GERMANY.

Western Star, Issue 52, 7 November 1874, Page 5

GERMANY.

(from OJTR OORREaeo> T ■ ■ 7 ' '• Berlin, July 22,18*4. The blind,j shot at Kissingen' turns ou| every day.more apcLnipre to, bo. a ; mere contriyari'ce-in-' vpntod/'£or, the "pui'ppso s o.b haying. q, 'cause to oppress the Catholics in a still more, brutal 5 manner than hitherto. The day after the pretended Attempt the “ wounded” Chancellor Bis- . march v^is.tpl^bx in fact he made"use of the time to send orders hither, about which it is worthy of remark, that the; secret instructions for the ministry and the police, were in his own autograph—although he ■was given out to he wounded in; his right hand. Soon after tho arrival of the news, Imre a council of ministers, was held, and according to iustriictloiw'feceivecl. tho measures to ( bp taken against tho enemy Vf the’’ Empire—the. Ultramontane. Reiclisfeind” —were agreed on. The events of tlie last days show more plainly than ever that everything* had been planned beforehand. Not tUo.'ahghteat proof, not the Btnallc§b. appearance of a. plot has been, brought to v light,;., a neb yet in different towns the houses of Cataolics have been. ; searched, ; although without any other _ success than that the police, Kaye got into their hands lists of the members ofsercral Catholic IT irons. This the case at tho house of the Lcgarionsrafch, H.er yon Kohler, herp at Berlin, whose hpuse was 1 searched not.iess thgiv,three times with the ance of seven policemen. The, Councillor surely must be a very “ staatsgefuhrlich ” person (dangerpua to,the. State)j although i,t was utterly impossible to fin,l or,,r.o,m.ake, out'anv connection between the Catholics and the, attempt at assassination. Last .Monday njl Catholic Unions here were closed by. order of the police and iii case of disobedience severe punishment was threatened. , Shortly after, the attempt the local authorities re : , oeived strict *rdcrs to net aguinst,Catholic Unions and corporatipns and to, bring the full, force of the law to. bear upon them, " YmV. see there method in the whole business, hut suph a disgusting and moan proceeding ray pen refuses to . describe more in, detail. Enough has been said to show, if proof, where needed, thalj might, is right bora and no means aro too base if it only serves tho purpose of suppressing the Catholics a«d Catholicism. The Norddeutschf AUgem-eine Zeitung , tlie favourite organ of Prince Bismarck; yesterday was so fortunate as to discover the author, of the attempt. Has the heat of the dog-days addled the brains of the unhappy editor ? He is quite sure that the instigator of the assassin can be no-., body else than the Pope! Pius IX., ip his personal infallibility, has declared that everybody w ho docs not submit to him to be outlawed-, and therefore gives a fanatic murderer his benedi tipn and plenary indulgence into the bargain! Such infamous lies do tho Government newspapers disseminate In order to enrage Protestants and freethinkers against the Catholics ; strange that they have not so much sense to comprehend that their policy only proves the hateful meanness and wickedness of the intentions which inspire the Prussian Government against Catholicism. In Westphalia the Cultur-Kqmpf has taken s> now turn to enlighten the people about tho real intentions of Government, and to illustrate the Bismarckian dictum, “ We take money wherever we find it.” By a Government order from Berlin the property and income of twelve parches lias bean sequestered in order to be “ adininistered by clean Prussian hands, because the parishes were being served by priests who had- nob submitted to the infamous new German .Church laws. f ': L-‘ v UK-d

An order 1 from Berlin was also notified to tiro, parishioners by which were prohibited all christenings, proclamation of bands of marriages, nuptial ceremonies and burials, by such priests, who have not the, license of 1 Government for ecclesiastical duty. AH eaclesiastical acts done in contravention of this order, are declared by anticipation to, be. null and without legal validity. This ukase is signed The yon Droste zu. Padtberg, As news, though of subordinate interest, I hare, the. honor to. inform, you that the President of the. Police, Herr von Madai, would very mueh like to, know your correspondent. I have reason to suppose this, as I am told that enquiries were being made at the post-office, and also'the, domiciliary visit to the office of the Editor, of the *' Germania,” was partly on this account. X hppe, that Herr von Madai will search further. I do., not care a fig for his perquisitions, or for himself, However, I wish him joy of his researches and le. bon repos on any laurels he may succeed in reap-, ing therefrom. "