Dr. Ullathorne (the Catholic Bishop of Birmingham) has written to
the Times to deny his being a " Gallivan,"—to deny his having joined any party among the Roman Bishops,—or signed any docu- ment " drawn up by any person or party whatsoever,"—or having contemplated or contemplating• secession from the Council "in any contingency that could arise," or knowing of any one who does contemplate such a secession, or finally, feeling anything but content with the position of affairs in the Council. We suspect that his case is not a peculiar one. Almost all the bishops who have declined to memorialize for the definition of the dogma of Papal infallibility have been hastily assumed to be opposed to it, and to be Galilean at heart. Probably they are quite as far from that extreme as from the other,—the Ultramontane view.
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