23 JANUARY 1875, Page 2

It seems to be certain that the Mexican Congress has

passed a law disestablishing the Roman Catholic Church, forbidding any religious corporation to hold property, prohibiting the establish- ment of any monastic order, and perhaps confiscating property already in clerical hands. Upon the last point, however, doubt still exists, and the text of the law itself does not appear to have reached Europe. The law does not seem to have caused any insurrection, but news in Mexico travels very slowly.