He is alone, having allowed his secretary to go to Belgium, and McMaster can see the difficulty he has writing because of an infirmity in his arm. He writes to tell McMaster how things are going. McMaster is one with him—who can sacrifice noble feelings towards persons in order to expose their wrongs. These "wrongs" have already brought sad and bitter friuts by destroying the prestige attached to the American Episcopacy in Europe, principally since the last Council of Baltimore. At first he felt proud that not one single American Bishop would go against the Pontifical infallibility, not even against the opportunity of proclaiming it as an article of Faith, but he was mistaken. He was astonished that one bishop Peter Richard Kenrick tried to prove that his brother, also a bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick was guilty of denying what there is no doubt he would willingly have subscribed to if he had been able to hear the arguments of the council. Bishop Demers sees that McMaster is well informed on these questions, getting information from the "Univers L'Union" and "Le Monde." He should not trust any other Paris journals. Some are liberal and others are downright infidel sheets. He hopes to stay until the great question of the infallibility of the Pope is defined and proclaimed. P.S. In the opinion of many, the liberal press does more harm than the infidel and Protestant presses. Still it sickens his heart to imagine what they must say about controversy in the Council. Where is the unity in the Catholic World? Are not the Catholics in America aware that addresses and petitions are pouring in from the clergy and Catholics to the Holy Father professing their faith in and praying for the definition of the infallibility? Nothing has come from America to bring consolation to the suffering heart of Pius IX who told Demers in 1850 that he had to look for consolation from a distance, meaning America. The Archbishop of Halifax wrote to a friend that he was against infallibility, but that once it was defined, he would submit. McMaster may comment as he likes on this. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 6pp. not matched 12mo.