The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-05
ENGLAND AND THE CATHOLIC pRE1ArEs

| ENGLAND AND THE CATHOLIC PRELATEs
In the Daily Express the aRortive negO-
tiatiohs between the ministry and the pre-
lates are noticed i'm the following terms:
Had Mr.. Disraeli and his colleagues
been as wise in March last as they are now,
| they would have been saved from negotia-
tons which all who understood the question
knew would 'be futile, and which while
| they lasted could not fail to injure the gov
| eminent with its staunch friends and its
honest enemies. But they were misled by
the cry that the Roman Catholics had not
the. same educational facilities as other
denominations. They thought Cardinal
Cullen would tolerate a Catholic University
| in the governing body of which there ex-
listed q lay element-Of much power and
influence and they found that they were
mistaken. The two parties to the CORE
spondeRcea never approached am arrange4
ment. = - T., They have not only failed
now, but they. have made q future agree
ment impossible, for we believe that no
English government will ever venture to
propose TINT. the Irish Roman Catholic
bishops should be INDUCED with the ipstgp-
handed in the name Of eiucationa al eq11unhlfty.
lie there were a shadow Of truth in the
statement. that civil disabi ities ara imposed
on religious opinions in ireland, the Roman
Catholic bishops would grasp at the Earl
of Mayors offer with thankful eagelness,
because it, WAS. much more favorable to
them than they had any reason to expect.
We have never ceased to think it blunder
Of the Hrst magnftude.n To- -" - w.
The Ffcc.sdN's Journal reviews the facts
stated in the correspondence, aud charges
ministers with insincerity in their profess
sions. It thinks that the scheme was +" ex-
pressly fashioned In, order to secure it's re-
lection" and adds: ~ -ieau.- rF.igt .isrt
The. correspondence shows pretty
clearly that ministers had no serious inten-
ton to charter or endow Catholic univer-
sity. The government gratuitOusly insult
the cardinal. Lord Mayo says in the NOM
ination of the first chancellor it was in
tended to name q layman Of rank. There
was no necessity for the avowal. Lord
of the prelates without. parading the pre-
ference of the government for a layman
over the head of the Catholic Church in Ire
land, more especially when they knew per-
fectly well their university had not the
least chance Of being accepted, 1t was
Lord Mayo's letter of the 10th Of May, and
the Archbishop of Cashel closes the cores
pondence. 1t is easy to see that the gov
eminent were not sincere in their profess
sions. Lord Mayo's memorandum, which
was drawn up five months after the first
application for charter and endowment,
contained the seeds of disagreement in
in the shape proposed by the government,
would never work, while it would impose
restrictions and limitations on the action
Of the hierarchy which would have been in--
admissible had they been accompanied
with q liberal endowment, but were utterly
to be given to the affiliated colleges, Of
which the Catholic university would be the
first, while the senate was to have the power
of removing it's professors and officers"