New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-07

Many funny things have come to pass in this
topsy.turyy age, which would have been beyond
the imagination, much more the belief. Of our
worthy ancestors. OF our ancestors, did We say
We might say of men now Of middle age, five and
twenty years ago. We have seen the seedy special
policeman of the 10th Of April, lS4S, raised to the
most powerful throne Of Europe. The putatiye
nephew Of Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte has been en-
braced by the granddaughter of George III, and
thus sauted as the lawful, if not the legitimate,
heir of the man whom, scarce forty years ago,
Walter Scott thought should be hanged as 8 elon
for the mischief he had done and the trouble ne
had made. The Garter, too, has been buckled be-
low his knee. a stranger sight even than the star
of ST. George blazing on the breast OF the Sultan
of Turkey. We have seen Jews admitted to Par
lament, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland avoid
ing by his absence the necessity Of giving place in
his own capital 10 q Roman Cardinal. And, on this
side. we have lived to see the Revival Of the Slave
Trade seriously proposed, and zealously urged on
and devotion TO the service Of Slavery made the
badge and test of American Democracy
But more comicsl than any Of these psntomimic
metanorphoses, ia the feat which we are promised
the sight Of, in the course of 1859, as performed
by his holiness the Pope. The sovereign Pontlf
proposes, it seems, 10 signsze his pontifcate byo
pilgrimage never drcant Of in the philosophy Of
al bis mutitudinous predecessors on the pa
psi throne. II ia declared that he intends visit
ing the Holy Shrine- in person. What would
Hidebrsnd or Peter the Hermit have said, could
they have foreseen that successor 20 ~. Peter
could dream of setting foot on the soil of Palestine,
while in the possession of the infdes excepting at
the head Of o Crusade to drive them cut, aud 20
rescue the Sepulchre from their dominion What
would ans Of the unrernembersbe Le0s and
Clements and Innocents. from the time the Scarlet
Lady first took her royal seat on the Seven Hills
from Gregory ii. 10 Gregory XVI.-hsve said of
SO strange freak Of infsllbilityl His Holiness
has been lately making pilgrimage 10 the House
Of our Lady Of Loretto, and was perhaps, en-
eoursged by the miraculous journey of that shrine
from Nazareth 20 Italy to undertake TO transport
the incarnation Of The True Church from Italy back
to Nazareth again. When he get. there. W 4ould
think that be might say, With the cst-quoi.d Dose
Of Venice at the court Of Louis NV, That the
.strangest thing he saw TO see himself there
The strangeness Of the thing is not, Of course,
that the Head Of the Catholic Church should pay
visit 70 the scenes where the Christian religion lad
its origin. bu. that he should do 50 under the pro-
lection and BY the ?. Emission of the Head OF tue
Mussulman Faith-the representative of the deSdii'
est oppcsiies Of biz Apostolic predecessors Indeed
the Pope will be in effect and undoubtedly VIII De-
in reality the guest Of the Grand Turk, who has
already cordially assented to the arrangement and
viii unquestionably do all in his power to make Ills
Holiness. visit agreeable 10 him. But. tins being
the case, suppose the Grand Turk propose to
return the visit and psrtake Of the Inequalities Of
the palace OF the Pope-would 1t be possible 10
refuse TO do the handsome thing By him. we should
hope not but we should particularly Ike to be pres
EFT and see the Successor Of Saint Peter ana Tue ouc'