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be finished to-day. Perhaps this Is shade
away from the truth, for On Monday morn.
Ing the Patrse informed Us that 1t had psi-
vate adrlces from Rome to the effect that
four companies Of French troops wonld re-
main until the end Of December, IN order to
clJse the administration business connected
with the occupation. There Is. to suspicious
mind-aud your correspondent confesses to
being s1ow of faith In Ill matters that affect
Frerch sinceIity-room In this announce.
mrpt for a good deal of speculation, to say
sLe least.
1wondeg, TO begin with, why the Patr1e
alludes to Roman informant, when 1t Ia
statra of the .Mialstry." 1t is reasonable,
too, to speculate whether this nnnounc>-
ment, 50 circuitously made, be not q "fseler''
thrown ont to guage public opinion In
France as to the piopriety Of staying In
Rome u4ta Italy adds, to her promise not to
her claims upon 1t. There can be NO reason
for asking time to close out the business Of
the bureaus In Rome for the French have
bad two years to do that in, and cirilian EN-.
ployes are competent to sell any bacon or
loraEe which msy be on hand ut the bar
racks.
1t is apparent that enc soldier represent
Log the French flag u Just as much q bar to
Italy as h1nareu Thousand would be. To
send Cd most OF tho army, but to retain
enough to keep the Itsllans and Romans on
their good Behavior, or to provoke one Or
both to an outbreak, might be the device Of
ultrzmontanes to block up the path OF
Italy. These gentlemen have worked iuces-
sanity for the last moath, bare stimulated
the tunatlclsm Of French Catholics, aroused
the leryor of French bisheps, and latterly
hare talked much Vi their confidence IN the
result Whether this little announcement
OF TIE Pafrte covers their plan nnd m.
nounccs their victory, Is. therefore, fair
question. Nobody expccts to Aave the sense
If French scmi-ollcial paper By il literal
translation ; it Is necessary to study between
the lines, and to make free use OF political
glossary.
1t Is thrown out By one Of the trnnslators
who proceeds on this correct pril eiple TINT
body guard Of the Empress, who, he adds,
Will spend Christhus in Rome. Now this
visit by the Empress is itself one Of those con-
senieht ca'4a,ds which the Government a.es
for sonlr mex planned purpose; hut no we'll
ipior,nsd person believes Eugenie will 70 TO
that such proceeding would. under certain
circumstances, be n stroke Of policy. Is the
Government trying to find out whether the
circumstances reilly exist or can be manu-
tuetured2 The Empress would 20 TO Rome
if By the risit she could secure the adoption
Of tie Frcn.b idea about Rome By the Holy
Father. That Idea Is, that the Roman
| Court shaiI make world Of preleuccs
in the way of reform; and, In
short. govern. the Romans as Sepoleon
with bayoncts. That the gay aud not he
liesed.to- -he-too-pruaisl Empress y really In
! fear Of the loss Of her soul ia else Pic Nono
loses his throne, Is one Of those childish be-
liefs that newspaper readers ought not to in.
| dulee. She manages The clerical party, Us
l ft,.&f Ia un
well that the EMperor eau always cuunt on
the ftrbearance OF tbis small but active fac.
ton; but that ler public and published
pfcty means more than this is hardly crcdi-
bic. With this dismiss rs idle Nil the chat
ter that the Empress Is beseechiug her lord
to conecnL to her piuus pilgrimage to the
shrine of St. Peter. Some sort OF honesty
seems to Inc 80 insepagablc from the most
ianatlcal type Of devotion. that I caunot
believe the assumed mother of the
the same time keep ~ falsehood dc:
signed to deceive tho French nation, and
TfoitsS fear Of eternal pain 1t they do not
save to the Pope the remnants Of hts earthly
possessions, It is simply part Of that Sa,
people found ou, how Ii was done, md thai
there were better, though less pretentiuus
players ut the ga1nc Of politics.
But, 10 get b2ek 10 tho troops, the c:eri
calls hare insisted for some time that At thg
| lAsL NAIuaEOAh EOuElEC HCulN 4all AlHl tluG
he WON'T Ieu,aiu 10 Rome. Tbe leaving foul
tumraties therr after the expiration of tht
tine fixed ior tlcir departure means some
thing Lot put down for vu'rar readers 0
tell gra plIc dispatches. II NC turn tu It1ll
| We ll.ay find a better clue to the reason {U
Ettnc.
Italy. ny solemn act Of her Parliament
in 1sG0, declared Eomc the capital Of Italy
A3,1S fSE iHs1 %1,.S, 1T t,n.e
been Tod In fables several times within th
mGnth that General F!eury would ask IL
F4uT, nee the repeal Of this udicas ito Rome
statute, aud the Fdirie recently declared thi
! unscpealed act al Parliament plain viola
Iitn CT the Convection OF September, mos
pnwarEantahlc Interference bv Italy in th
astaAs Of Ronic. VII Fscpch troops-on
| 1Ean cr a thousand does mot ma:ser-stay !,
Konae unfl the Parliament which meets ncx
Sunday s!E'll repeal the law which make
the Eternal City the Metropolis OF New
/ United Italy: j, SO, they viii stay forever
! Ihrsr Is no sentiment in Italy SO powerful
uow as that Of the sacred right Of the natios
| to the old sovereign city Of the Penlnsuls
Ministry might defy this feeling. The,
but 10 ask an Italian Parliament to do tht
l. quite another matter Now It happen
!, that the Ministry have no powc
. TO, annul Law Of the Assembly
and, u the desire 81 Napolen is geasidcd, /
l
: the ~obnozious law. It Is very cas-.
Is nor more % ecntras; ~ to "n isir % onr,s ''tas luns
.. 18th bone dust q1 im9;aginationl. y; and er5
priests of Ri me In the C"tnpidaglio and CT
claim. there i no loom here for FIc&o
| Emanuel" But natlons have their sentl
, mental Laws, and it is Idle to disregard them
England would not willingly see Chcste
made tLe ca pttal city, and yet the mos
rft,t ffry, m rtS1r-
I. ment. The Dation could not haTc been In
ducej. duting the wnr, to 1norc the capito
) | oflhe Uuited States farther north; and Il,
main objection would have been q sentiment
ktmc IS necs ssi'y o: Italy, and Italy vii
: Lnve Rome and make 1t the capital.
t Rome Is equally necessary 10 the Popes
/. Il Is eaey 10 argue that Sardinia, Malta, Q
!. \ thu Balcuric Isles, or Jerusalem, or Constar
E tiroplc would be great deal better as cap
; tails Of the provinces; hut these checkc,
! weight Which enter into the value Of ere
powers in the game of lifr. i Pope Eoul
= he nothing II he were mol Roman. The cit
hns Ep1neTed in It Ill the associations, n
. cords, and sentimental interests II hich MAX
the power Of the ,Papaey. The world woul
l. ceased to 11l the world with their clamo1
e hut oct Of Rene they would lose half the
prestige and power: Sox there Is room
8 Rome for both Victor Emanue1 and Pi
mcnt Of having then, together shall be hirl
tried. Rome is a political, national, 1talis
y eeutinstnt, as we'll as religious
= ecclesiastical, Paral one The latte
saesez sessasc che Q, sseef e.esya sSa
sion- But the Senate, which Represented III
!: national idea, was abolished by Pho Nom
? only seventeen years ago, ami the member
+ who were thea opsted from a form Of pow
are more than halt Of them still alive. Th;
10 1S r1rtxr ri ali I'm hat T1A fe
a hsurper at all evcnts be and hts kind hss
', no right TO the political government
. Rome, which the age admits "Ts,e con.el
:, Of the governed" has become an essenti
condition to any snler's power. and yict'
/, Emanuel is to-day King Of Rome By a bert'
:. title tEnn the TGty respectable priest VII
j. Eancies himself NOT only King, but klnS
= hiDgs.
:. The Roman question is go largely anc
q tiop Of money, Or Of Hant Of It, on the Pap
Il this moment A movement Is said to lie r,
;: ing on among the Catholic Powers to fnrni.
y the Pope = handsome civil list tn
II means money to pay his civil oflcers
= ,hut II Is plain that every sous giren him +
1t this purpose dlseusases another which Ct
v he invested In bayone,s; and It Is fair
L. 4ue5ied whether this be not neH artif
as for whipping the devil ronnd the stump
,s II must be borne in mind, however, that Ii
or now s,ld The suggestion Game from Aus.ri
the poorest and the weakest Of the pio
= rowers. It viii probably share the fatc
the 81 nn}sh p1orosftion for an occupation
ID Rome hy all the Catholic Powers, Italy, pc
haps, excepted. Il only shows ron That II Il
's- Fapal throne tails, It will not be for lack
= aburdant c1pedients TO save 1t from rul
x No: the least Of these is the episcopal el
ID queuce Of France md England. Half . dog
l. ptelatcs In france hare Issued pastoral le
or ters which, like those ot the Hols Fatht
I. hare an air Of menace winch IL quite inco
ri f>11rr nf 1,1,4
~ city.
~ archbishop Manning recently said ID Lo
sc don that this WAS no time 10 remove
al tie-beams Of civilization, or tear the rool-tf