22 JANUARY 1870, Page 2

News from Rome this week there cannot properly be said

to be. The petition in favour of declaring the infallibity of the Pope, of which we gave the substance last week, has been signed, it is believed, by about 400 bishops, of whom Dr. Manning is not one, —probably because he is on the Commission appointed to inves- tigate twitters of faith, whose names could not well be appended to any request into the opportuneness of which they would be bound to inquire. The Univers asserts,—with what truth we of course cannot say,—that the Italian Bishops are getting up a petition of their own to the same effect, somewhat differently worded, but quite as strong,—" aussi formelle pour le twins."