The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

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A suitable income is to be provided for him from a
double source. " The Holy See will receive, as a

sort of tithe, public revenues from his form )1. States.
For this purpose a perpetual rents of will be
placed on the Grand Livre of the public debt of
Italy. Each Power is invited to contribute an
annual income proportionate to the Catholic popu-
lation of the country." Thus even Ireland, not to
speak of France, Spain, and Austria, will have
the opportunity of making the POPE as indepen-
dent as they please. Since being personally inde-
pendent, he will need only wealth to be much more
Pontifically independent than he now is.
Even the Cardinals are cared for. Roman
Catholicism is likely to become something like
catholic, so far as the proposed arrangements go.
At present, we believe, Italy gets the lion's share
in the conclave, and in the temporal keeping of an
Italian King such an abuse might seem likely to be
perpetuated. It is therefore expressly provided
that " the POPE will be allowed to choose as
much as possible his Cardinals from among the
different nations, according to the proportion of
Catholics. An annual allowance of will
be given by each nation to the Cardinals belong-
ing to that nation. Each Catholic nation to give
a certain number of guards of nonour, chosen by
the Legate of the POPE, and kept, at the expense
of each country. Daring the election of the POPE
no crowd or troops other than the Pontifical Guards
to approach the palace of the Conclave within a
distance of --. The King of ITALY takes the
solemn engagement towards the Governments and
people to protect the person of the POPE and the
independence of the Holy See."

Englishmen and Protestants generally will think
this an excellent bargain for the POPE, and will
wonder if he does not at once accept it. If it be,
indeed, as we incline to think it is, substantially,
perhaps literally authentic, we might well suppose
that the Imperial Interloper let it appear to pre-
pare the public for the creation of his tyrannical
occupation of another nation's capital.
Our contemporary finishes his quotations and
observations as follows :—" Thus, the pamphlet
concludes, the conditions laid down by the EM-
PEROR for the withdrawal of the French troops
will be fulfilled. These words are—' France will
occupy Rome until sufficient guarantees have been
given for the interests which led her there.' It
may be as well to add that a belief prevails that
the propositions set forth in the pamphlet are those
which Baron RicAsou has intimated in a confi-
dential communication to the Cabinet of the Tuile-
ries he is prepared to make to his Holiness."

A few days ago the announcement was confi-
denEy made that England, France, and Spain
were about to intervene in Mexico. Not to settle
the Government of that distracted country, nor to
give their support to either of the two parties
which are now contending for supremacy, but
merely to enforce the Ins' claims of their respective
subjects, who have suffered not merely from the
guerilla bands and brigands which infest the
country, but from the gross negligence, and in one
conspicuous instance from the violence of the party
which happened to be in power. Our Consul's
flag was not held sacred by the wretch MIRAMON,
who represents the Priest party there, and the
dividends of bondholders were actually taken from
his custody. In such a state of things it was surely
high time for Sovereigns to look after their subjects'
interests.
The Morning Post was, we believe, the first to
announce that the three countries concerned intended
to act jointly in exacting reparation. The Patrie,
on the part of France, immediately contradicted the
statement ; on what authority is not known. As,
however, the opposite statements of the French
and English papers produced corresponding
activity in buying and selling Mexican bonds in
Paris, we may guess the inspiration of the Patrie.