The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-29
FOREIGN CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE.

ROME, July 30.-The arrivals for the Council
continue, aud II number of Oriental bishops
have arrived this week at Ciyita Necchia. The
bishops of South America are expected early
in September towards the end of August.
Mgr. Du Cosquer, Bishop of Port-au-Princc,
died Yesterday morning at the-French Semi
nary, after a long and severe illness, ending in
an agony of sixteen hours, during which his
picty and courage were something only to he
rivalled 10y the deaths of the saints He was
buried to-day at the Minerva, where all the
French clergy and many other persons, To
whom his virtues rendered him an object, OF
sincere veneration, were present.
The dispatch promising the official protection
of France for the Council has not Yet been
-receiy ed, and the Marquis dc BauueYille has,
on the other hand, been summoned to Paris, NJ.
Cont being equally recalled from his mission,
whose object was entirely frustrated by the
change of Ministry in France. So far from the
Roman question having suffered by the control
of Opposition, it is to their efforts we owe the
present security wo enjoy in Rome, and the
probability that the triple treaty, signed n
month since, will be returned to the waste
paper basket. The process of decentralization
Pope's affairs, as the great independent Ca
thoic cities andprovinces have had the means
of pTOnouncing OH the matter. NJ de la Tour
qAuvergpe's accession to Office IS, Tear, only
n Temporary one. No one here believes the
Cabinet withstand, and Prince Napoleon's name
is put forward certain to enter into the
next Ministry. He makes, however, no secret
of his forebOdings of a revolution in France,
and is busily employed in placing all his
property in security, as he told old deputy
who visited him last week at Prangius.
The Orleans family have sold a considerable
estate lately, it is said, to pay for the comm Z
agitation. The ROyafists, on the contrary,
maintain dignifed reserve, and everywhere
have lent their influence to the cause of order,
holding themselves in readiness to defend their
principles and the rights of Henri V. with the
swords now drawn for Plus TX. That the crisis
of the meeting of the Corps Legislatif will be
a very trying one there is no doubt and the
Catholic deputies WILL it is said, renew their
Interpolation on the Roman question, and eN-
tract an explicit declaration from the Ministers,
10th as to the duration of the occupation and
the payment of the Papal debt, which the
French Government has not yet enforced
without the tax levied on it of per cent.
A proTogdtion of the chambers till 1870 is
also talked of, but France will scarcely tolerate
such an exercise of prerogatiyc, having once
felt her power and used it recently. The
return of NJ. Cont is looked on Italy as a
"reculade," the object of his mission was
Roman question in no favorable sense, and
has Providence interfered more con-
snicuously for the Holy See than III the recent
changes.
InV works on the Janiculum are going
forward with great yigor, and beautiful
public garden is being formed upon the heights,
the Aqua Paolicca forming it's centre. Terrace
above terrace rises to the very summit of the
hill, which commands one of the most
magnificent views of Rome, and which viii DO
crowned with the column of the Council.
Here, in l549 GaTibaldi held his headquarters
the Pope being an exile on the rock of Gaeta,
and the city prey to the horrors of q siege.
Twenty years have passed, and on that very