Father O'Reilly encloses an extract from the Catholic Telegraph, dated the 24th, which stated that one of the first acts of the Ecumenical Council was a vindication of the rights and immunities of science, and that Bishop Augustin Verot in one of the opening speeches in the Council, denounced emphatically, calmly and firmly, the Roman Inquisition for its condemnation of Callileo and the true theory of the motion of the earth. O'Reilly points out that the present council did not vindicate the rights and immunities of science, but that this was done a thousand years before the Council of the Vatican met. He points out that the Pontiff had merely refused to mix human and divine things, and had insisted that scientific theory be kept as such. O'Reilly points out that the same statement made by Bishop Verot was made by John Quincy Adams in Cincinnati in 1844, yet at that time the Catholic Telegraph had refuted the charges of Adams and upheld the action of the Roman inqusition, the inquisition it now condemns. P.S. McMaster can use any or none of this, as he sees fit. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.