The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

17IE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

The Pope's Allocution, which we lay before our
readers this morning, is a prolonged shriek. It is
with heartfelt compassion that we offer the follow-
ing observations for the consideration of the Holy
Father, in the hope that they may tend to reconcile
him to the altered position of the Papacy. When
Lamennais 30 years ago called upon the Pope to
cast off his temporalities, and throw himself into
the arms of the Democracy of Europe, that was a
challenge which it was perfectly open to the Pope,
in consistency with the whole theory of the Roman
Church, to decline. The Church of Christ is not a
partisan. She does not concern herself with forms
of government; she does not favour this or that
faction; she knows no difference between democrat
and aristocrat ; she has no political prejudices, and
looks on men only as Cnristians and spiritual beings.
To accept Lamenvais' challenge would have been to
adopt a new and gratuitous policy, by which the
Church would have handed herself over to one
side, instead of embracing and comprehending
all sides ; because Lamennais' idea was not simply
that of the Pope giving up his temporalities, but
giving up his alliance with crowned beads.
That was the sin of the temporal Crown of
the Papacy, that it gave its wearer monarchical
and aristocratical sympathies, whereas he ought
to have only democratical sympathies, and there-
fore the abandonment of that course on such a ground
as this would have been a political act—a party
act. The event has shown that it would not have
succeeded. This or something like it was once the
dream of Pio Nono himself. He did not give up
his crown, indeed, but he announced himself a
democrat, and was the momentary idol of the Ita-
lian democracy. Sanguine hearts even in this coun-
try were swelling at the prospect, and we were told
that we should see what we should see—something
that would astonish us soon—a new order of things,
a new combination of parties and principles that
the world had not yet witnessed. That was the
talk of the day. But the combination was tried, and
it would not work. The bubble burst, and the old
regime returned. And so ended the democratical
era of the Papacy, because such an idea was a flash
idea, and nothing more. There was a swagger about
it, an intellectual bravado, a defiance of old heads.
It was one of those combinations which people
create simply because they wish for it; it had a
grand new look about it, surprising everybody and
making everybody stare—old dogma modernising
itself into a nineteenth century discovery, the very
last invention of the age, and the newest pheno-
menon of the intellect. It was a glorious hit, a
magnificent stroke of speculation, to effect this
identity of the old and new, and to put the Papacy
at the head of the intellect of the day as the repre-
sentative of march of mind. It came to nothing,
however, because it was, in reality, a piece of fop-
pish, empty flash and speculative coxcombry,
knocked off by the sellsprung inspiration of con-
ceited brains, and that transcendental kind of
genius which, from the foundation of the world,
has never thought for one moment of what was
true, but only of what was " fine," and has there-
fore never been without some gaudy bubble.
But the present call upon the Papacy, the chal-
lenge which lies in the present course of events, is
a totally different one from that which was given
it by the enthusiasts of thirty years ago. The call
upon the Papacy now is not to throw up its tempo-
ralities, because they connect it with one political
party instead of with another, and therefore to
throw them up as a party act, but to give them up
in plain obedience to a course of events ; nor does
any one tell the Pope to throw himself upon the
European democracy as a substitute for his temporal
crown, but to throw himself upon his spiritual
supremacy in exchange for it. The ideas of the
two plans and lines of action are entirely different,
and must not be confounded. The question now
is, what is the Pope to do when it is quite clear
that he is going to be deprived of one ground of
his authority and left only another to go upon ?
The answer is, that if the one which is still about
to be left him is the early and original ground of
the Papacy, whereas the other is of later growth
and the creature of events—if the one is its essen-
tial ground, all that, according to its own theory,
it wants, the other a mere accident, which it pro-
fesses itself quite able to do without,—its natural
and manly course is to give up the accidental ap-
pendage which its own communion grudges it, and
throw itself at once upon its spiritualities. Nobody
wishes the Papacy to try a new ground, and make
a grand experiment, as Lamennais did, but only to
go back to an old ground, and assume the position
which it professes to have had
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that the is an impostor and her theory a lie, not
by any proof from opponents, but by her own
confession. To cling, then, with the desperation
with which she is now doing to a confessedly merely
accidental appendage to her spiritual power, as if
all were going with it, is to betray a practical dis-
trust in her own theory.
The Church had neither crown nor sceptre, not
a foot of land under her rule, not the corner of
place in the politics of Europe; she did not appointa
a senator or a magistrate or a constable, ws
Ambrose met Theodosius at the porch of tinhuenCiecanattheedt-.
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the Roman Church,
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cannot the very events of this movementP ve r,
Pope denounce- Victor Emmanuel
a parricide, but he dares not deny as a robber and
that robber and
parricide the sacraments. That robber and parri-
cide enters the Pope's own territories as one of the
faithful ; he cannot be
prevented from being a
Christian by all the omnipotence of Rome. Is this
a state of things to contend fur, as if the Roman
Church would lose its power when its temporalities
went ? Lose her power, indeed ! Wny, what great
power has she to lo
se if she cannot perform one
spiritual Rot w 6. 4inst the very leader in the %to-ileac?

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.e off' when she has lost her
plain, at altevents, that she it
not to have th e 00 ton, that the first son of the
Church, the 7 13.0114. Bch who by position is such, is
o show that if the Pope would not
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en talked of as the field on which the
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revival of a spi ritual Papacy is to be tried. This is,
indeed, a %-'2l by
er too primitive prospect ; it is not
pleasant to be reminded so pointedly of early be-
ginnings, and to have to face the perpetual memen-
toes of a yew! es love', reminding us of times, when
neither Cardk lulls i'or temporal Popes nor evens
s viritual Popes existed. This is for the Papacy to,
in '0 w itself: 'I Chico return to such very first rudi-
me„A's is disco urteou,-, ; it is a lesson of humility
given at the i nest inopp,lrtime moment. We do not
like this examination into our emblazoned pedigree.
Ther,c. itl, however, but one way of taking this chal-
lerige, 2,nd that is to come fov ward in the first
t shrink from
inst. vice, and accept it boldly. One must not, at
on. Rome has
en ou,g,ho for l
any fate, ,l'all by one's own coniessl
theory, and she must no
theory._ of her
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and therefore she any repugnancm
baek upon it ?-w-hryinilleass.

ROBBERY Of £1,500 AT LIT.ERPOOZ

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John Thomas fkicha rdson, who had been in-
custody for more than a fortnight upon the charge
of stealing three £5OO Bt ink of England notes and
£75 in gold, the proper%
7 of Mr. Henry Moore, a
grocer, at Liverpool,
lees
i on Saturday brought
before the beach of n tag strates sitting at the
Court-house, at Liv,,,rpo 01, for final examination
upon the charge.
Mr. Toulmin,
solicits."' of Liverpool, appeared to
conduct the prosecution ; aud Mr. Beard, solicitor,
of Basinghall-street, atte n ded on behalf of the
prisoner.
It will be remembered that .the prosecutor, who
was out of business, resided k it Sandstone-road,
e was com-
Liverpool ; and on the day the
obb
milted he and his wife went out, .wing no one in
left locked.
e oom
tha house, and a sum of nearly £2oo' ‘, vasr. The
up in one of the drawers in his be
reason for his having so large a sum optmoney by-
him was that Mr. Moore had made array ngements
for the purchase ofsome property, and he had
provided the money for that purpose, but oet'ing to
the deeds necessary to carry out the sale being
accidentally not prepared by the time specified, it
became necessary that he should keep the money'
by him for a day or two, and it was owing to this
unfortunate circumstance that he sustained his
severe loss. Upon the return of Mr. Moore and
his wife in the evening they speedily discovered
chat some one had entered the house during their
absence, and that the whole of the money was
gone. Information of the robbery was given to
the police, and the notes were stopped at the Bank
of England, but nothing was then heard of them
until about a month ago, when one of the £5OO
notes was paid into the Bank of England by a
London firm, and it turned out that this note had
been changed for gold and Prussian and French
bank notes by a money-changer at Berne, in Swit-
zerland. Nothing further was heard of the matter
until a few days afterwards, when the prisoner
presented himself at the shop of Messrs. Mon-
tagu and Co., money-cha:agers, on Cornhill, and he
produced nearly the whole of the Prussian bank
Dotes that had been given a,,t Berne for the £5OO
note, and wished to get them changed, but in con-
sequence of information they ha,ri received they sent
for Sergeant Funnell, a detective officer of the City
police, and he was given into cistody and ultimately
was sent down to Liverpool to uadorgo examina-
tion upon the charge of having stolen the property
in question. Upon the case being called on, Mr.
Toulmin addressed the bench, and said that since
the last examination the prosecutor had not been
able to obtain any further evidence to convect the
prisoner with the charge. It was supposed that
evidence would have been forthcoming to prove
that the prisoner had changed one of tke notes
abroad, but the result of inquiries had led to the
belief that this was not the case, and under th ese
circumstances he should not ask for any further .re-
mand or detention of the prisoner. The chairmata
having consulted with his brother magistrates said
that after the statement of the solicitor for the pro—
secution their only course was to order the prisoner
to be discharged, and he was consequently at ones,
set at liberty. The inquiry appeared to excite a.
great deal of interest, the court being crowded dur-
ing the proceedings, and a good deal of commisera-
tion was expressed for Mr. Moore, to whom the
loss of the money is very serious indeed. Upon the
application of Mr. Beard, the magistrates ordered.
that a bank note, some gold, and a large quantity
of diamonds, that were found upon the prisoner
when he was apprehended by Funnell, should. be
delivered up to him.

LOUNTRY M4RICB7'S.

YORK-- OCT. 6.

The supply of wheat was limited to-day, but the demand
was fair, and currencies were le per qr over the previelte
week. Of barley the show was scanty, at former rates.
Oats firm. Beans is dearer.

Wheat, red .62s to 64s 1 Oats.... 2Bs to 30s
White do .64s to 688 I
Beans 48s to 60s
Barley .348 to 42s Peas ....—s to —s
Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 40s per qr. ; flour, 47s to
50s per sack.