The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-19

attacking an English community
counted on the ignorance and i'll will OF
the public, thinking that it would be
little perturbed, but would leave the
authorities to do what they liked The
action of the government towards the
English Passionists would establish a
precedent permitting it to apply the
law ruthlessly against French religious
communities.
! The English Fathers whose main
4 object is to offer to English speaking
| Catholics in Paris a fixed place of
worship, are naturally resolved to make
every sacrifice in their power to
preserve their institution. Placed
between the obligation of abandoning
their chapel or of paying the twenty
thousand francs, they have declared
their willingness to pay the money,
and have merely asked the treasury to
give them time. There can be no doubt
that the administration will accede to
their request. But as this debt will be
an annual obligation for the future, the
Fathers will have to consider-for their
society is among the least prosperous
| how they can meet the new burden
laid upon them. They have been urged
I am told, to place in their chapel a box
in which the faithful may deposit
offerings for this special purpose. I
feel sure that this plan will prove
effectual, and that all English speaking
Catholics in Paris who attend this
chapel will consider themselves in
honor bound to offer the Fathers the
means of satisfying the new exigencies
hf the French treasury. The shutting
up of the chapel would be serious loss
to English speaking Catholics, but we
may be sure that to this they will never
consent. Moreover, the Associations
Bill, which is to be discussed at the
beginning of the new year, will
undoubtedly effect radical changes in
the relations between religious bodies
and the government, and we must wait
and see what measures are to be taken
to protect the Fathers Of the Avenue
Hoche against the material difficulties
which now cause them so much
anxiety.
The hearing of the Werthemier-
Castellane suit was continued
yesterday. According to M. Foucault,
the plaintiffs counsel, Count Boni de
Castellane, son-in-law of Jay Gould,
was introduced in June, 1895, by a NJ
Stettiner, Paris broker, to NJ
Wertheimer in London, and bought for
two hundred and sixty thousand francs
a Gobelins tapestry screen, a picture by
Gainsborough and two Oriental vases.
He promised to pay in two instalments,
in June and December, 1885, but in
May, 1896, he asked for some months
delay, and signed, with his wife, who
was just Of age, bills for $50, $50 francs,
the difference being interest at per
cent. In December the count asked for
a months further time, and the pay
ment was then made. In March, 1897,
he made further purchases to the
Of one million francs, giving
bills extending over three years, ana in
the following June hebought articles
for 1,250,000 francs, also to be paid by
instalments. In May, 1898, however, he
asked for further time on account of |
election expenses and the purchase Of |
the yacht Valhalla. The bills were not |
met, and litigation began. The pur- |
chases altogether amounted to 7,14400O |
francs, and four million francs Is now |
claimed as due.-Paris Correspondence |
IF the London Times.