The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-06
Paris, Pesth, and Rome.

Paris, Pesth, and Rome.
From The Times.
The varied drama of European affairs has
of late borrowed an element of excitement in
brilliant succession of ceremonials which recall
the pomp and splendor of those distant days
when monarchs and rulers attempted to win
the hearts of their subjects by gorgeous shows
and professions. Last year, at this very time,
Kingdoms and principalities were being oblite-
rated from the map, the roar of cannon was
echoing through the Continent the life-blood
was being drained from the House of Haps-
burg and mems minds were everywhere filed
with disquietude and misgiving. Even within
few weeks past war seemed almost inevi-
table. The dispute over an insignificant for
tress revived the long-standing feud between
Prussia and France and the evaporation on
both sides was so great that a reconciliation
appeared the most improbable event that
could happen. But the pacific exhortations
OF England were successful, and the Luxem-
bourg difficulty passed away for the time. And
now the King of Prussia, the believer in that
doctrine of the divine right of kings which
brought one monarch to the scatfold, has been
tSted in the capital of the ruler whose armies
he had all but called into the field. The Minis
ter who dehed Napoleon, and has succeeded in
bringing his country to a pitch of glory and
power undreampt of before, has been an hon
ored guest at the Tuileries and Fontainebleau.
The Gear of Russia, whose father died of
broken heart on account of his reverses, and
whose vast empire was temporarily exhausted
to provide the means of coping with the forces
of England and France, has still the acclama-
tions of the French people, almost the tradi-
tional enemies of his country, ringing in his
ears. Moscow and Sebastopol have alike been
hidden behind the draperies of a huge fair.
A. ID. l.
of the regularity OF nature destroys the doe
trine of chance, and replaces it by that of
necessary connection" But it would have
bafled the philosoper to reveal to us the action
of this law in the strange mutations which
have linked the houses of Romanoff and Napo-
leon in friendship, and brought the descen-
dant of Selim III under the roof of the nephew
of the ambitious ruler who endeavOred to
make Egypt a province of France, and who
put to rout its adherents under the very
shadow of the pyramids.
Napoleon the Third understands better than
any other living man the effect of these dis
plays upon the minds of the French people.
He, the shrewdest monarch of modern times,
initiates the devices of the most astute Prince
of the Carlovingian dynasty. If he puts gag
upon the mouth of his people, he graciously
permits them to open their eyes, and amuses
them with gratuitous exhibitions of living
Emperors and Princes, all bent upon paying
homage" to France. Thought and speech
are interdicted, but the Partisan mind is
assumed to find recompense in the kind of
entertainment which is usually effective with
children. All Napoleon's ingenuity, however,
in arranging shows, fails in rivalling the
I august and imposing ceremonials which the
Papacy still, on rare occasions, presents to the
world. The temporal majesty of the Pontiff
may have been diminished, but in his spiritual
kingdom he still exercises sway which is
great beyond all conception and calculation,
and which extends year after year, not
withstanding the ceaseless assaults of enc
mics. In that illustrious and stately assem-
blage which has me. in the capital of the
Caesars, there must have been few whose
hearts did not beat high with pride at the
thought that the Papaey alone of earthly sys-
TENS brings down to the present day an un-
changed record-a record which has known no
substantial variation, and an authority which
is acknowledged and venerated over the four
quarters of the world. "She saw said Lord
Macaulay of the Papacy, 'the commencement
| of all the Governments and of all the eeeesi-
astical establishments that now exist in the
| world; and we feel no assurance that she is
not destined to see the end of them ALL"
10 this country Plus TX must turn his eyes
with exultation and gratitude. Contributions
SO profuse that they might have satisfied the
wants OF the most frivolous of his predeces-
soIs III the Pontihcal Chair, Paul III, have
peep poured into his exchequer, unasked, by
tne homan 1el Catholics of America. In the love
ana noelty OF his children in the New World
he may forget the ingratitude of his "eldest
SON. ana nnd consolation for the coldness of
the Alng OF Italy. 1t is impossible that the
attached followers of the Church who recently
gathered round the Sovereign Pontiff should
not respect his many noble qualities. In the
troubles "hich nave beset him from ls4s until
invincible courage and exalted n;etv he "lss has
done nothing to bring the Chair ~ 81 pater
into contempt, as one of his predecessors did
when he gave Cardinals hat 10 tbe Eeener
Of his monkey. The Pope will not oniv "a ia.
rive fresh encouragement from the msyI,s Io ~
encouragement which he has received. bnt hs
will be stimulated to make renewed efforts to