The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-30
The Roman Revolution.


THB news from Rome continues to be OF great
Interest. and must absorb the attention oil the
public to the exclusion Of everything else
S,ntis the crisis in Italian affairs shall have
passed. Garibaldi, escaping from his treache-
Tous confinement in his island home, seems to
have made his way Immediately to the Papal
States and to have put himself at the head Of
ahe scattered bands of revolutionists, who had
here tofore been under the command of his
son Menott, and who had been pretty effee-
zually held at bay by the Papal troops. The
appts nee of Garibaldi at the head of the
revc onary forces, and his stirring appeals
TO u eople, had the effect to rapidly recruit
his bers, so that he at once assumed the
often ., fought and defeated the Papal troops
ut on, Rotondo, and drove them back upon
Ro, tsslf, which he is now besieging with
ter sand troops.
L. vhile the French fleet has left Toulon,
and Id already be OFF the Italian coast, so
that ess Garibaldi's movements are very
prcmpt lie will soon have the French forces to
con with also, and Rome may not after
all, IL into his hands. Victor Emanuel,
too, after much hesitation, has issued pro-
clan alton against Garibaldi, and announces
that Italy and France will endeavor to make a
practical arrangement which will end the
Roman question. But the people and the
army are said to side with Garibaldi, and to
be exceedingly indignant at the Kings course.
What the upshot of the whole affair will be
It is difficult to predict. Had Victor Emanuel
taken advantage of the feeling in Italy, and
Immediately upon the first outbreak marched
a strong column to Rome and occupied it, in
defiance of French threats, he would doubtless
have been master of the situation. Napoleon,
in the present delicate state of affairs between
France and Prussia would never have dared
TO attack united Italy; for, had he done so he
would at once have precipitated general Eu-
ropean war, and Italy would have held Rome
in spite of him. In the present state of affairs,
it is vain to suppose that Garibaldi can hold
out long against the Governments of both
France and Italy. Even should he capture
Rome, we should merely behold a repetition
OF the scenes of l84S. The Pope was driven
from Rome then and republic established,
but French bayonets oveIthrew the republic
and brought back the Pope.
1t is not at all impossible, or even improba-
BILE, that France and Italy may agree upon an
arrangement in regard to the Roman question
substantially the same as that some time ago
made public, viz, the occupation of Rome by
Italian troops during the life of the present
Pope, and the cessation of the temporal power,
with the full possession of Rome by Italy, at
his death. Some such settlement of the ques-
tion would seem to be almost essential to the
stability of Victor Emanuel's throne; for his
course Of action has alienated from him large
portion Of his subjects, and the revolutionary
elements thwarted at Rome might turn upon
the King himself, and hurl him headlong from
his position.
The story that Mr. Seward has despatched
secret agent to offer the Pope an asylum in
this country is worthy of little credence.
Every foreigner knows that he has refuge in
America if he can only get here. The Pope
can come if he likes, and after five years. resi-
dence can become a citizen of the United
States. But neither Mr.. Seward nor any other
officer of the Government can offer him any
more Of an 'asylum, or any different stand
ing, than would be accorded to any other for
eign immigrant or refugee. He could be the
head Of the Catholic Church here as well as
elsewhere, but he could WELD no temporal
power.