The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

Tn SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1859

enjoying all ;,`..1.,c lil',erties of the Protestants of the
Empire—at liberty to eket what representatives
they please—at I.iherty to cut up the kingdom into
dioceses, to ere( monasteries and cathedrals, to
preach and peril Irm in a dead language, for the
good of the living, any service they think fit, and
yet these are the men who sever themselves from
all their fellow-coantrymen,- by defending slavery
for Italians to the .last !

It was only a day or two ago, that
one of them who should be one of
the most respectable of their laymen, actu-
tually wrote to the Times, to vindicate the kid-
napping of the Jew child MoRTAitA, to defend
what France and other Catholic Powers have con-
science enough to blush for, and to accuse Eng-
land of doing the like deeds ! And what arc the
deeds which are the beam in our own eye, while
we denounce making converts by kidnapping chil-
dren? Why, just that Protestant ratepayers
maintain the starving children of Catholics, and
give them the benefit of the education to be had in
the workhouse school. As if these children could
not at any time be withdrawn by their parents, or
by any one who would maintain them, and the
Protestant rate-payers only be too glad that the
parents were better off, or that any ono was
charitable enough to take charge of them. Un-
compromising supporters as we have always been
of the liberties of Catholics, we shall blush for
those whose cause we have advocated, if we do
not see them hastening to repudiate such base
calumnies on their country as those of Mr. LANG-
DALE.

But more than this. Is it not infamous for any
man who treads the free soil of our free country
to wish the Italians, or any portion of them, to re-
main the slaves of a stupid old POPE, and a
set of bloodthirsty, money-loving, ambitious car-
dinals ? Of men who can massacre at Perugia,
and drain the people of their silver and gold
that they may enrich themselves, and have means
to tread the Romans under foot. We do not think
the POPE and his Cardinals worse than any set of
mortals, if placed under the same temptations ; but
we deny that ecclesiastics, especially unmarried eccle
siastics, ought to be placed in such a position. We
deny that any nation ought to be subjected to poli-
tical slavery against its own will, and by the inter-
vention of foreign powers. We deny that any
Emperor has a right to say to any nation—You shall
not change your ruler, however much you detest him.
France has done that often enough, in all conscience
and what right has she to tell the miserable Romans
that they shall have no other Sovereign than their
bishop—a bishop, too, elected not by themselves,
but by a set of men having the least conceivable
title of any to elect for the rest. Englishmen, and
Irishmen too, surely know all this ; and when a set
of ecclesiastics here put forth documents wailing
and crying about the temporal rule of the POPE
and groaning because the Italians long to be de-'
livered from it—is it not time for laymen to tell
bishops, priests, and fathers to mind their
prayers—to leave the oppressed to get their liberty
if they can—nay, rather to tell the HOLY FATHER
in plain terms, that he would be holier in their
eyes if he did not defile his hands with temporal
power, and with shedding blood to retain it.
If our Catholic fellow-countrymen are so priest-
ridden as to sit down quietly by the disgrace
fastened on them by theft spiritual advisers, we
can only say we are sorry for it. We wish to
think better of them. We wish to believe that
they prize their British liberties so much that they
would not endure without insurrection a grinding
ecclesiastical despotism in temporal things. If they
would not, then let them memorialise the Emperor
of the FRENCH to withdraw his troops, to forbid
any other intervention, and leave the Romans to
settle accounts with their Bishop despot. Un-
deubtedly they would soon relieve him of the
duties of despotism, when he would as un-
doubtedly attend better to those of Bishop.
As certainly would his subjects unite with their
brother Italians, and expedite by many years the
only possible final solution of the Italian question.

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dull, but with slight variation in prices. Threes
varied from 69f. 25c. to 69f, 30c. ; Mobilier, 765 f.
to 768 f. 75c. ; Lyons, 906 f. 25c. to 908 f. 75c.; Or-
leans, 1,357 f, 50c. to 1,360 f. ; Southern, 507 f. 50c.
to 508 f. 75c. ; Austrian, 540 f. to 541 f. 25c. ; Lom-
bard, 546 f. 25c, to 547 f. 50c. The following were
the last quotations :

ti per Cents. .... 95 —lCre'dit Foncier 690
Do. end month .. 95 —lBelgian 4t —
3 per Cents . 69 40 I Piedmontese (5) .. 83
Do, end month.... 69 35 Roman B4
Bank Shares 2940 Austrian
Cr4dit Mobilier .. 771 25 Spanish Threes
Du. Account ..... 771 25 , Home Debt 4ll