The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING- APRIL"' '7, -1860:

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Magiciennr.e, 16, st-v, Capt J Commerell, 1859, E Indies
Majestic, 'BO, se Capt W Mends, CB, 1852, Coast Guard
Marlborough, 131, sc, Vice-Admiral A. Fanshawe, CB,
Cart the Right Hon. Lord F Kerr, 1852, Mediterranean
Mar s, 80, sc, Capt J Strange, 1854, Channel Fleet
Medina, 4, st-vl, Capt T Spratt, CB, 1855, Mediterranean
Medusa, 4, st-vl, Com W Bowden, 1851, Coast of Africa
Mepe;ra, 6, sc, Com J Hunt, 1856, Portsmouth
Me':pomene, 50, se, Capt C. Ewart, 1855, Channel Fleet
P....Lersey, 40, Sc, Capt H Caldwell, CB, 18.53, Channel Fleet
Mohawk, 4, so, Corn P M'Dougal, 1856, Mediterranean
Monarch, ;84, se, Vice-Admiral E Harvey, Capt H Har•
vey, 1852, Sheerness
Monkey, st-tug, Sec Mae G. Syndercombe (acting), Wool-
wich
Mutine, 17, sc, Corn W Graham, 1858, Pacific
Naiad, 42, store-ship, Mas-Com W Dillon, 1843, Callao
Nautilus, 6, Lieut-Com W Grant, 1852, apprentice-ship
Neptune, 91, sc, Capt F Campbell, 1857, Mediterranean
Nereus, 42, store depot, Mas- Com J Barlow, 1853, Valparaiso
Niger, 44, se, Capt P Cracroft, 1854, Australia
Nile, 90, se, Capt E Barnard, 1859, Devonport
Nimrod, 6, sc, Com R Wynniatt, 1859, East Indies
Oberon, 3, st-v, Lieut -Com F Paget, 1852, S C of America
Odin, 16, st-v, Capt Lord J Hay, CB, 1854, East Indies
Opossum, 2, sc, gunboat, Lieut-Com G Bevan (acting),
East Indies
Orion, 91, se, Capt J Frere, 1854, Mediterranean
Osborne, st-v, Mast-Com G Bower, 1842, particular service
Pearl, 21, sc, Capt J Borlase, CB, 1855, East Indies
Pelorus, 21, sc, Capt F Seymour, 1854, Australia
Pembroke, 60, Capt E Charlewood, 1855, Coast Guard
Perseverance, 2, tr-sh, Com E Power, 1850, particular ser-
vice
Persian, 12, Com E Hardinge, 1856, Cape of Good Hope
Pioneer, 6, so, Corn H Reilly, 1858, East Indies
Plumper, 9, screw, Capt G Richards, 1854, Pacific
Pluto, 4, st-v, Lieut-Com C Simpson, 1848, Coast of Africa
Porcupine, 3, st-v, Capt H Otter, 1854, Devonport
Princess Charlotte, 104, Mast-Cora H Thomsett, 1854,
llong Kong
F rometheus, 5, 'st-v, Lieut-Com T Hollingworth, 1855,
Coast of Africa
Pylades, screw, 21, Capt M de Courcy, 1852, Pacific
Quail, sc gunboat, Lt-Com N Osborn, 1856, Mediterranean
Queen, 86, so, Capt C Hillyer, 1852, Channel Fleet
Racer, 11, screw, Com the Hon T Pakenham, 1856, North
America and West Indies
Racoon, 21, sc, Capt A Paynter, 1854, Mediterranean
Recruit, 6, st-v, Corn D Spain, 1856, Mediterranean
Itenard, 4, sc, Com J Goodenough, 1858, East Indies
Renown, 91, sc Com A Forbes, 1846, Mediterranean
Retribution, 28, st-v, Commodore H Edgell, C.B, E Indies
Rhadamanthus, 4, st-v, Mae Com F Sturdee, 1845, parti-
cular service
Ringdove, 4, sc, Corn R Craigie, 1856, East Indies
Roebuck, 6, sc, Com F Marten, 1854, East Indies
Rolla, 6, Lt-Com C Nelson, 1854, apprentice brig
Royal Adelaide, 104, Rr-Ad Sir T Pasley, Bt, Capt W
Williams, 1841, Devonport
Royal Albert, 121, so, Rr-Ad Sir C Fremantle, K.C.B,
Capt H Lacon, 1856, Channel Fleet
Russell, 60, sc, Capt G Wodehouse' 1854, Coast Guard
St Jean d'Acre, 101, so, Capt T Thompson, 1847, Mediter.
St Vincent, 102, Rr-Ad the Hon G Grey, Capt T Wilson,
1853, Portsmouth
Sampson, 6, st-v, Capt G Hand, 1852, East Indies
Sanspareil, 70, so, Rr-Ad C Talbot, Capt A Wilmot, C.B,
1854, Queenstown
Saracen, 4, Mas-Com 'W Stanton, 1852, East Indies
Satellite, sc, 21, Capt J Prevost, 1856, Pacific
Saturn, 72, Capt G Ramsay, C.B, 1843, Pembroke
Scourge, 6, cc, Com W Jones, 1854, Mediterranean
Scout, 21, so, Capt J Corbett, 1857, East Indies
Scylla, 21, sc, Capt R Lambert, 1855, Mediterranean
Seagull, 2, se gunboat, Lt-Com W Chimme, particular ser.
Sharpshooter, 8, sc, Lt-Corn C Gibbons, 1848, C of Africa
Sidon, 22, st• v, Capt R Crawford, 1856, Cape of G Hope
Simoom, 8, se, Com J Cooke, 1852, particular servico
Siren, 16, Com 0 Balfour, 1856, S.E. Coast of America
Skipjack, 2, so gunboat, Lt-Com J. Murray, 1848,W Indies
Slaney, 2, so gunboat, Lt-Com H. Leet, 1855, E Indies
Snake, 4, sc, Com H Harvey, 1857, East Indies
Snap, 2, se gun-boat, Lieut-Com IV Butler, 1855, E Indies
Sparrowhawk, 4, cc, Com J Byng, 1856, E Indies
Sphinx, 6, st-ves, Corn G Day, V C, 1855, E Indies
Spitfire, 5, st-ves, Lt-Cora W Chapman, 1859, Cof Africa
Spy, 3, Lt-Com J Hanmer, 1848, S E oast of America
Starling, sc gun-boat, Lt-Com J Whitshed, 1854, E Indies
Staunch, 2, sc gun-boat, Lt-Cora E Pollard, 1855, E Indies
Styx, 6, st -yes, Com C Vesey, 1854, N America and W Ind
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Tartarus, 4, st, Cora A Mansell, 1855, Mediterranean
Termagant, 25, sc, Capt R Hall 1855, S E Coast of America
Terrible, 21, st-ves Capt F Glasse, C 8,1846, Mediterranean
Terror, 16, Capt F Hutton, 1844, Bermuda
Topaze, 51, se, Capt the Hon J Spencer, 1854, Pacific
Tortoise, 12, store-ship Ascension
Trafalgar, 91, cc, Capt E Fanshawe, 1845, Channel Fleet
Tribune, 30, so, Capt G Hornby, 1846, Pacific
Triton, 3, st-ves, Lt-Com R Burton, 1849, Coast of Africa
Urgent, sc troop-ship, Comll Hire, 1854, particular service
Valorous, 16, st-v' Capt W Aldham, CB, 1853, W Indies
Victor Emmanuel, 91, cc, CaptW Clifford, C B, 1847, Med
Victoria and Albert, 2, st yt, Capt the Hon J Denman, 1841,
Portsmouth
Victory, 101, Vice Admiral II Bruce ; Capt R Coote, 1854,
Portsmouth
Viper, 4, sc, Com W Hewett, 1858, Portsmouth
Virago, 6, st-v, Com M Dunn, 1856, particular service
Vixen, 6, st-v, Com L Lambert, 1858, Pacific
Vulcan, 6, sc troop ship, Corn A Strode, particular service
Vulture, 6, st -v, Capt G Parker, Mediterranean
Watchful, 2,8 C g-bt st, Lt-Com F Inglefield, 1857, E Indies
Wurzel, 2, sc gun-bt, Lt-Com W Howorth,lBs6, E Indies
Wellesley, 72, Capt Supr G Goldsmith, CB, 1842, Chatham
Wellington, 72, Capt It Robinson, 1840, Devonport
Woodcock, 2, se gun-boat, Lt-Com G Bosanquet, 1855, E
Indies

article ? If there is truth, as assuredly there is, in
the relfttions traced between price and consumption,
it follows necessarily and directly that the heavy
duty upon insurance discourages the practice of
insuring, and that a premium is thus placed by
legislative enactment upon culpable imprudence.—
Times.

TTLE IXQUISITIoN IN TILE PAPAL

STATES.

The Monitore di Bologna, in a recent number,
contains the following remarkable article, and still
more remarkable document annexed to the same,
relating to the present legislation and authority of
the Inquisition in the Papal States. The article is
from the pen of the Chevalier Achille Genneralli ;
the decree is simply the written law, publicly
affixed in all places of general resort, under which
the towns of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli, and
the surrounding villages and districts have, during
the hat 19 years, been made to yield obedience to
the harassing and vexatious system of prying and
spying into the most minute domestic affairs, as
practised by the Inquisition :
"If Europe only knew, as well as we do, the true
character of the Government of the Court of Rome
in the unhappy provinces subjected to its sceptre, it
would be much less difficult for those provinces to
obtain that emancipation to which every people has
a right when the power oppressing it is based on an
unchangeable and incorrigible immorality. Not the
least of the iniquities now dominant in the Papal
States is the Holy Office, or Inquisition, which
actually exerts its malignant action in all its ful-
ness, and in such a way that its legislative and
executive autocracy is placed above the other
powers of the State. If any one, looking to the
mildness of modern manners and to the progress
which has been made in civilisation, should feel in-
clined to doubt the existence of the Inquisition in
the Papal States, he need only examine the docu-
ment which follow on these words. It may be read
in print—nay,provinces
it is actually the living law in the
oflrbine and Pesaro, and in those pbor-
dering thereupon ; and in order that no one may
forget that the law is inviolable, not only are copies
of it to be publicly seen in the vestries and in the
churches, but likewise in the taverns and in the
shops ; and woe to him who should attempt to tear
them down. If this document had not been a revela-
tion for Europe we believe that Europe would have
received with less stupefaction the intelligence of
the manner in which the child Mortara was torn
from his parents.
In the decree of the Inquisition which we have
before us there are passages puerile and ridiculous,
and which would call forth laughter in the whole
civilised world ; such are the prohibitions to offer
incense to the devil,' to enter with him into tacit
agreements in order to find treasures,' and other
similar matters ; nn which points, however, one
may be permitted to ask the Father Inquisitors of
the Holy Roman Office if we are still living in
times when the ignorance of the public may be so
confidently reckoned on ; and one may further ask
the Court of Rome why there should in these days
be a Holy Office at all, and one represented by men
of such superhuman imbecility ? But, far worse
than this, we have the vile work of the spy and
the informer transformed into a duty of conscience,
with the penalty of excommunication launched
against all who fail to inform against offenders ; to
receive heretics is declared an action punishable by
the sacred tribunal; the contact with Jews is pro-
hibited under the heaviest denunciations ! And
these laws are in force in 1860. But this is not
enough. This decree contains an exhortation for
the purpose of encouraging self accusation, and pro-
mises mercy to those who shall accuse themselves.
The legislator, however, has taken good care that
the promise shall not be invoked as a right by those
to wiorn it was addressed, and he therefore made a
very simple reservation. He declared that a simi-
lar mercy should be practised only when the bonus
vie who might feel inclined to accuse himself to his
reverence ' had not been anticipated in his accusa-
tion either in that or in some other tribunal of the
Inquisition."llus, as the Holy Office has for its
foundation secrecy, the Father Inquisitor, who
might wish to apply a little of the torture, or the
bastinado, or fasting, or imprisonment (even per-
petual imprisonment) to some unfortunate being,
politically suspected, would be at ample liberty to
do so, by merely asserting that the person spon-
taneously informing against himself had been al-
ready informed against in some other branch of the
Inquisition. Ilis word would suffice, and his decrees,
in consequence, would more than suffice. In this
way traps awe laid for the weakminded by the reve-
rend instruments of the Court of Rome ; but we
have reason to believe that the persons so weak-
minded are few in number, and that those who seek
to ensnare them have been mistaken in their calcu-
lation.
" Meanwhile it will not appear extraordinary if
we address to these Father Inquisitors a single ques-
tion. Amongst the documents which relate to the
Papal Government, and will shortly be given to
the world, we have found several from which we
know that certain, inquisitors, vicars, and bishops,
by a trait of peculiar compassion, have revealed the
revelations thus obtained to the director-general of
police in Rome, who thought it right, in order to
add compassion to compassion, to imprison all those
informed against and their adherents, to commence
trials in order to procure the condemnation of a
prodigious number of persons accused, many of
whom, after a long term of years, are still waiting
the completion of their appointed punishment. We
have discovered letters from the head of the Roman
police (he is at the present day an archbishop and a
cardinal) suggesting to the compassionate vicars of
the Holy-office the questions which they ought to
put to the persons making spontaneous revelations,
in order to discover, not sins, but political conspi-
racies and attempts to raise up Italy from its abject
state. What explanations will the reverend fathers
give of these facts ? A friend of ours possesses a
letter of the Cardinal Bishop Castiglioni (who was
subsequently Pope
of Piusthe VIII Io
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informs
addressed oanootrhesr
legate
made by the patriots, reveals to him
theirchl'irm of
a
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political secretse:adding, ' these things I have
not learned by means of the confessional, but in
another way. If one must exclude the suspicion of
the confessional, that implies that it is not for the
very reverend fathers, clothed with inviolable
secresy !
" Meanwhile, as the document which we now
offer to our readers contains likewise an exhor-
tation, we too would address an exhortation to
the reverend fathers ; and it is to the effect, that
the time of a self-satisfied ignorance has passed
away; that the priesthood only covers itself with
ridicule when it gives such warnings as those in
the following law, when it requires the denuncia-
tion of heretics, and endeavours to brand all those
who are not Catholics as if they positively were not
human beings ! The massacre of St. Bartholomew
belongs to a bygone age, and the inquisitors may
reserve their work for the epoch at which some
new world shall be discovered.
" For the present, it suffices to exhibit for the in-
dignation and scorn of civilised Europe the follow-
ing document, which fitly represents the immora-
lity and the barbarism in which the temporal and
spiritual rulers of the Papal States still endeavour
to keep their subjects plunged :

"'DECREE.

i 4". We, Fra Filippo Bertolotti of the Order of
Preachers, Master in Sacred Theology in tho cities
and dioceses of Pesaro, Rimini, Fano, Pennabilli,
and in the districts and pace adjacent, Inquisitor-
General of the Holy Apostolic See, especially dele-
gated to watch against heretical pravity :
" We desiring, as is required by the duty of this
holy office entrusted to us, that the Catholic faith
(without which, as the Apostle St. Paul writes to
the Hebrews, it is impossible to please God) should
be preserved in this our jurisdiction immaculate
and pure from all heretical contagion; and it being
evident to us by experience that many through
malice, others through disobedience, and others
through ignorance, have not fulfilled the absolute
obligation under which they lie to denounce to the
Holy Office the offences relating to • the same, and
that there arise thence the most serious inconveni-
ences and errors, not only against gOod morals, but
also expressly against the Catholic faith ; we, there-
fore, to whom there should be especially at heart
the glory of God, the full preservation andincrease
of the holy faith, and the salvation of souls, in
order to obviate all disorders, by the apostolic
authority granted unto us, command, in virtue of
holy obedience, and, under the penalty of excom-
munication, in addition to the other penalties de-
nounced by the sacred . canons, decrees, constitu-
tions, and bulls of the supreme pontiffs, by the
tenor of the present edict—all and every person of
whatever state, rank, condition, or dignity, whe-
ther ecclesiastical or secular, that within a month,
ten days of which are, assigned for the first, ten for
the second, and ten for the third peremptory term,
they shall reveal or legally notify to us, or to our
vicars, or the respective ordinaries of the places, all
and each of those persms .respecting whom they
know, or may have obtained, or shall obtain notice :
," That they are heretics, or suspected or taxed
heresy,with
thoaryabettors, or receivers, or defenders
of heretics, or have adhered or do adhere to the
rites
of the Jews, or of the Mahometans, or of the
Catholic faith have apostatised from the holy
" ' Who have committed or commit acts from
which there may be inferred an express or tacit
agreement with the devil, by practising incanta-
tions, •magic, sorcery, offering unto the same in-
cense or prayers in order to find treasures, or 'other

unwarrantable ends, by invoking him or promising
unto him obedience, or doing other things in which
his name or works play a part :
" Who have occupied, or occupy themselves in
making experiments of necromancy, or of any kind
of magic, with the abuse of the sacraments, or of
the sacramental vessels, or of things sacred or
blessed :

" Who, not being priests, with sacrilegious
audacity have usurped or shall usurp the right to
celebrate the holy mass, or have presumed to ad-
minister the sacrament of penitence to the faithful
of Jesus Christ :

" Who have abused or may abuse the sacrament
of penitence, or the place of the same, contrary to
the apostolical decrees and constitutions :
"' Who have held or may hold secret conven-
tides or meetings in prejudice or scorn of, or con-
trary to, the holy Catholic religion :
" ' Who have made use of, or may make use of,
heretical blasphemies against blessed God, the most
Holy Virgin Mary, or against the saints, or have
committed or may commit any act of contempt or
of offence against the holy images; who, notwith-
standing the solemn vows made on their entrance
into any religious order approved of by the
Church, and, after having taken holy orders, have
contracted and contract, or may attempt to con-
tract, matrimony :
‘" Who, during the life of the first wife shall
take a second, or during the life of the first husband
shall take a second, or shall have attempted or at-
tempt to do the same :

" Who have impeded or may impede in any way
the office of the Holy Inquisition, or who in any
way shall have acted in contravention of the bull of
Pius V., which commences " Si di protegendis :"
" Who may have composed satires or diffused
writings against the supreme Pontiff, the sacred
college, superiors, ecclesiastics, or against the regu-
lar orders, or who may have composed or published
writings in any manner whatsoever, in which is
any abuse or profanation of sacred words :
" Who, without the required license, shall keep
in their possession writings or printed papers con-
taining heresies, or books of heretics that treat, ex
profess°, against religion, or who shall read them,
or print them, or cause them to be printed, or who
shall introduce or diffuse them under any pretext
or colour whatever :
" ' Who, without necessity or license, shall have
eaten or given to eat meat, eggs, or dishes made
with milk on forbidden days, in contempt of the
precepts of the Holy Church :
" Who shall have induced any Christian to em-
brace the Jewish faith, or any other sect contrary
to the holy Catholic religion, or shall have prevented
in any way the Jews or the Turks from being bap-
tised. It is also declared that, in the statement of
cases specified by us as requiring to be revealed to
the Holy Office, there are not excluded the other
cases belonging to its jurisdiction, comprised in the
sacred canons, decrees, constitutions, and bulls of
the supreme Pontiffs. Still less is the present edict
to be understood as cancelling any other canonical
apostolic provisions, or any other edicts which shall
have emanated from the ordinary authorities or from
the inquisitors;an d it isfurtherdeclared that thosewho
shall not denounce the guilty, as commanded by the
present edict, shall not be able to obtain absolution
from the excommunication laid upon them until they
shall have, as required above, with due legal form,
revealed the guilty individuals :
" ' And even should the term of the month as-
signed, as above, elapse, there will always remain
the obligation to reveal and to denounce, under the
same penalties, until the person in possession of the
information shall have effectually revealed and de-
) neunced the guilty. And in order that the present
edict, with its commands, both general and special,
may become known unto all, we order and command
that it be affixed in the churches belonging both to
the secular and regular clergy. And in order that
no one may affect ignorance of the present orders
and evade obeying them, we enjoin on printers,
booksellers, custom-house officers, excise officers,
porters, landlords, innkeepers, and shopkeepers, all
respectively, that they shall keep fixed up a copy of
the present edict in their respective printing-houses,
hookselling establishments, eustom-houses, town-
gates, taverns, inns, and shops, and that, too, in a
public place, where it may be seen and read by all.

" ' EXHORTATIONS.

" The principal, nay the only object of the tri-
bunal of the Holy Office being, as has been said
from the commencement, the glory of God, the ad-
vancement of the holy faith, and the salvation of
souls : we, therefore, after having commanded and
ordered as above, do now paternally exhort all
those who know themselves to be guilty of some
crime relating to the Holy Office to present them-
selves before us and our vicars, or before the ordi-
nary authority of the place, spontaneously, before
being anticipated or denounced by others ; and to
confess with all sincerity and integrity their errors
and their failings, assuring them that, provided they
have not been with the due legal forms previously
accused before some other ecclesiastical tribunal,
they will, be received with bowels of charity, and
treated with the singular mercy peculiar to this
holy tribunal ; aad will then, without any expense
and without any public penance and punishment,
be absolved and let go.
" SPECIAL ORDERS.

" In compliance with the orders specially given
to us relative to the printing, the introduction, the
sale, and the diffusion, of perverse and prohibitive
books, and having a special interest that, in the
cities and places of this our jurisdiction, there shall
be preserved that purity of faith which, through
the grace of the Highest, presently exists here, we
order and expressly command that no one shall
dare to print, to introduce, to sell, and to publish
books within And without the cities or other places
subject to us without these being subject to the re-
vision of this Holy Office, and of those whose duty
it is to superintend the same, under the penalties
established in the sacred canons, in the general and
and particular decrees of the supreme holy congre-
gation, and in the apostolical constitutions with
that view enacted and promulgated, and, in parti-
cular, in those of Clement VIII. and Gregory XV.
Moreover, in compliance with the orders, decrees,
edicts of the supreme holy tribunal of the Holy
Office of Rome, as well as withthe constitutions
and with the papal bulls, respectively published and
promulgated in reference to the Jews, especially in
what regards intimacy with the same; we order
and command that no one shall dare to transgress
the orders and injunctions specified in the same,
under the penalties therein expressed and threat.
ened.—Given at the Holy Office of Pesaro, on this
15th day of September 1841.
(Signed) " FR. FILIPPO BERTOLOTTI,
Inquisitor-General.
" ANTONIO SEVERINI, Chancellor-
General of the Holy Office.'"