MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3405, 15 June 1868, Page 4

MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS.

To the Editor of th» Djjlt Socthx*s Cross. " ' SIR,--Seldom has this been more strikingly illustrated than in the affairs of Italy within the last few years. A little more than twelve months ago there appeared a leadmg article in the Gross speculating on what was to happen when the preient ruler of Rome waa driven from bis kingdom by hit enemies, an event which was hourly looked for by anxious Europe. I* ' was said "the feeble old m» n " had been offered an asylum m Malta by the most powerful and generou* of his enemies. Suddenly the aspect of affairs U changed, as appears by the following extract from the Roman correspondent of the London Time*}-, Garibaldi s folly, and the treachery of those who stimulated him to suoh untimely actions, have brought money to the Papal treasury and soldiers to the Papal flag. Recruits have com* u from all countries, and in suoh number! that the Pontifical officers could afford to pick and • choose the best, and have now an efficient army of fourteen or fifteen thousand good troops. Dutoh fanatics [fervent Catholics, of course, he means], French legitimists, Belgians, Spaniards. Germans, Imh, and English have flocked to the banner osf the £.eys. lhe Dutch are the most numerous, and the i"apal commanders consider them the best soldiers In order to explain the large inpply of men drawn from so small * country as Holland, it - mutt be remembered that the Roman Catholio religion hag rarely been more successful than of late years among the Dutch." Rome has been powerfully fortifiedf One strange fact we learn from the above extract to ' toe present rapid progress ,of the, Catholic religion, in X Holland, a country usually considered the stronghold ' of its enemies, andwMchfurnisbedtoEnglandtbemosfc ' - powerful protector of Protestantism. Surely truth, is stranger than notion. Who could have dreamed of such things some few years ago, when the London Times was actually screaming with ecstasy at the idea of the immediate downfall of the " feeble old man, and the discomfiture of his supporters everywhere ? They who do not see the hand of God in this must be wilfully blind indeed. We further learn from the Roman correspondent of the London Timea that democracy is gaining ground in tho kingdom of Italy, and there must be bloodshed ere long. How far the English patrons of Garibaldi may be responsible to God for the past and coming miseries of Italyv I will not undertake to say.— I am, &o. j.W.

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