The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-21
1o1xIaH nan NEWS.
lCsrrespondsnee London Tablet /
AUSTRIA,

city on the 10Th inst, with the ordinary
formularies, but without any great flourish
Of trumpets. Our Finance Minister, Herr
de Points, produced the first sensation of
the session, when he gave the Assembled
Deputies surprise, and that not Of the
most agreeable kind, by Informing them
of the existence of deficit of NO less than
20 milliona Of forms in the public accounts
The amount is serious enough in itself, bat
it becomes far more alarming when 1T IL
| considered that the excess of expenditure
over revenue, Of which it is the melarcho-
| ly exponent, has existed and gone on
steadily increasing from year to year ever
| since Liberalism ruled the State In Austria;
| and that the dominant faction manifests no
| concern about the ruinous condition to
which it has reduced the country and all its
| important interests but, on the contrary,
| seems only intent on extracting their last
! penny from the impoverished tax payers
to be squandered in carrying out the favo-
| rite schemes of Liberalism. Distress has,
| in fact, nearly reached its extreme point in
Austria. Trade, industry, and production
are paralysed bankruptcies are things of
daily occurrence; and man ufacturers find
Themselves reduced to the necessity eitt er
| of Diminishing the greater part of their work
| people, or of closing their factories. One
would think that this calamitous state of
the country would be enough to open the
eyes of our leading statesmen and make
| them pause in the mischievous policy to
which they have committed themselves.
| 1t is not SO, however,. They are moved
with little sympathy for the misery and
distress of the masses.
Cure for a Defsit.-Auother circumstance
| proving that the only possible way to save
| the country lies in the total abandonment
of the present system of financial manage
ment is that the rnin of trade and prodnc-
| ton brought about by our Liberal Govern
ment is not only depriviDg thousands upon
Thousands of the working population of
their bread, and thus creating o proletariate
ready to make war for bare existence on
| every Institution and on society itself, bat
also that the great bulk of the nation are
tanning taxation. Towards this last result
We have already made considerable pro-
gress, as is proved by the fact, shown by
recent Official documents, that in Vienna
| alone there now Sc, go persona liable TO
taxation, who are unable, through poverty,
public distress and daily increasing i'm
poverishment of the country the work our
Parliament has to do this session is to give
| its consent to the imposition of fresh taxes
| to cover the deficit above mentioned. No
doubt it will do ito duty without finching,
if not without misgiving, for is it not a
Liberal Parliament.
| GERMANY.
GResen.-The religious persecution which
has slumbered here for some time has just
| given proof of it's being still 10 full vfgor.
1t will be remembered that the assistant
Bishop, Mgr. Cybichowski, was convicted
and sentenced to nine months imprison-
ment for the illegal exercise of ecclesiastical
functions. viz, the conservation of the holy
oils Maundy Thursday. Immediately
after his sentence the Bishop was arrested,
and transported beyond the boundaries of
the province of Posen. He came back TO
the neighborhood of Gneseu a few weeks
ago, and was there arrested on 10Th October.
and Immediately consigned to the new
f prison in Gnesen, where it appears two
cells had been prepared some time back, in
anticipation of this event. The good. Cath
olics of the city are most anxious about the
fate of the illustriOus prisoner. They pray
!, that his nine months DURANGO may not
work in his case that utter destruction Of
G bodily health which it has done in 80 many
f similar cases.
G Cologne.-On 10th October the Arch
4 bishop of Cologne set out on a visitation
. tour in the Dusseldorf district. Before
~ starting he remained for several hours in hi
palace, surrounded by his canons, awaiting
: the visit of the Roy al Commiseary, whl
was charged with seizing the property il
} the palace. The Archbishop has Away
e protested, insisting that those things ar
- not the property of tho individual Arch
10 bishop, but of the See of Cologne; be
10 cause, in the ysg% 1924 the palace with al
81 lLS anu pTudutulS vas OOIdlnSl
N from local nobleman, as a residence 70
r the Archbishops. On the present occasion
=, Mgr. Melchers, having waited in vain
> ordered the house to be closed. When thu
C. police officers arrived, near four O'Clock
they had to effect a forcible entrance, ant
then they proceeded to take an inventor.
of the furniture, etc. The cruelty of tn
whole proceeding is manifest from the fac
"a that the Government does not dispute TIN
g. view of the Archbishop, but DR.. Falck in
D. sists that this view must be maintaine'
N before q competent tribunal.
70 Church COnmittSes.-T news continue
~ to be very favorable with respect to tn
!. character and dispositions of the mon wht
o are being elected in the various parishes t.
8, constitute Boards for the future administra
. tion of the parocbial Church property
y This will, of course, deprive the execution
q of the new law of many of those evil con
q sequences which were originally anticipated
- from it. 3
r Tie FrdnsSsSGns of FuIdG.-The Ioca
Q government permitted the Frauciscans tt