M. Emile de Girandin has resigned his seat as a
member of the French Chamber of Deputies, in order to meet the prosecution di- rected against him.
The Frankfurt Journal, under the bead of Berlin, 2d instant, announces a cabinet order by the King of Prussia on the question of mixed tnarriages; which declares, that, by the convention entetel into with the Papal see, it is not intended to force any Catholic priest to perform the ceremonies of the church in the case of a mixed marriage, when the father refuses to educate his children in the Catholic faith. On the other hand, the party applying to be married is not to be sub- jected to any ecclesiastical censures for not signing an engagement to that effect ; but is to have the right of appealing to the Bishop of the diocese, his liberty of being married by the Protestant or other rites remaining as before- The order was looked on at Berlin as definitively settling this disputed question.
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