The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-10
x1sca1Axxous Yo1H1ax NEWS.
ENGLAND.

MaJesty's subjects, on religious grounds.
The principal clauses provide that any
Of Lord Chancellor Of England, and the
Office of Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland, with
out reference to his religious belief. Rights
| Of presentation to bene6ces belonging to
| the Office of Lord Chancellor of Engla nd
shall be exercised, when the Office is not
land. by such person as her Majesty or the
Archbishop of Canterbury may appoint
Any ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church
Of England Trusteeship, belonging to the
Office of Lord Chancellor of England, shall
be exercised and discharged, when Office ia
England, by one of the chief Judges in
Chancery or Common Law in England,
being q member of the Church and
appointed under the Queens sign manual.
Penal clauses of the Catholic E emancipation
Act relating to the monastic orders, to be
repealed. Trusts and dispositions of
property for pious uses not to be treated az
superstitious.
Conservation Of Bishop Standardization
the 9th of February the Right Rev. DR..
Scarisbrick, O.S.B., was consecrated Bishop
of st. Louis, Mauritius, in St. Peters
Church, Seel street, Liverpool. The con-
secrating prelate was the Bishop of Liver
pool, assisted by the Bishops of Birming-
ham and Hexham.
SCOILANOs
Scotch Education Billion the lIth ult.,
Education Bill. The main feature Of it 10
the compulsory election of school boards
by the cumulative vote, tho handing over
to these school boards of the existing pa
rochial or beritors' schools, and the leaving
to the school boards absolute discretion as
Time table Conscience Clause. There
will, therefore, be no prohibition in Scot
of catechisms or distinctive formalaries,
as in England, the Lord Advocate profess.
ing to solve the religious difficulty "by
saying nothing about it." Mr.. Dixon's
argument against the bill was character
istic. He was shocked at the power left to
the schoolmasters to give the religious in
struction themselves during the hours ap-
pointed for it, and warned the Scotch MEM
bers of the effect this precedent would
have on the case of Ireland. As the Irish
schoolmasters already exercise this power,
it is clear that Mr.. Dixon looks forward to
still further secularization of the Irish
system.
The Cost of Religious and Secular Educd-
ton Compared. = Whilst the municipal
schools OF Toulouse were under the direc-
ton Of the Christian Brothers, their cost to
the town was 5000 franco a year, they are
now secularized and cost SS, coo francs a
year. The 90 religious schools of Lyons
numbered 1s, 500 pupils, since they have
been transferred to lay management this
number has dwindled down to less than
1900. In four other districts the Christian
Brothers educate BOIL pupils, receiving for
their services the sum of 81, $50 francs q
year. In the same districts the lay teachers
of secularist schools have just 900 pupils
State NO less sum than $4,000 francs a
year. Although the secular article is thus
SO very expensive, it's inferiority to it's re-
ligtous rival is not the less marked Every
public competition affords fresh proofs of
this. During last year, q year in which
every possible advantage was given to the
secularists and every obstruction cast in
the way of religious teachers, at the open
among the primary schools of
Paris for scholarships in the higher schools,
out of $50 scholarships. the pupils of the
secularist schools managed to obtain las
almost entirely confined to
the lower ranks, whilst nearly every chief
prize, with the great majority of I'll
scholarships, fell to pupils of the religious
schools.
GERMANY.
School Legislation in Prussia-The new
Schools Supervision Bill, taking the in
spection out Of the hands of the clergy, has
just been passed by the Chamber of Depu-
ties at Berlin, by 2O7 against l53 votes
~ NaSSSASohSHS
Bismarck took the opportunity of stating
that his charge of anti nationalism was not
directed against the Catholic Church, but
only against the majority in it; there were
priests to be found with national senti-
ments, but they were in q min ority, and
were threatened with accommodation.
This, if correctly reported, is bubble.
The few priests of "Old Catholic" pro-
cHvlties-if there are any-who are the |
only priests threatened with excommunica-
ton, are not so threatened for any national
but simply for their unorthodox
opinions. The protest against State inter
ference with religious doctrine and discip-
line can in no sense be supposed to involve
any opposition to the new civil organiza-
ton of the country, which, we suppose, is |
what Prince Bismarck would meanby anti
natioaalisin. He further stated that the |
clergy would be allowed to re-
main inspectors of schools, aud that the
new law would be applied to them only in
the event of similar difficulties arising in |
their case. As far as can be gathered from
the telegraphic account of his speech,
Prince Bismarck's grievance against the
Catholic clergy appears to be that they