The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-31
M1scK1LAn1ous FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

Baby Farming-Two useful bits OF Work
were got through by the Honse OF Con-
second readiDgso OF Mr.. Cbarley's Infants
Life Protection Bill; the other, that OF Mr.;
Muntz's bill to prevent the adulteratlon OF
food and drugs. Mr.. Charley's bill was
pot considered stringent enough 6y tne
House, and q membe, expressed the fear
that, while it would check baby farming,
it would encourage infanticide, owing 10
the greater difficulties thrown Ill the way
of getting illegitimate children taken care
of but Mr.. Bruce promised that Oil Gu
forcing ,registration:-the real Iemeay@d
! should be shortly introduced, and agreed
to the strengthening of the present OIL oy
more stringent provisions in committee.
Balance Sheet of TIE Church Of England.
In anticipation Of Mr.. Malls motion on
| the subject of Church property the aork-
shire Union of Church Institutes has pre-.
pared and published balance-sheet OF
the Church of England" From it we
gather that the g. average annual receip.s
! Of the Church of England amount to + w.
l5l ,l52, of which f1 .9i9, 20t is from anciehs
endowments, and C., PSI .05l from end0w-
ments acquired since the keior nation. , ne
sum Of f5, AS, 29S is raised every year ny
voluntary contributions in connection Win
the Church, and s5O5, 500 is State aid IN
the education of the poor. The Londo no
Church Societies alone figure for 44oo,ooo
a year. 1t appears that the taxes, etc, on
|
come tax and those taxes usually PAID oy
occupiers, amount to EVA ,O43 year. The
Church schools cost, according to this estl-
mate, annually S3,O5l .573, to which the
State contributes s505, 500, while the
school payments OF parents amount to
f762 s95, leaving si,7sO O76 to be placed
to the credit Of voluntary contributions:
f4pO, 600 ia given every year for the relief
of the poor, half million in foreign mis-
sions, and f65O, 900 on church building and
restoration.
Putting their Hands in Their O,rn Pockets.
Now that the Nonconformists and the Secu-
larists have been, by the rejection of MIR.
Dixon's bill, thwarted in their attempt to
have the schools built at great expense by
the Observation-Disclosures, transferred to the
School Board, and thus practically made
, Nonconforist schools, they will perhaps
occasion of the opening of the new school
e at Attercliffe. We are by mo- means san
= guine, though, that such will be the case
:. as we have heard of more than one Instance
4 where dissenting bodies have been anxion'
a to sell some of the very few schools now IL
- are quite ready, with all their profession
- Of voluntaryisnl, to use money of the State
~ in order to save themselves expense, bu
we fear that they will be long in following
the advice of Canon Cooke by "puttin
Is their hands in their own pockets"
FRANCE
- Catholic Projects. - The Paris Catholi
n Committee has convoked preliminar
~ meeting of deputies from all the Catholi
"A Committees Of France for the 4th Apri
%. On that occasion will be discussed tt
ed means of calling together grand meetin
ia to be called the Congress of the Cathel
on of France, and also the best mode of glviI
the greatest possible development to tt
actions of the various Catholic Committee
, Apparition at PontndiR.-The Bishop
'ne Laval, in consequence of the reports su
NY mitted to him by several commissions
no enquiry, has issued pastoral letter q
'ne claring. lat, that he judges that the II
IN really, on the 18th of January, 1871, a
pear to Eugene and to Joseph Barbedet
ax- and to FRANCHISE Richer and Joseph L
rn- bose in the hamlet of Pontmain. I'd, th
tor he authorizes in his diocese the cuttus
RS, the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title
are he reserves to himself the faculty of G
ith proving all devotions, books of praye
is etc. 4tt, that he desires sanctuary
/ is honor of Mary to be erected on the 81
f it where the apparition appeared.
Payment af the War 1ndemnity.-Wh
re- ever may have been the shortcomings OF
!oe There's dministration-and they are !
raj few-nobody can deny that it has Wig
Mr.. ousiy applied itself to the liberation
me French soil from the presence OF the ln'
der. n. Pouyer-Quertier has just {
nounced that he has contrived to Sbts
the the means of paying off at once tie f
our half milliard which France had engaged
ug, provide in fortnightly instaiments betwe
Of Tire 18th February and list Nay: -c<
Of sideration of the anticipated payne
Ave France obtains a discount of five per CT
the on the amount, and thus saves twel
pom millions of francs. Not content with t
ugh financial success, the Government is CO
and tempiatipg an operation which will ena
,ich it to pay off the whole of the remaining tn
her nailliards (s2ao 900, OOO) during the pres
re- year, thus Fastening tue final evac'
8 of ton of French territory by more than t
of years. The voluntary subscription now
an progress would, of course, be quite
ore, adequate for ambitious purpose, g
der the Minister of the Interior has no do
p of expressed the view of the Assembly as v
six as of the Government when lie stated
rees preference for a loan which would attr
EN-, foreign as we'll as French capital.
feet TIE Roman Diplomatic Question:
OF discussion on the petitions against the
ma, Element of the Minister to. Italy at Ro