The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-06

who, like Mgr, Freppel, do not spare
their attacks ON the laws and institu-
tions, put themselves openly at variance
with the Vatican, but practically they remain
faithful to an irreconcilable policy which is no
longer that of the Court of Rome. While sub
uniting to the Pope, far az regards princi-
pies, theyprofess an absolute independence as re-
CARDS conduct. To respect the laws and not at
tack the government or institutions of country
is matter of conduct and ON this question there
is evidently disagreement between the Bel
gian Episcopate and the Vatican. The only
remedy, thinks lie Temps, is the substitution of
policy of Cancellation for the violent policy of
Plus TX. Nothing could be more imprudent on
the part of those who profess to serve
the interests of the Church than to endeavor
to make out that the Vatican is opposed to such
u policy Of Cancellation and in harmony with the
Belgian bishops.]
AUSTRIAN ARMY REDUCTIONS.
The Lower House of the Reichsrath has
rejected the motion for q reduction Of the stand
ing army and adopted the first clause of the
governments bill fixing the strength Of the army
on war footing at 100000 men. The clause
prolongng the operation Of the bill for ten years
failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds ma
jority, TIA members voting for and 155 against
it. The amendment prolonging it for three
years was also rejected mo better proof can be
given of the perilous experiment an army reduc-
ton would now be than the unmasked satisfac-
ton with which the country's enemies have been
looking on at the debate. lie Venesia, for in
stance, says:-''We who sympathize with the
Irredenta can wish for no better allies than the
Austrian # ortschritt' party. OF truth, an
army which in all its institutions is from year
to year ut the mercy Of this or that political
party can be but an armed crowd, robbed of all
moral consistency and esprit de corps. Such an
army do we Irredentas' wish Austria with
which to keep us out Of the Trentino." The
Emperor has publicly thanked Minister Horst
for his opposition to all proposals of army re-
duction. Horst threatened to retire from the
Cabinet and serve his country us simple depute
if such perilous experiments were made.
CONTEMPLATING THE GEAR.
The Gar visited the theatre ut st. Peters
burg on Thursday night and was most enthu-
siastically received The performance was sus-
pended while the Russian national anthem was
sung. An excited crowd OH Tuesday broke i'll
the windows of house near Moscow, whence
they supposed the mine had beensfred. They
had commenced to wreck the house but
were stopped by the police. It is reported
that two persons have been arrested
On suspicion of completely in the attempt The
Daily Neacs understands that about six months
ago the Russian Embassy here received infor-
nation that an attempt would be made on the
Cars life by blowing up the Imperial train.
The st. Petersburg government were immedi-
ately informed of this, and it is believed that
the projected attempt has been more than once
frustrated. The Standards Berlin correspon-
dent states that the latest st. Petersburg news
papers received there contain no articles on the
attempt on the Cars life, as they had not re-
ceived permission to publish them.