The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1868.

ROMAN AFFAIRS.

(Front the Roman Correspondent of the Westnzinster Gazette)
RoME, June 20.
Wednesday was the anniversary of the ac-
cession of the Pope, on which occasion a Cap-
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pella Papale is held in the Sistine Chapel.
Cardinal Reisach sang the Mass ; after it his
Holiness received the congratulations of the
Cardinals, for whom Cardinal Patrizi, Dean
of the S. College, was spokesman. The sense.
of his address was, that after witnessina• so
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lately the signal proofs of guardianship which
God has thrown round His Church, it wasiml

possible to doubt of the ultimate triumph of
the Holy See. The Pope received their good
wishes with undisguised emotion, bid them be
of good cheer, told them that the struggle be-
tween good and evil was no new thing—it dated
from the foundation of the world; neither was
it strange that it should make itself felt with
the most intense violence in Rome, where it

was but to be expected the enemy of the human
race should strive to make of the centre of

Catholic unity a centre of abomination. He
finally exhorted them to be fervent in prayer,

and abound in good works, and in all things
worthy of the Holy City.
The celebration of the anniversary of the
coronation is observed with greater ceremony
on the 21st, the senator, municipality, and
the corps diplomatique, attend to offer their
congratulations, and the town is illuminated
for two evenings. The Consistory will be
held the next day. In addition to the matter
of the Council, and the Austrian question, as
I have already stated, several bishops will be
nominated, including three or four for Mexico.
The sentences, not in themselves heavy,
lately passed by the Tribunal of the Consulta
on the persons variously implicated in the affair
of last autumn, will be many of them com-
muted on this occasion, among them being
Pagliano Sacchi, of Viterbo, whom the Flo-
Irence papers falsely announced had been con-
demned to death. A merciful and liberal

arrangement maybe, but one which is likely
to make additional work for the army.
Already enlisting depots are again in full
activity as last autumn at Orvieto, Terni,
Rieti, and all along the frontier, putting forth
every endeavour to lure the young and rest-
less into their snares. They afford a safe re-
treat, too, for the disbanded remnants left to
their own resources by the rout at Montana
and the brigands who are being vigorously
hunted out of the Papal territory. The popu-
lation looks on with a jealous eye, and there
are plenty who keep Government well informed
of all that is going on.
Oar troops have had several smart encoun-
ters with the brigands lately, for this is the
season of the year most favourable to the mode
of life necessary to their career. The most
audacious band was that of one Bianchi, who
made Velletri its centre of operations. Thd
week before last he sent an order to the to-
bacconist of Lariana, a village in the neigh-
bourhood, to send him a supply of tobacco and
ten scucli in money. The tobacconist, instead
of satisfying his demand, applied to the gen-
darmes for protection, and when the band
came to gather in the forced loan, they found
a party of soldiers ready to receive them.
The brigands were in stronger force than was
expected, and the major part contrived to
make good their escape, having killed the
brigadier of the troop. About the same time
they had kidnapped a lad, the son of a tailor,
at Velletri, and demanded a heavy ransom
for him of his father, which the poor fellow
only met by the greatest privations. On Satur-
day, the band was known to be in the woods
of Caserta, on the borders of the Pontine
Marshes. hile a detachment of Zouaves and
gendarmes was beating the wood, a shepherd,
from whom Bianchi had taken a little barrel of
wine, brought information of the position of
I his party to the military, who came upon them
las they were drinking under the trees. The
II brigands, ever on the alert, and moreover well
armed, and probably trained to some know-
ledge of fighting in the ranks of our invaders
last year, made a desperate resistance. Bianchi,
however, received his death-wound from the
musket-ball of a Belgian corporal of Zouaves.
Two others were killed and two wounded, the
rest being either taken or dispersed.
The dead bodies were carried into Velletri
in a buffalo cart, to be exposed in the public
piazza. The lad they had captured recognized
them at once, and great was the rejcicing of
the people at the deliverance, and great the
popularity of the military.
Bianchi wore a dress which would not dis-
grace the wardrobe of a first-class theatre.
Round the crown of his high-pointed hat he
carried a twist of ribbons of many colours,
from the ends of which hung a number of
rings, the result of his depredations. In his
pockets were found between two and three
thousand scudi.
Another of the fellows who was wounded
slightly feigned his death agony so cleverly,
and prayed so earnestly to be left to breathe
his last as he lay on the ground, that a mer-
ciful gendarme did his best to compose him to
rest, and left him at peace. The troops were,
however, but a little distance on their way
when he was seen to start to his feet and make
good his escape with remarkable strength of

Eight or ten Garibaldian emissaries, de-
nounced by the men of the company of
Cacciatori, stationed at Civita Castellana, for
tampering with them, endeavouring to obtain
information from them, and induce them to
desert, were sent up last week to Castel S.
Angelo.
Twenty-seven Canadian volunteers for the
Zouaves arrived here on Wednesday.
The heavy rains on the mountains for more
than a week past have delayed the troops en-
tering into their camp at Rocca di Papa.
Some of the huts have been washed away, and
all the approaches rendered almost impractic-
able. We may expect a steady season of fine
weather after this, when the mischief will be
speedily repaired. The Roman Legion and the
Cacciatori will be the first to take up their
quarto: s there ; they will be accompanied by
their excellent chaplain, Mgr. Bastide.
Cardinal Borromeo took possession on Mon-
day, being S. Vito's day, of his titular Church
of SS. Vito c Modesto, near the arch of Gal-
lienus. It occupies the site of the Macellum
Livianum, named after his consort by Augustus,
who founded it. Afterwards it was popularly-
called Macellum Martyrum, because it had be-
come the scene of many martyrdoms, and it
yet preserves among its treasures a pietra
scelerata, a stone on which many holy martyrs
were killed. Stephen 111. opened it for Chris-
tian worship in 768, and S. Gregory I. made
it a Cardinal-deacon's title. The last to bear
it was Cardinal Tosti, who died three or four
years ago. He did a good deal for the- em-
bellishment of the place, but it is thought
Cardinal Borromeo will do more to develop
the interest of this most interesting relic of
antiquity. The precincts are very small, and
could scarcely contain the throng of attendant
clergy and people, though access was only
given sparingly and by tickets.

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11EREIYCAL ESTABLISHMENTS,

In the desire to effect the disestablishment
of the Protestant Church in Ireland, Catholics,
before all things, ought to be on their guard
that Catholic principles on the relations be-
tween the Civil and the Supernatural Powers,

suffer no detriment. There is no small danger
lest in the coming contests the great maxims
sanctioned by the Church should, either
through ignorance be overlooked altogether,
or perverted out of party spirit. Catholics
cannot lawfully make such a sacrifice to please
either Whigs or Tories, to abolish or to pre-
serve the Irish Establishment. It is one of
our privileges as Catholics to be cdnsistent,
not to have two weights and measures ; it is
one of our advantages to possess a chart to
guide us on questions of principle, when our
'opponents are too often hopelessly at sea.
Nothing is more distressing, therefore, than
to see Catholics forego their advantages, and,
in imitation of their more luckless neigh-

bours, beat about for a view or a principle.
In the Tablet of last week, for instance, we see

statements put forward that there • are a cer•
tain number of Catholics in England and
Ireland who adopt the un-Catholic theory of
the Weekly Register, to which several weeks
ago we called attention, that the union between
the Catholic Church and the State is, except
in the Papal States, essentially evil. This
view the Tablet calls intelligible, and skil-
fully endeavours to contrast to its own ad-
vantage a theory condemned by the Church
with its own grotesque theory that the Ency-
clical and Syllabus forbid the destruction
of heretical Establishments. We believe in

truth that the Catholics of these kingdoms
repudiate alike the condemned theory put for-
ward by the Weekly Begister as to the separa-
tion of Church and State, and the grotesque

absurdities about the Syllabus advanced by the
Tablet as an argument on behalf of the Irish

Establishment.
Putting aside the Whig principle and the
Tory plea, English and Irish Catholics, with
honest and intelligible straightforwardness,
will be found, we believe, to declare them-
selves against the maintenance of an unjust
and heretical Establishment in Ireland, and
in favour of the union and co-operation in
Catholic countries of the Civil and Spiritual
Powers. They do not cease to regard as
a crime the conduct of the revolutionary
State in Italy towards the Church, in casting
her out of the government of the country,
and delivering over the people to the guid-
ance of a godless rule. Such an act on the
part of those now in power in Italy is a vio-
lation of justice and of the principle that
the Civil Power is bound, out of regard
to the highest end for which it was insti-
tuted by God, to seek the aid and guidance,
and submit to the decrees of the Superna-
tural Power, in all matters affecting the moral
and spiritual interests of its subjects. Catho-
lics can never agree to the irreligious principle
that the Civil Power, caring only for the
material interests and the police government
of a nation, should forego all active co-opera-
tion with the Supernatural Order in the higher
aims of life. But such a co-operation can
only be fully and cordially effected by a close
and intimate alliance between the two powers.
It is no argument against this union that
abuses have too often crept in and injured
the end it was meant to serve. The union be-
tween Church and State has been likened to
matrimony, but the abuses which have some-
times dishonoured matrimony are no argu-
ments against the institution. Of course,
where the State apostatizes, there can be no
union between itself and the Church, but the
State is nevertheless bound, according to its
lights, to promote the spiritual welfare of its
subjects. But, on the other hand, there is no
obligation imposed upon' subjects to accept a
creed or a church at the hands .of the Civil
Power.' Men are only bound to accept religi-
ous truth from the Supernatural Power imme-
diately ordained of God for the purpose of
teaching the nations, and hence it is, and
under a mistaken sense of duty, that conflict
may arise, and confusion in some minds, as is,
perhaps, the case now, in regard to the Irish
Establishment. But the State, an apostate
from the Supernatural Power, has no right to
enforce a false religion on a Catholic people.
To do so is a violation of justice, as well as
an act of direct rebellion against the Church
of God. Heretical establishments have no
right as against Catholics. If they be tolerated,
it as only ont of expediency, or out of appre-
hension lest their removal should clearly lead
to worse results than their maintenance. To
appeals in their behalf, to Catholic princi-
ples, to the teachig of the Encyclical and
Syllabus, is an absurd fiction, or a hollow
pretext. Even the religious principle, in
Government, which in some sort the Anglican
Establishment represents, may be too dearly
bought by impressing on the national mind a
false and degraded idea of reliaion. For the
religion which the Anglican Establishment now
presents as the ideal of perfection to the people,
is assuming every day a more and more undog-
matic character, and putting human opinion in
the place of Divine revelation. By aiding in
the abolition of such an Establishment, Catho-
lies are not so much weakening a Catholic
principle as a blow to religious Liberal-
ismgivin in its securest stronghold,
stronghold, and clearing the
way for the entrance of a higher idea of religion
into the national mind.
At any rate, in these discussions let us re-
sist the attempt to throw dust into the eyes
of Catholic electors, let the issues be clearly
and plainly put, and we have not the slightest
doubt that the Catholics of these kingdoms
will do their duty in the coming elections,
without in the least transgressing Catholic
principles. In aiding in the abolition, then, of
the Irish Establishment, Catholics are not, as
we have shown, giving support to the con-
demned theory of the separation of Church
and State. Neither in supporting Mr. Glad-
stone's Resolutions against the heretical estab-
lishment in Ireland, are they identifying them-
selves in principle or making common cause
with Garibaldi and the Italian revolution, in
the impious attempt against the civil rights
and status of the Catholic Church in Italy, or
acting in any manner, as is pretended, against
the teaching of the Syllabus. What they are
doing is simply to aid in removing an heretical
establishment, forced by violense on a Catholic
nation, and maintained only by an act of flag-
rant injustice. Far from encouraging more-
over, religious liberalism by this act, the
abolition of such establishments will greatly
lessen its hold and influence on the country.
On every motive, then, Catholics, undeterred
by phantom objections evoked from the Syl-
labus, may act together, and combine with
others for the overthrow of the Irish Establish.-
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