The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-05
MIscELLANEoUs FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.

CTS moVeIuenC, WHICH u&9 oxIOuO0O IC6cS
from Warwickshire to other counties, does
not meet everywhere with the same diff
oa!ties. In Cambridgeshire, where some
men have been getting only 1Os. week,
many, il not most, of the farmers have
spontaneously raised the wages to lis,
missai, so t.at there ia NO strike. The
leaders of the Cambridgeshire workmen |
counsel moderation, and evidently hope to |
arrive at an understanding with their en-
pioyers. We hear Of the movement also |
IN Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire, apd the |
Dusfy Ners continues to publish moving |
letters from its correspondents concerning |
the deplorable condition Of the laborers in
various Observation-Disclosures, Mr.. Dis !
raelrs estate, furnishing materials for d
sPeciaFf report. The principal grievance,
after the insufficiency Of wages, is the ten
ure Of the cottages, which are held from
the farmers instead Of the landlords, SO that
dismissal from employment meant also
eviction. The defence offered for the sys-
tenn is that by cottages being given in part
better than they might be if they vert left
to find lodging Themselves but though 1t
may be very convenient to the farmer to
have always at his deposition house ac-
commodation for the hands he employs,
yet it is extremely hard on the laborer who
ia thrown out of work that he should lose
his home as we'll. Besides, if bis family is
large and earns nothing, it is only fair that
he should have the chance of spending less
on his rent, and more on food, whereas on
the present system his house rent is fixed
and paid for him.
Observation-Disclosures has been battle at
the Liverpool School Board about the
payment of fees to UNCONVENTIONAL schools
DR.. White moved that the bylaw passed
some time ago in favor of such payment
should be repealed. lie was opposed by
several Protestant friends Of denomi alton
al education, and, of course, by the Catho-
lie members Of the Board. Mr. Witty, o
Catholic member, said, "He Looked upon
secular teaching, OF education uuaccom-
panied by religious instruction, as a very
dangerous system indeed; and every Ca
tholic would shrink from permitting his
children to enter schools whore they were
| not instructed in their faith, and he (Mr.
Whitty) should look upon such a state of
things as q calamity. DR.. White, in his
address to the ratepayers, had said, 1T has
been my privilege for twenty five years to
make known to my fellow man the mind of
Cod Now, he considered, that DR.. White
was assuming infallibility, for any one who
assumes to make known the mind of God
must certainly fall back upon the assunp-
ton of infallibility." The "infallible I"
doctor was, We are happy to say, defeated
on q division, the numbers being eleven to
four. While on this subject we may ex-
press our satisfaction ae seeing that at the
two recent School Board elections in Lon
don, the UNCONVENTIONAL candidates have
, been returned. The Marquis of Salisbury,
Conservative nobleman, spoke we'll on
the general subject the other day at St.
9 Georges Hall, Liverpool. al suspect
t (said the marqnis) that the parents in Eng
land desiring religious teaching for their
children will insist upon these fair aud pri-
mary principles, that there shall be free
liberty of teaching, free liberty to each
religious community to teach, and free
liberty to each parent to select the school
in which his child be taught. Time
brings its strange revenges. The Church
of England is keen for freedom. / believe
the great Wesleyan body is keen for free.
dom. But the descendants Of those who in
old times sacrificed everything aud went to
the scaffold in the cause of what they be-
lieved to be religious liberty, are now cry
ing out for q system of protection and ex-
clusion.
The Lac of Entait.-The House of Com
mons decided: shortly before one o'clock on
the morning of April 10, ON the following
resolution of Mr.. w. Taylor, the member
for the borough of Cambridge :-.s That in
the opinion of this house the present state
of the law as to the entail and strict settle
ment of land, discourages the investment
of capital in the Development Of agricul.
ture, to the great injury of all classes of
the people, and increases the complication
of titles and tho expense and delay Incl
dent to the transfer of real estate" The
motion was opposed by Mr.. Gladstone, as
the leader of the Liberai>party, and by Mr..
Disraeli, as the mouthpiece of the Tories
aud when the Speaker directed the ayes
to SO to the right and the noes to the
left, remarkable spectacle was presented.
Mr.. Gladstone, accompanied by ten Lib
eral unofficial members, by fifteen paid
members and by seventy eight Tories
under the eye of Mr.. Dsraeli-led this
gregarious host against the rank and file of
the Liberal party. The result was that
the latter were defeated by a majority of
twenty-five. Had the battle been left to the
Government and their friends, the Liberal
party would have defeated their own lead
ers by majority of ffty-five. The ma
jority of one hundred and three was made
up of ninety English, six Irish, and seven
Scotch members; and the minority of
eighty -one was made up of sixty -one Eng
lish, three Irish, and seventeen Scotch
members. 1t follows, therefore, that ninety
out of one hundred and three Irish MEM
beers were absent. Had one-third of the
latter been in their places, the strange
| alliance. of L.iheral nlacemen- Tory