McMaster's draft for 100 francs was received. McMaster will receive the Civilta Cattolica regularly. He has subscribed for only 3 months because he has doubts about anything a Roman tells him. He hopes that McMaster will prize the paper when he gets it because anything Roman is dear, even though it is not a good newspaper. There is little news to get about the Council and the Freeman will probably have difficulty getting it. He need not tell McMaster that every one here is not his friend, some even doubting if their priest has been sent to Rome to further the cause of Parochial Rights. There have been a good many guesses about "Jus", and no attempt to hush the matter of parochial rights. Some say that if there is no other Bishop to advocate the question other than Jus and the Freeman, it had very little chance of success. The letter published in the Freeman written by "Catholicus" has been laughed at in Rome. He does not care for himself, but does not like to see the Freeman ridiculed, especially on the score of a letter which deals with so much imagination as does that once Catholicus talks of seeing the Scala Regia from St. Peters, but this is impossible, as his statement that he saw the Pope when he descended the Scala Regia. His remarks about opera glasses are the subject of a good deal of mirth. His remark about Cardinal Patrizi is also laughed at, since the Cardinal's name does not mean Patrick and his Eminence would not like to be turned into an Irishman. Browne feels that as a confidential correspondent he must tell McMaster these things even though it is disagreeable. He has tried to get held of the petition to be presented to the Pope against the rule of His Infallibility. The German Bishops, who regard the Archbishop of Vienna more as a prince than an Bishop, have signed it, as have many American Bishops, The Germans are dissatisfied because they have been excluded from the Council. McMaster can rely on these statements as being true. He saw Father E. M. O'Callaghan and delivered the letters. His address is the North American College. He is sending another letter with an account of the Pope's visit to the American College and the funeral of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, etc. P.S. He thinks the opposition to the definition of the dogma of Infallibility is good because it will insure its definition. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.