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Show THE POPE A HOSTAGE. The Pantheon Incident One of tlte Schemes of tho Triple Alliance. Rome, Oct. 23. Interviews with eminent cardinals confirm the accuracy of the statements state-ments cabled a few days ag regarding the feeling it the Vatican touching the demonstration demon-stration of the French pilgrims at the pantheon. pan-theon. In a talk w ith a correspondent, one of the cardinals, who is close to the pope, said : "Iuvcstigati jns made prove that the disorder dis-order of October 2nd was prepared and arranged in advance by the Italian .government .gov-ernment against the radical republican I demonstration at Nice, and against the ! pope. Under Secretary of State I)e-: I)e-: lueea and M. Garibaldi arranged the conspiracy. The triple alliance was informed in-formed of it, and approving of is as a reply to the. Teles as Nice, directed an attack upon the pope and the piigriuis. It was desired as anN affirmation of monarchical right against the gtatu quo at Rome. The Italian government sent to aii mayors a circular letter in order to add weight to the manifestation. mani-festation. '1 he correspondent asked why so large a i part of the monarchical and liberal worid favored the outrages upon French pilgrims. : and the cardinal replied: "The government I wished to give the world the impression that Rome is opposed to the pope, and that Italy wiil not have any reconciliation with France or uny amicable understanding between the Vatican and the French republic. The demonstration dem-onstration was the result of the republican anil democratic policy of the pope. Since the famous toast of Cardinal Lavi-gerie Lavi-gerie and the demonstrations at Croiistadt, all our official world, monarchical, liberal and sectarian, has been living in a state of trouble. It felt its edifice, so laboriously erected, to be cracking and threatening ruin. All hopes, all illusions were vanishing, vanish-ing, and then came the scandals of Oct. 2. Leo perfectly understood the meaning it u;is intended to convey to him, and told I what is well know n when he announced: 'i am no longer a prisoner; I arn a hostage; I am threatened with exile and assassination assassina-tion if 1 will not capitulate before the eu-cinv." eu-cinv." - I "Official Italy,' said the cardinal, "desires "de-sires to sequestrate him. to restrict his liberty, lib-erty, and declares by these demonstrations that if the pope does not yield he will bo killed or driven from Rome. Everybody regrets re-grets the Pantheon incidents, but nohoby has the com 'age to brave the anger of the government." "What will the pope do eventually ?" said the correspondent. "I c'o not jet know," said the cardinal. "He has causid a diplomatic note to be sent to the papal nuncios touching directly upon the real significance of the affair. He will wait for the public mind to be well fixed upon the origin and character of the liberal nv.inifcstatioo. When the work of preparation prepara-tion is accomplished he will act." The cardinal further said: "Nothing is yet decided as to the pope's leaving Rome, but everything is in readiness for such a step. At any rate, the relations between Italy and the pope will be seriously modi-lied. modi-lied. Leo is aware of thesceretmachiuations of the triple alliance, and w ill act in consequence." conse-quence." Asked about the next conclave, the cardinal car-dinal said that they had beeu dreading an exodus, but that the recent cxents have caused a. long step in the idea of holding the conclave abroad. They had thought only in case of war to seek for a pope abroad, "but! events have, enlightened them as to the last design of the Italian revolution. |