The New York herald., 1870-05-31
Progress in the Roman Council.

Our cable dispatches within the last two
days relative to the great Council at Rome
have been more than ordinarily numerous.
From these we learn that the Schema de
Romano Pontifce, which has in it's first chapter
the infallibility dogma, is now under discus
sion. 1t is said that the infallibilists are
active and hopeful. Absentees have been
summoned to Rome, and the friends Of the
dogma are now in the Holy City in large
numbers. Some time since it did seem as IL
the Cu7S0 would halt in what we have more
than once called their mad career. and as if the
fear of dividing the Church were more potent
than the desire to be governed by an infal-
lible head. The aspect of things is
now changed The Curi0 can count on
majority, and time only is required to make
their purpose good. In spite of the retire
ment from Rome in indignation and disgust of
certain Eastern churchmen, and in spite of
the protests of the great Catholic Powers, the
Pope and his friends 60 on; and Cardinal
Antonelli tells Bavaria, as he has already told
France and Austria, to mind its proper busi-
ness and to leave the Church alone. In the
course which he is pursuing the Pope is
encouraged by present of one hundred thou
sand francs, conveyed through M. Veuillot,
the Ultramontane editor of J. Un50ers. Not
withstanding the increasingly hot weather the
Council still sits, and is likely to sit through
all summer. 1t will not do to allow the
bishops to depart from Rome until the dogma
of infallibility is proclaimed. That done they
may go where they may. In few weeks at
most the vexed question of Papal infalliblity
will in all likelihood be set at rest. May it
do the Church and the world much good
BARBARoUs SPECTAoLEs.-Tw more acci-
dents have just resulted at places of public
amusement in this city from the extra hazard
GUS exhibitions relied upon to take the popular
fancy. In one case it was the old story of a
man perilling life and limb by leap through
mid air from rope to rope, and breaking
his shoulder blade by fall to the floor.
The peril which made the other exhi-
bition piquant, however, was to the life
of a young woman, who was down in the
bill to go at certain hour into the cage of
some wild beasts of the panther tribe. She
went in, and the panther tore her, and the
public was indulged in an excitement that
always lies behind these shows as an i'm
minent possibility. 1t is natural curiosity
sorts of wild animals, and few exhibitions are
more agreeable or instructive than well
ordered menagerie, but it does not add to any
proper pleasure people can take in such a
show to have a clap-trap exhibition Of
lion tanners in connection with it. This PAN
ders only to brutal and barbarous taste, and
should be forbidden by law.
FOLEY Victorious. Mr.. Foley has made a
splendid fight, which must have secured for
him, we are sure, the sympathy and admira-
| ton of all who have watched his plucky
pertnacity. He was candidate for Super
visor, and claimed the Office under the law
that gives places to the candidate that gets the
greatest number of votes and to the one also
that gets the next greatest number. Mr.
Henry Smith got in reality the next to the
! greatest number; but Foley claimed that Smiths
candidacy did not count, because he was by
law ineligible for the Office. Everybody was
against Foley. The canvassers, in violation
of law, counted Smith in, and the Mayor, in
violation of law, certified to his election but
Foley fought his case before the courts, and won.
To any constituency looking around for can.
didate whom it will be troublesome to count
out we commend Mr.. Foley.