The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-04-26
NIscELLANEoUs FOREIGN NEWS.
no April aletl
FRANCE.

ieneu Assembly mas risen for IN
Easter recess, and pretty long recess
Is to be: as it will last till the 18th of May
just before the adjournment some impor
tant acts were accomplished. The Duke!
OF Aiepcon and Penthievere were confirm
ed IN their military and naval rank-tha
.s, IN erect. the remaining laws agains
tne orleans family were repealed ant
the representation put upon the property o.
the late Emperor Napoleon was removed
not without strenuous opposition on the
part OF the Republican party. Then an
/ important debate, in which N. Theirs took
part, came of on the subject of the French
| III land Notifications of the future; and
finally, the Duc de Broglie introduced the
| Government scheme for the creation of a
second Chamber. According to this scheme
| the upper house is to consist of the cardinals
! ana narshals, and a number of dissiu-
gulshed personages selected by a special
electoral college from the army, the civil
service, and the magistracy and, as to
lts powers, it may initiate legislation, it
Will ra!ify treaties, and, subject to the ap
pIoVal of the Executive, it may even dis
solve the Lower Chamber. 1t would thus
De the real depository of the political pow
ef OF the country; and this being the case
are in state of excitement over the pos
s'bIlity of the views of the Government
being adopted.
Meanwhile the constituencies continue
to send up to Versailles Republican re
personalities. On the Goth of March two
elections took place in FranceNone in the
department of the Gironde, the other in
the department of the Upper Marne-and
the result of each was highly favorable to
the Republican cause. In the Gironde,
the Republican candidate polled t6s .e77
votes, while the Imperialist and Minister
respectively. In the Upper Marne, the
Republican received q, 62s votes, and the
Ministerialist only 1873 All this is de-
cldedly very discouraging to the Monarch
lsts and the comparative success of the |
bonapartlst partisan in the wealthy de- |
thealeast significant sign of the times.
TWO ANNIvERsARIEs-THE GERMAN ARMY
BILL.
Ga Sunday, March %, the German EN-
oeror completed the 18th year of his age.
and King Victor Emmanuel celebrated the
9th Anniversary OF his accession to the
bronze of Sardinia, Savoy, and Piedmont.
We can scarcely be expected to join in the
chorus of congratulation to the last-named
'otentate on the results Of bis achieve
nents and on the present condition of
tally, bat We will not indulge in a com
'arison between what is and what might
iave been. We will content ourselves
With observing that at each of these festi-
ais there lie a skeleton, and the skeleton
4 Berlin lie military one. At the au-
Hence granted TO the Generals, the En-
,eroT told Marshal Won Wrangel and them,
bat as they appeared before him as the {
representatives. of his army, he could not
conceal from them that crisis appeared
o be again hanging over il. What he had t
trlven for before during four years, main
aimed, and accomplished from a sense OF
luty and from conviction-he might have :
dded, in the teeth of the legislature-was =.
ewarded by military "successes great be- !
OF IL Ill
he same course now, adhering to that .
'hich has been tested by experience, mot t.,
Elth view to bringing about war, but
order to secure European peace"
Inns means, that in the absence of Prince q
5ismaFk, General Voigt Rhetz cannot get :
Ilness of the Chancellor-whether it is to |
e called govt, rheumatism, rheumatic 9
out, sciatica, or, more generally, neuralgia
lis very severe, aud has completely pro
trated him. The National Liberals and
he Progressists have accordingly seized 1
he moment when the House cannot be f
ectured and frightened, to NEEDLE with t
he integrity of the Government scheme, y
nd have procured the rejection, both on c
he first and on the second reading, of the i
st Clause, which fixed the peace effective q
t 40l $50 men, as we'll as another motion Y
Of fixing it at 354 900. There have been 4
ttempts to compromise the matter, by b
herlng to adopt the Government figure, O
educing in some cases the period of ser b
Ice, but the Emperor's allusion to his past q
truggle with his Legislature does not look T.
cry MUCH as if be would be willing to con- q
ent to that. I
DISTURBANCES IN POLAND. I
The Warsaw correspondent of the East =
m Budget, writing on the 18th ult., says II
The riots which have taken place in "
Tenty-six districts of the United Greek c.
Tarchy OF Chelm are not without some W
official significance, and have caused CON v
deraole excitement among the Poles here. W
ne papers are not allowed to print any Of
ing on the subject, and the consequence is CT
lat All sorts of exaggerated rumours are re
rculated about the conflicts between the 1t
oops and the peasants in the above dis d
lets. An authentic report has just ap- Fl
cared IN the government paper, but as re
'uaI with such official reports people do til
't believe that it tells the whole truth. dc
states that in October last the United it
EEK Bishop OF Chelm issued circular to n
Re clergy Directing them m corrv co