The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-05 00:00:00

OUTWARD MAILS.

I The Ottawa, with the London mails of the 27th
August and 3d September, reached Aden on the
19th ult., with her mainshaft broken. The Norna
Went on with her mails and passengers to Bombay.
The Benares, with the Indian mails of 12th and
18th August, reached Bombay on the 7th Sept.
The Company's steam hip Orissa, which left
Southampton on the 7th July, arrived at Bombay
on 7th September,
The Colombo, with the Indian mails of 4th and
10th August, arrived at Calcutta on 10th Sept.
(three days early).
The Ripon, from Southampton 20th Sept., arrived
at Malta on the 30th, at 4 p.m.

The Vectis, from Marseilles on the 28th Sept.,
reach Malta on the 30th, at 11 p.m. She left for
Alexandria at 2 neat morning.

TIRE TEMP ORAL P 4ER OF 711.18 POP.E.

The crisis which has come upon the Roman
Church is one for which she is obviously wholly
unprepared. She never can believe that every one,
even the Emperor of the French, is against her
temporalities, and that it would be a relief to every
one if the Pope quitted the Holy City. We see
this in the tone taken by her advocates and cham-
pions everywhere. If any one wants to see a great
Power grovelling in the dust he has only to ,cast
his eye over the comments of the Romanist party
upon the Italian movement, showing the most
wretched, impotent, blind rage, and nothing more.
This is the way in which the Roman Church takes
a great trial. She does not know what to do ; she
has no view, no plan, no line of action before her,
no policy to meet this new state of things ; she is
simply taken aback, and storms at her invaders.
As if it were of any use tobe in a rage, and as if those
whom she complains of were the people to be at all
moved by it ! Rome has great credit for versatility,
for seeing her way under altered circumstances,
and finding the proper treatment to give to all
events ; but it looks now as if she had lost herself',
and were dizzied and thrown off her balance; as if
her head were ;one ; as if she could only think the
past and the future were a dead wall to her; as if
everything was a blank to her when the triple
crown once went.

This is the more astonishing, because the Roman
Catholics cannot point to a single part of the scope
and system of their Church which requires the tem-
poral power of the Pope for its support. Their
theory is quite complete without it; they confess
that it is ; they boast that it is. They would be
ashamed to show their faces in the presence of
Christendom and say that they needed the tempo-
ral power, and had not a perfect, complete,
nd
efficient basis without it. They have, therefore,
always been particular and earnest in telling us
that their ground is a spiritual one, and a spiritual
one purely and exclusively, and that any temporal
position connected with it is a mere accident, which
has nothing to do with the life of the Church, and
can be thrown off, like the most superficial drapery,
without the least loss to the substance of the Church.
They have always told us that their Church wields
no fleshly weapon, but the sword of the Spirit ;
that she rules by moral power only, and that her
one sole' instrument for the support of her authority
is spiritual censure, whereby she exercises the
right, which belongs to all religious bodies as such,
of removing from her pale the dissentient and the
disobedient. If this is their pound, then, what
harm does the fall of the temporal power of the
Pope do to the Roman Church ? She can go on
just the same, and do all the acts which she has
done. The whole ground of discipline is open to
her ; the whole ground of doctrine is open to her.
She can excommunicate right and left as much as
she pleases, there is nothing to prevent her ; she
has still the sword of the Spirit, and can brandish
it as she likes. She can go on " developing" Chris-
tian doctrine to her satisfaction ; she added one
doctrine to the faith a year or two ago, she may
add twenty more, if she likes, within as many
more years • whether Rome is under Papal rule, or
French rule, or Sardinian rule, there will be
nothing to prevent her. She is not likely to meet
with any opposition to her creed-making either
from Napoleon 111. or from Cavour, who are pro-
bably not much interested in this invisible depart-
ment; but if she did she has it all in her own
hands. She can make and unmake, plant and pluck
up, pull down and build, and work all her will and
pleasure in the whole world of spiritual discipline
and doctrine. What more does she want ? She
has the perfect command of a complete spiritual
machinery, extending in every direction over the
four quarters of the globe ; she can summon every
Bishop of her communion, from Mexico to Macao,
to her central tribunal; she can hold any Coun-
cil she likes, the Propaganda can go on, the
Index Expurgatorius can go on, the Cardinals can
go on, Consistories can go on, Conclaves can go on,
St. Peter's can go on, the Vatican can go on. What
is there that cannot go on all the same ? What is
there to dread, then, in this loss of a temporal king-
dom, and why cannot the Pope throw himself upon
the inalienable spiritual power of his office, and
take his stand upon his claim to be the spiritual
centre of Christendom ? That is his natural course,
' his politic course, the only course which religious
honour leaves him under such circumstances as the
present. The temporalities go whether he will or
no; why, then, not, at ani rate, make a virtue of
necessity, and say that he can do without there
when he cannot keep them? Such a course would
the
be sure to awaken the highest enthusiasm of
whole Roman communion; it would flamekindtl_eeasignal
in the whole Roman Catholic world; h
was
slicne would be
kwnoouNlNd,
that given andord e ther nf
thingsnote struck,°
commencing,
wouldnoi
ng
and the result would be that
marked out for the Papacy
fresh start would thus be gain:
and the new course
new career would be laid down, by agdenneinrvda
tchoonsen basist.
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wtfroera treatment e
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suitable interpretation
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have
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of events would
pu
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favourablet
l letu )Papacy.on is
not the idea of the Roman Church,
But this
rate that party in it which surrounds the
PoPet
clings to an old state of things with
o desperation,ra'ant
i sd e.
rl oiifnvge .
d Tfe Pry
how to deal with a new state of things. The whole
o
future is a blank to it if the Pope be not a temporal
Monarch. They look forward to it with simple
confusion and dismay, and know not what will be-
co e
without
athepolCichyu.rchil It is without a view and
opfeoou itts this is imbecility ; it is
d
oafllt
laudh in atStitLaley. Leo was if
is a
ifhe
great deal more than St. Leo was, for even the
spiritual supremacy made many long strides after
St. Leo's time. Why cannot he fall back upon the
spiritual supremacy, and throw up the adventitious
secular addition which is grudged him, and which
is the fruitful source of the most awkward relations
and collisions ? But, instead of this, what is the
present hope of the Roman Catholic world' A
war ! " A war," says Archbishop Cullen's organ,
" will cool this raging fever; grape shot will expel
these evil humours." The Gallican Prelates re-
echo these sentiments. An European war, then, is
to be the Heaven-sent remedy and restorative for the
Papacy; that is the last resource, and that is the
last chance which now consoles the Papal party, A
suitable consolation indeed to a Christian bishop
and the professed head of Christendom, who, ac-
cording to his creed, ought to think war the most
hateful of all things ! But the Roman Court can-
not divest itself of the belief that this is merely
as
passing danger from a particular quarter, which
general convulsion may put aside. It will fihe
the
itself mistaken. The present move agatllpasLsing.
Papacy as a temporal Power is no Tore ftli"g"
stir, it represents an accumulated growth of of
it represents a principle to whichnat hie
the Roman
modern policy is committed,
not perhaps of
Salerno and Avignon, thou
Court is still sunk in an obsoleteh dream,
guabbles of crowned
rsvcithing thinking of
right, and no
Jerusalem,
heads. A war is to setae
e-i" wanted. We shall
new Papal view or policyno had
war enough, and
see whether we have t
and of pass
a peaceful way.—Timis.
y not, after all, quit Rome, and.
whether the Poptiin
lose his_temporali'c'si-in

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The appearance, but some steady receipts of
lie4vi: ill now be required to -
Continental exchanges do not present a
meet the Con-
gold
na rotleirtulefercifAY:iou.Ems tasratelti,n
that the subma-
i cram yesterday announces
Algiers has been successfully landed at the
'demand.
island of Minorca, and that messages are in course of per-
fect transmission both ways. The distance is 250 miles,
tinental an
and Eomo portion is 2,000 fathoms deep—approaching the
general depth of the route of the unsuccessful Atlantiit 0.
The portion from A_ linorcato Toulon in France will bo about
another 250 miles, and this is expected to be laid during
the premit gaciAtil al91" 13
OW WePit4cr Pr 979 Am:arable.