New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-11-06

,s,.a to nav 10 Rome in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries in the shape Of periodical
vou, tary collections, indulgence money purchase
money for ecclesiastical signatures and other onces,
were all consumed again IN subsidies gwen 10 the
Catholic powers in their wars against Protes.ants
and Turks, in the erection Of costly churches and
converts and in nepotism. This last institution
alone, by which the relatives OF The Popes were
allow ed 10 iatten on the treasures OF the Chnrcn,
has, from the time of SeXtus u" the rench
Revolution swallowed immense sums. cne Lu-
doyisi alone received from his uncle" $500 On;
and the Borghese family purchased Ninety
estates out of the donations bestowed upon It's
members. TO what extent this abuse had grown
may he indeed from the fact that the commission
supoiutcd in 1910 to determine aud curtab the
amount Of these donations laid down the rude that
tbe pope might cnnscientiously settle upon his two
oldest " ucDhcws' an income Of SO, 600 each, and
upon his - nieces' capital oi : 10000.
If the temporal subjects Of the POpes had right
10 complain that these vast Sums were squEAdered
In such an uDpToduciyc way. and not the smallest
portion Of them spent for the benefit Of the cOun-
fry they had on the other hand, the satisfaction OF
knowing that they were neither taxed 10 pay Tor
Tbs gality for the expenses OF the Pope AZ
head Of the Church, the TREASURES OF Church and
State being kept strictly separate. But IT vas re-
served To the Popes of the nineteenth century 10
deprive their subjects of sstisiscton which
they bad enjoyed in the seventeenth and eigh-
teentb centuries Al the time Oi the French
Revolution, the State had debt, and OF
the debt 0f the Church the greater part was
cancelled during the rule Of Napoleon by the
abolition Of the religious ordcrs, who had been
the principal creditors, while the balance OF
Sol 600 600 due To other creditors was paid out OF
the proceeds of the secuarzed ecclesasticai
estates In lolG, Plus VII. not only restored the
religious orders, but reiustalled them in their old
estates and enacted that they should be- paid - per
cent Of their claims arising out Of the old church
debt. To raise this % per cent and to pay for the
estates which lad been sold by the French, debt
of Sc, Coo 600 was created and saddled upon the
State. Nor was this all; an act of the sovereign
will If the Pope increased this debt by $1,000 coo
in order to indemnify the converts for the gold and
silver ornaments which the French had approprI-
ated; and by another act of the same description
debt Of s., Gao 457 owing by some religious estab-
lismcnts, was taken from their shoulders and
added IN the state debt.
The other items by which the Government ac-
count for the State debt S6676, 936 for bank
ers usury and commission for loans, ~ per cent hav
ing been paid usury in addition to > per cent in
tcIest; 81 ,5S2 ls6 extraordinary expenses during
the last ten years. mostly for the foreign occupa-
ton by Austrian and French soldiers $1,000 for
escorts of cOuriers of the Government and of
foreign Embassad0rs by way of protection aeains,
highway robbers, and indeInntes for the objects
of which couriers were robbed in spite of these
escOrts S2I 500 80 for consolidation of the yearly
deficits, which since IS3l have returned with un-
diminished regularity in every years budget and
The increase Of ,chioh has kept eren Paoe wah the
steady Increase cfhc income