, 1875-05-22

meme ZenNng' WulCu appeaFeu Uucn uhoFo llA~
portant to politicians than the leader in the
Berlin Post, partially contradicted by it,
These alarming articles have had the benei.
Cial result of producing a food of pacific assur-
ances from the French Government and press,
which are, probably, seriously meant, at any
rate as regards the present time. The mass of
the French people was anything but eager for
hostilities in 1870, and the Western Provinces,
which experienced the s~utferings of war in the
late campaign, are hardly very bellicose now.
To prevent the ascendency of revenge by
politicians and Generals will be the task OF
German and European statesmen for many a
year to come. The task may not be easy, but
it must not be d~espaired Of. We need not say
that in Germany every one is in favour of
peace, for What have we to gain Ivy waf}'
The Berlin Military Weekly, the official
organ of the supreme military authorities, de-
clines to believe in the correctness of the ex-
plantations recently given by the French semi
official press. 1t says:-
"It is true that q French Infantry regiment
will henoeforth include Is companies, instead
of 81 as formerly but as the 81 old oompa.
MES were intended to supply cadres for three
battalions at 1000 men each, while the Is new
companies will serve as a framework for the
formation of four b~attalions at / 900 men each,
the war strength of the French Infantry is by
this latest measure increased by 144,00O
men,"
Other semi-offciaI organs and correspondents
insist that the French ornaments are verging
on mobilization.
GERMAN PRESS PROSECUTIONS.
PARIS, May ..
Press prosecutions in Germany are becom-
ing numerous. To-day three such cases are
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Frankfort Gazette has been sentenced by the
Appellate Court 10 three months imprisonment
for his articles on Prince Bismarck aud the Ber-
lin tribunal in connection with the Arnim case.
A priest named Pohl, editor of q Braunsberg
paper, has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment for an article on the Pope'S Ency-
olioal declaring the Prus>ian ecclesiastical laws
null and void, and the printer of the Bishop Of
StEaSburg's Lenten Pastoral has been fined
100 marks.
CHURCH AND STATE IN PRUSSIA.
Berlin, Tiay 2.
In Yesterdays sitting Of tina Lower House
an eminent member Of he Centre Party pro-
tested against the history of the Catholic
Church as delineated by Prince Bismarck in a
recent speech. The Prince, be said, had repre-
sented the Catholic Church as a gang of aSsas-
sins but, in reality, that Church was the
nurse Of EuroPeaa civilization. If any bereticS
were burnt, this was the act, not Of tho Catho-
lio Church. but CT secular Governments. The
TIE Dam sung at Rome after the Massacre of
St. Bartholemew'S was only intended to thank
God for fOiling an attempt to murder the King
of France. There was nothing in the Syllabus
against Constitutions Government. and the
liberty of the Press. All that was meant to
be conveyed in thC3e much attacked axi0ms
was that Constitutional Government. need not
necessarily exist in every part of the .world.
In the speakers opinion there would be no.
thing to prevent the Pope from reIuting in a
supplement to the Syllabus the false imputa-
tions.
Prince Bismarck, in reply to this speech of
Herr Wehrenpeennig, proved from historical
documents that Gregory XIII. commended the
Massacre of St. Bariholomew's and that Plus
V. encouraged the FIOrentine assassin Rudolf
to murder Queen Elizabeth.
The Suffragan Bishop Cybichowski Of Posen
has been forbidden to reside in his diocese.
The sitting closed amid considerable excite
ment.
PARIS. May 2.
The Converts Bill as approved by the EN-
peror and submitted to the Prussian Parlia-
ment yesterday, is as follows -
81. All orders and similar communities of
the Catholic Church are excluded from the
territory of the Prussian Monarchy, subject to
the provisions of Clause g. The opening of
such ests blishments is prohibited. The estab-
lishments now existing frQm the time Of the pro-
mitigation of this law NAV not receive new MEM