, 1870-03-20

Faith and Discipline, and alrcady referred ~
be soon referTed, by them to ye.y sm.il snb
committees asaisted BY theo1ogsans-so o
tnem ne e1ea1lts..angsged in preparing thcs
scaeau!es- I'm Tuesday, also, thore 1as ds
trlbuted new schedule OF propositions ralat
ing to the regular orders, no doubt IN order t.
nna matter for the committee charged viii
that subject. At the same time the Fathan
received, in the form Of a deeree- h.
| new regulations for the quicker despstcb
q business. It is said shst they further ID,
s;.ic. liberty Of discnssionr but ths chief com
council. 10e"7'ss' -
= The propositions De Ecczsia and de Romano
toat!Fce had been long threatened for disc11s-
aion = soon ~ ever the Little cstechisn could
% got nd Of, md under the second Of these.
hesds 9 q the great battle Was to Be fought. But
All thse volcanic stuf is now indefinitely post-
poned the syllabus takes another lssp into
ttle future; and infallibility-it is the rery
latest thl1g hear-las not even vet received
the form H which it is to tigLt alt the powers
OF esn OF Of good. It is still a. fas to seek ~
she monster gun that IS to overcome all tho
e,s eslenees OF AaIth, wood, iron, OF stone, that
II is clear te me that ah,ll never 500 either
NC hnal gun or tho isrefrag2ble dogma. But
obsaEvo how We stand here. The council
stands adjourned to Thntsdsy, March g.. not
~lthoat good reasons. Wednesday is dsE OF
cereraonies, and until that day home il run
ming 1nt in its own peculiar fashion. But
when tho council meets again it will have sat
twelve weekA and day, and done nothing At
al but send back all its work to be fashioned
anew for further discussion. The entire
Church vii hayo beon deprived Of it, Bishops,
and consigned to the ere Of VicaH Apostolic
directly appointed by .ho Pope, for quarter
Of year, md this council kept
am even charmed with, :he a1xlncitE, tho in-
genuity, and tharesdinesso OF the PapA writer's.
but not one Of tho entire corps could put his
finger on thing ths council haa yet done, or
u word it has yet sanctioned. or 4 doctrine, OF
opinion, or sentiment to wMchi has given II
new color. Il hA thus tar been - absolutely
unproductiya IS the huge lumps OF granite in
The ruins OF old Rome. Yet VIC am daily as
sured hare, on the infa11ible authority OF tha
Pope's own journals, that everything has gone
On exactly - Was wished and expected, and
that the majestic operation has neser saf-
tuzbance. All that is reported to this effect,
they declara. they sWeaE, they call Heaven to
witness, has no foundation whateyer, except
in the dreams, the imaginations, md inven-
tiveness Of writer's compelled to send home
something N return for the cost-of their mis-
sion. I suppose the day il to cone-and per
haps may rue the day-when King Log Is to
be succeeded By king stork; Int the reign Of
King Log is very long. Even If we did not
happen to: know the true state Of the case, we
might still aak, from time TO time, why His
Majesty eita there so long doing nothing.
But besides those rumors Of vhat goes on
within tho screen, which hase never treated
otherwise than as rumors, supported By soma
concurrence Of testimony, there nre matters
Of which the outer world Is well cognizant, aud
shich do not look as if everything was going
on smoothly; First for all the diplomacy which
is going On. There arc those here who l.ayh
At it. Rome, they say, has Aways had to deal
with diplomacy, and has always got the better
OF it, and exactly by out~itting it, but be-
cause diplomacy represents neither
ss n 1S5 ~ss Ss aao ebS ss asf hs ,ss Shs
80 for good deal Tho diplomatists, it
is said, are sent to fight losing battle with as
mach decency as possible No sovereign wiu
eyer throw Away his best card, OF lis best
piece. he can help it. I do not yet know
bow the people here take the arrival Of II. Ba-
roche to asgist tho French Ambassador with
his knowledge OF tho history aud working Of
It shows, at laast, proper sense
of the crisis, sld OF tho necessity for yigilanco
md prompt decision. It may also imply th.t,
nhile the fathers are deGbaratinS, an anai-is in
progress htleway OF. Meanwhile, the Pope's
organs do not fail to send to Napoleon III,
heir pious homiies on the flclleness OF human
favor, and ths uncertainty Of power. They
remind the Emperor Of what. bv his own ac-
count, the name Of Napoleon meant In 1919,
md what it means now, when, as they tell him,
i has become the shadow Of ahade. It now
means only tho absence Of all that it, once
:lained, for it suggests suspicion, fear, inter
and the dark looming Of something
% como, which it is vainly attempted to keep
mt OF view by folliea and e1tTayagancies.
While tho Pope goes round his faithful people
blessings, or gathers them pe,iodi-
obliged to assemble those whom It is COLI
'enient to pTopitiate, aud dazzle or stupefy
hem with dances aud champagne, Of which
he number Of bottles i duly published to the
Tedit q his poheE. The Pope gives no ban-
!ot dance ho leads the solemn procession
he PoPo Hings, indeed, but his are the songs
4 Israel Ind the Litanies OF the Church. The
'ore hunts and fshes; but he seeks only tho
ouls Of men. could have wished to see the
ontrast carried further. for the Pope wou1dbe
70 soldiers except the army of the faithful,
I'D no artillery except the a1guments and tbs
o the Pope's most Jealous friands persist in
'toclairing and widening the gulf between tho
,hrone Of France and the SEQ Of Rome7 Why
bat n. Bonapate = is the title usually giYen
t Paris to the nominal hez5 OF the French
;onstitution7 So much for Franco Towards
IustriA these writer's arc still reserved in their
They assume, be it true or not, that
LustIia has given notice that shs cannot per
arience with the constitution, and that all who
tempt to introduce it viii find themselves
able TO severe penalties. The Pope's organ
epliea with becoming spirit that His
mpe1iA Majesty Nero once sent = similar
message to the most il1ust1ious Of Pins ks
'EedeceesN, and that Peter--9or that was his
lAme-set the messages 1t naught, and WEE
ontept To pay tho penalty Of maftrrdom- Not
,nly Pagan Rome, but, many times since her
lays, al Europe has tried to fsighten the Pope
rom his duty, and tried in vain. It is ridicu-
France and AusHi1-both Of them the very
shadows Of what they were the other day
sho1ld think to change his settled pufpose-
The gist Of Ill this is that 10 long n
Rome is suro Of her own people she ia pre-
ssn te ss pep I'D s e. iR Rt
= the Bishops themselves here assembled are
.ot al Of the metal Popca ara made OF, can
more be expected OF their focks and their infe-
;or cleIgyf The court Is harassed, ,,and even
lsEned, ss tie continual applications from
'isheps who are sick OF The game, and who
AXE the pastoral rather than lie military view
I their position. Then, If the Ita1i4ns still
osscas their Unsuitable thirst for power. ths
pania1ds still hug their "coustitutions," the
WI s'drection Of ssudiea," the Americans
7ait to see what Rome Ia at, xnd the OrientaIs
ither cannot or will not understand or
now anything except that as soon rs
hey get home they will return to
heir own way. Already I have mentioned,
T ought to have mentioned, that the court is
, the greatest alarm at the reported resistance
the A1meniAns IN the Roman obedience, and
annot make out whether the Patriarch here is
victim or an aecomplice in the rcvo1t Any
or, he viii nsve1 resume his p1ace in Ciicia
n1ess he reprdi2tea there al be has done and
lid here. A messenger has gone in g1eat
Aste to Constantinopla to explain matters to
be Sultan, but should think the more l,s
9plains the less wi1l the Sultan be pleased
II that hare said thus far relates to the
'eakncss Of the materials On which the Pope Ii
. rrly; and il is acknowledged that If En-
erurH may have SEASONS Of Weak
Esss, Popes may have also. But IN the mus. nnl:i5s
4 all this I still see one nano invested viz
error which can hardly account for 4 n:ass
% to depreciate him, and to provo that ~ = IT.
mere bustling agitator, that Dupanionp .nI
c1ibed az employing four secretaries ~ Il
uBWerinR three hundred letters . O.. '.,r,.r
~ true, there must bc great "sste .. J,sye
nd shot here. As for ssrpssnia.e 1li.h
tottiug to report, except nsle taoT ~ oTn7ati,y
give for Whit it is wuth-ta4f ~ m.yfcr
Ie was u HeiIenced, d,"-by whom. u ia1t VII s.yath
n IN wh.t OCCASION Euuof ne'
lot,
. co,orca p,escber. commenting On tas p5 ~
-, :. r. ye therefore wlso - ~ te.o u:,t.".
ss.,, ,,.ss Il doves sAid that tne ona.ut
-. ,a,M l,e made in sle prppofuou u Po.nlo
: ,1oye to u ounce OF fe1Pen|