The Italian Ministry has proposed to Parliament to leave the-
Pope his sovereign rights without territory ; but with full power- within the Vatican, the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Castel. Gandolfo, and its dependencies, all which are exempted from. jurisdiction and from taxes, and which will become, therefore, a kind of Alsatia. An income of £125,000 a year is allowed him,. his post office is to be sacred, and he is to have full supremacy" over the Italian Church, appointing all bishops, and controlling: all seminaries for priests without secular interference. The com- promise strikes us as a poor one. The Pope is not made really- independent, as he might have been by giving him an island,. while he will, with his Sovereign rights, be a nuisance to the civil power in Rome. The English had enough of that kind of thing. in Delhi.
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