Europe. The abbé Tisserant leaves for it.

The reservations of the Haitian government made a painful impression on Tisserant. His duty was to answer them and to make, on his side, reservations of his own to be submitted to the judgment of the Court of Rome, in the absence, no doubt, of precise instructions on this point. He left for Europe without having replied to the government. This was the inexperience of youth, and it will be an argument against him when he returns to Port-au-Prince in March 1845: he will see his mission fail completely under the ministry of M. Beaubrun Ardouin, successor of M. Honoré Féry, who thought, or appeared to think, that his decision had been accepted in conformity with the instructions of the Sacred Congregation.