The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-10-01
lr1scELLAx1ous YolI1oN HYws.
FRANCE.

The sentences pronounced by the Court
Martial are . sufficient answer TO 1000
deal that has been written about the ZERO
city Of repression which was supposed to
reign at Versailles. Only two are sen.
fenced to death, Ferre and Lullier. What
seems to have weighed against the latter
most was the fact Of his being naval ON
Ger, and the charge of completely in the
murders Of the Generals, against which,
thought very possible that his sentence
may be cOmmuted. Urban and TrinIuet
are condemned to the galleys for life ASST,
Billioray, Pascal Grousset, Verdure,
Champy, Regere, and Ferrat to transporta,
ton to q fortress outside Continental
France, which implies no further confine-
ment than such as 10 necessary to insure
detention Jourde and Rastoul to simple
transportation, which will enable them to
settle in the colony COurbet to six mOnths
imprisonment and q fine of ego; Clement
only to three months imprisonment ana
Descamps and Parent are acquitted. the
the morning till nearly seven ut night az
about 500 questions had to DO voted on;
When the sentences had been read, ana
the Court clear of the public, the prisoners
were introduced to hear them in their turn.
Ferre 10 described a. having thrown him,
attempted to look at his judges, but to
have been unable to resist the nervous
trembling which seized him. Lullier's
face flushed for . moment, but he crossed
his arms, and would have seemed indiner-
eut had it not been for certain contractions
about the mouth. Asst received his SEN
teuce with . grin, TrinQuet tried to say
something defiant, but was prevented, and
Urban made some reply which was not
heard, while Courbet 10 reported to have
become '.horribly pale with joy" and to
have embraced Parent, who shook hands
with him. Three Of the petrOleuses were
condemned to death, one to transportation
and another to ten years imprisonment.
The capital sentences on these women can
scarcely, We should think, be executed.
They have not been proved to be pefroteus-
es in the received sense of the word they
are rather accessories to arson before ana
after the fact. Another anomaly in the
Whereas Ceurbet and Clement, actually
members of the Commune, have been only
sentenced, one to ak months and the
other to three months imprisonment, NJ
Jean Marie has been condemned to eight
months for having acted az q simple tax
gatherer under the rebel government. But
even this inconsistency is nothing cOmpar.
ed with the redtapism of q Court Martial
which has sentenced man to death for
\ usurping q military command on the 5th
September, the day after the revolution,
which command was subsequently con-
firmed to him by the succeeding Govern
mcnts. If this confirmation was worth
ANYTHING, one would think that it would
act as conformation of an irregularity
which was not much greater than that of
the Revolutionary Government itself.
GERMANY.
Prince Bismarck Again.-The Cnirers
| calls special attention TO a letter from its
correspondent at Vienna, in which another
conversation with Prince Won Bismarck is
chronicled. The correspondent positively
guarantees the perfect accuracy of his re-
Mort. The Chancellor is stated to have
declared at Gastein that he was quite de-
cided to give the finishing blow to the Ca
tholic Church, that others had failed in the
attempt, but that, as for himself, he did
not know what a check meant. There
upon it was represented to him that the
Imprisonment of the Archbishop of Cologne
caused very serious embacrassments to the
Prussiau Government of that time; to
which he is said to have replied: 90 That
was because they imprisoned only one
Bishop. If they go on resisting me, l will
seize them all at once" AS for France,
continues the same letter, Prince Won BIS.
marck declared that he scarcely reckoned
on more than three years of peace; that
France would probably attack him even
before she had paid the whole indemnity
but that it was possible that he himself
should not wait until then, as lie meant t.
choose his own time. SIT is probable, he
is stated to have added, that Italy viii
serve rs the pretext. France may thinl
good, and it may in fact be to her advan
tage to q certain extent, to interfere IL
that quarter. But Italy is in every cas-
sure Of my protection. She is my favorit'
child, IL is she who will help me to make
an end of the whole affair" The look
would be black one il such plans as thes
were the only element in the calculation
We suppose that all very successful con
querors have been equally confident that j
} was in their power to do what all thei
. predecessors had failed in doing. Nopoleo
/ probably thought SO when he carried Of
Plus VII, o prisoner, and Napoleon I'LL
who habitually admitted that his uncl
, fell because he had touched the Pope. use
to add, "but there is way of settin
about it." His way of setting about it di
not exactly answer, and perhaps Prime
Won Blsmarck's may not answer bette
Seventeen potentates who thought the
had finally disposed of the Pope and til
Temporal Power have successfully come
/ signal grief. Prince Bismarck's campaig
against the Spiritual Power is not likely
be more trium phant.