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4 EUROPE. English and German Discussion of the Papal Syllabus and Council. Archbishop Manning to the Munich Theologians and Catho- lies of Britain. Aristocratic Life in England and the Heirship of the Throne. By mail from Europe we have the following details f our cable telegrams to the 5th of October addi- Mona to the special reports published tn the HERALD Yesterday, 4a France of Paris, of the 4th of October, say:— Father Hyactnthe, who, since the publication of Ms Lag Mepepind he had not previously announced to Sny one, had not seen the Archbishop of Paris, went to pay him a visit this week. It 19 atated that the Archbishop received him with great cordiality, and told him that, while blaming the act, he wag sul Qnxious to keep up affectionate relations with him, and invited him to repeat bis visit. We are also informed that.the note of the Sematne Religieuse, reproduced by the Univers, and containing this Persp “his best friends are in affliction and the are scandalized,’”’ was inserted without the Knowledge or autoorization of the Archbishop, who Was then absent from Paris, The note in question, it 4 said, was penned by the eaitors of that journal. The Weser-Zeitung newspaper, of Bertin, of the 3d Of October, writing on the subject of the Council in Rome ‘and the general condition of church affairs in Germany, says:— The fulminating letter of Father Hyacinthe to the Superintendent Generai of the Carmelites, which has for the moment diverted the attention of our neigh- bors on the other side of the Riine from the state of the Emperor's health, 1s interesting to us as a new ek noes Ce ad of the With opposition, not only amon; the Catholic laity, but in the very organs of the Church. It is already clear that the plan of ing, by means of @ devoted majority, a num- er of propositions which had been prepared before the meeting of the Council is entirely frus- trated. The authorities find themselves placed in the following unpleasant alternative. ‘They will either have to show a proper respect for the opinions Of the minonty, and to interpret the infallibility of the Pope and the propositions of-the Syllabus in such 8 manver as to render It possible to maintain the status quo, between Church and State, or they will be obiiged to announce the new dogma in all ita integrity, subject to the risk of the governmenta employing al) their power to limit, as far 26 possibie, the influence of ultramontane tendencies, particu- larly mn educationa: matters, The next general meeting of Ger.nan astronomers will be heid at Suuttgard in 1871. . The subscriptions received for the wives and familics of the miners who were killed in the Burg (Germany) colliery amounted to 330,000 thalers on ‘the 2d of October. ENGLAND. ‘The Ecumenical Council—The Manich Theo- logians and Archbishop Manning—Comfort for Bavaria, Lonpvon, Oct. 4, 1869, Two interesting additions have been made thie ‘week to the literature born of the discussion of the objects and eventual effecta of the approaching Ecumenical Vouncli, the one being a second reply of the Theological Faculty of Munich to the five questions propounded by the Bavarian government, and the other appearing in the shape of a discourse delivered yesterday 1 one of the London Catholic churches by the Archbishop of Westminster on the Pope’s Syllabus. The five questions addressed to the learned doctors of Munich were as follows:— First Question,—If the propositions contamed in the Syllabus and the tnfaliibility of the Pope are to be declared articles of faith by the coming Council, What changes wil be caused in the doctrine of the reiations of Church and State as it has hitherto been treaved theoretically and practically in Ger- many Second.—In this presupposed case would the public teachers of dogmatic theology and ecclesins- tical law consider themselves bound to assume the doctrine of the aivinely ordained sovereignty of the Pope over thie monarchs and governments (pe it as potestas Airecia, or midirecta in temporatia) as binding on the conscience of every Christian? Third.—Would the teachers of dogmatic theology and ecclesiastical law consider themselves at once pound to adopt in their lectures and writings the doctrine that the personal and real immunities of the clergy are of divine right, aud theretore belong ‘ the sphere of the dogma? Fourih.—Are there any generally recognized criteria whereby it can be ascertained with certainty whether any Papal dictum is eccachedra, and, there- fore, according to tne doctrine eventually to be laid down by the Council, infallibie and binding on the mind of every Curistian; and if there be such criteria, Whicn are they? FF’ fih..—Uow iar would the intended new dogmas and their necessary consequences produce an altera- ton im popular euucation in church and school, and in the popular school books (catechisms, &c.) them- selves? The first deciston of the theologians on the points most interestiag to temporal rulers was certainly of a@somewhat startling character, for it held that if ‘the infaillbilisy of the Pope should be made a dog- matic article of faith, and the Syllabus be solemnly ‘adopted by the Council, the relations of Church and State might be materially changed, and belicvers might find themselves involved in a sorely perplex- ing conflict between the allegiance claimed by their temporal sovereign and the obedience due to Christ's Vicar upon earth. If such were to be the effect of acta generally regarded as foreordained it is evident that States could not affora to be simply passive, but must actively mverpose their authority to prohibit their subjects from taking part in the Council. The present or supplementary response of the learned Munich professors partakes of @ more po- Mtio character, aad seems designed as well as calculated to notch and blunt the dan- gerous edges sharpened upon the controversial gtindstone of Dr. Vollinger and his associates. It is, 1f the expression may be allowed, @ sort of syilabustic Pickwicklanism; an atcempt to prove py all the subtleties of dialectic that the infallibility dogma aud the formal contirmation of the Syllabus Would ve aiter ail a very milk-and-water affair; would have no practical effect upon the relations of Unurch and State; Would not alter the teaching of theolo- gians, and would leave the doctrine that the personal an immunities of the clergy are of divine right, what is has hitherto been, a free theological optuion. If the pecond oracie can be regarded as the true one, ® world of troublo and anxiety will be saved to restless freetuinkers and to quaking Biates, for the thunders of the dreaded Council will by lightning and all fear of dan- ger Will be at an ead. Bavaria will never be so seriously disturbed by Pio Nono as she was some years ago by Lola Montez, and the troubles of Father Hyacinthe will be at an end. Who wili begrudge the good Pope the gratification of the infallibuity dogma to be inserted in the catechism and received mto the religious teaching of the Church, provided it 1s unattended by any practical extension of his vem poral power? And who will object to the Council's solemn adoption of the Syllabus, with its eighty errors and tuetr condemnation, when it is under- stood that political society 18 to continue onward in the career of progress aud enlightenment, uncheckea by the nominal authority of Rome? ‘There is no doubt that the second batch of Bavarian theologians have found an easy and reassuring solution of a diit- culty that has seriously disturbed the smailer Powers of Europe, and even created a certain amount of uneasiness in the minds o& the more pre- tentious Staies. “Krom this detailed reply to the five questions," they say at the close of their re- sponse, “there fdllows the dogmatic general result— that an eventual sanctioning on she part of the next Ecumenical Councit of the Syllabus In its present state, and a raismg into adogma, omthe part of the Council, of the mafailioiitty of the Pope, as speaking ex cathedrd, would not alter, directly as such, the existing status quo between State and Churcd, and would not carry With it the doctrine of a divinely ordained sovereignty of the Pope over the monarchs and governments as one binding in conscience upon every Unristian; and as litte would the further doc- trine of a divine origin of the personal and real immunities of the clergy, not merely in general, but igo in devali, and purely a3 such, produce any alter- ation tn school teaching as Jar as the relations between Church aud State are concerned.” Yet the learned doctors ot Munich cast an anchor to Windward, as it were, on benaif of the Church, by the insertion of a clause’ which seems to reserve to tne Church at some future day the right, if she should ever have the power, to excommunicate monarchs, to topple over turones and to put nations under the ban. Altiougi these given acts of te Council, say they, directly as such “would not alter and not displace the rejations of Church and State, they Might dos0 possi in their direct historical consequences, for one thing is dogmauy principies and another weir practical modes of execution unaer some future historical circumstances.” This certainly eaves open & wide door for “fature historical circumstances,” and one ean readily imagine, from the history of that if those circumstances 4 be favorable to the Church ihe practt jode of their execution might make the dogmatic inciples which are supposed to be on the eve of romuigation far less Pickwicktan than the theolo- Bisns DOW represent them to ve. But the danger is NEW YORK HERALD. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. and recedes 60 palpably with every boy the wisest Raine overnment of Fulda bishops, Father Hyacinthe and troubled spirits can do isto suffer the to take its own course without let or hind Console themselves with the complex logic Munich professors and to remem»er that they ve in an age of steam, electricity and New YORK Ease, to say nothing of Spiritualism, pneumatic tabes flying machines, Of a widely different character to this disquisitton ofthe doctors is the discourse delivered by Arch- bishop Manning yesterday before a crowded @ation at the Pro-cathedral in Kensington. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Engiand unites the fearieasness of a soldier of Christ with the flery zeal ofa convert. He is bold and aggressive; unsparing in his attacks upon the. heretics, to whose wi y ranks ne once belonged, and unyielding in his de- mands upon the faith and obedience of the faithful of whom he is now a prominentieader. His appear- ance In the pulpit is particularly impressive, his style of speaking clear and forcible, His tall, spare form is shaken by infirmity, but there is a nervous vitality within that seems to brace up his sinews and to burn & perpetual fire in his keen, gray eyes, His utterance 1s low, but very distinct, and his terse sentences live in the memory. He has a fine head, with a few str: ing a gray locks at the sides and bald at the top, giving additional height to @ naturally high and broad forehead. His features are prominent and his mouth at once sweet and frm in ite expression. He is popular amon; his people, and wherever he preaches the crow congregation is certain to embrace hundreds who are NOt of the Catholio faich. He took for his text yes- terday the words from John vi., 60—“Many of His eoioae when they heard this, said, ‘This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” and applied them to the consternation which, he held, had been cre- ated among unbelievers vy the publication of the Syllabus on the Feast of the Immacutate Conception five years vs The Syllabus, as its name impiles, was simply a collection or gathering together of certain propositions which the Holy Father had previously Promulgated during eighteen years of his pontitl- cate, and which pointed out and condemned the intellectual errors of the day. The trouble caused by toig compilation, the Archbishop held, was at- tributable vo the fact that some of the errors thus condemngd were such as had crept into political society, ahd he believed that if the Pope had con- fined bimself simply to faith and morality in the ordinary personal acceptation of the world, very little objection would have been heard against the Syllabus. But his duty as pastor of the universal flock haa hi pond him to point out and condemn those errors in political philosophy which lay at the root of morals, and hence the world had beeh set in Qn uproar. Far from the object of the Arch- bishop was it, however, to follow the example of the Munich theologians, and attempt to argue that although these errors had been condemned by the Holy Father there existed no obligation on the part of the Church, even before their adoption by the Council, to declare obedience to the teachings of the Syllaous the first duty of the Catholic world, On the contrary he sought to show that the primary duty of Catholics, in obedience to the Holy Father, was to enroll themselves as the opponents of those bold and terribie errors, liberalism, progress and modern civilization, Could it be wondered at, he asked, that When the worid, with great courtesy sometimes, with great superciliousness at another time, and great inenace always, invites the Roman Pontiif to recqnueile uimseif to liveralism, progress and modern civilization, he should say, “No, { wiil not and I cannot? Your progress means divorce; 1 maintain Christian marriage. Your progress means secular education; 1 maintain that education is tntrinsi- cally and necessarily Christian. You maintain that it 1s @ good thing that men should think as they like, - talk as they like, preach as they like, and propagate what errors they please. 1 say that is sowing error broadcast over the world. You say I have no authority over the Christian worid, that I am not the vicar the Good Shepherd, that lam uot the su- preme interpreter of the Christian faith, I am all these. You ask me to abdicate, to renounce my supreme authority. You tell me I ought to submit to the civil power, that | am the subject of the King of italy, and from him 1 am to receive instruction a8 to the way I should exercise the civil power. Isay I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord made me the subject of no one on earth, King or otherwise, that in His right Iam sovereign, ie ac- knowledge no civil superior, J am the subject of no prince, and 1 claim more than this—! claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men—of the peasant that tiils the field and the prince that sits on the throne—of the bouse- hold that lives tn the shade of privacy and the Legislature that makes laws tor kingdoms—I am the sole last Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong. Your progress is departure from Christian civiliza- tion; in that path you may have many companions, but me you will not find.” When such is the position taken by the chosen mouthpieces of the Holy Father—for tne archbisho; ot Westminster stands high in the confidence aon aifection of the Pope—it is probably ditticult for the timid to make up their minds to accept the comfort- able “dogmatic general result” cf the detailed reply of the Munich doctors to the questions of the Bava- rian government, or to believe that the Pope has no ractical ends in view when he calig together an scumenical Council to raise his infallibility into a dogma of the Church and to solemnly the Syllabus, {1 such, it seems to conceded, are to the results of the gathering at Rome. Nevertheless, a common sense consideration of the matter might supply an easy reconciliation of the flery earnestness of the Archbishop with the reassuring logic of the theo- logians. ‘The tidal wave of free and independent thougnt threatens to sweep away many of the old lanamarks of the Charch of Rome, and it may weil be supposed that the Holy Father is unwilling to sit quietly on the shore and witness the destruction without an effort to rooted ged progress of the waters. A tightening of the reing over those who remain faithful may prevent a greater number from kicking out of the traces of the Church, This may be tho true interpretation of the Bye that has served to set Europe in something of a blaze, and hence both Archdishop Manning and the Munich theologians May be on the right track in regard to the Syllabus, The churchiwau, with fierce zeal, presses an implicit faith in its doctrines upon his flock; the logician coully argues to prove that it ts designed to have no pracitcal effect upon the outside world. Both may be correct; but whether the step shail prove to have been @ wise one or the reverse time alone will show. Meanwhile the world will still move on, and “liberal- ism, progress and modern civilization,” thanks to the elecirie telegraph, the steam engine and the press, Will hold their own despite popes, archbishops, syllabuses and ecumenical council A Prince of Wales Scandal~An Everyday Report of the Alledged Everyday Life of His Royal Highnese—His Companions and the Cost-What the Princess of Wales Snys—Queen Victoria’s Three Sone—Land Referm and Military Movements, LONDON, Oct. 4, 1869. As you are no doubt aware from report, the hetr to the British throne 1s, as alleged, netther given to observe the seventh commandment nor does he attempt to hide his shortcomings in that respect. His companions and intumate friends are all young, unmarried noblemen, who are noto- tious for the immorat lives they lead, and who openly boast of the conquests they achieve and the female companions they patron- ize. The Prince, although married to one of the most charming women in Europe, has, it is reported everywhere, almost broken his wife's heart by his infidelities, and very much of her long continued tl- ness may be attributed to thia source of annoyance. Curious to say, his Royal Highness, although by no Tmoeans better than most young men of his yeara, never became openly immoral until after he mar- ried. Among the ladies first attached to the house- hold of the Princess of Wales when she came to Eng- land was one of the handsomest women, on a very large scale, that was ever seen at this English Court, This lady had already been ‘talked about,” and her name was more or less mixed up with that of three or four well known personages, but there was noth- ing that could be actually proved and nothing post- tively known against tier. However, soon after sho Joined the Princess’ household she was evidently on far betver terms qith tho husband than with the wife, and the Mirtation—I give tt the mildest possivie name—between her and the newly married Prince ‘was the talk of all London. The Queen, of course, heard of the scandal, and, ascertaining that it was but too true, sne had an interview with her son, which was nota pleasant one for either party. To make @ long story short, the Duchess nad to leave the fol- lowing of the Princess, but the intimacy with the Prince continued, as is generally believed, as before, and was (he source of much unhappiness to the wife of the future King of England. But ‘friendships’’— again the mildest possibie word—of this kind seldom remain jong inthe same groove. Her Grace—for ia & duchess—began to show a great liking for @ marquis, son ofa mighty duke, aud bimseif one Of the Ministers of England, ' The Prince of Wales did not like this. He remonstrated; the Iady would not give in, and so @ lar quarrel took piace between them, which has never yet been made up, the smiles of the Duchess peta; still lavished upon the Te But the Prince was not 6 bit @ better child after ffe had severed from her Grace; on the contrary, he was very much worse, for he took to visiting actresses and to spending money upon them, and where he had formerly one he had now three or four iady acquaiatances. About the time | write of—some two years ago—a famous French actress (the lady who puts or ought to put + all modest women to the biush by her acting anid the jascivious gestures and looks she introduces) came to London, and was, of course, surrounded by haif a dozen wealthy lovers, all of whom spent fortunes upon her, and all of Whom were upon the same foot ing of intimacy. Lord 0—, the same person who had the row with Mr. Granville Murray, used to drive her about openty in the park, she sitting on the box of tis four-in-band drag, and he meeting in the crow4 of fashionables that flied the ride kis motter, sisters, relatives and other ladies. Would bi tolerate such a@ state of things tn*New York? { think not, Let @ man sin if he likes, but lot him not parade that sin on the most public part of the fashionable arive of London, with @ woman of that Kind on the seat by his side, Mut what if L tell you that among the men that crowded after this’ foreign actress was his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of ihe Queen of England and heir to the crown of these realms? Of course the triumph of the lady was great, 1s is true she ws nearly, if not quite, thirty years older than the Prince, but this seems to make his iutatua- ion all the greater. In due time Mademorse!ia leit London, but this did not break off the intimacy, lor whenever the Prince could visit Paris of the actress came to London, tt was renewed, ‘There was oni: one drawback to the whole atfair. Fora man in bi Position the Prince of Walesa 1s not only far from rich, out he is very much in debt, ‘Fo do bim justice ‘he 18 not parsimonious, aff, although the Queen has made him, as it were, do the honors of London for some years gah sfe has never increased bis allow- ance by a five pound note. Now Mademoiselle, like all women of her pecuilar tastes, ig oxtravagant in the extreme, and would eat up the national revenue of the United States m jewels alone, tf any one could be found fool enougs % give her the same. As it ts she has dia- monds to the value of £80,000 ($400,000), that have been given her by various and wealthy lovers, tno Emperor of Kussia alone having given her in ono case a necklace, earrings and braceleta worth $100,000. Bus to return to my tale, The other day the Prince of Wales, by desire of the doctors, took his wife to the springs at Wildbad, in Germany, for the sake of her health, which ts still very indifferent. He remained a short timo with her and then returned to London, leaving her with her suite at Wildbad. Of course he through Paris; of course he remained some-days in that very wicked but very pleasant city, and of course he went to see Mademoiselle. Sometow or other it happened that this interesting actress was greatly in want of money—as actresses generally are, at least actresses vf her stamp—and requested ils Royal Highness to “lend” her a trifie of 250,000f, (£10,000 or $60,000). The Prinoe had not the money, but was induced to & note or biil for the amount, payavie a couple of weeks after date. in London bir Royal Highness’ ‘paper’ would nave been found very dif- Acult indeed, if not impossiole, to discount, dus in Paria there are still fimancial agenta who put faith in princes, At any rate the bill wag discounted, aud did tind its way in due time to London, where dt was presented for payment at Coutts’ Bank, ‘Tue document not being by kre by the Comptrolier of the Prince's Houseuold, had an aspect of irregutarity about it that the bankers did not Ilke, and they besl- tated before paying it. The Prince was abroad again, and could not be referred to, and the story somehow got to the ears of his royal moche?. And then was thore not whut is vulgany called a “row.!? The money was paid, in order to avoid scandal, but her Majesty—who, aithougn in retirement, knows ag weil ag anybody in England what is going on—gave her eldest son what old women call “a bit of her mind”? upon the whole transaction, and told hin pretty plainly what she thought about married men With families of thetr oWn, aad very much in debt, Making presents of $50,000 w women of whom the leas said the better. “Let dogs delignt to bark and bite, for it is their nature to,” says Doctor Watts’ fine old hymn; and { realiy believe that the same excuse must be mado for any one born of the house of Hanover, ‘the men at any rate of that family have Vamour du beau sex to such a degree, that we can only say of them that “46 t8 thelr navure to.” Not one, but fifty are the scandals In this respect thatorop up respecting the Prince of Wales, 0X accouat of his course of life in don. His brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, ia, it ts gene- rally,believed, quite as bad, if not worse; but bein, au unmarried man, the sin is not so great. An the same 13 said of Prince Arthur, the young Prince now in Canada, though in @ very much less degree. ‘The Prince, it 1s true, 18 not the brutal, coarse sen- suallac that George |. aud George LI. were, nor is he the “‘petrayer of woien’? that George LV. was, but that he is much and even shamelessly given to the fol- lowing of light women there can be no doubt; and that ali his companions are unmarried nobiemen, leading the most openly shameless lives, 18 patent to every one itving tn London, or even tn Engiand, ‘Mae effect of bis Koyal Higuneas’ example is arad- wally but very surely telling upon the morais of the higher and the middie ciaswes of the land. Halt a dozep years ago sins against the seventa command- ment, even if the sioner Was an unmarried man, were forbidden topica in ali decent society, auc utterly tabooed wherever ladies were present. But 1b 13, } am sorry to say, Jar otherwise now. We are fast getting as bad, nay, even worse, tuan in France. In that country young and unmarried women, at any rate, are supposed to be ignorant of much of the sin that 1s going on around them, at least sins of a cer- tain kind; but in Engiand you hear girla of eighteen or twenty talking as coolly about the amours of the Earl of ‘his or Lord George That as they might respecting a perfectly lawful flirtation; and, what 1g Worse still, the crime of adultery is now go very common, and talked 80 openly about, that people begin to lose their horror of the offence. In snort, a3 { heard an American gentleman say not long ago (he had formerly resided several years in Engiand, but had been absent from the country for the last eight or nine years), tae morals of ingland in 1860 aud in 1869 are about as diferent as it 13 possibie to imagine. ° In my next letter [hope to give you an outline of the Irish Land bill that will be brought forward nexs session. it has been settied pon by Air. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Mr, Gosheir, Mr. we and Mr. Chiches- ter Fortescae. lt will, no doubt, be satisfactory to the Irish tenants, butnot at all to the Irish land- Jords, and it will Cause a split in the Ministry, which will be abandoned py the Marquis of Huatington, Lord Granville, Lord Clarendon and all the old whig Party, and thus become more radicai and more hib- eral than before, and consequently firmer than even It has been hitherto, More weakening of our colonies. The Cape of Good Hope Mounted Kifles and the Royal Canadian Rifles are both to be disbanded at the end of the present nancial year. This news will only be in the papers of next Monday, but { have tt from un- doubted authority. Theso are both fine old colonial corps, ana bave done a great deal of good servicedo theirday, The army is getting very discontented, indeed, at these reductions, ana the navy 18 stil more 80. Our almost avowed policy now is to let the srilish colonies go whenever 1t may suit then to do 60, As lL suid beiore, the news about disbandtag the Canadian Kinesis from the very best authority. Mr. Cardwell on the Ballot, Land Reform and Free Trade. Mr. Cardwell, M. P., addressed a meeting of his constituents Ina speech of some length. Reiorriug to the election commissions he stated that tacy might eat the expediency of introducuig the batiot. He admitted that tne Irish taud question was one of the greatest difficulty, out itis the duly of Parliament to endeavor to solve the uificuity, not by doimg justice to one party to the injury of another, but to make equity and justice the pole star the course we shail pursue and endeavor to recon- cile security of property with tne measures we shall have to propose for the evils we think require to pe remedied in Ireland. He spoke hopefully of the prospects of trade in Lancasbire, and referring to the appearance of “the ghost of our old friend pro- tection,” said it was like @ shadow, aud like a shadow it would depart. BOHEMIA. The Catholic Movemeut Towards Church Independence—@bject and Aim of the People—An Outdoor Domoustration. ‘; PRAGUB, Oct, 1, 1869, A meeting has just been held in the interior of Bohemia, which, considering the condition of tho religious question in Europe at the present time, ts fall of stgnificance, At Malin, asmail village near Kutna Hora, or Kuttenberg, as the Germans call it, 25,000 people assembied and held one of those great outdoor meetings for whtch Boheruia is so famous, Tnis meeting was held ostensibly ander the auspices of laymen, but some of the prime movers in it were priests, as I have been informed by one of the authors of the resolutions, a translation of which from the Bohemian language I append to this letter. After the circular of the Falda bishops and the letter of the Parisian Monk Hyacinthe, this meeting, which ts, as i am in- formed, but the beginning of an important move- ment, cannot but be considered as of the tiret impor- tance. The declaration of the Fulda bishops, though couched in the most cautious language, is nothing more nor less than @ vigorous protest of the “parons” of the Church against the usurpations of acentralized despotism. In form it is an assurauce to the world that nothing will be done at Rome con- trary to the fundament principles both of Curts- tanity and modern civilzation. In substence tt is an attempt to warn Rome of the perils of going too far. ‘The Fulda bistopa, however, say nothing positt in regard to the real condition and wants of the Church, Moreover, though they are opposed to the usurpations of one man, they do not hint at providing meal for preventing these uaurpa- Uons, aud, what is 11 more important, and is, in fuct, the main principle, they leave out of consideration both the lower clergy and the entire body of laymen. Thi of bishops has hitherto been pow compact organization of power at Kot present government of the Church, bi power to fall back upon, simply bec depend inany degree upon the laity. quence ta that, as Rome gives them power and sig- nificance, they will not be likely to put tl 1m opposition to her. Even if they did the oppo don Would be that of an oligarchy against central- ization, and sure to be barren im ite results, That @ check to uitramontanism 19 the great necessity of the day in the Catholic Church few tuinking men can doubt. One er, however. can only be checked by another. And if t 18 any poa- sibility of remedying the er of ‘beuro- cracy and centralization in the government of the Cuurch it is oniy to be attained by giving the lower clergy and the laity he means of exerting their due influence, and ti tfereby restoring the more popular form of g ment which was prevalent everywhere in the Chris. tian world before the feu: ‘and which ts sult preserved in the churcties of the Last to @ greater of @ lesser degree; and the Bohemian people a8 repre- sented in this meeting, ae! id that they have a proper share in the government of the Church, and that the language of the people be used in all cere- monie: ligion. They hope that when religion becomes every man's affair te Indifferentism of the present day will disappear. The following transla- tion gives the sabstance of the deliberations of the meeting:— What are the causes of the prevaliing apathy in matters of religion? * this evil demand the atteation of our pay ak at ie to be done fore removal? Indifference fy Fira—Becaure the people understand noither the language used {a the Courch service nor the significance of religious coremonion, Seound—Hecause religious {astrection ws too mechanical, mainly the memory, sufflctentty under- sronding ued the heart, ensian Third-—Because the laity are exoluded from jeipation po crern Sele enh eee e peal ‘aud because by Yho wor! it Oburch property bes peopic, socond question tt fe said, alnce Chriattan- lore, equality, and fraternity, and ia the most faithful’ teacher of morality, without which soclety can havo no lasting thy i necessary for the development and of participate in'the goverament”of” the Church. ‘Pils’ participation is faually removed from slavwh superstition ‘and fruitless unbel It 6 in aooordanoe us woll with the sptrit of one, yr the clergy. thus returning "to the ancient | usage {troduced among the Siavanis people by our sposties Cyril gad Methodius, theological seminaries and a! preachers: and teachers of religion are to endeavor to abolish su th tion wherever it exists, that rel! on may consist fn a know. ledge of the majesty of God and a faithful obsoryance of tho lowe of morally apd not a the adherence to lifeless forms. Let the Church new life within f by being freed from the bouds of foudal- ism and absolutism, and return to the parliament. ary and liberal forms of the early centuries of existe eh are 60 much in accordance with the le whi Peet) Ky ‘our’ lime. It fs our most few Ceprig that such taken as may Le necessary to estab! ® pativpal and district synods, injthe meetings of which laymen may take part und Rave voice th the deoleion of all Xitaire nok ly dogmatical. Questions of administration and religious hieraroby, church property, erection of new bishoprics, estab- lishment of religious schools, control over chure! re all questions in, the decision of which laymen ahould take part, Our old Bohemian ukage of choral singing in the churches to be int lvinga to be transferred troduced, Oh to the community, Church property, espeoially the fund for benevolent and religtous , ts the y of the na- ton and cannot be used fer tne benets of stotiee tation, oF for other purposes than thone for which it 1s designed, The church fund is therefore to be ‘under the control both lay- men and clergymen. * # ay God grant auccess to the Fenewed participation of ail the people In adaire of religion, in the name of justice, culture and freedom. Ihave omitted a@ few details whion reiate to local pecuttarkies. Enough has been given, however, to show the bearing of the movem: The priests, and not the Pee generation only, are anxious to break through the lose barriers which Surround them. Theae tendencies in Bohemia are notnew. The Hussite apirit has never died out in the country, Tho main idea in the Huss movement Was to have @ free national church in communion with Roure, local freedom and unity of fauwh. SWITZERLAND. International Peace and LAberty League Presence ef Eminent DelegatesWork for the Congreas—Abolition of War—United States of Europe—Womon’s Suffrage—Bold Strike for a Republic—Universal Liberty and Improved Social Condition. Bexin, Sept. 29, 1869. Tho Congress of the International Peace and Liberty League assembled on the 15th inst. at Lau- Sanne, Switzerland, At two o'clock P. M.—the opening of the session—upwards of 400 members were present; among them Victor Hugo, the Presi- dent d’honneur Gambetta, Ferrier» and Laurier, from France; Louis Simon, Venedey and Sonnemann, from Germany. Dr. Johann Jacoby has written in explanation of his absence. Dr. Gustav Voigt, President of the Central Committee, ts expected to come. The outward appearance of Victor Hugo was excellent. Though the hair of his head and whiskers has become gray, he looks less ola than he really 1s. At his right sat M. Eytel, leader of the radicals in Waadt Canton; on his left M. Barnt, of Geneva, Vice Prestdent of the Central Committee, Mr, Eytel, after greeting the assembled delegates in the name of the citizens of Lausanne, staied as the object ef the Congress, which frst met threo years ago, the establishment of soctal order, together with social liberty. To attain this they had found it absolutely necessary to abolish war, the main impediment to a social organization based upon luberty and equality, This humane idea was not new; it had been fostered in the previous century, | but in our time only the nations had veen brought suMciently close to one another to allow of co-ope- Tation; now only it is possible to remove the ob- structions to the establishment of a confederation of European States, This Congress, he hoped, would prove, by discipline and moderation in its proteed- ings, its worthiness to head so vast @ movement, which could be successful only if governed by strict principles of liberty and personal right. ‘The work taid out for this third Congress was then touched upon by M. Barni, The first Congress had, he said, agreed upon certain principles; the second formed & programme, and it wad now for the third to execute It. Warisa barbarity to be removed by civilization. Right must take the place of might. Seifgovernment of the people must be cstablistied, for servile people cannot jon in a league of hberty. The old maxim, “In time of peace prepare for war,” must be changed into “If you want peace obvain first liberty.” We of the league have been often called dreamers (réveurs) who give the reins toimagination. Why not call M. Thiers a Utopian for recently saying “L’Europe marche 0 la répui- lique 2” “He added, however, that the epoch of transttion would ve bloody, To counteract, to (rus- trate this bloody strife snatl be our object. Even an impertai Frenci Senator, whom no one would caila réveur, M. Michel Chevalier, had recently said:— “Europe must be conswtuted anaiogous to tne United States of-America. ‘he pattern was given to @ certain extent by Switzeriand. On her soil different nationalities were meeting under the ban- ner of liberty, Switzerland may become for Hurope ‘what the taree original cautons had been for her— the cradie of her liverty. One of the objects aiso of this Congress is the destruction of pauperism. We have proposed no system in this respect and will adopt any solution compatible with liberty. Let us be just to others, give ample scope to discussion end apply to our social questions the words of Montes- quiet ‘Sans les verius politiques pas de liberte.”? Having concluded his remarke with » graceful compliment to, Vicior Hugo, the “grand proscrit auteur des chdtiments,”” which called forth great plaudits, he was succceded by Herr Amand Gogg, who in German held a general survey of the objects of the Congress. The masses of the people, he said, are not satisied with liberty only. They demand a material improvement of thelr condition; without it liberty would be to them an empty term. But the standing armies deprive the European States of ‘the Means to improve the laborer’s condition. An abolition of these armies cannot be thought of with- ont supplanting the present governments by people's roe forming among themselves & great uropean confederation. Victor Hugo then rose, and, hailed by vehement eheers, said :—“I feel deopiy moved by this recep- ton. ‘This beautiful Alpine country, with ita grand natural loveliness, 1a the ft place for the solemn declaratfon, No more wars. You have pronounced it and | congratuiate you for it. Peace be between man and man, race and race and brother and brother. But we will have uo unconditional peace. We will not be hambled and debased by despotism; we do not want heid over us the sceptre or corporal’s cane. The first condition of peace ts deliverance, One last revolution, one iast war, and we Will have eternal peace and indissoiubie unity of nations, The world will need no more inveations of revolving cannon; liberty is the aiin of our league, its resuit peace. (Great enthusiasm,) Mrs, Gogg, having obtained the floor, delivered a discourse on the emancipation of her sex. she quoted frequently the great champion Mill and his axiom that women, if participating in puolic affairs, would better appreciate the activity of their tius- bands thau if confined to the household. She summed up by a statement of the progress of the movement in England, Frauce and Germany. Vice resident mM. Eytel now cailed upon M. Charlies Lemonuler, who communicated the following reso- lutions:— — * Whereas the material and permanent cause of the warlike condition in Europe ts the entire want of jedictal interna: Mona! tustitutions; Whereas tt i# the first condition that au tnternational tribu- na} to decide upon questions, to solve which war aud diplo- macy try in vain by force and deceit, should be chosen and Appointed directly by the will of the hations and governed in fta decisions by futernational laws voted by these same jae the moral weight of such tribanal requires that to Nts decisions it should be secured by aa executive power can legally exist only if wed by the direct will of the peo whereas ed jated and cout and Wh 1¢ in Burope ta to ration of the peoples, by the ndmerof a United states of Europe. : LL oc ontthad 5 fig placbrd thie untoa mast be republican 4 federal—bet ie 1¢ must be based upon the priuetple of 0 sovereignty ° with @ proper regard to the Nonomy sad tadepetaeuce of each meuiver of ite confed- ion, yd—The forme of government must be open to tmprove- an Confederattoa Law to guaraates to ry 9, hivarty of |) Liberty of the press, ‘e) Liberty of assembiing and forming associatio “(f) batberty of conscience. A} Liberty to labor without tartog uatue adv oH) Actual personal aibility of all exe et a a1 Win Na woples can be. admitted. to join Confederation if not in the full possession of (e) The general franchise. {F} tne Aunt of voting or Fotuslng tare (2) The right of making porce and declasing war, (d) Tho right of entering tuto and ratifying polttical and eommercial treaties. (a) The right to amend ite conatitution. Dwelling upon the motives of those resolatio: Mr, Lemounier said that though the peopic wi constantly and loudly protesting agatnst war they still allowed Ove millions of taeir sons to serve in a@tanding armies, and paid fifty thou: milion france to support them. This Is oniy possibie inas- much as the governments are not bound by any obll- ons towards the people, while the nations con. Hluer themseives bound ander obligations to these vernments. The action of Greeve at the recent power it would act against [ts resolutions. was (aus perfectly correct. While, during Ctvil right had made the public saealie meen aantitnns oon years.an0 none could move-without a passport; a hundred years ago no one could step from one territory into another without being armed. No is now req and the similarly organi: tribunals of all ci countries Beasecs the traveller better than arms, The poblic rie . however, has remained the same a8 & jundred years ago. One nation suspects the other. The Germans believe Na; and Belgium; in oe it 1s said Bi wants Alsace and Lorraine. Wedemand the same Gearenies for pubtic as for private rights, and erefore must have an international tribunal, to be established not by the governments, but by the Peoples of Europe. Only federal-republican can appoint such a tw 1, und only those who share in estabiisping tt can be ex) ‘to gubmilt to its decisions, All privileges, all institutions allow- ing one being to take advantage of another, in whatever shape they may exist, must be abolished, In a federation humanity and conscience only gov- ern; individuals and natfons in it enjoy freedom and mdependence, Let, then, the governments with- draw, in order that the independent peoples may become masters of their destinies. The social ques- tion cannot be eolved without & tree political organt- zation. The interaational laborers’ ie cannot but acknowledge this, and 1 sure to France 20,000,000 agriculturisis will ‘rise to be heard and demand rights. First of all are political freedom and juality. At present Switzerlana only complicd with the con- ditions requisite to enter the confederation of the United States of Europe. It is the only State the peo- le of which have the right vo declare peace and war, but four or five States tne people have the privi- lege of voting upon es and conventions. It may thus be perceived that the establishment of the Buropean Confederation is a good way olf. But the league inust not despair. Progress, nowadays, assumes @ geometrical ratio; only a year ago Seior Castelar dweit among us. Who would have then thought of so near an overthrow of the Bourbons? Since then France ts wide awake, Italy in fermenta- tion, Each day may bring a change. It is our duty to stand on guard with tne banner of the republic of the United States of Kurope. The next speaker was Ludwig Simon, who re- viewed at length existing governments in Europe. When speaking of Germany, the country of his birth, he said that Prussia, by force of arms, had aucceeded tn aunexing some provinces but not in Prussianizil them. It had even formed a gonfederation witl some States whose representatives would never have consented, if they had not been compelled by a peculiar force of events which allowed them no freedom of choice. As @ consequence the North Ger man Confederation has no State representatives, but only @ Relohstag, resulting irom general elections throughout the Bund. Only In the Bund Counctt do we find the varlety represented, but being composed of the sovereign’s delegates tt ig the variety not of States but of the dynasties only. Even these confederates seem rather threatened, provected by the wings of the Prussian eagle, white its claws grasp them tightly. Tue true frends of Northern Getmany should demand for it a State representa- tion, not only of the confederate members, but of the annexed and even of the vid proviuces of Prus- sia. This 18 the only way to a possible reconciliation between Prussia, South Germany and Austria, Now would be the proper time, as France was being regenerated and the liberals were against annex- ations, This they have.shown at the recent elections and by their correct and admirable conduct in the Belgian question. Really the French Mberals have much better protected the smat! neighboring coun- try against any annexation appetite of France than the Prussian Fortscnritt party did their own brethren in Schleswig-Holstein, Frankfort, Nassau, Hesse and Hanover against the rapacious deeds of Bismarck, GERMANY. The New Press Luw—Sudden Confiscation of a Venerable Journal—Political Aspect— Rumor About Bismarck—Interview of Crowned Heads—Important Step of Baden— The Burlingame Mission and Punch. BERLIN, Sept. 28, 1869, ‘The lethargy of political circles here was suddenly interrupted last week by the coniiscation of one of the oldest and best established daily papers. The Voss Gazette, of which we speak, bearing the title of “KKoyal Privileged Journal,” and enjoying a wide circulation of upwards of a hundred years, was pounced upon early in the morning by the myrmi- dons of the police, attacking the women carriers in the etreets, emptying their baskets and entering restaurants and public places, there to seize the objectionable sheets. Such an event—very common to other papers, but quite unusual to this, being only the thira seizure during a century—very natu- rally caused considerable sensation, and copies of the confiscated number were highly prized by those who had fortunately avoided seizure. The reason for this extraordinary step on the part of the official was @ somewhat bitter leader, stating in plain terms that universal dissatisfaction pervaded the annexed provinces, and likewise the whoie Confederation. The article went on to say that the Eulenburg- Mahler administration had, for the last few years, achieved such monstrosities that even the old inhaditants of the monarchy—those grown up in Prugsian traditions and suckled with the Simon Pure milk of Hohenzoliern ideas—were not only alarmed but also ashamed; and, farther, that the acts of the present government had aroused unl- versal disapprobation; to give one instance only— the arbitrary decision against the Protestant Unions—unworthy of the Prussian name, and fit onty to produce upmitigated disgust towards its perpetrators, This candor ou the pact of the Voss- wene Zeitung wit be visited by the usual fue or imprisonment and make its editor somewhat retl- cent in future, With the other lberal journals press trials are an everyday occurrence; indeed, several of them, to our Knowledge, bave constantly writs of indictment (sometumes more than a dozeny'pendin, against them at atime; and one of their editorial stad, generally called tne “jailbird,” holds himseif always in readiness to serve out the terms ol im- rigonment allotted. ‘The King, ong finished his reviews of the troops in the provinces, expected to preside in a few days at a'Cavinet council to be heid for the pur, of determining the time of convening the Diet. The King will probably open the proceedings mm person, ,and it is generally understood that Count Bismarck declines making his appearance til about the middie of December, unless bis presence should be indispensable. A general opinion Js prevalent that the Count remains passive with a view of gettng rid of the unpopular members of the administration by popular pressure, though there is no evidence of this; ind his conversation with the writer and his remarks intended to be printea tn the HERALD would indicate pothing like it, as he attributes no blame whatever to his colleagues, but casts it all upon the Representatives. ard being bad to the critical position of afvairs in France one can quite ‘understand why a statesman of bismarck’s grasp of intellect should prefer lying upon his oars and quietly watching the course of events, j As to the enivnte cordiale bewween Austria and Prussia, said to be looming in the distance, sup- ported by rumors of a persoual interview shortly to take place between the two sovereigns, the way being paved, as the wiseacres say, by the visit on the 10th inst. of Count Beust to the Queen of Prussia at Baden Baden, where he dined with her, it may bo just as tikely as sunshine follows rain, and another reason for tne inflexivle “biood aud iron’ Couut to Tusticate on his estates at Varzin. ‘The screw corvettes Hertha, Ancona and Grille are to hold themseives in readiness to proceed early next monti to the Canal of Suez, The Crown Prince will sail tn the latter to assist at the inauguration. ‘Touchtug toe rumored imtenuion of the Grand Duchy of Baden proposing to join the North German Confederation, We prefer saying nothing at present, as we shail have more ceriain information iw yo upon after the opening of the Baden Chamber. “eve Prussian auiborivies have of late beea particu- larly stringent towards political offenders. ‘The lib- erais groan heavily under this oppression; they can hold no meetings, the press is barred to them, and, woak as they are in the face of the array of govern- ment, they have nothing left but resignation, Those who met at Hadersieben, in Schleswig, to discuss article five of the Prague treaty ave been proceeded against, and the wires will have informed you of the enlorced expatriation of youag men from #rankfort be eee of preferrmg the citizegship of Switzer. and, The Berlin Punoh, in announcing the expected arrivai of Mr. Burlingaine at the uead of @ Cainese Kmbassy, says that his object ts to study the military instituuion and ber system of taxation. On tte other hand, Prussia means to send an embassy to Peatn in order to convince herself what success tas attended the Obinese Eulenburg-Mitier system in extatence during the last 3,000 years in that country, A learned professor will accompany the mission ana report how far the Chinese system of instruction could be introduced here. Germany bias fair, says Punch, to become We Velestial Kmpire of Europe. FRANCE. The Pantin Murders—Troppmaan Agaia Before the MagistraceeMore About the Funerale— The Pedlere of Portraits. ‘The Paris Droit and Galignani's Messenger of the bth of October supply the following items relative to the Pantin murders:— The statement thaf the body of Jean Rinck has ‘been discovered is now proved to be a fabrication, and there isnot more truth in the account of arrest of Troppmann’s father given by an evening journal. Althoogh the murderer still persists in accusing the Kincks, father and son, of complicity in the crime, he ts now less positive in his atirm- ation, and his audacity appears to be re, in presence of the discoveries made by the authorities. We therefore still maintain the opinion we have already expressed, that the eight persons composing the Kinck family were murdered by Troppmann = Facts recently brought to light confirm that opinion. Fresh examination’ of Troppmann took place on Saturday at the prison of Mazas, aud lasted nearly Tour hours. The accused did not hesitate to recog- nize the lronmoi who had sold to him the shovel, pickaxe and other implemenss; he, however, Maintains that he had ut them for Jott Kinck. Troppmann replied without embarrass ment to the questions put to him. The Figar> pab- ney to take him on immediately for any The hotel keepr, on consulting paper, found that the only vessel leaving that day was the Rotterdam steamer, to which he conducted him, and then communicated with the French Consul. Two other Frenchmen were also seen about the 28th looking for a vessel bound for America, Que was a athletic individual, of about forty, and who had papers showing that he was an engineer's turder; the other, Who Was short in stature, had the license of a cab driver. The funeral of tue eight victims took place Saturday morning at Turcoing. An immense crows awaited the arrival of ‘the train at the station, whic& Wus bung with black, The Mayor, Municipal Coun- cil and the local authorities were present and in the procession to the church, Alt labor in the town had been for the mo- ment suspended, and the number of persons assembled from the neighboring locaiittes, and who lined the streets through which the cortége passed, is estimated at 50,000. ‘The coffins were carried by bearers, that of the mother in front, and followed by the otbers in the order of their age. Each comn was aiso preceded by a child bearing & black crogs, om which was inscribed the name and age of the victim. ‘he relatives of the family, who followed, were twenty-eight in number. The ground in the ceme- eauert been given by the municipatity, which also took to its charge all the expenses of the interment; & public subscription has also been opened to rae & monument over the tomb, hen the coffins Were lowered into the grave fun orations were pronounced by M. Secretary General of the Prefecture, and M. Jules Brame, deputy for the circumscription in which Turcoing is situated. The latter, in his address, asked pardon of the memory of Gustave for the suspicion which for & moment had been allowed to hang over him. The only new facta in connectton with the Pan- tin murder are the discovery of a correspondence between Troppmann aud Kinck, Sr., and of a value belonging to the latter. It had been left, early in September, in the care of the station master at Soultz, in Alsace, by two individuals, one of whom ig supposed to have been Troppmann and the other Kinck himseif. Two men have heen fined twenty-five francs each for hawking portraits of the vicums of the Pantin murders Without liceuse. The Radical “Rede” on Napoleon’s Posttl and tho Dynasty. By mali from Europe of October 2 we have a copy of the following letter, which was addressed by M. Louis Blano to the Paris Temps on the above sub- ject, aud appeared in the columns of that journal. M. Blanc writes:— ‘The illness of Napoleon IIT. bas deeply interested the English. The news of bis recovery has not put @ stop to their interest, but merely changed its direc- tion. When they believed his life to bein danger they asked, with an uneasy curiosity, What would happen when he should be no more. Now they ‘Wit no less curiosity and no less anxtety, What wit happen while he continues to live. So gloomy and uncertain to the eyes of foreigners is the situation finally created by the empire. So inevitable was it that all sorts of alarms should one day arise from the depths of that régime of deceit- ful silence and of apparent immobility, which was to save the herd of men without faith, of egotists, of poltroons, from the perils of the un- known. Napoleon once dead, people said a few days ago, who wiil replace him? Will France, which has not waited tilihe shail have given up the ghost ve- fore she claims to belong to herself, bow beneath the ae of @ Spanish woman, herself ruled by priests? ill France consent to salute as her master a child not yet tooold tobe fond of sweetmeats? If the revolution should take the bit bevween ita teeth, who will etay 16? Wii she? Will he? To those ques tions, owing to the convalescence of Napoleon lll., others have succeeded as embarrassing for journal ista on this side of the channel. ‘They are seekin; the elements of @ liberal empire, but they can One them nowhere. Neither in the aptitude of the high functionaries, whom their long practice of despotism at second band nas completely unfitted for the ser+ vice of liberty, nor ta the disposition of tue jority of the legislative boay, wedded as it to absolute power; norin tue sentiments of the par- liamentary opposition, which is composed of repub- licans; nor in the provable result of universal suf. frage, with which the [rreconcilabies have found such favor; nor in the tendencies of those who yield themselves up to the empire because they are afraid of liberty; nor, lastly, in the rut worn by a regime agatnst which fiberty hae many more grievances than 1 can hope to be forgiven when the change comes, What especially strikes Englishmen ts the impeta- osity of the ovement which 1s produced in France— au imnpetuosity which makes them ask, Woat is the Emperor of the French going to ao? ‘hat can he do? Some think he is meditating a diversion b: War. Others imagino that he 1s preparing & seco! coup @état, Others speak of a project of abdication, Thave before me an articie in the Pall Malt Gazette, in which these three hypotheses are rapidly reviewed. It deserves to be pointed out to you, both on accounts of the sentiment it expresses and the importance of the public represented by the journal in question. The Pall Mall Gazette barely stops to examine the suppesition of a war. it declares this expedient hazardous and grossly immoral; it might e added, ‘‘and manifestly stupid.” It is too late to try to drown the iuneral knell of despotism in the booming of cannon. At the to which things have now come, so abominable an artifice would deceive no one. Who would not see why the im- perial sceptre 1s stained with blood? And who would suffer 1? Neither does the Pall Mall Gazette ‘Stay to discuss the supposition of a coup d’éiat—aa attempt which it regarda as almost impossible, It gives no reasons; but we can divine thein. First, the army 18 not composed of hired slaughter- ers. Ifwe had to explain the butcheries of June, 1848, and December, 1851, we should find the expla- nation in @ concourse of confused circumstances and Oo! disastrous misunderstandings, skilfully made the most of, which no longer exist. And we need not go back to the capture of the Bastile to be as- sured that when the air breathed by every one is that of liberty, the heart of the people beats in the breast of thearmy. No! Waris ts not the battle feld whic the courage of the French soldiers dreams of. His enemies are—the enemy; and tt is a calumny to think he is made to expose himself to murder bis tather at the bidding of his corporal. There remaing the expedient of an abdication, which, according to the ali Afauli Gazette, would be, Perhaps, of all the alternatives that are to be riak the best choice of eviis, Herets tue siugular draft an imperial proclamation, which the Pall Maw Gazette puta forward as the last means of avolding the dangers of the situation:— For twenty years France has bee! rial rule. By that rule she w: aa saved from abarchy, hee been preserved from auarchy, hae been redeewed from degradation, bas. gr owe prosperous end feared, honored and contented. ft is tine—t know it ns well as any of my teachers—that this rule.came toan end. The r for whicheFrance has been prepared during these twenty 3 oinimenice. ayreo with you fn the warned under tm) desiin; liberal’ head of & constitutional kingdom. Permit me to be one of its ministers, and (ear not thas my son—te., &e. ‘Try ang fancy the outburst of laughter that would greet language like this in support of such a step t The French mind is easentially logical. It would nos easily comprehend the necessity of putting an end to tue imperial regime, granting ibat Lo that regine France owed it that she had lived to this aay, tranquil, giortous, prosperous, feared, honored, satuiied. And whe builoonery of such a con- tradiction would be more absurd still, coupled with this sirange assertion that there 19 nothing like despotism to complete the education of # liveral prince. This, then, is what is proposed, in the grave country from whence [ date this lower, by mea of cultivated intelligence, men versed in the disc sion of political auairs. Not that the Pall sai Gazette has any faith in the merits of the plan which At sui is. Ib acknowledges that objections to is wiil rise up in multitudes. ‘No doubt It seems to be @ desperate remedy, but for Napoleon tue wuole situation 18 desperate.” Such, then, is the idea which we have couie to entertain in Kngiand of the stability of the empire, What hitherto bas com. mended it to the egotistic sympathies of many Englishmen was the cuaracter of endurance which ‘they assigned to it, What matters the liverty of France to us (toey —_ if our trangailllty is in- creased by its being stified? The calculation was tusane, and they begin now to see it. What has the empire founded? ‘The advice given to the Emperor to abdicate as 8000 a8 possidle 19 the best reply to ‘his question. A graud lesson for European con- servacisa. THE HARVEST IN EUROPE. By mail from Burope we have the following résumé of the harvest prospects prevatiing at the great food supply ceutres, om tae lat of October, as Teported to Paris:— ‘ ee beg ‘The accounts of the harvest to Germany are vi unequal, varying in different districts from good to far below the jr yield, On the whole, the grain harvest of ‘Tmiddia Germany was below the ‘average; that of the southern States was far better, From Austria we hear that the yield of corn 1s con- siderably smajier than in tho last two years; the same is true of Koumanta. The Russian est is stated to have been good, and the crops have nowhere fatled 80 com ly as in some places last ‘The fodder is everywhere poor, with xception of @ few mountainous districts. been very tite clover, i, both the urrogate fave been muc! ured by te cand rable-weattior. On the other hand there @ good deal of straw. Both potatoes and beet have suffered from the heat and drought of July and the rain of August. The disease has also appeared with more of less virnience in sone parts. The hopes entertained for the potato harvest are not, therefore, high; bat tt is said that the beet is improving. Tho hops aro said to be in avery poor condition, partiy on account of the weati and partly from the insects and the disease, whicl have appeared in manygardens. Soarcely a quarter of the usual yicld iaexpected. But little trait has been gathered, aad evea what was is pdor ta quality, ‘Vhis is particularly. the case with appie: 4d plums, Nor wiit 1869 be numbered among the sciect via~ tages, as the quantity of grapes is amall and their quailty taferior.