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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger.
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WSW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. MARClO 10 I, l.
DOiNSTIC CATHOLIC ItZLLIJOEINCE.
Docesee of Charlelon.-An Important
addition to the Cathedral in Queen's street,
to be known as the Virgin's Chapel, is now
building on the west side, at the south
west angle. The addition is about Ofieen
feet square, and its walls will equal those
of the Cathedral in height. It will be
handsomly finished inside, and the windows
will be furnished with stained glass. It
will be completed in about two months'
time, at a cost of twelve hundred dollars.
The new chapel will contain a beautiful
statue of tie Virgin Mother, holding the
Infant Saviour in her arms. Tihe statue is
life sise, of the purest white marble, and
was brought from Rome by Bishop Lynch.
-Newrs.
Bishop Wood of Philadclphia and Total
Abstinence.-The first item in this week's
news will, we know, prove highly iaterest
ing and gratifying to temperance men and
others. Our beloved Rt. Rev. Bishop is
well-known, not only to the people of his
immediate Diocese, but also far beyond it,
for his eminent prudence, ever solicitous
for those over whom his ecclesiastical aI
thority extends, and appreciating clearly
and deeply the weighty influence of every
official act, he impartially and carefully
scrutinises and considers every measure
proposed for the welfare of his flock. lie
has not, therefore, been an munattentivo or
uninterested observer of the temperance
movement, which has taken such a deep
hold upon the Catholic heart, and spread
so widely through the Catholic population
of our country. And as the result of his
observation and consideration, he desires
the organization of a T. A. B. Society in the
Cathedral parish.
In puaruance of the wishes, therefore,
of the lit. Rev. Bishop, Rev. Father El
cook, on last Sunday morning, invited the
male members of the Cathedral parish to
a meeting to be held in the evening at the
Cathedral school house, Wood street, above
Eighteenth, to form a Total Abstinence
Society. A commnmittee Irom the Diocesan
Temperance Union attended tihe meeting
to render all the assistance they could in
the formation of the new society. After snI
earnest and eloquent address by R.*v. F.t
ther Elcock, the roll for members was de
clared open, when one hundred and sixty
names were obtained, and the meeting ad
journed to next Sunday evening at 71
o'clock.-Pl'hiladelphia tandard
Death of jother Mary Vincent.-News
was received yesterday of the death at At
lanta on Saturday morning last, of Mother
Mary Vincent see Mlahoney, who wias for
many years Mother Superior of the Con
vent of the Sisters of Mercy and occasion
ed unfeigned regret in the large circle of
her loving friends. Mother Vincent came
to this country with Blalsop England, in
1834, and shite entered the convent of the
Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Novem
ber of the same year at Charleston. Sithe
remained with them for eleven years, and
then came to Savannah the latter part of
1845, as first Superior of the Convent on
Liberty street, at that time but recently
established, which position she held for
thirteen years-beloved by all with whom
she came in contact. Site subsequently
held positions of trust in Augusta, Macon
and Atlanta, in which latter place, as be
fore stated, her death occurred, in tihe six
ty-eighth year of her ago, and the thirty
ninth of her religious profession. Her re
mains will arrive from Atlanta this scorn
lng at eight o'clock, and will be immedi
ately conveyed to the Chapel of the Sisters
of Mercy on Liberty street, where a sol
emn high mass of requiem will me sung at
nine o'clock for the repose of her soul,
The burial services will take place from
the chapel at four o'elock this aftornoon,
when all that is mortal of the good Sister
will be conveyed to its last resting place in
the Catholic cemetery.--usraonnah ml ete's,
.March 10.
The Louisville Advocate announces the
death of Sister Elizabeth Suttle which oc
curred at Nazareth Academy on the 28th of
February, in the 7dth 3 ear of her age, and
the 58th year of her religious lifte: "From
her earliest chlildhood her heart seemed
drawn to heavenly things. lier parents
had come from blaryland and settled near
St. Thomas, where, under the spiritual
guidance of Bishop David (then Father
David) she jo.ind the newly formed com
mounity of Nazareth at the age of sixteen.
Employed at the mother-house till 1831,
she was sent to St. Vincent's Academy,
where her kind deeds endeared her to the
children and patrons of the school. Under
her direction the academy tlouristhed, and
the present spacious buildings were erect
ed. Several times was she broughlt to
death's door by violent attacks of sickness;
her strength was failing, and in 1~6:1, "she
came home to die," as she said.
The Baltimore Mirror states that Arch
bishop Bayley's health has been greatly
t/ improved by his trip to Floi da. lie is ex
pected home as soon as tihe weather north
moderates.
Rev. F. d'Assise, the Trappist monk
who spent some months hero last summer,
is at present in Key West, Fla.
BuIABEIJAN A& ADiAmS.-1xVll written ad
vertisemeants are the meeot attractlive features in a news
paper, being not only interesting hut inatructive. As
he.ug, par erxcrllece, the best written and moet taklng
ot aii tbhe averteoments puo iht d in our city papers.
we would cite thoee ot the enterprising |irm whoe
leme behead this notice, aend of which lan fifth page or
our paper today, furnishe an ei4ample. Hlow nmany
fair eee will dwell upea erach wor nd Ilgnurem. and how
many adear Iltle heart will thrtlb at the knowledge
thus gained of how msany beautienl things can be
boudht for c little money. Thene. when sapproachlng
the maganlloesat eetablihmeent ol Mesars. iraelman &
Adams, corner Mgazline and t. Andrew streets. how
the fair and gentle ones will be dazrled at the Ilght ef
the splendid show window. ro unique and tasty in the
artangement of the elegant good which till it. But we
willt not follow our lady friends ainto therat emporoium.
fearing that we Oight lose ourselves looking throagh
the varied stock, bat ila the eoncioeusners that our asd.
qrce to rlit flat once will be followed by many, we re
signo oreelveestothe pleasant contemplation of lwhat
will be their Joy on the eoaeuion.
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Grocers and dealers generally will find the
advertisements of the Byrue Bros., which appear on
our sfth page. of great lmpoetance. They hare. aes the
lit shbow, a ver) large stock of tacona, dry selt bleats
Lard. Butter. etc., on hand. whlich they will soel at the
toewtmorketram This extensire eetablilhment is
at e.. 55-5'o.dras Sit.
Procter & Oamble's Olmve Soap is a superior
arelem It. latrodctUon in a household m is a ure goar
atoe that moesLther will be used. It is sold at price
teedisry sap. and ean be procured in ny qouantlusee
a ts Sew Orleana Jobbers, wholesale agents. See
patvomsmt elswhero.-
, ISCULLAZoEUS o wIO-N NEW-.
IRELAND.
Acqjuittal of JBishop Dullgan.-We be
lieve we have heard the last of the Galway
prosecutions, and the public are not sorry
to see the end of them. The trial of Dr.
l)ugan. Lord Bishop of Clonfert, conclu
ded on Wednesday in a verdict of acquit
tal. a verdict received in Dublin with an
enthusiasm which will be sure to find an
echoe in every part of Ireland, and indeed
the whole Catholic world. That the jury
would return a verdict of Not Guilty, was
to be anticipated before the witness for the
prosecution had half concluded his inter
esting cross-examination; while public
feetling- against the prosecutions became
terribly intensified at learning the fact
that the Crown had entered the case
against a prelate of the Catholic Churbi
on the unsupported testimony of an infor
mer. It was scarcely necessary to produce
witnesses for the defence; but, on the
other hand, the importance of the trial was
greatly magnified by the fact of the high
!and sacred office of the Most Rev. Traver
ser, and the production of an overwhelm
ing weight of testimony was therefore, if
not essential, at least proper, and due to
the character of the accused. Carter, who
of himself, admitted, certainly with un
paralleled coolness, that he had giver in
formation which had led to the arrest of
persons connected with Fenianism-Carter
swore posut-blank that the Bishop had
threatened anathema against all who would
not vote as he and his clergy should direct.
Against this were produced a cloud of wit
nesses whoe had been present on the occa
sion referred to by Carter, and who dis
tinctly contradicted his evidence. This, of
course, rendered it impossible for the jury
to hesitate in giving their verdict, and ac
cordingly they acquitted his lordship,
thereby giving justice a triumph well cal
culated to vastly increase respect for the
law in Ireland. The trial was a most re
markable one, as well for its intense im
portance as for the extraordinary amount
of eloquence and forensic ability displayed
on both sides. Mr. Butt even surpassed
himself in his address to the jury, and his
speech fully equalled the best effort ever
made even by the most celebrated orators
tihe Irish Bar has produced. Sergeant
Armstrong, on the other side, displayed all
his powers of wit and eloquence and legal
acumen, but was most powerful in his elo
quent and impassioned reply to a most un
dignified attack u.ade by Mr. Heron, who,
we are sorry to say, marred the effect of a
splendid address by an attempt to throw
the odium of the prosecution on the learn
ed Sergeant. His lordship's charge to the
jury, was one of the most powerful, digni
r lied, and impartial, ever delivered in a
court of justice. There was not a point
- made by either counsel, that was not
f weighed, not a word of evidence that was
3 not cited, and not fact left unnoticed which
a could in any way assist the jury in arri
ving at a true verdict. On the announce
. ment of that verdicts the Solicit.o Gener
a al declared his intention of not proceeding
I further in the prosecutions during the pre
Ssent after-sittings, so that we may safe
i ly conclude that thie other traversers men
f tioned in the schedule will never be
r brought to trial. The ballot, thank God,
i renders a recurrence of such scenes impos
r sible.-I'aterford News, Feb. 23.
Crimeless Tipperary. - In the Caslher
Gazt(te of Fe 2.2, last we find the follow
ing report of the proceedings at the Cashel
Petty Sessions Court on the previous Wed
nesday :--"llon. Martin Joseph Ffrench,
R. M., Chairman. Mr. Scully, Petty Sos
sionus Clerk, informed the Chairman that
there was no case for trial of any kind, Mr.
Denis O'Kearne (rux) said as representa
tives of the Sheriff he begged leave to pre
sent the honourable chairman with a pair
Sof white gloves. At present, on account
of the inclement season, the labouring pop
r ulation were unable to earn anything, and
poverty was often an incentive of crime.
It was a happy circumstance that there was
no case to try, and he begged to make the
a presentation as an emblem of the purity of
the inhabitants and their freedom from
f crime. The chairman said he had much
I pleasure in accepting the presentation, as
It testfired to the good sense of the people
I in abstaining from crime, and als'o as a
s token of thu good order of tile district.
r The court then adjourned," And yet there
I is a Coercion Act for Tipperary !
SRemarkable L.ongerity,-The most re
markable case of longevity known to any
person in this part of the country is that
of Kate Magrath, whose remains were in
terred in Kilmoi!y churcji-yard last Sun
day, She lived to the great age of 114
years! She was sound in mind and body
to the last. Until a few weeks benore her
demise she assisted her grand-daughter in
. the various business of her house. Her
son, with whom she lived is a small farn:er,
Sin the parish of Ballyhaigue, and now a
very old Iman. 1Her maiden name was Re
- gan. She was born in the village in which
y her remains now rest for ever. Hlow many
vicissitudes of time and place had this old
II woman witnessed. She was born about
the same year that Ciement III. received
c the Papal Crown. It is only the seventh
Pope that has outliwed her. In the reign
of George II. she was born, and only the
sixth Sovereign of England has survived
her. At her birth Louis XV. sat on tihe
* throne of Frpnce, and she survived its
Seighth Emperor; notwithstanding that
I three Republics rose and two fell in the
Smeantime. She saw her father pay a
Sgumona for as much oaten straw as she nod
Shimself were alle to carry on their backs
Y without much ditficulty about a hundred
years ago, when there was a cattle famine,
but she never saw as mQch rain lall in any
one year as she had seen in thie last year
s of her life.-Correspondent of Tralee Chron
ENGLAND.
The Irish University Bill.-On Feb. 13,
SMr. Gladstone made his statemeut on the
SIrish Education question. Hle began by
Sacknowledging the great necessity for
Slegislation on intermediate schools, but
declined to mix up that subject with tihe
SUniversity question, lie repudiated the
charge of yielding to "Ultramrontane in
tluence," asserting that Government had
a held no communications "with any of the
a reat bodies interested in Irish education."
SIhe Government had long admitted that
. there waits a teligiousa gimeance, and ns to
. the plea that the social position of Irish
i Catholics was such tihat "ihe prot*ision for
them was not so very bad," hie maintained
r that it was "miserably bad""-nay, "sacan
dalously bad." And this is what lie pro
* pees as the remedy. Thie University of
SDublin, Ihitherto practically a syaonym for
" Tliiry College, is to be detached from
that Institution, enlarged and reorganized,
and in it are to be incorporated Trinity
College. two Queen's Colleges, Belfast and
Cork-Galway being sentenced to be wound
up by January 1876-the Catholic Univer
sity and the Magee College. About one
fourth of the present revenues of Trinity
College, which already contributes about
that amount to University purposes, are to
be banded over to the new University,
and with this and some of the surplus
arising from the Disestablished Church, ten
university fellowshipsof £200ayear tenable
for five years, fifty-five University scholar
ships of £50 a year. tenable for four years;
and.100 bursea of £25 a year are to be
founded. These prizes may be competed
for by members of any of the Colleges in
the University, and the successful candi
dates will take them with them to their
own colleges. The new university is not
to teach theology, mental and moral phil
osophy, or model history; and though it
will examine in philosophy and modern
history, no student need take up these
subjects for his degree unless he chooses
to do so. The tnow University is to be
thus governed : It is to have a Chancellor,
an "ornamuental officer," named by the
Lord Lieutenant, andi a Vice-Chancellor
elected by the governing body; this body
is to consist of twenty-eight ordinary mem
bers, who are to form the principal por
tion of the council, and are be selected for
the irat time by tie Government without
distinction of creed ; and the Senate of
the Queen's University is to be absorbed
into the Senate of the Dublin University.
These are the principal features of the
measure, the second reading of which is
fixed for Monday fortnight. Catholics
gain the chance of obtaining University
degrees and University emoluments after
studying in their own institution, and de
grees are also thrown open to those who
can show that they have attended the
courses of the Catholic University at any
time during the last ton years. The Col
leges are left full liberty, not only of inter
nal organization and discipline, but to
avail themselves or not to avail them
selves of the University lectures on the
snubjects for which chairs are to be founded:
instruction on the subjects already speci
fled being altogether excluded from the
University curriculum and confined to
that of the Colleges. "
The Ierr-ble Nor-thfleet Disaster--.The evi
dencoe of the three Englishmen on board
the Murillo leaves no possible doubt as to
that steamer having been the vessel which
ran into the Northtleet. Mr Bethell, the
chief enginger, Mr. Goodeve, the second
engineer, and Mr. Bell, a passenger, were
all eye-witness of the collison, and declare
that the ship struck had a very brilliant
light burning at the foremast; the second
engineer and the passenger further declare
that they heard cries of "Don't leave us;
send boats !" to which they answered "No,
we shall not leave you ;" and Mr. Bell de
poses that the captain and boatswain of the
MoIrillo were all the time on the bridge,
and that a few moments afterwards they
were steaming down Channel "without
stopping to make any enquiries or to ren
der any assistance." The chief engineer
also states that, feeling that they ought to
have waited, he spoke to the captain the
next day on the subject, and the latter re
marked that he did not believe they had
done much injury to her. It is carious, as
an illustration of the great superiority
of strength possessed by iron ships, that
the Murillo bears no traces of tlhe collision,
except a little paint which has been scraped
off the wood. Lord Carnarvon raised on
Friday the question, whether conduct such
as that of the comnmander of the Murillo in
deserting the Northlfleet did not come un
der extradition treaties as manslaughter,
and whether there was any extradition
treaty or convention with Spain? Lord
Granville replied that there was not; but
that one was in course of negotiation, and
that treaties with several- other countries
were in progress; and he quoted that with
Portugal as an instance of the difficulties
which sometimes delayed these negotia
tions. There is no capital punishment in
Portugal, and the Portuguese Government
has asked us to insert a clause that no one
given up under the extradition treaty
anould be hung. Lord Granvillo " did not
feel justified" in inserting such an under
taking; if he had, Lisbon would have had the
advantage of becoming the point which all
our runaway murderers would have tried
to make. Lord Granville further stated
that the Board of Trade was occupied in
considering what steps should be taken to
wards diminishing the frequency of such
disasters-Lord Carnarvon had mentioned
the necessity of a new code of signals and
a larger number of boats for emigrant
ships. As to the liability of the authors of
such a collision to punishment, the Satur
day Review mentions a case of forty years
ago, in which it was decided that, if there
was sufficient light and the captain was in
a situatisn to be giving the command, lihe
was guilty of manslaughter. If he was not
on deck, the criminal liability might de
volve on some one else. But subsequent
desertion is visited with a special penalty
by the Mercha Shtit,vg6 n,-tbh, auu
of certificate-r.nd would, therefore, thinks
the writer, exclude any other. If this is
the law-and we see no reason for ques
tioning that it is-most people will proba
bly share our opinion that the penalty
ought to be increased.
CGathlolic Children, in Workhouse Schlools..
Lord iuckhurst deserves the thanks of
Catholics for having brought before thie
Hounse of Lords thie case of those children
of Catholic parents who are being brought
up as Protestants in workhouse schools.
llavingeen a statement of thie facts drawn
up by the secretary of the Westminster
Diocesan Educatiou Fund, hlie wrote to
that gentleman and obtained a confirmation
of it. lie accordingly moved on Monday
"for a return of the number of children of
Roman Catholic parents in each union
school in England and Wales on the let
Jan., 1873, and also of the number in
each union who have been taken into pri
vate asylums betweent 1st Jan,, 1872,
and the let Jan., 1d73.' Lord Morley, in
consenting to the return with certain
amendmeuts stated his belief that, when
ever application was mode to thie Local
Government Board on the refusals of guar
dians to carry out the Act, "the President
invariable interfered when hie thought the
case a fit one forloterfe-rence." Tmhemean
ing of this quahltication ms that, when tie
number of Catholic, children in any union
is so large that provision is made within
the un.on itself for their instruction in their
own religion, Mr. Stansfuld will not'inter
fere; when they are in such small numbers
t'sat no such provision is made, hie will re
move them. Blut there is a further ques
tion, of whlich Mr. Stansfeld would perhaps
acknowledge that he is not altogether a
competent judge-when that provision ex
ists, is it always a suficient ones is it freed
from all restrictions which might make it
more nominal than resalt and lastly, is it
always furnished to all the children in the
union who ought to profit by itT
WALES.
The Distress in South Wales.-The letters
which we contisue to receive from the pas
tors of the Missions affected by the strike
draw a'terrible picture of the sufferings
which that unfortunate measure has en
tailed upon the families of the. Catholic
workmen in comamon with the rest of the
population. SpeaKing broadly, about 10.
000 Catfholics ate actually suffering starva
tion, and the season, the climate, the oat
oral features of the country, and the elev
ated site of all these mountain villages
considerably aggravate the calamity. In
the face of such misery no one will be in
clined to enquire into its causes befbhr
offering relict, bund whatever strong feelings
may be entertained as to the tyranny of
the Unions which forces workmen into
idleness and destitution-in many cases
against their will-there can be no two
opinions as to tile duty of succouring those
who suffer under it.-London Tablet.
SPAIN.
The Immediate Future of Spaia.-It is
quite useless to speculate, says tile London
Tablet, whether or how long the experi
ment of the Republic will last. There is
indeed only a sprinkling of Republicans;
tlhe peasoutry are chiefly Carlist, the mid
dle-classes and most of the aristocracy are
Alfonsist, and the Republic is adopted by
the majority in the Cortes, simply because
the cannot agree on a Spanish King, and a
foreign King has been proved to be out of
the question. The Carlist insurrection is
evidently serious, and able to maintain
itself, at least on the defensive; Don Al
fonso, the Prince of Asturias, has left Vien
na for Paris, in order to be within call;
and the principal Communists in London,
Brussels, and Geneva, ape-osaid to have
started for Madrid ; so that there is every
reason to look out for squalls; and as
ipanish Republics elsewhere have certain
not proved a panarea against military
dspotism, everything will probably de
pend, as hitherto, upon the line which the
army may ultimately take.
It is all over with the House of Savoy in
Spain. The impudent attempt to plant on
the throne of a Catholic nation the son of
the despoiler of the Papacy has ended in an
ignominious collapse, and the reign which
the infidel press of Europe hailed with ju
bilant exultation has rotted to extisction.
There is an end of the regime which the
world was asked to regard as a final tri
umph over Catholic spirit in Spain, and a
distinct pronouncement on the part of its
population in favor of irreligion and op
pression. If "Cervantes smiled Spain's
chivalry away," there is still sufficient pa
triotism and sense of duty in the land of
the olive and the vine to render the pre
sence of the son of an eacommunicated us
urper in the Escurial ablorrent to the feel
ings of the people, and not even the pres
sure of military despotism has been suffi
cient to keep him on the throne into which
he had been intruded. From the firstday of
his short and ill-starred reign the indigna
tion of the people was evidenced by acts of
open war. Never for an hour was that
protest suspended, and neither the lying
telegrams nor concocted despatches suffic
ed to conceal the fact that all attempts to
reconcile the Spanish nation to his sway
were utterly unavailing. How freely and
unscrupulously these means of deception
were employed no one who has not closely
watched the course of affairs in the Penin
sula can even imagine. It will be news to
most people, and yet it is undoubtedly a
fact that for the past six months a for
midable insurrectionary war has been
raging in Spain-a war embracing fully
one-third of the country in its area, and
supported against tile Government by regu
larly drilled and equipped fofces, number
ing in the aggregate over fifty thousand
men. It is also certain that Don Carlos,.
the candidate for the crown, whose cap
ture or flight to France has been so often
reported, never during that period quitted
his native soil. Over and over had the de
feat and dispersion of his followers been
reported ; at least a hundred times it has
been announced from Madrid that the in
surrection was finally suppressed, and that
order reigned in Spain. Tie English press
gladly published these tidings, and clung
with frantic vigour to the hope that in
Spain, as in Italy, attachment to Catholic
principles would go down before the auda
city of "liberalism." But it was not to be.
Tihe insurgents, annihilated on paper one
day, were found to be as active as ever the
next; the population gave them their full
est sympathy and assistance, the troops
sent against ther joined their ranks; in
the highest circles, as well as in the lowest,
antipathy to the foreign ruler became a
passion; generals as well as privates
caught the flame of patriotism, and re.
volted against the national scandal. With
in th pa month matters have been hasten
ing to a crisis. The difficulty of stemming
the torrent of insurrection increased each
day, until at last tile current became irre
sistible. To face thle gathering dangers
was more than tihe intruder was equal to.
To escape from Spain with a whole skin
became soon the chief object of his amnibi
tion, -until, and finally, on Tuesday last,
alleging in excuse a trivial qnuarrel with his
Ministers, tile royal carpet-bagger threw up
thie gamen and took refuoe in fiormal abdica
tion. What now will be thie late of Spain in a
question opening up a wide field for specu
lation. Amadeus is gone, but it would be
no, light ttask to say wlo is destined to be
hIis successor. Don Carlos appears to have
some chianclihes in his favor, and in the
present state of affairs it is not easy to see
Ihow his claim is to be resisted. Bot the
Republicans, a rapidly growing party and
ably led, are not likely to lose the oppor
tunity which thie present juncture presents
to themn. Already they have seized on the
reins of power; alreadly tile Republio has
been proclaimed. Senor Castelar and his
followeres hlrve lost no time in bringing
their programme into operation, and they
have now thie advantages in their favor
which spring from promptitude and posses
sion. They Ihave professedly been waiting
for the very event uhich has now occurred
and which it required no prescience to
foresee, and they are certain to resist by
force of arumsa any att mpt to restore to the
Monarchlical foirm of Government. Agam,
thie exiled Queen and her son have no coin
siderable number of adlherents in tine
country, and thie Alphonsiats have made
themselves heard and felt more than oence
during the reign of Amnadeas. What the
counflict of pretensions will end in it is im
possible to predict. That Spain has still a
cycle of gloom and trouble to pass through
is only too probable; but whatever may be
the lssen of the crisis we can at least find
room for rej,,icing in the fact that the tri
umph of irreligion is ended in Spain, and
the reproach involved in the presence of
the son of the robber king upon the Spanish
throne for ever wiped away.-lDublin Na
tion.
SWITZERLAND.
The Persecution in. the Diocese of Bale.
The Cathedral Chapter of the diocese of
Bale, whose residence, like that of the
Bishop, is at Solsure, have of course re
fused to treat their Bishop as deposed and
elect an admiiatrator ad interim, inas
much, as they quaintly reply, as the Bishop
is neither dead, excommunicated, nor
otherwise removed frim his See. The Car
dinal Archbishop of Besancon and the
Bishop of levers have both written to the
Bishop of Bale to offer him hospitality, but
Mgr. Lacihat has decided to remain at Sole
ore as guest of Count von Scherrer as long
as possible, and if obliged to leave the Can
ton will reside at Lucerne, unless the Fed
eral Government should join actively in
the persecution and expel him from Switz
erland altogether. The Diocese of Bale
coutains 380,000 Cathbllcs, and of these only
20,000, with only three priests, form the
heretical and schismatical body whose
cause the Government has taken up; but
this minority is of course swelled by all the
Protestant and other non-Catholic elements
in the Cantons, and the object of this anti
Catholic party is, as it quarrels with one
Catholic Bishop after another, to get rid of
them all by degrees, and to substitute for
them if possible one or two Bishops who
will be absolute cyphers, and consent to
the transformation of the batholic Church
into a community without any real spirit
ual government whatever. It is alleged by
the Journlal de Geneve that the Bale Con
ference has actually had the coolness to
propose that "the Roman Curia"--in other
words the Holy See-should be invited to
consent to the creation oJf a "great Swiss
Diocese," to comprise all "the dissident
Cantons," that is, to authorize and -recog
nize a schismatical and heretical commu
nion. The presumption of the Swiss Rad
icals is quite equalled by their ignorance of
the constitution of the Church and of ec
clesiastical history; otherwise it would be
impossible to account for their extraordi
nary shortsightedness. They see no reason
why they should not succeed at once in to
enterprise in which centuries of persecu
tion have failed.
At Geneva the Council of State has re
solved to put a three months' stoppage on
the salaries of all the cures, for having read
in their pulpits the Pontifical Brief ap
pointing the Vicar Apostolic. At the
same time it has sent two delegates, to
Berne, who have had an interview with the
Federal President, M. Ceresole. There
could be but little doubt what the answer
of the Federal Government wouhl be. Not
only is the Government of Berne-for the
reasons above stated-persistently and un
iversally hostile to any episcopal appoint
ment which it can refuse to acknowledge,
but from the first, in an interview with
Mgr. Agnozzi, Pontifical Charge d'Affairs,
it refused to recive the particular Brief
now in question. It has now decided to
support the Government of Geneva in ban
ishing Mgr. Mermillod, and has addressed
a note to Mgr. Agnozzi, denying the right
of the Holy She to "dismember" a Swiss
diocese "without the consent of govern
ment powers." It has fixed Feb. 22nd next
as the term by which Mgr. Mermillod must
either disobey the Holy See by renounc
ing the Apostolic Vicariate, or be expelled
from the Canton. We need scarcely say that
there is no doubt what the answer of the
Bishop of Hebron will be. No step more
moderate than the nomination of a Vicar
Apostolic could possibly have been taken
by the Holy See, but the opposition to it is
Just as fierce as if a Bishop of Geneva had
oeen appointed. And that nothing short
of the absolute enslavement of the Church
will satisfy the-party in power is apparent
from the fact that the proposition of M.
James Fazy, the veteran leader of the old
fashioned Liberals, for an entire separation
of Church and State, as in England or
America, has been rejected in the Grand
Council by eighty-five votes to fifteen ;
while the principal of a popular election to
all ecclesiastical posts was aftirmed by a
large majority. Not even spoliation of
the Church will satisfy these petty tyrants;
they will have nothing less than her con
version into "a branch of the civil service,"
with a government and institutions devised
by themselves.
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