The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-03

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ence to the rules OF the I3FitIah ard For
;eign School Society but still insisting on
the repeal of the clause nnder which
"Baptist parents pay . rate for the en-
,forcement of the Church catechism," q per-
fee.iy unfair way of putting t the point IT.
treating children az unattached religionists
up to fifteen years Of age, by the argu-
ment that ut that age Anglican children
are confirmed; ceremony which he ap-
pears to look upon as choice on their
part of q religion to which 1t would be un-
to consider them as in any way
committed by their baptism.
The Cape Coast Ireaty.--The treaties by
which Holland cedes to England her estab-
lishments on the west coast Of Africa, with
their ornaments, at valuation not to ex-
coed f24 600, has excited q strong popular
feeling in Holland, and the Dagbtad pub
fishes the text of it within black border.
England, we may venture to affirm, is less
interested in her acquisition Than Holland
ia in her loss.
The Pooy-Las Conference. - Another
Poor-law Conference has been held at
Reading, whore the Berkshire Guardians
have met the Government Inspector, as the
Guardians Of Oxfordshire and Bucking-
hamshire did at Oxford short time ago.
Mr.. Henley, the inspector, stated that in
the SO unions which form his district there
had been in ten years an increase of 6l75
in the number of paupers receiving out
door relief. As check to this increase,
the Local Government Board proposes that
no single able bodied men or women with
Legitimate children shall be relieved out
of the w0rkhouse. The Guardians at the
Reading meeting went still further for, in
adopting this rule, they decided that no
exception to it should be allowed on the
ground of sickness. The poor are to be
made to maintain themselves in sickness
by their clubs or savings, and it may be
very desirable that they should de SO, but
absolutely rigorous rules of this kind are
either practical impossibility or mon
strous Humanity. Nobody could support
the refusal of relief to an improvident sick
pauper because he WAS too i'll to be moved
into the workhouse. Such regulations act,
as did recent refusal to supply medical
had a relative earning guinea a week-a
case quoted by the Daily Netcs. The pa
tient died from the want OF the medicines
thus refused. With the wisest possible
regulations for the welfare of the greater
number, there will always be cases in
which the choice is between relaxation of
the rule and letting the pauper die. A wide
field must always be left for the action of
mercy and discretion.
The Khooka Insurrection. What the
Khooka instruction is, or rather has been.
no man seems to know The net result is
that forty mine Khooka have been summa-
rily executed, some at least by being
blown from guns, and sixteen more after a
regular trial. That the rebels were dan
gerops seems hardly conceivable, since we
are told that they were only 300 in num-
bcr we must presum me, in order to justify
such rapid and severe punishment, that
they were guilty of unusual atrocities.
We shall soon learn the truth for Anglo
Indian opinion seems to have been moved,
and Lord Mayo had ordered strict inquiry
| into the matter before his death.
FRANCE.
The Great Schism- amongst the Clergy
The telegraphic dispatches recently pub
lished by the secular papers, announcing q
great schism amongst the clergy of Paris
would seem to have been based upon the
statement of the Paris correspondent OF
the London Daily Ners. The reliability
of this correspondents statement may he
judged from the following paragraph
clipped from the London Tablet:
The Daily Neus, through its Paris cor
resp ohdent, has discovered mares nest
aud made the most of it, and other papers
have followed suit. A certain Abbt
Michaud has rebelled against his ecclesi
astical superiors, and left the communion
of the Catholic Church. The Daily Ne,r
describes him as /" the vicar of the Made
leine ~ {sic), and honorary canon of Cha
Ions, and alludes to the late Able De
guerry as his predecessor. Our contem
porary is apparently not aware tina
"vicaire" does not mean parish prieet
and that the Able lie Rebours is NJ. De
guerry's successor. We are told that tn,
Able Michaud has resigned all his bene
ices-we never heard the post of "vi
caire," or of a French honorary canon 81
described-aud that he will continue t.
F" baptize, marry, confess, bury, and Civ
absolution whenever called upon, and will
wait for better times when he may agaiI
preach" The Daily Ne,1s does not seem t,
realize the fact that in the Catholic Churcl
most Of these acts, to put it as mildly a
possible, require the Bishops licene
quite as much as preaching. The ans I'VE
this will not signify for the Daily Ner
describes NJ. Michaud's act as "a terribl
schism among The clergy" and an " affai
whicll4will shake the Church of France t.
its centre" We are not informed, how
ever, that any other priests have followe
this gentlemau's example; and we Ger
1 tainly do not anticipate the terrible result