5 “If we were to sift the pretensions of all our public men, to
discover that one person who is necessarily best informed of the
past and present state of Italy, and the causes and means that have
produced the anarchy which now prevails over the greater part of
that unfortunate peninsula, Lord Normanby would inevitably be the
man for our purpose. His long residence in Italy, his intimate
acquaintance with all that is there distinguished for literature,
science, art and statesmanship, and his unquestionable liberality of
sentiment, as a politician, give him a paramount claim to our
respectful attention, and even to our confidence, when he comes
forward to enlighten his countrymen, with respect to Italian
affairs—a claim to which no other member of the legislature can have
the slightest pretensions. He has, too, throughout a long public
career, always maintained such an independence of character, and so
nobly and generously subordinated his personal interests to his
sense of public duty, as to entitle him as a right to our
confidence, when he unbosoms himself either in print or in speech,
of that knowledge which he has acquired by long study and experience
in official and non-official life, and tells us important truths
which it is necessary for us to know, in order to be able to form a
correct judgment upon momentous passing events.”—_Weekly Register_,
_February 11, 1860_.
M67 The French Emperor connives at the violation of the Treaty.
M68 A European Congress proposed for settling the affairs of Italy.
M69 Diplomatic doctrine of non-intervention.
M70 Tuscany, Parma, Modena and the Legations finally annexed to
Piedmont. Price of the spoil.
M71 Results of Revolutionary Government.
M72 Garibaldi reappears.
M73 Revolutionary reforms in Sicily, Naples, Lombardy, Modena, the
Pontifical States, &c.
M74 Revival of Peter’s pence.
M75 The Pope forms an army.—Lamoriciere commands.
M76 Duplicity of the French Government.—The Emperor of Austria
restrained by his Council.—Lamoriciere’s force cut to pieces by the
Piedmontese at Castelfidaro.
M77 Further expression of opinion.—The Great Powers.
M78 A Plebiscitum.—Umbria and the Marches of Ancona annexed to Sardinia.
M79 The pamphlet La France, Rome et l’Italie.—Cardinal Antonelli’s
reply.
M80 First Italian Parliament. Victor Emmanuel proclaimed King of Italy.
M81 Death of Count de Cavour.
M82 The Lebanon Massacres.—Generosity of Pius IX.
M83 Conversion of the Bulgarians.
M84 The annexation to Piedmont of Umbria and the Marches publicly
sanctioned by Napoleon III.
M85 Piedmont seeks to reign at Rome.
M86 The Piedmontese Government fills its coffers by plundering the
church.
M87 The Emperor Napoleon induced to modify his Italian policy.
6 Whoever thinks to devour the Pope will die of indigestion. These
words, though not very polite, proved to be prophetic.
M88 Garibaldi defeated at Aspromonte.
M89 Canonization of the Martyrs of Japan.
M90 The Pope’s consistorial allocution to the assembled bishops. He
denounces the errors of the time.
M91 The Church in Poland persecuted. Pius IX. raises his voice in its
behalf.
M92 The revolutionists admire the courage of Pius IX.
M93 The Russian Envoy insults the Pope.
M94 Pius IX. insists on protecting the ex-King of Naples, and takes
Napoleon severely to task.
M95 An Emperor and Empress visit the Pope.
M96 A Papal Nuncio sent to remind Maximilian of his promises made at
Rome.
M97 A further step towards the abolition of the Papal sovereignty.
M98 The Syllabus.
M99 Successful efforts of Napoleon III. to humble Austria.
M100 Pius IX. devoted to the duties of his spiritual office.
M101 Canonization, 1859. John Baptist de Rossi.
M102 John Sarcander.
M103 Benedict Joseph Labre.
M104 Mixed schools—Ireland.
M105 Troubles of the Church in Mexico.
M106 Revolutionary aggression.—Treachery of the Italian Government.
M107 Garibaldi invades the Papal states.
M108 Murder of the Zouave music band.
M109 French army ordered to Rome.
M110 Character of Garibaldians—No sympathy with them.
M111 The Maistre—Muller.
M112 Garibaldian fanaticism.
M113 Two murderers executed.
M114 Pius IX. visits the wounded rebels.
7 If Russia were a little more within the pale of civilization, it
would be noted as an exception. Its bishops were not allowed to
proceed to Rome.
8 The number of prelates at Rome attending the council was never, for
any length of time, the same. And writers give the numbers according
to the time at which they noted them.
9 The _left arm_ looking from the door of the Basilica, the _right_
looking from the high altar. As was fitting, it was the Gospel side.