The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-07-13


felt the iniquity and hardship OF the meas
ure, and to have made representations rs
to the necessity of moderation in carrying
it into effect. o moderation which Signor
De Falco, the Minister Of Pablo Worship,
undertook should be observed. -
Rattas.i and Uapour.-we noticed last
week the remarkable coincidence by which
on the day, and neatly at the hour, when
DR.. Reinkens was elected, DIR. Loos, VINO
was to consecrate him, died. Another kind
Of coincidence is Observable with regard to
the death Of Rattazzi. He died on the 9th
Junes the anniversaryaof the death OF Ca
your, his great political leader, and his AS
sociate In the preparation Of the Piedmon-
tess laws against the Religious Orders
SPAIN. pt* 10
The Situation There 10 nothing but She
ususl kind of intelligence from Spain.
Senior sSalmeron has been elected Presi-
dent Of the Cortes by l76 votes against "a
fed to France, out Of disgust, it is said, at
the hopeless state Of affairs; his disineii
nation to taking any further part in the
struggle being no doubt increased by his
recent bereavement. The new ministry
have made declaration to the effect that
it is necessary to reorganise the army-aot
30 easy q task now-and that they intend
to procure a revision of the regulations. SO
that military offenders may be duly pun
ished. 1t is of urgent Importance, they say,
to put down the Carlists without further
loss Of time, and martial law must now be
put in force against them. Slavery is to
be abolished in the whole Of the Antilles,
the condition of the working GLASSES at
home must be improved, and joint commits
clone Of arbitration appointed to settle dis,
putes between employers and workmen and
the conditions of children's labor. The
drawing MP of the Constitution is to be
proceeded With as quickly as possible, and
the limits Of the Federal States settled.
Not till after the completion OF this latter
they estimate rsughly the deficit at the end
of June at 2 300 million ef reals. Esteva,
nee, the new Minister Of War, late civil
governor of Madrid, has put out an order
Of the day in which he promises the army
that Sc CONSUMPTION shall be abolished, the
public forces re-organiEed, the artillery
corps modified, conditions Of promotion en-
tirely revised, and discipline re- establish.
ed.n This however is not likely to be OF
much use towards restoring subordinatlon
in the existing army. The grievancsis that
the time of service for q large proportion
of the troops is nearly at an end 1t Ii
thought by these men very HARD tnas shey
the interval and they accordingly refuse
I'D In The conduct Of battalion of Madrid
rifiemen who formed part Of General We
leFde,e oorps in his advance out OF Cata-
Ionis, and who, on being oEdere4t to marcp
on Zaragoza, have Just nn.lnled at ! NUT
enant- Colonel Martinez Llagostera. Cen
teral Velarde hirnseh has returned to Ma
drid, and General Hidatgo-the immediate
cause Of the last reyolusion-has been .ap-
pointed civil governor Of the capital in the
place of EstevaDez. -Seno7 CASTELAR, mas
been appointed President of 2" Committee
of Direetionn named by tho Assembly.
General Pierrad-who is said, to be an
Intransigente," and to have counteracted
all Figueras's oEders-has nevertheless, for
some reason or other, given place to
General Carrafa as Secretary to the MINIS
ter of War, and the resignation of Senior
Olozapa at Paris has been accepted. In
the meanwhile the Carlists have not been
idle. The eabeciLd Miret has fought a
comparatively important engagement in
Catalonia, and has defeated an. infantry re-
giment and taken a gun, the Republicans
being only saved from utter rout by the ar
rival of :reinforcements, which did not,
however, succeed in turning the fortune of
the day. A telegram from Bayonne mem
tions another engagement Dear OyaTzun, in
which also the Carlists were victorious
but another from Hendaye states that Nou-
villas has defeated Dorregaray near Vltoria'
A
Miranda, and it was reported that all
trains would be intercepted till the Madrid
Government should recognize the act on
the Convention with the railway company,
and abstain from sending troops by rail.
These tactics appear to have succeeded, for
the Spanish Government has now given
the undertaking demanded. The Republi-
can Volunteers seem to be more trouble.
some than useful. At San Sebastian they
have revolted, and the mayor of the town
has been obliged to compromise the mat
ter; and st Vich and another place in Cat
alon:a their conduct has been such that the
inhabitants have risen and driven them
away with sticks and pitchforks.
SWITZERLAND, FRANCE AND THE PERsECU
TON.
Bexne, as usual, takes care to follow TIT
steps of Berlin. Tho Journal de Geneue
which is ordinarily we'll informed abou
the doings of its friends in power assert
that if NJ. Lanfrey, Minister of Franco, re-
signs, the Marquis de Chateaurenard is no
to be appointed Minister at Berne, becaus'
the Swiss Federal Government have ex
pressed an objection. to him. The oni!