The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-09

subject, direct that the existing Committee
Of Inquiry, under Marshal paraguay d'Hii-
liers, shall examine into the causes of the
Of the capital, and into the
acts preceding it." Urgency was
voted for the proposal.
Marshal Ba=aimo's Case. Marshal Ba-
zaine, it appears, constituted himself
prisoner on the 14th, and q Gordon OF
sentries Is closely drawn round the house
which he is to occupy. II the resolutions
published by the Courier de France as
having been drawn up by the Committee of
Inquiry had been genuine, it would only
have proved that that body had been car
ried away by the popular feeling of the
bour They were forgery, however,
which ia satisfactory to know, as they were
q savage attack rather than q judicial find
ing. Marshal Bazaine, indeed, is already
judged by popular opinion, which does not,
and perhaps cannot, take dispassionate
view of his case. One of the current heads
of accusation, besides the Intellectual sortle
and the negotiations ending in the capitu-
lation, is his alleged breakfast with Prince
Frederick Charles, which it is said he is
about to call German officers to disprove,
and his omission to destroy all war ma
terial and flags. But as the Standard cores
pondent very justly observes, Col. Andulas
book, to which the committee have on other
points given full credence, states that the
Germans made the surrender of the guns
and flags a sine qua non, and that Gen.
Changarnier approved of the terms of the
capitulation being observed to the letter.
Gen. Clinchant waited on Gen. Changarnier
to demonstrate about this very surrender of
flags and war material, but Gen. Changer.
nier said that he did not like braillards,"
and had rather see the army destroyed than
put up with q want of discipline. 1t does
not, Of course, necessarily follow that be
cause Gen. Changarnier was for abiding by
the terms when made, that he therefore ap-
proved of the terms themselves; but there
is every reason to believe that Marshal
Bazaine acted throughout on the advice of
his council. He may not have proved him
self a brilliant commander-in-ch chief, and he
certainly showed considerable INDIGESTION !;
but it was at very difficult moment, and
one when his information as to the real
state of affairs must have been necessarily
nitude of his disaster, though NJ. Gambetta
still talks of " demanding the punishment
of the crime of treason to France commit
ted under the walls of Metz"
Emigration from the Conquered Provinces.
We learn from France that the distress ex-
isting among the laboring classes, particu-
larry in Paris and large towns, is causing
past troubles and fearful of fresh disasters,
numerous families have determined to sell
all the little they possess, and seek en-
| ployment and security on foreign shores.
In Alsace and Lorraine other causes pre-
vail for the same result. Long habit has
made the people of these provinces French
at heart, enough still speaking the German
language. They cannot accept the Prus.
sian yoke. They cannot endure the
thought of their children serving in the
Prussian army. Numbers of them are
leaving the country for Algiers, and num-
bers also for Canada. Not few have left
their property behind them, preferring te
sacrifice it altogether rather than delay
their departure. The conquered provinces
are thus in danger OF being partly depopu
lated, unless, indeed, the French should b
able to recover them. There can be little
doubt that the will, sooner or later, maxi
some effort in this direction, and that Their
is now a general feeling in France in favo
of universal and compulsory military ser
J vice. In the meantime q Canadian Emf
gra ion Company has been projected, 70
. the purpose of supplying needy emigrant
with the means of transporting themselve
and families to the other side of the Allan
tic, and there assisting them with a certai
amount of capital, for which they are
! pay a moderate interest.
q SWITZERLAND.
If The S,riss Tote.-The result of the vo'
Y on the i tn ult. is that the new draft Const
/ ton for Switzerland is happily thrown on
IL Monday evenings kilograms stated that Il
is aggregate popular vote was in favor OF Il
scheme, 2tS,IAU votes having oeen give
= for, and 223, O23 against it, but that, in Il
le voting by cantons, thirteen cantons we
a. against it, and only nine for it; which W
=. fatal to it's success, as a majority in bo
a. senses is required. A subsequent despat'
8, from Fribourg dated Tuesday, and pu
to lished in the Univers, gives the popul
n. vote also as unfavorable to the revision
n 257, l96 against it, and 252,925 for
ct Whichever may turn out to be the true T
M. turn, the project is lost The canto
e. which voted against it are Geneva, Van
an Valais, the Grisons, Ticino, Glarus, F.
NJ bourg, Lucerne. Zug, Uri, Schwytz, A
We pencil anil Unterwalden and tho
re which voted for it are Berne, Zurie
let Aargau, Bale, Soleure. Schofthausen, T&I
ia gau, Saint Gaul and Neuchatel. The ma
,ts object and effect of the scheme which
nd thus been rejected was the absorption, t.
mt great extent, of the Cantonal rights by t
he Central federal power. This would be,
he course, equivalent to the Germanization
er. the country, and it is to this fact that
at result of the voting is to be attribute
"a The Rappel regrets bitterly that the opel
NJ ton of this consideration has rendered
"a attack on Catholicism Intellectual; for Il
y: IL was an attack on Catholics is acknoy