The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-07-18
FOREIGN cArHorrc mrE1r1eEHoE.

ROME, July 1.-THE e1aeates in Paris have,
need not say beeen the principal subject of
anxiety this week in Rome, as the tranquility
or defeat of the revolution in Franco. Rumors
of the withdrawal of the French troops be-
came so prevalent, and SO much weight was at
tached to them in the highest quarters, that
Cardinal Antonein tsicgE apiles 70 the Tuiiiefies
for categorical reply. He was answered that
the Emperor had no present intention of
ME- FesaI I Bishop Of st Poisan, and Sec
retary of the Council, has arrived In Rome, and
is to take possession this morning of Mgr. de
Microbes apartments In the Qdirinal, which has
been furnished for his reception. There seems
/ to be some hope of the Bulgarian Bishops at
tending the Council, the recent discussions be-
tween them and the Greek Patriarch operating
very favorably for the cause of unity with
Rome. Many of the Armenian Bishops are it
is said, most averse to the decision of the Ca
tholicos not to attend the Council, but their
. miserable poverty renders them perfectly sub
servient to Russia, who-is Substituting them
more generously than ever. Some of these
poor missionary churches are doing work ut
tefly disproportionate to their means, and are
striving in every way to advance the education
of their priesthood to the standard of the Latin
seminaries but they are so destitute that it is
impossible to do SO as RAPIDLY as even the most
remote European dioceses. AS an example of
this, I may cite Mgr. Milost, the Bishop of
Chaldea, who was obliged to live on roots for
two years so as to lay aside the money received
for his Mass, in order to buy COPY of st. Al
phonsus to teach in the seminary. Books are
even copied, SO great is the scarcity, and the
ignorance oss4he priests is far less surprising
than even average instruction would be were
the extreme poverty Of many of these dioceses
known The same cause renders union very
difficult, for one or two well educated priests
or bishops of the schismatic Churches hold all
the rest in their hands, and SO dependent are
they on their chiefs, aud their chiefs on Rus
sian influence, that it is almost hopeless unless
the Orthodox Churches had some greater in
ducements to offer them. Some of the Mes
torian priests have manifested strong desire
of union, but all cite the poverty of the Ortho-
dox Churches as a terrible obstacle. This OBJ
stacle will however be greatly lessened by the
efforts now making by the Pope, seconded by
Mgrs- Nalergaa Brunoni and Spaccapietra, for
the better organization of seminaries in the
East, and the new facilities of communication
offered by the Suez and Euphrates canals will
be of immense utility to the Levantine
Churches.
plated their crimes did not reach Ansiglioni,
the contriver of the Serristor plot the ven
geance of the sect has overtaken him He
escaped death, it is well known, by denouncing
his accomplices, and fed from Rome, having
placed the threads of the plot in the hrnds of
the authorities. A day two since he was
Guilty in tracing the cause, as it was known
that he was doomed by his qoundam associates
to the punishment of traitors.
The armament of the Gendarmes will soon
he completed, and the Artillery Commission in
France is exerting itself in order to obtain the
necessary arms for the new batteries. The
cadet corps of the Chasseurs and line, consist
ing of young Romans of the middle class, has
recently made military promenade around
the Patrimony of st. Peter, under the Vicomte
de Ia Guiche. They We're met at VerOli by
Gen. Kanzler, who inspected the corps, and
also the new Squadriglieri, or peasant troops
of that part of the province of Frosinone, who
have completely succeeded in suppressing the
brigandage Gen. Kanzler, accompanied by
the Comte de Christen, extended his excursion
to the frontier, embracing the Abbey of Casa
mari and the little town of Banco, celebrated
for it's gallant defence against Gen. Sonnaz in
1860, when $50 peasant troops rolled back the
Evolutionary invasion, and killed more than
500 Piedmontese. The inhabitants of Bancc
had prepared most enthusiastic reception fol
the Minister of Arms and for Comte de Christen
who had commanded the defenders, and Headed
by the Syndic and by the Jesuit fathers, whose
yilleggiatura, Palazzo Filonardi, is the scene Of
the hottest part of the attack, came out e.
masse to meet them, and to present an address
with an immense bomb which had just beer
dlsinterred from part of the walls. 1t is diff
cult to imagine anything more orderly thar
this province, the " Vendee of the Roman
States )" religion is fourishing, the schools arr
everywhere full, the country prosperous, ant