Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility Grows
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Rome, August 12, says that several of the most eminent cardinals and bishops, who are strong infallibilists, are beginning to become reconciled to the political situation. Cardinals are freely appearing in the streets, and meet with respectful sympathy and regard from the citizens. BERLIN, Sept. 5.—The Prussian Cross Gazette says it was decided at Gastein to leave the Roman question entirely to Italy. ROME, Sept. 5.—The anniversary of the occupation of Rome by the Italians will be celebrated this year by the passage of the National Guards through the streets, theatrical entertainments, etc. LATE German advices show that the Roman Catholic movement against Papal infallibility in Austria, Prussia, Switzerland, Silesia, Hungary, and elsewhere, is gaining strength and adherents everywhere. Over 1,000 Catholic families in Vienna alone subscribed to Dr. Dollinger's views, in four days after they had been promulgated. All the indications are that an entirely new Catholic party, very powerful and earnest, will be formed against Papal pretension, and that the Roman Church must move with the times, become partially rational, or lose all influence. The new party claims that it is the old and true Catholic party, and protests against the absurd assumptions of Antonelli and the Jesuits. THE Rev. Mr. Ash, the Chaplain of the British Legation at Buenos Ayres, has published a pamphlet respecting the late pestilence there, from which it appears that out of a population of 180,000 about two-thirds fled, and about 20,000 perished, the mortality ranging from 400 to 600 per diem—more than 1 per cent of the inhabitants. The city is said to have been reeking with filth, “steaming like a dung-hill whenever a hot sun came after a rain-fall.” The River Plate was so poisoned that the fish died in it, yet this water was what the inhabitants had to drink. There were no drainage facilities, and what wells there were in the city were utterly unfit for use. On the 10th of April there were 540 interments. On the 16th the pestilence began visibly to decline; but it will require years to repair the ravages of the epidemic. THE Japanese government has commenced coining a national money, after the American decimal system, and of the American value, the dollar being taken as a unit. This is a practical triumph of American influence in the East which indicates our growing importance in that quarter.