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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VIII, Issue 417, 8 April 1881, Page 17

The Paris Soldi, the organ of the Orleanists, thus sums np the work of the Session :—": — " The Chamber has neglected the necessary for the superfluous. The majority, urged on by its hatred of Catholicity aud its tendency toward Atheism, has imposed on the Ministry the application of an entire new system of public instruction, marked with the seal of irreligion. The only result yet obtained has been to agitate the public mind, to trouble consciences, to excite a civil religious war, and to divert from the Republic the Moderates and Liberals that were coining over to it. There is not a question the majority and the Ministry have handed more clumsily than that of public instruction. Millions of Catholics cannot dissimulate the conviction that war against religion is the substance of the present policy of Opportunism and Jacobinism."