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The Ultramontane organ, the Tablet, asserts that the signatures to
the various petitions in favour of the definition of Infallibility amount now to 500,—including, we suppose, the adherents of that dogma on the Commissions, for whom it is not etiquette to sign, —and that the signatures to the petitions against it are under 140 in number. About 120 have declined to sign any petition. On the whole, judging by the assertions and admissions made on both sides, our estimate of 3 to 1 in favour of the dogma is certainly below the mark ; bat then, undoubtedly, names of very great weight are found on the petition against the definition.
