The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-02

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| President of the Board of Trade directed
MI Gre0 to make formal withdrawal of his
circnlar. The too-zealous underling OF
course obeyed, and there that special mat,
! ter ended, but we are not fully satisfied
that 80 much can yet be said upon the lar
DISQUALIFICATION.
Some days ago the member for Clon;nel
put question Of great interest to the Chief
Secretary for Ireland. He asked whether
it is the intention of the Government to
extend the Volunteer system to ireland,
and If not, why mott Lord Harrington re-
piled to the inquiry as other Chief Secreta-
fore him. The noble lord officially gave
out that it is not the present intention of
her Majssty's Government to extend the
system to Ireland. To the contingent
query "If not, why not ." the real response
is, "Because we don't think well of it,"
And that is just what everybody knows al
ready. Indeed, every body knows not only
the unwiiiingpess Of the Government to
have Volunteers In Ireland, but the sole
and simple cause of that reluctance. Mr..
Bagwell knew it when he asked his ques-
ton every honorable member in the
House knew it quite as wen as he or the
Chief Secretary for ireland; the reporters
the lady listeners in the gilded cage were
all at home upon the question. Even an
! ill-read Chief Secretary-which We do not
take Lord Harrington to be-must bear in
mind what happened before in Ireland
when Irishmen got arms in their hands.
The situation "embarrassed" the Govern
ment of that day, and the Government of
this will not have Irishmen armed aud
trained to fight 30 long as they hold their
present belief that unarmed and unframed
Irishmen are more easily governable by
alien rulers. The thing is very plain in
must regard the question of the honorable
member for Cionmel as one of those fire..
quent parliamentary mysteries which defy
investigation by the minds of mere outside
men.-ibid.
Chief Justice Monahan at Mullingar fol-
lowed the example of his brother White
side at Trim, and delivered "a weighty
He said that the state of the county West
| meath was "going on from bad to worse"
and he enumerated the principal crimes
which have been committed recently in
that county. The Grand Jury subsequent
ly passed a resolution endorsing the state
formidable unlawful confederacy existed
! in the county, that all the measures adopt
ed for the suppression of agrarian crime had
proved wholly inefficient, and that other
measures were urgently demanded to put
an end to state of things which have
been properly characterized as intolerable.
Three or four cases of attempts at murder
occupied Judge Monahan's attention. In
some of these cases convictions were OBJ
tanned, and severe sentences passed. An
individual who, in an audible tone of voice
expressed in court his opinion that the
sentence in one particular case was too
heavy, was himself sentenced instanter to
six months imprisonment for contempt of
Court. We are happy to observe that in
almost all the other counties through
which the judges have yet passed-wheth-
er these counties be in Ulster, Connaught.
Leinster or MHhster-these functionaries
have bad to congratulate the Grand Juries
on the peace and quiet that generally pre-
walls. On the other hand, it is our meian.
cboly duty to chronicle the fact that the
week has not passed without the commits
sion OF one or two crimes of a serious ma
ture.
The Bishop of Meath has issued a pas
toral letter to the clergy Of his diocese, in
which he condemns, in vigorous language,
the crimes of the Ribbon organization. He
points cut that Ribbonism, though original
ly the result of bad land laws, has ceased to
wear an agrarian character, and has de-
generated int mere system of terrorism
1t attacks neither landlords nor policemen,
but the victims of the organization are
|
men who refuse to part with their proper
ties. The Bishop remarks that the circum-
stance which called Ribbonism into exist-
ence and gave it a semblance of justice has
passed away: The wrongs and grievances
of Ireland have been recognized and a
generous though incomplete effort was
made last Session to redress them; while
throughout the Empire there has been a
general awakening to a sense of the Justice
due to Ireland. His lordship bears testi-
mony to the justice, impartiality and even
moderation of the civil magistracy through
out his diocese, and says the most damag-
ing accusation that can be brought against
these secret societies is that they fall in
with the views and designs of those who
are enemies of the country.
ireland and France.-Prostrate France
has the sympathy of the world. From al
NEST every, CLINE in Europe strangers
SIGHT beneath our flag and offer their lives
in defence Of our honor. But, after all. the
gallant Poles and the gallant Irish have
shown an affection for our country which
4 France can alone recompense with the
sword of the avenger. Yesterday. while