The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-04
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger
sew ORLEANS, SUNDAY, JUNE g. 1871.
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l1IsCELlANE0Us F0RHIGN NEWS.

to which was attached an enormous roll of
504, 55s signatures, yas presented to the
who was the bearer of it to Rome, and
Mgr Stonor. The Holy Father greatly adj
mired Il 9 manner in which it had been il
Illuminate d, and asked Mgr Stonor to trans
late IL for him. As 1t was read off in ttal-
ian the Holy Father kept up q running
comment Of approval upon it's sentiments
and the way they were expressed. The
ailusion to his being " q prisoner for our
sake;" the probability that the disregard
by other nations of the Pope's rights
could not suffer that our access to him
should depends upon the permission Of
any present Kingdom or any prospective
Republic, especially arrested his attention.
The Holy Father expressed himself az par
tcularly pleased with the Address, with
the number of the signatures, aud present.
ed Mr.. DOlman with two medals as token
of his approval of what he had doue.-
London Tablet, May 13.
Spain.-Most Of the generals and very
many ut the young military officers have
peremp:oriiy refused to take the oath of
all been tried by military commissions for
this oRense, and various sentences have
been pronounced according to the feeling
that Influenced the tribunals. Some were
very severe, the officers not only being
cashiered, but stripped then end there Of
resign, but allowed to retain their commits
sions and uniform. The military court
appointed to try the Duke of Moutpensier
and Generals Calonge, Contreras, and
Cbeste in the Balearic Islands, to which
they have been exiled, has sentenced them
30 be struck off the army roll. The Duke
intends, it seems, to return to Seville i'm
mediately, aud proceed thence to Madrid
to take his seat in the COrtes as deputy for
San Fernando, Cadiz, for which his cleo
hoe pGrvpa ho,
already taken his seat there alongside of
CASTELAR,, the eloquent Republican leader. !
The old Christine general, Blaser, who re-
fused not only to take the oath, but to !
to Mahon, to which he had been exiled, !
has been acquitted by the military tribu-
nal, and remains in Madrid to DEFY Ser |
rano, and shame that basest of traitors |
and ingrates by his presence in the capital. |
Montpensier threatens to expose in the |
Chamber the perfidy of the generals" i.e,
Prim and Serrano, with regard to himself |
and the revolution. There was q scene in |
the Cortes q few days ago between the old |
Count Toreno. and Serrano, caused by a |
discussion with reference to the defeat of |
the Condo de Cheste at Tolosa, for which |
he was started by the Opposition during
his forced exile in the Baiearic Islands, |
Toreno charged Serrano with using undue |
influence at the election to defeat Cheste,
who is man of honor, and against whom,
therefore, Serrano entertained an antipa-
thy, as he (Serrano) has no political shame,
and would doubtless be embarrassed by
the pressure of Cheste in the Chamber. |
where it could not fail to revive unpleasant |
recollections of days when Cheste and |
Serrano worked together to defend Queen |
Isabella and her dynasty. This was worm
wood to the traitor and migrate, and, tor |
tuEed by the bitter reproach, be challenged |
Toreno to mortal combat. It is scarcely |
necessary to observe that when the glove |
il thrown down on the floor of Parliament |
no duel follows. The finish was made |
supremely rich by the nairete of Serrano's
declaration that they were free to decapi- !
tate him then and there as political per- |
son, but the moral man must be left !
alone"
address of the Ceylonese Catholics to the |
Holy FGther.-The Catholics of Ceylon |
Jaffna, an address to the Holy Father, of
which We give the following extracts |
So For the discharge of our own consciences
and lest the 10000 Catholics of Ceylon,
hitherto so dutiful to their Supreme Pastor, |
should in this hour of his supreme danger
seem to have grown cold in his cause to
abandon him-only few and unipAuential
though We be--we, In behalf of ourselves,
whose signatures are hereto appended, and
of the mass Of our Catholic brethren here
who could not have signed, but whose eenti-
ments we are sure we correctly interpret
declare before God and the whole world
that it is our, belief that Rome, together
with all the provinces formerly known as
the States of the Church, form the patri-
mony of the Catholic Church, to which it
has as good a title as any potentate can
put forth to his own crown and dominions;
which cannot, without the most crying in
justice and sacriiege, be wrested from it,
and which the Pope himself is bound not
to ALLEVIATE. That it is our firm conviction
which recent events have corroborated.
that the freedom of the Supreme Pont,ff
cannot effectualiy be preserved except by
his being an independent Sovereign sub
jeet to no earthly power. That we like
wise hold as q matter of fact that this Civil
Princedom was ordered by Divine Provi-
dence that the Pope might enjoy all the
liberty which his Office of Supreme Pastor
required that, from its intimate relation
to the Chnrch's good, it has spiritual
character; and that all acts of aggression
against it are in themselves sacriiegious
and by all human and Divine law absolute