The Sun. — 1849-01-11 (London, England)

ITALY.  The Pope published the following proclamation on Christmas-day : " Having been by Divine disposition, and in a manner nearly wonderful, raised, although ourselves unworthy, to the High Pontificate, one of our first cares was to promote union among the subjects of the temporal state of the Church, to consolidate the peace of families, and to contribute in every possible manner to their benefit, and, as far as in us lay, to render the state flourishing and tranquil. But the benefits we endeavoured to impart to our subjects, and the liberal institutions with which we deigned to accede to their desires, instead of procuring that gratitude and devotion which we had every right to expect, have, too frankly, we must acknowledge it, brought only repeated bitterness and displeasure to our heart, from the part of those ungrateful people, who, whatever may be their number, our paternal eye would always wish to see restrained. It is now known to the world in what manner wo have been deceived, and that an alma has been made of our concessions, subverting the spirit, and perverting .the sense of our words, in order to deceive the multitude; and also how those same benefits and institutions have been used by some as a shield to the most violent excesses against our sovereign authority, and against the temporal rights of the Holy See. Our mind shrinks from the duty of particularly lamenting the late events from the commencement of the 15th day of last November, when a confidential Minister was barbarously murdered in full day, by the hand of an assassin, and the act was still more barbarously applauded by a class of madmen, enemies equally of God and men, as of the Church and every honest political institution. This' first crime opened a series of others, which, with sacrilegious boldness, were committed during the following day; and seeing that these have already met with the execration of all virtuous minds, in our own state, in Italy, and in Europe, and will further encounter the same in all parts of the world, we spare our heart the immense grief of repeating them. We were constrained to withdraw ourselves from the place where they were committed, from the place where violence prevented us from applying the remedy, reduced only to weep with the good, and to deplore with them these sad events, to which is added the still more grievous fact, that justice is utterly inactive against the authors of such abominable crimes. Providence has conducted us to this city of Gaeta, where, finding ourselves in full liberty, we again solemnly repeated our protests against the above-mentioned violences, which we had from the beginning made in Rome itself before the representatives accredited to us from the different Courts of Europe and other distant nations. We did not at the same time omit in this act to give temporarily to our States a legitimate Representative Government, without derogating from our accorded institutions, in order that the capital and the State might still remain provided with the regular and ordinary administration of public affairs, and to insure the security of the persons and property of our subjects. We further prorogued the session of the High Council, and the Council of Deputies, who bad been recently called to resume their interrupted sittings ; but these our determinations, far from persuading those persons, the perturbatora of the peace, and the authors of such sacrilegious violences,_ to re-enter the path of duty, have but incited them to greater crimes, arrogating to themselves those sovereign rights which alone belong to us, by having convoked in the capital, by means of the two Councils, an illegitimate Representative Government, under the title of Provisional and Supreme Junta of the State, and published in the act of the 22d day of this month. These obligations are inseparable from our sovereignty, and the solemn oaths by which, in the presence of the Lord, we have promised to preserve the patrimony of the Holy See, and to transmit it in its integrity to our successors. " It constrains us to raise our voice aloft,andtoprotest before God and the whole world against this so gray© and so sacrilegious attempt. We, there andtor e , altogethernconsequence declare null, and of no effect, illegal, every act violences which has been the consequence of the which have been mentioned to us, repeatingbeen further,established that n this inJe,un tit; of tate which has