14 MARCH 1874, Page 2

The Bishop of Treves has followed Archbishop Ledochowski into confinement

for not obeying the new ecclesiastical laws of Prussia, and the Catholics of Treves were so angry when the seminary of the priests was closed by the Government on Mon- day that they got up a riot. Of course it was easily put down, —a policy that freely appeals to "iron and blood" is not apt to be deranged by a mob,—and the Catholics of the Moselle find themselves in much the same position as the Catholics of Posen, a position in which they must choose between the favour of the State and their own idea of duty to the Church. Before long apparently all the Catholic Bishops in Prussia will be in prison.