The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-01-07
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PARIS, Sept. %, 1S64.-The news of the set
Element Of the Roman question fell upon u. like
most of NapoleOn's diplomatic c0upS, with dra-
matte effect. The sensa-ion here, in Italy, ut
Rome, in all the Catholic States, Is intense. No
European question has the privilege of exciting
peoples PASSIONS to the same extent as this one,
ami no one dreamed that negotiations We're going
on tor It's settlement. During the dead calm
which has taken place in European affairs. the
French people were turning their attention 70
internal reforms, and it is suspected that it was
to divert the attention Of people from this chan
mel that the Emperor fastened to bring to a close
the long discussion Of this Roman question.
W neither tins be true or not. the effect is pro-
dUced the Roman question will suffice to divert
attention until the next session of the Corps
Lesislatif is over, and perhaps far beyond.
The removal Of the capital Of Italy from Turin
to Florence has already provoked in the former
city an 0Heute among the merchants and property
holders, among those citizens who place their
pockets above their patriotism it has also caused
an alarm at Naples, where, if they could not see
the capital removed to Rome, or To their own
city, they would rather see it remain at Turin.
But with these exceptions the Italian people will
be satisfied with the change. For, however the
question may be viewed elsewhere. no Italian Will
regard the removal to Florence as anything else
than a temporary arrangement, to be followed at
no remote period, by a second removal to Rome
And Florence, in a military point Of view, is q
much stronger point than Turin.
At the end Of two years the French troops will
have all left Rome, and the Pope VIII be left face
TO face with his 300 600 temporal subjects. TO
keep these in check. and to prevent them from
delivering Rome over to Victor Emanuel (for
seven-eighths of this population is in favor of
Italian unity the Pope will ne privileged to
organize an army Of foreign mercenaries, mum
bering ten or fifteen thousand men.
All this would look at first sight as if the stu
alton was to be eternized thus but this is not
the idea, either in France or in Italy. 1t is be-
leved that when the Papal Government is left
alone with its Italian subjects, that the passions
which now agitate parties in Italy may be APP
peased that a spirit of Cancellation may arise,
and that finally a compromise may be arrived at
which Will permit the two mOnarchies to reign at
Rome. This is Napoleon's idea, and it certainly
is the idea of Victor Emanuel's Government, or
the present treaty would never have beer made.
In the treaty which has just been signed. the
Italian Government assumes the debts of those
Papal States. the Marches and the Umbria. which
have been detached from Rome and annexed to
the dOminiOns Of Victor Emanuel. Thus France,
for the first time, recognizes, in a direct way. the
new nationality Of these provinces.
The Liberal papers in Franc accept this solu-
ton Of the Roman question with JOY, and they
are not snaring in their eulogiums of the Empe-
ror. The principle of non-intervention is thus
respected. and France can no longer be charged
with imposing upon the Roman people a govern
mcnt which is hateful to them. The Ministerial
papers, OF course, approve the treaty while the
religious papers naturally oppose it, and predict
all sorts OF evil consequences.