The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-04-06

PED forwa ARD and read the Following Au-
dress: Father Tom, your countrymen OF
Queenstown and the Green Island are
| gratefully proud of your brilliant and last
ing service in the United States to ireland
and her faith. and to her long line OF illus
trious martyrs, confessors and heroes, your
and their forefathers. We bid you most
| hearty welcome home. Ckad mile Tnithe.
who was deeply moved, said: 81 suppose
ladies and gentlemen, am expected to
say something" Here his voice faltered
and tears rolled down his cheeks. After q
few moments silence he resumed-"I cant
say anything. Don't ask me-for Gods
sake, don't ask me. am in the presence
of Him at whose altar I serve during my
life. have reached the shore of the land
have been longing for. can say no more"
The emotion of the speaker produced
deep effect upon those around him. 1t was
with great difficulty Father Tom reached
the carriage in waiting to convey him to
Norwood, the residence of Mr.. Murphy,
whose guest he was, the people pressing
round in their anxiety to see their cham
pion. Az effort was make by the crowd to
unharness the horses and draw the carriage
themselves, but Father Burke declined
the compliment, and drove off amidst a
storm of cheers and blessings. Upos
his arrival in Galway, Father Burke was
called upon by q large delegation of citi-
zens who rendered him hearty welcome
and asked his consent to public banquet
Father Burke replied in very feeling
speech :: this was his first visit to Galway
since the death of his father so that he
1t was besides Lent aud he had to leave
Galway, and would have to proceed to
Rome on Saturday next. He would return
co Galway, however, after Easter and
wonld make a stay with his friends for
couple of months when if Board were
spread he would take his place at it as
Galwayman. Friendship had been lavish
ed on him by strangers, but the friendship
of his fellow citizens was more dear to him,
and i'll lie only saw amongst them the aSso-
ciate of his schoolboy days (aliuding to
Mr.. Morris -they had frequently mingled
their tears together from the attention of
their schoolmaster-he could not decline
zens. 1t was then arranged that immedi-
ately on Father Burke's return from Rome
the banquet should take place. Father
Burke. who is in excellent health and spirits,
related some of the amusing scenes of the
voyage from Atuerica, when, after some
pleasant conversation the Deputation with
drew highly delighted with the interview.
ENGLAND.
Debate on the Second Reading Of tie Uni
reristy BHl.-Says the London Tablet of the
9Th 4: The Irish Episcopate has pronounced
against the Bill, unless it is altered in a
direction in which we fear there is little
chance of its being altered by the present
Parliament. That condem nation has been
echoed with singular unanimity by the
Irish Catholic Press, and on different
grounds even by the Irish Protestants.
Representatives of Protestant opinion.
such as Mr.. Pima Liberal and a Qua
ker-DT. Haughton, of Trinity College,
and even Mr.. Ball, member of the Uni.
versity of Dublin, all testify that deponi-
national education is a necessity for Ireland,
and that the Catholics have n right TO
separate endowmepts. 1t was not a little
cool in Lord harrington to maintain that
the Irish people had not spoken because
neither the Senate of Trinity College, nor
the students of the Catholic University nor
the Catholic prelates could be said to repre-.
sentlt, and to declare that he would not
accept any condemnation of tie Bill which
does not emanate" from it. How does he
expect the people of Ireland to speak
Mass-meetlngs are not got up in q mement;
and II such meetings were to express their
opinions, we should be told that they were
composed of slaves to ecclesiastical dicta-
ton, just as, when it is the Bishops who
speak, we are told they are only speaking
for themselves. And Lord Hartington's
argument, based on the acceptance of the
measure by two other religious bodies,
was slngularly fallacious. 'If," he said,
'apy given measure were acceptable to
two of the three great denominations in
Ireland, the third should not be supported
IN declaiming against it: and it was too
much to expect that in measure dealing
with notoriously conflicting interests all
the proposals contained in that measure
would meet with the unqualified approval
of all the interests concerned" This would
be all very we'll if the Catholics of Ireland
were only one of three bodies of equal i'm
Portance into which the nation was divid-
ed-and even then they would have a
right to be treated in the same manner as
the other two-but, as it happens, Catho-
lies are a. per cent, and the other two
bodies together only thenty- three per cent.
of the population of the country. Another
piece of special pleading was contained in
the speech OF Mr.. Osborne Morgan, who in
defending the BSl told the House that
what the Catholics wanted was not Justice
and equality but ascendency." He con-
trlved however. to copfute himself little
later, for he offered the Trinity College the
consolation that, ''if the worst should hap
pep, and other colleges succeed in univer-
sity competition. it would stu get some
thing like monopoly amounting to $50.
$50 a year This is '.iustice and equality"
but If the Catholics ask for a single penny
1t Is demand for ''ascenGe1cy." Lord
Robert Mont cd