62 I take this opportunity of observing that the _Mémorial
Diplomatique_, which has the credit of supplying the world regularly
with methodical fictions from Rome, has also given a spurious reply
of Antonelli’s to Beust’s note. Perhaps one of your Paris
correspondents can explain the rare persistency of that journal in
habitually making game of the French with lies and inventions which
are immediately exposed. Here in Rome many are disposed to seek the
authors of them in the office of the _Civiltà_ or in the _Gesu_.
_ 63 Pastoral on Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff_ (Longmans), p. 126.
64 It is also quoted in the _Journal des Débats_ of March 12. [This
same Bishop opened the debate on the _Schema de Romano Pontifice_ by
arguing that the Pope must be infallible, because St. Peter was
crucified head downwards. _Cf. infr._ Letter xlvi.—TR.]
65 The _Unita Cattolica_ of March 12 makes its Roman correspondent say
that to-day the Bishops are signing in crowds a Petition to the
Presidents of the Council, demanding that the discussion of the
article on infallibility may take precedence of all other business,
because they long to put an end at one blow to the scandal of the
Liberal Catholics and Gallicans. But Margotti’s journal at the same
time urges patience on its readers, because decorum must be
preserved, as far as may be.
66 [It seemed better to give the Letter itself, as published “by
permission” in the _Standard_ of April 7, rather than to translate
the secondhand, though remarkably accurate, paraphrase given in the
German text. It addressed to Bishop Ullathorne.—TR.]
67 [Archbishop Errington was Cardinal Wiseman’s coadjutor with right of
succession, but was arbitrarily deprived of the post by the Pope, on
his declining to resign it. His name was the first of the three sent
to Rome by the Chapter of Westminster for the vacant Archbishopric
on Cardinal Wiseman’s death, the other two being Clifford and Grant.
All three were passed over in favour of Dr. Manning.—TR.]
68 [This explanation, that the Requiem “was intended rather as a
political demonstration than a religious act,” was elaborately
insisted on in the _Tablet_ of March 28, which added the guarded but
equally gratuitous statement that “the Bishop of Orleans, _it
appears_, intended to speak at the funeral service;” winding up with
the somewhat remarkable comment that “the prudence and the charity
(!) of Pius IX. have been equally conspicuous in the affair.” The
world hardly seems to see it.—TR.]
_ 69 Reform der Kirche an Haupt und Gliedern._
70 [The correctness of this prediction was conspicuously illustrated in
the _coup_ of June 3. _Cf. infr._ Letter lii.—TR.]