GERMANY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 2, 10 May 1873, Page 4

GERMANY.

(London ' Tablet.') WANT OP SCHOOL3IASTEBB.

Thb Cologne 'Volks-Zeitung' and also several of the Liberal Berlin papers lament the almost impossibility of finding masters for (he schools .which have been deprived of instructors by the expulsion of the religious orders, as well as for those schools which have aWs been in secular hands. "This want, which goes on spreading from province to province," snjs the Cologne paper, « and which is making itself terribly felt in our part of Germany, has not been diminished even by the efforts of the Government inducing young men tc ad^pt this profession by raising the salaries of schoolmasters and teachers The salary of such persons at the Catholic training school of MbntaLour (to take only a solitary instance) has been raised from 200 dollars a year to 700, at the same lime that the yearly payment by each pupil has been reduced from 70 to 50." I a Bp i, e of this, the dearth of masters and of pupils ia training for this profession hss gone on and still goes on, increasing every week. This is the more serioin, as the very short term of military servije, which is ore of the privileges attached to this profession, had hitherto attracted many young men True, there were by iar fewer secular masters required, ov account of the enormous number of schools managed— some of these under Government and some not-by members of religious orders and by the

Christian Brothers. The German Empire is losing its former preeminence in the matter of education, and that through its own fault.

A JESUIT FATHEB SENTENCED TO THEE E DAYS AEEEST.

Father Meschemoeer, S.J., was condemned, a few days ago, to. three days' arrest, by the police authorities, " for infringement of the Governmental order with regard to his place of abode." The Father in question "had stayed once at Herr Pustet's, and twice at the Catholic Hospital in lialiaron." The ticket-of-leave men in England are not so sharply looked after ; but then, to be sure, they are only burglars or murderers, or perhaps forgers— but not Jesuits.

FATHEE FTTGGEB-GLOTT's. DECLAEATION.

Count Fugger-Glott, who is a Jesuit, hns published a declaration in the Ratisbon newspapers, in which he announces that he is not staying in Ratisbon at pre&ent, but at hia father's house of Dillingen, in the district of Schwaben and Neuburg— but that he has- not left Ratisbon for any other reason but his own will, not having received any definite answer yet to the protest sent by him to Government, against the arbitrary order for his exile. Further, lie goe3 on to say, " that the said protest against his exile from Ratisbon did not proceed from any desire to stay there, but w s drawn forth by the fact that, the measure in question was a violation of his rights." To ease the official mind he goes on to say, " I may as well say at once, that I have no intention whatever of choosing Ratisbon as my place of abode, even if the question of right is given iv my favour."