The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-07

Ahe News from EurOpe-EMeCtS OF tue
Reconciliation OF Italian Nationality.
The news from Europe to-day shows that
| Louis Napoleon and Victor Emanuel persist in
marching with the spirit of the age, and that
the British government is willing to let the Con-
| tinent work out its own destiny.
Sardinia has formally accepted the annexa.
ton of the Italian duchess as well as the Ro-
| magma, which has hitherto been considered as
| one of the States of the Church. In conse.
quence Of this fact, the Pope has officially an.
nounced to Victor Emanuel that he may con-
| sjder himself accommodated from the Church
of Rome and his Holiness reserves to himself
the duty of taking into consideration the int.
rests of the Church and of the good Catholics
ofPiedmont before proceeding to severer mea-
sures. This probably means the formal pro-
mitigation Of the bull of accommodation in
all the Roman Catholic temples of the world,
depriving the King of social communion with
his fellow Christians. How little effect the
paper thunder of the Vatican will have, is
demonstrated in the fact that the cities of
Milan, Genoa, Leghorn, Turin, Bologna and
Florence have agreed to illuminate on the mo-
ment the Pope's bull is Illuminated, and to give
the event the character of national celebra-
ton. There is vast significance in this. The
PRONUNCIATION of the bull will bring the Pope,
as the head of the Church, and Victor Emanuel,
as the leader of the people, into direct antago-
nisn,, and initiate in Italy conflict between
the people and the clergy, which may result in
the utter overthrow of the latter.
Priesthood cannot successfully oppose the
spirit of the nineteenth century, so long as
this marches in consonance with public order
The steam engine, the telegraph and the pub
lie press have loaned their mighty powers to
the mind of man, and this is rapidly GERM.
mating a new era in politics, religion, science,
art and mechanics. The time when a Pope
could force Calico to recant in sackcloth the
opinion that the world turned on its axis has
passed away; and today innumerable Galileos
in every art and science are proclaiming their
new theories in all lands to an accepting world
Italy, the cradle of civilization, the home Of
genius for ages. cannot lag behind in the
march Of intellect. For fifteen centuries
she has been the sport Of factions and the spoil
of strangers. The Roman Empire, crumbling
in the Peninsula from>t the departure of Con-
stantine, to found new imperial city Byzan-
tium, left fragmentary mass which has been
clutched alike by Goth, German, Frank, and
their descendants, through alternate ages. Out
of their decay the Pope caught few fragments,
in which an ecclesiastical government has sue
cessfully proved to the werld its utter unfit
ness to meet the social and temporal needs of
men.
Italy now comes forward and takes position
as selfgoverned nation, for the first time
since the third century of the Christian era;
and the best thing that can happen for her
future greatness and power is, that the theories
which have weighed like nightmare upon her
go long, shall place themselves at once in open
aniagonism and hostility to the new order of
things. The hesitation Of the Pope to pronul
gate the bull Of accommodation against her
new leader, indicates the secret fears of the
Papacy, and the probability that some attempt
will be made by it to avoid the new dan.
ger which threatens the Italian theocracy.
But no enlightened mind will for moment
believe that the true interests Of religion are
endangered by the separation of the ecclesias-
teal from the temporal power or That Rome
will lose one atom of its greatness or its inhu
ence by the raeuscitation of Italian nationality
This event must, through its own innate pow
er, and the widely extended ramlications of
the Latin race, produce great effect upon the
future of Europe. It's success as political