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than of his sovereign. This also is a sign of the 

 times. 



The Queen, who would really like to be a good 

 Catholic, wrote to the Pope to ask if he would accept 

 a jubilee present from her hand. , The answer she got 

 was, that the Pope would be quite willing to receive a 

 present from Margaret of Savoy, but nothing from 

 the " Queen of Italy." Whew ! and so there is more fat 

 in the fire. Evidently the loss of the temporal power 

 is a pill the old man cannot swallow, sugar-coat as 

 you may. Seeing he would receive nothing from the 

 " Queen of Italy," the poor old man received nothing 

 from any official, high or low, throughout the whole 

 of Italy. The Italians say, " We have no objections 

 to the Pope as the head of the priesthood, but rule 

 this land he shall not." With them the divorce of 

 Italy from the Vatican is complete and forever. 



BLACKBURN, April, 1888. 



