The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-08-03

Ridiculous, and anything laughed at in
France is lost.
ANARCHY IN SPAIN.
At Madrid the Intransigentes (" or ir-
reconcilables have withdrawH from the Cor
ties, but they have not left peace behind
them. On Tuesday, Senior Castelar, made a
great speech, in which he lamented the de-
plOrable animosity which divided parties,
their "pessmist policy" and the impa-
thence and the quarrels which crippled the
majority. On the same day there was a
conference between Senores Quintero and
Gala, representatives of the seeding In
traDsigentes," and Senores CASTELAR, and
Salmeron on behalf of the majority. The
conditions on which the irreconcilables
would consent to come back were stated,
and amongst these were the alteration of
the law suspendipg constitutional liberties
and investing the Government with extra
ordinary powers, and the appointment of a
Senior Bando as Governor of Madrid. 1t is
thought that the Government will not agree
to these demands, and that the invitation
addressed to the Intransigentes" to take
part in the labors of the Constitutional
Commission will remain without effect. In
the meantime the Government have issued
manifesto declaring that the most impor
tant task before them is to put down the
cival war in the North. They appeal to
all Volunteer Corps for their assistance
against -" Absolutism," and declare that no
man who refuses to give it ia 90 either
Liberal or a spaniard." In the South the
towns are acting quite Independently of the
Government on the principle of the Com
mune and the authorities of Malaga have
decreed the demolition of all convent
buildings, and have seized on the episco-
pal residence and the " edifice of ST. Au-
gustine for municipal purposes.
THE CROWNS OF FRANCE AND SPAIN.
OF all strange combinations none could
be stranger than that of which we have
been reminded by pamphlet just publish
ed under the auspices of the Carlist Com
mittee namely, that the advocates, of the
legitimacy of Don Carlos's claims to the
Crown of Spain are in fact defending Or
leanist interests in France. Of course if
the Treaty of Utrecht had mover been ex-
| ecuted, Don Carlos would be the direct
heir to the crown of France after the
Comte de Chambord's death, and if the
male descendant of Philip ", according to
the Salic law should no longer be held to
have right to the Grown of Spain, his ex-
clusion from the throne of France, arrang-
ed in order that the two Crowns should
never be united, would no longer have any
meaning. This is obvious; but as, al
though he doubtless did it with this inten-
ton only, Philip V. made an express re-
nunciation of the Crown of France on be-
half of himself and his descendants in
France, first of his brother the Due de
Berri, and his male heirs, and then of his
heirs it seems odd that Louis Philippe
should have expressed the deliberate opin-
ion that the renunciation would be actually
| rendered null by the Introduction of female
| succession in Spain. He wrote, however,
in these terms to NJ. de Polignac during the
| terest in this question 1.-THE question of the
Spanish succession), "not only as French
man, but as a father, for in the event
(Which will not occur during my time1
that we should have the misfortune to lose
M. lie Duo de Bordeaux without his leaving
children, the Crown would descend to my
eldest son, provided the Sslic law be main
tanned in Spain but should it not be, the
| remuneration made by Philip V. of the
Throne of France, on behalf of himself aud
| his male descendants, would be. null and
veid-snce it is only by virtue of this re-
nuuciatiop that the male descendants of
this Prince have acquired an incontestable
right to the Crown of Spain but this right
| ouce abrogated, they would be entitled to
reclaim that which the Salic law of France
gives them, the Inheritance of Louis XIV,
for, as the grandsons of that monarch, they
take precedence of my children" In the
opinion therefore of Louis Philippe-inter-
ested, and afterwards doubly interested in
maintaining the contrary-the establish
ment of the right of Queen Isabel to the
Spanish Crown would involve the substitu
ton Of Don Carlos for the Comte de Paris
as heir to Henri "; to whom he is other
wise closely related as the nephew of his
wife and the husband of his niece. 1t is
curious coincidence that, but for one female
cousin of the House of Modena, who has by
marriage taken that eventual succession
into the Royal Family of Bavaria, Don
Carlos would also, after his uncle the Duke I
of Modena, be the lineal representative of
the House of Stuart.
THE DUTY OF FRANCE TO THE BERNEsE
JURA.
The French Catholic papers continue to
express with distrust of NJ. Lanfrey's atti-
tude with regard to the persecution in
Switzerland, and they have good reason for
being anxious about his conduct of the af-
fair, because the right of France to inter-
fere automatically is very clear. In the
Treaty of Vienna, by which the Bishopric |
of Bale, at that time part of France, was |
annexed to Switzerland and to the Canton |
Berne, it was expressly stipulated that re-
ligion 8 should be preserved in the state in
which it then was," that the Canton Berne |
should contribute it's due prouortion to the