Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VI, Number 11, 16 Malaki 1867 — English Column. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

THE MORNING STAR arrived early on the morning of Wednesday the 13th. having made the passage in 120 days. She seems to meet and even surpaass the expectations of all. On Tuesday, at 2 o'clock P.M. she will be thrown open to visitors at which time the Sabbath School Children of Honolulu and vicinity are invited to assemble and examine their vessel. She will probably sail for the Marquesas Is., under Capt. Bingham during the last week of March. It is hoped that Rev. T. Coen and Rev. B. W. Parker will go as the Delegates of the Hawaiian Board. {illegible} The Evacuation of Rome Slowly and grandly, as if some invisible author had devised every act and fitted every scene with Kings and High Priests for actors, the Imperial City for a stage, and mankind for audience, the drama of the Temporal Power unrolls itself towards the catastrophe which begins at last to be visible to the players. We are assured, on authority which has never yet failed as about Rome, that up to the last moment, up, that is to the receipt of the final and peremptory telegram from Paris, the Pope beloved that the French Army will remain. Not even the remembrance of his brother murdered by the Papacy thirty-three years ago would, he thought, {illegible} Napoleon to a final defiance of the priesthood which helped him to a throne. He would repent, or would die, or would be dethroned, or some visible intervention of the Almighty would for the hundredth time arrest the course of the sacrilegious Revolution. The stars in their courses would fight against Sisera. The belief, strong as it was, argued no lack of brain in Pins. IX., for it was entertained secretly but strongly by some of the most acute of Protestants. It is so hard to believe that what always has been shall cease to be, there is so much dread mingled with Protestant dislike of Catholicism, that up to Wednesday, English observers still believed that Napoleon would break his engagement would be false alike to his own word and his own history, and by a great act of perfidy rebind the European priesthood to the support of his throne. The strange man, however, to whom destiny seems to have assigned so many tasks, who, on this point, is so solitary, opposed by his people, by his ministers, by his wife, by almost every face he seems and every friend who supported him, held out against the temptation, beat down the resistance, endured the solitude and after eighteen years of waiting grave at last the order which in ISIS he wished to give to NEY. For the first time in a thousand years Italy was to be left to the Italians alone. The Pope, as he heard the news, burst into one of those explosios of fury to which, with every other Italian, he is liable, and had scarcely recovered himself when the Duc de Montehello and his officers sought their final audience. His farewell speech is full of melancholy, shotted like a line silk with spleen. He save them his benediction and his thanks and asserted his trust in Providence, not without dignity, and then relapsing into bitter anger, declared the Emperor, who had supported him for seventeen years, was sickly, suffering in conscience, and no Christian. "If you see your Emperor, you will tell him that i pray for him It is said that his health is not so good; i pray for his health. It is said his soul is not at peace; I pray for his soul. The French nation is Christian ; its Chief ought to be Christian also," words which the Emperor, sensitive to insult from his equals, will assuredly not forgive. They were telegraphed to Paris, but no change ensued in the Imperial orders, and on Tuesday, amidst the strained excitement of the Roman population, the French flag was hauled down from the Castle of St. Angelo, and the Pope stood at last face to face with his "Loving children." The troops are quitting Civita Vecchia as fast as the transports can be filled, and a rumor that one battalion will be left has been officially denied. Once again Brennus has quitted Rome. No disturbance followed the departure of the French, nor, we believe, will follow. The priesthood is playing its game against a nation as patient and determined as itself, and which can vary its means with much more ready aptitude. The instant the lingering doubt as to Napoleon's honesty of purpose was removed, the wiser party in the Roman Committee, those who look to Rieasoli, and not to Mazzini, became masters of the situation. Their problem was to act so as to let loose the long suppressed feeling of Rome, yet give the Emperor no opportunity to return, and the priests no excuse for letting loose the brigands, believed, truly or falsely to have been collected and armed within the convent walls. Act they must, or the Mazzinians would regain their control of the populace. Yet they knew, as well as his confessor, that Cardinal Antonelli had received from Paris an assurance that in the event of bloodshed in Rome the French troops would at once return. They solved the difficulty at once. The Romans will make, in the first instance, no attack upon the Pontiff's sovereign power. That question must be settled by agreement between him and Italy, but they can demand, without violence, or insult, or revolution, the municipal liberties which Pius himself granted them in ISIS, and which he has never formally annulled. The Convention will not be infringed, for the people will not renounce their allegiance. Italy will not be invoked, for there is no need of force; but the administration of the City, if the Pope grants this demand, will pass to a secular municipality seated in the Capitol, - a real representation of the people of Rome. The Pope may refuse this demand, but if he does his remaining provinces will at once quietly secede, and he must either disband his troops or ask Italy to pay them. The pressure will be round him on every side, and the temporal power, compressed within the walls of Rome, with no treasury, no support from opinion, and at the mercy day by day of a hostile population which cannot be held in for ever, will expire of inanition.