The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23
M1scEILANEous FOREIGN NEWS.

I EDWARD L. CAREY.
MIscELLANRoUs FoREIeN NEWS.
! ENGLAND.
Report Of the Conven: Comnittee.-Ths
Institutions have brought ia their report
/ 1t is mere statement Of the law as it ex.
lists, and of the position of religious orders
as affected by it, and contains no recon-
mendation whatever. Only Catholic reli-
gious orders, it premises, are subject to
other communion are perfectly legal. Ca
| tholic orders Of men are absolutely illegal,
and the legality of trusts in favor of con-
vents of women is doubtful under an act
of George III. The property of these in-
situations is therefore held on tenure SO
precarIous and inconvenient as to consti-
tute q real grievance; while the impossi-
bility of declaring the trusts removes these
bodies from the supervision of the
Charity Commissioners. At the same time
religious orders are real working part of
the machinery of the Church as monks
supply priests for l3l missions, and exer-
else cure of souls for 29S, $50, besides edu-
eating and supplying missionaries for India
and the colonies, and educating in England
il92 students the higher and middle
classes, and 90 ,26O children of the poor,
while the orders of women educate in Eng
land 65,3 children and 37lO in Scotland,
besides visiting and relieving many thou
sands of tt c sick AID INDECENT. The Com
mittee report that societies "of quasi
mOnastic character" "not bound by monas-
tic vows, such as the Oratorians, are "iegal
voluntary associations not Incorporated"
And they observe in conclusion that, while
the penalties of the Emancipation Act have
never in any one case been enforced, yet
the consequences of the penal clauses and
of the doctrine of snperstitious uses have
been enforced by the courts both of Eng
land and Ireland to defeat and annul dis
positions of property.
Petition from the Archbishop and Clsrqy
of Westminster Against the Increase Of the
Liquor Traffic. - The following petition,
ITO Of the clergy of the Diocese of West
minister, has been sent up this week to the
two Houses of Parliament:
/" The humble petition of the undersigned
Roman Catholic clergy of Middlesex, Essex
and Hertfordshire, shOweth:
from personal and daily experience, that
the present state of the trade for the sale
of all kinds of intoxicating drink is every
day multiplying the occasions and dangers
whereby the vice of drunkenness is ex-
tending itself among the people.
"2. That the most persevering efforts to
diminish drunkenness by moral influence
and religious persuasion are hindered and
counteracted by the excessive multiplied
ton of pnblic-houses and other places
where intoxicating drink is sold SO that,
unless the Legislature shall impose restric-
tions, not only on the increase but upon the
existing number of such houses, they have
little hope of preventing the increase of
drunkenness.
"3. That your petitioners by experience
know not only that drunkenness is the
chief cause of pauperism and crime, but
that it is also the most extensive cause of
the abandonment of children, the neglect
of education, and the destruction of do
mestic life among the poor. Your petition
ers therefore humbly pray that your hon
orable House will in its wisdom make such
enactments as shall bring the number of
public houses into due proportion to the
reasonable needs of the people, and shall
subject them to vigilant and effective
inspection, with power to prevent abuses
and disorder.
a. In the report of the Committee of
the Bouse of Commons in the year 1854, it
is declared that the greatest amount of
drinking takes place on Saturday night
and during the hours that the houses are
allowed to be open on Sunday. Your petit
TONERS therefore beg that such specific
remedies as your honorable House shall
judge necessary may be provided for the
TONERS will ever pray.
FRANCE.
The Pope and the French Catholics.-On
the occasion of the Jubilee, His Holiness,
in reply to the deputation of French Cath
olics, said: 81 cannot express the senti-
ments which agitate my heart in hearing
you. Yes; love France. have always
loved her; 1 always shall love her. France
is impressed upon my heart, and every
morning, in offering up the grand holy
sacrifice, the Mass, pray for her who has
given me, and who still gives me, amid her |
misfortunes, so many proofs of devotion, |
respect and love. recognize with pleas
ure that France has constantly shown her |
devotion for me and for the Holy See. She |
is admirable for her charity. In her good !
works, in her pious foundations, which be-
long to her character, she overlooks no |
misery, and her women especially do won
ders. Yes, women play a great Christian
part in France-a sublime part. Neverthe-
less l must speak the truth to France.
There is a more formidable evil than the
more formidable than the Com
mune, let loose from hell, with its men who
flung fire about Paris, and that is Catholic
tNor he