22 JUNE 1872, Page 2

Tne German Parliament has passed the Bill against the Jesuits

placing them as aliens at the disposal of the Executive by 131 to 93 votes, and a proposal to make civil registration essential to the validity of a marriage by 151 votes to 100. The Jesuits, who have caused all this commotion, and who, it is said, do not exceed 200 in number, intend, it is believed, if the law is worked, to retire to Namur. The Liberals evidently do not believe that the law will be worked, and intend next session to address the throne praying for a Bill dissolving the Society, and its affiliated Orders, prohibiting their re-establishment, and " interning" their members, that is, condemning them to live in certain specified plums in a sort of open arrest. The Liberals should take advan- tage of the recess to study the history of Ireland a little, and see what comes of measures compared with which their persecutions are petty. We used to hang them up straight, and not merely threaten arrest, and they are there now all the same.