, 1875-05-22

care of the sick continue in existence, but NAV
at any time be dissolved by Royal Ordinance.
In the meanwhile the Minist ers of the Interior
and of Worship are empowered to allow them
to admit new members. 3. The existing es-
adjustments of orders and similar communities
are subjected to the supervision Of the State.
4. The property of the dissolved orders and
similar communities is not subjected to confs-
cation by the State the Sta'e authorities are
temporarily to undertake the preservation and
management of it. The Commissioner CHARGED
with the management is responsible onlv to
the aforementioned authorities the account
to he rendered by him is subject to the revision
OF the Upper Treasury Chamber, in conformity
with the provisions of Clause 10 of the Act Of
the 27th of March. 1878. No other kind of res
possibility or production of accounts will exist:
Inc members of tia dissolved communities
viii be supported out of the property. The
further application of the funds is reserved for
legislative disposal. S. This Act comes into
force the day Of its pronunciation. The Min
lSterS OF the Interior and Worship are charged
with the execution of it. They have in particu-
lar TO decree the detailed arrangements and
me exercise of the State supervision under
Clause 3"
The statement appended to the Bill gives an
elaborate account of the extension and objects
of conventual Institutions.
BREsLAU. MAY 9.
DR.. Forster, the Prince Bishop of Breslau,
has been summoned to appear before the Tri.
bunal at Birnbaum on the 18th inst. to answer
a charge of having threatened to excOmmuni-
cate Canon Kick, and carried out that threat
on the strength of the Papal Encyolioal Letter
of the 5'h of February.
THE ST. PETERSBURG CON-
FERENCE.
BERLIN, May 2.
DR.. Gessner, German Councillor of Legation
and q distinguished member of the Berlin For.
eign Office, has published a dissertation upon
maritime law, in which he arrives at the con-
olusion that the War Code Reforms to be en-
acted by the coming ST. Petersburg Conference
will shortly result in analogous changes in ma.
val warfare. Having criticized at length the
Spring5ok case, which occurred in the Ameri-
can Civil War and led to the condemnation of
an English ship bound for a neutral harbour on
the mere suspicion that her cargo might be
destined for the enemy, the author proceeds to
represent the existing usages of naval warfare
as at Variance with the views officially advo.
Gated by the German, Russian, Swedish, and
Danish Governments. France and Italy,
100, he says, on a previous occasion, show.
ed themselves favourable to reform. AS
to England, she certainly profted by the
right to seize private property at sea
while she was the only Naval Power Of any
consequence but now, when other powerful
Navies are being formed by more States than
one. she has as mich to lose as to gain by the
continuance Of former practices. The inexora-
bic logic of history will compel her TO give in,
even if she succeeds in preventing reform just
now.
GERMANY.
May 8.
The Bill suppressing the religious orders in
Prussia has been already presented before the
Diet.
SPAIN.
May 8.
A body Of Carlists operating on the frontier
Of Navarro have mutinied, and claim for peace.
All the Provinces occupied by the Carlists
have been declared under blockade.
Don Alfonso, brother to Don Carlos, contin.
ues at Gratz.
May 5.
MADRGD,-His Majesty the King Alfonso
said, on receiving the Pope's Envoy, that he
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