There is some disposition, because the Pope has henceforth pro-
hibited unusual public meetings, to begin a reaction against his high fame. This is absurd. The Pope has done more than can thus pass away like a summer cloud. There does seem to have been reason to check the saturnalian riot of agitation—for the vo- taries of Liberty have their cant as well as others ; and it was clearly against the interest of Liberal Italy to have the views of the great reformer identified with the seditious turbulence of a class who would be rebels anywhere—Republicans in France, Physical-force Chartists in England, Locofocos in America. There is neither wit nor judgment in incontinently recanting all that we have said in eulogy of the Pope, because one act of his reign at last fails to excite our direct sympathy, or even because we do not see its wisdom.
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