The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-03-19

Sc an example which English bigotry and
oxrlusiveness would do well to study and
follow. Any essentially Catholic and Ma
tional nstituency--one in which certain
Journalists have not hesitated to declare
that clerical influence is most potentialw
has elected, AZ tia Parliamentary represen.
tative, an Englisbman and Protestant!
When shall we witness an English Frotes-
tant constituency electing an Irish Catho.
lie Z This election may also be considered
remarkable in another point OF view. fro-
baby it 10 the last that will take place In
this country under the present law. Possl-
bly, we have seen the last of "Scenes as the
nomination, }" and the excitement OF the de-
cIaFation.
Eranciscan Convent of the Perpetual A do
ration, Drunsshanbo, County LestYsas.--On
the 18th nit, Feast of the Translation OF st.
Anthony of Padna, two young ladies were
admitted into the Seraphic order of st.
Francis of Assissi, and received the white
veil from, the hands of the Very Rev. DR..
Dawson, Vicar Capitular of the Diocese,
who officiated on the happy occasion, as
sisted by the Very Rev. T. Evers, v. F.,
and the Rev. p. Sheridan, P. P, Chaplain
of the Convent. The ceremony was pre-
coded by High Mass, and was one of un-
usual interest to oil who assisted at it, the
privileged aspirants (being destined to ber
come members of the extern portion of the
community devoted to the instruction of
the poor) did not disappear behind the
grille, as is usual with those entering the
enclosure, but returned to the chapel, d.
vested of their gay bridal ornaments,
clothed in the humble habit of the Order,
and wearing on their heads peDitential
crowns of thorns instead of their fair white
roses, emblematic of the life they had
voluntarily embraced in imitation of their
thorn crowned Lord aud Master. The
names of the two young ladies were Miss
Margaret Davis, of Enniscorthy, and Miss
Julia Fleming, of Killarney; and their
names respectively in/religion Sister Mary
of st. Elizabeth, and Sister Mary of St.
Leonard. The sermon was preached by
the Very Rev. Father T. Plus Pendergast,
o. P. The ceremony was concluded with
In his Grace's Lenten Pastoral the Arch
bishop of T nam has expressed himself very
strongly on the subject of Home Rule for
tressed France in her emergencies. To-
| wards this lattsx object more than f30, 900
have been colieehed in Ireland during the
few weeks that the present movement has
been on foot, and this does not include the
vast sums chat have been previously con-
tributed during the course Of the war. In
the struggle which shall subscribe the
largest sum both Catholics and Professionals
vie with q mostSpraiseworthy energy (and,
whilst Archbishop Trench sits aide by side
with the Catholic Lord Mayor of Dublin,
and his Eminence the Cardinal presides
over the society of st. Francis Of Sales,
the Archbishop of Tuam, in his Pastoral
already alluded to, declares the succor OF
the French peasantry to be o charity ethan
which, under the circumstances, he knows
| none to be more meritorious OF more likely
| to entftle the giver to the Divine blessing
There is very little news to speak Of
Business is looking up, and the report OF
the Belfast Chamber Of Commerce speaks
highly of the development of the iron fields
in the north, and the ship-building trade
in Belfast. La Galway also signs of life
In the same branch are reappearing. The
1 British Timber Company has made al
experiment. which it is hoped viii
cal undertakings to revive the trad.
Of shipbuilding in Galway. The frs
result Of the enterprise was the Launch
of a steamer called the Emerald, which
was built in Lough Corrib. She has
length of l3Oft, Slft. beam, and loft. deptl
coal for q voyage of 1900 miles. The shiI
La Plata, having ON board the new tele
graph cable to be laid between Howth ant
, Holyhead, arrived on Saturday morning q
KingstowL. The vessel had been detained
; BY the recent severe weather. Her arriva
OF moro rapid and regular telegraphic com
munication is bitterly felt. The Lord-Lieu
tenant paid visit to the ship and inspecte,
ell the apparatus necessary fer paying GU
. the cable. The new medium of communi
J cation will touch Irish ground Mt Balscad
den Bay, on the northeast side of Howth
An influential meeting was recently he'll
, in the Mansion House, for the purpose O
, considering project for the reclamation
: of the waste lands of this country, with
: view to their being sold in small lots to tn
E farming population. The idea OF the re
: defamation and colonization of these heredi
tary wastes is old, but the stolid resolve G
the proprietary not to part with their snip
: grounds, overcame all motives Of humanit
"A and patriotism, and the only reclamation
allowed was the fertilizing Of the bog an
3 the morass by the slave tenant, and the en-
: ljoyment of the results by the slave owner
4 There is yet much land to be reclaimed j
i / Ireland, though within our own time som
' three or four million acres have been re
4 claimed by the tenantry. The field, theT
9 is large enough still for generous excl bior
/ and the project of reclaiming the othe
: three millions of acres to culture and to th
: ownership Of the Celt is one to comman
f the approval of all good men Of every clar
g In the community.
= Diocese of Killaloe--D Death Of tie Re,
! II s. OConHor, r.. a.ef Glare Castle. -Th
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