Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-03-04
THE FALL OF GAETA.
JERUSALEM AS THE SEAT OF THE PAPAOY.

The mails by the steamship Canadian arrived here this
morning. full summary Of the news by this arrival
was given in the evening Post Of yesterday The Lon
don Times Of the l4h ultimo has the following COM
ments on
THE FALL OF GAETA.
CAL is now over. Francis H. has done his
best and his worst and it has delayed and not changed
the event The siege Of Gaea has been useless and sens
less conflict Every who has fallen during these five
weary months has been murdered for the vainest Of
sonsto satisfy the point of honor. We in England saw
this from the hrst and the Prince who has more than
any else helped to proong the struggle must have
seen it also. Those who watched the affairs Of Italy
from distance knew how impossible it was that the
royal power, once overthrow in the Two Siclies,
could be rehablitated by the success OF Gaeta.
When at Palermo, eighteen thousand Neopolan
troops surrendered to thousand and four hundred
aribaldsns the government of the Bourbons crumbed
to the ground in the eyes Of Europe. Such an
army was justly thought must argue political system
and ruler whom nothing could save Ever SINCE the
spectacle has been continually repeated The army,
the fleet the civil departments the Church, part
of the royal family deserted to or endeavored to make
terms with the enemy The Bourbons could never be
restored for there was nothing left through which they
could rule. Some priests in the country districts with
the peasanry they taught the only Bourbon par
tizans left in the kingdom Had no foreign power inter-
fered all would have been at peace in few weeks. But
the French Emperor thought fit to show his sympathy
with the royal cause We have been told by the Moni-
teur-and the statement has been repeated from the I'm
peria ps-hat Napoleon actuated only by pity for
one who at early age had met with great calamity,
and that he desired only to insure the personal safety Of
Francis and Of his devoted Queen. But with all the
respect for the Emperor talents must take leave to
say that if these his only motives his conduct was
singulary ludged There can be no doubt that every
in Italy, Consttutionalst Republican, ultramontane
royast has interpreted the presence OF Admiral Bar
bier de Tnan at Gaea support to the cause of the
Bourbon monarchy. As soon as 1t was known that the
French were interfering back came some OF the European
diplomatic corps who had previously abandoned the fallen
King The Pope openly thanked Napoleon for his pious
resistance to revolution In Naples itself signs OF for
mdable Bourbon conspiracy soon appeared. There was
erywhere belief that the French were perhaps about
t. reinstate the King and the Churchs and Canbys Of
Southern Italy began to rec that it would be as well
20 be on the winning side. Hence reasonable move
ments began in the capital headed by officers in the Ne
apolitan service, and summary arrests and punishment
necessarily resorted to by the authorities. The in
surrectons in the AbruZ1 planned and carried out
by the assistance OF politicians high IN Office In the Pa
pal States and the whole power of the Church in France
employed to confirm the Emperor in his supposed
sign OF protecting the Bourbon sovereign. Francis
mself mainly encouraged to persist by the hop,
that the Emperor meant ultimately to save him. He is,
indeed TO be excused for shut up in fortress he knew
but little that was going forward, and perhaps thought
that there SINCERE and general wish Tor his resora-
ton. The loss Of life and the misery which have been
caused by this long struggle will stain his reputation less
than that Of the monarch who permitted them, knowing
them to be useless
WILL THE POPE REMOVE THE PAPAL SEAT TO JERUSALEM
A correspondent OF the Liverpool Mercury, wi ng
from Rome that French officers have attery been
very busy in obtaining information respecting Jerusalem
the of things in that quarter. He adds that
they had been taking measurements in several localities
particularly the ground that lies about the Mosque oil
Omar Mount Moriah. From Jerusalem they had gone
to Hebron GAIA and other points Tor the like pur
p,se IL vas also currently reported that body OF
Fir ch troops shortly to come TO Jerusalem while
az Their would be stationed at Jaa and third Mount
Carmel At Beyout, he says the French officers openly
affirmed that their government had no intention oil with
awing the force sent out but were about to employ
til shortly on a and very different errand to that
for which they ostensibly The French were also
actively employedin making road from the Holy City TO
Damascus, long which heg gers erecting houses at
rtan intervals II il said that suGh a scheme this
intelligence shows to be in OF development points
to the realizing of Pho Nonos iavorite plan Of reoUg
the seat Of the PdpacV 10 Jerusalem.