meekness if it be denied to the Vicegerent of Christ? Can we expect the Christian virtues to propagate themselves among the flock when they are thus ostentatiously repudiated by the shepherd? "The Pope is a contemporary of the Italian Revolution; he has more means than most persons of ascertaining the truth concerning it. It is impossible for any one who reads his recent Allocution to acquit him of the gravest suppression of the truth and the most unblushing assertion of what is false. Let us take a specimen of the latter first: -'And here,' he says,—that is, when descending from the interests of religion to the state of his exchequer, we cannot pass over in silence the constant testimonies of real affection, of unflinching fidelity, of devoted submission, and of generous liberality which this Roman people have lavished on us, and we wish also to point out how much they remain firmly attached to us, to this Apostolic See, and to the temporal power which belongs to us, and with what warmth they repel and condemn the guilty attempts of those who seek to spread disturbance among them. Have not you yourselves, Venerable Brethren, frequently witnessed the sincere and cordial manifestations by which this Roman people, whom we so much love, have shown the sentiments of their traditional faith-of that faith which so justly merits the highest praises?' We wonder if the venerable brethren looked each other in the face during the delivery of this appeal, and, if so, whether they were able altogether to resist a certain involuntary twitching about the corners of the mouth when they were assured, on the authority of their infallible head, of the affection, fidelity, submission, and attachment to the temporal power of this Roman people, and the warmth with which they repel all attempts at disturbance. A considerable force of Papal soldiers, and a division of the French army, which they know can be increased in a few hours to any amount that is required, are barely sufficient to keep this Roman people from treating the Pope and his brethren very much as the Jews did the Prophets of Baal. The fact is notorious to all the world, and to no one more so than the Pope himself. Those who would maintain his character must henceforth be prepared to prove, not, as they have hitherto striven to do, that the Roman people are led away by agitators and incendiaries, but, in direct contradiction to this hitherto received opinion, that the Roman people repel and condemn with warmth the guilty attempts of those who seek to spread disturbance among them: that, in fact, Rome has no wish to become the metropolis of Italy, but desires to remain, as heretofore, the seat of the temporal power of the Pope. No doubt this ought to be so; no doubt, those who see most of the Papal domination ought most to appreciate its merits; but is this the fact? Is not the Pope perfectly aware that the fact is directly the reverse? Let him try the experiment. We are perfectly convinced that the Piedmontese Government will be quite willing to leave matters to the arbitration of the Roman people. Let the French garrison be by all means withdrawn, and the destiny of the temporal power be left to the decision of its subjects. The Pope well knows that if such a measure were announced there is not one of the venerable brethren whom he addressed who would remain within the walls of the Eternal City for a single night. Such statements are made for foreign consumption; there is no demand for them in the home market. There can be but one motive, unhappily, for making them. The Pope is living on the contributions of the faithful, and those contributions may very posssibly be increased if it once comes to be believed that he is really the object of the affection and veneration of his subjects. It is a financial expedient, but one neither novel nor creditable. "We may take as a second instance the deliberate statement that the greater part of the towns of the kingdom of Naples have been burnt and destroyed. This is no matter of doctrine, it is a plain question of fact, and it would very much tend to the exoneration of the Pope's character for veracity if he would direct Cardinal Antonelli to furnish to the world the names of the towns burnt and destroyed, and the proportion they bear to those which have not undergone a similar fate. Again, the Pope says that in the kingdom of Naples the majority of the faithful have been deprived of their pastors. Is that true? Is it true that in Naples the legitimate liberty and property of every one are attacked, the foundations of family ties and of civil society are ruined, the reputation of every virtuous person is blackened by false accusations, and the impunity of all vices and all errors is nourished, propagated, and increased? Yes, there is some truth in this; but by whom has this been done? Not by the great and criminal rebellion on which the Pope charges it, but by the hordes of miscreants whom the King of Naples and the Papal Government have, day by day, let loose to rob, murder, violate, and burn alive the people of Naples, the objects of so much hypocritical sympathy. It is worthy of the rest of the Allocution that from first to last not the slightest mention is made of these outrages, and that the world is led to believe that the bishops and priests who have been expelled from their sees and their parishes have suffered for conscience' sake, and not as participators in the reactionary conspiracy to the promotion of which the much-injured Government of Rome has lent the most energetic assistance. After the fair and true exposé of the state of his affairs which the Pope has just laid before them, it is forbidden to doubt that the faithful all over the world will lighten with the most ardent zeal, by their pious and spontaneous donations, the very grave embarrassments of the Holy See. Let them not fear that their money will be wasted; there is much yet to be done during the coming winter in the way of plundering, murdering, and burning,-many happy homes that have not yet been desolated, many harmless men and women who have not yet undergone the extremities of outrage. The Holy See does not now waste its treasures in pomps and processions, in luxury and feasting. Ostentation has given way to revenge, and blood is now sweeter than wine. All this is as it should be. The temporal power of the Popes might have fallen, like other warlike dynasties, with dignity, but it dies as it has lived. This systematic enemy of the liberties of mankind dies with the complaint of violated liberty on her lips, uttering false hoods of incredible and shameless grossness, with the torch of the incendiary in one hand and the dagger of the assassin in the other. It has surrounded its inevitable fate with every circumstance which could alienate from it the sympathy and respect of mankind."-Times, October 14, 1861. CHURCH REVENUES AND THE POTATO-CROP IN IRELAND. "THE Archbishop of Tuam" thus expresses himself in his recent letter to Lord Palmerston, proposing the confiscation of the Irish Church property to meet the famine which he expects in Ireland from failure of potatoes : "It is no wonder that the cry of starvation, suppressed as long as hope could be indulged, should at length break forth on the public, loud, clear, and appalling, and become still more piercing from the terror inspired by the theories of cattle-feeding and the practice of man-destroying with which we have all been familiarized during the last nine years. Let the foes of Catholicity in Ireland, and the advocates of its exclusive destination for rearing cattle, strive to mystify the question as they may, a famine is sure to come soon and terrible on this western portion of the land. And it will be the more terrible, because the rage of a bigot against a Catholic population, combined with the lust of the grazier for an increase of his stock, have already combined in their efforts to check the feelings of humanity in favour of suffering people. "It is only from our remote and mountainous district in Mayo we are told that Resolutions have gone forth, addressed to the LordLieutenant, stating in clear terms the failure of the potato-crop, and calling on the Government for seasonable interposition. This was an isolated case, it is said, not affecting the picture of prosperity of Ireland exhibited at Ballinasloe. You will not, after the receipt of this letter, suffer yourself to be imposed upon by views so selfish, and so sophistical. So far from the Resolutions at Kilmovee representing an isolated case, they were but the expression of the melancholy condition of the west of Ireland, and therefore it behoves your Lordship to turn your eyes from the evils of Naples, and fix them on those of Ireland. The potato-crop, the staple food of our people, is gone, and where not entirely gone, is so deteriorated in quality and flavour as to be almost useless as an article of food. "On the sad state of the potato-crop I can speak with an authority derived from observation over a large extent of Galway and Mayo. Since the beginning of August I have been through the remotest districts of either-Clifden, Westport, Newport, Achill, Castlebar, Claremorris, Dunmore, and Moylough-strange names, which the Govern ment officials will explain. In short, through every portion, from north to south, and from west to east, I have not only heard the different reports, but have had frequent opportunities of testing the qualities of this esculent, and I can safely and solemnly declare, that of this year's crop no quantity would be sufficient to maintain the population, were it even more abundant during the coming half year. "It is high time, then, for Her Majesty's Ministers to adopt prompt and efficient precautionary measures if they are desirous that the remnant of the Irish people should not be swept away. Enough, and more than enough, of human victims have already been sacrificed to political economy. In the fears of foreign invasion by which England is undisguisedly agitated the people of Ireland should be objects of her tender care and solicitude, more than those of Piedmont or of any other foreign land. To your office in particular is now attached a heavy responsibility. You feel, I trust, the laudable ambition of not having your premiership, as in the case of a recent colleague, associated with the starvation of near a million of people. The means of saving the country consistently with justice and sound policy are within your reach. Discard the narrow and bigoted aim of legislation for a small and alien faction rather than for the interests of the nation. The reversionary revenues of the Protestant Establishment— those that go to the support of mischievous sinecures—would be adequate to meet the impending terrific crisis. Pitt, it is confidently said, contemplated the application of this worse than useless fund to the laudable object of supporting the burdens of the State. You are not called on to infringe on vested rights, all of which are to be scrupulously respected. Not a farthing is desired to be touched of the countless revenues of its most redundant sinecures-not even of those who may send their tenants adrift upon the world for their attachment to their faith, or may raise bastilles for immuring their cattle in immediate proximity to the temple of God. Allow to all such enormous abuses the career of impunity they hitherto enjoyed, until the Legislature prevents, by its prospective measures, their perpetuation or recurrence. By this lopping off all the excrescences of that Establishment, and contracting it to the measure of its usefulness alone, your Lordship will have an immense revenue to stave off the coming famine, and a large surplus to divide to national necessities. What is more, by the reduction of that hostile garrison planted here, and sustained, not for the public benefit, but for the ascendancy of political factions, you will diminish that baneful influence, to which can be traced the worst enactment of your penal legislation." 46 Miscellaneous. PERVERSION. THE LATE EDITOR OF THE "UNION." - The (Romish) Weekly Messenger" says, "The Rev. J. T. White, B.A., Magdalen College, Cambridge, and late Editor of the Union' newspaper, was received into the Church on Sunday last, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farmstreet, Berkeley-square.' FRANCE. ROMISH BIGOTRY.-The "Siècle" relates an incident, the truth of which it states to be well guaranteed, that shows to what an extent a bigoted Catholic feeling prevails in some parts of France. It says:-" At Corbie, in the Somme, a manufacturer of the name of Schlumberger died a few days back, and his family applied at the Mairie for the usual permission for interment in the cemetery. But as M. Schlumberger was a Protestant, the clerk, instead of granting it, referred them to the mayor and the mayor to the curé, and eventually a refusal was given. On that, three friends of the deceased waited on the mayor, Baron de Caix de Saint-Aymour, to complain of such an act of intolerance. Not only,' said the latter, will I not give a permission for a burial, but the gates of the cemetery shall be closed against the deceased!' 'Where, then, is he to buried?' Outside the walls! But a child of M. Schlumberger had been buried in the cemetery, and his family were naturally desirous that the father should repose near it. They therefore, in spite of the opposition of the mayor, caused a grave to be dug, but the latter had it filled up. An application was then made to the prefect of the department, and he ordered that a grave should be forthwith prepared. At the time, however, fixed for the departure of the funeral procession, the mayor presented himself at the house of the deceased, and over the coffin declared that the Protestant minister who was to officiate could not be allowed to deliver a speech at the grave. This led to a most unseemly discussion, but at last the mayor gave up the point. The funeral then took place, upwards of 2,000 persons attending it." FRANCE. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CLERGY.-The Paris Correspondent of the Daily News says:-"A great literary-and not only a literary, but political-event is the publication of a new edition, for the first time these fifteen years, of M. Michelet's work, Priests, Women, and Families.' This book, which perhaps more forcibly than any other demonstrates that nothing but full religious liberty can counteract the poisonous influence upon the domestic hearth of rampant Popery, is, of course, in the Index' at Rome, and was, till lately, esteemed an impious and revolutionary work in France. It was long out of print, and the few second-hand copies that might occasionally be met with were not seized by the French police. But it is quite certain that at no time during the six or seven first years of the empire bill-stickers would have been allowed, as they are now, to placard the walls of Paris with announce. ments, in letters three feet high, that there was a new edition of Le Pretre, La Femme, et La Famille.' This placard is a sign of the times, which points the same way as the throwing out of Prince Murat at the Masonic Lodge." Entelligence. ITALY.-SUPPRESSION OF CONVENTS.-The "Monde" gives a list of eighteen convents of Dominicans, Augustins, Servibes, Minims, Cistercians, Minors, Conventualz, Barnallites, and Carmelites, which have been suppressed in the diocese of Perugia. The buildings are now used as schools, asylums, tribunals, printing-offices, barracks, &c., and the Convent of St. Dominique de Predori is handed over as the property of the commune of Perugia, and will be appropriated to the Academy of the Beaux-Arts.-Standard, Friday, Sept. 10, 1861. ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH NUNS FROM LISBON.-On Wednesday morning a party of ten English nuns, accompanied by a Superior, all habited in conventual attire, arrived from Lisbon, via Southampton, at the terminus of the London and South-Western Railway, Waterloo-road. It is said that they were on their way to a recently-founded religious establishment in the Midland Counties, to which some of their sister devotees preceded them some days since, and where the rules and discipline of the cloister will be strictly observed.-Chronicle. MORE JESUIT SAINTS.-The Company of Jesus has many beatified members whose cause is in the same stage as those twenty-three martyrs whose canonisation has been recently decided on. The Pope has invited the General of the |