The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-10-24

January. Subscription are much needed, and
have greatly fallen off since the sad Illness of
Mgr. Talbot deprived the restoration of its |
most jealous promoter; but at tho arrival of
the English bishops in Romeeit ia to be hoped ?
that the rector viii receive the full support of |
the. English Catholic body for its compiler |
tion. ~ 3F-iS = . - i.,, -l-t-l.ls |
The French Catholic body in Rome are very |
Inuch displeased at the appointment of q sue |
cessor to Mgr. La Croix. Allpfelt that tho
I" c1erc national de la EHancep would be Mgr. |
Level, who has been for some years the Supe-
rior of st. Louis des FranGais, and whose yea,
charity, and piety, are proverb in Rome. NJ.
dc Bonneville most strongly recommended him
to the Emperor; but Mgr. Levels Independence
of character aud devotion to the Pope were
passed over in favor of a Corsican abbe, Bianci
by name, to the great disgust of tho French
colony. r4. ...+-. 4f..s.
Letters from Florence speak of the state of
feeling against the Council as\more rabid than
ever Tho Italian Government has intimated
to the bishops that, although they viii be al
lowed to attend it, they may be prosecuted for
taking part in n conspiracy against this conn
try. This would probably be welcome pre-
text for a Wholesale punishment.
The Press Congress of Catholic and provis-
ional Journalists at Lyons has been most nu-
nerously attended, and was presided over by
NJ. Charles Gardiner, whose services to the
cause of Plus TX. are well known during his
editorship of the Gazette dc France and now OF
the great Lyons journal, the Deccnrdusduoh.
The representation of Catholic interests IN tho
great provincial cities and their local self-goY-
and so far it has been most successfully carried
out far as the present laws allow. That
great extension of local privileges is required
| there is no doubt, and their concession by the
| Corps Legislatif seems certain. they would
| furnish the best means of neutrnlising social
list revolution in Paris, by distributing lntiu-
| encc to the Conservative centres of LIONS
! Bordeaux, Marseilics, and other great Catholic
cities lteekly Register.
| SPAN.-The bishops keep publishing their
protestations against orillA's~thanksglVlng
circular of the 9th inst, and some OF them con
! tain admirable eNpqstions OF the duties whlch
the Church has to discharge towards Govern
ments and society. Nothing new has trans
PRED with regard to the Episcopal question.
Alarming rumors are atloat as to the proNiluate
expulsion of ali the nuns from Madrid and the
demolition of some more parish churches. AS
it is unfair to paint the devil blacker than lie
II is, let me here rectify my late assertion, tnai
+ the entire expense which the nuns entailed
upon the Government was limited to the ten
pence day, with which it partly indemnlhes
the few religious that still survive the unjust
confiscation of their property many years ago
On further inquiry have learnt that 1t turthel
pretends to grant to each existing community
: the psi gnifcaut indemnity of So permonth tol
the maintenance of public worship, and of s.
for intirmary expenses. say that it pretend'
to make suclr payments, because ltappears ina
! in the provinces many religious communltie
: have not received II siXpence for several month
{ past.
RUssIA.-Retigious 4Gairs.-We have here an
S other half renegade, DR.. Pichler, of Munich
f the author of a book oh the separation OF Tn
Churches, which has been condemned at Rome
\ Received with open arms by Mgr Stasewic2
: DR.. Pichler Immediately obtained an appoint
ment in the Imperial library: While there
y a warm welcome for all that the rest of Europ
. is only too willing to get rid Of the good priest
that remain are, one after another, being sen
to Siberia. The Able Wrobblewsky has jus
disappeared, having had the courage to oppos
the ambitious StasewicZ. Although the Jub
lee of John Huss was celebrated with mnc
noise and little logic, our relations with tn
y Czechs are beginning to cool, fact which
:, attributable to reaction in opinion at Pragu
e: The word nationality has no longer the sam
u sterilization the idea of race is abandoned
,. and the historical ground token up, of whie
e e the crown of S. Wenceslasa Is the symbol
y Cor. Tablet.