It was true, remarked the _Studio_, that many treasures of incalculable value had been destroyed, but this was a cheap price to pay for the final and complete extermination of the Catholic pest.

"There comes a point," it remarked, "when destruction is the only cure for a vermin-infested house," and it proceeded to observe that now that the Pope with the entire College of Cardinals, all the ex-Royalties of Europe, all the most frantic religionists from the inhabited world who had taken up their abode in the "Holy City" were gone at a stroke, a recrudescence of the superstition was scarcely to be feared elsewhere.
Yet care must even now be taken against any relenting.

Catholics (if any were left bold enough to attempt it) must no longer be allowed to take any kind of part in the life of any civilised country.

So far as messages had come in from other countries, there was but one chorus of approval at what had been done.
A few papers regretted the incident, or rather the spirit which had lain behind it.

It was not seemly, they said, that Humanitarians should have recourse to violence; yet not one pretended that anything could be felt but thanksgiving for the general result.