London, Wednesday, Octobe...
The French papers of Sunday, received last night, contain not one Avord of news, and their speculations are not of a inature to engage the attention of English readers. The Journal kes Debats is nearly filled with a curious and well- vritten review of the conduct of the principal speakers in the last session, but the interest of the article is entirely local. Sunday beinig a holyday, there is of course no quotation of the funds. lWe received also the Brussels papers, from-n which we ex- fraet the following paragraph relative to thc Protestants and Catliolics of Saxony. The Legislature would act more -wisely if they did not undertake to medldle with family xeligion. -eligion. " DRESDEN, SEPT. 28. The projcct of law conceniing the relation between the Protes- tants and the Catholics in the kingdom of Saxony was presented to the Assemnbly of the States in their last session, that it might rtake a declaration on thia subject. (Our readers know, that in Saxony the greater part of the inhabitants are lIutherans, and that but a small proportion professcs the Catholic religion, which is that of the Royal Family.) This declaration was given by tile States at the end of the session. The States, in a nmemorial of considerable length, and drawn up with equal moderation and frankness, detailed the reason for which this law is incompatible with thc principles of a real equality between thtc two confessions; as it really gives the advantage to the Catholic community over the Protestants, and would endanger the well-founded liberty of the latter, and even tile rights of the Sovereign. The Assembly proposes, in consequence. that the King may be pleased to have this iroject of law revised, laying attention to the observations wlhich have been made upon it, and have it presented to the next Asseimbly, that it r,ay give a new dleclaration. " Relatively to the important question in which the children born of mixed marriages shall be educated, the Statesliaveexpressed their conviction, that to prevent all inconvenience and all violation of rights on this subject, and even to make the minds of fathers and mnothers easy, each of whom, by a concessinn on this point, would depart from what they owe to their church, the selution of the ques- tion ougbt not to be left to an agreement between the parents, but ahould be decided by a law which would exclude all uncertainty. Among the different measures adopted in otlter states oin this subject, the best seems to be that, in mixed rarriages, the sons should follow the religion of their father, and the daughters that of tlheir mother. " The States, after having adduced arguments in support of this 3proposal, request, that in case the King shotld approve of it, His Blajesty would be pleased to give it the form of a law as soon as pos- sible, even before the next session of tile States.-Oracke of B3 ,s. 7cis, Oct. 10. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1824.