31 MAY 1873, Page 2

.The Italian Government has adopted the Religious Corpora- tions' Bill

by a vote of 196 votes against 46. The discussion was interrupted by a bitter debate on the permission granted by the original Bill to the heads of the religious Orders generally, and of the Jesuit Order,—or "the Black Pope," as he is some- times called,—amongst them, to occupy a part of their pre- sent residences during the rest of their lives. One of the Deputies, however, Signor de Donn°, moved as an amendment that the General of the Jesuits should be excepted from this privilege ; in other words, that the Gesu should be cleared of Father Beckxs, as well as of the other

members of the Order. This was eventually carried, but not till a more extreme Radical, Signor Pasquale Mancini, a Neapolitan advocate, had moved an amendment for "the defini- tive exclusion from the State of the Company of the Jesuits, and, of all the institutions connected with it under any shape,"—an. amendment which he supported in a very passionate harangue, in which he attacked severely the Prime Minister, Signor Lanza. The passion displayed in the debate is described by the Times' correspondent as more like frenzy than mere political heat ; but the Radicals were beaten by 179 votes to 157, and only the more moderate differential duty against Jesuits, —the confiscation of the Black Pope's life-residence,—was carried. Certainly the Italian hate of the Jesuits seems to be frantic. In England, we do, not find Jesuits very formidable, in spite of Mr. Newdegate, buf. it is clear that where they are best known, they are least liked It is said that it is those of their pupils who do not enter into. the Order who have spread this frantic detestation of their old, teachers.