Prince Bismarck, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Times,
continues his war with the Ultramontanes. Not only does he 'continue to pay the salaries of excommunicated chaplains and professors—as is also to be done in Austria, under a new order of Prince Anersperg—but he has required the Bishop of Ermelaud to withdraw an excommunication inflicted upon a school teacher under penalty of losing his State salary,—a distinct attempt to prohibit spiritual action by secular means. In Baden the State, under direction from Berlin, has gone even farther, having pro. hibited all monks and non-German priests from preaching in the State Churches, and suspended the law of compulsory attendance at school whenever the teacher is an Infallibilist. We have commented on this policy elsewhere, but may mention here that the Corre- spondent denies the reported existence of a Treaty between Ger- many and Italy. There is no need, it says, of such a treaty, as 'Germany and Italy have now a common enemy in the Papacy, —which, however, it is clear, may have peace on terms.
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