EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2165, 26 March 1870, Page 3

EXTRACTS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Despite'"the famous opposition of 3J> Carey of Philadelphia, and Mr Horace Greeley, the progress of freetlkde principles in the United States has ieonnanrelicnw of date;- -Miiclrof this is due tartKe of the c^ssZ^T~^^^p &rß . o^.^^:, W T Bitanl,' whosd 'fnfluerice* upon "'the,, younger generation,, of writers and politicians ia very,§reat. The growing power of West Tenders' it -significant that at a meeting recently heldat Sk the Sepublicaa LieutenanfcfGliQvernor of the State and the defeated Democratic candidate for that office, the May;or of the City and. Jbisi imbej&M Jxmi. petitor, the Sheriff and his opponent also, the Congressman and the Democratic Congressman, sat to-" gether on the platform .as officers of the meeting, ■.;'■■; >.; \-/ Nearly all the courts of "Washing-. ton are just now occupied wifclr oases arising fronr the equality, Recently cori- ; ceded to the Qfle|is brought; by a woman jw-feo had a urn% fractured by being thrust out of a railway train, and another by sons of the negro orator Frederick Douglass for a similar outrage upon them. The National Theatre is ! suecLVfor ; "of negroes y&6 f The Key. Sella Martin, lately of London, bis anM.rth9T r trustees of a district for refusing ; sion to -mr"danghter on account -of her scarcely 4 perceptible Afrieah blood, and has,gained his'case. ,T.he suit instituted^ tho sons of Mr IJotigTass brings to mind a story : told' rof theifi fatheTj * who, the 'aighfc in -a train, : trapped' himself up pgW ■ cloak and stretched ?$\ n£ tjorigratulatmg himself ' that his color would keep the other part of his seat Yacaafeahjj &»<$ hardly entered.Qn his nap w-to ! claimant : -the place 1 e&Mre'dF-' I am Snigger" growled Douglas. " I don't careVh"6 vouare," said the other, "I want that seat" , Mr :o J)ouglaa ¥ gave wavj grumbling at tae hardship that the negro, should have at last "lost his right to two:Beat& ,? '7 : - '■ "■•• -x ■■■;■■'•<••■ ■■■>.]■'' 'iA to be in a rather shaky'bonditioif fuft now. Saldanha, a general very 7 popular with the army, but nearly ninety years of age, is attack-Li ing % Ministry so $ jhatf, it/if l feared-he- wiU a rection. He denies this warmly, but remarks that tf the Ministry .continues, ' in power Jf it will very soon the Throne: and < the nation," which, ift not a menace, is very like one.. It is believed that if. he gave the signal the '- Mmy\ypuld rise, and hfe is aOcused of ; conspiring wjth Spanish, statesmen 'for , the Iberian union. ;i T3iis also he denies,' but it seems' pretty clear that he has some project in his ( fl ead, for; the sake Of which Be has F jesigned his embassy to i?aris, and that a the Government is afraid of him! ' J ~ , c 3kote from our; contemporary the " the following RemarkSi? about' the £ope:— < The TBColy" Father, alluding to the ' eitra-conciliar ; meetings which nave interest during the „ mfw daygj is said to have made the following remark—'All this will calm .GOwn.and be productive of good. i*m which is only human will expend jaetf in these discussions at which the Ghost does, not preside, but' Jwmh the Aula whatever is done will * Py His working and His inspira?on s and therefore no exaggerated ?P°f must be attached to among the Bishops which Jfe piacs outside the sphere of the And the " Vatican'» req** in- another place Jtbat it is &I t* , uncil itself where alone , £? Wf '.■Spirit M presides. We _S? V Vmkjß understood that, r to the Eoman theory, ti on , S P irit overrules the deiibera«B and acts of general councils, but . an W thoQ S ht that tW s w » 3 on] J I «gasification, as it were, ot the ~^ & nierarcliy.. of the J v * nere^°re *° c assured" l {■■- oes mt xert a P re " aence in any extra-con-of the same individuals

■"-'■--.-, ,_'.'7.'ll" ""'j 1 '"'" ' ■-'■-'« i,j|im-i-ii. iiu . .i who compose the CouncilT is alurpriae to us. It is perfectly consistent," "ol course, with the theory that the Pope, speaking otherwise than ~ic vaiheMi may err, even though' w"hen' speaking ex cathedra he is infallible. But would the TJltramontanes venture to say that •™Jf-?]? Spirit does not control the rope s * intellect except when he is pronouncing on doctrine ex cathedra? Supposing he is amrideriny-hia judgment, as the Bishops in this extraconcihar meeting were?, Does .the Holy Spirit jealously abstain froiri all interference till the last decisive moment ? Surelf ~it is & curious theory ? I * A telegram was published on Monday from the Berlin correspondent of the " Times " stating that " France hadr proposed xrdisaimiament St. Pet|psburgj yiepna, 4b No confirmation whatever of this news has vet reacht|d bur it sumed refer $oLa to have ben entrusted to General Fleury, liow French Ambassador at, .the, Eussian Conrt. He' was "said to Be instructed, if possible, to detach Eussia j from Berlin, possible, to suggest once 'more the European Congress. It seems to be believed on the 1 Continent tha£ the Czar's presentation pf .the Grand,. Cross of St. George. taJbo. BIn& of JPrnssia) was! intended to announce the failure of the French scheme. This decoration iV only wfe> won great hatffasiriay jlbrM/'Tsaid M.j d'Oubril, the Russian Ambassador, at a great dinner given by King jWillialm to his Generals, " the ties of friendship existing! between the rt wo Sovereigns, the 5 two Irmies, 1 * th 6 two Eussiait dpi <not make Ejuch speeches without orders, and the incident is almost a proof 1 that the alliance between the two powers has been re-cemented. r

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