The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-09-28
rFysCEIIANE0Us FOREIGN MEws.
(To Sep*ember 6th.J
4, HorRr DAME DE BpULoaNE.

MIsCEILAMEOUg FOREIGN MEWs.
tro sasteno'r ''A'I
T. NorRH DAME DE BpULoaNE.
Accounts have reached us of the very
pilgrimage which has only this
week been concluded at the church of
Metre Dame at Boulogne. "!mposeiele to
present at Bouiogne, what the heart felt
in beholding that sight. Protestants them
their admiration Of those public and 80,
lemn manifestations of Christian faith and
piety." 1t is the more gratifying that TINS
pilgrimage should have Immediately pre-
coded another to very similar import, be. |
cause the Significance of the "two may be
we'll compared, so as to bring out the har- |
monies of both" The Times said last
Tuesday, when speaking. of the pilgrimage
land, Why this new revelation " Ito the
Blessed Marie Alacoque), except that 80
many have become obsolete and forgotten,
passing first out of fashion, then out OF
memory altogether, as this, it can hardly
be doubted, will in due time" YET here
petition of devotion that has been going
on for twelve hundred years, which has
never varied in object or faith, and which
at one time was essentially English. More.
over, the origin of this devotion is at least
as supernatural as the origin of the devo-
ton to the Sacred Heart. The belief in
both-whether in the devotion or their ORR
| gin--is no more than the beliefin the SOW
| ereignty of God, in His empire over all
He has made. The crowds which have
just left Boulonge, like the few thous sa
ton to Our Lord aud to His Mother have
always gone together in the Church, and
that the faith and practice of true Chris
tians is the same in all places and times.
THE LEFT CENTRE AND THE RESTORATION.
After the declaration of the Due de Bro
gle at Evreux, We have q speech made by
II. Waddington of the last Theirs Ministry,
General Of the Aisne, the object Of which
is to pin Marshal MacMahon to the main
tenance of the existing regime, and of the
. Rivet Constitution which make the Presi-
dency coeval in duration with the Assem-
bly,. NJ. Waddington gave the health .s Q,
the President, saying "We have the
fullest confidence in Marshal MacMahon.
because he has given his word that he will
not support with his sword any surprise
or political adventure. We have confidence
in him, because we feel certain that he VIII
he has so often led to victory in the
Crimea, in Africa, and in Italy, and be-
meath which he shed his blood for France.
May he long preside over the destinies OF
= our country, and assure to her the peace &c
much in need" We have here perhaps an
allusion to rumoured remark of Marshal
9 MacMahon's, that he "would never serve
under the White Flag" he is much more
. likely, however, to have said chat he
= would not serve if the tricelor was aban-
doned. We are accustomed in England to
see the Queens colors and the regimental
colors carried at the head of regiment, and
# such an arrangement might not be impos.
o sible in France, the White Flag powdered
with golden lilies and bearing the Royal
| 1,os~ nSr
Is reserved as the Royal Standard, to mark
i the presence of Royalty. But it is now
+ said, and we should imagine with truth,
9 that no difficulty about the flag has been
Q raised. The attachment of the army to
9 the tricolor is not connected with any Pc.
o litical theories, it is an affair of sentiment
), and military memories, and it is impossi'
q BILE that when the question comes to be
. finally discussed neither side will be in
clined to treat it in all cases as matter o.
Q principle and to press it in its most abso
lutte form. Asfor the Bonapartists, they ap-
pear to be making ready to withdraw them.
selves from the coalition should any actua
~ steps be taken towards the restoration o.
is Legitimate monarchy, and they are said to
to have communicated to the Left Centre
70 their willingness, in that case, to cooper.
E ate with it in any resistance which it may
10 decide on offering. Neither party of course
y would f" descend into the street," 80 thai
'r their opposition is likely to be purely par
,, liamentary. We would notventure to pre-
ID dict the same of the Reds.
~ THE DEFEATS AND THE coMrE DE PARIS.
% The Journal DIES Debats has completed
rs its evolution, and an article by Mr.. Johr
70 Lemoinne on Saturday announces not only
that the Republic has become impossible
but that the Comte de Paris, having re.
4 nounced all pretensions to the Crown, the
Comte de Chambord is the only possible
'r king, this however only on the condition
N that he will grant a constitutional charter
a. as Louis XVIII. did. "When," writes NJ
90 Lemoinne, 1--WE said that if the Republic
at compromised by the mad follies of its ad
'. herents, was still alive, it was living moi
N by its own strength We meant to say that
Id its existence has been preserved by the
er division between the monarchical parties
he "But the step taken by the grand. son o.
re Louis Philippe is not a fusion, as it is ina,
N properly called, it is the recognition of
b, right and an act of submission" "Tht
h year 1880 is effaced, not from the calendar
not from history, but from the repertorJ
of Constitutions and if it suits France t.
"a give herself q king, there is now only ona fn]