23 MAY 1874, Page 3

The more stringent Ecclesiastical Bills of the present Session have

passed the Upper House of the Prussian Diet by the ex- ceedingly narrow majority of five (51 against 46). The measures ?eased by the Reichsrath for all Germany were really only sup- plementary to the Prussian measures, and needful because involving questions of outlawry or denaturalisation, which could _not be passed by any single State, but belonged to the sphere of Imperial legislation. It is only Prussia which is, as yet, embarked in a real persecution of the Roman Catholic Church.