The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-06-13
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY JUNE 49, ls74-TRPLE SHEET

breezes The breezas have been il is true, neither
gentle nor Iavoring as regards all matters con.
nected with the temporalities OF the Church. But
there IL not an ecclesastic In Vatican who IL nos
perfectly well aware that there Is not the remot-
est chance OF any interference Whatever with the
perfect freedom ana independence or the Conclavc
being attempted or permitted by the Italian gov
eminent. And there can be no doubt that the
Pope and the members OF the Sacred College are
perfectly well aware OF this. There has, Ms your
readers are OF course, perfectly well aware. been
great deal Of talk In political and clerical circles
lsid great deal OF discussion in the newspapers
as to the expedlency and probability OF holding
the election, which must be expected to ensue AZ
no distant date, elsewhere than in Rome Pau,
or some other city OF France, has been suggested.
But Their Emlnences know very well that, though
they might there consider themselves 10 be in
the house OF a friend, and the friend would
eagerly beg OF them to make themselves at
homen there, the friend would be apt to push his
hospitable attentions to the point OF by no means
leaving them to themselves. In fact, an election
made IN France would have to be made altogether
in a French sense; and though this would be
better In their eyes than making 1t in German or
an Austrian CT an Italian sense 1t il not what the
College viii desire. The election VIII be made
more emphatically and entirely than has been the
Then, again, it was asserted that IT
had been determined that the Conclave should
be held at Malta. Certainly the business 90 be
done might be transacted there in perfect freedom
and without the smallest interference from any
body. Whether some thirty or forty elderly gen.
tlemen should arrive in the island for the purpose
oil dining together or eecting Pope, waiting for
the next Peninsuar and Oriental boat would be
a matter OF perfect indifference to the English
government. Dut TO send these poor old po,.porat
on a voyage to Malta! You might as well send
them to Hong Kong. voyage round the world
would be to many eyes far smaller affair than
voyage to Malta in the eyes OF Their Eminences Of
the Sacred Colege-and That. TOO, for no reason
on earth save TO play out comedy-to act
consistently with their declarations that the
Church IS in a state OF bondage at Rome 1t would
be ar more pleasant and serve the purpose every
whit as well to hold their Conc!ave comfortably at
Rome, and protest they were compelled to DO SO
by the tyranny OF Victor Emmanuel and his wicked
government Besides that, 1t would CRATE against
the feelings OF Their Eminences to declare IN the
lace of all the world that the only place on the
earth in winch they could find freedom ana
protection was in the dominions of
hereto sovereign.
A CoECLAvE
might, no doubt, be he'd with perfect comfort and
In the Astor House, and the man ager
might be persuaded to undertake the duty Of
sticking bodkin into every canvas-back duck as
IL was passed into the "ce' OF each OF his eminent
guests, to ascertain that there was no written
note or communication under it, and all this with.
out causing the slightest rise fall In the delicate
barometer OF Wall street. But that terrible At.
anticl Not TO be thought Of! In short the Con-
clave will be held at Rome. 1t cannot be held
As has recently been the case, in the Qurinal
Palace, for the 'usurper' has taken possession Of
hat: but IL can be held, as in Old times at the
tatcsn, or, II Their Eminences prefer IT, in the
huge and almost abandoned Lateran Palace which
also belongs to the Pope, and Is, like the Vatican
nviolable. And it will be held, as the
Pope and every member Of the Sacred
College Is perfectly well aware, not only
n entire freedom. but with less interference
rom any Powers, principalities or other extrane.
,us influence than any Conclave which has been
led for very many years.