The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-19
THE DECEMBER MAGAZINES.
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illustration) "On the Red Desert, by Albert
s. Evans; ''The Old Gate" by H. H.; "The
Breath of Life, by John O. Draper, M. D.;
"Put Yourself in His Place." by Charles
Reade, chapters xiii, xiv, XIV, XVI, and
xvii with an illustration); ''The Cardinal
dAndrea, by the Secretary of the late Car
dinal d'Andrea; 'tLatter Spring." by Rose
Terry; "a Marriage and Theory" by Edgar
Fawcett; ga November Afternoon" by Re-
becca Harding Davis; Mrs. Strongitharm's
Report, by Jane Strongitharm; "An Editors
Tales"-No. ii, Josephine de Montmorenci-
by Anthony Trollope; '"The Morals and Man
ners of Journalism" first article, by Richard
Grant White; THE Galaxy Miscellany"
''Drift-wood,' by Philip Quilibet Literature
and Art" ''Nebule, by the editor
From sketch of Cardinal dAndrea by his
Secretary we make the following extracts:-
Two years and a half before the period at
which my narrative opens, the unpopularity
of the Cardinal Minister gave hopes to his
opponents in the Sacred College that the Pope
might be induced to recommend his resipna
ton. Three Monsgnori were especially ac-
tive. A plot was formed to denounce in con-
clave the measures of Antonelli. Two of the
cabinet were prepared to resign their port
folios rather than share the popular odium of
serving under him. Three Cardinals were
privately nominated as cabinet. But the
lion was wary. He had information of all the
plot. The conclave was not summoned on
the day expected The two cabinet ministers
were promoted and the three recacitrant
Monsignori were sent abroad on embassies.
But the prime movers of the scheme were
beyond his reach, and all the more to be
feared and hated. They had the ear of the
Pope, too. This was not much; for, after ALL
the real power in Eome is the Cardinal Minis
ter. Obstinate as is the Pope on some
points, the general tone of his character is
indecision. On one point he is easily in
famed. To suggest the least remuneration of
his dignities, his wLc would restore the most
obsolete of them, IS heresy and treason.
Here the Cardinal Minister, able at all times
to obtain private audience of the Pope, had
decided advantage over his opponents. With
consummate knowledge of character, O per-
feet master of words, he had learned to
mould the unsuspecting Pontiff at will. 1t
was not remarkable, therefore, that as re-
suit of these insinuations the Pope, very
poor at all DISCUSSES, should show coldness
and hduteur to his supposed secret enemies.
The sentiments of Cardinal d'Andrea we're
we'll known. He had broken through the
traditional rules of the Secret Consistory,
which merely assents to measures proposed
by the ministry by declaring his right, as a
Prince of the Church, to speak his senti- |
ments. The debate thus opened brought |
forth others less resolute, who, although feel
ing strongly on the subject, wanted some one
else to begin. To accept the proposition of
the Cabinet of Turin, approved of by France
and Austria secretly, was the gist of the Car
dinal dAndreas argument. 1t was playing |
into his enemys hand. From that day the
Popes confidence was gone. This was all
the Cardinal Minister desired. The timid
and irresoute saw the Cardinals star was on
the decline, and held aloof accordingly. But
this coldness on the part of the Vatican, this
manly boldness in the peoples cause, bore
fruit elsewhere. The Ultramontanes de-
nounced dAndrea as if he had
been Luther or Yoltaire. But Re-
publicans in France, the liberal Catholics
of England and America the majority of the
Austrian and Northern italian prelates and
clergy, were friendly to his proposition. Ger
many has since pronounced decisively on the
point, as witness the large and powerful
''Society of Catholics to resist the aggressions
of Rome, formed this year in Baden. The .
Cardinal dAndrea became, therefore, the
leader of the liberal policy of Cavour, in
Rome--the chosen of the people. The far
seeing minister recognized the danger of this.
A vain and impolitic person, by some precipi- !
fancy, might have compromised himself Not
so this man. Here let me endeavor to give
slight sketch of the Cardinal d'Andrea, neces-
sarily imperfect, as pen and ink sketches
always are.
He had been bred for the army, and served
in the Noble Guards for three years. His
military training impaired an upright and
commanding carriage to his person, and me-
thodical and precise habits in the manage
ment of his affairs. His disposition was
essentially gentlemanly. Disdaining the
mean and tricksy diplomacy of the Vatican
back-stairs, he had always been distinguished
for genuine and open conduct He had read
much, and of style of literature to which
most men in his position are strangers.
The ban of the Index did not prevent
his candid examination of any book. Thus
he was quite az fdit with the various philo-
sophical schools of thought of the period
Well read in history, he was a believer in
reform. Here he clashed violently with his |
great foes, the Jesuits. No word is more de- |
tested by them than reform. When the Abbot |
Casaretto attempted the reformation of the
Benedictine order, he was viewed with the
greatest suspicion, and discountenanced on
every hand; but by the aid of Cardinal
dAndrea he succeeded in altering the law
apathetic body of st. Pauls Extra Muros into
the active working order of Santo Scholas-
tlca, engaged in the ancient work of the
enedictines-schools and literature.
The Cardinal dAndrea, as protector of this
order, obtained the approval and benedction |
of the Pope for Casaretto, to the discomf. |
ture of his enemies. But viewing the Jesnits |
as the foes of reform, his scheme was To |
destroy their influence in the public schools |
Every one knows that by these the order |
obtains its ascendancy in Rome. Two tbon-
sand boys 60 to confession to the Jesnits !