The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-02

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~ thank the Lord that ann not q other
men are, or even as those low Irish, is the
every day boast of the average Protestant
Englishman. Judge by his self lauda
tions one would imagine that the inhabi-
tants of this land, from Berwick on Tweed
to the Lands End, weres not only ire
proachable but impeccable. If civilization
is to be sought, commercial morality to be
looked for, or all those amenities which
make life endurable, in England only are
they to be found. Whether owing to Pro-.
testantism or to roast beef, it is a fact that
John Bull alone enjoys "a monopoly of
every good quality, whilst poor potato eat
ing Popish Paddy is g demon in human
form, the incarnation Of all that there is on
this earth of vilest Snd most ferocious, and
this in spite of ell our police and assize res
ports, in spite of our Denham and Chelsea
murders, in spite of. recent exposures of
commercial fraud aud wickedness, whose
name must not even be mentioned. This
we continue to assert as we'll on paper us
in conversation. Indeed, our newspapers
are the worst Offenders in this respect, be-
| cause, as they have the best means of
knowing to the contrary, so their UPRIGHT
| eousness in keeping back the truth, and
making the worse appear the better cause
is all the more glaring. With few excep-
| tions, there are none Of our metropolitan or
provincial papers to which these remarks
do not refer. The Pail Mall Gazette, dur
ing it's occasional fits of morality, tears its
hair as it testifies to the enOrmity OF Eng
lish crime in generals and that of London
| in particular; but presently landlord is
shot in Ireland, or some Fenian talks rath-
er largely, or Orangemen and Catholics
| spend day or two in mutual skull-crack-
| ing, and then, with Mr.. Trench's "Reali-
ties of Irish Life" to fall back on as text
savagery," "blood-thirstiI Less" Inmate
ferocity," and the like, in utter 1--WE fear,
wilful) forgetfulness of the fact that few
days before nothing bad enOagh could be
predicted of their highly favored England.
We are moved to these remarks by what
goes on round about us. A few weeks ago a
"colonial bishop" who, by the way, seem
ed to have abdicated his orders for the
nonce, and, like the priest and Levite in a
certain Scriptural passage, to have passed
by on the other side, wrote to the Pal Mall
Gazette 1--WE think) q letter, in which he
feelingly described the brutal ill-treatment
to which poor but respectable woman
was subjected by flock of roughs in Re-
gent street in broad daylight, the police, of
| course; being nowhere. A day or two after
we read of London rufian who first made
an outrageous attack on his own sister,
and then on the two constables who inter-
fered to protect her. The brute had been
nineteen times convicted and had "goue
| gradually on in crime, assaulting his
mother and sister, and about one-teuth of
the B division Of police, and civilians in
Vulnerable" Another days reports tell us
of more savage assaults On constables, and
on ladies by creatures who are put down
in the police sheets as gentlemen" A
few days ago correspondent, writing to
the DAILY Ne,cs, mentions how he witnessed
performance, which, as we ourselves can
vouch for, is by no means ofuncommon oc-
cuarence in the alleys of London, namely, a
pugilistic encounter, conducted on the
most scientific principles, between two Ok
ford street DULLES, and gazed at with ad-
miring eyes by an eager and miscellaneous
crowd of some two or three hundred men,
women, and children. The details are too
horrible for our columns, but the concu-
sion of 'P RS" letter will serve to point
our moral =
What gave great zest to this public Aght was
that you could hear the roar of OxfoRJl-street
all the time it was going on, and that if you
| choose to turn your head betveentbe rounds
| the outside passengers on the stream Of home
ward bound omhibuses were clearly discernible.
This union of the sights and sounds of our
| every day London life with the facilities given
| in it to pugilism, make ees-court very fas-
| cinating place; and in common fairness to the
heroes of the prize-ring and the patrons of the
noble art, ask you to let me inform Them of
cident last night. Gee's-court, should add
is only threepenny ride from Whitechapel,
and Omnibuses pass its entrance every two
minutes through the day.
| mat the police conveniently keep out OF
the way is no wonder. No Indian Thug is
worse or more ferocious than the typical
London rough, and it requires stronger
hand than that of the ordinary policeman
to grapple with the evil. AS contem-
porary says of the animal 3
He is nuisance in the parks where the
people go to enjoy themselves, trouble, an
eyesore, and ear-sore at every place
of open-air amusement within walking dis
| lance of the city. He takes q horrible delight
| in pouring out curse after curse to the disgust
| of decent pedestrians who may have to pass by
one of the haunts which form the local cX-
changes of the roughs.
The roekeries which they most affect are
not by any means in the lowest parts of
London or any of our great towns, but are
situated in the closest proximity to the
most fashionable localities. Close to Bel
grave-sGuare, and within hearing of Buck
ingham Palace, is belt of savagery which
would put to shame that of the South Sea
Islands, and the same may be asserted of
another colony in the immediate vicinity of
May fair. In each place lurks iniquity
enough to corrupt nation and these foul
deus are haunted by a crew, in comparison
with whom those of the Cities of the Plain
were of superior order.
And what may be predicted of London
may be safely asserted of England in
general. Go where you may the same story
is told. On excursion days the Crystal
Palace is at all times flooded by the waters
of ruffianism. Horse play, oaths, obscenity
in word and deed, drunkenness and fight
ing are the order of the day, and our con-