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in her demand of immediate part
equipment and other warlike materiL
of those dethroned princes is her own ca,
she be debarred from any possibility of res oring
them by direct intervention,
she will certainly give
them all the help she can afford underhand. The
whole question resolves itself into the consent she
may or may not obtain from France to these clan-
destine manoeuvres; though, so far as the Papal
States are concerned, 1 am inclined to think that
France herself must have winked at the enlistment
of the Swiss runaways from Naples both at Rome
itself and at Marseilles. It behoves the Italians, at
any rate, to be ready for any attack from their late
Sovefeigns, whether they come at the head of a
native or a foreign soldiery. A defeat they might
suffer from the Papalini or Duchisti, no matter
whether Italians, or disguised Swiss, or Croatians,
might lose them the sympathy of Europe past all
recovery.

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, 515.

I were compelled to return. No information of the
absence of the King had been given to them.
Filangieri is still at Sorrento, and holds himself as
much aloof as ever from all affairs of State, though
I am now given to understand that his counsel was
taken with regard to the expedition to the fron-
tier, and for the management of the campaign. All
official acts are still signed by the President,
Carascosa.
The gravity of the position may be estimated by
the fact that the Cardinal of Naples has sent a
letter to his clergy, by which he refuses all sacer-
dotal and ecclesiastical ordinations at present, and
during the season when such ordinations are made.
The reason assigned is that the Holy Father is ex-
posed to great danger. Such an act, together with
many others similar, which the Church knows well
how to execute in the right time are well calcu-
lated to exercise a considerable influence over the
minds of an ignorant and superstitious people.
How great is their superstition you may gather
from the following fact. On the day of the fete of
San Gennaro a French liner, the Hellespont, came
in and grounded on 2. shoal called the Gaiol 1,
near Posilippo. It is a well known spot and Go-
vernment is much to blame for never having placed
any signal there. It is said that the boatmen had
some words with the captain, and that the latter
called the blood of the saint the blood of a pig,
" and that very day, sir," says my informant, " the
vessel went ashore. The saint punished him for his
impiety. You may laugh as you like, but all Naples
says so. lam a religious man, and know that the
saint did it."

A letter from Mazzini, addressed to Victor Em-
manuel, privately printed, but freely circulated at
Florence, is now before me. It bears date the
16th of September, and seems to confirm the rumour
that Mazzini was here at some time or other. In
this letter Mazzini emboldens the King of Sardinia
to seize on the whole of Italy and make it one king-
dom from the Alps to the sea ; bidding defiance to
France, Austria, and as many European Powers as
might dare to say aught against it. He promises
the King the support of "us " all—that is, of the
whole of his ,own Republican party, though for
himself he expresses his readiness to go back into
the land of exile, being too far committed to his
party and too strongly wedded to his democratic
convictions to live under the sceptre of even the
most liberal and national King. Such is, however,
not the language Mazzini held in 1831 to Victor
Emmanuel's father, for in his letter " to Charles
Albert of Savoy," Mazzini showed no repugnance to
fight under a King's standard, provided only the
King should wage war against Austria.

MANIFESTO OF THE PAPAL GOVERN3fENT

The following is the text of the Allocution of the
Pope, delivered at the Consistory of the 26th ult. :
Venerable Brethren—ln the address which we de-
livered to you in June last, with our heart overcome
by grief, we deplored all that had been done by the
enemies of the Holy See at Bologna, Ravenna, and
elsewhere, against, the civil sovereignty which legi-
timately belongs to us and to this Holy See.
We moreover declared at the same time that they
had all incurred the ecclesiastical censures and
penalties enacted by the sacred canons, and we de-I'
creed that all their acts were null and void.
We indulged in the hope, however, that those
rebellious sons, moved and affected by our words,
would have returned to their duty; they all know
the kindness which 'we have always displayed
since the commencement of our Pontificate, and
with what love and zeal, in the midst of the serious
difficulties of the present times, we have always
directed all our care and all our thoughts to secure
the prosperity and the tranquillity of our people,
both as regards their temporal and spiritual inte-
reks. Supported by counsels, by instigations, and
by assistance from abroad, and feeling their auda-
city strengthened by that circumstance, they have
not hesitated at any attempt; and, carrying dis-
turbance into all the /Emilian (1) provinces sub-
ject, to our Pontifical power, they have withdrawn
them from our sovereignty, and from that of this
Holy See.

The standard of defection and rebellion having
been raised in those provinces, and the Pontifical
Government being therein overthrown, there were
at first established dictators of the sub-Alpine
kingdom,. who afterwards took the name of corn-
anssioners extraordinary, and then that of
governors-general. Audaciously arrogating to
themselves the rights of our supreme power, they
dismissed from public functions those persons whose
well-known fidelity towards their legitimate prince
made them regarded as incapable of joining in per-
verse designs. These men have not even feared to
usurp the ecclesiastical power by subjecting the
hospitals, the orphan establishments, and other in-
stitutions of that kind, to new laws% They have
gone so far as to ill-treat the members of the clergy
by sending them into exile or throwing them into
prison. In their declared hatred against the Apos-
tolic Sce they called together on the 6th of this
month, at Bologna, an assemblage which they
styled the National Assembly of the people of
and there promulgated a decree full of
lying pretexts and accusations, by which, falsely
alleging the unanimity of the people, they
declared in contempt of the rights of the
Roman Church, that they would no longer
be subjected to the Pontifical Government.
On the following day they made a fresh declara-
tion, as is now the custom, that those provinces
wished to be annexed to the domain and kingdom
of the King of Sardinia.
In the midst of those deplorable attacks, the
chiefs of the party incessantly labour by all the
means at their disposal to corrupt the habits of the
people, particularly by distributing books and
journals, printed either at Bologna or elsewhere,
and in which they encourage every kind of licen-
tiousness ; insult the person of the Vicar of Jesus
Christ; mock the practice of religion and of
Christian piety ; and turn into ridicule the prayers
commonly offered up to the moss Holy and Imma-
culate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, either to do
her honour or implore her powerful protection.
Even in theatrical representations there is no re-
spect for public honesty, modesty, or virtue ; and
the persons devoted to iod are held up to derision
and to contempt.
This is what is done by men who call themselves
Catholics and who declare that they are full of re-
spect and veneration for the supreme spiritual
power and authority of the Roman Pontiff. Every-
body sees how deceitful such a declaration must be,
for the authors of these acts conspire with all those
persons who wage relentless war on the Roman
Pontiff and on the Catholic Church, and who spare
no effort to root out and extirpate from all hearts,
if that were possible, our divine religion and its
salutary teacking.
This is why you particularly, Venerable Brethren,
who participate in our labours, and share our pain,
easily understand in what affliction we are plunged,
and what sorrow and indignation we feel in com-
mon with you and all well intentioned persons.
In the midst of such great bitterness of heart,
what consoles us is that the great majority of the
populations of the provinces of Emilia detect these
culpable enterprises, and stand aloof from thfm.,
with horror, preserving their fidelity to the legiti-
mate prince, and manifesting firm attachment to
our civil authority and to that of the Holy See ;
also, that the clergy of the same provinces, worthy
of the highest culogium, have nothing so much at
heart amidst these troubles and agitations as scru-
pulously to discharge their duties, and to show in
a striking manner their firm faith and the respect
with which they are animated towards us and the
Apostolic See, by braving and despising all perils.
And now, since we are bound by the gravest of

our duties and by a solemn oath to support un-
flinchingly the cause of our most holy religion, to
protect firmly against violation the rights and pos-
sessions of the Roman Church, to defend our civil
authority and that of this Apostolic See, and to
transmit it intact to our successors as the patri-
mony of St. Peter, we cannot refrain from raising
our apostolic voice, in order that all the Catholic
universe, and particularly all our venerable brethren,
the bishops—from whom we have received, in the
midst of _the bitterest sorrows, to the great joy of
our heart, so many remarkable and illustrious tes-
timonies of faith and love, and of attachtmhweeenbtdlteiosssauepsa:
it,heitserhLolmyaSyeke,noawndwtithhe patrimony\vh
erogry
it)oroaveecoomf epvliesth'y thiningth\evhiilcrhovitnhceesse mofen
jElnitaiTiea,dared
sub-
jected to our Pontifical sovereignty.
That is why we entirely reprove, and declare
null and of no effect, all the acts of which we have
spoken in this august assembly, and all the acts
encroaching on the power, ecclesiastical immuni-
ties, our civil sovereignty, and that of this Holy
See, principality, power, and jurisdiction—what-
ever may be the name given to these acts.
No one is ignorant that all those persons who,
in the provinces above named, have given their
support, counsels, or assent to the acts which we
blame, or have in any
.way promoted the accom-
plishment of them, have incurred the ecclesiastical
penalties and censures which we alluded to iu our
allocution mentioned above.

And not, venerable brethren, let us throw our-
selves with confidence at the foot of the throne of
grace, in order to obtain from Divine assistance the
consolation and the strength necessary in the
midst of such great adversities. Let us not cease to
address to God, who is rich in mercy, fervent and
humble prayers, in order that by his all-powerful
virtue he may bring back the guilty, some of whom,
perhaps, know not what they do, to better thoughts,
and to the paths of justice, religion, and salvation.

(1) The provinces of Rom4rna, now under the Papal
rule, were called ?Emilia under the latter rule of the
Romans.

•
MR. ROBERT STEPHENSON.—Wo greatly regret
to learn that the report of Nfr. Robert Stephenson's con-
valescence is incorrect. He still continues m a very pre-
carious state, and although somewhat easier last evening,
the symptoms aro of a eguacter t 9 cause great anxiety to
his frzentlP,—Ximes.