, 1875-01-06

were given which the bulIetin-writer has
misunderstood. 1t is evidently, as we
have shown elsewhere, the Indian anti
slavery scheme which has been adopted,
and under that scheme no Slave-owner need
entranchise his slaves, but if they disobey
or depart, no official will restore them.
Slavery, even of the voluntary kind, will
probably disappear in q short time, as a
slave who cannot be struck, or starved, or
sold, or pawned, is a slave who has only
to sit still to make himself a burdensome
nuisance to his owner.
By a circular read in the Roman Catho-
lie churches on Sunday evening last,
Archbishop Manning explained to the faith
full of his Church hat as both the Immac-
uIate Conception and the InfaIlibility of
the Pope had been defined by infallible
authority, and the definitions properly
published, all " who openly refuse to be-
lieve the said doctrines" yet " persist,
nevertheless, in calling themselves Catho-
lies" and give out that they go to con-
fession and go to communion in the CathO-
lie Church." are deceiving the clergy by
such practices, and " that in every such
confession and communion they commit
q sacrllege, to their w greater condem-
nation" That is, we suppose, q mild
way of drawing the attention of the priests
to the fact that the anti-Infal libilists are
out of communion with the Church, and
cannot be absoIved without retracting
their disbelief aud confessing their sin in
persisting in such disbelief, Rome could
hardly have done less in such . iuncture.
And the little that is done has a curious
air Of anxiety and hesitation about it.
German affairs have indeed occupied the
week. Besides the Arnim trial, there have
been two debates of Importance in the
German Parliament. The first was raised
by DR.. J6rg, leader of the Bavarian Catho-
lies, who complained that the Foreign
Affairs Committee of theFederal Council
was never consulted, and that consequent
ly Prince Bismarck had interviewed in Spain
in a way which had dissolved the entente
c0rdsaIe between Germany aud Russia.
The Chancellor replied, that although the
Foreign Affairs Committee had not been
convened for a year. the German Govern
ments had been fully consulted, and that
as to Spain, he had felt that no English or
American Correspondent would have been
murdered as Captain Schmidt was. Ac-
cording to the Times Correspondent, he
added that international Jaw would have
justified him in landing on the coast of
Spain, selling a Carlist officer, and hang
ing him in reprisal but it is probable this
astounding assertion was not made, as the
Cologne Gazette reports that he p~refaced it
by saying If we had been a barbarous
Power" a very different thing. He had
acknowledged the only Government in
Spain possessed of a relic of authority, and
if Russia had not done SO, why Captain
Schmidt was not a Russian. DR.. Jorg had
alluded to the attempt of Kullman, calling
him a maniac, and Prince Bismarck, in
tones of suppressed fury, denied this, de-
clared that Huffman avowed himself a
member of the Centre fraction, and turn
ing to Herr Windhorst, the leader of that
party, exclaimed to the Centre, Discard
the man as much as you like, he is hang
ing to your coat-tails nevertheless" This
insult was received by the majority with
enthusiasm, and by the Centre with cries
of Pfui!"-" Shame, shame !" to which