The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-07 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

The Union publishes the following as being, if
not the exact text of the Pope's Allocution in the
late Consistory, at least very nearly the ipsissima
versa of his Ho :
" In these times of confusion and disorder, it is
not rare to see certain Christians, certain Catholics
—there are some of them among the secular clergy
and in convents who have ever on their lips the
words middle-term, conciliation, compromise. Well!
I do not hesitate to declare these men are mistaken,
and I do not regard them as the least dangerous
enemies of the Church. We live in a corrupt and pes-
tilential atmosphere ; let us endeavour to preserve
ourselves from it ; let us not suffer ourselves to be
poisoned by the false doctrines which destroy every-
thing, under pretence of saving everything. Just as
conciliation is not possible between God and Belial,
so it is not possible between the j ust and the unjust, be-
tween the Church and those who would compass her
destruction, Undoubtedly, it is necessary that our
firmness shonld be blended with prudence; but it is
equally necessary that no false prudence should
lead us to enter into a compact with impiety. In
the accomplishment of duty, there is often, it is
true, persecutions and great evils to be apprehended;
' but when persecution comes, none but the sinner is
confounded, and seeks to arrange everything in ac-
cordance with his fears and interests. The just man,
on the contrary, profits by it to fortify himself and
to find fresh energy in the accomplishment of duty.
Therefore let us stand firm ; no conciliation, no com-
tiromise with the ungodly; no forbidden and impos-
sible compromise. I commend this to all Catholics,
but especially to the members of the clergy who
may be inclined to be misled by perverse doctrines,
contrary to the interests and just rights of this
Holy See and of the Church. (At these words the
Holy Father rose froth his seat, and stretching out
his hands towards Heaven, continued.) Let us pray
Almighty God to display His merciful arm to pro.
tea my beloved Rome (here the Pope's voice was
broken by a sob) and preserve it from the poison of
error and impiety !"

(From Oa Times.)
When the temporal power of the Pope shall have
been overthrown people will almost be justified In
saying that it fell by adhering to a well-approved
policy. Haughty and pertinacious resistance, con-
fessing nothing, yielding nothing, conciliating no
enemy, hardly deigning to thank a friend, has been
for the most part the practice of the Papacy in all
times ; and in modern days there has been no de-
parture from it. Undoubted success has attended
this policy. Firmness has well become the Rock
of Peter. Relying on a position from which it was
not in the power of legitimate or upstart rulers to
remove them—namely, the acknowledged primacy
of the Roman Catholic world—the Popes have been
troublesome adversaries to every Prince who bas
meddled with them. The difficulty of coercing or
ignoring a personage who must be treated with in
relation to the ecclesiastical concerns of the coun-
try which resists him has been felt by Bourbons
and Hapsburgs and Bonapartes ; and even revolu-
tionary leaders like the French politicians of 1848
have thought it well to keep the peace with the
venerable incarnations of obstinacy who rule at the
Vatican. Even now the policy is not antiquated.
" Non possionus" is still in many things the best
answer which cart be given to kings or assemblies,
or reformers, or philanthropists. As long as it is
the faith of millions and the theory of their Church
government that all spiritual authority resides in
the Pope, that bishop, priest, and deacon are only so
many channels through which the ecclesiastical
oivhienema
power flows from him, that severed from him they
at once lose their heavenly commission—that, in
short
forDt
were, the supply
e can make his
own terms with foreign rulers with regard to many
grace—so
at
otice
leountg off,t ase
pop i t
things. Ile can wring stringent concordats out of
them; he can interfere with education, with mar-
riage, with the progress of legislation, and the most
self-willed Princes will be obliged to compound
with him, and to admit him to a share of authority
within their own limits.

But there is at present one great question before
the world which cannot be settled by the ordinary
method. "Non possumus"
fails as an answer to the
demand of the Pope's own subjects for self-govern-
ment. As long as his Holiness is intrenched within
the boundaries of his spiritual rights, and has to do
with foreign States whose own policy forces them
to respect him, the theory of immobility is very
well. The worst that even a conqueror could do
would be to seize and imprison the Pontiff, and
the end of that would be that he would emerge
with all the glory of a martyr, and with the
strengthened authority which belongs to a re-
stored Sovereign. A quarrel with his own people,
however, is a real difficulty _ff.ir the Pope. Though
certainly not without precedent in
ins history of
the Papacy, it has not in later times beef; an 1"7-1-:i-
-nent danger for the See of St. Peter, and the
Vatican seems hardly to have studied how to meet
it. The strength of Austria in the Legations was
sufficient to control the discontent which her op-
presion had provoked, and as to the Romans, it
was not until! 1848 that their became really
serious. Now, however, the case is desperate. More
than half the Roman State is gone, and the rest only
waits the disappearance of the French to disown
the Papal authority. There is hardly any Word
gentle enough to express the teVolation which
Uuld take place as soon as the last French ups
form vanished ill the direction of Civita Vecchia.
Tho power of the Pope would not be overthrown or
broken down ; it could hardly be said to melt away;
it would simply cease to be. The French army, in
fact, is the Papal power; take that away, and there
is literally nothing left. The people would not even
have to struggle with the few Guards which re•
mained ; these would probably neither interfere
with public affairs nor be themselves interfered
with. The Government of Victor Emmanuel would
at once succeed to that of the French General; the
temporal authority of the Pope would have passed
away without disturbing a lady's afternoon drive ;
there would not even be one old man the less at the
Vatican.

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cause it is independent of any action of the Pope
himself. The new Government does not even re-
quire the Pontifical blessing. So that the policy
which Pius IX. has clung to from a tradition of its
efficacy has been almost for the first time a failure.
This however the Pope and his advisers cannot yet
see. They still believe that the princes of the earth
must in the end interfere to protect the Holy See.
As to the Emperor of the French, there is one idea
which Pius and Antonelli and Merode have always
in their minds. " He dare not" is the secret convic-
tion of the Papal conclave. The ruler of France—
France with its millions of peasantry, its 40,000
priestly controllers of votes—cannot allow Rome to
be conquered by the Revolution. Society in Paris
is against it, the Empress is against it, the salon as
well as the cottage is against it. French influence
in many regions of the earth depends mainly on the
support of the Catholic body. In the East, for in-
stance, the protection of France is gratefully repaid
by crowds of missionaries, who impress on all whom
they control that France is the first nation of the
world, and the Emperor the greatest of all rulers.
Shall the Papacy be provoked into diverting all
this influence into some other channel, and into
dissolving this long-enduring and mutually advan-
tageous patisanship ? " The Emperor dare not de-
sert us; let us remain firm, and all will be well."
This hallucination is well shown by the Pope's
allocution at the Consistory lately held. Iu a tone
of mingled defiance and supplication he protested
against the designs of his enemies and the luke-
warmness of those who still called themselves his
friends. But the full stream of his anger was
poured on those who advised compliance with the
desires of his subjects. Perhaps the Pope may be
right in thinking it is too late now to make any
terms with the Revolution ; at any rate, the ad-
visers of such a course are stigmatised in such a
manner to which we are hardly accustomed even in
the manifestoes of the Papacy. "In these times
of confusion and disorder," says his Holiness, " it
is not rare to see certain Christians, certain Ca-
tholics—there are some of them even among the
secular clergy and in convents—who have ever
on their lips the words conciliation, compro-
mise.' Well ! I do not hesitate to declare
these men aro mistaken, and I do not regard
them as the least dangerous enemies of the
Church." "As conciliation," says the Pope, fur-
ther on, " is not possible between God and Belial, so
it is not possible between the just and the unjust,
between the Church and those who would compass
her destruction." That these denunciations can be
sincere no man of judgment will believe. The Pope
is said to have concluded with a prayer that his be-
loved Rome might be preserved from the poison of
impiety, and his voice, we are told, was broken by
a sob. But, in spite of these hysterical ejacula-
tions, it is incredible that an ecclesiastic of such
age and experience as Pope Pius should really be-
lieve that three-fourths of the Roman Catholic
Princes and a very large section of Roman Catholic
society are really desirous to conciliate God and
Bella', and to overthrow the Church they profess to
reverence.. The Pope must be aware that the cause
of his temporal authority is lost in Europe. If he
looks round over the Continent he sees nothing but
apathy. Everywhere Princes and nations are going
on in their usual way, eating and drinking, buying
and selling, while the revolution is surging round
the Vatican: If they had intended to stir they
would have stirred before this. The French Church
party, who, if they had really been iu earnest, could
have put an end to the alliance between. Pilate and
Herod, have done little more than make a few
decent demonstrations. But the influence of Rome
has of late years been excessive in France, and
if France will not come to the rescue little can be
hoped for elsewhere. The Pope must see that,
while the Catholic populations are sufficiently at-
tached to their old faith and ritual, there are other
principles working among them which prevent them
from believing that the freedom of the Italians is
inconsistent with religion. -What have the pious
Belgians, or the warm-hearted Rhinelanders, or
the chivalrous and fanatical Spaniards, done in
defence of the Pope's authority ? They have been
the coldest of Laodiceans, in spite of the preaching
of the Ultramontane clergy. Even the Irish them-
selves cannot be moved. The priests do nothing
but complain that the most Catholic of nations is
for leaving the Italians to govern themselves, and
can see no reason why the universal Bishop should
keep up a hated authority over a few hundred
thousand ssuls in Southern Europe. The Pope
knows as well as we that the mass of Roman Catho-
lics in both hemispheres are at heart indifferent to
the maintenance of his temporal authority, but he
hopes that the French Emperor will find it to his
interest to support him, and in that hope he has
plainly determined to make no concession.

TUE TVESTMINS7ER MURDER.

At the Westminster Police-court, on Saturday,
Mr. Bury Hutchinson, solicitor, waited upon Me.
Paynter, and made a lengthened application upon
the subject of the condemnation of the convict Wm.
Maloney. He said he was instructed to make an
application for a warrant for wilful and corrupt
perjury against Joseph Saunders, the principal
witness in the late trial of William Maloney for the
murder of his wife, in Legg-court, Peter-street,
Westminster. The evidence of which he com-
plained was that given before the coroner's jury,
and at this Court upon the committal of the ac-
cused. He had sworn on these occasions that he
was in Legg-court, and saw Maloney stab his wife ;
that he came out of the court and remained at the
corner of it :until the accused was brought out by
the police ; that he had no dinner, and went into no
place of refreshment until he had subsequentlybeen
to Bennet's-yard, at five or six o'clock. There were
the assignments of perjury. At the' trial the evi-
dence went clearly to show that the wound which
caused death was self-inflicted, and this view of the
case ,was alone contradicted by the evidence of
Saunders, who had further declared that he never
spoke to anybody about the occurrence until he told
his wife when he got home that evening. He was
now in a condition to show that Saunders had been
guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury by the fol-
lowing testimony. He would call a grocer, whose
house faced the end of the court, to prove that he
was standThg outside his door talking to a person
upon business at the very time the alarm was given
that the woman had stabbed herself; that he was
in that position some minutes within ten yards of
the court, and that there was nobody standing at
the end of the court on e;her his side of the way or
s+.
the other. Ho went down :the court and saw the
woman dead upon the floor, and both he and
another respectable person who accompanied him
would clearly prove that Saunders was not at
the end of the court, or near it, nor' there when
the police arrived, or when the prisoner
was brought out; and the most reliable testimony
could be produced that during all this time no
stranger was seen in or near the court, and he must
remark that Saunders was a very peculiar looking
person, and that had he been there he must have
been noticed. This was the first portion of his evi-
dence. The second was corroborative of the fact
that Saunders was not there, and, contradictory of
his assertions, that he had not been to a refreshment
house/ and had not had any dinner. Further, also,
that the first person to whom he conversed about
the occurrence was his own wife. He could prove
that he entered a refreshment house, kept by Mrs.
Crow, and called for a pennyworth of pudding at a
few minutes past twelve, and that while there
eating it a little girl came in and said what a shock-
ing thing had just happened, that a woman had cut
her throat in Legg-court. Saunders, who complained
of being tired, sat down, although he had subse-
quently sworn that he did not sit down anywhere,
and there remained twenty minutes conversing
about family matters, and having another penny-
worth of pudding, and while he was there so seated
the accused was brought out of the court to the
station. This negatived at once the assertion that
he remained at the court until the prisoner was
brought out, and the shocking occurrence alluded to
was spoken of and talked about between the keeper
of the shop and Saunders as a matter to which at
that moment Saunders was a perfect stranger.
Surely, a fellow.ereaturesuffer the
penalty of death upo such evidence as that of
Saunders, and the matters he had mentioned, com-
petent of proof by a host of re:Dectable witnesses,
were so material that he hoped thOn.:agistrate would
feel no hesitation in granting him the warrant for
which he applied.
TR answer to inquiries from the magistrate,
Mr. ;I:2tchinson said that the place where Sati:-
ders obtained the pudding was 140 or 150 yards
from Legg-court; The woman had died immediately
the wound was ill.flicted, and the police were
promptly on the spot, anal he was in possession of
this information at the time of the trial at the Old
Bailey.
Mr, Paynter inquired why he bad not used it
there ?
Mr. Hutchinson replied that he could not in law;
it could not be given in evidence. Ho was not
justified in raising collateral issues.
The Chief Clerk of this Court, who was at Ma-
loney's trial, informed the magistrate that Mr. Jus-
tice Byles, who tried the case, afforded every faci-
lity for calling the evidence irrespective of the
strict rule of law. He stated that, in a matter of
such moment, he would not exclude anything of
advantage to the prisoner.
Mr. Paynter asked whet her Mrs.Crove was called.
Mr. Humphreys, an inspector of the B
said she was called for Saunders to see, when le
said he did not know her, or remember her an _the
person who kept the shop, but readily admitted he
had bought some pudding at a shop.
Mr. Hutchinson said that he had denied at the
ingAg And, A tint C9v4 that In Too iu rdrefih.

ment house, or had any dinner, till he found it was
discovered.

It was here pointed out that Saunders had not
considered Mrs. Crow's a refreshment house in his
acceptation of the word, nor the pudding he had
taken as a dinner.

111 r. Payuter thought that, if he afterwards cor-
rected himself upon the trial, which was the most
important proceeding of the whole, a charge of per-
jury for any previous omission would be untenable.
He (Mr. Paynter) wished to know how it was that
Mr. Hutchinson had not made his application to
Mr. Arnold. _ _ _

Mr. Hutchinson said the present course had not
been determined upon until the previous night.
The application was now made upon the earnest re-
commendation of Mr. Sleigh, Maloney's counsel, who
had taken every possible trouble, and felt very
deeply upon the subject.
Mr. Paynter thought that the proper course
would be to lay the circumstances which he was in
a condition to prove before the Secretary of State.
Mr. Hutchinson said there was no time to lose,
as Maloney was left for execution on Monday, the
14th.
Mr. Paynter observed that there would be every
attention. paid by the Secretary of State, and
promptly. The question of perjury could not be
determined between now and the day stated for the
execution, and if the Secretary of State saw the
least cause, he would, without any proceedings for
perjury, reprieve the accused.
Inspector Humphreys informed the magistrate
that two witnesses were called for the prosecution
upon the trial, who saw Saunders in Legg-court
and spoke to him.
Mr. Hutchinson again adverted to the evidence
given by Saunders at the inquest and this court as
differing with that at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Paynter observed that he had had an oppor-
tunity at the latter of correcting hiniself, and he
had done so ; if he was liable to indictment for per-
jury, so also were those who had sworn they saw
him in Legg-court.
After some further interlocutory remarks, in the
course of which Mr. Paynter repeated that every
attention would be paid to the matter by the Sec-
retary of State, who would, if be saw sufficient
cause, grant an immediate respite, Mr. Hutchinson
withdrew.