GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 52, 25 April 1874, Page 13

GENERAL NEWS.

(Summarised from our exchanges.) Fever, perhaps, ha* a more unliVnifod declaration of war against the rights and liberties of Catholics been uttered than that by deputy Kette, in the Session at Bertt.^^ tile Wtfi ffi" (6^^. "tfe must bare been off his guard when he exchynfedi ffitb ®efef6n;<p &o< toe CathqlicsjoiUiiig on, the centre benches : — " If any party exists in this House wfcrctvhflis ttsrcetttfe-pointf ottt iff be 1 treated in quite a different way, am£ measured syU t3tuer§nit (^6tndafd, from otber political parties." Upon the indignant rejoinder of deputy Windthorst, the friends of the speaker Bad ft takeVmifch trouble ~40 soften down somewhat the expression which deputy Kette had made . we of. ■ ;• :i -..,in •-, . ■ Malmedy is a pretty little Prussian fawn on. foe frontiers of Be|-| gina. about 24 miles to the south; pf| Ai*rl*>Cl>«peJle. Sixteen of., {the ] leading men of this placo have just become marked men before, the Prussian Government, for having signed, ,thej<-;name to an apppa^ made, six months ago, fur coovofeing * fotbofw meeting in their t#w*. They were summoned to a)ppe»r before ; the magistrate at Avtpla-,' Ghapelle, and have been acquitted. The 27th November, £ing HTilljam of Prussia, " by the grape off Qod," restored to the province of Alsace Lorraine; with ample privileges, in order to make things more accommodating, the law of divoiee which had been aboliihed there ever .ince lifl6. , <t t _ A little time ago, while a procession , wiia passiug along at Posen,^ some one put up in his window in large letters the gospel WoruV': 1 — v ' " Lord, save us, we perish !" The police instantly came and COflflseated the placard. Not so many- yekr* ago '^ttae ' 'was> sup- " pressed for using the very same words: j ■ ' f Beginning with the present year,' a hundred thousand new tyfauaett guns will be made monthly for the Prussian army. ! If children are excluded* "from Catholic "teaching, we must not be snrpnied that the race of their instructors is doomed to ext&otfon. According to the decree last issued, tho Clerical Seminary of Jtftldeshsim 'will be olbsed after the firetr day of tkef N«w Year, unless murestricted Bubmis->ion have been yielded previously to the May Law. In Alsace, the same measures will be observed. Lately, also, by order «i <th« " Ober-president," two boys' schools have b^en' closed, one in and one at Zillisheim. American newspapers, and magazines published in German, have been forbidden by the German Qoverntnenjt ,to be ,«old in that country. The Mo»t Ber. I'aul Melohera, Archbifhop of , Cologne, has written a touching letter to the Catholic Association of England in reply to their addresses of sympathy w ith the German Catholics. He speaks of the conflict they are sustaining against liberalism, and exhorts Bnglish Catholice to join their prayers with tiieir German brethren that those great saints whom England gave to Germany may restore fche latter to the religions liberty of the former. ■ ■ ■■ ' n ; : On the firnt Sunday in advent, Mgr. Ledochowski preached in the Cathedral of Posen' -before a vast congregation. When lie left the ohurch to return to his palace, a scene of indescribable* enthusiasm, took ptatie. The people threw themselves on their kneea, as he passed along, and seizing his hands covered them witri 1 kisses^" they -even caught at his vestments and tore shreds from them to preserve as relics. All his furniture has been sold at auction, but the people of P.oeen refused to buy it out of respect to their iArchbtshopj and con J sequent ly the things were sold to Jews " for a song.^'- ' \\ \ . " Mgr. Eberhard, Bishop of Trevew, has been condemned to pay 38W, thalers fi'rve, and'Mfer. ■Melch'ers '2ooo for d&sdbeying the unjust edicts of the Government. ■ - " 1,-a In Ala/, 1^74, tlure will be in Germany 1200 Catholic parishes without parish priestsi all of them hawtt^been deprived 6f theft' legitimate pastors through the persecution of Bismarck. < So untrue was the statement — lithographed! ' by the* Berlin* press department for English papers— that, the Prince Bishop of Brealau had virtually recognized the May Laws as regards the appointment of a/priest, that he has just been condemned to« fine of !l,6(X> thalers, 1 or, in default of payment, to two years' imprisonment for the uumination of twenty-nine ecclesiostical poets. At 'the same time bhe Bishop «f Poderborn has been deprived of the revenues of his Seew i ITALY. It seems that Victor Emmanuel is very much annoyed at the ; riots made in Florence against the Jesuits. ; B[e Jiasoio id<yi of driving them out of Ital}, just to please Bismarck,; but ,w,tt| h« be able, to resist the pressure of the great German Chaucellor andi Uis f riendsi tM Radicals? '

A rather amusing incident occured, not at all to the honour of the • galant'tiomo :- Sir ' Robert Kane recognised ,M. Spaveota, the Minister o( Public Works in Italy, as .having , Jasjf peea him at wotk i^ the galleys ; the minister denied the fact, but without energy or passion. The masonic journals are wild with rage at seeing the faithful Romans redouble their prayers to appease dirine justice. No liberty ought to be allowed them in this regard. They even advocate a positive prohibition on the part of the Syndic, to perform the devotions of the Via crueit in the Coliseum. Who does not see the spirit which agitates them ! Count Philip Antonelli, brother of His Eminence the Cardinal Minuter of State, died the 22nd December, after a short illness. For eighteen years the deceased had been Governor of the Roman Bank. ' With characteristic chivalry the government of Victor Emmanuel bare seized the opportunity to prove their remembrance of the valour of the Irish Brigade and to evince their respect for religion and decency. The grand old Irish convent of St. Isidore, for centuries the home of learning, patriotism, and piety, has been converted into a look hospital. The .Scientific Congress of Rome ba* dispersed without having made the slightest mark in the learned w vl I, or emitted a remarkable thought. The anti-Christian virus which distinguishes the majority of its members finds expression in one of its propositions recorded in he ' Journal de Rome, that of restoring the great basilicas to the

State and withdrawing them from public worship, on the ground that they were, in the earliest age, Pagan rather than Christian monument* ! .7 rTfao Liberal newspaper* in Jtome teem t« take especial interest m the jkfw Cardinals. They condemn the appointment of the Jesoit Father Tarquini, simply because he is a' member of that order. Father Ta^umiJ<h«v««6r;]kia maoowhojfrlllfinis to distinction are numerous. Htfljearning itydsror and solid. His acquaintance with the mysteries of Etrurian archeology would alone suffice to give him a high pott (wheriner Miene* an*rliteirat*rs <$m [h(wpp»ed. v , , JgJS/.Beriqnal character is welllndtWi^oa biWf&tfOald sobriety of demeanor render hiaV conspicuous among the brethren of an order famed for producing men pf patisnttjungbtiiasivjp, asd enduring merit. " tJltramontaoism and Casarism." — The echo of Arohbishop {Manning's great address on, this subject, delirered before the Academia irf the Catholic Beligib^ft' VilknftiKepP Rome, and created a " sensation." ,Tj}e B<}Dle words of In'^'SSw stMSar and learned prelate, the austere lajnguage he employs, fl|,eyi^ 'etfftfrrßasoning he uses, the clear picture he. dijMrs of the char^ci^s 1 :i efc^dr.Caesarism in the past and in the iprie,sent, render this acra&M t^mauaple among all his works. v '. ',^9 ' Giornale dt^SMkt^*^lHAd Father Beckx, the General of the Jesuit*, will remain in Tftlome 1 anareside at the Belgian College. A luJiorous plaj has been produced on the French boards giving imni#rt6*'aUusßif«n% to eb#4ivefy^ri£an4. this time to \S6 rather at Irish expense, though we cannot complain of the intention of tli& author, noyvfthb spiritual ifibjehithe: dusjna : jitffewed by the aadwnoe after theilr fun Has been <sati«fifld t $he play is called L$ ■Borgtu*, and tttdiscenait laid in Dublin. The time is that of George -the Second, who, with Lord O'Neill, the Lord Lieutenant, and Lord I' Nefelj play» «:prqm>ne*t parl< jjEhe Viceregal Court at the Castle is reprcjented by grand ladies atii gentlemen in ragged costume, and broken shoes., %n its critique the '.Gaulois ' eympathetically obrerTet ~— li The pfcWeVare better than any possible de^crSpt-ibii-in 1 feivfeg »n idca-otthe misery in whichjmfojMLunateJCrelaadja steeped." Though Jue Parisians laugh at the work of the artist they pitytne subjects of 'his tor: ■ ' . £-t /. J ' l ;' '. .; •; President MacMahon and his wife contribute I 5000 francs-to'the fund for the Buvvivors of the Vtlle flu Hatw disaster; At a late tearice of the sFreqdr Jfcaddmyv M. Charles Jourdain attempted to prove that Koger Bacon, the great Franciscan monk, was a Frenchman, while admitting' that, be studied at Oxford and returned thsre to die. , The Jesuits have opened colleges at Aries and Besancon, where they have not been seea since tWe great revolution. JBELGITTM. A Cure in the dioeeße of Ghent sold all he had the other day and sent it^to the Pctpe as Peter's' Pence* The' Pope Wrote on a piece of paper these words, and sent them to him, " Dominua te benedicat et : div.it#n L tpJaciat virtute et gratia et." The Emperor of Germany ism for from gopd health. His Majesty ia very weak", cannot lefcVe hh room; andy ie obliged, to be wheeled ia an arm-chair from the 1 bed -to the table.