There is very little news of the Roman Council, and
what little there is appears to be false news varying from day to day. All the Protestant correspondents, however, are losing heart. The submission of Cardinal Schwarzenberg to the Pope's will is mentioned by our own correspondent as a very ominous feature, and some of the gentlemen who are residing at Rome to write letters full of guesses think that the dogma will be defined "by acclamation" in the public Bitting of the Epiphany, i.e., next Thursday. Of this, however, as far as we can learn, there is positively no Possibility at all. The most Ultramontane prelates have expressed the view that for the dogma to be defined without full discussion would be a great calamity, and for discussion between this and the Feast of Epiphany there is absolutely no time. That it will be defined seems pretty certain. The Vatican asserts that the Bishop of Poitiers (Ultramontane) was chosen on the Commission or rather "De- putation" on matters of dogma by 700 votes, or nearly unani- mously,— the total *votes having never exceeded 720, we believe,— and the rtmes' correspondent says that the Bishop of Saragossa (also Ultramontane of the highest type) was chosen by 590 votes out of 720. Every one of the 24 Bishops of the "Deputation on mstters of dogma" is "conspicuous for devotion to the Chair of Peter," says ous contemporary the Vatican. Of course that is an augury of the coming event.
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