FRENCH GOSSIP ABOUT A HOME FOR THE POPE IN BUTE.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 34, 15 November 1871, Page 3

FRENCH GOSSIP ABOUT A HOME FOR THE POPE IN BUTE.

A Paris correspondent of the Glasgow Star reiterates the story about a home for Pio Nono being found in the Isle of Bute. He says: —“That the Marquis of Bute contemplated not only offering his Holiness an asylum in the Island of Bute, but a building, a palatial residence for him iu

it, is, I believe, a fact. In consequence of this determination, a late Lord Advocate, and the standing counsel for the family, was sent for by the relatives, and was for some days a visitor on business at Mount Stewart House. If my information is correct, it required all the eloquence and persuasive powers of this distinguished lawyer to cause the. noble Marquis to postpone his intention, but he did not succeed in eradicating it. The idea, lam assured, is revived. The Marquis is bent on having the Pope in the island. His Holiness is "said to have issued secret inquiries as to the reception*he wasdikely to meet with in Covenanting heretical Scotland, and the assurances iic lias received of the progress of Roman Catholic proselytizing in Scotland generally have all but determined him to come. Mr Gladstone, lam further informed, has been sounded privately on the subject, and has expressed himself favourably as to the residence of his Holiness in the British Islands, provided the Pope will pledge himself to put down and keep down agrarian outrages, &c., in Ircand, which, it is said, his Holiness is willing to do. On this condition the British Government will place before him the shield of British protection, but it. is stipulated that the Pope is not to visit Ireland personally in the meantime, nor without the sanction of the Prime Minister. Cardinal Antonelli is said to be exceedingly wrath at the idea of the Pope coming to Great Britain, and has threatened to have him deposed. But the movement is said to have the warm support of M. Thiers, probably for this very good reason, that lie sees it will rid France of a serious difficulty. lam assured that the plans of the Papal palace to be erected in the Island of Bute, are actually prepared, and are about to be submitted for his Holiness’ approbation.”