The Pope has condemned the intolerance of the French Ultra-
montanes, and recommended them to cultivate charity, "without which one cannot be a true Catholic." M. Louis Veuillot, the editor of the Univers, very humbly and rightly fits the cap on to his own head, and promises obedience. " Nous sommes des enfans d'obeissance," he says with effusion ; natre principale et unique affairs eat d'obgr ;" and he illustrates it by declaring that if "the Judge" thinks that his work cannot under his hands take the tone needful for the interests of the Church, it will be at an end,- " elle sera terminee, et nous disparaitrons." For a literary man, and a literary man of singular vivacity and force, this is indeed true self-effacement. Few English editors would say the same, even though they had, and believed they had, the warrant of inspiration itself for condemning their work as useless or mischievous.
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