Expulsion Of тнe Jesuits frОМ France.—Cable dispatches report that the enforcement of the March decrees against the Jesuits, which began on the 30th ult, caused the greatest excitement The manifestations of disapproval were loud and general. The effect of the measure will be increased hostility to the Government One account says:
"Count de Man, the Marquis of Liancourt, Mayor Deluppe, the editor of L' Utifam, and many others less notable, were arrested on the charge of using inflammatory language and interfering with the police in the discharge of their duty. The unpopularity of the execution of the obsolete decree for the expulsion of the Jesuit Fathers becomes hourly more apparent. The state of feeling among the Catholic population is one of great bitterness and exasperation. The scenes at the closing of some of the Jesuit churches and houses were very affecting. At Valsa, a market town in the department of Ardesche, twelve miles from Privas, a violent scene occurred. The Jesuits here had a fine educational and religions establishment, which had long enjoyed the confidence and esteem of the greater portion of the community. When the police arrived this morning to close the establishment and to expel Its owners, the Jesuits refused to leave. They declared they were In their own house, and would not leave it save by force. A great crowd of citizens assembled around the church and college and sought to drive the police away. A battalion of soldiers was sent for. They drove the people away, and the police then broke open the doors of the convent and expelled the members of the Order by force. They left the convent amid the loud lamentations of the people."
At Lille,500 persons, headed by the chairman of the chamber of commerce, waited on the Jesuits to express sympathy for them. At Lyons and Angers the Jesuits have constituted themselves as civil societies, and the question thus raised will be decided by the courts later on.
Link (here) to The Ave Maria journal a publication of Notre Dame University July 3rd, 1880
The painting is of an 18th century Jesuit father
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