Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-11

istration. In order to insure these, continues
the proclamation, the assembly has decreed the
general armament of the people. We must al
so be armed against the internal enemy, and
be prepared to repulse aggressions. The as
sembly has admitted Schleswig and eastern and
Western Prussia into the Germanic Confeder-
alton. 1t has abolished the scheme of the di-
vision of Poland. Whatever may be the con-
sequences of this, Germany is strong enough to
answer for the consequences. The proclama-
ton then calls on the German people to pro-
coed to the 1oOrk of the elections and not to rest
until they haze created Germany united and
free.
Haly.-Suppressio of the Jesuits.-Rome
April Amid the clash of arms and the din
OF European tumult, a silent but significant
event has just taken place here which in other
times would have claimed full page in CO.
temporary annals. The Society of the Jesuits
has been finally ordered to quit the capital of
the Catholic World, and their colleges suppress
ed and their headquarters removed, with gen
eral and staff, out of Rome. Where they will
next set up their central banner is puzzle
Not in Italy, most assuredly. every one of the
various States of the peninsula having shown
marvellous unanimity in considering them the
agents of Austria and the foes of freedom
Yesterday Cardinal Castracane received the or
haan fan honest Fleming,) the decision of his
Holiness, to the effect that they must march
bag and baggage out of this city, and giving
him and his associates reasonable delay to pack
up. The vast property which had fallen into
the hands of the Society for the last 30 years,
during which they had the unlisputed control
over the consciences of the rich and mobiles Of
the land, is to be now transferred to the adj
ministrative capacito of the Cardinal Vlzzar-
deli.
The war of the Sonderbund in Switzerland
may be considered as the opening chapter of
the recent revolutions in Europe, and the fl
nal suppression of the cGuSG teterrima belli is
but poetical Justice. Yet there is much to re-
greet in this unlucky denOuement. l speak not
in political sense, for the Jesuito were, rolit-
ically speaking. recognized nuisance on both
sides of the Alps; | merely would remark that
their removal from the Roman College will
leave, in literary point of view, an awful gap
not easily filled up. They had confessedly
placed in the various chairs of that noble build
ing men of undoubted capacity in the different
departments of divinity, astronomy, archaolo-
gy, classics, eloquence, and mathematics, and
their places cannot be easily supplied.
/ But the Pope has spoken. "Cassio, be no
longer officer of mineT' The whole body will
probably seek the field of commissary exertion,
anu uAC "a OuiiAo'
where they may recover their old ascendncy,
and be out of the reach of the Able Globerti,
whom they in an evil hour deprived of his
chair at the University of Turin, and who has
visited them with terrible retribution. The
Epocha, of yesterday, "a very modera te jour
nal, has leader on the subject, in which it
notices the failure of an attempt to get up a
demonstration of trastcuerinL in their favor
1t assures the clergy, both secular and regular
that they live in the hearts of the people. 1t
exhorts them to avoid becoming tools of pow
er, and to take warning by the melancholy fate
of this order. ''Take pattern from the saints
of God; from Chrysostom, who denounced the
effeminate and corrupt tyranny of his time;
from Ambrose, who rebukeda royal murderer;
from Bernard, who preached the holy war
against the brutal foe; from Savonarola who
was the evangelist of freedom; from Pho Mono,
who unites the virtues and attributes of them
all. The alliance of any part of the priesthood
with absolutism has always proceeded infidelity
and hypocrisy; that cursed alliance in Italy is
at an end. London NcwS, April IL.