17 MARCH 1860, Page 10

Cardinal Antonelli has replied to M. Thouvenel's despatch on Roman

affairs. It amounts to this, that the Pope "cannot" surrender the Ro- magna, and will not ; that as the revolution there has been brought about by foreign agency, so it could and should be suppressed by legitimate assistance from abroad. The Holy Father has not refused reforms, con- sistent with his conscience, but he cannot execute them until law and order prevails once more in the Romagna.