The New York herald., 1870-02-20
--latest from Reme-Tho Contest In ths
COu0cil.

i - 0aAnsxA&4cr~kS.LS1 -, IL
in relation TO the Same. The SSssws has been
Of such character that we feel compelled to
return once more to the subject for the purpose
of rendering warning and advice 1t was
always our opinion that the hour OF difficulty
would be found, and although we would not
say this is the first hour of difficulty, we are
not without a reason for saying the hour Of
difficulty has come.
BY cable we have learned that the Catholic
Powers of Europe, one and oil, have become
fierce on the two questions of the Syllabus
and Infallibility. The south Of Germany has
been all along in fury Of opposition on those
two great questions, which seem to have been
the main reasons for indicting or con-
voking the Council. Within the last
few days we have found that Count Bis
marck, who has all along been watching the
fray, but who has on this subject been singu-
larry reticent, has been compelled to speak
out. The Syllabus and Infallibility are against
his schemes. They would raise great barrier
between him and his life purpose-a barrier
big enough to make Sadowa o huge folly and
his own life grand though somewhat snowy
failure. Bismarck has joined Hohenlohe and
Beast and we know that 80 far as the civil
Powers are concerned Germany is unit
against Infallibility and the Syllabus. This
is so far triumph on the side OF COM
mon sense and common honesty. But it does
not give full and therefore not fair, idea Of
the opposition forces. 1t is now well known
that the Council was convened for special
purpose, and it now begins to be known
thanks to the HERALD's love of truth and fair
play-that the original and special purpose
cannot be carried out
We now know that two petitions or memo
rials have been presented to the Pope,
the one in favor OF Infallblity and
the other opposed to it, The Infallibility
memorial has been signed by some four or five
hundred; the non-inlallblity memorial has
been signed by some two hundred. Our latest
news has it that over one hundred bishops who
are on the opposition side refuse to sign sim
ply because they wish to wait and reveal their
purpose by their votes. Timid men the
most of those who hang back must be;
but their sympathy and their common sense
cannot be called questionable. What gives
force to the Infallibiists is this that their
ranks have been sweled by some eighty
nine bishops 5n pGrti6us who have been
created since the Council was first convened
a creation not dissimilar to that which was
threatened by The late Earl Grey when he re-
solved to force through the first reform bill,
and which, although it was never found neces-
sary, had to commend it something which
this Papal creation had not and could not
possibly have. This, however, is not all. The
Infallibilists are nameless and unknown set
of men. None of them has worldwide
reputation, if we make single exception,
and if we make it we must make it in
favor of renegade. Dr.. Manning is the
only man, whose abilities are generally
appreciated, who lends countenance to this
Infallibi'ity nonsense. But when we remem-
Der that DR.. Manning was an able but dis
appointed Church of England clergyman
before he joined the Church of Rome, and that
his ambition will not be satisfied short of the
Pontiical throne, it is not, perhaps, unjust to
nearly of equal value. The Roman Church
does not wish to be governed by an English
pervert; and DR.. Manning, knowing his diff
culties, has yielded to-, and, as we think,
failed, by an exuberance of zeal. Among the
anti-infallbilists we have to rank such men
as Cardinals Rausher and Schwarzenberg, and
Bishop Ketteler, OF Germany; Darboy and
Dupanloup, of France Strossmayer, of Hun
gary, and Kenwick and McHale and Ulla-
thorne, of the English-speaking communities,
or the Greater Britain, as our cousins across
the big pond are fond to put it.
So much for the character and position o
the men who oppose and who favor the extreme
measures of the Council; but the names we
have mentioned give but very imperfect
notion Of the opposition. We know how DR..
Dollcnger, perhaps the ablest scholar in
Catholic Germany, has spoken out We know
how DR.. Michelis, of Braunsberg, has de-
nounced Infallibility as ''humbug," how he
has since spoken of the petition in favor Of the
dogma as "a cowardly evasion of the real
bearing of the question" as 'untrue from
beginning to end, ana as ''passlonately and
terribly uncharitable." We know how Dr..
Schultz, perhaps the ablest professor of canon
law at Prague, has disposed Of the Insallibility
dogma by exhibiting il in the light of a reduc-
tto ad 0bSurdum. We know what Father
Hyacinthe has done. We know that Father
Grutry, one of the most popular and learned
of the French clergy, has characterized the
statements or arguments of the infallibilists
as "falsifcations, mutilations, dissmulations,
lies and frauds" What with the bishops and
the clergy so fearlessly speaking out, we
have no choice but say that the opposition is
dangerously strong.
We have it on the very best authority that
the Pope himself has been coerced into some
thing like injustice against his opponents. We
are sorry to have to say it for the Holy