The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-22
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
fYo January 3lst

Tho CAN'T Cltramontane" meetings o
the 27th are described by tho Londoi
Times as in "ordinary Ne-Popery demon
STATIONS" The absence of any real cele
Sir Robert Peel, and Sir Il. Chambers being
the only representatives of the late Parlia
ment, and the only dignitary of the estab
lishment who ventured to put in persona
appearance being DR.. Payne Smith, the
Dean of Canterbury, whose recent partici
patton at New York in communion of q
nondescript kind, has created no little ex-
citement among the Apglicans. Those
who wrote letters, like the Archbishops OF
Canterbury and York and the Dean OF
Westminster, carefully guarded themselves
against an expression of approval of the
russian ecclesiastical legislation, and con-
lined them selves to reprobation of "Ultra-
montanes" and "UltramOntanism" gener-
ally.
THE DUO DE BROGLIE AND THE "UNIyERS."
There is still some controversy as to the
cause of the suspension. The Memorial
Diplomatiqme states positively that it was
a perfectly spontaneous act on the part of
the Government. We never supposed that
it was anything else, in one sense, that is,
we have never believed that the German
Government expressly and specifically de-
manded the suppression of the CnirerS.
But 1T has made it Enthusiastically plain
through it's organs in the press, and very
possibly through Count Won Arnim verbal
home or foreign" to the policy it has re-
solved to carry out with regard to the
Catholic Church and although the Nord
deutsshe Heifung now declares-on Satur-
day evening last-that the French Gov
eminent has yielded to no pressure from
without in its recent adoption of measures
against French newspapers, and that "none
flnon !, Lnn I'D L.,
Germany" this assurance after the fact
does not deprive all that the same paper
previously published of it's natural signi-
fcance and weight. If the meaning of the
articles in the Norddeutsehe Zsit3ng and
similar papers was not to warn France,
under pain of declaration of war. to dis
socate herself from the cause of the Cath
Ollie Church, what was it Z Now that the
effect is produced it is all very we'll to say
that the act of the French Government |
was spontaneous. 1t was spontaneous, as !
1T seems to us, to this extent A. wants B. |
to punish C. He does not ask B. to do so,
but he tells everybody else that if b. does |
not punish c., he will make things extreme
ly uncomfortable for him, and may even |
be obliged to have recourse to personal
We prefer this explanation
to the supposition that M. de Broglie and
his friends have been gratifying personal
spite against NJ. Veuillot. Charity indeed
would oblige us, in default of proof, to
adopt the former hypothesis, and we will
quote in support of it some remarks of the
Spectator, which are much to the point -
Doubtless the statement that no note passed
4 true. Count Arnm is of the men who can
upersede notes, and throw the authority of
despatch into a whisper not heard beyond
he curtain of bay-w lndow in the prettiest
iall of reception in the world. But anybody
Sho believes that General Ladmirault has of
ils own motion suspended NJ. Vcullot, or that
he Government is summoning the Bishop of
'erigueuX to be !ectured because it likes lee
uring priests who thunder against Italy, or
hat the Duo Decazes makes publicly in the
Tribune solemn recognitons of Italy "as cir
have made herr of his own free
will, knows nothing of the party now govern
ng France or of Marshal MacMahon's deter
nnation to be armed before he challenges
anybody. IL is not perfectly evident
hat Prince Bismarck wants one or two things
either n which would break the
word of the Papacy, some proof patent to
'ope and Conclave that France will do nothing
o help them We cannot believe in the first
heory, though the evidence in support of it is
bsolntely terrible, because we do not believe
NAT the FRINGE wants to terrific risk
but he has already shown the
ope that France is powerless for the hour by
lterferlng without warrant in her most dom
'tic affairs, and may show it still further by
Terturning the Government which displays
crica tendencies or, to use the mildest word, !
erical sympathies,
nus the NeFddcutsche Zcitung, in making ,
he denial above quoted, adds that the
'rench Government acted Sin pursuance
t French interests" Everybody must
re what these interests were, and that
hey were connected with the foreign rela-
ons OF the country and not in any degree :
nth its internal affairs. ,
HE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE BISHOPS
The same article in the German paper =
tates that the Government of Berlin has q
eserved to itself the right to take steps as =,
ar as the French laws allow against the i.
rench Bishops for offences against His
laJesty the Emperor, that is, to prosecute 7
hem. ltdoes not seem to have yet made ND 8
8 mind whether it will do SO, but in the
leantime the French Government holds
self significantly aloof from the prelates II
.ho have given offence to it's preponder-
Mt neighbor. 1t is scarcely likely to be
rue, as stated by one of our contempora.
les. that the Bishop of Mines was sent for y
, ersallles and lectured " in the pres. 9
nee of Count Won Arnim. but correspon- =
ent writes to us from Versailles that at =
ne " remise des barrcttes," all the Bishops V
nd the large body of clergy present at the .
CEREMONY were invited to meet the new Il
ardlna!s at the Presidency with the sole I
RECEPTION of Mgr. Planter, who was one of r