The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-05
N1scELLANKoUs FOREIGN NEWS.
RIO September I3th.I
TIE EVACUATION OF FRANCE

was dispelled by General ManteufRel de-
claring at a dinner to the Verdun authori-
ties on Sunday, that the evacuation would
be effected on the 18th. The troops
of the castle OF seven this morning, and at
half-past eight Verdun would be delivered
from the occupation. The retreating Ger
mans will not, however, reach the frontier
till Tuesday or Wednesday, as they will
rest on Monday, and on Friday they will
the last on which, according to the treaty,
France would have TO pay the German
troops on condition Of their being still on
her soil, so that the Germans will have lost
only one days pay Of the total sum which
France was liable to be called upon to dis
charge.
MORE FUSION F" sPEcULATIoNs.
The quidnuncs are still occupying them
selves about the " fusion and its suppos-
ed difficulties. It is true that NJ. Paul de
Cassagnac has published an article in the
Pays, in which he declares that the Royal
lists seem to desire war with the Bonapart
lists, and " shall have it," and the Ordre
follows on the same tack but nobody, we
suppose, imagined that, when the time
came for the Monarchists to act, the 1mpe-
rialists would be still found in their ranks.
The correspondent of the Daily News, goes
further, and says that in Governmental
circles all idea of the fusion is abandoned,
and that the Duo de Broglie regards it as
chimerical." He adds, that the Conserva-
tives are now working to prolong Marshal
though some Of them doubt the Assembly's
power to do SO, but Reuters kilograms
state that the Cabinet at least has not dis
cussed this question though Marshal Mac
Mahon " has signified his readiness to &C
cept q prolongation." We suspect that
there is very little foundation for all these
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one else, when a Monarchical restoration
will take place, but almost everyone in
France looks upon it as certain, and when
it does come it will be brought about, not
by any violent effort, but by the force of
events, and the sheer weariness of parties.
PROGRESS OF THE GERMAN PERSECUTION.
The persecution in Germany seems
likely to become general. The Bishop of
Fulda has notified to the government of
his province the impossibility of comply
ing with the demands which it is bent on
enforcing, or admitting it's competence,
and he evidently foresees imprisonment at
least. The clergy of his diocese, immedi
diately after the sentence pronounced on
him, waited on him with an address of
sympathy in the trials which had fallen on
their pastor at 80 advanced an age, ex-
preserve their fidelity to him should he be
cast into prison, to share their bread with
him and their prosecuted brethren, and, if
their duty should require 1t, to fellow his
example. To this the aged Bishop replied
that, " after the signature of the collective
address, it was easy to. perceive that the
Bishops would have to endure chastise-
ment, imprisonment, and even more rigor-
GUS treatment. And the Courier de Paris
publishes in dispatch from Berlin the fol-
lowing serious intelligence, which seems to
require further CONTINUATION: Last night
1.-THE 3rd) an officer of police signified to
Archbishop Ledochowski an order from the
Minister of Worship to the effect that if he
did rot recognize the new ecclesiastical
laws of the Empire within the delay Of one
month, he must resign his Archbishopric,
and that, in case of his refusal to do SO, he
would be expelled by force" Whether the
Prussian Government is really prepared to
proceed to the same lengths as the Berne
and Soleure Governments, and actually to
attempt pretended deposition of Bishops
from their sees, is not, as we have said, as
yet quite clear, but that they intend to go
as far as imprisonment seems certain. All
the Catholics, however, Bishops, clergy,
and faithful laity, have made up their
minds to q calm and passive resistance
where the law of the land is clearly in con-
fiict with the law of God, and the eventual
issue cannot be doubtful. They know that
at the worst they have time as well as
Heaven ON their side, for, although the new
German Empire is founded on blood and
iron, the kingdom of God on earth will out
last even that, and much more will it out
last the statesmen who are bringing that
empire to the brink of ruin.
THE NEW ECCLESIASTICAL CONSTITUTION FOR
GENEVA.
The law on the civil constitution of the
Catholic Church in the Canton of Geneva,
which finally passed the Grand Council on
the 9th ultimo, is now published in ertenso
| in the Journal de Gcncre. Filst, there is a
partially new circumscription of the par
ishes, the three parishes in the city of
Geneva being now for the first time recog-
nized the salaries are somewhat raised,
aud the receipt of stole-dues is strictly
forbidden. Next, the cures aud vicaires
are to be elected by the Catholics who are
on the Cantonal list of electors no one person
being allowed to vote in the elections of two
religious denominations. Next, at each va
cancy roll is to be prepared, on which all
ordained Catholic priests may enter their
names as candidates: No cures or vicaires
may, without the sanction of the Council
of State, exercise any functions or accept
any ecclesiastical dignities higher than
those conferred by election. (This is to
| prevent any of them from hecnnninp a