Pope Pius the Ninth proceeds excellently with his intelligent Career
: the political amnesty is published, and it is right hearty in its terms. The exceptions are not extensive, nor absolute, nor altogether improper. It has created quite a sensation in Rome, and the warm applause which it has elicited may be a good lesson to persevere. Should the Pope continue in this track of wise -liberality, it must have a#effect far beyond the pale of his own -secular domain : Austria would be quite unable to withstand so new an influence in her neighbourhood, and her system of haigl tyranny must be broken up. It is curious to see the germs of a peaceful revolution in Rome, the head-quarters of the old despotic bigotry,- but Pius seems, from present appearances, to have the ;heart, the head, and the courage, to know what a wise Pontiff might do to save his country from the rebellious consequences of 'intolerable oppression.
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