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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1677, 19 May 1874, Page 2

;- THE AE ; CHB,IS ? HOP. Q#j POSEN. | Cablegrams tell us.that this venerable ; prelate and illustrious confessor lias boen " deprived, of. his See ,by ■ the '.German : •Government. This is untrue. Neither the German, nor any other Civil Government, can deprive,, a Bishop of his See. The Pope—-the Vicar' of Christ—and he alone, has power to take away his diocese from a Bishop* ?That the German Government has striven toVusurp the jurisdiction of the' Church and. of the Holy See, and insanely attempted to degrade this great Archbishop, there can be no donbt whatever. This parvenu Government has confiscated his Grace's property, and meanly withheld hia revenues; has : cast him into prison, and in every way impeded him in the exercieo nllns jurisdiction and the discharge of i ;'; es, and procured ;the sentence of iv» apposition in its law courts.' All this isv also true; but it is .powerless to make him cease to be Archbishop of Posen in reality, in fact, and in effect. The Archbishop of Posen holds his See by authority of the Church, and not of the German i Government; and let the tyranny of that' Government be ever so great, 'Archbishop'of Posen he still is, and will continue to oe in spite of and in defiance of the German Emperor; and he is, and will be acknowledged as such, not only by the universal Church, but by all the faithful in Posen, arid throughout the newly-constituted Empire. What has Prince Bismarck, and his followers, gained by this proceeding ? Two thousand pounds sterling, per annum! and, id addition, the indignation and disaffection of millions of honest men. With all his victorious soldiers, and enormous power, the German Emperor is unable to conquer one Bishop! or to compel one diocese to become either heretical or schismatical. —N.Z. Tablet.