The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-19 00:00:00

ANECDOTES OF THE LATE POPE.

The late Pope was IS good man, and all acts
which he performed in • private capacity bore the
Impress of a sweet temper and of a ju, tgment at once
dimwit and kind. Them were his chief characteristics,
and nothing was more attractive in him than the
playfulness of speech and paternal bowie:oak which he
ed through all his trials d physical suffer.
tug., an
were enough to have *oared the mood of
any ordinary man. In 1836,being then Archbishop of
Imola, he was sent as Papal Nuncio to Naples. It
was during his sojourn in this city that one of the
noblest acts of his life was accomplished. The Sicilian
kingdom were rent by C.irbonari conspiracies, and all
the sbirri were afoot trying to hunt down rebels. tine
day, while the Nuncio was in audience with the Ring,
the minister of police entered the preeenoe chamber
waving a number of pipers which he said had been
found on • conspirator, and contained • complete list
of the revolutionary agents in the country. The
Bourbon king uttered a glad exclamation, and
stretched out his hand, but before he could take the
papers Monsignor Mantel had wised and flung them
into • brasery. "To-morrow Ii New Year's Day," he
said: "let your subjects know that you had • list of
your enemies, and burned it; this will bring you
friends for the New Year." Carbonarism was rife at
Imola, too; and in 1840 the Archbishop, who had just
been appointed cardinal, returned to his diocese to try
and allay the discord of factions He began by
obtaining the pardon of DDILIe rebels who had been
sentenced to death, and gave sanctuary to some more
within his own unlace His leaning towards
the Liberal-National= was at this time so marked
that the contrary party made a plot to kill him,
as though by accident in a public riot. One of his
own servants was hired as an accomplice but the
man's conscience smote him, and he threw himself at
his master's feet to make • confession. The Cardinal
heard him to the end, and then gave him absolution,
adding, "What you have just said remains between
you and me. It is a confession. You may tell those
who instigated you that I shall go about as if I had
heard nothing." In 1848 the Pope was obliged to fly
from his dominion.; and clerical historians have
written that be did so in the disguise of an ordinary
priest; but this is incorrect. He lied in the clothe,
of his valet. Filliprinni, and travelled as the servant
of Count Charles de Spam, the Bavarian Minister.
A priest's cassock would have been no disguise at that
troublons epoch, for priests, monks, and cardinals
were all being chased alike by the infuriated Roman
rabble, who had just murdered the Pope'. Prime
Minister, Road It used to be said in Rome that the
Pepe had the evil eye or jettatura. The silly rumour
had probably arisen from some superstitious wonder
as to his luck in escaping the dangers that had
threatened his life; but it wee a ludicrous thing that
such a report should have been circulated about the
head of the church, and the Pope was rather annoyed
at hearing that sundry folks were in the habit of
making the sign of exorcism when he passed. One
day, as he was being driven in his mole-drawn
carriage through the Transteverine quarter, he die-
tinctly saw • woman at a street corner pat up her
two forefingers like horns on either side of her bend,
which, as every one knows, is the signs by which
the malefices of the evil eye are conjured. Wi-hing
to put an end to such pranks, his holiness ordered
the coach to stop, and, beckoning to the woman, who,
half-dead with fright, bad already flung herself on
her knees, he asked her to look op into his face and
see if there was anything diabolical in it. The
humourous twinkle of the eyes with which this
Invitation was accompanied was reinsuring enough
In itself; but when the Pope proceeded to ask
the woman whether she bad any children, and
promised that her next child should be baptised
with his own heeds, and trained for the priesthood
at his own expense, be won a greater victory over
prejudice than if he had set his Holy Inquisition
to work. The Pope was always very fond of children,
and frequently had some little street urchins sent for
to prattle with him in his garden. These never went
away empty-banded. On one occasion, however, he
had to deal with • very astute brat, who, being taken
to • drawer full of gold pieces, where he was bidden to
help himself to as much as he could carry in both
blinds answered, "1 had rather send for father; he
has bigger hands than mine." The Pope was • great
billiard player He had a French table (without
pockets)
at the Vatican, and when hie health allowed
used to play two or three games every evening
before going to bed. He was not an early riser, and
his habits had a great deal of the Italian indolence.
He liked sweetmeats, pastry, and playful conversation.
Wine he never touched at table, and he took all his
meals alone, it being contrary to etiquette for anyone,
even a crowned head, to eat with the Supreme Pontiff.
The Pope somehow never liked Napoleon 111., who
had rendered him the important service of delaying
the fall of the temporal power by 20 years. He
applied to him the same terms as Pine VII. bad
hurled at the First Napoleon. "Oomediante," and
nothing would ever make him yield to the solicitations
that be would go and crown the " Man of December"
at Notre Dame. As • consequence Napoleon 111.
remained uncrowned. for he bad resolved to &japanse
with the ceremony altogether tinier. Pius IX. would
officiate at it The Pope watt conspicuously open-
handed, and, not content with enriching his own
family, which comprised numerous cousins and
nephews, be scattered gold freely amongst all his
courtiers and servants. These lose in him • generous
-is well as • good master. His nearest relatives are
the four surviving children of his nephew, Count
Gabrielle Mesta'. One of these is a pupil a' the St.
Cyl Military College, near Paris; a second is lay
sister in a convent; • third is married to an officer ;
and the fourth, • son, has been residing at Sinigagila.
There are also some relatives on the mother's side.
The entombment of the late Pope Pius IX commenced
at Rome on Thursday evening. Many thousands of the
erietocarY were admitted 1,1 the sacristy into the Basilica.
The great gates were closed. it promotion of noble moonlit,
Prelates. and cardinals with torches, followed Im the
chaniterlalna and Palatine Guards, left the antechambers
at ball-past six o'clock, and, passing the Palace, halls,
and stain:arm mita ed the Chapel*, the Sacrament. The
hotly was carried processionally &roue' the nave, into the
Chaffs of the Choir, where It was placced in three coffins,
one being of lead. The service was beautifully chanted.
long record of the Pope's achievements was then read,
and a bag of coins placed in the coal., which carried
a spot opposite the entrance boding to the Tribunes of
the Chapel, and slowly raised by ropes and pulleys to the
mortuary niche over the doorway. Tha burster, chanting
at intervals and the gleamitg of the torches produced a
weird a.et upon the spectator. Manse will be sung
during throe day. in the Sistine Chapel, and on Monday
evening, if the preparationa are finished, the conclave
begins to sit. The voting will take place in the Sistine
Chapel, in the left corner of which the_papers will be
burned about ten and four o'clock daily. The smoke will
be visible from the Piazza

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