The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

NOES ECCLESIASTICAL SCANDALS.

.1 monk, belonging to the Chriatiau (!) School at
team, named Chase (in religion Brother Casimir dee
low.), bee been senteeced to sit year.' impriaooment for
...butts Nam little boys mended to his care. The suppeerrtwrrr•
t his monastery, Jess Heidi' IS religion Brother - sue),
ob.• was included in the indictment., has fiat from justice.
The Belgi.in jourosi, announce another ecclesiastical
- the arrest, at a place called Mean, of a aerials
ro.tho Feloe. • member of the order of Coed Works, but
4. we real name ii Von tinhorn, on the. charge of commit-
ter criminal snaults on girls under fourteen years of age.
It bat lweu lodged in the prison of Courtrai to await trial.
The Lite trial in which the AbbE Mallet figured in so die-
oveful a manner is commented OD by the Opinion Na.
in the following terms:
" A &plumb's zees has just been tried before the Court of
Awns of the Surd. A pnest, a member of the higher order
.4 the den, a Coaoo of the cathednd of Camhrai, has had to
anarer before a court of justice for the carrying away of
four young girl. four sisters. He tried to obtain a fifth,
but da, escaped from him. Of the four sisters, two were
teo.orial insane to their parents. One for a long time
could not be found, and it was Dot known what hail be-
rope .4 her. All the reeeteches of justice, joined to
thosc of the panne. and the authority ci the Keeper
i 4 the Seals himself, were vain in presence ci denials
sad farchood• The young girl was removed tram cone
rot to convent wader false names ; and when intern.-
banes are stole is the mime of the law, noes lied, priests
pijorell themselves, and the least audacious of them
male mental reservatious. All that was done under
intent of religion, and for the conversion of
Jews. Thews girk, thee, were baptised, soil they
were so well converted that they beanie in.
oars. And this began in 1/4:13, keg before the
affor Mortara, about which so much noise was merle,
and which the clerical party rightly tuned into ridicule,
noes Mortarising was practise' nu slur male in Ironer.
la lanes, however, the oleic acted with more precaution
than at Home. Thee have their carnets, which sufficed
for them ; they bad, for example, the Bente Union orOrder,
which has numerous (+invents in the north of Francs sad is
Belgium. A young girl, for example, is taken away by a
Niger of the ceder, who is provided with a 'command'
from the emporia's of the chief house at Carebrai ; she
is toad* to stop a few days in different convene, sad
in each under a false same, so that it is impomible to
follow her trace. If, however, justice pureues her too
actively, she a taken acmes the frontier into Belgium, sad
them the volt* are at a lon tine of the sister., out of
five, ewaped from Canon Mallet ; sod of those who penned
through to hands one is mail, another was so, and a third
amnia Is, found. What has become a the latter! The
accusal does nut know, his housekeeper does not know, the
superiors of ammunition do not know, the Abbe
Ifatisboon does 11,4 know, awl the Greed Vicar does
ant know. We are thus plunged into the darkness
el fahelmals and audacious denials, M which justice ma de
noting, and before which society shrinks back in terror I
In terror ? -yes certainly : for it is now evident that en 1
*US pretests our ehililreu can be taken away ; that oer
rawarebee alter than, and the nits of fathers and the taus '
of mothers can be 1.. had at ; and that the justice of the
country ma be turned into cennenpt."