A London journal that has deserved praise for its consistent
ad- vocacy of Italian freedom has this week made a marked change in its mode of commenting on the conduct of Pius the Ninth— one day a eulogy, the next a disparagement. One day it enu- merates reforms carried with a rapidity that dazzles the sight to follow it, and provokes a fear lest the reformer should raise up obstructions, or be himself destroyed, by the boldness of his inno- vations ; the next, it discovers that the Pontiff does not really go half so fast as some of his subjects wish. We can well under- stand that he does not satisfy " La Giovine Italia," and we believe that such is the fact. No Pope could satisfy that party ; no one could satisfy it without going to such lengths as to outrun opinion in the whole of Western Europe, with its limited monarchy ; making the regeneration of Italy a poetical romance rather than a reality—establishing a transitory dream rather than extending to Italy the substantial benefit of those institutions which the free states of Europe would unite to maintain. The Morning Chronicle has discovered the roc's egg wanting in the palace Which the Pope has raised in a night : let him fall into the snare, and he will hand over himself and the hopes of his country to its evil genius—Austria.
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