The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-13
NUMBER 80.
IRISH AND ENGLISH cR1,u.

The termination of the last circuit by the
irish judges showed a remarkable exemp-
ton from crime-that is, a violation of law
IN us most serious aspects. Under provo
cations, religious and political, the great
body of the people show a spirit of conciIi-
alton and Christian forbearance without a
parallel in any other country. And vet
the mendacious Times and it's satellites
give currency to the most atrocious false
hoods respecting the state of things in
Ireland. The Nation, commenting upon
the duties which the Irish judges were
callea upon to pefform, discourses as fol-
lows:
The assizes have just terminated in the
two-and-thlrty counties of Ireland, as we'll
as IN counties of cities and counties of
towns. The judges have investigated
every case brought before them, after an
interval of five months since their previous
sitting. The general gail delivery" has been
brought to u close, and what are the cir
cumstances disclosed 7 How has this rash,
hasty, and thoughtless race been acting
during five months9 The judges have had
hardly any cases to try in any of our coun-
ties or cities. There was not one capital
the juries aught to investigate but some
tritlng petty larcenies, or some assaults
committed under the influence of drink.
The grand juries were everywhere con-
graduated on the absence of crime. The
judges, if it were not for a few civil cases
in each county, would have had nothing to
do, and the lawyers occupation would be
gone. This Is not an exceptional term of
circuit The situation has been thus for
years, except when the government lawyers
manage to secure a few political cases to
keep themselves in practice. There is more
crime In one English county than in the
whole of Ireland-more criminal cases for
trial at this present assizes in England in
on one county county than in the thirty counties
in in l Enmiand tn na are heinous offenses
we are almost entirely free. We hardly
know OF such crime as infanticide. In
England there is no calculating the
enormous annual sacrifice of infant life;
s ana the acts of infanticide only bear
births. In Scotland illegitimacy is even
more prevalent than in England, though
infanticide is not so frequent. The Scotch
seem lost to all sense of shame on this point.
In England, where love is simply another
lishmeA are continually found numbering
their sweethearts." In ireland, where it
means honest and sincere attachment, no
such hideous consequences follow on its for
tunes. In short, the logged, sensual nature
of the Englishman is but too painfully re-.
veaied In the criminal statistics of his coun-
try, while the higher character of the Irish
man is shown in the comparative immunity
OF the country from all crime, but especially
from crime in its most repulsive and de basing
forms. They do not know the Irish people
who talk and write of them as thong htless,
imprudent, impulsiye, and passionate race.
The criminal statistics of the two countries
show that it is the Irish who-are the
thoughtful, prudent, self restrained people
and the English who are wild, reckless.
and ungovernable.Ss, y