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    THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY.

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    should end in a mere flash-in the pan . The inviolable sacredxi ^ s ' s of the rule of Heaven ' s Vicegerent over those provinces which implored the Vienna Congress to 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 on at racehorse ° speed in our days . There is nothing like it , save , perhaps , a galloping consumption . Only last New lear s Pay , for instance , when His Holiness at Koine was angrily . railing ao-ainst " the tissue of hvpocrisies , " Father Fabkk , . of the

    Oratory , was preaching in Brompton that tconship 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 Tibetihns 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 has been published , and sold by thousands of copies . Why , at Delhihave

    therefore , should not the god , like Apollo p , a holy territory , on whose sacred soil powers at deadly feud elsewhere—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 the memorable truce between Herod and Pontius Pilate , is , surelv , 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

    < lo ° -ma of the Immaculate' Conception , is shortly about to promulo-ate , in the same autocratic style , that of his own Temporal Sovereignty . For , odd as it seems to us sinners of the Gentiles , the Encyclical Letter has already broken ground on the subject m 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 cathedrd , " makes it a o-lory to defend and ' teaeh , that ' by a particular design of Divine Providence , which directs and governs all things , civil sovereignty has . beni given to the Roman pontiff . "

    : Such is the last proclaimed articuliis stmitis vel cadmtts Ecclim ' ue . This is the curious cyc'dcnduM which the-Catholic ¦ world is conjured to . uphold at all risks , and by all nieans . in its power , and for which its chief is ready to welcome the catacombs , exile ; or death . Is it not a sublime spectacle ? Who * hall deny to the nineteenth century . glories of spiritual _ heroism , l > efore Avhieh those of the primitive ages must . " pale their ineffectual fires ? " Athanasius , Chrysosiw , and Ambrose are beaten hollow . They braved the emperors in defence of what they reli and the most

    believed to be the loftiest mysteries of gion , sacred rights of humanity . I 3 ut 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 , when ; men have been known to march to the field of battle under banners inscribed with the words "God , and Slavkky , " can anything like a parallel be discovered .

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    THE arms of the Emperor ot . France arc open to ms mountain bridp ; at present the sky is blue , the breeze blows fair , and nil " goes merry as a marriage bell . " The entire list of the munieipal . elections atOhanibery show a majority of two-thirds , savs the Gourritir des yiljn'n , for the friends of the annexationthe name , the liberties , and nationality of the Marmot State iromble on the balance . The Pays informs us that . numerous deputations of magnates from Savoy arrive daily in Paris to pay their Parsee homage to tho rising sun . AH adverse demonstrations at Chambdry , where the people seem more Italian and I'iedmontese in inclination , are slighted . The bride mods the expectant bridogroom half-wayt—Jmlf-wny the snake climbs the free towards the bird ; half-way tho bird flics down to moot the

    snake . Collections of annexation seem to us always inueh like thoso of marriage . If your daughter , my French friend , is in lovo with Mous . Bkauhkoaiu ) , and Monsj Bkaukkoahd is in lovo with your daughter , in Heaven ' s name let them join hands . But if your daughter , au coa / raire , loves ' that insidious wretch , Mons . Mai ,-voisin , and vet you goad her by tears and threats , and all the artillery of selfish ' mothers , to marry Moils . . Bkauubqahi ^ then the murrhign is not a plighting of mutual love , and an exchange «; i " hearts , but a heartless sale , a . giving into slavery ,, a crime in the eyes of (¦*<)» and man . Mo matter that , as in Poland , the pair should » lowly cioino together , and a eold friendship arise in the place of love . The crime of an unhallowed union of nations was committed there , and i * recorded . The woi'olitv of this law of

    annexation , we think , cminot 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 . i But there is a limit to allegories . Marriage is essentially a ! question . of individual selection ; in annexation the . welfare of ! surrounding nations has also * to be co ' nsidered . Savoy , always | half-Trench in its tastes , is just now dazzled by the glories of ; France . Should she not be requested to wait , and see what effect 1 time might have on this predilection ; which seems almost too passionate to last ? " Wil . j ' a country so easily throwing off . her first husband , be more faithful to her second ? Does not the coiiduct of Savoy show some fickleness , sonie of that impatience with the present which Horace philosophically smiled at when he made the soldier envy the merchant , and the merchant envying the soldier— - l us tin- ciirrlon ero \ y WvU impel ed nJinoMt against Iii ' h better h-II . to peek out the * ick ImiiiI ) » v \ v . 10 instinct that send * the " pH niagpi .- l" Hi ' « t i-ny ^)<"' M , ln . « lrt l ^ o

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    Feb . 4 , 1800 ] The Leader and ' Saturday Analyst . 107

    The Annexation Of Savoy.

    THE ANNEXATION OX ^ SAVOY .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1860, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2332/page/7/