New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-05
FRANCE AND THE PAPACY,

For eighteen more months, the Temporal
Power of the Pope will remain under the pro- |
lection of the French bayOnets; then the mo-
mentous day arrives which the people of Rome
and of all Italy will have come to look upon as the
end of the forcible restraint imposed by France
upon the national desire of the Italians for the
annexation of Rome. Whatever secret arrange-l
mentS the two Governments may have entered
! into, or whatever public declarations they may
deem it proper to issue, popular opinion in Italy
is impatiently waiting for the end of the Tempo
/ raj Power.
The Governments of both France and Italy,
look with great concern at the complications
which are again arising out of the Roman ques-
/ ton. 1t is now more than thousand years.
that the Papacy, possessed of secular SOW
Iereignty, has been independent of any foreign
government. Though it no longer yields any!
thing like the great influence which it could
boast of during the middle ages, it yet repre-
sents great spiritual power in every Catholic
Icountry Of the world. Though wont to quarrel
with the secular governments, its services are
in many instances of great avail, and, therefore,
Eagerly sought for. Its overthrow would bel
one of the greatest triumphs Of the Liberal
party and for this very reason is dreaded by all
conservative and anti-Liberal statesmen M
Italy, Spain and France, as well as in Russia
and Prussia,
1 France and Italy are already eagerly negd'
tating with the Pope about some solution that
may avert revolutionary outbreaks. Napoleon's
1confdant, Persigny and a former Minister of
Victor Emmanuel, have simultaneously arrived
/ in Rome, and it is generally surmised that they
are endeayoring to prevail upon the Pope to|
consent to some kind of compromise.
Bonapartist paper of Paris, La Patrie,
gives some interesting particulars of these nego-
| tiations. According to its statement the King,
Victor Emmanuel, has sent aconfdant to Rome
to conjure the Pope not to leave that city, the
Italian Government being determined to exc
cute Loyalty the Convention OF Septem-
1ber Is, 1863, and to suppress any attempt
made by the party of Action. The Italian
i Government promises not to establish itself at
Rome The city would only be declared AM
"Italan City," and, in order to CRAFTY public
Iouinion. the Romans would send Deputies to-
I the ItaliantParliament. This, however, would
not make them subjects Of the Kingdom OF
Italy, but Rome would remain an independent
icity governed according to its own institutions,
land the Holy Father would alone exercise in II
| the sovereignty which would be the guarantee of
Its independence. All financial concessions
(which the Pope might claim for himself or the
cardinals would be accorded. NJ. de Persigny
is said to be pleading with the Pope in favor OF
this compromise, and to have already gained
for it the support of certain number of
Cardinals.
Another report from Rome is to the effect
! that negotiations between the Pope and the
King of Italy have been commenced to fill the!
vacant Episcopal Sees. The Pope recognizes
now as before, the right of the King to nomi
nate candidates, subject to the approval of the
Pope. for all Sees within the limits Of the for
mer kingdom of Sardinia he seems willing to|
concede the same right for the bshoprics n|
| but he unnnchngly refuses making any con-
cession of this kind for the Episcopal Sees inl
| the dominions which have been wrested front
/ him.
Itsrequires but little acquaintance with the
present condition of Italy to see that these ne
gotiations can lead to no permanent result.
None of them can remove the hostility which
actually exists between the Pope and the Italian
nation. Every Chamber of Deputies which
has been elected by the Italian people since the
establishment of the Kingdom of Italy has been
nearly unanimous in demanding legislative acts \
which are denounced by Rome as derogatory to
the rights and powers OF tho Church.
An interesting debate concerning the Romanl
question recently took place in the Legislative
Body of France. To the great surprise of all
France, NJ. Theirs, who has been up to thiSi
time an earnest opposer of the claims OF Rome
put himself mt the head of the "Catholic"1
party, which demanded that the draft of an
address TO the Emperor, declaring in fayorl
of the independence of the Church, be sol
amended as to guarantee to the Pope the Tenn
poral Power. NJ. Theirs was as usual yeryI
eloquent, and his chief opponent, NJ. Rouher,
was noted for his inconsistency; but the amend.
ment was nevertheless rejected by l65 voesI
against g.
1t is almost certain that the relations to Rome l
will continue for some time to come a prolific |
cause of political excitement both in FranceI
and Italy.