The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-01-14


OF systematically buying mp all the farms
which can be obtained, partly with q view
to increased political and social influence,
and this Is often done with the aid OF bor-
rowed money. Whether the investment be
or not is hardly considered
Henoe, ON the death Of the small proprie-
tor, bis family cannot resist the temptation
of selling at an over-value. This absorp-
ton of farms may not yet have attained
the character of q public grievance; but it
Is destined to be 80 regarded at no very
distant date. Let the prosperity of Eng
land receive check, and there will be an
cutlery against the possession Of whole Dis
tricts, and even counties, BY small knot
Of aristocratic landlords. Thoughtful OBJ
servers regard this as one of the most dan
gerous of the, accelerating causes of trouble
In time to come-even now throwing dark
shadows over the future of England.
FRANCE.
The Rcrenge of the Commune.-Rossel,s
request that there might be no vengeance
exacted for his death does not seem likely
to be complied with by his friends. These
are the predictions of Citizen Borzclle, ex-
Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery, and aide
de camp to Rossel. He is addressing those
see the gallows of Montfaucon erected for
all of you, but it will be on the Place de
Ia Concorde. To these enormous gibbets,
on which anciently those were hung who
were not good enough for the axe and
block. you will be suspended. There you
will hang, your faces distorted, your
tongues swollen and blue, and your eyes
starting. There you will remain night and
day, in sun and rain, till your foul bodies
are completely decayed and have fallen bit
by bit into the dust and mud of the public
square. We shall manage also to lay
hands on your children aud your wives.
We will bring them to the foot of the glib
bets, and under your corpses we will make
them dance. And they shall dance in time,
for we will beat the time with whips upon
their shoulders. Then will the justice of
Paris be avenged" Citizen Borzelle might
also compete with Citizen Vermersch for
the post of poet to the party. Some of its
stimulus to blood thirstiness such as the
memory of the execution at Satory. The
Lberte tells MS that it has eeen the plan for
q new steam guillotine, the special merit
Of which is that it is warranted to cut off
sixty heads in O minute. The axe rises, in
ment, and the drawings are accompanied
by exact mathematical calculations of the
motive force and the working power of the
machine.
The Anti Catholics in the Prussian Courts.
The Prussian courts have just given q de-
cision entirely at variance with the posi-
ton taken up by the Minister of Public
Worship, Herr Won Muller. It was alleged
Church had been other than it was before,
a position which would have been equally
tenable after every fresh definition of the
faith. The North German Gazette having
been prosecuted for insults against the Pa
pacy, and having been successfully con-
demned in every court into which the case
was brought, had appealed to the supreme
tribunal Of Berlin; urging, apparently in
defence, that the Papacy was not an insti-
tuition of the Catholic Church, and that the
Catholic Church, since the definition, was
no longer what it was before. The tribu-
nal has decided against the appellants on
both points :" The Papacy is an essential
the Catholic Church, since the definition,
lie the same that it was before.",
Relations arith Russia.- The Emperor
Alexander has been proposing the health of
the Emperor William, as the Oldest knight
of the Order of st. George, in very cordial
terms, and at the same time that of the
generals and officers of the Prussian army
to the fraterpal feeling existing for many
years between the Russian and Prussian
armies, aud to the first campaigns against
Napoleon, in which that feeling grew up.
In this brotherhood, he said, perceive the
best guarantee for peace and legitimate
Germany may be fell in Russia-and there
10 no doubt that it is felt very widely in
deed-the Emperor and the present Court
are decidedly German in their sympathies,
and the Muscovite party will have to wait
for another reign before they can hope to
see their policy officially adopted. 1t is
even thought by some that If Austria is
hpSn0 NV * fol o mn
qudsi-hostile attitude towards Russia, there
IL no intention on the part of Prince Bis
marck to back up Austria should a serious
quarrel ensue. He wishes, of course, to
complete Germany aud perhaps it does
not very much signify to him whether he
buys what he wants of Austria or of her
enemy. He will look for the cheapest mar
ket. The Borsen Zettun1, of st. Peters
burg, would have MS believe that the alli-
ance Of Russia and Germany signifies Z" a
darable,. universal peace" "Western
Europe" it sage, " mistrusts Russia, and
believes that the latter threntens the order