The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-08-29


four or Ave times o day, on the obdurate
Thomases, assuring them that If he could only
he satisfied thai his, daughter really wished to
leave his home he would desst from further
pursuit. Nevertheless they gave no satisfac-
ton at last Mrs. Thomas wrote to MIR. Lyons,
on the 25th of May, letter, IN which she
thanks God she has told no lie in the matter,
and prays for Mr.. Lyons conversion Then she
proceeds to business telling him that If he will
pay her s1D down, he may be allowed to see
his daughter. She must be brought back a
long Journey "first-ciass.x Poor Mr.. Lyons
paid the E10. Then the Thomas party de-
ing where Esther was,n and Mr.. Lyons took
legal proceedings by appealing to Justice
Blackburn in chambers. The judge was unable
to make an order, owing to Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas happy ignorance of Esthers where
abouts.. The subject was discussed at all the
meetings of ministers throughout the princi-
patty, but apparently to no great purpose.
Finally an interview took place between the
father ana daughter in London, and after it
the former instituted the present trial. 1t has
terminated for the moment i'll the award by the
iury of damages of ESQ against Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas for enticing away Esther from her
fathers house. The counsel for the defendants,
however. applied for a case for the Superior
Court which the judge immediately granted,
and we may, therefore, expect TO hear OF 1ur-
ther proceedings.
Had this occurred in Catholic country,
what howl of Indignation would be raised
by the Evangelicalsi Outraged humanity
Inhuman conduct of the Jesuits! Our liberties
undermined by the Man of Sin! The sanctty
of the family invaded! Who does not remem-
Der the ado made about the Mortara boy ?
How Exeter Hall and the Tabernacle were made
to echo the indignation of the :. Saints" But
Esther Lyons passes through the ordeal of
separat ON from her natural guardians, without
even q protest or appeal to ''our civilization"
or the nineteenth century"
THE NUN OF CRAcow.-We have refrained
from printing in the STAR the sensational ac-
counts published by the papers relative to the
cruelties said to have been inflicted on the I'M
fortunate nun, Barbara Ubryk. Even the pub
iished accounts, exaggerated as they were, gave
the utmost credit to the Bishop of Cracow and
Il parish priest, for their efforts to redress what
ever was reprehcnsible in the case BY late
accounts we sec that part of the wicked calum-
MES against the Carmelite Nuns of Cracow
have already been disproved, and that they
have no reason for fearing the result of a full
and fax investigation. 1t is not pretended
that there was not great MISUNDERSTANDING
cruelty-in the case, which the Bishop point
eddy reISrehended. But infidels and scoffers,
glad of an opportunity to wound religion, dis
torted the facts, in order to arouse the passions
of the people. Already sweeping measures are
contemplated by the intldels, under pretext
that the clustered religious being inimical to
the Government, they ought to be suppressed.
In England it is perfect God-send, and already
the Whalleys and Newdegates give notice that
they Will have the nuns of England placed
under surveillance. A writer in the Echo, a
Protestant paper, says, truthfully:
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country are ever on the alert to discover the
failings of their Catholic fellow-subjects The
most frightful crimes occur all over the world;
here, in England, an infant is murdered every
day; the papers TEEN with disgusting revela-
tons of the divorce court; yet all these are as
nothing compared to convent scandal Look
at the Saurin case, and see what tremendous
sensation it caused yet, after all, what were
the revelations kissing the ground" and a
cluster on the head" which were, no doubt,
very silly forms of penances, But it should be
ten in the Bible. The royal prophet with
ashes Oh his head looked every bitas ridiculous
as Saurin with the duster. As for kissing the
ground at the Battle of AgincouTt, Henry OF
ITpgIa1,d With all his MOBILES dismounted. and
going downupOn their knees, three times kissed
the ground token of their humiliation be-
fore the q Lord of Battles"
OUr King kneiyd deuno all in that sounde,
And all the EnGlys men ON eche sydc,
And thryys there they KISSED the ground
Lydgate tells us so in his verses, given by Nico-
las IN his Battle OF ASincoVTt.
THE COMING CoUNCu~-The principal event
of late bearing on the coming Council, has
been the publication of an admirable letter OF
the Archbishop of Mcchlin in which he alludes
10 the opportuncness of dogmatic definition OF
the infallibility of the Holy See in matters OF
Faith. without anticipating the deliberations
of the Council, Mgr. Dechamps is of opinion
that it is more probable that it will promul
gate decision on this point than that it viii
abstain from doing so.