The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-09 00:00:00

hear the cry, " Come over and grow cotton." Even
Venezuela is appealing to them. Xamaica, through
Mr. BOURNE, spoke again to them yesterday, and
really offers a splendid prospect; arid India they
know enough of, if they would but bestir them-
selves. If Manchester would but use half the effort
to get cotton grown that she did to get the Corn-
laws repealed, she would soon be as secure against
a cotton famine as against a famine of bread.

The Italian clergy seem to regard the Italian
State much as BALAAM did his ass. But the resem-
blance holds good to their inconvenience, for the
State which has long so faithfully served them
seems to have its eyes open to the dangers before
it, and being endued with the voice of a religious
teacher, rebukes the madness of the clergy--it
would save them from destruction, although they
beat it. The Chief Priests, as of old, seem to be
the chief offenders, the humbler clergy being either
better affected towards the kingdom of Italy, its
KING and Government, than their superiors, or
being only guilty of following the lead of their
chief shepherds. It is, therefore, to these grandees
of the humble kingdom of the Saviour that M.
MIGLIETTI chiefly addresses a circular which has
been lately made public.
This circular is a respectful but very firm and
manly piece of advice to the ecclesiastical digni-
taries of Italy, by the Minister of Grace, Justice,
and Public Worship. It instructs these teachers of
others, in the duties they themselves owe to the
State, and warns them of the consequences of dis-
obedience. It is a well-timed exposure before all
Italy and Europe of the selfishly ambitious obsti-
nacy of the Ecclesiastics, and prepares the way for
requiring them to bow or to—be off. M. MIGLIETTI
points out to them that the events which have re-
constitnted the kingdom of Italy have been of such
a character, that the masses recognised in them the
hand of Providence, accepted the kingdom all the
more heartily, and regard with the greater indigna-
tion those who rear up obstacles in the way
of their natural wishes. Most lamentably the
clergy, even the highest, instead of sympathising
with the popular joy, or "at least resigning them-
selves to this change of affairs," openly oppose the
national Government and its laws, and endeavour
to inspire the belief thikt both are a contradiction
to the doctrines and tenets of the Catholic Church.
Then follow various counts of the indictment for
disloyalty—pastoral letters filled with treasonable
arguments—instructions intended to disturb the
consciences of the citizens on account of their
loyalty to the great movement—denial of sacred rites
to those who have fallen in the war of indepen-
dence—prohibition of holy rights at national solem-
nities,—harsh measures towards priests who
favour separation of civil and secular power—
sermons libelling the King and exciting the con-
gregations to contempt and disobedience of the
laws—refusing the Holy Gospels for the soldiers to
swear allegiance on them to the Government—and
even heading brigands by hoisting before them
" the standard of our redemption." These are
some specimens of the way in which the clergy
have irritated the people and separated themselves
from them.
This, M. MIGLIETTI tells them, is a state of
things which cannot last, and ought not to last.
It revolts the conscience of all that the feeling of
religion, and the feeling of nationality should be
represented as hostile to each other—men cannot
believe that they are called on to make their choice
between "the preservation of religious faith and
the independence and liberty of the country."
The Minister reminds the clergy of the KING
having fulfilled every duty on his part towards
them, and having done it even liberally. In the
necessary regulation of the material interests of
ecclesiastical corporations, they have been dealt with
generously; but he demands of the clergy that
they adopt a national and loyal policy, and
intimates that he is determined to be obeyed. He
cannot, he says, remain an indifferent spectator of
their conduct. The Government is firmly resolved
not merely to remove from itself every responsibility
of the calamitous consequences which may ensue,

but even to seek all means of bringing it to a close.
He bids the clergy to reflect on the picture they

exhibit of anxiety about worldly affairs, to devote
themselves to the kingdom which is not of this
world, and warns them that the Government has

both the right and duty of insisting on obedience
to its fundamental principle, and of " securing
the Italian people against the license in which
the clergy have indulged in the exercise of their
sacred functions."

We trust the Government will be found more
than a match for the proud prelates. They are
strong no doubt in the ignorance of the multitude,
and strong in that most hateful invention of priest-
craft—the magic efficacy of sacraments to men's
salvation. In virtue of this Christian Fetischism,
for it is nothing better—the priests of Rome
especially, and the priests of other Churches
too, make themselves masters of the fears
of the ignorant and of the women of a

country generally. Gross superstition is the
strength of priestly ,influence,—their power
for mischief—but they may overdo this. When
superstition is openly worked in the interest of
worldly ambition, it may work a reformation little
thought of by the priests themselves. Once before,
Protestantism would have mastered Italy but for
the Inquisition and the sword—and the Italian
clergy had better take care lest they produce in the

Italian mind the conviction that nationality and
liberty aro safe only through casting off the
priests and all faith in magic rites. As Protestant,
England could wish for nothing better than that

the priests should go on in their course—that they
should even refuse the " last sacraments" to every
dying liberal. They would then assuredly raise

n the public mind the fatal question whether those

ordinances were appointments of the founder of
Christianity, or simply priestly incantations.

Although the tide of emigration still sets
steadily from our shores, and principally towards
Canada, it sometimes occurs to us very forcibly
that the temptations held out to the adventurous
youth of England, by that colony in particular, are
hardly understood or appreciated at their true
value. Is it sufficiently well known, for examplo,
that—in Canada—settlers can at any time obtain
free grants of one hundred acres of land upon the
following very simple and reasonable conditions :

"1. That the settler be 18 years of age. 2. That
he takes possession of the land allotted to him
within one month. 3. That he put into a state of
cultivation 12 acres of land in the course of four
years. 4. That lie build a log house, 20 by 18 feet,
and reside on the lot until the foregoing conditions
are fulfilled."

Surely a very alluring inducement to any enter-
prising stripling bent upon seeking his fortunes and
unembarrassed by what are familiarly, bat not very
complimentarily, designated by so very domestic
race as the English, " encumbrances." Why, with
health and with a moderate yearning for the reali-
sation. of that honest ambition sung by ROBIN
BURNS as the " glorious privilege of being indepen-
dent," here are temptations enough, one might think,
to render even the most gregarious of his kind eager
to emulate the romantic career of ALEXANDER SEL-
X4ltlii Aild to illuetrate, by their ONYD li!ee, the pie-