The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-15
x1scELLANE0Us FOREIGN NEWS.
no January slth i
TIRE CATHOLIC PUBLIC MEETING IN ENG
LAND.

.v IN
re- LAND.
D. .,; me public meeting of the Catholics O
o. tnis country, to express their sympatb,
! wild the prosecuted Catholics of Germany
4 VIII be held in st. James's Hall on the et]
>. seoruary. Resolutions will be proposed
}, declaring the strong and altogether unani
8 nous feeling of the whole British Catboli.
J, oody ut the sight of the imposition of pena
e laws on their brethren in another land
nna at the deprivation of the Church in
germany of rightful liberty in the exercise
|, OF her most essential spiritual functions
n ~ Is most earnestly to be desired that all
Sa1noiic iaymen who are not absolutely
prevented from attending will be present.
for this is an expression of the Sentiments
o. Ine Catnoilc Iaity, and in the spiritual
freedom of the Church they are most en-
Practically and most directly concerned.
me protest is the more necessary, inasm UGH
10. NE Committee engaged in getting up
oeen disseminating circular, in which
the recent German legislation is described
as resistance to Ultramontane policy and
"machinations," and which CONTAINS a
proposed Resolution basipg the action
OF the Prussian Government on "tbe right
and duty of Nations to uphold civil and
religious liberty" Lord Russell. in his
letter to Sir John Murray which bas an.
peared in the daily papers, takes the same
me, entlrely and not very ingenuously
.soiins Ihe iac1, Chat by these penal laws
| no new aggression of the Catholics is for
oidden, but on the ontrary their previous
~ existing relations to the State are en-
tlreiy altered, and that in a way completed
TO deprive them of freedom in their own in |
ternai and purely spiritual concerns. Nor
10 IL the Catholics alone who are Injurious
~ effected by them, as the Standard very
justly observes and what the more reli.
glous German Professionals think of their
eject on themselves may be Inferred from
the TACT which we shall presently have oc-
casion to record, that the whole governing
=. uouy OF Inc Munich Professionals, with all
their pastors, went together as one man to
vote for the Catholic candidate, who was
moreover priest.
THE SUSPENSION OF THE UNIyERs
The Unipsrs has been suppressed for two
months, by order of General de Ladmirault. :
commanding at Paris, and in execution of =
q resolution arrived at by the French Cab :
met on Monday morning, Already, on .
Cne previous evening the Uniuers had pub ;
11saea the intelligence that two notes from j
arince Bismarck had been presented to the !
government of Versailles, one protesting .
against the recent acquittal of the Franc 6
tlreurs who had killed some Germans. the E
other demanding the suppression of the !;
Hn'oers. The Paris correspondent of the q
moncnes.er guardian had already made h
himself the channel of q similar report, -
earnt "from an official source. and had "
ADDED that the demand was made on ac- A
'o9nt OF an article attacking Germany, y
md melting to the assassination of the -
Emperor OF Germany and his chief Minis =
e., The last count in the supposed in -
Iictment is of course the merest absurdity T. T.
nougn the onsrers has been outspoken 81
nough as regards the prosecuting policy -
}! Pnnce Bismarck, nothing in it's most fer n
10 paragraphs could be twisted into p
bhsIneation for such charge. And al a
'onrse that the suppression would be act -
ally ordered the next morning-as in fact ~ =,
Was-M. Veuillot apparently did not q
eheve 1t, and treated it in his last issue Ar
aosurd. "The French Government" u
Q wrote, sis weak. Nevertheless. it still -
assesses one element of strength Which an an
lalntalns it in its position it is not per- W.
ecuting. NJ. de Bismarck would like to w.
ndoW 1t with this quality which be DOS. ~,
ssses IN an eminent degree, but which bn
pes not prove success. Persecution fol
ms. Bntit is not one of the means used vi
those who now govern France, and, ga
ank God, for their honor and for ours' 90 90
enters still less into the composition of VII
eir spirit and the spirit of the country.
. l csf1 as they ,can' they strive to govern
aceiuiiy with great respect for the hel
ages OF justice and the rights of the in cit
vldual. 1t is in this direction indeed Re
at they often overpass due limit. The of
untry IN spite of its dissatisfaction gives VII
EN- n: credit for it, and God, notwith stand as
HIS anger, takes account of it as lei
erit In the country. France in spite of abb
errors, is still a land of honesty. free Bis
m, and Justice. She sets this examnle slif
italy, Switzerland, Germany and other Oh
lions. She does not do all she coul6 ma
!, she does all she thinks she can. and ual
II not for any price consent that within gle
: bounds it should be counted as crime wol
fulhll ones duty towards God. If anv Bis
choose to ignore this deeply-markeS altt
august characteristic of the nation he him
uid only have to make such an attemnt ben
fail miserably." 'p' sea-
REAL MOTIVE FOR THE srsrrSs,o~ trul
The deed. bowa,or Rel
Government oroons ts oeen aone, and sho
Z IL has not been prompted by anv re- S wnl
%: or representation of a foreign Powar ueg
immediate reason alleged for this ect ca Gna y
'everlty is The publication in the MN. t Ge =
iron IRON which we have just quoted Of ZION ZION
toral ofSthe Bishop Of Perigueux. and ann ann
several articles in previous numbers VIII VIII
Bishop of PerignanS,n ouI' AS TO rate
q IAllo0 to find in '' We