The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-20

80 ~ noe' oo Pun'f" ~ interference IN
those concerns in the way most painful to
the offenders. For itr aust be remem bered
that it is In their ow'l concerns alone that
catholics are dispes ed to assert themselves.
It Is utterly unju' .tifable to talk, as the
faH MaH does, f.bout their "attackipg the
ia'ey, ana I'm posing their will" on them.
catholics hav . never desired to force Cath
atlonai 60 .acation on Secularists. All that
they clan is Catholic education for
CaSho' lcs. Nay, further, they do not even
9oJeca to contributing their share to Pro-
tessant and Secularist education. 1t is
scarcely fair then to describe this policy
is the Secularist party which is "imposng
It's WIZ on us by refusing to Us, as the
Fail Mall would refuse, ''any advantages
which they we may claim from public
Authority" What Lord Palmerston sad
to the Catholics and Pro.estants is true now
Of the Catholics and Secularists. 'The Cath
oilcs were contented with impartiaiity and
justice: the Protestants ON the contrary re-
quired Partially to themselves and ipjns-
tice to the Catholics"
French Municipalities atrocities in
which the Lyonese habitually indulge
Whenever political excitement of any sort
arises in France, have forced upon the
Government and the National Assembly
the consideration of some means for check
ing such tumaltuous outbreaks in the fu-
ture. The Government propose to reorga-
nize the Municipality of Lyons after the
Paris fashion-to have the city divided in
to five mayoralities, and the whole placed
under the control of the Prefect. This pro-
posal has greatly irritated the Communists,
who abound In every grade almost in LyOne;
and memorial has been forwarded to M.
Theirs deprecating the proposed organiza-
TO, \
to the public peace" AS to the insult, never
was anything more deserved by the habitual
ruffiaDism of the Lyons mob, sanctioned by
their cowardly or conspiring Municipal
Council /; and we cannot imagine better
security against their systematic distur-
bance of the public peace, than the measure
proposed by the Government. The general
question of municipal reorganization has
engaged the attention of the Committee on
decentralization appointed by the National
Assembly, by whom it has been decided
that in towns where the largest payers of
taxes are not allowed to control the mu-
nicipal finances, the Mayors shall be ap-
posite event, the Mayor will be chosen by
Municipal Councillors and an equal number
of the largest taxpay ers. This latter pro-
posal is opposed by the Executive, who de-
sire to hold in their own hands the power
of appointing all the Mayors.
Marshall Basaine.-We gather from late
papers that the trial of the Marshal is to
come off, and that by direction of the Min
lister of War, General Appert has been
accused may be arraigned. The trial is to
be at Versailles. According to a very inter-
esting account furnished to the London
Times by its correspondent, of an interview
he lately had with the Marshal-who, as we
stated last week, has had the rigours of his
imprisonment SO far relaxed that he is now
allowed to receive the visits of bis wife
and friends for several hours of the day
the Marshal is most DESTROYS to be tried, in
order to vindicate his much maligned char
acter. The prejudicial story about his be-
ing entertained by Prince Frederic Charles
at magnificent dinner, before the sur
render of Metz, he disposed of by the sim
pie statement that he and his staff went on
very wet day to meet the Prussian com
mander under flag eff truce, to arrange
about prisoners and being delayed for sew
eral hours awaiting the arrival of the
Prince, and drencbed with rain, the at
| tendants offered come wine, which the Mar
shall put to his lips to avoid the reproach
| of barbaric rudeness; and this constituted
mics of the Marshal have been ringing the
changes for eighteen months. His replies to
the questions ofhis English interrogation up
| on several other matters pertinent to the
charges urged against him were equally vim
dicatory. With respect to the GROWING
charge-that with hundred and forty
thousand men at his command he
made no attempt to cut his way through
the lines of beseigers-the Marshal's
answer is that he had only ninety
Thousand fighting men at his back.
while the enemy numbered 100000. He
spoke in the most affectionate terms of
" the poor Emperor" to whom he profess
ed great devotion; when asked why the
Bonapartlsts were 80 hostile to him "a
circumstance of which we were not aware
-he replied that he supposed their hostility
was caused by "the absurd report that he
had been negotiating with Bismarck for the
erection of Alsace and Lorraine into a
neutral Duchy, and his own elevation into
the dukedom." Such a report might in
deed be we'll characterized az absurd.
PRUSSIA.
The Courts and the Police in Posen.-In
Pru ssia, whenever the arbitrary proceed
ings of the police come before the regular
courts, those tribunals seem to possess
sufficient independence to reverse them.
In the matter of the newspapers prosecut-
ed for publishing the Archbishop of Posen's
fI,a