The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-12-03

ans, who wanted 20 cOmmlL Olu u hh oPou
policy in their favor. What appears to US
chiefly remarkable in these revelations Is
the strong personal part which Victor EN-
manuel is represented as having taken In
the whole intrigue; part somewhat IN
consistent with that Of the half unwiinng,
though unresisting victim Of Constituuon-
alism which he is sometimes alleged to be.
ITALY.
Italian Hic,cs of Future Coaelarcs.
Capitale has been printing fresh circum.
stantial fictions about the POpe's state OF
health. On the day he was saying Mass in
the presence Of many Romans and foreign
ers, and afterwards giving many aud!en-
ces, he was, according to the veIaclous
Roman organ, in immediate danger.
The Cardinals in Rome are described AS
being in great alarm, and all kinds OF pro
jects are attributed to them for an immedl-
ate election in case the worst should nap
pen. We need not say that the whoie
statement is an untruth from beginning 10
end; but through all the persistent maiig-
nity of these inventions there is plainly to
be seen a strong desire to create confu'lon'
| and if possible, schism, whenever the occa-
sion of a Conclave may arise. we are
| told, on the one hand, that the Church out
of Italy would not accept an eiection nlaue
by the few Cardinals now In Kome, WIN
the suspicious pressure exercised by Italy !;
and, on the other, the Italie assures us thae
a Pope elected abroad would be hated by
the Italians, though he were himsett an u
Italian or even Roman that the law OF
Guarantees would not apply to him, ana
that he would never be allowed to return
to Rome, without accepting the terms OF
the Italian Government. And with the
Guarantees attaching to his person adds
the ItaIie) those which secure the liberty
of the Church generally, would also lall,
that all these desires of the enemies OF re-
lirion will come to nothing, and that the
Holy Father will see tho end of them and
their prosperity, as he has seen the end
: already of other enemies and other pros.
. perities quite as likely to have survived
, him.. In the mean while, it is instru ctive tC
i. note the Interpretation which the "Moder-
, ate" Italian Revolutionaries put upon the
) pretended Guarantees, as we'll as the halt
r yelled schemes which they base on a future
l vacancy of the Holy See, and the practica
e use to which, in such contingency, thu
Italian occupation might be put.
~ GERMANY.
The German Bishops and the Government
. The German Bishops have received a repl.
I from the Emperor to their protest agains
: the attitude assumed by Government in tn
I matter of the schism. OF this reply NJ
8 authorized version has appeared, and from
: the abstract published by the German
4 What the French call "une fin de non rece
t roir" The Emperor maintains the stric
s legality of what his Government is doing
b hopes that Catholics will reconcile them
r selves to the new Empire, and if Eot, VIII
9 " all the religions confessions will "contin
a ne Us hitherto to enjoy the greatest possibl
a liberty" All this is somewhat beside tn
a | question, which is whether the Catholi
a Church is to have her churches taken froI
y her, and her children forced to attend tn
. lectures of >heretical professors, and pre-
= vented from receiving their instructio
hair
!, Through the document, moreover, thel
,, appears to run the usual assumption tn:
;, the Catholics are hostile to the new Empir
# We can answer for it that if the ImReri
= Government remedies their just grievance
- it will have no more peaceful subjects tina
~ the Catholics. It does not follow that, b.
~ cause q man complains of being hurt,
! has limselfany aggressive intentions. NJ
can there be any possible reason why,
the inalienable rights and liberties OF q
IT Catholic Church are respected, Catholi
W should be more hostile to German Empi
D. than to any other form of Governmen
N Let Prince Won Bismarck try the expeI
~ ment, and we will answer that it W
y. succeed.
% TURKEY.
ut Tile Mission of Mgr. Franchi.-The En-
Re lish press, and Reuters kilograms, contin
ID to assert that the mission of Mgr. Franc
es has failed. But we have positive int
It, ligepce from Catholic sources which assur
10, US that the result has been satisfactory.
On one of the last days of October the pre-
al ents of his. Holiness to--the Sultan Il
t. Rome, and The note of the Grand VIII
he which the English papers represent as
lie defeat for the Pontitcal Envoy, is in fl
ce the very reverse. for the Porte therein la
at down tho principle that it will not int
ne fere in the internal religious affairs of
"a Christian communities, thus leaving
mt Holy See perfectly free to adopt gu
IL measures of ecclesiastical organization
ny it may judge best, and Withdrawing fire
he the schismatic Armeuiaus that support a
ed recognition on which their rebellion agail
their legitimate Patriarch depended for
", very existence. The Bull RererSurus
cil. mains in full force, and Mgr. Hassoun
"a tains his recognized position as Armeni
vii Patriarch.
is --aGE----
his Our readers requested to notice the
ice verisemcnt which appears in another column of
va day in reference to the apparently rather
lite tonablc conduct OF the agent of double chain ST