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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 22 May 1885, Page 9

The correspondent of a Hungarian paper has created notoriety by publishing a conversation he had with Bismarck. The Chancellor, he avers, expressed himself in these words :—"I: — "I am the first and the strongest upholder of the principle that the temporal power of the Pope should be restored without a European conflagration — that ie, understand me well, Borne ought to be restored to the Pope." A telegram from Berlin stigmatises the idea as fantastic, but coming events often cast shadows before them. The situation of the Pope is gaining sympathisers every day. At Berlin a Dr. Geffken, a Protestant jurist, has published a pamphlet on the " Juridical and International Position of the Pope," in which he clearly establishes that the Italian Government has violated every principle of justice and right in its action towards the Holy See. Mancini, on the other band, maintains that the status of the Papacy is an internal question 'which concerns Italy alone. But Mancini is doomed ; he has laid violent hands on the Vicar of Christ, and will infallibly perish ; not , even his respect for the mosques and religion of the Danakilß will uphold him.— Nation.