ted devotedness which the nobles of Rome offer in reverence to your
Sceptre, no less than to your Pastoral staff."--(_In the Weekly Register of
January 28, 1860, from the Giornale di Roma._)

The like loyal and patriotic feeling was manifested throughout all the
cities and provinces of the Papal States. One of the most eminent of
liberal British statesmen, the Marquis of Normanby, bears witness to the
fact that very few of the citizens of Bologna could be compelled, even at
the point of the sword, to express adherence to the revolution. A portion
of the periodical press labored to keep such facts as these out of view.
But they would have required better evidence than they were ever able to
produce in order to convince reasonable and reflecting men that people,
blessed with so great a degree of material prosperity as the subjects of
the Pope and the other Princes of Italy, were anxious to see radical
changes introduced into the governments under which they were so favored.
That they were highly prosperous and but slightly taxed, many
distinguished travellers, members of both houses of the British
parliament, and others bear witness. None will question the evidence of
these facts which are known on the authority of such men as the Marquis of
Normanby and his Excellency the Earl of Carlisle. The Hon. Mr. Pope
Hennessey stated in the House of Commons: "That the national prosperity of
the States of the Church and of Austria had become greater, year after
year, than that of Sardinia (where a sort of revolutionary constitution
had been established), and that documents existed in the Foreign Office,
in the shape of reports from our own consuls, which proved it, with
respect to commercial interests in Sardinia. Mr. Erskine, our minister at
Turin, in a despatch of January 7, 1856, gave a very unfavorable view of
the manufacturing, mining and agricultural progress of Sardinia. But from
Venetia, Mr. Elliott gave a perfectly opposite view, showing that great
progress was being made there. The shipping trade of Sardinia with England
had declined 2,000 tons. But the British trade with Ancona had increased
21,000 tons, and with Venice 25,000 tons, in the course of the last two
years. He attributed these results to the increase of taxation in
Sardinia, through the introduction of the constitutional (the _Sardinian_
institutional) system of government, and to the comparatively easy
taxation of Venetia. The increased taxation of Sardinia fr