The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-07
FOREIGN NOTES.

hierarchy seems we'll over in Prussia. During
the war and before the elections his pious
| Excellency Won Muhler was allowed to wink
at all sorts of unheard-of measures taken by
the bolder among the Catholic bishops, in
| defiance often of the law. Now. however,
more especially since the late proceedings of
the compact Catholic party in the German
Parliament, the Government appears no
longer inclined to look on quietly at certain
| interferences with the schools, high and low,
such as had crept in since the infallibility
dogma. Among the steps taken to stop the
| great zeal of the converted bishops is de-
cree issued by the Ceblentz ''Schul-O Collie
| GUM" in the matter of certain so-called
3" Marianne Congregations" This seems
kind of pious Institution, to which
| the pupils of the gymnasiums were
| told off during the few hours left to them for
| their recreation in order to listen to certain
exhortations and to undergo special devo-
! tional exercises, which, however good they
might have been for their souls, certainly did
| not do their young bodies much good, and
| which, considering the amount of time already
allowed in Roman Catholic gymnasiums for
| religious purposes, seemed in the long run to
| exceed the proper limits. Another no less
| important decree on the part of the Govern
nent refers to the publication of ecclesiasti-
| cal edicts in the classes without the special
| permission of the heads of the respective
schools. This practice is prohibited for the
future. Those halcyon days when the Roman
archbishops and bishops went "hand-in-hand"
with Herr Muller, the Protestant Cultus-Min-
lister, are evidently over. Biamarck is back.
Switzerland too, it seems, has her Dol
| fingers. MIR. Egli, pastor at the penitentiary
of Lucerne, has dared openly to defy the in
fallibility dogma. Instead of reading out
the passage regarding it contained in the
episcopal emanation forwarded to him, he
10 hson .of.t &c,
ing first made it as clear as possible to his
| hearers what this dogma meant in reality.
| At the same time he informed his bishop of
| this step, telling him among other things
| that he had never been false to his principles
in his whole life, and that he intended to take
his honor spotless to his grave. The ''ser-
pent-wise shirking and getting out by back
| doors" in order to hide ones real opinions
and to avoid disagreeable consequences had
| always seemed to him, he said, unworthy of
| an honest man, and SO forth. In reply to
! this there came the usual slime to con-
slider, and this being past, the anathema, in
| accordance with chapter iv of the constitution
| containing the definition" of the Infaili-
| bility, which reads Isl quis autem huic nostre
defnitioni contradicere, quod Deus avertat,
| prfesumpserit, anathema Sit" The Lucerne
| Government endeavored to make peace be-
tween the bishop and the hereto, but in vain.
| The bishop, on the contrary, desired that the
| Government should dismiss Egli from his
| post, while Egli declared to the Government
that he must stick to his protest, but that he
was ready, considering that there might be
| believers in that dogma among his flock, to
| get substitute for the present. Thereupon
the authorities of Lucerne resolved that they
could never think of interfering with either
| layman or priest for his want of belief in the
new dogma of Papal Infallibility, more espe-
cially in the case of a clergyman protesting
against doctrine which had not been doc
trine of the Catholic Church at the time of
his ordination. 1t remains to be seen what
steps the Episcopate now will or can take
after this firm and ominous decision of the
supreme authority of the canton.
In the British House of Commons re-
Gently Sir III. Storks gave some interesting
information both as to the British ambulance
service and recent military experience on the
subject. committee was appointed by the
War Office to investigate the question, and
make some calculations as to the proportion
of men likely to require removal from the
field of battle The percentage of wounded
nature of the fighting. At Koniggratz 4'90 pei
cent. of the whole force of the Prussans were
wounded, and 9'28 of the Austrians en-
gagged. At Magenta the French had CT pei
cent. wounded, and the Austrians 05. On the
other hand, the casualties are often on a mucl
more serious scale. AT Waterloo the Brltlst
force had 17'76 per cent. wounded an6
during the civil war in the United States
1851 per cent. of the Federals were wounded
at Shiloh, 1852 at Chickamauga, IL '6S al
Gettysburg, and 1920 at Wilderness. Oh
the Confederate side the reported casualties
were much higher, but the committee re
mark that neither the numbers engaged no
those wounded were ascertained correctly
The casualties in the battles round Metz il
: August were on similarly high scale The
mean of these figures gives 1870 per cent. o
the strength. and the committee fixes 16 pc
cent. as the lowest percentage of woundet
for whom provision should re made. Hal
of this number could probably make thei
way to the nearest dressing place ol
} foot, leaving per cent. to be removes
3 from the field on stretchers and wagons
and subsequently carried to the neares
: field hospitals The committee further esti
4 mated that this may require each wagon t.
s travel distance of five miles to the rear
: and that it can make two trips a day, O
= twenty miles in all, even over indifferen
Q roads. wagon can carry six men each trip
: or twelve men day. Such being the basi
t of calculations, the intention of the Wa
, Office is to have a hospital corps for servic
: during peace, and war corps to tend th
g the wounded after an action. The Arm
Q Hospital Corps Cat present in two parts) wi
b be reorganized as a single body, for the pun
y pose of training men at the hospitals t
i attend to the sick and wounded. After allov
s ing for foreign garIisons, it is estimated thu
;. about $50 men Of this corps will be aVailabl
q in England. n.-
ID 1t is gratifying, says the Pail Mall Gt
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