The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-29
Lateat Mail News from Germany.


be remembered, il residing iD the Austrian
part of his diocese, 10 engaged in some kind
of mediation between the Holy See and the
German Government, and that the Nunei0
at Vienna, Mgr. Jacobini, is carrying on
an exchange of views with the German
Embassy" in that capital. Nor do the
semi-oficial German papers altogether
deny the report. The National Zeifung Of
Saturday CONSIDERS it advisable to refrain
from expressing any opinion upon she in
Gelligesce until further details are received
with regard to the questions to which the
mediation and exchange of views relate"
1t seems not at all impossible that there
may in reality have been some exchange of
We've with reference to the law on the ad-
ministration of Church property, the Bish-
ops acquiescence in which has made such
an impression on the Liberal newsmongese.
Some of the latter indeed appear to have
jumped to the conclusion that the Church
was going to accept the Falck laws, for the,
BrestGuer MorgenSeitung, q paper whose in
ventive powers we have before now had to
notice, published on Saturday the intelli-
gence that the Prince Bishop had, in con-
formity to the recent Order IN Council,
notified to the Governor of Silesia the sp-
pointment of priest as director of 40 &C.
clesiastical college, Q piece of news which
the Catholic Volksseitun9 Immediately de-
clared to be entirely devoid of foundation.
The Bishops of FINLAND and Culm have
followed the example of the other prelates
already mentioned as having notified their
submission to the new law on the admins
tration of ecclesiastical property, aud the
Bishop Of Hildeshiem has icontradicted q
report that he had required the clergy of
his diocese to give him q written premise
that they would obey his instructions in
regard to the May laws.
THE "PALL MALL GAZETTE" ON THE BAvA-
RAN ELECTIONS.
An article which appeared in the Pail
Mall Gdsette too late for our notice last
week. furnishes valuable testimony as to
the causes of the disappointment of the
Catholic or Nationalist party in the recent
Bavarian elections. "According to sober
estimates" says the Pail Mall, "the patri-
OTIS had gained sufficient ground in the
constituencies to warrant their expectation
of gaining from eight to ten seats. The
realisation of this hope would have forced
on the King the alternatives Of government
by a minority and the appointment of an
Ultramontane Cabinet. The first included
the risks of deadlock, the second the
danger of collision with the German Par
lament and exposure to the hostility of the
German National Liberal party press,
which, on any small provocation offered,
or falsely alleged to be offered, by any of
the minor States, shrieks for an Imperial
crusade against the offending Legislature
or ruier. To escape such dangers the Ba
varian Cabinet initiated with success an
example set by the Prussians in the Danish
Duchies. Electoral districts should have q
nominal strength of IS, 900 Inhabitants, to
which figure it is the business of the autho-
rites to keep them. BY distinct process
of shuffling certain localities were detached
from the polling places naturally indicated
by considerations of neighborhood, and
removed to Others at O distance where the
supplement of votes thus attained might
be useful to the Liberals. This process
also served to weaken patriot constituep-
eies by traa sferribg some of their votes to
q locality where the addition was no use to
the party. At least in one case Catholic
peasants were cut off from an adjacent
polling centre and inscribed on the cleo
torat roll of q district only to be reached by
long and expensive railway journey.
Nothing, concludes the article, could be
more perfect than THE process of substrac
| ton and addition, except the unanimity
with which the national Liberal newspa-
| pers within and without Bavaria maintain
| ed the prescriptive silence on what might
strike ordinary miuds as q discreditable
| maDenvre." We have quoted this passage
| at length as confirmation from an impor-
tsnt quarter of the statement which We
made last week respecting the manipulation
of the elections by the Bavarian Govern
ment, and the consequent possibility tina
some of the returns would be annulled by
the majority, small as 1t 10.
JUBILEE OF THE BISHOP OF MA1Nz
The illustrious Bishop of Mainz has bees
celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary o
his conservation amidst a great and sympa
thetic coucourse, including the Bishops o
Strasburg, Spires, Eichstadt, the Admins
traitors of Freiburg and Fulda, and th,
Wears General Of Munster and Limb1rg
And while these fetes have been going OF
the anti Catholics of the Grand D uchy hav,
been sending abont for signatures memo
rial petitioning the Government for tn,
deposition from his see of this great Bish
Op. Well might HE Vicar. General say, il
presenting the congratulations of th'
clergy. that this anniversary seemed t.
mark the beginning of an epoch in which
men are resolved to destroy without pity
all that the Bishop. has created during
twenty five years with the help of the
faithful and of his clergy" adding, eve
should be sorrOwful even to death if We haC
not our faith and our hope in God" TIL,
immenent destruction of the seminary and
secularization of the schools were sDokeI