, 1872-11-06

the vacant post, forgetting that those who
recommend such q cry to a party, instead
OF recommending their party to the cry,
are doing the very business which MIR. Mall
is always and quite rightly denouncing,-
subordinatiDg religious duties to poll zeal
exigencies.
Allowing for The exigencies of a Presi-
Dental campaign, there seems no reason at
all to doubt thai the award Of the Geneva
Tribunal has been received with great sat
~lsfaction in the United States, nor that it
has really answered the purpose of renov-
ing the sense of chronic irritation between
the two peoples. Oh course the Greedy
journals, which cannot afford to admit that
General Grants Administration has done
anything right, will not concede this, are
loud IN their condemnation of the whole
conduct of the affair by the United States,
and maintain, somewhat paradoxicalIy, that
British diplomacy has utterly circumvcnt-
ed the representatives of the United States,
and gained virtually a complete British
victory. But no weight is to be attached
to these eIectioneering allegations. The
true gauge OF United States opinion is the
view taken by neutral journals, whose tone
IS chiefly economical or lin a legal sensel
scientific, and these journals seem to be
substantially satisfied. For example, the
PhiladcLphia Public Lcdgcr, while main
tanning that the Geneva Tribunal ought to
have given damages for six other vessels for
which it has refused damages (the Georgia,
C~hickamauga, Nashville, Retributiou, SUM
ter, and Tallahasse), still declares that there
is great reason to be satisfied with the issue.
And such, we may feel sure, is the sober
Judgment OF the soberest people in the
world,-though that people may be, and is,
one whose true character is more ~curi0uslY
trayesticd and distorted than any other in
the world by the manmuvres of politi-
cal s%trate8lsts and literary tacticians.
The breach between the Prussian Gov
eminent and the Roman Catholic Church
in Ermeland seems to be complete. The
Minister Of Public instruction, DR.. Falk,
has intimated to the Bishop of Ermeland
that the State cannot pay the salary of a
Bishop who will not conform to the laws,
and as almost all the priests income comes
through the Bishop, the Roman Catholic
Church in the diocese Of Ermeland is vir-
tually disestablished and disendowed. It
remains to be seen how far this penal mea-
sure will increase the enthusiasm of the
Roman Catholic teachers there and else
where for the new German Empire.
The cruel "option" i'll Alsace-Lorraine
is over, but we have as yet no authentic
statistics as to the number of emigrants.
1t seems certain that on the last days of
the option the roads and the railways to
France were crowded with AIsatians and
Lorrainers leaving their old homes in long
files which resembled those of the days
of the great migrations, but the accounts
given of particular migrations are almost
beyond belief. It is said that Metz, which
before the war had a population of over
10000, is left with only 10000 of its old
inhabitants, and only seventeen recruits,
all unfit for service /; and that in Obernai,
an Alsatian town which contained a popu-
lation of 5000, only three recruits are left,
of whom only one is fit for service.
Whatever be the truth, the migration has
been enormous, and has been mainly due