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The Pope's Encyclical. ~Non.A Loctjta Es...
should end in a mere flash in the pan . The inviolable saeredrss of the rule of Heaven ' s Vicegerent over those provinces wliich implored the Vienna Congressto set over them rather a prince from the antipodal region of the universe , is at last unblushingly declared to be part and parcel of Christianity . We thought it would come to this , development runs oh nt racehorse- speed in our days . There is nothing like , it , save , perhaps , a galloping consumption . Only last New lears Day , for instance , when His Holiness at Home was angrily -roiling against " the tissue of hypocrisies , " Father Fabke , of the Oratory , . preaching in Brompton that worshi p is due to the Pope analogous to that paid by all good Catholics to the Holy Sacrament ! -he might have said like that rendered by the
Tibetians to their Grand Lama . This novel Fabrication of the Oratory is just now , it is said , all the rage amongst the more -zealous Catholics in Paris , where a translation of the sermon Las been published , and sold by thousands of copies . Uhy , ¦ therefore , should not the god , like Apollo at Delphi , have a holy territory , on whose sacred soil powers at deadly feud else- - ivhere—as was the case with France and Austria lately—shall suspend their mutual hostility , in a combined effort to keep down the sacrilegious risings of . the Temple slaves ? The miracle , like and Pontius Pilateis
the memorable truce between Herod , , surely , proof of a Providential design . Let us not , therefore , treat * too lightly the current rumour , that the Pope , having succeeded so well in establishing , without a General Council , the < logma of the Immaculate Conception , is shortly about to promiilo-ate , in the same autocratic style , that : of his own Temporal Sovereionty . For , odd as it seems to us sinners of the Gentiles , the Encyclical Letter has already broken ground on the subject i ; i the most decisive manner , by actually elevating this startling doctrine to the rank of an article of religious faith .
The Church , Pius IX . now tells us ex cathednl , " makes it a < dory to defend and teach , that by a particular design of Divine Providence , ¦ which- directs and governs all things , civil sovereignty has been given to the Roman pontiff . " Such is the last , proclaimed ¦ articulns siantis vet eadentis EccUsicp . This is the curious credoidian which the Catholic world'is-conjured to uphold at all risks , and by all means in its power , and for which its chief is ready to welcome the catacombs , exile , or death . Is it not a sublime spectacle ? AY ho rthall deny to the nineteenth century glories of spiritual heroism , before Which those of the primitive ages must " pale their
ineffectual fires ? " Athanasjus , Chrysqsxom , and Ambrose are beaten hollow . They braved the emperors in defence of what they believed to be the loftiest mysteries of religion , and the most sacred rights of humanity . But to save the mint and anise and cummin , not one of them would have risked his little finger . A struggle to the death for the temporalities was beyond their comprehension , and a martyrdom in the cause of wrong would have been quite unintelligible to their rudimentary apprehensions of ecclesiastical prerogative . Only across the Atlantic , where inen have been known to march to the . field of battle under banners inscribed with "the words "God and Slavery , ' can anything like a parallel be discovered .
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The Annexation Of Savoy. Rilhe Arms Of T...
THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY . rilHE arms of the Emperor of France are open to embrace his JL mountain bride ; at present the sky is blue , the hveew blows fail ' , and all " goes merry as a marringo bell . " The entire list of the municipal elections at Chambery show a majority of two-thirds , says the Gourrkr des yilpcn , for the friends of the annexationthe mime , the liberties , and nationality of the Marmot State tremble on the' balonec . The Pays informs us that numerous deputations of magnates from Savoy arrive daily in Paris to pay tlieir Parsee homage to the rising sun . All adverse demonstrations at Chambery , where the people- seein more Italian and Piedmontese in inclination , arc slighted . The bride meets the expectant bridegroom half-way—half-way the snake climb ' s the tree towards the bird ; half-way the bird' flics down to meet the
simke . Questions of annexation seem to \ is always much liko those of vnurriage . If your daughter , my French friend , is in love with iVlons . Bjbauhhgaiu ) , ami Mons . BeauukoauD is in love with your daughter , in Heaven ' s name let them join hands . But if your daughter , an oof / Zntrro , loves that insidious wretch , Mons . Malvoisin , and yet you goad'her by tears and threats , and all t ho artillery of selh ' sh \ nothe . rs , to marry M ' ons . MEAUiusOAHW , then the marriage is not a plighting of mutual love , and an exchange of hearts , but a heartless sale , a giving into slavery , a crime in the uyea of God and man .. No matter that , as in Poland , the pair should slowly come together , and a cold friend ship arise in ( he place of love . The crime of an unhallowed union of nations was committed there , and is recorded . The morality of tin ' s law of
imnexa-! tion , we think , -cannot be disputed ; for annexation by force is conquest , which is robbery , and can only be maintained , as in Hungary and Naples , by the chain and by the sword . j But there is a limit to allegories . -Marriage-is ¦ essentially a ¦ question of individual selection ; in annexation the welfare of ' ' surround ing nations has also to be considered . Savoy , always j half-French in its tastes , is just now dazzled by the glories of ¦ France . Should she not be requested to wait , and see what , effect
time mi < rht have on this predilection , which seems almost too passionate to last ? Will a country so easily throw-ing off her first husband , be more faithful to her second ? Does not the conduct of Savoy show some fickleness , some , of that impatience with the present which Houace philosophically smiled at when he made the soldier envy the merchant , and . the merchant envying the soldier—qui fit ? Is it not always the new landlord that is " to put all things to rights , —the new farm that is to tceni with <* old , the marriage that is to make the old world new of the oldest that
a" -ain ? Savoy is suffering from one vertigoes has affected our species ^ " Let her Cretins , her stolid , ugly peasants , her marmozet boys , help to pay for Cherbourg , and then hug themselves over their herb soup if they can . We have as reasonable a faith in the French Emperor as any one . He is luminous now as the angel that . Milton saw standin « - * in the sun , for he wears above his imperial crown the magnetic halo of success . To that light ,- as to a candle in a dark ni ° -ht , fly all the dip lomatist moths and the purblind beetles of the small discontented States . The more scorched they get the more
they flap their wings Avith silly delight , and-think how warm it is . We do not fear for England , * though we do sling our rifle ready at our back and give the old Waterloo sword a refresher on the o-r indstone in the yard , just to take the notches out and to keep down the blood rust . We value him as a useful ally , as long as he remains so . Let - France build ships , and try and discover remedies for sea-sickness , and rifle her guns , just as she likes ; let her conquer the Cochin fowls by the coopful ; let her drive back the Algerian desert and refourid Carthngc if she can ;—even in territorial-. ngffrajidisement- there is scope enough for her , and the next three
for us and for all Europe , in unknown Africa for centuries , and no harm done;—but we really think that at home she is stron enough . In that broad , flat , dull country , avenued with trees , that presents its broadside to oiir cluvlky bulwarks , France has thirty-six millions of people to our twenty-nine . She has in arms four hundred and nine thousand men to our hundred and thirty thousand ; she has even four hundred and sixty-one ships to our five hundred and nine . Above all , she has at the head of all these men and this treasure a despot , who can sway them with his sinsrle hand , and strike strong and where he will—no one but
God and His angels resisting him . Nations have been eompulsorily united before this , races " whose very blood would not mix in a basin , " as a proud Scotch lady once said , speaking oio . mesalliance in her family . In this case there arc undoubtedly many favourable influences presiding over the union . The old wars of Savoy and France ;—when Savoy Dukes fought hard , like faithful warders at the postern gates of Italy—are forgotten '; both people remember rather their days of union durini ^ the Revolution , the Savoyards , obscure themselves , and poor , desire to share the riches arid glory of their-would-be foster-mother the wolf- 'Taiulmother of lied Hiding Hood ' s story . The country
Stbbnk travelled in with unclerical gaiety—the waterfall Jio-uaseap mused over , like a rivulet seeking the sea , pines for annihilation , and wishes to become a molecule in the Empire of France . That Piedmont is to be cramped , up- —that Swiss liberty is to be endangered—is indifferent to the dull Savoyards , Tor their rich ' men seek place and influence in the court of a now master , who may be grateful for their allegiance and ignorant ol
their peccadilloes . The Cretins , yvngging their goitres , and tic Savoyard boys who have seen the wonders of Paris , tint m the French interest , mid voce . The hcrd . sjnen nrc too busy looking after the robber wolves to at loud to danger from France . With Italian aspiration the Savoyard , poor and stolid , has 110 syiuputliv . The nation without patriotism deserves annihilation ; nor should we lament it , did not the destruction of Snvov tend to open the approaches to Switzerland , and to give . "France niioilier fool hold on ' the Mediterranean shore .
Since the , Swiss naturalist IIijhbh dineovered thai a cerium species of nuts were systematic . I'lnveiimkera , it \ , i \ a bi'i'i ) su ]) - < posed that every human viee lws its analogy and resendilniiee in the lower ranks of creation . There nuiyhavt ! been rat \ ai » olkonm ; there certainlv arc alnve hUiU'h vi' ant . s , if 3 Mi * . . D . mivvin is correct in hia ob . seVvaticnirt . Wo aupnoHO that mnnt ; iimUoii .-must ensln ^ e . by the » am « histinftt that ; wakes" the unt linvt- jI » pining Undo J ' oMS ni ' ul weeping Aunt Salmi ;* . We pivKiimo Iliul the French must eonquer , jiiHt . as the . carrion crow ( eels impel < ui , ahnoat against his b <; tt ; er s <; ir , to peek out the . sick liuiib * ' . v . "" instinct that winds thw lx-t magpie to the si ray ' .-peon . Inul- llu »
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1860, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04021860/page/7/
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