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Noble Reply of q Cardinal.

Noble Reply of Il Cardinal.
we learn from Rome that the Circulo Ror1ano,
Ihat nest OF incendiares who swear upon the pogn-
ard. lately sent deputation to Cardinal 'Tos,e
Prefect of the Ospi2io di San Michele IA sor, of
AOuSe Of industry established by the POPE but ON
scale of princely munifcence,) TO coynplinen,
his eminence upon his superiority TO the weak
fears that have, they say, caused the flight of the
other cardinals, his brethren. This is the cardi
nails reply: ..
4" You come TO felicita,e me, gentlemen, upon
my firmness in not taking fight. Know that |
have no more fear of you all than have had nv
venerable colleagues, with whom you seek 10
contrast me. and who, if they have followed the
Holy Father, have done so only in obedience. and
through love, in the same way as l. throuob obe
dence and love for the Sovereign PoniT. have
renamed IN this establishment. His Holiness
having requested that | should not abandon an
institution wherein so many children of misfor-
tune, and On that account The portion of his SUBJ
Jects most dear to his paiernal heart find homo
and shelter. For the rest. gentlemen | am n
Roman, which you are not. | will remain here
without leiung you frghten me. You mav it is
true, strike me- too, with the assassin's knife bu,
what will you gain thereby? You will onlv
shorten my existence by two or three wears. for
am an old man of ninety-two, and very few
years will sec the last of me-
Under date of Bologna, December 18th. wo
learn that the senator of that place, Zucchn.
recently appointed member of the Provincial
Government Of Rome, has written to refuse his
cooperation in the work of faction and rebellion,
ana renouncing at the same time his function of
senator. Tho CirculO Popuiare and Circulo
4Nd2'0ndte have drawn up protest against lhis
refusal. The electors of Bologna refuse 10 pro-
ceed TO the election of n successor TO Rossi, who
was their representative. until his assassin shall
have been put upon his trial. Com.
The Present Position of Pope Plus IX.-The
Reverend Bishop Hughes made this the subiec, of
a sermon, preached in St. Patrick's Church. New
York, on the morning of Sunday. the 7th instant.
1t is published in the New York Tribune; and a
has!y glance at it shows that ii exhibits the cha
racierlstic learning and ability of its disingushed
author OF the Pope, rs temporal sovereign, hs
thus speaks:
do not say that it is necessary for the Pop,
that he should be sovereign, but il is necessary
for Christianity that he should be free: and If
there Is no choice between sovereign and vassal.
then he must be a sovereign. | do no, say that
his dignity and his Office depend in the least upon
his being the chief Of the PapaI States. know
thai the Church. that the faithful of the Catholic
world, will recognize him, if he be wanderer
upon the Appenlnes. | know all that and for
his part, 1t would be an immense relief 10 be re-
leased from his temporal charge but it is neces-
sary for Chrisendom that he should be free. and
II there be no middle state between a subject and
a secular sovereign, then say, that for him 10 be
sovereign is necessary. Nv brethren.
| know that can speak for you. and for that por-
tion of the Church over which, though unworthy.
the providence of God has placed me. Sooner
than we should see him subject 10 any Sovereign,
or President, or petty Prince. or King, we should
have recourse TO the old institution, and Peter
pence, from every point Of the compass, would
constitute treasury TO raise him above that SUBJ
jection, even though he should occupy an island in
the Mediterranean Sea, single square mile in ex-
tent