6 JUNE 1874, Page 2

The reports about the Pope's health are becoming serious. He

has frequent and violent accesses of fever, and his physicians advise him to leave Rome. As that, however, would disprove all assertions about his being a prisoner, his Holiness remains, to be, we fear, still more seriously struck. Fever in Rome in June is not an enemy to be trifled with, though the clergy, especially if they have red hats, seem to live on there for ever.