The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-29

States Of our house nrs Il PontrsmoH, then In the CAPT.
1 ana lastly ~ Pacepzs violas0ns OF She rgpts o.
tr.n ROM rama Robert and ws cannot re-
We DO ~ this document against the acts Of rebellion
committed By the municipalities Of Parma, Paosnss AID
mo N speaking in the name Of the people, In Ar
roeaepg 70 themselves the right Of releasing them from
the obedience they 10 the % his subjects and In
PsocsmDg me incorporation Of the country with the
We, moreover protest against the proceedings Of the
reumonEse government frss In the province OF Pontre
mo and Afterwards in osher parts Of the country seeing
thAt that government has hand excited and
supported the revolution and the has contrary
70 all right and TO the stpuatons Of European treaties in
general and OF speca! treaties win Piedmont in PARTON
lar accepted the delivery made Of the dachy OF
rama, AUG that without any proyoca,ior Legitimate
At the same time We reject any argument which may
pc INVOKED as motive or pretext de t9s faclo 70
I ger Us Jointly responsible with Austria r the OF
lpa' rover iowaTds Piedmont the former started
IN m the fortress ot Piacenza.
We aso protest against all ihege who In the courae OF
political vcissiudts have made or nay rage any aStact
whatever against the rights OF son-riehts which we
declare ~ me present docamertso maintain naSt
We further pJoes, and declare that VIC consider az nun
and voo ali the acts which have already been DONE or
which may he done IN the States OF Parma against the
rights Of our well beloved We protest likewise
again the consequences of these reserving
selves At any time Whatever and by ali legal meArs 70
re establish the before mentioned rights
We IKE this soemn protect in the presence Of God and
man protest not only in the interest or our SON but
also in that Of his SUBJECTS and we dsse sb our protest
nay be made known to the Powers CD whom the publ,
law Of Europe reposee We sppea 10 those Powers with
The fullest confidence that their enlightened Justice the
interest Of the invoisbiy Of the rights
Ct States, and in their magnap unity, they will lake 10
heart and easc,usy support the cause Of the ysupg Or
SAINT GALL, Switzerland, June 70, 1859.
LOUIS NAPOLEON's IDEA ABOUT THE POPE.
The following is from letter in the Manchester
Amid all this universal occupation with the same
subject, it is strange that find nobody apparently,
bearing in mind that if We had yentured to trust
LOUIS Napoleon's own programme, put out before
the war, we might have prophesed the deaouement
which now takes all by surprise.
In the pamphlet of Napoleon III. ct fItalie,"
which, though edited by NJ. Lagueroniere, was well
Emperor, find every particular Of the Villafranca
pact either shodowed out distinctly proclaimed
as condition of the solution of the Italian difficulty
At page ii the writer reminds US Of the fact that in
May, 1913, Austria was disposed to treat on the
basis ola surrender Of Lombardy and an acceptance
of the line Of the Micno as her Italian frontier;
that tins proposition was not considered satsiac-
tory at that time by England; but that
reopen negotiations, and the same basis was SUBJ
mitted on her part by France and England (acting
as medators between her and her enemy Aus
tria which had by that time retrieved her position,
refused to entertain the terms she would have
grasped at two months before. Again (page 1S),
the pamphleteer reminds US that Prussia made
similar proposition to the Diet at Frankfort, through
General Radovitz, but that it was rejected by the
influence of Austria. So that Louis Napoleon may
now say, "Wbat the French republic, the British
Cabinet, and the Prussian government all together
failed to effect, l, singly, have accomplished. Aus
tria has been forced to accept from me the frontier
Again, the pamphlet (page 49, distinctly re.
jects the idea of Italian unity as dream of re.
yolutionary Utopianism, and sets up against it
the scheme of federation, under the Presidency
nj fhn ha at or,fh,
siastcaly urged by Gioberti, Balbo, and their
followers, in 1916 and ls47. 1t is striking that the
pampheteer Quoting page ST. the authority of Lord
Ponsonby, our Ambassador at Vienna in ls4S) de-
clares this to be the sole practicable mode of re-
constituting Italy, though the scheme has longer
any adherents in Italy ITSELF having long since been
consigned there to the limbo Of generous illusions.
Finding, however, thus much Of what is now ac-
complished fact, foreshadowed in this pamphlet it
is worth while to look what light it throws on the
character Of that honorary presidency of the
Pope, the import Of which SO perplexed many.
The difficulties and necessities of the Italian settle.
ment, as regards Rome, are thus declared (page
29:-
/. To reconcile the system of government of the
Church with legal and regular political system of
government in the Roman States.
2. To render the Pope independent of questions
Of nationality, war ornaments, internal and ex.
ternal defence.
French occupation the protection Of an effective and
real (serieuSe) Italian force.
The means for securing these objects according
20 the Napoleonic idea) to be found in the pro-
positions submitted by France to Austria in June,
1857. These are:-
!. Secularisation of the administrative power in
he Papal States, by the formation of lay Council
OF State, with the duty of examining and discussing
he laws.
2. Representation of all the interests of the coun-
try in conSula elected directly by the provincial
councils, or, at least, chosen by the Pope out of
lists of candidates submitted by these councils)
summoned deliberate n
the budget.
3. Effective control of local expenditure by pro-
vincial councils, receiving their authority by dele
CATION from elective municipal councils.
4. Justciary reform by the PRONUNCIATION of
code of civil laws the model of the Code Napo-
leon, or the Lombordo-V Venetian, or Neapolitan
code.
5. regular plan for the collection of the public
revenue, on the model of that of France.
6. Amnesty.
Elsewhere page 5s) the pamphleteer thus de-
scribes the effect of the honorary presidency he
would assign to the Pope:--
1t will increase the prestige and moral power of
the Papacy; it will slacken the too tight bond
which now couples the Prince to the Pontiff, and
which cramps all the activity of people in the in
flexible circle of ecclesiastical power, at the risk of
an explosion. Receiving, the writer continues
this increase of moral influence, finding himself in
vested with this sort of protectorate over all Italy,
awarded him by the respect of all its peoples, the
Pope may diminish his temporal power, and tighten
selfhumilation. Without exposing himself he
may organize under himself, serious control, secu-
lar administration, civil legislation, and regularly
constituted and Independent magistracy. All he
loses in privilege he will gain in Importance. In
stead of governing stagnant and inert people, he
will extend his hand the whole of Italy to bless
and guide it; he will be the irresponsible and We
nerated chief of Confederation Of twentysix mil
lions of Christians, who, cassed in different States
gather all to that centre, in which the activity and
grandeur of Italy will come to focus.
IT, 1k1 do NrsoN 80
making Of the Pope a sort of Dalai Lama Of the
West-a well paid well fed, well lodged, well-clad
old man, with nothing to do but figure in gorgeous
vestments at saints day festivals and church funC
ostrich feather fans, while the whole work of secu
lar government is carried on by laymen, to whom
he is to delegate his authority as Prince,
But who is to accomplish this division of duties?
puppet, who is to null his strings That is the oues
ton about which the pamphlet Ia silent. No doubt