The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-11-24

# Jerusalem has refused his ssigusture to q
he anathema Of the council. He 10 OUT 40 7
individual and without influence AZ Con
he has had the honesty TO re- >
fuse also to accept the present sent MN ny
[guatief, to induce him to take the course +
which he had actually taken: Thus tnen
the realization of "the great idea" 10 Piur
lessly postponed to the "Greek kaiends.
The Greeks are furious against Russia, aud
che having failed to reconcile Paneiavism :
aud Orthodoxy, 10 At open war with tue
Catholic Church, from whose apostoiaee
she learnt all che knowa of Christianity anu
whose name abe still affects to bear.
Orthodosy-What We are witnessing Is,
in fact, nothing more or less than toe con-
Guiding act Of the drama of the 'Aoiy
Eastern Church." which for so many ages
has lived upon the remnant OF the VIA,
warmth left her by St. Chrysostom anu
tact of modern follies, just as corpse that
has been long entombed falls into dust
when exposed to the air. The phenome-
non was predicted by Rossuet, and but
| fifty years since by the Count de Malstre
upon that same Neva which is now running
under my windows. The Russian Church,
too, begins to feel the tomb. The very re-
forms that are attempted upon it are bring
ing it down; the Government is Fastening
the work of its decomposition. Inc ao-
thorities have devised the new regulation
that ordination is not be conferred la io-
ture before the age of thirty. Candidates
for the priesthood are complaining OF tne
delay as too long. Crowds OF them are
throwing off the cassOck and going into
the army, which was lately forbidden them;
and the mobiles now refuse to enter, for they
1.-THE nobles) are on the one hand ruined Dy
the emancipation of the serfs, and, on the
other, are finding more lucrative posts In
, the new appointments dependent on uni
. yersal suffrage. The result must be that
the State Church will feel a deficiency of
, clergy, and those it has will be more noto-
riously than ever incapable OF the duties
, | required OF them.
: Gorilla seems determined to pursue his
Q former friend Segasta with vindictiVe ven
# geance. He has encouraged his partlssns
9 to propose in the Cortes an impeachment
a of the late Cabinet, but as his blow must
e hit Serrann aud Topete also, we suspect
% the impeac Lmeut will be only fash in the
y pan. The majority aud the Premier are al
l. issue upon the question of the abolition Of
q capital punishment for political offences
st the Minister being in favor of the main
Is terance of the existing law, and the ma
4: jority of the Cortes being oppositeiy in
III cliued. Considering all that has happened
m in Spain since the death of Ferdinand
ss Wiz, we should say that there is n.
r country on earth where all parties ought t.
be be more united in abolishing capital punish
o. meat for political offences, than in Spain
d. For the last forty years there has not beel
1t a marshal, an admiral, a general, Cabine
g. Minister, or q public man in the peninsul
- who did not at one time OF another .ncu
to the penalty Of death for treason in som
nm form.
Il. The ravages of the foundations have bee
ng enormous. Hundreds of millions of lii
,cH will not cover the damage done to publ
nd and private property. Lombardy has bee
,s- turned into q vast lake, and more this
in thirty thousand persons have been ie
,sa houseless. In the midst of this terrib
ha. calamity Victor Emmanuel has BET
[he amusing himself by playing at sailors
I'VE the Bay of Naples, where his feet ha'
tn been diverting the brigands and lazaro
ng. by sham fight, where the Italian nav
the were no, doubt, quite at home. 1t is a
Ala. tricts in the kingdom is to be increase
en- and that there is to be also q large arg
,eir mentation of the army. How is the j
ent creased charge upon the Exchequer to
the NETT Taxation in Italy has alrea,
reached the maximun-indeed exceeded
a.. for the law authorizes the levy of tar
sne which the Government do not dare
gus enforce, and borrowing is out of the que
atn ton while the annual deficit, caused
~" excess of expenditure over income, has
I, como enormous in the aggregate. Sac
oa,e lege, spoliation and plumber have done tn
arc worst. These crimes of the Robber- Xxi
d have for some time reached their lin
- There can be no more robbery of
Ter uuSa' ~ ;t 1,ranar+v ,nS 90 =,
srsu peued in England under the infamc
70 Henry, the robbery has been a maledct
the TO the authors, and the robbers are poo
a .ne than when they commenced their career
aI sacreligious spoliation.
Bch, ENGLAND.
use! The ,,nr ON the Established Church.
ne Of O. nrenaration for their great battle aqai
de- the Anglican Church, the English Diss
'-ot ters have begun to take a religious cen
of the kindom. They hope to show t
Attn the Establishment is NO longer the Chu
0 in of the majority. Their censnsis now CO
giBg piete for the fourteen towns which + ~
ably population of more than 100000, p1Ine
sum- Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Bright
that Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, n
eeks castle, Portsmouth, Stafford, Sheh
lea," Stoke-on-Trent, aud Wolverhampton.
Em- is shown that since 1851, the number
8 are places of worship in these fourteen to'
ugh has increased by 526, and their sittings
ISNeO< Nl-N.