The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-07-19

was sent in French from the Assembly to
the Holy Father.
Interesting Foreign Correspondence.
AUSTRIA.
Vienna Correspondence London Tablet
VIENNA, June 49, 1s74.-The dismissal of
Baron Kuhn from the post of Minister of War,
and the appointment of Gen. Baron Roller in
his stead. has come like thunderclap on our
Liberal Ministry, who were utterly unprepared
for such an exertion of Imperial and Royal
authority. The event has produced a general
one expecting that his own turn may come
next. To Baron Kuhn himself the news was,
believe, quite as unexpected as to his col
leagues. He had indeed sent his resignation
some months ago, but it was lot then accepted
by the Emperor, and the Baron has since
thought himself indispensable to the Liberal
Cabinet. His downfall has now come when it
was most unlocked for, but the action of the
Emperor is perfectly understood and highly
approved by the country at large. Baron
Kuhn's army administration will not DO re.
membered. by any salient facts He altered
the uniform of the troops to an imitation of
tho French-red trousers and blue coats-and
introduced political craftsmanship amongst th 9
men, which proved very detrimental to disci-
same state as it had been1eft by the events of
1866, and therefore unable to act. Austria's
voice was therefore unheeded in the hurly-
burly of the Franco-German conflict then
raging and her prestige as a leading Power of
Europe suffered still further diminution. Bat
little Improvement has taken place subse-
quently. The new Minister of War and late
Governor of Bohemia is also Liberal, but
withal q thorough soldier, and a very Unlikely
man to allow political passions to gain foot
ing in the army. 1t may be hoped that he
work of reconstruction, and the revival of
discipline The Liberal press is of course
furious at the change. Liberalism apprehends,
on the one hand, loss of strength in the
Cal of nj the other the lOsS of official
who as Governor of Bohemia, was SO far sub
servent to his Liberal superiors as to be de-
pended on for the suppression, even by the
bayonet if necessary, of all political mauifes-
tations in an anti-Liberal sense Baron Roller
is some loss in Bohemia, especially on the eve
of the elections; and he is but small gain in
profits as regards Liberal interests, by the
change. Baron Weber, the new Governor, is o
| thoroug b going bureaucrat and ready to go all
lengths for his party, but no solder, and with
| does he even possess, SO far as l am aware, the
reputation of political courage which attached
| to his predecessor.
| My statement week two back about the
| " Confessional Laws" and the Emperor has
| been reproduced in some of the papers here,
! and has produced a sensation. Certain Liberal
entreat His Majesty's Government to contra
dict it. l need hardly say that no contradic-
| ton has appeared by authority. My state
| ment has indeed received an unexpected con-
frmation. 1 find it asserted in German
newspaper that the Austrian Minister, Herr
Stremayer, has given his word of honor to
Archbishop Sembratowicz, that the said laws
| should not be executed. The leading journal
on the Liberal side, the Neue Freie Presse, is
especially furious, and threatens revolution
aud all sorts of terrible things beside; but the
| Eressc isin Jewish hands now that the subsidy
from Berlin has bee cut off, and Jewish cour-
age is much an unknown quantity here as
| Jewish honesty OF yeracity
BAVARIA.
Munich Correspondence London Tablet
| MUNICH, June 10, 1874.
| The Ministers, Herr Lutz and Herr Pfretsch-
I 'uer, have been summoned to confer with the
King at Berg, where his Majesty is STAYING.
They have, it is said, brought all theig9idnu
ence to bear on the King to induce hfJh to
disapprove of the vote of the Chambers in
reference to the Jesuit Count Fugger. whose
appeal 1 described in recent letter. The
| King has remained entirely apconvinced by
the arguments of his two Ministers. He
remarked that he knew the Importance of the
vote and that during his reign he would
never lend himself to the tyrannical passions
of faction, of whose loyalty to the Father
land, notwithstanding its loud professions, he
was by means assured Bavaria, said his
Majesty, will ever remain faithful to Germany
but she will not allow herself to be taken in
tow by a Prussian party. He thought the
time had arrived when Bavarian policy should
assert itself beyond the possibility of a doubt
and VIXEN his Government ought to act with
energy. He was, and woald continue to be, q
German Sovereign, but he would owe no sub
servjence to party that seeks to create a
Germany on behalf of which he, for one, would
never have drawn the sword. He equally
meant to Henfain Bavarian, and would never
consent that Bavaria should be absorbed in
the vortex of modern ideas. After this homily
the Kings Ministers departed in perplex ed
state of mind, and Herr Late doubtless tele-
grapbed to Berlin without delay faithful &C
count of the Insight he had obtained into the
Royal sentiments. 1t is secret that Herr
Lutz is creature of Bismarck's: like the rest
of his colleagues, he is bound hand aud foot to
the chariot wheel of " modern IDEAS"
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