The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-25
x1scE1Axxous 1ol11ax NEWS.
ENGLAND.

ENGLANDs
Lord Salisbury on " Unsectarian" Religion.
At meeting held at Manchester in favor
of public schools for the middle classes,
Lord Salisbury made q speech which,
though intended exclusively to support
education on Anglican principles, was
equally strong in defence of the Catholic
position. After observing that the sacrl
fees which had been made for educatlon
hitherto had not been made, and would not
be made, for education without religion, lie
proceeded to discuss the question of "un-
sectarian religion" "The truth was" he
said, unhappily, that the divisions OF
Christianity were so deep that, II unsecta,
rian religion was protested to be taught, ~
meant no religion at all, or the religion OF
a group nearly allied to denominationalism
who taught their own belief and ignored
the belief Of every body else" All that
had made Christianity famous in the world,
all the great work it has done, all the
change it has brought over the face OF CIV
ilization, has been done, said Lord Sails
bury, entirely by men " whose intense re-
ligious enthusiasm sprang from an intense
and definite belief. Those, therefore, IN
dulged in a mere dream who imagined that
they could so eliminate dogma as to OBJ
tain the enthusiasm which had covered the
land with schools without the definite be-
lief from which that enthusiasm sprang."
1t will be said that, when the State has
taken the work into its own hands, enthu-
siasm will no longer be needed; but when
Individuals cease to take an interest in the
national eystem of education, we shall soon
see the evidence of it In the routine char
acter of the work done, and in the machine
made scholars which the system turns out.
FRANCE.
The Vice Presidency and NJ Thiers.-The
possibility that Theirs may again resign at
any time has brought into prominence the
idea of creating Vice President, who
must act as President during the interval
before a fresh election. Perier was first
talked of and afterwards Marshal Mcmahon,
but it is understood that the latter has
positively refused to be made Vice Presi-
dent, though he consents reluctantly to as
sumo provisional powers in case Theirs
resigns. Theirs himself is strongly op-
posed to the election of Vice President.
and has declared that if Mons. L. Pom talis's
motion to this effect is entertained by the
House, he will at once resign. Should he
die, NJ. Dnfaure, he says, is already Vice
President of the Council of Ministers, and
quite competent to act in his place until q
new President shall be elected. Unfortu-
nately Dufaure has no followers and little
personal influence.
The Indemnity and the Budget-Tho pro-
ject Of a voluntary national subscription to
OO0, OOO) indemnity due to Germany is being
acted on with enthusiasm in various places
the contribution of Marseiles already
amounts 100000 francs but when the mag
nitude of the sum required comes to he
considered, there seems little hope of its
being realized within the time. Another
suggestion to raise four milliards by a lot
terry loan terminable in sixty years, at a
Charge of & 900, 900 per annum appears to
have been received with great favor both
within the Assembly and by the press.
GERMANY.
The Bishop of Augsburg's Protest.-The
report of the commlttee on the petition of
the Bishop Of Augsburg in the Mering case,
gave rise to a brisk debate ia the Bavarian
Chamber, and many home truths were well
told. The reporter, Herr Hauck, see ms to
have exposed the iniquity of insisting on q
pldcet in matters of faith, and Herr Jorg
demonstrated the utter baselessness of the
position taken up by Herr Won Lutz but
the Ministry was too strong for tfem, and
in the end the House decided against it's
own Committee and against the Bishops
complaint.
The German Army and the Alt hatholken.
Mgr. Namzanowski, Catholic chaplain gen
eral of the German army, has notified to
the incumbent of the Church of St. Panta-
leon, at Cologne-the garrison church, and
consequently under his episcopal jurisdic-
tion-that he is to suspend all religious
worship in that church if the Alt-Katholi-
ken should avail themselves of the permits
sion obtained by them from the Ministry of
War to celebrate the rights of their sect.
The P,ussian Minister Of Public Worship.
Cultus- Minis'er Muller has been
obliged by Prince Bismarck to resign. His
retirement cannot be a subject of regret to
Catholics, who remember his answer to the
Bishop of Ermeland's remonstrance about
Catholic children, at the Catholic yceum
of Braunsberg, being forced to go on at
tending the religious instructions of an
heretical Professor. Herr Won Muller has
long been obnoxious to the whole Liberal
party in Prussia as type Of the most rigid
Protestant dogmatism, but his campaign
against the Catholics had, at least indirect
ly, something to do with his fall. The
Liberal papers, as we said in effect some
time ago, saw the point which might be
made, and backing up the complaint of the
East Prussian Catholics, urged the abol
ton of obligatory religious instruction in
PIT bile schools. The suggestion has been
adopted by Government as in itself conso-
naut to its general policy, while it would
remove the particular grievance now com
planned of by the Catholics. But Herr Won
Muller. seeing that the principle would
have TO he anDiipl Protestant as we'll ia