The Hillsborough Recorder

The Jesuits, who, in the last century in Europe, attracted the attention of the different governments, and were expelled in various countries, are, it appears, reviving in Austria, France, and other countries, and meet with the countenance and support of the royal authorities. In Austria they have obtained nearly the monopoly of education. In France they are in considerable activity. It is stated, that for the purpose of restoring the ancient superstition, missionaries have traversed all the provinces of France, as if France were a heathen land, preaching conversion, and planting the cross. In some places they even bearded the authorities and threatened them with dismissal, if they opposed their views. They appeared in Paris, and took up their station in one of the principal churches, addressing the Parisians as heathens. The working of miracles, the efficacy of reliques, and every part of the old system which requires the most abject surrender of the understanding, are the themes of their discourses. The peers and old women who patronize them openly declare against the instruction of the people, and look upon a Lancastrian school as a seminary of perdition. These missionaries are said to be warmly patronized by the French princes and ultras. Franklin Gaz.