the nuptials and the rituals of the
people cannot take place without the consecration of
the Temple and the ministers of the altar—so that that
may be ratified in heaven which is begun on earth.
Two solemn acts of union are being prepared in Italy
under the divine auspices of Rome and her PONTIFF.
The one is the conjunction of the Venetian-Lombards
with the Ligurian-Subalpines and the formation of
an Italian kingdom capable of embracing the great
Eridanic valley, and of binding together all the northern
parts of the Peninsula. The other is the political
league of the various Italian dosninions, firmly repre-
sented by a Diet. Rome must be a party in both
these acts, and become their supreme and sacred ra-
tificator. A holy Pontiff in the beginning of this
century crossed the Alps, and went to France to
crown a man to whose unlimited ambition all the
world yielded. But how different, both for sanctity
and justice, to the French empire will be the new
Italian kingdom ! The latter will be a national
work entirely ours; the former was a dynastic
expedient, and in some measure a foreign usurpation.
The one will be the result, the instrument, and the
guard of free regulations ; the other received the first
impetus from an excessive thirst for power, and

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f The provinces of Bologna, Ravenna,
Urbino.
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* The Campagna liomana.

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