The devout believers in the Papal infallibility, whose faith is apt to increase in the direct ratio of their distance from the immediate sphere of the Papal authority, take a very high tone with the miserable skeptics who venture to doubt whether VICTOR EMANUEL II. will be much the worse for the excommunication by implication to which he has just been subjected. They assure this incredulous world of railways and telegraphs that the effects of the Papal bull are not the less sure because they are spiritually accomplished; that PIUS moves in a mysterious way his curses to perform; and that although the liberated Italians may escape the tax-gatherers and the torturers of St. Peter, they will none the less be overtaken, sooner or later, by the avenging terrors of the Church.

In illustration of these profound truths, the dreadful examples of the house of Tudor, in England, and of the house of Savoy, in Italy, are held up to the amazement and the instruction of mankind. We are assured that the family of HENRY VIII. expiated the malediction pronounced upon that heretical prince; and that the household of VICTOR EMANUEL II. has already been struck by the thunderbolts of Heaven, in consequence of the excommunication incurred by that sovereign for laying profane hands on the Church property in Sardinia. This excommunication, which was only "incurred," and never actually undergone, having been equally incurred by the Government of "Her Most Catholic Majesty of Spain," whose family have gone on increasing and multiplying ever since sacrilegious hands were laid on the overgrown property of the religious orders, it is slightly difficult to understand why the deaths of VICTOR EMANUEL's mother, wife and brother should be charged to the account of bis offences committed in behalf of popular education and the public revenue. We suppose we shall hardly be expected to belive that the Duke of Genoa and his relations fell victims "by anticipation" to the annexation of the Emilia.

The case of the TUDORS is hardly a more fortunate one for the advocates of the awfulness of excommunication. The TUDORS were twice and most tremendously cursed: once in the person of HENRY VIII., and once in the person of his daughter, ELIZABETH. Of course, if they wilted and wore away under the effects of the Papal malison, it is reasonable to suppose that their enemies, upon whom the Papal benison rested in all its fullness, must have flourished and fattened upon the manna of the Vatican. Let us look at the facts. The TUDORS were banned for their heresy. At the same time PHILIP II. of Spain and CATHARINE of France were especially blessed for fidelity to the Church. Four successive TUDORS reigned in England after the Reformation. Four of the blood of PHILIP filled the throne of Spain. HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI., and ELIZABETH saw England grow up under their sceptres into a great maritime, colonial and military power. The only one of their blood who made her peace with the Church, MARY, lived a wretched life, and died after a brief and desolate reign, with "Calais printed on her heart," having lost the last foothold of English power in France. Excommunicated ELIZABETH struck down the power of Catholic Spain with a blow from which it has never recovered, and planted in the New World firmly the seeds of Protestant America. The TUDORS went out in one of the most glorious reigns of English history.

PHILIP II. failed in the dream of his life; his eldest son, if not murdered by himself, died a madman under his own hands; his other issue dwindled away, and his crown passed to an imbecile voluptuary, who lolled his life away among the court-ladies, sent a Little Armada to be contemptuously annihilated on the Rocks of Kinsale, expelled 600,000 of his most industrious subjects from the kingdom, and was forced to acknowledge the independence of Protestant Holland. PHILIP IV. provoked the terrible insurrection of Catalonia which transferred that magnificent province for years to France; lowered the position of Spain hopelessly in Europe by the peace of the Pyrenees, which permitted the Catalans to come back to their allegiance in triumph over the royal authority, and surrendered RoussilloH and Coflans to LOUIS XIV. Revolted Portugal humbled him at Villa Viciosa; he lost Jamaica and Dunkirk to Protestant CROMWELL, and saw the Spanish flag insulted by Dutch cruisers from the Bay of Biscay to the Indian Ocean. CHARLES II. came a child to the throne, to sign away Portugal forever to the House of Braganza, and half of Spanish Flanders to France. A dismal invalid all his life, he saw his fortresses fall to pieces, and Cadiz left without a garrison or a gun. The art of ship-building perished in Biscay and Galicia; his navy shrank to six rotten frigates; his army to 20,000 men, his revenues to $2,000,000. He died a trembling, childless idiot, scared to death by exorcisms, and bullied by Cardinal PORTO-CARRERO into signing away his monarchy to the grandson of the King of France. The House of PHILIP II. went out in the most disgraceful and ruinous reign which saddens the annals of Spain. Indeed, from the time of PHILIP LE BEL of France, who first laughed at the thunders of the Vatican, down to those of the Duke PHILIP of Parma, who kicked out the Jesuits, and being timidly excommunicated therefor by CLEMENT XIII., caused his "big brothers," the Bourbons of France and Spain, to interfere in his behalf, take away Avignon and Benevento from the poor Pope by force of arms, and compel CLEMENT XIV. to revoke his predecessor's action and abolish the whole Jesuit order, those princes who have made light of the Pope would seem to have flourished exceedingly, while those who have worked the Papal will have generally disappeared, like CATHERINE DE MEDICIS and her miserable progeny, in an odor neither prosperous nor sacred. The first NAPOLEON himself, oddly enough, made his worst and most fatal mistakes only after he had received the full sacrament of marriage from the Church on his union with the pious daughter of the Apostolic Emperor FRANCIS of Austria. Gen. DE LAMORICIERE, in 1848 the most republican of Republicans, has just discovered that modern Revolution is the counterpart of mediaeval Islamism, and has accordingly resolved to accept the Papal pay for protecting "civilization" by the bayonets of the murderers of Perugia. PIUS IX. having cursed all the brave men who have fought against Austrian tyranny ia defence of their manhood and their rights, will no doubt bless this penitent exdemocrat, just as PIUS V. blessed the little army which he sent across the Alps, three centuries ago, with orders to "give no quarter to any Huguenot." The lessons of history, it strikes us, should make the Italians tolerably tranquil in the presence of this prospect. The Founder of Christianity bade his followers bless their enemies, and do good to those that used them despitefully; and Providence certainly has looked with, no especial favor on the Christian bishops who have tried to fit the keys of heaven to the locks of other people's strongboxes, and to arm their policemen with the terrors of the archangelie host.