The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-22
Wales the other day something similar. He

pointed ont that if PapaA Rescripts are iilega
the CATHOLIC Church is not free to govern it
this IS the simple truth. See some Of the con
sequences of holding that Elizabeth's Act il
IN force. Every bishop in Ireland has been ap
s1il oy "a. taPal kescript therefore, there
.! catholic bishop. And if there be no Catho
Tic Dishop, of course there can be mo- Catholic
priests; and, therefore, Father O'Keefs him
sell Is not . priest in the eye of the law!
wonder did he contemplate this when he dis
entombed from its forgotten grave of centu-
ries the penal law of ElizaLetha
Inc legal points reseI we'd in the case of Mr..
~. O'Byrne against Lord Harrington and the
other ohcials through whose orders 80 many
people were so wanton1y and grievOusly out.
ragged in the Phoenix Pork in August ~, have
been decided in favor of the defendants. The
verdict, therefore, obtained by Mr.. O'Byrne
VIII change into one for his opponents, should
ne not appeal which, it is said he will do. i
shall shortly have occasion to speak again on
TINS subject, when 1 shall enter more fully
iato the significance and circumstances of this
discussion. Here must co 1tent myself with
lice nave escaped on purely technical points,
even the slightest punishment for one of the
most wanton and unjustifable outrages on
public liberty that even the English h I'VE ever
been guilty of in Ireland.
Inc home Government Association held n
very successful m eeting on Tuesday. at it over
hundred members were admitted, and of this
number thirteen were Catholic clergymen.
Amongst them also was Mr.. O'Dowd-
3rother,in- law of no less n parsonage than
Judgs Keogh himself: A gentlem an in Liver
pool had his two infant sons. proposed aud
erected. Finally, thee was elected Col. Ell
llsIan Angishman of high social position
and eommandant of an English Volunteer
EGo ssps. The speakers at the meeting were
d., Oaeill Daunt, Galbraith, All Sullivan,
and others. am glad to say that a lot of
practical work is just now being performed by
the ASSOCIATION. For instance, means are be.
fhnt mo lad
20 vote at the next election, shall be put on
Inc register in every county in Ireland. The
Maize" and Weekly News publish this week a
most excellent code of instructions as to the
mode OF getting in the Registry, and make
stirring appeals to the electors to act up to
those Instructions.
fresh accession to the Home Rule party in
the House of Commons will shortly be made.
Col; French, d. p, for Roscommon died yes
.teroay' and it is not rash to predict that his
place Viii be filed by better politician 1
Catholic gentleman of high position, wealth,
ana sound national principles will come for
ward on strong Catholic and Home Rule prin-
clplea, and that if he does he will be almost
certainly returned.
sensational piece of information must
conclude this letter. The story about Dublin
1or tne last three days is that Sir arthur
Guinness the millionaire and brewer, who was
elected for Dublin in 1868 and was unseated
by Judge Keogh for bribery, has left this
country c. never to return-that he has gone, in
A"Oo' u prosecution Dl2amy. lie |
married little more than a wear AGO iaupht- |
er of the Earl of Bantry-La:y Olivia White,
to wit, a lady if general report speaks truly as
gooa as she ID certainly beautiful and accom- |
pllshed. Their wedding was one of the
greatest affairs of the kind that ever took
place IN ireland, and outwardly looking one
would say that they were an exceptionally |
happy and fortunate pair. They had un Inbound
ed wealth, health. youth, titles troops of |
iTlends, everything that money could buy. |
! ct, Sir Arthur Guinness, if everything we
near Is true, must have been since his mar
raige with Lady Olivia White one of the most |
men on earth. He was married, it I
appears, some years since to his gardeners
aaugnter who, after having been induced
Ior long time to keep silent, has now at
length commenced proceedings TO obtain the
.nIl measure of her coDjugal rights. Surely |
mat which the chorus in the Odipus Rer of
ooPhocles says at the end of the play of the
Unfortunate Odipus is true Cali no man
Happy I'LL be has passed the boundary of life"
J. j. c.