The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-08
4itl,ntond 1ispatth.
MONDAY. .......... OCTOBER 8, 1856.
Rome, France, and the Pope-The I'm.
mored lntended Departure 0f the
POpe from Rome.
Rome correspondence Pail Mall Gazette.

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is more probable than his continuance at
Rome In the event Of the French withdraw
Ing in December. 1t is persistently said that
he will 20 either to: Malta or England.
There is a talk of the approaching arrival
of Mr.. Gladstone, and It is thought that
this statesman's visit to Rome Is not with
out relation to the Pope's departure. The
British Government is credited with en-
couraging the holy father in bis resistance
to the couDsels of France, and with pro-
missing him assistance-aseertion which, l
need not say, are wholly devoid of founda-
| ton Indeed. l have reason to believe
that Mr.. Odo Russell has distinctly told
Cardinal AntoneIli that England will not
meddle In the Roman question. While
preparing for the eventiality of flight, the
Pope is also contemplating the possibility
of his being detained captive in Rome,
and as precaution has drawn up secret
bull, delegating his full powers to cardi-
nal, whom certain reasons prevent my
naming at present. Directly the holy
father is taken captive or deprived OF his
"apostolic" liberty, the said cardinal will
repair to Vienna or London, and then pub
lish the bull which is now in his possession.
In this document Plus TX. names him as
his alier ego ad tempus, Vicar of the unl-
versal Church--that ~, Pope I'D interim.
All Catholic bishops, all priests, and all the
faithful are during the captivity OF the
sovereign Pontif to address themselves to
this organ of the Pope reduced to silence,
and who will be the interpreter of Peter in
bonds, Petrrts IN uincuiis. The revolution.
lists would thus hold the Pope in their
hands rather as an old man weak and
dumb than as hostage; the Papacy
would save its independence, and be prori-
sionally represented by the cardinal vicar
apostolic oracle Of the Church and the
catholic world, until the revocation of his
power. Such is the provision made against
the determination of the Roman Secret
Committee to oppose the departure OF the
| Pope by every means III its power. ms
committee, which Is very powerful and
possesses great resources, does not conine
its action to Rome, but has just sent OFT
crowd of Romans to Venice to secure, by
their participation in the universal vote,
the union of Venetia with the kingdom of
Italy. The other day 1.5O0persons started
at once for Venice by the Ancona railway.
The Liberal party arc in great fear that
Ecnetia will not pronounce in favor OF
autonomy. For some days past the Eati-
can has been much scandalized by a
pamphlet which Father Bcrtucchini, a
Roman of the congregation OF the
lgnorantell, or brothers of the Chris
tian doctrine, has sent from Naples,
and which takes the form Of let
ter to Plus IX. Father Bertucchini re-
minds the Pope that Italian unity is his
own creation, and that it was the Holy
Father himself who dispatched Cardinal
Morichin to Vienna with letter to the
Emperor of Austria, eXhorting him to cedc
Lombardy and Venctia voluntarily to TIA
". The priest urges the Pope to crown
this work, accomplished now eighteen years
after he suggested it, and renounce COM
plctely the temporal power. The pamph-
let is said to have caused great annoyance
to the Pope and Cardinal Antonelli.
Paris September 2ol correspondence London
Times.
1t is reported that the Empress, when
she leaves BiarritZ, may make tour IN the
south of France, and possibly in Spain.
There has even been talk OF her going
further and in another direction, and the
period of her Majcsty's absence from
Paris has been spoken Of as likely to be
longer than on former occasions. You
NAV before now have heard it rumored
that she wished 10 go to Rome and offer
the PontiH her coincidence with his many
trials; and before leaving Paris she is un-
derstood to have expressed her intention
! in that respect in an energetic manner. 1t
seems probable that, should Her Majesty
continue Of the same mind, no. serious OBJ
stacles will be opposed to her carrying out
her intentions. Her arrival in Rome would
doubtless greatly console the POPE ior the
departure of the French garrison.
From the Liverpool Mercury september92.
! As the time approaches for the execu-
ton of the September Convention, specu-
lation is busy with the possible or probable
consequences of the vast change which is
apparently impending over the Papacy in
it's temporal relations. The execution OF
the Convention has not come due yCt.
though two years have elapsed since. It's
date: for, as will be remembered, the pre-
scribed term was only to begin to run from
the day of the removal of the scat OF
Italian Government from Turin to Flo
renee. BY the middle of December, how
ever. the stipulated two years will have
! fully expired and the withdrawal of the
last French regiment will, if Napoleon III.
keeps faith with his ally, have left the Pope
alone with his subjects and with Italy.
| And there is no reason to suppose that Aa-
poleon III. will not keep faith. Even apart
from the assurances contained in NJ. dc
Lavalette's circular, there has been moth
| ing whatever in the recent conduct OF the
Imperial government inconsistent with the
belief that the conditions of q convention,
of which Italy has long since performed
her share, will be punctually carried out.
| The Emperor has not taken a single step
| To prepare either France or Italy for the
continuanca,of his occupation of Rome,
and SO hagrant a breach of formal en-
cagement would certainly require good
| deal Of preparation to give it any sort OF
decent p!ausbility. On general grounds,
moreover, it cannot be his policy to out
rage the feelings Of the Italian nation, and
of all that's liberal in France and Europe by
persisting in the forcible maintenance of
priestly misgoyernmcnt. He has strong
reasons both personal and dynastic tor wish
ing to have Italy for friend, and 1t is to be
lightly assumed that he will take course
which would concentrate on himself and
his government the tiercest enmity OF the
Italian people. All thugs considered, we
are probably safe in dismissiDg the hypo-
thesis that the French occupation Of Rome
will be continued beyond the present year
and it is time, therefore, TO inquire, what IL
likely To be the position and fate Of the
! Papacy when its alien protectors are with
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