EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM FRANCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 168, 16 October 1880, Page 2

EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM FRANCE.

j Ccoft»EKPosT>r*T or rut times.] Pitas, June 30. . i i The Jesuit establishments throughout j ' France. with the exception of then colleges [ i for lay pupils, which have another moat It's j ' grace, weiv closed to-day. •shortly alter. i 4 a.m.< M. Clement, .judicial fmiclionnry tuid M. Dnlac, police- commissary, prei sealed themselves at the gutu of the j establishment in the line de Sevres, out* ' 3 ;dt. which ft largo number of Catholics, i Sic., hftd collected. Claiming admission j j in the name of the law, they passed into 1 j the court and knocked at an inner door, j j when the Superior, Father Pitot, answered j l the summons, MM. Cliosnelong ami do ! Ilavignan, Senators, lining behind him. 1 M. Clement, read the decree of Tho i Prefect of Police closing the establish* I incut. M. do Uesignan. as a director of ilie lay society now owning the premises, ! protested against the violation of the domij idle, adding that old men of 87 ought not I to be expelled at that early hour, bather j Pitpt clainteil tlm right of domicile and c habitation enjoyed by all Frenchmen, I and both declared they would yield only I to force. M. Clement asked to see the j title deeds, and M. do" Ilavignan named j the notarv with whom they were deposited. Father Pitot and M. de llavfgnan were then asked whether they would open the doors. They shook their heads: j and, on the repetition of the question, | were silent. M. Clement then went | back into tire street, where he was greeted i with cries of “ Vifeiit It* Jesuits Vivint j Its preterit* /” He sent two policemen, for a locksmith. Meanwhile, several journalists and others entered the con rt, and, on being required to leave, refused. One of them was arrested and taken to the police station. M. Bawdry d’Asson tried to force Ida way in meaiting Ids privilege as u ihqmty, hut desisted on boing tolil that privilege <ll<X not cover j open resistance to authority. A look- : smith soon arrived ami forced ilit- inner I door. The officials entered the monastery. I and found about 1.1 senators and dejai- | ties, but Father Pitot had retired to Ids cull. M. de Ravignan renewed his pro- ‘ test ’against, the violation of domicile, 1 | and warned the officers of the rosponsi--1 i hi lily ineiii-rcil. M. Clement said he 1 was only performing his duty, and asked where hj« could find tiie Jesuits whom he had to expel. After a fresh protest, M. do Ilivigitnti said that, as. the violation of domicile had I icsn consummated, it was useless to make them lose time; he would guide them. M. Ifulac was then conducted upstairs, miteied the (I st e. 11, and found Father Mai in ivadinv a talde. lout.” *• By what right C “ By a mandate '"lnch I liave reaii i.o vonr .'Snperii.r." j "The mandate iv illegal, wild 1 refuse to ! obyv it." “ In that rase 1 must resort In i force.” ’’ Do so," Two pdieennu put ! their 1 itimis on the Jesuit's shoulder, and j he said. " Very good ! yi-fd to force.” I M. de Da Vi n Liteir pilstial ftv:-w. rl ; and ehdmcd the honour of e.-eortii:g j him. The second cell was Inched, and the commissary wen! on to Father Phot's i door. The father urged that he hud a | proprietary right, which even the. le r-eoi' I expulsion reeisgnistTil, and M. Chi'snel.mg, ! after some parley ing. obtained leave for I (be Superior In remain for the present. I Ko'li of iho other inmates Rid the escort i of some deputy or senator. M. Chesm- ' long aLvo'opanvimg Father Matig.m to jibe Fnieign Mission House, amid eries j of " rirtiif In s Jnuitt's," and ninny of the spectators kn e'ing fur the ho-sing of j the expelled. When all but the second 1 cell had been cleared, and there was no I response to the knocks, .M. Chesnelmig said lie? father was an infirm’man of t>B win Mire.lv would lay left undisturbed. The locksmith, hoxv iv«r, forced the door. The father who win seated in an nm- ' chair, refused to leave, and two police- ! men led him out. Meeting the siiperior in the corridor, lie knell for his blessing. I Father Milleriol, ng.-d ,SI quietlv took 1 up bis umbrella and walked to his eon- ) fessioiml in the church of St Snipin', i Ffilher hefebvre, on being minimum'll i to leave, said even the Cimimiins left ! him undisturbed, and nuked whether a i regular Goveniinont would go beyond the Commune. He was allowed to re- ! main, as also I'aUior Saltier, aged 81, j ! blind and paralytic, three imimtiis thus ■ | being left'in the liou.se. Of the MHO porI sons collected outside, 11 were arrordecl for i refusing to move on or for lilt 'ling cries of | “ A has la Ilepiibliqiie I” tlm editor of tho j C ll ion and Mr. Veuiilot's nephew being j among them hut they wore discharged after a minute had tarn drawn up, it | lieing uncertain whether nr nut they I will bo prosecuted. Some, of t he working I men who passed through the street shouted " A has lis Jesuit™ /” in reply to the sympatlnset's. Among the latter many of the softer sex were in mourning. The number■ of tho expelled is l.’l, otu> of them bring an ’ Kngli hmati named Fillies and mintlier a Russian. Aioiisiilcrahleeniwtl hitsoeeiipied | the sir et all day, but m> ingress into the premises lias been allowed, and since the : departure of the Jesuits there have been 'rti demonstrations on either side. Tho j second Jesuit establishment—vis:., that i of the domain Jesuits, in tho Bu« I Lafayette has not at present been | interfered with. | Telegrams have been received from Lyons, Marsnilh's, Lille, Hordeaitx. Rouen, , Laval, Avignon, Amiens, Ilusitncon, Limoges, Dmmi, Clermont-Ferrand, La i Pay Troves, Nuntei', liourgus, mid Versailles desuribing tint expulsion of-, the Jesuits from their establishments. Only a' Bordeaux and Lille has litem heen tiny

kind of publio disturbances, and th'<da preceeded and did not acoompany tha execution of tha dectaea. At Boidaaurf •a" before the 3te«lt institution, wu smj. denly, ntvoidiaf t£> tb» Union, by tha police witL ihatWi sabres, the r»tn\t hiius u si-uffltf iu which.-a few accidents oecuued.' At Lille. Inst niyht u number of young men sang n seivnadu HU-miu ti* Franciscan establishment, and tboroby brought together a crowd, from amid which stones wera thrown, aud a number of windows of the establishment were broken. Tlioform of submission uniformly adopted seems to have been, first to open the ouut door, and theu to refuse to the inner doors. \Vhen, by th* aiii <rf ii loeksmith, the Jestilu are reached, tiny decline tlu.y will only .surrender t.) forte, which tile police forthwith CUM cist*. by laving bauds on their shoulders. At Laval several English", Jesuits called the crowd to witness that their rights us English citizens were beinj; violated, ami doclaied they would appeal to the Knglish Ambassador. At Toulouse, Nuuevi and several other places the Jesuits were cheered by the crowd assembled, At Lyons a wull had tu be scaled; a: M fftilles, n flitting tu be dasiiud \o