Cardinal Sforza and M. de Montalembert differ materially about the
principle of toleration, which the former claims ie. its utmost extent for the Roman Catholicism of the future, and the latter repudiates in its very narrowest extent for the Roman Catholicism of the present. " Without mental reser- vation, and without hesitation, I declare myself an upholder of liberty of conscience," says M. de Montalembert ; "the gag forced into the mouth of whomsoever lifts up his voice with a pure heart to preach his faith—that gag I feel between my own lips, and I shudder with him." " Audacity," returns the Cardinal, " has arrived at such a height as to erect in Naples, in the midst of a people wholly Catholic, and in one of the most beautiful and popular quarters, a temple to Pro- testantism." The "temple to Protestantism" is only an English church in Naples ; but this is the Cardinal's tole- ration. M. de Montalembert is, no doubt, the truer Catholic, but the Cardinal surely is the truer Papist.
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