The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-02
Cardinal Wiseman to be the
Next Pope.

The affairs Of Italy are once more beginning
to distract the peace of the Tuileries. Naples
will continue to banker for the sunny days of
idleness, the bacciochi, and the familiar recogni-
ton of the lazzaroni-loving kings. The authori-
ties and the people the people and the soldiers {:
the soldiers among each Other-all are at war
and ~enmiry. The man hunted down and shot as
q brigand in one of the villages is cheered and
rewarded in another. The affair which has just
taken place between the fremen of Naples and
the cuirassiers, which has ended in the death of
one of the firemen, and the Incarceration of a
large number of the combatants in the citadel,
has given great annoyance to Victor Emanuel,
who is said to have dispatched with ironical
haste, by telegram, all the particulars of the fight
to his august ally, beginning with the memorable
words, Now that the whole of Italy is gathered
under your hand.'' The rire, has led to one ex-
cellent result, that of the demolition of the Fort
of st. Elmo, and its fellow, the Fort de IEuf.
The Minister of War has decided upon abandon
ing them both, and making them Il present to
the municipality, who, on the reception of the
gift, Immediately voted the demolition of them
both.
At Helyia. the people not being, as vet, sufi-
GENTLY advanced in knowledge to comprehend
the benefit of liberty, rose on Palm Sunday to
carry home in triumph the Padre, who had
concluded his sermon with the exclamation of
"Down with Victor Emanuel-Long live Francis
H." One or two of the few citizens of the place
having taken upon themselves to arrest the priest
at the moment he was leaving the church, were
stoned and maltreated by the women, who res
cued their beloved shepherd, and carried him
literally upon their shoulders to his own home,
while their husbands, who had been fishing all
the DAYS of their lives, neither knew nor cared
for the unity of Italy, but could fully understand
that the old regime, with its liberty to crawl
in the sun upon the sca-shore, amid the ofal and
garbage of the rotting fish, was much to be pre-
ferred to the necessity of activity and cleanliness,
and the obligation of working for the acquire
ment of independence and benefit of the commu-
nity. The report of the acceptance of the Pore
of the name.of Cardinal Wiseman as that of his
probable successor has gained ground, of late, in
the salons of the Faubourg st. German, and the
merits of the candidates are canvassed with the
fullest belief in the approach of the moment when
they will be put to the test.
The nomination of a man who, like Cardinal
Wiseman, is full of life and energy, accustomed
to spiritual combat with the stiff-necked heretics
by whom he is surrounded. would seem to an
nounce that the end of the temporal power of the
Pope is far from present contemplation. The
personality of Cardinal Wiseman is much more
popular and better known on the Continent than
in England. where his policy has always been to
keep himself in Obscurity, in order to avoid Civ
ing umbrage to the Protestant influence. Many
people in France regard him Us the Pope of the
North, and speak of his power in terms of vener-
alton and awe which would make an Englishman
smile. Conservatism is again the order of the
day. "The throne having at last acquired the
right to establish the ancient privileges over the
people, upon the old Conservative tune of Non
Possunus, with as much glib facility as any of
the most ancient and respected of its European
rivals, and for all the world as IT it had really
been occupied by the Caesars, or the Bourbons,
or the BraganZas, or of the other proud races,
whose shadow still hovers around the place where
the substance once stood, with sufficient reality
even now to assist usurpation with the loan Of
the very attributes by which they perished-the
stamp of nothingness, the devices of death.