McQuaid met Archbishop Joseph Duhamel of Ottawa. Duhamel let out that Rome proposed to establish a sort of ecclesiastical court, headed by Cardinal James Gibbons, to hear and decide all ecclesiastical cases, except money ones. This week McQuaid will take up the Father Richard L. Burtsell case. The telegraphic despatches mention Corrigan's pastoral of Sunday. The rector here thinks Corrigan should have allowed the Father Edward McGlynn business to die of itself, but McQuaid told him that waiting for a natural death had proved useless. McQuaid cannot make out how Msgr. Denis J. O'Connell stands toward Corrigan. He has great influence at the Propaganda. McQuaid wrote to Father Charles McDonnell to say that the Father Terence J. ? Early case was settled according to McQuaid's demand. This will be bitter for Early and Burtsell to swallow. McQuaid has good reason to believe that he will be equally successfull in the Father Louis A. Lambert case. The probabilities are that he will be allowed to go to some other diocese. McQuaid's case will be presented to the Propaganda this week or next. He cannot say when he will leave Rome. He has had great fun over the University. Bishop John J. Keane is wonderfully good-natured. "The Nun of Kenmare" furnishes the text now. McQuaid tells him that he is in good company with Gibbons, Corrigan, Bishop Richard Gilmour and other dignitaries. McQuaid gave Cardinal Ludovicus Jacobini a short statement in relation to the Statutes of the Catholic University , pointing out some of its dangers. Many people here really believe in its success. They believe that all American Bishops are enthusiastic over the affair and look forward to wonderful results. What a disillusion is in store for them. P.S. They say the Pope's letter on the Italians was intended for South America, but the harm has been done. :: I-1-i A.L.S. 4pp. 16mo. 10 Photostat from Archdiocesan Archieves of New York