It is incredible, if any such a feeling did exist, that it should refuse to give any sign of its existence at such a time as the present.
With respect to the actual pecuniary cost of the Papal government, it is not easy to arrive at any positive information; I have little faith in statistics generally, and in Roman statistics in particular; I have, however, before me the official Government Budget for the year 1858.

Like all Papal documents, it is confused and meagre, but yet some curious conclusions may be arrived at from it.

The year 1858 was as quiet a year, be it remembered, as there has been in Italy for ten years past.

It was only on new year's day, in 1859, that Napoleon dropped the first hint of the Italian war.

The year 1858 may therefore be fairly regarded as a normal year under the present Papal system.