The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-09-27
Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
NK~ ORLEANS. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER s7. 1874
Foreign Gossip.
lCorresr ondent New York World.l

lCorresI ondent New Sork WofluI
LONDON, September 5.-The private
news from Spain, received here by bankers,
merchants, and diplomatists, is at present
somewhat more trustworthy than that
which comes from the newspaper CORE
spondents. However, it is all of one color.
The substance of it is that the Carlists are
continually gaining ground, and that the
entrance of Don Carlos into Madrid Is to
be prevented only by active Intervention
on the part of Germany. 1t is added that
this Intervention is really imminent, and
that the landing of o German army In Spain
may be expected if the tacit consent OF the
other powers, except France, can be OBJ
tanned The consent of France is not to be
asked indeed, quarrel with France seems
to be part of the game. Prince Bismarck
has instructed his consuls on the frontier to
act as if they were on German territory,
and to report every instance in which the
French authorities seem to be negligent in
preventing the passage of arms, ammunl-
ton, or supplies into the Carlist lines.
Germany is not beloved in England. The
war which she is waging against the Cath
olic Church has won for her the approval
of the ultra Protestants here, but what she
has gained from this quarter has not made
up for the detestation with which this war
is regarded by the High Church party here,
and by the really honest section of the Lib
eral party. Amusing instances of this i'll
. feeling may be seen in the comments which
some of the journals make upon the recent
confirm alton of the eldest son Of the Ger
man Crown Prince. The Spectator sneers
ut it, and Gays that the Lutheran clergyman
who preached at the ceremony, and who
took for his text Fight the good fight of
faith" should have rather chosen as his
theu,c. "the text which members of this
House nave such great need to ponder,
All they that take the sword shall perish
by the sword.'" And another journal says: ::
1t is curous-half affecting, half revolving
to read the accounts coming to us from Pots
dam of the confirmation of the eldest son of
the Imperial Prince of Germany. 1t is half
affecting and half revolving, we mean, in this
sense-that it is impossible not to marvel over
the apparently profound religious emotion of
family the aged head of which is tolerating
at the same moment the most cruel brutal,
and relentless of religious prosecutions. Pisty
80 ill-timed on the old Emperors part recalls
to mind irresistibly those terribly satirical car
ricatures of the King Of Prussia Gas he was
then) on his knees, saying " Praise God from
whom all blessings dow" and then, IN the same
breath; rs an exultaut aside 10 Queen Augusta
cby telegram), announcing, so many more say,
terrible mingling of slaughter and prayers, OF
Wholesale carnage by kruPp guns, and OF
Praise God Bare Bones CALCULATIONS flashed
across Europe through the telegraphic wire, to
be afterwards sent the round of the newspa-
pers, was not one atom more incongruous in
itself, as it seems to us, than this last exhibl-
tion on the part of tho old Kaiser wilhelm.
Here are 100000 Catholics under his rule
ground to the dust with the most callous in
difference, by means of wholly unprovoked
and q quite heartless religious persecution.
And in the midst of it here is the aged chief
the State assisting with q sort of exaggerated
unction at this confirmation of his youthful
grandson. All this, of course, is very affecting
But it is also, must insist upon il, under
the circumstances, to our thinking, exceedingly
revolving So full of emotion, of tears and
embraces, over the happy ceremonial of the
boy y-prince's confirmation! So cal,ous, so cold.
blooded, SO pitiless, in the persecution of mul-
titudes of noble and honorable men, bishops,
priests religious orders, laity, noble ladies'
even as Munster has but very recently been
witnessing! The emotion and the tears just
witnessed at Potsdam were surely ont of place
under existing circumstances That there is
reason for it we do not. deny. But it should
certainly have had different application.