CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S WEALTH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 197, 12 January 1877, Page 12

CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S WEALTH.

SwLTv • of I Cardmal Aaton 6ll1 ' and have got down very fin! fn t™" H f re aPP^ed with a closeness that might do credit wit£ ££ feS^Tf ' ?f? f . Icoyrse1 coyrse we Wno fa «lt to find 55*1* ? V s the P riTile £e of the press, more especially toouW^W P T%^ y > t0^ ntlem^' 88 P rivate busm *»s ™& to publish the result of their impertinent espionage for the delectaaS^SJ9^^ We think^^ever,tLt gfntlemen who find then- private affairs thus exposed, have a right to feel themselves JL¥tWT, meaSUre a ?^ ved ' and & insinuated that the 2£fJ£?&«^ f SFHJ® consider themselves outraged. The nf^?, «= d i the theme of man y an arfcicl e- Mr. Stewart, £,?S3 {,?? Ca « 6 a Snap What was said of him <> r h « mSs » ?h^£t* h Z COm l Secreta jy of th e Treasury of the United States aa he might have become if he quitted his business, and were his tSS^T ° f aS * heresult^^"scraping?'^flein thf eoS, w W °« dbe a ? ?n? n ? inuation a * he had stolen them from «2 ™ scoffers and this is just what is being insinuated in the case of Cardinal Antonelli. Cardinal Antonelli is of a rirh famJy of Terracina; whatever wealth he possesses he Lherits^ iSlSlf 3e TJ B S e have are his family jewels. Those who speculate on the Pope's receiving all this imagined vast wealth are speculating on an uncertainty. Eich cardinals have often left the SSi f fjf^ 6 be i ue^ u t much more frequently have they disbTevofeit'chalS m f T diDg needed ins * ifc «^ for scientific, !£Kw* ' I—l ° r reh .S lous Purposes. It was only the other day that formal civil recognition as a corporation was a-iven to thp Convalescent Hospital, founded and endowed byTbef S of the J2SWS? Q " aglia^ in ? iS Dative City of Carnet^ the once famous cap tal of Etruna and, strange coincidence, the will in which this bequest was granted was drawn about the time when the unfortu! aate Bixio was haranguing the Italian Chamber of Deputes and wishing for "that happy moment when the Roman pcS lOS£1 OS £ ?n to P tflf TC O - d W ke Pope a nd the cardinals Jffs&»£Z* SS-?f I \W £ lght Clte insfcance s by the hundred of cardinal* who, out of their own private funds, have left foundations £^&o& o s e rw. g the most famous institutions ° f tS