The French Government are going to act, it is said,
in the matter of non-authorised religious Orders very much as we anticipated last week. They are going to call on the non- authorised Congregations to submit to the Government their statutes for authorisation, which they will doubtless accord to all but the Jesuits. In relation to the Jesuits, it is said that they intend to expel the foreign Jesuits, who are very few, as we -anticipated last week, and to dis solve the Congregations of French Jesuits, not, however, expelling them from France—for they are Frenchmen, whose liberty of residence in their own country it is -wholly inconsistent with Republican principles to violate—but simply dissolving their corporations, and preventing them from living together in communities of more than twenty. They will -even be permitted to give instruction, under the supervision of the Bishops, and in all institutions liable to episcopal control.
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