The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-23
Affairs I'm the PapaI States.

am nappy 10 say mat here there relgnS among all
parties but one feeling Of Misrepresentation, with re-
gard TO the scheme of pohty with which the father
Of the church menaces the States restored to his
sway, and OF regret to see the prince who sponta.
neously took the lead in the liberal movement
throughout Europe now tagging behind the most
reactonary. l cannot better Illustrate the agree.
ment OF the most opposite organs of public opinion
in condemniDg thus edlct, than by citing the articles
which appear to-day in two of the most wdely-cir-
culated and generally widely.opposed newspapers
lloyd and the Pressc. The first says
In many of the Italian States the people will have FOL
time to forego constitutional institutions. Immedi
aely after suppressed rebellion 1t is hardly possible
safely to entlust the legislative power to those hands
from which have been just wrested the weapons with
which they resisted their lawful princes we should
have found 1t in accordance with the order Of things
II the Pope had guaranteed constitution his sub
jects under the condition OF public tranquility being
completely restored provisional state of eniig
cd despoiism would have been evtable perhaps
tary in the States Of the church But his holiness has
thought proper to erect this state which should have
been exceptional, into permanent one. In quar-
tel Of the world there will therefore henceforth exist
three absolute menarchies the Ottoman, the Russian
and the Papal and 1t Is remarkable that the
in ell three should be the heads of three religions.
Four Catholic powers have contributed to restore the
rope to bis worldly dominion. All four are in the
representative Institutions and we cannot
believe that any Of tsem will b. satisfied with the
dispositions which the Holy Father has been pleased
make for the government Of his States In Vienna
less than in Paris, in Madrid perhaps in Naples
people will be astoDibed that four governments based
On constitutional principles have not been able with
the same foundation, upon which their own power
rests There is at this moment State in either Eu.
rope or America Il all those which usually fall under
the denomination Of Catholic which does not possess
constitution with the exception Of the State which
Is Iules by the head OF the Catholic world We have
no reason to supect that the wishes of the Popes
jscs der from the wishes Of the other nha Of
Western Europe or that they less adapted for be-
ing governed by representative institutions. We,
therefore fear that the form government proposed
to be intro duced by the Pope will be
the will Of his subjects, and that the powers
wi ha min NJ holt,
obliged torkeep them for him We should wish sin.
cer,y to see Austria at least relieved from every OBJ
legation to maintain In q foreign land institutions
which have ceased to exist at home.
The language Of the Prose- is still palmer
The proclamation with which the Pope has taken
possession Of his temporal domnions has reached
The bankruptcy In all political ideas Of the age which
Ia announced in this mpotent eune and unprincped
scheme of poy is the more holy as
II does from genu, which seemed to be called to the
mission OF reformation and fresh creation We hold 1t
for the worst and most dangerous to eudc the
And Austria can never fulfil her duty in the Roman
question by favoripg such plan. The letter of the
President Of the French republic to Colonel Ney
appears to US wise piece OF political foresight to put
in timely protest against the misinterp probation to
which the French Intervention would have other
wise liable.
From the London Standard Of Freedom, Oct 81
The ROMAN QUESTION IN THE NATIONAL As
EMBLy.-Ihls discussion comes on next Monday.
The probabilities are, that il viii display split in
The conservative party, Notwithstanding the tao
Z
has resolved TO stand by the Pope as stouty as any
Jesuit Of them all. The legitimisfs and the papal
party wish 10 see the Pope in the enjoyment of
the whole Of his Oldest and absurdest prerogatives
The Orleanlst party-who are as sincere Catholics
as was Voltaire himself-will support, notwith-
standing their constitutional pretences, Papal alb
Eoluiism Tor lhe sake OF party union. The letter
OF the President TO NJ. Edgar Ncy is TO be treated
by these gentry as II II were not IN existence.
The Duisure and Tocqueville party, the Bona
parisis, the Cayalgnac Republicans, and the
Mountain, most probably will unite in demanding
guarantees OF the Pope, and the secuarizatIon OF
The government OF the Roman States. should this
be done by the Assembly, Faloux and his friends
must leave the ministry, the French army will as
sumo the government Of Rome, and the return of
the Pope viii be postponed indefinitely. The trial
OF the parties accused OF conspiracy the 18th Of
June, must exercise n considerable influence upon
events. Our view of the 18th of June, ISl9, IN
Paris, has always been that II was an affair pre-
csely similar to the 10Th Of April, 1873, in Lon
con- There was plenty of foolish and violent lam
guage, but no serious insurrectlonary intention.
The ugllest features Of the 10th OF April have all
been traced TO police spies, and similar parties may
have been the authors OF the wors, appearances on
the 18th OF June. BE this II may, the prisoners
may not be able TO prove n, and they may be con-
de mned, just as the chartist prisoners have been
The nrxtfew days will be decisive ones in PARIS
Our wishes may be the sources OF our hopes that
the attitude ct France will be IN accordance with
the interests OF liberty and humaniy-anti-Papal
and ent-Russlan. But no one can tell IL is Sc
fously possible that the attitude Of France may
continue to be in greater degree what, since the
accession OF Louis Napoleon, 1t has been-both
Papal and Cossack
From the Paris Constitutiounei1
The Corstifuti0Hnd publishes a long letter from
Rome, OF the 23d ult., from which the following is
an ex,fact:-
Assassination during the last DAYS OF the Roman
republic was an e1pedient Of the secret societies A
hand Of hired asasEs gorged with vine were CHARGED
with these executions, ordered by invisible chiefs In
general way these odious acts colored by
Irttext In one case u was spy who had perished;
In another. trailer, whom popular indguation had
ruti.htd. The murders remained anonymous, the
murderers were never officially known Nevertheless
In the cafes and In the public places they Boosted OF
their exploits and their crimes for them clam
TO homer The executions at st. Calixtus have been
denied but nothing is certain or more authentic
man such Il produced by revolutions sanguinary
by nature and carrying 81 bis crimes by sort Of fero
cious joNisty Iambisnch hal under his orders some
soldiers Of the finance custom house officers men
Who we're rendered fanatics by his words and by his
ersmIe lie established his headquarters In the small
church 81 st CshXtus Ia tho centre Of the Transte
we're. Ills enisssies brought In his victims, and he
himself pronounced sentence on them. The execu-
tion teok place In the night and the bodies In.
tered In tne garden. The number who were thus
made away with is estimated at twenty, which is
,SseEeration Eight bodies which had been buried In
q at fatal spot have been recognized In this manner
The life Of the cure OF the Ainsive sacriced,
man Ct the most exemplary character. Ibe cause Of
his being arrestt and taken before Iambianch ~ not
known lie was brought before him while the assassin
header at dinner who told him 20 sit down adding
mat "Ith LIS repGt vas nnlehei ne should nave
him put TO Death On hearing this the poor priest
vas seized with couyul.ive agitation, when Fam
biarohi said TO him, What ycu are about 90
have the honor q maryrdtm, aud yet you trembel ~
My SON replied the priest, pray 20 God that at
the heur Of your death you may not trembe more /"
A. soon ~ the demaqogue had dined the cure vas
taken cot and ho a. the foot of tree In the garden
Ibmiisnchi kirg a. the execution from a window
sritr could not have done better. The glorious
swords a cur soldiers put end 20 these atrocities
but assafst atoms continued several days after the
tfarce IT our troops into Rome One priest was killed
I'm smell street near the Place CclOnna, occupied by
rRimtnts two others we're put 70 death on the
81 Angelo bridge The muider of several French sol
nitfs tttib,d tho rage ft by these wretch,s. who,
bstks to eur Intervention lost the houors ans the pro-
Do ~ th'r sangntnsfy dtctstosh,p Some days after
he csptafe ~ W. ne Que Of soldiers asked his way
u ps,stty, who TOOK some pains to point II cut 70