The Press. — 1855-12-29 (London, England)

THF. Jesuit journals have spread the report that petitions are everywhere in course of signature to the Governments of Tuscany and Naples, for the benefit of a Papal Concordat, similar to that betwixt Austria and Rome. There may be some truth in the Jesuit attempt to make it appear that a popular desire exists on the subject, but it is on the other side, and the people everywhere in Tuscany and in other countries would resist the introduction of any sacerdotal tyranny that would place the executive, bad as it might be, in subjection to an ecclesiastical tribunal. A certain degree of liberty, however slender, is possessed at present, which makes the secret introduction of bibles into the country a matter of profit. Biblical " contrabandisti" have been created by the sound rule in political economy of demand and supply, and these have a constant provision of bibles ready to be conveyed according to order. In the Cascine of Pisa there are several farm establishments of the Grand Duke, and the carriage labour is performed by camels, bred and reared in the adjacent pine forests. Long strings of these animals are daily met in the avenue to Pisa, laden with wood, corn, or oil, and other farming produce. On a recent occasion, a sack in the open panier of one of the camels became unstitched, the contents dropped in the road, and amongst the corn appealed an Italian bible, not single in its evangelical mission. The affair got bruited, and the outcry was great. However, the Testaments escaped detection at the " Porta al Mare," and, as the facts were stoutly denied, the drivers were not punished, from a want of proof. The spread of Protestant education by means of the Bible is far more extensive than is supposed in England, and the women are amongst the principal converts. These, too, for the most part, belong to the middle class, and are indefatigable in their crusade against the priest. if once the Roman loses the direction of the household, his game is lost. The Red Republicans continue to follow the directions of their chief in London. Unable to cope with their enemies in open warfare, they have a ready and bidden recourse to assassination. One of the most unscrupulous agents of Cardinal Antonelli was the well-known " Gennarachio " of the Sanfedist& party, and to these are committed the more particular or the more abominable atrocities of the " hautes oeuvres " of sacerdotal and Roman persecution, without limit or reservation. Charged with an amount of secret crime, or acts of " sante fede," that would have sent a battalion to execution, he still pursued his Roman avocations without fail and without remorse. He had lately performed one or two actions of unusual barbarity in the service of the Immacolata, and several families had been deprived of the presence of some well-beloved face through his instrumentality. Gennarachio was coming out of the dark street in Transtevere, leading to the " Ponte rotto, when he received a " colfo di coltello" between the shoulder blades, and he dropped without uttering a word. The blow must have been given with great force, as it went through the folds of the mantle, yet reaching the vital part instantly. There can be no pity at the late of a man without heart or compunction, who had caused the unjust death of many, and ruined families, and had torn asunder the dearest ties of domesticity; but the act of murder remains the same in guilt, and proves the abettor of it to be the enemy of civilisation. It is this foul evil that Mazzini has prompted, that be has encouraged and justified, which makes every honest man turn with disgust from such iniquitous republicanism. It is this sore, this damning blight of arch-democracy, that paralyses the efforts of the Italians for constitutional liberty, and induces them to submit to the spoiler rather than sanction the infamy of republican crime. Whilst London holds the triumvirate of assassins, the cause of Italian regeneration will stagnate. M. T. A.  1235  3ortign ad goictnial InitUigenct.