New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-25
THE NEW ITALY.
POPULAR InPhrTENCg FOR RADICAL MEASURES
ALTERATIONS IN TIE JUDICIAL AND EDU-
CAIIONAL sYSTEMs-MhZzINT5 Visit TO

lpRoM OUR SPECIAL coRREsPoyDgSTI


italian people and the hesitation, amounting to tmdy.
OF the italian Government While the former have been
demanding the invasion and reorganization OF entire
State and the removal Of Capital in breath the latter
has been feeling ts way with the painful anxiety Of q
blind man. Each party Is to be alike condemned. and
though the caution OF the Government has worked well
to a certain extent, nasmuch It has acted like cog
wheel In preventing too rapid motion, st It has pre-
scned the country the attitude not insistu
Its rights, but rather duplicating f0rbearIncc. In
fact, the Government does not seem TO have known s
own miDd-has had no programme, and has been I'm
PEELED by public opinion At first IL would give TIC
Leonine City to the Pope which was an evident cOm-
promise OF principle, as It did not destroy but only
reduced the temporal power. This idea was, however,
soon dspeled by the inhabitants Of that quarter Then
there was Ian effort made to trammel the plcbscitun
with guarantees Of the independence Of the Pope,
az II tho two questions were at all connected;
but against this the Romans protested and carried their
point Since the taking Of the pieb'sciH unceasng At
tempts at Cancellation have been made which nave not
even been listened to and still the Government has st'eh
against hope very digntfed manner, while Buns
and protests hayo beer against remarkable
for bitterness for naecuracy And even now thod@h
the work OF reorganization has commenced some OF the
most important questions are still Undecided Arc the
religious corporations to be suppressed or mott Is puDc
instruction to undergo thorough reformi Is the CaP
tai to be removed and at what tme When Is the King
come In lorna priratai No one knows anything about
these points, and many others that might be named and
the Government having taken the decisive step OF seL
ing the territories of the Pope would almost seem to be
frightened at what 1t had done aud to be uncertain 81
the next One thing only Is certain, viz that his
Holiness Ia to receive the honors OF sovereign ebo W
enjoy q good civil list.
DEGREES I'm abundance have been published since
wrote and some Of great interest and Importance Thus
all privileged and ecclesiastical courts have been aDol
shed and priests will be tried by the ordinary tribunals
This indeed IL necessary consequence OF the more gen.
eral decree published few days before, that all elIZes
we're equal before the law and one who has not re-
sided IN country under the supreme influence OF saeer
appreciate the great social revolution and
immense moral benefit which such change will produce
have known priests guilty Of crimes which would nave
led 10 the condemnation OF civilians to Imprisonment In
irons smugglcd away by their bishop, TO perform pe
unce in monastery, and then return whltewashed and
celebrate High Mass ter first act and deed Now,
priest like any other man, must take the consequences
OF LIS actions before the ordinary tribunals
slgnor Brioschi, and not Manani, as was first an
nOunced has been charged with the duty Of organizing
public instruction. and appears TO be sangAne rs 10
opening the communal and Government schools by the
18th November. A Committee OF Romans, among whom
find some of the first in the city, has been APP
Donted to examine the qualifications Of those who
ASPIRE to be masters sl, great tenderness VIII, be-
Ileve be used toward those WHO have hitherto hiieu
such offices; and doubt IL at present public instruc
ton will have that and enlightened character when
might be desired The college, called commonly the S
pienza will be rcopened it Is said, with tie Old proiei
sors some of whom condemned by public opinion as
most inefficient and 1t il difficult to imagine how men
accustomed the old routine could be otherwise where
the practice has been TO forbid the investigation OF many
subjects or to permit it under circumstances which rem
dercd investigation imperfect professors
school DO up to the mark Such was the regard
which the Papal Government had for the morals Of its
subjects that the anatomical schools were prohibited
from the examination Of human bodies Equally ABSURD
were the restrictions imposed on students OF chemistry
physiology and yOu may well Imagine how unequal
to the demands OF a free education must be men who
have directed the studies Of youth after this fashion
They WILL however be retained II is said, with an in
crease OF salary from 800 to 81 200 year. As TO
the CoegIo Romano, which the Jesuits anxious TO
keep and about which there has been fight sgnOr
Biosch! resolved on obtaining IT, and probably on
secularizng the education given there.
According to OF the DEGREES recently published,
find that yiterbo Civta vccc,ia, and Frosinone, to-
gether with Rome are now TO form only province
each of the abOye-named districts retaining subPre-
feet II this plan of ACCOMMODATION is carried out gen
orally in Italy is said will be, it will effect great
economy for the country since the numerous Pre-
lectures Intendenzas, with their crowds of function
aries, impose no slight burden the finances. can
readily however understand the local discomfort which
such will create anon gIpeepe who have been
accustomed 10 the presence of the Delegate.
Last week spoke OF postal and railway reforms, and TO
these have the pleasure OF adding Geographic
arran gements which Will prove great benefit. For the
present telegram of 20 words may be sent to any part
Of States for 20 cents. but the LIST of JAN
uary ISL the charge OF 20 cents only to be demanded
for a telegram of words To any part Of the kingdom
or the regulation will be uniform throughout
Italy. is sufficient to only these two or three
material reforms to show how much liberty and ciyiza
ton have gained by the annexation Of the Roman States
The decree Of the Pope suspending the Gcumencal
Council has produced little effect, and probably
was expected to do The object was To create
sensation abroad where people had no opportunities OF
examining truth of the statements of refutng their
misrepresentation and orders gwen to make 1t az
widely known ~ possible 1t this account that
the Minister for Foreign Affairs dispatched the circular
note all Italian ministers abroad refung assertions OF
the Papal Decree and explaining how matters stand.
have already assured you that his Holiness enjoyspos
sesses rather, should say-the fullest personal indie
pendence and within his peculiar circle OF duties
Head ~ the Church ia supreme As he receives numer
GUS visitors preates and civilians he might hold his
councils and propose and discuss such questions to
the Pontihca mind might III. No one would inter
fere with him. and it is his fault II he shuts himself
up the Vatican and refuses TO forth and receive
an ovation from those who, though they will not
acknowledge him a King. will bow down before him
their Spiritual Head BY persisting in such conduct
there II Tear lest ne may compromise even MS spiritual
influence for people will begin TO suspect that worldly
passions have much to do with the resistance OF
petted, but who yet pQuts like an angry child.
Mazzini has been to Rome, and left IL after very
short visit. He was not in good health. received
visitors and has evidently lost much ground in publ"
favor He must be always entitled to respect for his
compromising attachment to principle, and Italy
him much for having famed the flame of liberty in times
when Il appeared TO be expiring but he has done his
work, aud should now retire from IA where far
different agency from his l. needed Had he done So IL