sent the Emperor the cap and staff usually presented to
Sovereigns
house" to mind the greater affairs going on around him. Mr. Lowe who have done any conspicuous act on behalf of the Church. The maintained that had he been better educated,—educated, first statement, we are assured, is an invention, probably intended to of all, to distrust the majority of the assertions he hears, then, to secure Catholic votes at the elections. A few days ago Mgr. Dar- estimate probabilities closely, and to form sound practical conclu- boy, Archbishop of Paris, was to have been a Cardinal, but the sions upon them, educated, in short, with a view to business, said Pope has finally resolved that he shall notbepromoted. The
creation of Lucien Bonaparte has also become doubtful, and the French request for reforms has been rejected in such a style that semi-official papers are instructed to deny that it was made. Napoleon is furious at the ingratitude of the Pontiff, but His Majesty is a little unreasonable. A Pope is not bound to be grate- ful because a Catholic Prince has done a little for the Church, which has a right to demand the devotion of his life. He has paid sixpence in the pound of a debt, and if he had paid twenty shillings the Church would simply have received its due, and certainly would not be grateful.
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