The Tablet, which of course represents the Ultramontane hopes in
the matter, asserts that the opposition to the dogma will not number 1 in 7 or 8, whilst not 1 in 100 will venture to oppose the dogma on its merits rather than on the question of opportuneness. Our contemporary boasts of the perfect freedom with which opposition is heard in the Council, and certainly Monseigneur Strossmayer, by all accounts, has used the utmost frerdain of speech in the debate on Ritionalisto, and has, it is said, expressed his admiration of the freedom accorded to him. On the other hand, the English correspondents in Rome assert that he was ineffectually called to order. The Vatican states that in the Council of Trent dogmatic decrees were passed by majorities of 127 to 54, or less than 21 to 1, on matters as important as the character and origin of the jurisdiction of the Bishops. We think there can hardly be a doubt that the infallibility of the Pope will be declared before the Council rises.
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