The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-26

26, 1873.
| lent articles against the Catholics for their
attitude toward Victor Emmanuel, this pa
per suddenly appeared with an article from
which the following is an extract: "There
are serious motives which prevent us from
withholding our esteem from our adverse
ries, however much we may differ from
them In opinion. It would be difficult to
mock at the patriotic grief which cannot
reconcile itself to the loss of two fair prov
inces, pearls of the Austrian crown. We
also comprehend the mourning of Catholic
hearts moved by the lot of Plus TX. 1t is
these" And the Poster LLOYD, which is
well known to be in the confidence Of Count
Andrassy, writes thus: "Here at Vienna
the King of Italy has been spared any po-
iitlcai proposals, but he will not escape
them at Berlin. Here we have confined
ourselves to maintenance of friendly rela-
tions," etc. est is probable that here the
Government has refused to occupy itself
with the future Conclave, or in general with
the situation OF the Papacy at Berlin strong
efforts will be made with a view to common
action in religious matters" "For all these
reasons it is propable that preliminaries
signed at Berlin, whereas there Ia hardly
even question of an Austro- Italo- German
alliance" We cannot, therefore, be sur
prised when we find the correspondent of
the Debats in Rome acknowledging that
the visit has been q complete failure as far as
Austria is concerned. And the Berlin cor
respondent of the Daily News Informs us
that the tone of the Yiennese press is re-
sented in Prussia, and that the semi-ofi-
cial Journals, taking up the case, "declare
that no formal alliance will be now made,
and that Germany will not be betrayed in
n frnr ruf,S nh, eS-S,
something worse, shrank." Certainly no
love is lost between the Berlin and Vienna
newspapers, and one of the latter has re-
marked that King Victor Emmanuel was
gone to visit Power which keeps in its
pigeon-holes ready made plans for q war
with each of its neighbors.
THE GEsU.
The ubiquitous exception contained in the
Italian law on Religious Orders has been
carried out, and the telegraph infoEms- us
that the Jesuit Fathers have quilted the
Gesu, only four or FIVE priests-we presume
the secular priests in the habit Of saying
Mass there-beipg left for the service Of
the church.
AUSTRIA.
In Austria the electioneeripg Campaign
is just now in full swing. Hitherto the
various provinces or 'fcrown landsn of the
western half of the empire had enjoyed o
ing diet of its own, which attended to
all provincial affairs and deputed repre-
sentatiyes to the Vienna Reichsratb, who
had charge of all imperial matters. This
plan had first been introduced by Count
Golochowski and Herr Won Schmerling, in
1860 and 1861, and had worked hitherto as
we'll as the promiscuous elements of which
the Austrian empire is made up might
have led any one to suppose. But ever
since the splitting-up Of the monarchy in
two halves, called Cisleithania and Trans
leithaDia, which was one Of Beust's prime
cipal achievements, the centralising and
Germanizing tendencies Of the 90. called
Liberal" party have contrived to swindle
the various on-German provinces out of
their local privileges, one after another
and to cap it oil the sort of rump parlia-
ment that met in Vienna last year managed
by hook and by crook, to pass o new Or
game law in which direct elections, in
stead Of provincial Populations, are pro-
vided for. The Forthcoming elections are
to decide whether these tendencies are to
prevail permanently or whether the local
and religious interests of the vast majority
OF the people are to be properly represent
ed in the general parliament. "Local
self-g0vernment" is the battle CRY of the
Catholics and home rulers, who have given
mp the passive resistance maintained hit
herto, and thrown themselves in,o the
struggle with will. If the strength Of
the real majority of the people is to pre-
vail theirs must be the victory.
RUSSIA.
The correspondent Of the Tablet writes
from Peterhof, Sept. l6-2s, 1873, as fol-
lows.
Russia and Henry T.-The prospect of a
restoration in France causes more alarm
here than the advent of a new Commune
1t is ever the spectre of Ultramontanism
which is put forward, aud the arguments
most devoid of foundation are those that
have most success. The idea will seem a
strange one TO you, but it is perfectly logi-
cal. To despotlsm, which is the Offspring of
Paganism, Radicalism is very much less
antithetical than rational and Conserva-
tive liberty. Whenever this shall reign in
France as it reigns in England, all Europe
will be constitutional and that is what the
democrats no more desire to see than do
the reactionaries.
The Russian Language in the Polish