The New York herald., 1879-08-10

also be improved 1t was matter Of hope and
thankfulness that in the Church of England-peing
the church OF the nation and not of Sect the church
or the laity and not OF the clergy ouly-there was
s"ays .ie cnsnce that IN future days nooler spi'
OF religious life may arise and remove those oein-
lshes which it's better aud wiser supporters had so
long and so deeply deplored
Russian merchants recently returned from the
interior or CHINA to St. Petersburg have furnished
the Gotos with terrible details respecting the famine
which has for some time past prevailed throughout
certain provinces of the Celestial Empire They
dopose to having seen people die in the streets OF
many towns and villages from sheer starvation and
Se shas Of ah is as fa
ished attack the living and prey upon
them with all the ferocity and greediness of
was present ut the examination of mendicant.
who had been arrested for some petty theft and in
whose professional wallet the manged remains of
infant were discovered. This man confessed to the
magistrate that for time previous to seizure
he had lived exclusively upon the fresh fesh of
human beings, as he could not surmount his
tipathy to that of dead bodies. Another appalling
case. which came under the notice of Russian
had persuaded his father to assist him in murder
ing and subsequently eating girl to whom
he was betro,hed Men have been executed for kill
ing and eating their own children and sons have
slain their fathers in order appease the pangs
OF hunger In some of the northern districts whole
villages stand empty, their Inhabitants having one
and all perished for want of food. Some of the in
cidents recounted by these commercial travellers
and published in the oos are too horrible for repro
duction but the above details will convey idea
of the awful sufferings by which the population of
the Flowery Land has lately been. indeed still is.
afflicted.
There has recently been published in Cologne,
says the London Daily Telegraph the following doc
ument, which Is quantity out or keeping with the
marck toward the Holy See:-..Paul Melchers. sixty
five years old. doctor OF theology and formerly
Archbishop of Cologne born in Muenster and lately
residing III Cologne. but at present without any
known place of residence sojourn in Germany. is
summoned to appear In public session of the Cham
hapn nf finn Dol At - . ,a u,
August 1872 to be dealt with officially upon the In
dictment that he published in Cologne this year
Discourse upon the Holy Communion, by Dr. Paul
Melchers, Archbishop Of Cologne: Cologne. 1879.'
although he had been dismissed from his Office Of
Archbishop of Cologne by q sentence Of the Royal
Tribunal for Ecclesiastical Affairs, dated June 26.
1876. and that he has thus illegally assumed the
in virtue of the law of the 11th of May. 1855.
affixed to the outer door Of the audience hall of
the Royal Correctional Police Tribunal. Cologne.
Tho Chief Procurator. Crome." DIR. Melchers.
at present residing in his college at Rome,
fdenty expects to be renstated in all his archieps
copal honors and dignities soon the modus
viuendi between Germany and the Vatican shall be
finally adjusted He cannot therefore but have been
unpleas anty surprised when the publication OF this
formidable document was impaired to him by his
Cologne agents. 1t is probably intended to serve
a reminder to the Vatican that the May laws al
though moribund are susceptible Of revival should
Papal pretensions prove unreasonable.
The state of the Jewish question in Roumania says
the London Times, is very natural and, at the same
Cme, very ulscreultADle 10 human nature. IL there
exists in any half civilized community q smaller
community parted from the general body by
marked difference Of race language religion the
smaller body is almost certain to be visited with
the hate and scorn of its neighbors If the
members of this smaller community are
industrious than those among whom
they live this virtue does not in the least protect
them, but, on the contrary, supplies jealousy
additional motive for persecution. The cygnet in
Hans Andersen story was treated with much con-
tempt by the ducklings; the English in China are
loathed as red-haired barbarians. there are still
found people in London to protest against the en-
ployment of German clerks IN houses of business.
Most of instinctively distrust those who un-
like ourselves strangers to us; but teaches
nations which are really advanced on the path Of
civilization to make use of every element of strength
and to give all common interest in the stability of
political institutions by taking that these insti
tutons should secure freedom of development
to all. The true way in which Rormanlans should
approach the Jewish question was indicated in the
satesmanlike speech OF minister of Roumsnia, NJ.
Carp, when he described the sight he his
question had been discussed till three O'Clock in the
morning. In one house jew hard at work ut
some handicraft by the light Of lamp next door
was wine shop from which staggered three Rou-
maIian citizens. singing patriotic songs. There"
said NJ Carp, sis the Jewish question. If you wish
to oppose the Jews with be laborous, sober
economical. The solution of the Jewish question
lies in competing by your industry with the Jewish
workmen." The industrious Jewish population OF
the Princpalites should not be crushed by dissbil
ities, but, on the contrary, welcomed aiding to
develop the great natural advantages which that
tile portion Of the world possesses.