The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

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sell has published a letter addressed to the
Lords, gentlemen and fellow-workmen,"
! supposed to constitute the Council of
Legislators and Representative Council of
Working Men, to which is to be Entrusted
| the preparation of the measures which are
to give Il definite form to the "new Social
Movement.H OF these measures Mr.. Scott
I Russell now supplies lis with u sketch. 1t
! should, he thinks, be stated in the pream-
bic that, in some-countrics, lands round
the towns are reserved for the common use
OF the observation-disclosures in England
the Legislature has taken away millions of
acres of common land which are the en-
tailed property of the peOpie-and that the
rearing of healthy families is an object Of
the highest public utility. Nobody, we
presume, would dispute the latter PROPOSE
ton, but the commons being lost, Mr.. Scott
Russell proceeds to ask that Parliament shall
empower towns and Villages to purchase
outlaying lands to supply the place of
them, the quantity of outlaying land to he
purchased depending, in n sliding scale of
proportion, on tho population. Half this
land is to be appropriated to detached
cottaGes IN gardens, and the other half is
to he held as common land. There NAV
also be schoolhouses with play grounds, II
town-hall, market-houscs and places of in.
stluction and recreation for the people.
ihe cost of all this, over aud above the
rental of SOS. on which he calculates from
each cottage, Mr.. Scott-Russel proposes to
raise 10y property tax, to fall on the rich,
who are by II convenient fictioa supposed
to have deprived the poor OF the common
lands, and to be bound to Jay for them.
These communities are to be governed
municipality, and are to be compelled to
elect. voting by heads of families, Il mayor,
who IN his turn is to be compelled to serve,
for which tic will receive annually a shil-
ing for every inhabitnnt, out of which sum
In large towns he is TO pay councillors and
Inn tnkx.
markets, regulate the price of food, pre-
vent adnlteration and nlanipulation,n for
all which the mayor is responsible, besides
seeing that the market is provided before
hand wit, the best food at the cheapest
price, and ensuriug full weight aud honest
delivery. We now see why the mayor is
to be compelled to serve. A tritling item in
the programme remains to be specified In
every group of homesteads the State will
have to settle Il group Of skilled teachers to
conduct the technical education of the in
habitants. 1t would he Il wise investment
says Mir. Scott-Russell, to spend a million
year in training 100, 900 skilled workmen.
Very possibly, if it could be done, and if
we could depend upon the workmen avail
ing themselves of the State tuition but
perhaps, as everything, even 'retailsse selling,
is to he ''organizcd nu the fashion Of the
Iost o!licr, ~" wDrkmcn would have NJ,
choice. Can Mr.. Russell point to Il single
instance in which such an eNpeiincut at
replacing all private enterprise by {" the
state has not ended in general discomfort
and in dismal failure :
FRANCE.
Iio -Vo"o and Eishop DupanlouD.-Iiis
Holiness Conyra"1atiom to .Nonscigucuy
DnpGnlonp Regarding His Retirement from
tie French Acddcmy.-Dcarly Beloved Son. !
Greeting and Apostolic Benedction-It is
y consolation, amid the disasters of the
faith and the shipwIeck of Christian con-
sciences, to behold acts which are inspired
by Il true and disntercsted zeal for re- |
l'gi1n. ne who considers and weighs how
much 1T behoovcs to break with impiety
and to fly from atheism does not at ali fear
the vain censure of the world, but follows
fervently the voice of his Christian con-
science. 1t is thus that you have acted,
my dearly beloved son, and We do not hest
tate to convey to you the expression of
our satisfaction. Iou have been elected
by society which has not been ashamed
to admit after you Il soul corrupted with
perverted doctrines, one of those men of
whom st. Matthew said, "Thcy do not see
The darkness of their corscienccs. and they
bear the pride of their shame You have {
not thought tit to keep your place that !
society, and tue act of resignation and hu- -.
nifty with which you have refused to com !
with iniQuity has filled with pure
oy the hearts of the Catholics. The scan c
iai mas been denounced by You and YOU
nave dlsowned the votes of your colleagues I
as soon rs yau-Aave- that they pro-
mlscuonsly conferred them upon men filled G
with the light Of the Church, as well as I
lg Isflsasr, who are infected with the most |
pie ellors OF this century. We rot I
feSy address OUR congratulations for this ]
slurious decision, but we request you to t
Neglect no opportunity to separate your t
self openly from the impous and evil t
wherever you should be exposed /
10 their contact-in every assembly where 7
he Word of Christ cannot be exclusively j
heard and revered. 1t is by these pious
by this devotion 60 the !
faith, that -tAe-erils- under which the {
Church suffers will hsppnpletcly repaired. d
Thus will the Catholic truth take full t
possession of its rights, .aatt against it the
: gates of he'll will not prevail" We-dc- |
slir, my dearly beloved son, that our Apes ]
Ole Bcnrdiction may accompany YOU. as G
we'll as all those who tight the good faith s
ND combat c"ulagr"usiy, by your exam t
ne, tor the cause OF the faith. :
Pirs IN, popE. |
Eomr, at s.. Peters, tie III of January, t
So Twcnty-sXtil year Of ouv Pontii- Il
ate. i