The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-12-07

tho presence Of great crowds In all the
churches /; at Notre Dame the civil and
military authorities of Paris were present
in state, and in the Chapel Royal at
personalities, took part in the devotions
which it had decreed. The Bishop of Yer
sailles ofaciated; two chairs Of state at the
entrance of the sanctuary were occupied by |
the President and the President of the
Assembly, and all the great Ministers of
State occupied the left and the deputies the
right of the nave, while in the sanctuary.
among the clergy, was the Bishop OF
Orleans, and in the royal tribune the |
Nuncio. The Bishop delivered an eloquent
address,. and then intoned the "Veni
Creator, ," after which Mass was said and the
Litanies of the Saints sung.
REPUBLICAN PLOTS.
1t is asserted that the Epiuac plot, as it
is now called, had wider ramificaton than
anybody suspected, and that even some of
the Government employees appointed under
the Gambetta administration were impl-
Gated in it. At the same time another
conspiracy is said to have been discovered,
the headquarters of which were at Geneva.
The Moniteur Universel is the authority for
the statement, and the organization is said
to be a kind of demagogic league" for the
purpose of getting up revolution in the
great towns Of the south Of France. Ger
tain municipal bodies" are accused of hav-
public monies to the purposes of this asso-
citation, aud proofs of this charge are, it ID
alleged, in the possession of the Govern
ment.
OPENING OF THE PRUss1AN LANDTAG.
On the 10Th ult. both Houses of the Land
tag were opened with Royal speech, read
by Vice President Camphausen, the En-
peror-King being confined to his room by
severe rheumatism. The Speech accepts
the great Liberal majority in the new
Chamber as an indication that the recent
| legislation is approved by the country, and
after some self-congratulation on the con-
dition of the public finances, proceeds to
say that the Falk laws had "met with I'M
justifable opposition from the Roman Ca
tholic Bishops, and that the Government
was the more determined to strictly enforce
these laws, inasmuch as they in no way
imperilled the religious existence of the
various creeds. Moreover, the Govern
ment would, if necessary, adopt further
measures in the same direction, counting
tives of the country"-that is to say, we
suppose, that if imprisonment and fines
fail, exile and pretended deposition will
follow.
PROSECUTION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CO.
LoGNE.
How far it is true that the laws Gin no
way imperil the religious existence of the
various creeds" may be judged from the
fact that the Archbishop of Cologne and his
auxiliary Bishop, Mgr. Baudri, are at this
moment being tried for "libelling" two ap-
estate priests and two seminarists who
have received schismatical ordination by
communicating them, and also for "calu-
mniating" the cold Catholic" Communi-
ties of Cologne and Bonn. If the case
against these prelates is established, it is
evident that no Catholic Bishop can ex-
clude a heretical priest from his commun-
ion, or declare with impunity that seced-
ing community is no longer Catholic. We
do not see how "the religious existence"
of the Catholic creed could be more
effectually "imperilled."
THE ELECTION TO THE SEE OF FULDA.
The Chapter of the vacant See of Fulda
has sent to the Government a list of five
, persons from which to select persona
, gratissima, an act which the Spencer Gazette
considers q compliance with the ecclesias-
tical laws but under the Concordat the
Civil Government was granted right OF
, approval of persons nominated to a Bish
, opric, and we cannot see that anything
more is conceded in this instance. The
real difficulty lies further on what under
taking will the Government exact from the
Bishop Elect as a condition of their con-
sent to his appointment.
THE AUSTRIAN REICHsRATH AND THE EN-
PERoR's SPEECH.
the opening of the Reichsrath was very fa-
; vorably received in consequence of its
Centralist tone-the new majority are
strongly Centralist-and also for it's candid
acknow Judgement of the unsatisfactory
state of the public finances, and it's implied
undertaking that special legislation will be
necessary az a remedy. The clause con-
corning religious matters is vague, aud we
must wait for more precise announcement
. of the Ministerial intentions before ventur-
ing an opinion we are merely told that
the bills necessary for the completion OF
legislation consequent ON the abrogaton oil
, the Concordat, will be laid before the Diet
I Ofcourse they will be unsatisfactory and bad
. but it is still a question how bad. We have
y = said that the majority is strongly Central
ist; the following are some of the figuies
Lower Austria (Vienna) has returned 81
;, Centralists to one Federalist Upper Aus
tria at least from the towns alone Bohe
mia SO Centralists out of 70 Moravia 9.
y out of SO; Syria 16 and even Tyrol II
Il Centralists out of Is. In Vienna the party
y of ''Young Germany" has been so eucour
o aged by the Emperor Williams visit, tina
!; it has carried six out of the nine seats fo
the suburban Districts and throughout til,
Fuonira tho marty in asearted hv tho On,