THE HEALTH OF THE POPE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1560, 5 August 1873, Page 2

THE HEALTH OF THE POPE.

From Rome our tidings .of the Pope's health : are 'most alarming.' ! Some weeks ago the Holy Father (writes a correspondent of^the 4,rgrtw),, took cold, vand was affected^ with great pains in the back, accompanied with fever and swelling in the legs. When I was in Italy during the Easter holidays he. was better, and 'had resumed his audiances. But;a,few : days back there came, a relapse,- and- the audiences were interrupted) anew.T.?6n the 12th — the; very, day, on which \x4 began his' 82nd year-Hhe fell ;into_ai swoon, and remained insensible for a whole hour, and; even the rumor of i" his death-w as spread about in 'Change. Much thbught is given in 1 Italy' to ■ this coming 5 evjent. More than once I heard the; "q'uestibn debated as to the'choice;^Pio^N^nWsuccessor;' 1 The Government seems to desire the nomination of Cardinal Riario=Sfor*a, Archbishop* of. Naples,; who is on good terms with the Italians, whereas the party desirous of continuing the, policy of jesisterice entered into by Pius IK. sets forward, it is said, Cardinal Panebianib*br Cardinal Capalti. , The latter party will most probably 'carry the day. For the iast ; three 'centuries, all 'the Popes have been ItalianSi , , The fall of the temporal power is more favorable to the accession of the'pdritificial throne i'b'y foreign cardinals, though it will .ibe difficult »to agree upon such a choice. A German Pope, would^ naturally give . no pleasure' to France, one of the chief props of Catholicity; besides, Catholicism has feo many and too; powerful antagonists in Germany for a German Pope to be ever thought ofc AFrench'Pope-would not. be more) acceptable, on account of the antagonism existing between France and Germany | • ; ana'so F lbng! as 'SpainTis' giv'en up to, civil; war, ithere can (be no competition for a Spaniard. r The irah Cardinal Culleh, much 'esteemed' : 'for ; "hV trine; the Austroik Hungarian Cardinal Rauscher, a great theologian likewise^ and his fellow-countryman the Prince of Schwartzenberg^ despite llis high social position and; the > credit he enjoys at the Court of Yiennaj have no chance to be elected. Everything^ therefore, will be: decided by I the Italian cardinals, who are divided into two T principal groups,-, the i .admirers of: Pius. lX. and those who, are inclined to make; some concessions to the new spirit of the .times. At the head of the latter group, stands Cardinal Barili, reputed the most liberalminded man of the; Sacred! College. But that does not signify much, for, as the Romans say,- Altro* &Mcardimle y altroil Papa. Cardinal Chiareinonte, at the. end of the last century, wasilpoked.. upon as a downright Jacobine ; once created Pope, under the name of Pius VIT., he stood boldly out against Napoleon, .presided over the European reßt6rali6ri,ini v re called the Jesuits. •; i ; 1