THE CALIFORNIAN AND SUEZ MAILS.

Evening Star, Issue 3833, 7 June 1875, Page 3

THE CALIFORNIAN AND SUEZ MAILS.

CONTINENTAL. Fbancb. Though moderately worded the honest recognition of the Republic alarmed and irritated President MacMahon and M. Buffet, and the Cabinet required the withdrawal of the circular. M. Dufaure refused, and a rapture seemed imminent. The matter was ultimately compromised by a modification of the document. The incident shows the leaning of the Orieanist section in the Ministry, and the danger of betrayal to which the Left is constantly exposed through the insincerity of its allies. M. Buffet has been urged to remove many of the present prefects who are notoriously Imperialist in sympathies. He declined to adopt such a step, nut promised to issue in structiona in harmony with the new order of things. Italy and Gebuany. The Italian and Austrian Governments have settled an identical policy for curbing the pretensions of the Papacy without committing themselves to international action against the Pope. Germany views this rapprochment with some jealousy, and the Emperor William’s longpromised visit has been again postponed, on the plea of ill-health. Another encyclical list has been issued condemning the old Catholics of Switzerland and renewing the excommunication previously passed upon them. The Swiss authorities are also censored for having protected heterodox members of the church. Spain. Reaction is rapidly proceeding, and what the King gains in personal popularity the Ministry forfeit by their retrograde policy. The priests are in the ascendant, and the Liberals are alienated. An exasperating measure of repression was adopted on the 3rd inst. Professor Giner, of thejMadrid University, was arrested for having petitioned the King against the recent decrees concerning public education, and though ill, was sent off to Cadiz in a third-class carriage to be thence transported to Fernando Po. Two more Madrid professors, and several provincial ones, having also protested, have heen_exiled. The King’s chief physician declines the headship of the University. The Liberal papers are treated with rigor, but the Legitimist organs are allowed to enter Spain. These measures it is believed will pte cipitate the downfall of the Ministry, if not of the throne.