the people.
M41 Pius IX. laments the state of religion in Sardinia.--Condemns the Act
secularizing marriage.
M42 Pius IX. puts an end to the celebrated Goa Schism in 1851.
M43 Encyclical on the Immaculate Conception--1849.
M44 Pius IX. solemnly promulgated the Dogma of the Immaculate
Conception.
M45 Disputes concerning the study of the ancient classics happily
terminated by Pius IX.
M46 Accident at St. Agnes. Narrow escape of Pius IX. and many eminent
persons.
M47 Piedmont seeks a French alliance against the Pope.
M48 Pius IX. encourages Science and the Fine Arts--"Vindex antiquitatis."
M49 Lord Clarendon rebukes Count Cavour.
M50 "_Motu proprio_."
M51 Donoso Cortez, in the Spanish Parliament, supports the Papal
Sovereignty.
M52 Lord Lansdowne, together with all the statesmen and States of
Christendom, recognize the principles laid down in Pius the Ninth's
"_motu proprio_."
M53 Canonizations at Rome.--Two American Saints. Pius IX. erects four
Metropolitan Sees in the United States.
M54 New See of Laval.--Rennes becomes Metropolitan.--Restoration of the
Chapter of St. Denis.
M55 Napoleon desires to be crowned by the Pope. Pius IX. sponsor for
Napoleon's son.--Golden rose sent to the Empress.
M56 Pius IX. godfather to Alphonso XII. of Spain.
M57 Concordat with Austria.
M58 Difficulties in Spain and Spanish countries. Errors of Gunther.
M59 Pius IX. makes a progress through his States.--His popularity.
M60 The Mortara case.
M61 New Sees erected by Pius IX. in America.
M62 Several names added to the number of the Saints.
M63 Count Orsini attempts to murder the Emperor Napoleon III.
M64 The war of 1859.--The legations severed from the states of the
Church.

3 Mr. Perkins, in his letter to the _Times_, makes out that they
forced open the houses of the inhabitants to make them give up their
wine, and that they got drunk.

M65 The peace of Villafranca.
M66 How the treaty was observed.

4 Protocol, March 18th.

5 "If we were to sift the pretensions of all our public men, to
discover that one person who is necessarily best informed of the
past and present state of Italy, and the causes and means that have
produced the anarchy which now prevails over the greater part of
that unfortunate peninsula, Lord Normanby would inevitably be the
man for our