The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-04-23

As The Cdtholic Mirror, of Saturday, devoted
no less than three leading articles to the consid-
Grafton OF the views presented in this journal
upon Italian affairs common courtesy requires
that we should briefly acknowledge these atten-
tons. We do this the more cheerlully, because
the structures of our hebdomadal contemporary
are so manifestly intended for our good If we
have failed to be instructed or moved by them, il
is our misfortune and not our fault, for we have
abored diligently, though Intellectually, to reduce
our hearts and minds TO that state Of unreasoninn
submission which would alone enable us TO profit
by these censures, and escape further condemna-
ton as 'potical atheists" We appreciate, of
course, The trenchant sarcasm contained in the
phrases, youthful editors'' "sapient editors -
Sensation editors" and 'pseudo critics" and
we admit the profound wisdom of the proposition
that there is Ga logic of common sense and COM
'mon honestly" but Notwithstanding this ve
are utterly unable to see how the conclusions
the writer has arrived at have been deduced from
such premises. However, The Mirror tells us,
"truth is slow Of pace and simple of tongue"
and if such be the case, the inane and halting
ratiocination Of our worthy monitor would seem
to indicate that its utierances are really those of
embodied verify. But we must be pardoned if we
hesitate to defer to it rs the sole represen Ia
tive OF truth, until it snstains with a little
more clearness and cogency the theories it is
pleased TO PROFOUND. The facts we have
lately discussed may be only ''the misera-
'tbe misrepresentation Of foreign correspon-
''dents" which care eagerly caught up by our
fyouthfu editors, who seize upon them and
'trehash them for the savory palates of news.
''mongers, garruous old women, and embryo
"orators of debating clubs,' and if so, it is only
fair to afford the youthful editors the means OF
detecting the precise nature and extent of their
mistakes before they are asked TO admit they have
made any. Neither they, nor their 'foreign
correspondents" claim to be inallible, and they
are consequently in position TO correct an error
or retract a hasty judgment. If the 'English
''press" furnishes nothing but mis-statements of
transactions in Rome and Naples, surely those
who complain of these ought to refer us TO the
sources of information from which candid and
clear accounts of matters abroad NAV be derived
The press of the civilized world lie reioiced to he
thus directed, for it is now absolutely ignorant
of the names even of the journals in Rome and
Naples that report faithfully all occurrences in
those cities or comment upon them with anything
like freedom. Until, therefore, il knows where
ourcontemporary got the fact the 'Perugia affair.",
has "dwindled gradually, as the truth evolved
f'into just repression of mob it is not to be
expected that it will depart from its original
opinions about that luckless business. Nor can
it until some authority is brought forward, agree
TO call the late demonstration at Rome an ninsur
Erection" or, indeed, to accept as correct repre-
sensations of events, the images which come
reflected to it through the medium of The Mirror
The conclusions at which the latter manages to
arrive in the articles allude to, are, we have
said, not more satisfactory than the premises from
which they are drawn. While we are truly grateful
for the columns of historical extracts it has repro
duced 'for the benefit of the editor of THE Ex-
CHANGE, we are compelled to own our inability
to see wherein they apply to the case in point.
We are not disposed to enter into archaologica,
disputes, and will admit, merely for the argu-
ments sake, that the circumstances of tbese mar
ticuar instances in which Popes have exconmun-
icated Princes, are correctly stated, and that the
former were actuated by religious, and never NV