Exceedingly little is known in England of what is really
going on in Rome, and the letters of the Roman correspondents are filled with mere conjecture. The Times' correspondent of this day week re- ported, however, a division in the Council, which is supposed to test the strength of the minority, as having shown 570 to 106, or say, 11 to 2. Whether the Gallivan party can really muster so many as 106 we rather doubt ; but if it can, that is hardly a minority powerful enough to prevent the definition of Papal infallibility. Another rumour is given by the Times to the effect that at a given signal from Monseigneur Dupanloup--we suppose when the dogma is proposed-120 fathers will leave the Council and Rome together. But this is an obvious bit of apocryphal prophecy. We Protestants are apt to forget that even those Roman Catholic prelates who object to the dogma, for the most part believe in the infallibility of the Council, and would think themselves wrong if the Council decided against them. Monseigneur Dupanloup has himself more than once professed his complete and heartfelt sub- mission to the decisions of the Council, whatever they may be. The inventors of these canards must consider the Council to be made up of Peres Hyacinthe, not of stately Roman prelates who have believed in Rome from their earliest childhood almost affwe believe in Christ.
