19 OCTOBER 1867, Page 2

It is believed in Austria that the matter of the

Concordat will, for the present, be arranged by treating it as legally a dead letter. The Pope will not modify it, and the Kaiser will scarcely bring himself to assent to an Act repealing " a treaty," but Acts can be passed and executed as if the treaty did not exist. For example, civil marriages may be declared legal, and property will descend accordingly, though no priest will recognize such a mar- riage. Similarly, schools can be organized under laymen, though priests will adjure their flocks not to attend them. The rest will be left to time.