The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-08-17
lrIsCELI.AHKoUs YoRxIeN NEWS.
ITO July 2Gth.I
ENGLAND.

ENGLAND.
The Fourth Council Of Westminster.-The
great event of the week for English Catho-
lies has been the opening of the Fourth
Provincial Council of Westminster, which
| took place with circumstances of unusual
splendor at St. Edmond's College on We'd
nesday. The work of the C ouncil will be
divided among four congregations, of
Ecclesiastical Life, Liturgy, Discipline,
and Education, and it is calculated that it's
sessions will last about a fortnight. AS the
deliberations of the Council including even
the sermon preached after the High Mass
on the day of opening, are secret we are
unable to furnish our readers with any de-
tails respecting them.
The Juaicaturc Billion the report of
amendments in the Judicature Bill being
brought up on Tuesday, Sir George Grey
and BIZ. Bouvcrie in vain protested against
tho transfer of ecclesiastical appeals,
whichsthey argued, had been tffactcd by Il
surprise; but Mr.. Hardy maintained that
be had given all the notice he could, and
MIR. Gladstone observed, that, though Gov
ernment approved of the transfer, it had
only accepted it under pressure from all
| sides of the House. A renewed attempt to
get appeals from a Divisional Court heard
by full court of not less than Eve judges,
was defeated by 81 votes to So and the
next day, Wednesday, the Bill was read
third time and passed, after Sir ID. We'd
jurisdiction of the new Court of Appeal
ought to be extended to the three king
dOms-which was withdrawn on an as
| surance from Mr.. Gladstone that, though
! lie made it a rule not to pledge himself six
| months in advance, the Government shared
the opinion that the Bill was incomplete
| without the extension.
Mr. Whaliey and the Pilgrimagc-The
absurd fuss made by Mr.. Whalley about
the " excursion " of the Young Mems Cath
olc Association to Canterbury was pleas
antly assuaged by Mr.. Gladstone on Friday
week /; the only suspicious points about
the affair, in the opinion of the Premier,
being that it took place on q Feast Of ST.
Thomas, and that the programme was
printed on paper Of q color suggestive of
martyrdom-we fear the paper was Light
pink, not red, but the joke may pass. Mr..
Whalley wanted to know if he too night
deliver a lecture in the Cathedral aud
since then DR.. Payne Smith, the Dean OF
Canterbury, has stated that f. Christiehad
merely acted on permission to point out
! the objects of interest to his party, fInc
tion usually performed, probably with bless
efficiency, by the vergers. 1T Mr. Whaiey
| desires to explain the antiquities of the Ca
thedral to party of his own he will do.bt-
less be permitted to do SO, it he behaves as
| properly as, according to the TESTIMONY of
the Dean, f. Cbristie'a friends behaved A
correspondent of the Pail Mall Ga-ettehas
since expressed fear that a lecture In
| a national editice by the representative of
one religious body may result in the same
! privilege being claimed by and perhapsle-
MED to others but there has been as IN ch
exagGeration, we suspect, about the " lc
ture" as there was about the "pilSrimag,."
FRANCE.
| N. Fares Intcrpell0tion.-The graf
event of the week has been the interpela.
ton of NJ. Jules Favre respecting the hone
| policy of the Government. The Left Cea-
! tire would have nothing to do with it. aid
it was known that NJ. Theirs entirely dr-
approved of it-a disapprobation which le
marked by staying away from the debae.
1t was left to the advocacy of NJ. Fave
himself, probably the most unpopular men
Der of the Assembly, who had already r.
ceived telling blow from NJ d'Audllfr.t
Pasquicr, wheu he demanded in his bure:u
that the Assembly should adjourn only til
| September--the time for the liberation If
| the tcrritory-on the ground that co D
'd'ctdt was to be feared. " The Cover
ment of Marshal MacMahon," "said n. d'AI-
ditfret, u" counts no cOnspirators among rs
members; every reproach may be mae
against the majority rather than that #
conspiracy ace have never driven awiy
| the representatives of the nation ace haze |
never seized and retained supreme pow,r
| in opposition to The will of the country"
On Monday Nj. Favre was listened to with |
considerable patience by very crowdd |
house, though every now and then he vas |
interrupted by sharp repartee. His lhe |
of argument was that the Parliamen tary B.
volution of the oath May was virtual
conservation of the Republican principe,
which was also the only bond which he'd
together the component parts of the M
jority. He accused the Government on tie
other hand of treating Republican opinios
as a disqualification or Office, and proph
sled that, in spite of its professions, t
would be unable to avoid making a cop
1ctdt. And the authors of coups Gett
were the worst of revolntionists. He pr
cceded to castigate the Bouapartsts, allu.
ed to the attitude Of the Legtimists at te
time of the decree for the abolition of t e
Empire, and, seeking to SOW discord in t Z
ranks of the Right, called on the Govcn-
mcnt to declare which dynasty is pre- eferrtl,
concluding with the announcements that,if
the explanations were not satisfactory, he
and his friends would eight for oven
ment with Republican institutions whih
would save France" The Duke de Broaie
stated in reply that no specific charge hd
been brought against the Government, sld