Bath.
_Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception._--In the charge delivered by the
Bishop of London to his clergy, on the 2nd instant, the following passage
occurs:
"It is not easy to say what the members of that Church [the Church of
Rome] are required to believe now; it is impossible for men to foresee
what they may be called upon to admit as an article of faith next year,
or in any future year: for instance, till of late it was open to a
Roman Catholic to believe or not, as he might see reason, the fanciful
notion of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin; but the
present Bishop of Rome has seen fit to make it an article of their
faith; and no member of his church can henceforth question it without
denying the infallibility of his spiritual sovereign, and so hazarding,
as it is asserted, his own salvation."
Can any of your correspondents inform me where the papal decision on this
point is to be found?