New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-14

at Rome. that the reaCtlOnaTy patty was ~
tanning dangerous strength in France, and
that the safety Of Italy consisted in reenforc-
ing her relations with those powers which had
an interest in resisting the establishment of
the damaged prestige of the Vatican. Nothing
could be more significant than the fact that
Victor Emanuel looked at once to Austria as
one of the powers whose interests in
sucb contingency would be identical
with his own. The Austro-Iu ngarian
monarch is par excellence the Apostolic King.
His Empire has always been considered the
bulwark of the Catholic religion. In his early
vouth. after Europe had sunk down exhausted
Inv the terrible struggle and collapse of 1S4S,
be signed a Concordat with the Papal power
Inv which he delivered his kingdom captive to
the Pope. But since Sadowa, the old tradi-
tions have faded away. That fatal field freed
Austria as completely as it freed Venice. The
Hungarian half of the Empire first claimed its
autonomy and received it, and it became i'm
nossible to refuse to the growing popular
opinion of the German portion the gratitica-
ton of their legitimate demands for progress
and Acknowledgement. The Church stood stiff1y
unon the COncOrdat and the Parliament and
the Government alike disregarded it; and
after the Rechsrath had finished their
legislation upon the subject of marriage,
and schools and taxation, there was
not enough left of that instrument for any
further reverence. After the Ecumenical Coun-
Gil and the promulgation of the dogma of In
fallibility, grave symptoms of revolt were de-
yeloped in the very bosom of the Church in
harmony with the liberal political tendencies
of the Empire.
II is evident from the reception which Victor
Emanuel met with in Vienna, that his visit
was not founded upon any mistake. The
attentions of which he was the recipient at the
Court proved that there was none of the old
hostility remaining, and the cordial and noisy
expressions of good will which he received
from the people showed that they had entirely
forgotten that he had ever been an enemy,
and now recognized in him only the foe
of what they insist upon calling priestly SUI
perstition. His being under the ban was
greatly in his favor among those turbulent
latitudinarians 1t is well known that he does
not relish it himself, but he probably finds
some comfort in seeing that others do.
In the Kings reception in Prussia there was
perhaps less of demonstrative cordiallty, but
| still more unTcSeTNeu pOhtlCdl lHJclIioH was
evident. The greater portion of the time
snent in Berlin was occupied with conferences
between NM. Minghetti and acknowledgements
and the officers of the Imperial Chancery.
1t is even reported that the King said
on one occasion before several persons,
&" France forced me to come" 1t is not as
vet known thai any formal agreement was
drawn up between the three soyereigns, but it
| is understood that the King of Italy has been
assured that tho integrity of his kingdom will
be guaranteed against any attack from without.
The Ultramontanes of France, the pilgrims of
Paray-le-Monial, the royal recluse of Frohs-
| doIlf, and those honest and injudicious men,
beers of the Right who think with the Arch
bishop of Paris, that civilization has no higher
function than the protection of the sovereignty
of the Pope-all these Over-zealOus souls may
now reflect that this final rupture of the Italian
alliance, which has cost so much blood and
treasure, is principally their own work.