The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-02-27


sions, would feel obliged by your kindly |
giving me- tina requisite psguaiseion. 7 would |
thank yon st the same time e renew the Per.
August TO SEQ Hatpin, ODonovan Rpssu and
Burke; and a. the under gov ernor-a Captain
Frazer, think-on that occasion refused to
health, food, ETC., hope ybu win remove that
restriction from tho desired permission; all the
foregoing prisoners are, believe, ct Chatham.
morning, would Eel obliged by having the
permission made out for Thursday next. Trust
ing you win excuse the trouble am giving
YOU, remain, dear Sir, yours truly.
PHILIP CAILAN.
Home Office, January 10.
My Dear ar. Callan-Nothing can be more
disagreeable to me than to rofuse request
such as yours. Had it come singly should
have no difficulty in granting it, but it is only
Mr.. G. H. Moore, which, in the performance Of
my duty, have felt myself obliged to refuse.
have received from the directors of prisons
strong representations of the disturbing effect
to the minds OF the Fenian prisoners, caused
by these frequent visits, and am, therefore
constrained to limit them, Except in very
regulations. can assure you that the health
| of these unhappy men is carefully watched,
| and constantly reported upon, and that have
permitted every mitigation of food and dis
cipline, not Inconsistent with their condition
and sentence. With respect to c. U. O'Connel,
you will see, in to-day's Times my answer to
| his relative, Mr.. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ever faith
fully, H. A. BRUCE.
| To the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce Home Secretary.
Cookstown House, Ardee, January q, 1870.
Of repy and the that
| you have permitted tho political prisoners
| every mitigation Of food and discipline not
inconsistent with their condition and sentence"
Whilst I have much confidence in your own
kindly disposition, must confess that have
no reliance whatever either the kindly dis
Roiais Of e Chatham cannot forget the gross
misstatements and suppression of material
facts, which so markedly characterized their
SO far mised even yourself as to cause you to
fall into an error, which you had subsequently,
to correct and explain in the House. Rightly
OF wrongly, strong impression exists d Nong
all classes in this country, that the political
prisoners have been and are being treated
with u severity quite unnecessary as far as re-
That any representations" by the "directors
of prisons" of the " disturbing effect" of
visits to the minds of the Fenian prisoners"
should have induced you to refuse such q re-
quest rs mine, which, nevertheless you are
good enough to say that, had it come singly,
You would have had no difficulty in granting.
l rather think that the I" disturbing effect" OF
those visits have been all on the minds of the
prison officials, and not Mt all on the minds
f of the "prisoners," and that the refusal OF
them saves from such disturbance the "otflcials"
and not the "prisoners." The personal kind
!. ness of Home Secretary is not set-of in a case
of this kind against such complaints as have
. arisen, and which have received n certain cor
G roboration from men, the scanty means afforded
8 to Independent members of Parliament, to
t Judge for themselves for the premises. 1 con-
}, seqmently intend, Immediately on the opening
t of Parliament, to move for Parliamentary in
|. quiry into the entire subject of the prison
c treatment of political prisoners during the
IS past five years.-Believe me to remain, yours
6 very faithfully, PHILIP CALlAN.
., Orange Dsruption.-The late revelations in
q the Belfast Police-court may we'll be judged to
d have been of u startling nature when they
B. actually shamed the Orangenen themselves, or
s. ut least branch of the fraternity, into asking
for Parliam entary Inquiry. At a meeting
10 held on the 5th. in Belfast, attended by del.
I'd several northern towns, the Independent
he Orange Association decided to communicate
ne with several of the Irish members, requesting
de them to support o motion to be made in the
ey coming session, "for a Commission to inquire
as into the internal organization and workings o.
ut isyn, for the best Of human reasons, loves moi
ck the light of day; and this motion towards in
quiry-hatefal word to those whose power il
g, secresy as the strength OF sampson was IN MI
% mysteries called ''internal organization viii
NV strike more terror to the souls Of doughty
of brethren than NIL the bosies OF Popery AM
air Ribbon could ever inspire in the most tinorou
ar of past Grand Masters. The Independent
,s. Orange Association is waxing wofully unfilial
IN and it almost seems as if fierce and turbu
an lent old sinner had been allowed to live Ion
m | that he may fall at least beneath the fata
OF. stroKe from the manu- u nis OWN P'iii' 3A
oh spring.
tn. Guardianship Of Catholic ChilGI,ea.-On Mondn
~. and Tuesday, the EXchequer Judges OF
me cupied in hearing and deciding motion, 0
odd behalf of Father Maher, of Graigue, for an al
solute order to the guardins of the CarlO'
Union to yield up to him the custody of tw
hg minors named John and Laurence HolahaI
Oh aged respectively eleven and twelve, who az
ON inmates of the Carlow workhouse Fathe
III Maher claimed the right of custody as test:
Vas mentary guardian under the will of the father
aa' who had lived and died Catholic, and the mt
NJ ton was opposed in form by the guardians {
une fbe Carlow Union, but in substance by til
'aS Protestant rector of Carlow, the Rev. M
"s Perry, who strove to invalidatc the marring
of the parents, one the ground that the mothe
our who is now in America and married q secon
the time, had been Protestant at tho time of til
to marriage, and that it had been celebrated by
on Catholic priest alone, and not also by
.as. registrar n Protestant Clergyman. I'll
of court held-against the argument of til
IA rector's counsel-that Il Catholic priest can
ma testamentary guardian, but it also held :
ge- proved that before at, and subsequent to I'll
of time of the Catholic marriage, the mother WI
red n protesting Protestant: that tho -marriae
of being null, the father had right to conft
INT, the testamentary guardianship; and that tt
lar motion for an order made by Father Maybe
md must in consequence be refused. The law
the case seemed plain and rigid enough to leaN
nee the court no choice, and we can do no MOI
It'll, than point TO the scandalous Legislation whic
for speaking by the mouths of Catholic judge
c. TINS insults three-fourths of the people of til