Rosati received yesterday the Superior General's dispatches from Paris, by which he is apprized: 1. of the suppression of St. Mary's College, Barrens, Missouri, 2. of the suppression of St. Mary's Seminary Barrens, Missouri if he does not pay 600 a year for each seminarian;, 3. of the removal of all the priests of the congregation Vincentians from the parishes;, 4. of Timon's appointment to the office of Superior and visitor. Rosati expected such dispositions. He is not disposed to wage war to persons whom he loves and cherishes. He will first make his observations to the superior General on these decrees, communicate them to the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, and to the Pope himself. He will pray the Holy Father to accept his resignation, and grant him the grace of spending the rest of his life in retirement to prepare for death. Timon has certainly been informed that Rosati asked him as his coadjutor. The letter is continued here from New Orleans.` December 13` He communicated his plan to Father John Baptist Tornatore, C.M. and to the Superior General. The fear of losing Timon had brought Rosati to this determination. Timon cannot imagine what Rosati's situation is; Rosati cannot describe it. Were it not for the engagements he has made to finish to pay for the Cathedral, he would have left everything and gone to Rome. He sees his diocese which stood among the best provided thrown back in a situation worse than that in which he found it. No means of receiving clergymen here, no means of obtaining them from France. Father John Odin, C.M. has assured Rosati that none will be sent from Lyons but those willing to join the Lazarists. Rosati cannot consent to the suppression of the college; it is against the interest of the Congregation. He cannot consent to the suppression of the seminary; six hundred francs per seminarian is equal to suppression. It cannot be done in justice after so many expenses made for it by the Bishop. He will not consent to the priests of the Congregation, ordained for his diocese, to leave it. He will not oppose the recall of those in the parishes, provided there be a certain number of parishes in the care of the Congregation. But it seems that the services of the Congregation have already been offered to other bishops. Is Timon convinced of the justice of Rosati's cause? It is Timon's duty to speak for it, not at the Barrens, but to write to the Superior. Rosati does not know why entire credit is given to the report of a man unacquainted, unexperienced, and prejudiced, rather than to others. As soon as the navigation is free, he will return to St. Louis. :: IV-3-j A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.