The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-11

lie meetings, and the resolutions, and the
petitions to Parliament, which the occasion
calls for 7 Instead of remonstrance we
see the infamy of declared acquiescence
and positive approval. Look at Cologne.
1t is eminently Catholic, 30 far'as religious
nomenclature goes. The nominal Cath
olics are to the Protestants in that old
Rhenish capital as ten to one. Yet ct the
late election of representative in the Prus-
sian Lower House, the Government candl-
dates, the nominees of Bismarck, carried
the day in q canter. A very small MAORI
ty might be effected by dexterous official
manipulation but the defeat of the can
didates hostile to the persecution of their
own excellent Archbishop was too decisive
to admit of that plea of extenuation of
scandalous electoral guilt. In such cir
cumstances, can it be matter of wonder
that Bismarck should dash headlong into
IA furious war against the Church, to please
the Freemasons, who abound in Germany,
and have bound themselves to his car on
the one condition-that he shall wage
deadly war against the Vicar of Christ
At least two-ffths of the population of
Prussia profess the Catholic religion, and
it is not to be supposed that if they mani,
tested indignation at the persecution OF
their Bishops and priests, the Government
would venture to persist in it. upon
these apathetc or Indifferent Prusslan
Catholics tremendous responsibility
rests. The Bishop of Paderborn has been
subjected to q recent fine of 11,6OO thaiers
(about s1,74O), or two years. imprison-
offence than appointing parish priests and
curates to fill vaucancies in his diocese,
without the sanction of the Protestant
Minister of Public Worship at Berlin.
which is made an offence under one of
the laws recently enacted by the Prussian
Protestant imagine the Archbishop of
Canterbury fined close upon $4,000. or
Imprisonment in the Surrey Gaol for two
years, for presuming to appoint rector or
curate in his diocese, without the sane
tieu of the Home Secretary --and that OFF,
cial Catholic This is, in parallel, pre-
cisely what happens daily in Prussia, aud
this is what the meeting, to be held next
month in London under the superinten
dance of Earl Russell, has been convened
to approve by Mandatory speeches and re-
solutions, and by sympathetic address to
the King of Prussia and his Prime Min
lister.
The seige of Cartagena has slumbered
! for several days on account of the recall of
one Madrileno general, and the appoint
ment of another whose courage and skill
are unknown to fame. However, he may
possibly prove himself better general
than the ro0ancing Nouvilas, or the sin
viuclble" Moriones-no great feat, certain
ly-but he has yet to win his spurs, and
the Irreconcilables appear resolved to give
him the opportunity by refusing to surren
der. AS to the CASTELAR, feet, we hea
nothing about it. The Madrid telegram
workers appear to have been shamed GU
, of enormous lying. They still deal consi
derably in that commodity, but the bounc
ing of October and the first weeks of Nov
q ember is discontinued. Iguominious de
q feats have ceased to be announced a
! splendid victories. The report is revive
e that the Hohenzo.lern party in Spain ar
| at their old game again, and this acquire
some confirmation from passage in Mon
days letter of the Paris correspondent {
= Prince Bismarck's principal London organ
a We there read that Queen Isabella ls muc
disconnected by the resolve of Marsha
4 MacMahon to commute Marshal Bazalne
# sentence to imprisonment, and not exile
h as, if exiled, it was plaued that he shout
l.. enter Spain as the generalissimo of tn
If Alphonsists, where he would be "immedla
J. tely joined by numbers of Spaniards, e'
If pecially officers of the old Isabellist arm.
Ia insurrection," We need hardly add thu
- the Bismarck tool is delighted at the in
! prisonment of Bazaine, whom he vlllh'
q most heartily.
le FoGs AND STORMS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
}, More extraordinary and more destruc
~ i've weather was never known in Englar
u than we have been afflicted with in Il
= eight days ending on TUESDAY last. II
At fog that enveloped London in that peric
s. was unprecedented for density and deadl
l. ness. 1t may be computed, at the lowe
"a calculation, that its human Victims, OF
y. way or another, amounted to couple
es hundred. The number of sudden death
Us caused by the action of the poisonous a
~ mosphere upon the respiratory organ
Oh transcends all precedent, aud in this r
A. spect it's deadly influence was felt alike
?e man and beast. But, though most fatal
i London, the fog was productive of serio'
IN consequences throughout England. The
" was general hindrauce of traffic, and a
or cideuts, more or less fatal, were genera
n And the fog has disappeared only to ush
he in, on Tuesday, one of the fercest al
a. most destructive tempests that ever pass
rs over the north OF England and the great
n part of Scotland. The destruction of Ii
a. and property, especially in Sheffield,
In awful. In Barnsley, Halifax, Leeds, Du
t; dee, Glasgow, Perth, and Edinburg, e
1e storm ragged violently, and much DANA
L. was done to property and person, and sol
< IiveR lost