The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-11-20
Correspondent of the London Times.
The ConcOrdat--Trouble Brewing in Austria

hS IiNiohi,'N tNiaN III tuO ttiNitti I'ubfftt-
ton, of the text Of the Concoadat, excites
some surprise and persons IMMERSED in diplo,
matte matters endoayor TO persuade themsel
YES and Others that tho whole thing will be
"allowed to fall to the grounds" but the rati-
fications have been exchanged, and Rome is
not likely voluntarily TO renounce tho advan-
tages which it has gained. The motives
which induced this government TO cede SO
many of its most precious rights and privileges
to the Romun Catholic Church, are not posi-
lively known but it is related that the minis
ters had no choice but TO yield to the will of
their Imperial master.
AS You have already been informed, the
public displays great reserve wherever the
question of the Concordat is touched on: but
few persons are inclined to doubt that the
new treaty Of Rome will, sooner or later lead
to most deplorable internal troubles. Perfect
ly reliable intelligence has been given mo that
the lower clergy are highly indignant that
government should have placed them entirely
in the hands of the bishops, and dean yes
terday expressed to me his fears that the
state would have cause to rue tho day on
which it had made the SeelsorgerC (the keep
ers of the souls or conciences of the pcople)
It's irreconciable enemies. 81 foresee," con-
tinued the Rev. old gentleman, "that there
will also be continual collisions between the
civil and spiritual powers"
The renunciatio Of the Placetum Regium
will not fail to produce prodigious effect in
Hungary, rs the inhabitants of that country
are, if possible, even more jealous Of their
religious than of their political rights. In
order that your readers may fully understand
the foregoing remark, it must be stated that
Matthias Corvinus, commonly called "the
Great" solemnly swore that the Placetum
Regiun, should be maintained in Hungary
'to the end of all time" The late Emperor
Francis, who was a very pious Catholic, was
SO jealous of any Infringement on his preroga-
tive, that neither Plus VII, Leo XII., nor
Gregory XVI, conld induce him to conclude
a Concordat with them on tho terms which
thoy would fain have made.
M. Ostino, who was once Papal Nuncio at
the court of Francis L., strongly recommended
his employer to accept the conditions which
the Austrian monarch was willing to make;
but this counsel so incensed His Holiness, that
he recalled his envoy by means of despatch,
in which was the sentence, "Your ways are
not my ways, and my ways are not yours."-
1t may be observed that my authority for the
foregoing is one of tho first dignitarics of the
Roman Catholic Church, who some years
iince mentioned the circumstances in my pres
ence. II is worthy of mention that Two per-
sons of my acquaintance who were about to
invest capital in landed propertr in Austria,
have now entirely relinquished the idea.
VIENNA. Oc.. 20.
There was a collision between the civil and
clerical authorities before the contents Of the
Concordat were known to the public, and it
led TO the premature publications of an analy
sis of It's contents. When the Sardinian con
vents were abolished, the Austrian civil ad-
ministration lost no Time in scqucstrating GER
tain estates in Lombardy which formed part
of their property. Ifthc Finance Department
considered the estate a godsed, and spcculatcd
on converting them into hard cash, it had re-
ckoncd without its host, for the PapaG SEQ
soon interforred, and claimed the scqucstcrcd
estates AS the property Of the different orders
TO which the Sordinian monks belonged. The
Austrian civil authorities mt first refused TO
listen to the pretensions of the Papal chair,
and the consequences WINS that an analysis Of
bllC ODIlCtlIutb WHO Ill iuc ioliu vi
a letter to the GazeiteG Vea@id.
The unsuspecting editor inserted it, and by
doing so he must have greatly annoyed this
govcrnmcat, which hot intended TO make the
conditions of the Concurdat known 10 the
public until the Ministerial ordinances concern
ing it were prepared for publication. The
question relative to the scquestercd estates is
still pending, but the emp Of the matter will
probably be, that n batch of Sardiniau monks
will cross the frontiers, and found new con-
ventual establishments in Lombardy, which
will be maintained by means of tho revenues
arising frem the disputed property. Poor
Austria! With all her faults she deserves
better fate than to be at the mercy of such
pitiful Power as Romc.
The King Of Sweden playing Court to Napo-
leon.
The order of the Scraphim, the insignia Of
watch King Oscar has just sent to the Empe-
ror Napoleon, is the oldest and most distin-
guished Of the orders of Swedish knighthood.
Instituted in 1885 by Cling Magus Ladulos,
it was restored in l74s by King Frederick 1.
Ii is composed of only one class, and is con-
fcrred on princes and the high military func-
tionarics. Thy escutchoon of each Swedish
or foreign knight remains forever hung up in
the church of Rcddarholm, where the tombs
of the Kings of Swccden arc built, and the
death of each Knight Of the Order is announ-
ced by the toling of the large bell of that
church. Besides the Emperor Napoleon,
there is only one other Frcnchman among
tho members of the Order Of tho Seraphim,
namely Marshal Relic, who is also the oldest
his nomination dating as far back as 1910.
REr'H. G. P.,' tho Kansas correspondent
ofthc st. Louis Repabtican, has been atoemp-
ting 10 excuse Gov. Shannon, and has asser-
ted that he did not declare himself in favor
of slavery in kansas in his speech. In a com
munication TO the Cincinnati Commercial,
this correspondent makes the following bold
avowal:
Il do not deny that Gov s. is in favor Of
slavery. | know he voted for Whitfield the
pro-slavcry candidate fcf Congress, for
was ono of the clerks of the polls in Johnson