The Press.
London, England, 1855-10-13 00:00:00

OCTOBER 13, 1855.

sure, and exclaimed, "D— the Bing of Prussia
plus Bismarck Shonhausen!"
With a perseverance worthy of an honester cause,
the Jesuits are working for prospective advantages.
Their foreknowledge, acquired by a strict reflection
on the past., instructs them on the conflict that will
ere long break out in Europe between Protestant
and Catholic, between the religionist and the bigot,
between the right of conscience and the imperative
substitution of the priest for God. The Ministers
of the house of Lorraine, after having crushed Hun-
garian nationality as far as in them lay, by centra-
lising and Lorrainising the local administration, have
sought to suborn the Latin priesthood. In this they
have been partially successful. The Cardinal Pri-
mate of Hungary, Archbishop of Grau, has received
a pontifical resctipt, wherein the Pope directs the
diocesan to make known to the Hungarian priest-
hood his high satisfaction at their alacrity in sub
scribing to the doctrine of the Immaculate Concep-
tion of the Virgin, that false precept of Mariolatry,
whereby Roman Christianity has imitated the
example of an Astertean Paganism. It is not true
that the Hungarian priests have accepted, generally,
the Jesuit doctrine; and the distinction now existing
betwixt a Lorraine and a patriot priest of Hungary
consists in the acceptation or abnegation of this
spurious precept of the Immaculate Conception.
This is the first step, after the concordat, that
Austria has made in preparation for the forthcoming
crusade, by which she hopes to preserve her imperial
position. In the same letter the Pope entreats
Austria to use her mediation in arresting the war, so
that a peace may ensue, when the plans of the
Jesuit can forthwith ripen and bring forth plentiful
fruit. Austria looks forward to a war of religion
sooner or later. She will create that war of religion
as an excuse to join Russia openly against a Protes-
tant league, to place France in a false position, to
weaken Italy, and to destroy, if possible, the
Sardinian Constitution.

Not long before the present war the King of
Prussia entertained at dinner the Pater Rob, a Jesuit
of Freiburg in Brisgau, with two other brothers of
the Company of Jesus. The repast was secret, and
took place at Potsdam. Then and there the Jesuit
brothers, by authority of the Father-General of the
Order, offered their entire and unqualified sup-
port to Prussia, and the scheme of a German unity
with an Hohenzollern emperor, upon condition that
the olden establishments and plenary powers of the
Company of Jesus should be restored as they existed
in the time of the ancient Germanic empire. The
" parti de la Croix " were not adverse to the bargain,
but the party of the Prince Royal presented an atti-
tude too imposing, by reason of the support of the
highly educated and Protestant classes, to permit a
ratification of the bargain.
Germany, inspirited by the victory of the Western
powers and the fall of Sebastopol, is everywhere
moving, and M. Henri de Gazern, he of the Frank-
fort Paul Kirche, now resident at Heidelberg, is in
active communication with the Liberal party, called
of Gotha, throughout the country. At Colmar,
Strasbourg, Manheim, at Bonn, and even privately
at Coblentz, whilst the King of Prussia was at the
Schloss Stolfenzels, not three miles distant, the fall
of Sebastopol was enthusiastically celebrated. Still
more ominous were the fetes at Stockholm and
Upsal in Sweden, at Lubeck, at Schleswig in Holstein,
and other places in Denmark. Were these jubilant
demonstrations without consequence, without intent
and purport ? Read :

Le Itoi de I)anemark a envoye la demission de sesfonc-
tions it son oncle le Prince Frederic Ferdinand, heritier de
thine, general dans l'armee et Commandant-General de
Seelande, qui se refuse de signer la nouvelle constitution.
—Le Nord.

Now, this new constitution restricts the franchise,
and, in opposition to it, the Volksthing has adopted
the proposition of M. Ploug to address the King in
demand for an extension of popular rights more in
consonance with the spirit and integrity of a consti-
tutional form of government. The ferment is in.
creasing, and the determination to resist an abroga-
tion of popular right is absolute.
In the Bavarian Chamber the address to the King
for a " Parlement uni de l'Allemagne" at Frankfort,
proposed by the Baron Lerchenfeld, was carried with-
out a dissentient voice.

The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha persists in his
refusal to submit to the dictation of the Diet, at the
bidding of Prussia improper and Austria, and dares
the consequence of refusal.

The Prussian elections are turning in favour of
the Liberals. The democratic sections having
hitherto stood aloof, and having refused to vote, are
now moving collectively against the " parti de la
Croix," and the party of the Prince Royal is every-
where dominant. These several movements through
out Germany and the North, although not caused,
yet have been encouraged and precipitated into
action by the victory of the allied armies. And how
do the Germanic sovereigns propose to combat the
rational demands for a reformed Confederation that
shall wake Germany strong and united, so as to form