The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04

fourth. Dundee has two Catholic Members
on its School Board, the Rev. p. Macmanus
aud DR.. M'Donald; the former heading the
poll, and the latter holding the third place
Many minor places. such as Falkirk, Pol
lockshaws, Leith, Haddington, ETC., have
put in Catholic members, the parish cler-
gyman being in most cases the chosen rep
resentative. A rumor was current in Ed
inburg on the day after the election, that
an attempt would be made to unseat the
Rev. George Rigg,- the ground that his
nominator, Bishop Strain, was not house
holder, and consequently had no vote. The
attempt, however, has fallen to the ground.
But that such petition was even in con-
temptation shows in what n narrow spirit
of jealousy or bigotry it must shave been
conceived.
FRANCE.
The Lyons Municipality-Th suppress
sion of the municipality OF Lyons by n vote
of the Assembly has been effected without
resistance but it wonld be imprudent to
infer from this fact that any progress is
being made towards the revival of the
supremacy of order. Tho Radical faction
in the second city of France bide their time.
They have received the mot d'ortlre from
their chiefs in Paris, aud blood is not to
flow just yet. The Geqmans are still on
this side of the Rhine, and too much act
ivity on the part of the agents of the
revolution might easily bring them to the
Rhone. Hence the forced armistice which
looks like peace, but is really the pre-
paration for war. The bloody strife is on
ly postponed. Meanwhile, each side counts
its ranks, and waits for the battle which
nothing can avert. 1t is discouragiug to
observe, in this moment of gloomy expec-
tation, that the divisions in the party of
order are not healed. Their enemies, fewer
in number, but skilfully organized, and
docile to leaders with whom they hope to
share the spoils, have a common aim, and
pursue it with unwavering cohstancy.
They know what. they propose to do, and
neither religion nor patriotism, Of which
they are Incapable, divide their counsels.
Their bond Of union is common hatred
of the altar and the throne, and their vic.
tory would be the suppression of both. On
the other side three parties contend toget-
her, each for it's own objects, and are too
busy with mutual conflicts to present I'M
tied front to the enemy. If this unhappy
division continues, it is easy to foresee that
the Radicals will celebrate another 18th of
September, and triumph in France, as they
have donesin Spain, by coup de main.
France appears to have learnt SO little by
her past sufferinss that it is impossible to
hope for her immediate recovery, in spite
of the elasticity of her resources and the
virtues of her Christian population. The
evil spirit must first be cast out of her, and
the civil war which appears to be immin
ent is probably the only remedy for greater
calamities, because it is the only process by
which the incorrigib!e enemies of order,
religion, and society, can be effectually
extinguished.
GERMANY.
German Culture.-Germany, as every
one knows, is the home of culture and
free thought, the cradle of the Reformation,
and the heir of its choicest blessings. In
spite Of these rare advantages, its inhadi-
tants do not seem TO have attained ideal
perfection. The scenes at Stuttgardt dur.
ing the last week of March, as reported by
tue correspondent of the London Morning
Post, do not encourage high estimate of
German Liberals. The population, in
sackihg the houses of the Jews, and rudely
the police who defended them.
On the second and third days of their lively
proceedings, they directed their playful
ferocity in quite indiscriminate manner
against Christians and their fellow citizens
in general, which must have convinced the
Jews, to their great satisfaction, that the
attack upon them was inspired by no per-
sonal Of religious animosity. AS the cor
respondent observes, sin the pell- nell con-
fusion of yels, the gathering of stones, fir
ing OF pistols" and other manifestations of
dislike to the existing order of things, sit
was not easy to discern religious differ
ences." Count Scholer, the governor of the
city, exhorted the combatants to disperse,
but was assailed by volley Of stones, and
the officer who accompanied him as wound
ed in the head. A good many of the cultured
Inhabitants of Stuttgardt, who prefer liter
AZURE to dogma, just as Mr.. Matthew Ar
mold does, began to cry, "The Commune of
Paris for ever!" "Down with the bour-
geoisie !" and other maxims of the Liberal
creed. Certainly such cries, says our in
formant, "have less to do with religious
zeal and historical recollections than with
tue atheistical time to come" He was
shocked to see, apparently on the third day
OF his visit, "dence troops of rutfians, arm
ed with cudgels, iron bars, and axes"
breaking into houses, stealing whatever
they found, and generally conducting them
selves In way not approved in civilized
society. 1t was only when the Landjager
for the police ''had been put hors de COM
Dat in the fights of the previous nights
charged the masses with the bayonet that
they consented to take up mere tranquil
attitude. The writer in the Morning Post,
a journal devoted to the cultivation of good
manners and the arts of peace, naturally re-
grets what he calls "the ierocity of the pro-
letarianS.D and con Sidars ISociolisn,