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Show THE CARDINALS. WHO MAY US I'lUS lX'S BLCCKS50S. There are HeceQ French cimlioala, and most ot them rank among the blindest and moot implacable ultra-monUnea. ultra-monUnea. Were the church emancipated emanci-pated from baneful Italian thraldom, France would be entitled to a decided prf rjundemnce, and the French iMrdiuftia W'.tuld tint- mure votes in the conclave than ihu Itniiant them-aelvea. them-aelvea. .TI10 greatest u timber of French oardiualu now living date Irom Ihn Becond empire. Cardinal Donnet, archbishop of Bordeaux, S2 years old, aod a member mem-ber of the Sacred college since 1852, owed hia promotion to the 2tal he, ua a member of a republican UKaembly, displayed in support ot the French expedition which brouyhl back Piui JX from Guuln. Cftrdiuiil Uuihert, arclibish p ot Parirj, now in hia 7oih yu.ir, dw.icrv.d by his uulimited ubi qnii iiii.t-t. 10 the Vatican tho prtifcrL-iicu he obtained over the ablur but uore iu depcudout Dupauloup. The mime . merits rather tbun hid utidcuiahlct earning in oriental hiQKuuges favored tho udvaDcenient of PUra, whu in a Benedictine Monk. He waa born in 1812, and was 50 yeara old when he received the red hat. Keiguier, . arcbbiahoD of Bambra', Broeaaia de Saiat Mare, archbiahop of Rennet, and Bounochose, arohbiabop ot Rouen, all elderly prehueu Reign ier, 70; Broaeais de Saint Mare, 74, and Bonnechose, born with the century were diatinguiibed advocates of Pupal infallibility at the Vatican council. They are mon wedded to old world ideas, ignoring; the exigencies of the ee lhy live in, very patterns of tbs moat stubborn ultramontauiem. I bavo mentioned De Failoux among the cardinal! reaident in Rome. He ia a Frenchman. He has been a fixture here for the fast forty yearc, and ib well known as a pood -loo kin Moneignore, eieuaut, and even foppiah iu hia clerical costume. cos-tume. The only moderate man among the French curJinals may be found in Caverot, archbishop of Lyons, who waa "hatted" in tho month of Decern her last yeor. He iB the primate of all the Gauls; hia diocPRe waa the last atrongbold oi'Gallicauiem, and it was only by an extreme strain of overbearing over-bearing pontifical authority that the Rjmau miesal was impnued upon it two years ago, lima etUcing every trace of that primitive ohurch, to the great soriow of its clergy. THE SPANISH CABDINALS. There are four Spanish cardinals Moreno, archbiahop of Toledo, born at Guatemala in 1817; Barrio y Fernandez, Fer-nandez, archbibhop of Valencia, bom at Jaca in 1805; Lastra y Cueela, archbiahop of deville, born in Cuba in 1803; and Garcia Gil, archbiahop oi Suragosaa, 03 yeara old, the laat creation of the present pope, this last autumn. To these may be added the colonial prelatea Bonavides, patii- arch of the Indiea, and Fva y Rico, archbishop of Santiago de Cuba. Por ; tugal has alao ite cardinal Moraes I Cardoso, a native of Murcia, of a noble family, archbishop oi Lisbon, i Of all theie Beveu Iberiaua hardly anything ia known in Rome, or even at the Vatican iteelf, by which they were passively appointed on the re-commtndiUion re-commtndiUion of their respective i govuruiutuia or 01 ih- '.lucioa I hereto ! accredited. The twenty milltona of Catholics of the German empire are repreaeuted by Prinoe GuBtavus Adolphus Hoheu- lohe, a native of Bavaria, born in 1823, of ihe younger branch of the Hohenlohe-Walaeuburg-Hcbillingfurst family. He waa created a oardinal prieat in 1806, and waa intended to be a resident at the Vatican court, but ranged bimeclf among the stauncheat oppunentaof tbe dogma of infallibility at the OCcumenio council, and at its cloBe withdrew to Germany, whence Bismarck propoBed to send him back as German ambassador to the Vatican. Vati-can. Upon the pope refusing to receive .Hohenlohe in that capacity the cardinal tarried in Germany till actually mmmoned to hia post, Hohenlohe may rely ou the cooperation co-operation of Pritjca Frederic Schwar-zenberg, Schwar-zenberg, a brother of Ihe head of that great Austrian fimily, who, born at Vienna in 1805, was created arsh-bishop arsh-bishop of Salzburg when 25 yeara old, and promoted to the See of Prague by an imperial degree in 1819 He waa i already a cardinal iu 1812, and, like Hohenlohe, waa one of those magnates mag-nates upon whom tbe court of Rome is compelled to bestow church honors at their sovereign's bidding, Schwar-zenberg Schwar-zenberg is alao a member of the Austrian Aus-trian (Cisleithan) house of lords. Learning, an well aa birth and rank, gives him great influence among the clergy of the empire. Cardinal Simor, archbiahop of Gran and primate of Hungary, waa forced upon the pope by tbe imperial government, govern-ment, act ng in compliance with the wiehes of the liberal Andraaay administration. admin-istration. Hib voto may be reckoned on as consonant with that of the Austrian Aus-trian primate. Bimor was born at fittihlweiasemburg in 1813, and was made a cardinal in his 00th year. In opposition to the Germans, we have here the Polish Ledochowski, archbiahop arch-biahop of Poaen, a fanatic politician, who plays the part of a martyr at the Vatican, and offers himself as a forlorn for-lorn hope in the coo teat between cburoh and Btate all over the world. The so-called Catholio league baa been chiefly organized and ia directed by him. He has been a oardinal since 1875; he wag born at Cork in 1822. mo one nere dreams that Cardinal Manning will ever be pope, nor ia he credited with any ambition in that re pect. His aspiration, people here think, is merely to bring his country back into the Catholic told. THE HANDSOMEST PRELfTB. Cardinal Howard, a membor of the Duke of Norfolk's family, came here very youn?, and waa known as the "handsomest prelate ol the Roman Catholic church." He waa for many years an attendant at the Vatican, and became strongly attached to the penrn of the pop-'. It was only nf:er the death of his secretary of state that Pius IX waa -able thia year to fulfill the desire ha long harbored in hia Inart of bestowing the purple on hia y.uu.K E.-Keh friend. O.rdinal Ho 1 ard ie a rigut inindtd. li--r tl m .-i, of a Bomowtmt retiring dispnaiiio but freo-har.dtd finJ charitable, and en accomplished gentleman in his address ad-dress and behavior, Ho has a good library and ependa moat ot his timo in it-Uf it-Uf Cardinal Cullen, who has been a member of the baored college f ir eleven years, and is now in his 75th year, the ItaliaLS only knew that he ..u uu ,,1 men UJJUllUN sure, therefore, to follow any course which can put him into total contradiction con-tradiction with bis English colleagues; lor it is a matter of general beliof in Rome that antagonism to England ie the enly motive ol Irish acton. McCloakey, a man, I btlifve, of Irish fxtraciion, but born iu 180L at Brooklyn, near New York, and archbishop arch-bishop of that diocese, waa not long enough here to enable people to form any estimate of hio character. H wo5, thoy say, a cheerful, conviva! 1 sort of a mnn, very much aatoninhrd I at mnny things he saw. Rome L"t |