30 AUGUST 1873, Page 3

Geneva as a city appears to have seceded from the

Catholic Church. The Grand Council has formally passed the Bill fce the organisation of Catholic worship by 63 to 7. The three cures will henceforward be elected by the people, will take the oath to the Constitution, and will be suspended for four years if they break it. As no Bishop will recognise cures so elected, and the Pope will excommunicate them, this is equivalent to a sus- pension of the Catholic Church in Geneva until the quarrel is healed. There are few places perhaps where the Papacy has so little power, nearly half the people being Protestants, and 30 to 7 of the remainder Voltairians ; but the city, we fear, will find she has raised dangerous enemies in France.