The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-11-05

thoroughly prepared, discussed and az
justed by convention OF intelligent
before they are sent to London ut all ="
Moreover, "if ouch necessary measures
were confined to local subjects and met
with anything like unanimous acceptance
in Scotland, they should pass into laws
with little or no discussion or alteration"
shared by very many of his country men, 1t
VIII be seen that the absurd argument
drawn from Scotland against the Irish
national demand can no longer be urged.
- Catholicity in Glasgou.-In Blackstock's
Close, Saltmarket, about seventy years ago,
the few Roman Catholics then in Glasgow
gathered together and heard Mass for the
Cathedral moro than 200 years before.
They met by stealth, and ooe writer,
speaking from his own recollection, says,
never could count more than q dozen OF
poor people coming out of the small
chapel" The Catholic population in Glas-
tory Of Glasgow."
The History Of the Late Franco -Prussidn
War.-The historical records of tho war
have been enriched by the publication OF
several documents hitherto at least not
generally known. The first in chronology
cal order is NJ. Benedetti's own account of
Cn0 ne&OClaLlOn6 WHICH ltum6uIatcly pre-
coded the outbreak of hostilities. His
| book is decidedly successful as a defence of
his own diplomatic reputation and the
principal point in it is that Nj. Benedict
was never insulted at Ems by the King of
Prussia, and that the Duo de Grammont
| exaggeration when they said he was. We
| shall of course have a great controversy
| about this; and Nj. Won Bismarck's famous
dispatch, notifying the Kings refusal to
receive NJ. Benedict, will have to be ex
planned before it can be admitted that
The sum of the whole statement is that
neither the Emperor Napoleon nor the King
| of Prussia desired the war, but that they
were forced into it, the former by the OPP
position and the latter by Count Won Bisl
march. The second document has appear
to be an authentic copy of the minutes Of
the Council of War at Sedan, in which the
capitulaton was decided. 1t bears the sig
natures of Gems. Wimpffen, Ducrot, For
geet, Lubrun, Douay and Dejean, and
states that.the Council had been summoned
at A. NJ. on the I'd Of September, and that
the majority of the Generals were of opin-
ion that the defence Of the place was i'm
possible, owing to the want of provisions
and the chOked state of the thoroughfares
and that an attempt to break out was
equally impossible, every outlet being in
the hands of the enemy. We have next u
letter from the Empress Eugenie to the
Emperor of Russia, which has been laid
before the Commission of Enquiry and
which is now published by the Ordre. The
Empress reminds the Emperor Alexander
of his implied undertaking, given to Gen
Fleury, that the territory of France should
not in any case be Remembered. 1t was
on this assurance, known to the French
} Foreign Office, that Jules Favre is supposed
J to have relied when he gave his famou.
, pledge, that not an inch of territory or
( stone of the fortresses should be surrender
ed-he not being as yet aware that the Rus
sian Government considered itself bounC
, only to the Empire, and that it was not dis
3 posed to do as much for the Republic. NJ
> Jules Favre and his colleagues of the 4ti
of September had themselves deprived
France of this support, although, in th'
letter which has now come to light, the
7 Empress entreats that in the negotiation
for peace, tho assistance which had been pro
missed to her may be given to France what
ever it's Government may be. Anothe
contribution to the history of the war is
q Prussian appreciation of Gen. Gariba'di
: Some essays by NJ. Wickede, on the strate
= gical faults committed by the French, hay
5 the chiefs at all worthy of notice,
), this writer says, "Old Garibaldi ha
Q certainly talked tho greatest quantit
s of useless stuff, and done tie least; Ii
!, deserves for his excessive negligence t
G be utterly disgraced. Instead of carryin
IL on a desultory warfare with energy il DC
y tober and November, when he could hav
(, done Us great dealo of harm, and iustea
If of advancing on Nancy and Bar Due, Ii
= never moved, but confined himself to issu
If ing the most bombastic and maddes
i proclamations. He was rather useful t
J., us than otherwise, and if the other general
% and their armies had been like him and b
y bands, our victory would not have cost U
y SO dear"
'e Nominations to Vacant Sees.-The Ofci,
al Journal announces that the followin
d nominations have been made by the Frenc
y Goverument:-Mgr.F ruchaud, Bishop
Or Limoges, to the Archbishopric of Tour
to vacant by the translation of Mgr. Guibel
or to the See of Paris; Mgr. Grault de Lar
III galerie, Bishop of Belley, to the Archbisl
opric of Auch, vacated by the decease
Mgr. Delemare.
Death Of a French Prelatc.-Mgr. Blal
guard de Lamotte, Protonotary Apostolic
re- deceased lately ut Boulogne, sur Mer (whe
o. he had resided since 1854, aged seventy