The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-09
MrsCKILANE0Us FOREIGN NEWS.
IRELAND.

Death of Nicholas Mahon Porer.--A maj
intimately associated with the history o
Waterford and indeed, in one respect, o.
Ireland, has passed away, as has also 8
| connecting link between the past and the
present centuries. Nicholas Mahon Power
Esq, ID. L., departed gently on Tuesday
morning at his SPLENDID residence, Faith
noble SUR. lie was born in 1877 and In
1918 married to the heiress of the celebrat-
ed Nicholas Mahon, o merchant of Dublin,
who amassed q fortune in the wooden trade,
which has been since annihilated, but on
which he was able to purchase the
tom house of Dublin stands. The dewry
of the heiress was q quarter of million
sterling, which with his own paternal es-
tates rendered him the richest commoncr
in Ireland. His income FREQ of all incumb-
rances was E33, 600 year. His father-in-
law, it will DO remem bered, although the
pointJhas been disputed, was the gentleman
in whose house Lord Edward Fitzgerald
was captured by the notorious Major SIR
and bis satellites. The deceased was o
gentleman of unbounded liberality as the
charities of Waterford can testify, for his
donation on more than one occasion exceed
ed 1000. He represented the county Water
ford in the Imperial Parliament on more
than one occasion, when his voice and vote
were always found on the side of justice,
humanity, and patriotism, and he never
shirked his duty.-Cork Examiner, Feb. 1.
ENGLAND.
Says the London Register in its comment
GA the Queens speech:
There is one topic to which we have not
adverted; and, looking to it's probable
consequences, it is, we believe, the most
important paragraph by far in the Royal
Message. 1t is not long, and it certainly
is not very communicative. Hero it is -
"a measure will be submitted to you On an
early day for settling the question of Uni
versity education in Ireland. 1t will have
in that portion Of my dominions, and will
be framed with careful regard "to the
rights of conscience" If Mr.. Gladstone
should be SO fortunate as to succeed in
settling this most important question,
and in satisfying the Catholics, and at the
same time silencing the fanatics and Secu-
larists by measure framed with careful
indeed accomplish marvellous feat-the |
greatest feat of modern statesmanship. |
Wishing him all success, we await, not, we !
own, without some anxiety, the disclosure |
of his scheme. For the present we will |
only observe, that no plan hitherto pro-
pounded by those uufriendly to the Catho-
lie Church will effect the desired purpose.
preaching Parliamentary debates will be
by absence of party feeling
and sectarian bitterness, we should feel
very easy indeed about the result. The
case of the Catholics is SO strong, and their
demand is SO absolutely just, that we should
EEL no apprehension of defeat if religious
orejudices and party interests were not al
7otes of the House Of Commons.
canada and H., T;,,, Ill., .>o.;~o
ion just administered by the poet Lau-
cate has produced repetition of the Of
ence, and the Times appeared the other
lay with another leader on Canada, in
which the Dominion was again told to
take up it's freedom as it's I" days of ap-
premiership were over But the Times
pliers Mr.. Tepnyson an explanation of its
meaning which it would not offer to any
one or two querulous minds easily effer
'escing with shallow, if not simulated in
iIgnatiop," by which we presume it M cans
Is critics in the press, and particularly
he Standard and Pail Mall Gazette. 1t
xpiains that its counsel was not dictated
y - cowardly desire to relieve home
ieePiDg Epglishnen of their responsi bili-
les, but by the consciousness that Eng
ish statesmen have been negotiating at
about Cananian interests. of
sblch they have not an accurate know
edge, and to which from the Imperial
they can only give secondary
Importance, while Canada, which is now
he third, and will soon be the second mar
time power in the world, could much bet.
er manage her own affair. To this "A
replies, as it seems to us, very
pity; first, that it is by no means clear that
'anada is strong enough to escape " gray
tation to the United States, if the band
we're loosed, and secondly, that Canada
ccepted the Washington Treaty, not be-
ause she was bribed to do so by the Pa
itic Hallway guarantee, but out of a "sin-
ere desire to net in harmony with Imperi-
j policy )" and lie observes that if, as the
Times says, " the conception OF conquest,
r the forcible attachment of Canada by &
he United States" is harbored by none. X,
and it," as it further says, &" she is strong {
nough to hold her own" the reasons
which used to be formerly urged for Get
ing rid of her-viz., that she was a source
# danger to the Empire-cease." To this
re will only add one word. English ma. 1
ers are not published for English readers
lone, and one effect of these exhortations
to produce in foreign circles an amount
T scornful Misrepresentation of the tenn.
er of the English nation, the ultimate
'ndency of which is certainly not towards :
eace. L