The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-16
M,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
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SEW ORLEANS, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 1873.
From Our Own Correspondent
OUR IRISH LETTER ...

FROM Our Own Correspondeut.l
OUR IRISH LETTER. ,-..
DUBLIN, Jan. lftb, 1873
England, has dwarfed all that has taken plac,
here in Ireland during the week. But it Is m!
business to pass by that event, snd toll yol
about the latter. And first. WORD about thu
famous Galway prosecutions. People havs
been wondering what hns become of chem, ani
many think they will never pass into the re-
ed in the ways Of the law Confidently predicted
that they would be in full swing by this time
but since-two months ago--the formal pleas
on both sides were fled, nothing has been Zone
again with rum0rs concerning them, and, intes
ala, it is stated that the descendants are about
to move the Queens Bench for change Of
Venue to Dublin, on tho ground that the public
mind has been unduly excited in Galway. Ap-
plications to this effect will, it is added, be
first made on behalf of the Bishop of Clonfert
from Galway, do not quite clearly see. It
cannot be that they dread an adverse verdict
from the jurors of that county, or, in other
partiality. For tho truth is, that nowhere in
Ireland, except in some hotbed Of Oraue eism
will jury be found to find the Bishop and his
fellow defendants guilty of the crime laid to
On Tuesday one of tho seats for Armagh
county became vacant through the death of
Sir William Werner. This gentleman wns q
quated and intolerant type; such has been the
character of all the mon who have ever repre-
sented Armagh in, modem times; and even
voter in the exercise 81 his fianchiss, and HOME
Rule is making rapid PROGRESS in the North,
still it is not generally expected that the voters
Nationalist. The most the leading 'Casholic
and Nationalist organ efs plstegYthe Bslfast
= miner y any use to as5 them to do
uo@ hoo ofro 90 H.. ~,oksA
ency, and the only one reported likely to do 80
is Mr.. Kerner, the n,etabSr for Eisbufh; q near
relative of SirGWiAismrK erasr, apd, Alike alb
h' Thepe IL
take placs At an earay ni1atssd TIN ruinor il,
again revived that NJ. Fastsssgs ths Rgsaiasns
to the and o SHs ses se % Ssss al
is said to be heartily sick Of this country
His Excellency, who cares more forssbesp and
hero at all. If this arrangement should be
carried out, one Of the seats for L6ath county
would be vacated, end No deabti che Attorney.
Ssss &
Fortescue to the House Of Lords ID, THAI the
government, sadly in want Of Ha Irish law
offers a better chanss Of sueeess TO mr. Rslles
than any other popular constituency. How
ever this may be, can tell yol . Homo Raler
capable, like Mr.. A. II. snlliyaa, Of exciting
genuine and general enthusiasm, he will beat
any anti-Home Ruler who may oppose him. |
Dundalk and Drogheda-both which to wDs are
in Lonth-are powerful strongholdsof national
opinion, and although, as they return each u |
member to Parliament themselves, they cannot
vote in a contest in the oonnty, they will OK
upon those who can. The persons mentioned
up to this as likely to be called on by the popu-
lar party in Lo9th to represent them are Mr.
London Catholic who formerly represented
Dundalk, and Mr. O'Neill Daunt the veteran
Nationalist Of tho South. Tie irst-named
certainly be elected, and if elected will 10 a
tower of strength to the Homo Rule party in
the House Of Commons. For myself, de-
cidedly think THAT as debater his equal will
not be found in that assembly.
One of our most distinguished clergymen
passed away to his account on Sunday last. /
Of the and Viroens
which swept away Louis Napoleon. Canon
Forde was Parish Priest of Beoterstown-a
suburb of Dublin-vicar General of the Arch
Pope, and Professor of Canon Law in the Cath
olic University. He bore the very highest re-
pulatior in this branch OF til Biological learning,
and for o long time past had acted as theologi-
cal adviser to His Eminence, Cardinal Cullen.
Had he lived, there is no doubt at all that he
would have been exalted to the episcopacy. ana
hence. He was very little over fifty years of
age: He was not much Of q politician. if, in
Iced, he was any. .sa ,'- .... ..-t II
1 regret to say that heard to-day that DR..
Dorian, Bishop of Down and Conner, lie seri- /
ously ill. Dr. Dorian is both . distinguished ID
,hurchman and thorough Nationalist, and his
Heath, besides being an injury to the Church,
would be an irreparab bic lOss to the Home Rule
cause in Belfast and throughout the North J
sincerely hope that he will live
many years, an ornament to religion aud to
lis country. HIM E.- ..D.- l.
Father O'Keeffes action against Cardinal :
Cullen is likely, in my opinion, to turn out un-
ustainable in point of law. On Tuesday last :
he Rev. gentleman, through counsel, asked
he Court of Queens Bench to set aside the .
principal defence of His Eminence that in sus-
lending him he acted in conformity with Che d
avs and discipline of the Catholic Church B
rguing that these laws can be no answer to a a
uitor in the Queens courts of justice. In y
act, what Father O'Keefe,' through his legal n
dvisers, urge is this: that although hs, as I,
'riest, might have agreed not to go to law in : :
secular court with one of his colleagues in a :,
he sacred ministry, under pain of suspension, q
ct that the violation of his contract is no bar n
o his now suing tho man who suspended him o
Or such violation. Mr.. Justice Barry peril 81
emily asked if he gave his gardener @ house | |,