, 1878-03-16
Pic Nono's Last Hours.
from the Pail Mall G. .tte. I

Thursday says
Two hours and a quarter since
Pho Mono breathed his last.
Yesterday there was not the
slightest indication of his APP
preaching end. AT six p. NJ. a
gentleman from whom | have
invariably received trustworthy
news visited him to obtain the
benediction in articulo morris for
one of the Popes old retainers
of whom he was extremely fond.
''Poverto," said His Holiness,
che, too, is going 1t should be
SAID that the extreme weakness
caused by the natural issue and
the artificial issue in both legs
had so alarmed the physicians
that they had closed the latter
and done their best to diminish
the suppuratlon of the former.
About eight o'clock last night
the Pope seemed su1Ocatlng and
the usual remedies were applied,
but the attendants growing
alarmed, sent immediately for
the physicians, who at once saw
that the end was at hand, real
izing that the humors, which no
longer found vent from the legs,
had rushed to the vital parts.
At times moment of relief
came. Once, turning to his ply
sician, he said: "You have not
been fortunate in your treat
meHt this time. La morte uiace.
death wins!)." At half past
four A. NJ. they believed him
gone. Later extreme unction
was administered by Mgr. Mar
inelli. He seemed conscious,
but did not speak. All the car
dinals were warned, and hurried
to the Vatrican. Then, assured
by the physicians that though
there was still life there was no
hope, each returned home to
prepare for his approaching Sc
clusion in cell in the Vatican
during the Cenclave. Prince
Chigi remained at the Vatican
to give orders for the approach
ing Conclave in his quality of
High Marshall. Cardinal Bilio,
as Head Penitentiary, assisted
the Pope from the first moment
Ui alarm, until he expired. 1t is
singular that almost the last act
Of His Holiness was, with ST.
moons concurrence, to obtain the
consent of the cardinals for the
insuring Of the pensions and sal
aries of all the pensioners of the
Holy See, and for their widows
after their death.
Up to the very last the Jesuits
tormented him by insisting on
acts of omission and commission
that revolted his feelings, and
one might almost say his con-
science. After the death of the
late King, Pho Mono realized
how he had been deceived with
regard to the possibility Of res
toratlon of the temporal power,
and most sincerely desired to
pave the way for his successor
to be enabled to live at peace in
Italy and with the. Italian gov
ernment. But thG Jesuits and
ultramontane cardinals would
not hear of such a line OF con-
duct. They prevented him from
authorizing grand mass for
King Victor Emanuel; they
printed brief in the Osseruatore
Cattolico Of Milan purporting to
stigmatize the Archbishop as
renegade, whereas it related
to quite anotner affair. They
brought the famous Don Bosco
from Turn to induce the Pope
to humillate the Archbishop of
Turin by sending coadjutor.
Finally, they compelled him to
accede to Simeon's forwarding Il
protest to all the foreign Powers
against the accession Of King
Humbert to the throne Of Italy,
which protest the foreign gov
ernments refused to accept from
the Nuneios. Only this morn
ing, Just before the alarming
news came, [ was about to tele-
graph to you that the Pope had
been induced to order the Holy
Office OF the Inquisltion to draw
up fresh and stringent rules for
the Church; to send a warning
to all the schools and religious
corporations dependent still up
on the Vatican that should they
inculcate the doctrine that Ital-
ian unity was lawful they would
be dissolved, and that to be 4
good Catholic it was necessary
to maintain the struggle for the
restoration Of the temporal pow
er. Death has ended Pho No
nos long and troubled pontiii-