The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-21

the inmates, one by one, to the gates. A
crowd outside Knocked them with cries OF
Long live liberty!' and Long live the
ARMY"
The Casseroles Grand Seminary was
emptied later, after the doors were forced
in face of a protest. The seminary of
st. Nicholas du Chardonnet, in Paris, was
evacuated under protest.
II bishoprics of Bordeaux, Limoges,
Bayonne, Periguex, Toulon,, ~Angouleme,
Moulins, Beauvais and Alencon were
evacuated to-day. Crowds assembled, but
there were no dist urbances.
The Bishop of Nancy brought an action
for 1000 francs damages against the
printer who printed the notices directed
against him, considering that they were
defamatory. The court dismissed the case
and condemned the Bishop to pay the costs.
The Gil Bias is led by the Oejda incident,
which consisted Of the Spanish Ambassador
at the Vatican requesting the Spanish
Am tassador at Paris to protect the archives
Of the Nunciature, to believe that some
International politics is brewing, Of which
little has been heard. II had its NJ adrid
correspondent make an investigation, and
to-day it publishes c~onspicuously his reply,
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who recently went out Of power.
He said that the question of the separa-
ton of Church and State in France was
also a Spanish question. The Vatican
could not hide the fact that it's eldest
daughter and its most profitable supporter
France, was more than three parts hope
lessly lost TO il.
why then" asks the Minister, this
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vantages the French Separation law con-
cedes? Because, reply the French Conser-
vative newspapers Pope Pius fights for
a principle, for an eternal idea. Because
reply the anti clerical organs, the Pope
is a fanatic. narrow minded and i'll in
formed, believing that the French faithful
are ready to suffer martyrdom, and ex-
pecting a persecution, whence will arise a
revival of the faith and the restoration OF
the Church. What nonsense! We are as
sured that the Vatican knows better. Ii
does not wage grandiose campaigns. II it
is resigned to lose solid advantages in
France it is to find elsewhere full COM
pensation. The Pope abandons a desperate
position in France in order to have his
position not compromised in Spain
The speaker laid stress upon the fact
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Cardinals Merry del Val and Wives J Tuto,
are Spanish, while Don Carlos, the Pre-
tender to the Spanish throne. was a close
friend Of the Pope in his Venetian days.
He pointed out as the most supreme peril
of the Church in Spain King A%lfonso's
marriage, which freed him from the grasp
of the Jesuits and placed him within English
liberal influences. He deduces that the
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to the Vatican as an irresistible lever to
check SPANS effort toward independence,
for, he said:
If Rome by opposing to France solely
the force Of inertia is able to throw Franco
into a bloody strife, what W ould be the situa-
ton in Spain if its Government ventured
to shake off Rome? Where France has
lost peace Alfonso W ould lose his crown.
such, il not the sole explanation, is
certainly the ~clearest one given OF the
Pores attitude, which otherw Use is incom-
p~rehensible contradictory and absurd"
The Journal des Debdts, whose sympa-
thies are generally favorable to the Church,
regrets the proposed attitude Of the mem
beers Of the Right in regard to the new re-
liuiols bill. II argues that their absen-
ton from discussion OF the measure will
ueSlTOy lue parry . "a
mentary Importance, but the paper says
that whatever may be the party's motive
the uncertainty in regard to Rome's action
toward the bill when it Is passed must
paralyze the opposition, for even ii the
opposition ameliorated the bill on its pas
sage Rome might afterward nullify their
exertions. All activity in initiative ls
stopped through uncertainty az TO how 1t
will be accepted In Rome. So the pariia-
mentary system, already badly warped in
France, receives another blow from which
the sravest disasters may be expected.
Ex-Minister Jaures, in Humdnte adj
yances a similar argument. He concludes
by saying that Roman absolutism has
killed all Catholic action Of initiative in
France.
A despatch from Rome says that the
Va tican has issued a semi-oficial note
entirely rejecting the new French religious
law. The Pope will not change his attitude
until a law is passed containing a minimum
reco Rnition Of the essential rights of the
Church, beginning With the Catholic heir
archy, which, it is declared, is The divine
foundation of the Church's organization.
ROME, Dec. 20.-The Vatican will deliver
Tomorrow 10 the foreign representatives
its note protesting against the seizure OF the
archives Of the nunciature at Paris. Car