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PARIS, Wednesday, August 5, 1859.
The Duke de Grammont, Ambassador of France
at Rome, has arrived here
ALEXANDRIA, July 8, 1859.
Admiral Mundays squadron has anchored out
side the harbor.
FLORENCE, July 30, 1859.
The energetic efforts of the American Minister at
Rome have obtained for Mr.. Il. w. Perkins, from
that government, the sum of 3425 Roman scudi
compensation for losses at Perugia.
From the London Herald, Augu.t 2
DECLINE OF THE PAPAL POWER IN EUROPE
CATHOLICISM LAPSING INTO INFI-
DEITY.
The actual appreciable power of the Papacy
seems to be at an end. Plus X. indeed, is not yet
reduced to the position of Plus VII. The French
army is no doubt in Rome, but they are there rs
pretended friends They not marching on the
city as did the soldiers Of the awful General Bona
parte, drunken with the incense of glory, nor is
there the need that Pitt found to send a British
irgate to the Tiber to carry away the Holy Father
from before the advance of his son. 1t is however
only too clear that the contending powers of Eu-
rope have not felt the necessity OF consulting the
future interests of the Pontifcal government in anv
of their arrangements, that the Popedom is at
length to be left to the enjoyment of that ghosty
power it has assduously asserted, and to that
alone-in fact, that we are to treat the Papacy as
matter passed away, and to inquire not what can
be done for the Pope. but what can he done
with him. Baron Macauey lin one of
those written decamations with which he favored
a northern journal, ConsWe Pidnco, and which with
scarcely pardonable weakness he has reprinted)
made the assertion, doubt merely for effect that
there was no decay of the power of the Papacy-
lie went indeed, still further, and (perhaps BY
hereditary right as Highlandmanl he avouched
the testimony OF prophecy, ''secOnd sight" and
taking, without acknowledgment, a conceit of
Sterne, be imagined Popery still rampant when
New Zealand traveller should sketch the ruins of
st. Pauls. But time, like nature is inexorable
theory Withstand rs nd oh
out the greater portion of Europe the religion of
Rome has lGpsed into infdeity, or that materialism
IN which Rome delights In America it is dead,
except as political system, and even in ireland II
has, from concentration of causes, fallen to be the
profession of but small majoritv-even if ofa ma
Jority at all. For the purposes of party war
1are the numerical predOminance of Popery in Ire
land may be assumed, and the assertion of it perpe-
tuated, but the truth of its weakness is as we have
stated, while for its prospects the Continent
we turn to the melancholy manifesto of Cardinal
Antonelli.
Forgetfu then, of the threatening of the Bonifaces
and the Hdebrands, must look at the piteous ap-
peal of Plus TX. against Sardinia and the rehec-
tions on the prospects othe Papacy which it is GER
tain to produce. DR.. Wiseman is of opinion that
Popes are prophets. 'To tell the TRUTH, he says, af
ter aVoring his readers with aproper legend, "one
does not see why, if a Jewish High Priest had the
gift of prophecy for his year of office, ofa much
higher order and dignity should not occasionally be
allowed to possess it." The present Pope however
could not have been favored with of these occa
sions OF prophetic power, when, acceding to the
chair, he began that tampering with constitutional
ism which for eleven years has often filled Eu-
rope with bloodshed-the last display being that
which was made on his subjects by his own
guards. He scarcel Y expected to Mazzini and
Garbaldi succeed
The Goth, the Christian, Time, War, Flood and Fire
To deal upon the seven.hed cityS pride
Least of all did he expect to pass in livery SER
wants clothes from Rome to Gaeta and as red
stockings had led him to his exile, be compelled to
appeal to red epaulettes to bring him back. Incl
dents such as those might be indeed explained as
the accident OF time of revolutionary Juror, but
the late appeal to the conduct of Sardinia is the
appeal OF potentate in great extremity, and who
almost for the first time attempts 10 rest moral
force. The doctrine of isolation which all the sup
porters of the Papacy have so long practiced is
producing its natural fruits. When the necessi-
ties OF affairs drive the Pope to claim his place
amongst the family of kings, the policy and CON
stution of his government prevents the possibility
OF interference on his behalf. As a temporal pow
er, it is impossible that the Popedom can exist If
diplomacy winks at it, circumstances must over
throw 1t. That sentiment and nothing more,
should protect the States of the G. urch from the
pruning knife which may be applied to the rest of
Italy, is simply an impossibility, and tie temporal
Papacy may be treated as at end if any such
dreams of an. Italian reconstruction are now
mentioned should ever be realized What may be
the future of ta is far beyond the power of pres
ent speculatiOD but the complaint Of Cardinal An
toneli will find no echo throug bout Europe. That
Pope rcvolted provinces was practically useless,
may be true but the great fact is before the world
that these were the only plans in Italy where the
popular will was met by butchery of the people
by mcTccnary troops. These clerical councils
which GangaunelIi is said to have deprecated and
dupurcd, have advised course which even the late
King oi Naples would have hestated to adopt. The
propaganda has, in fact, made the two greatest
mistakes ot a weak government 1t has resorted
preclpitately at once to cruel measures and to pitt
ful appeals.
The object of the letter dated from the Vatican
on the ominous l2h of July, is of course to chal-
lenge sympathy and to demand protection; but how,
ever suppusng it to be desirable, is this to be ac-
corded? Are to the Italian war recon-
menced, and foreign legions finish at Bologna what
foreign mercenaries began The law of nations is
appealed to in the Papal crcUar-that law which
declared to be comprised, in principle, in
the Bull in dg8tiHi-but the law of nations is
altogether dehors this question The doctrine of
neutrality is widely profeSsed just now in all quar-
ters, II perhaps it is not very clearly understood
and this doctrine must be accepted by the Vatican
in its entirety. Nations and ''peOplcs." as the cant
runs, have frequently appealed to foreign powers
for assistance IN terminating what they considered
state of slavery but the circular of Cardinal An
toneli is amongst the first requests for centu-
ries addressed to the other countries for aid to
crush the discomfort created by long, unreason-
| ing and odiOus rule Great Britain, of course,
has neither act nor part in the matter. Not even
! Sir G. c. Lewis has yet proposed to accredt
anybody to the Court of Rome. But the possibility
the chance of epettion of foreign interference
in the affairs of Italy is the business of every nation
of the European family; and while the Pope chooses
to cling to his temporal power he must be prepared
| to defend it. Why, indeed, this temporal power is
still considered a portion Of the Roman Catholic
church, We cannot possibly explain from such data
as are given US. 1t was said that when Napoleon
|. removed the Pope to Paris the cardinals had de-
termined, should he be imprisoned to elect anoth-
er, that the power cf the Pontifcate should not
lapse or be interrupted and we know that Pope
at Rome was excommunicated by Pope at Avig-
non. Locality, therefore, and terrestrial power have
nothing to do with the spiritual rule of the See of
Rome, and if the subjects of the Pope determine to
decline the further yoke of the cardinals the
ment in spiritual sense, can be followed by i'll
effects. In this view the circular of Cardinal Anto-
nelli only be regarded an intmation that
the present establishment of the Popedom is on
| the of great change.
THE ENGLISH POMPEII