New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-19

to the ers.h anDarrs ss-nn sea decisiens
The "infahsiiity Of the Pope," Here your CORE
sponde mt bnnders tneoogicaiy a. vel as politically,
morally and socially Now, Sir, the Pope HeceT An
spiritual authority and have been the instances
10 the churchs history where, &c eataedra, lie has
done in exclusively spiritual matters. Like your
President he has certain ruhng preroSatives snd
his Veto as Prince, has little Whatever 70 donor
need have anything 20 do-with his authority Cher
Bishop of the Church. Your correspondent, Sir
simply writes Oh q subject be knows nothing sboa,;
one, too Of nature that be should not have ap-
preached with such prejudices and such grorasces
are his or seem 10 be- 'Nepotism is Old and Oft
exploded charge agans; the Popes. But, Sir am
ready 10 maintain that, on the whole, 20 rulers ever
rsised by the people OF by any other power are 50
exempt Eou the odium at "nepoii sm ae the Popes.
Any otker sovereign is allowed without being sneered
al 10 use his sovereign poet honOraby tor tie benefit
Of bic family, why not the Pope Because he Is the
Pope. But be is also temporal Prime, and Il Is ~
such alone sir that Ire has proucted hisreatives
10 rank or nolument and 20 govern him in snch things,
the same sort cf rsles that apply 70 .ny other Prices
in Chrstendom have been framed; on1 these are not
e.ways used u te case at prest, NOT one retsve
of Plus TX holiirs Office near him. The aGpsOns
your corres;o,deu, makes 20 SsXtus v. and The
Borgese faaRy are for the purpose meant, very much
out Of place and the items ne quotes are 'sr nom
being correct, a. you can SATISFY yonrse ey oonsni,
ing Dr. Miey's Statistics Of Rome. But, SIR, If al
other states in Europe insIst provisions-in many
cases enormous provisops-beipg made fs- certain
members of The family Of ttslr ruler, why eeny Rome
any risLt o The sort TDs che exercises < sparlngiy
or not at ell as at present. ls nothing - the point
Your correspondent is 70 fal OF Poeery as such,
that be cannot the Pop one momen.ss sovereign
Prince.
z Ibe the words for the abolition
OF but &c the facts be nprn @ sssssys
Tks object is reached hJ cmmissor, whicA Pend' s 1
e yesT in alma"
Ewcald be pity .c deprive ycur correspondent Of
the advantage wcn bythe pervers'on ne mskes IN tne
above passage. Is yolr alms-housc proof that yea
encourage beggeyl Are the eppeals frequently IN
your columns IN .herame Of charity evidence 81 eress
erre- or the absence Of civilization As wei mgr |
ask hospitals forthe sick encourage disease. horl-
chir made no mean boast when Ne exultingy thanked
God that one neysr heard OF person starving to
de.th in Rome, The very dayG. +. Mcguire recorded
this boast in his netebook az be told he -ead IN
we Times Feb. 81 1851, Of three deaths by s.srva-
tign in the City o. London. In Rome pove-ty Is NO
crime-vice is IL is not degradation TO be reor, but
20 be wicked IN. "vsgran:, as snch, rs not pun-
iehed-a a" vsgabond is. You are not therc impris'
oned for beggaYy-you may te for blaspheniy There
are many suzferers in Rene, but NO suicides, o'
scarcely any.
"In order should b. nconp "a thc srr
nstroo which constitute this hnaaes system me
cOnniranos tdsf.ieanoa.'
As we'll might Won hold the British Ministry gnity
of the charges laid at the door of the bankers Paul
Strahan, or the British Bank frauds-as well charge
Street Commissioners and the municipal swindler o
New.York. But the cuprt is punished too, 10 spitt
Of the conn Sance. However:
IAN the Punishment inflicted upon him he defrsadins Mar
Ssa Ssnl Up to N present Gay '"''' % '' '-' ~
Had he been some rebel or blasphsmer this "per-
mission would be SPOKEN Of as " driven 10 the od
GUS and loathsome convent dungeonc OF benighted
| "Itay." When your correspondent sneers 1T the
Pope. 1 would put be-ore his eye tins passage from
Gibbon: " Their temporal power IL now confirmed by
the reverence of thousand years; and their nobes'
title is the free choice of people whom they had
Tbe toyerpment M; he in some POINTS, or many,
10 blame II is not free from error bn II is an essen
tally Ronan Government, administering Tor Roman
people. comes il that so many seetares assault
Because il is in the hands Of exalted Catholcs.
The abuses or errors, shortcomings OF any other
Government cOndoncd, il considered at ali, bui
| that of Rome-no, no quarter for that. Were u
occupy myself in pointing out the imperfecuons 10 cal
them by harder name, of your Government as is
| why ahould be employed all day long. No Govern
ment is,exempt from error Sir is II NOT tetrange thai
if an English paper-even aPunch--assails Russia, o
| Prussia, or Austria, France pcgttcdtiy-the au
thotiee in those countries refuse admission to the
offending Journal be. Rome, the hest ebused OF all
aerer think there Is IN this little tSct something
worth consideration.
Rome itself Sir, in what il preserved IN the way OF
antiquities is a standing refuatOn against men whs
try with your correspondent to assoil what they can
not otherwise assail You cannot move step within
the saered precnts ~ that noble city without IN spite
Of you feeling indebted to Government which hat
given permanency, in spite Of violence, in spite o
all that destroy, to things that yonr very sou
! tells you ought to be- held imperishGb.e
had much more to say, but your patience must be
exhausted. have scid enough, however, to set yonI
correspondent right. CAALoCAssIhEK
Nee- YORK. Nov {, lss2.
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