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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 26 October 1888, Page 15

B tlfour boasted in the House of Commons that no priest whom he had arreste J in Ireland under the Coercion Act had worn the prison convict dress. We have to thank Father Matt Ryan, who refused to wear it, for that. But, said Mr. Parnell, the Protestant Irish leader, " They have been compelled to pick oakum." L 1 Unxvers, of Paris, referring to the circular note of Cardinal Rampolla to the Powers, protesting against the insults offered to the Vatican by the Italian Government, makes a statement which cannot fail to create a sensation in the Catholic world , and, if verified b/ subsequent events, to mark an era in the history of Italy and of Europe of which the only modern prototype is the exile of Pope Pius IX. ISVnivers anoounces that Pope Leo XIII., foreseeing that in the early future he will be forced by the persistent hostility of the Italian Government to quit Borne, has already opened negotiations (or the purchase of an islet in the Mediterranean, near the French coast, whither he and his household will be able to retire when it become 1 * necessary for him to leave the Eternal City. Tho council of the Vatican is now engaged in earnestly discussing the situation, and there is a general concensus of opinion that the departure from Italy should not be, long delayed, Some ot the prelates favour » retreat to Malta, but no decision has aa yet been, leached as to the future seat of the Holy Sec.