Is there really' a Royalist movement on foot in Brittany? The Government, judging by the exceptional steps which it has tapen this week, undoubtedly. thinks so The President of the Republic was di turbed at his summer resort at Rambouillet to attend a meeting of the Cabinet, at which the Prime Minister comyounicated reports received from the authorities in Finistére regarding the resistance to the Congregations Bill. These official reports are said to prove that the movement of resistance, a* first} Catholic, has become violently Royalist, So instructions have been sent to the Procurator General to institute proceedings against those who have dared to defy the Government.
Scenes such as have not been witnessed, in Brittany since the time of the Revolution are still occurring daily in that part pf France. The soldiers have been called out and ordered to take schools by storm the population, intensely religious, indignant to the point of fanaticism at the persecution of the "good sisters" who carry on the work of these educational establishments, has offered a stubborn resistance, which in many cases has led to} bloodshed. In some places, such as at Ploudanie!, Saint Meér, and Folgoét, the people have remained in waiting for the soldiery all night, undaunted by heary showers of rain. The roads have been guarded by cyclists and men on horseback! trenches have been dug and filled wi water around the schools; and police commissaries have been forced to effect an entrance by vy of the roof, like burg-Jars.
That the Royalist party has any chance} of profiting by the indignation of Brit-tony Catholics I very much doubt. Without the army nothing can be done, and all know that the army, in spite of isolated cases of refusal to obey orders, like that of Lieutenant-Colonel de Saint-'Rémy, is almost to a man Republican. By the by, this officer's example has been followed by Commandant Lo Roy Laduric, who, in command of a detachment of the 19th Infantry Regiment, refused to expel the sisters from a school at Douar-tone. He was immediately arrested and went to the Port-Louis fortress.
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