Paris, Nov. 18 The appointment of Monsgr~ Verdiers, Professor at the Catholig Institute and Father Superior of St. Sulpice, as successor to the late Archbishop Dubois, has met. with but a lukewarm reception by the: Paris papers which point out that Verdiers, though a great savant, is known to be harsh and is, moreover, unacquainted with the ways of the world, Farthermore, it is generally felt: that Verdier's meteoric rise from the position of a simple canon to that of the highest catholic dignitary of with ceux, either of whom Paris would hhaye preferred to see elevated to the. Archbishop's seat;—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min, ott
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