The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-30

also In Tue D0N1 NctCS, from MT moFfioon.
who asserts that the gagging clauses"
are "almost universally Condemned" and
that the Government will probably not
''ipsist on them !" and he urges that all
Crown appointments to the Counsel, and
all representation Of the sectarian colleges
as such, as well as of Trinity and the
Queens Colleges, should be abolished,
and that the members should be nominal
ed for the first time without any attempt
at a 'balance of opinions" and further va
cancies filed up, one-fourth by the probes
sors, and the rest by the graduates of the
university. The same desire of excluding
o possibility no means q probable-infiu-
spired the proposal of the Times, which is
to leave the Queens University out of the
scheme, 30 as to get rid Of provincial col,
leges, and to enact that the university shali
consist only Of colleges established, or to
be established, in Dublin. Then ~e have
the opposition of Trinity College, which
Bin as "too tame" and which-shough it
threw out on Wednesday Dr.. Haughton's
amendment that the Catholics "have just
cause of complaint" but that this will not
be remeded BY the Bill, (Which provides
no endowment for denominationat collie
ges, while it lowers the standard OF univer-
by pretty general feeling that it would
rather be left alone, though it be at the
price of charter or even an endowment to
the Catholic University. The last-named
body protests against the Bill on other
grounds, its objections are grave and
weighty, and we'll worthy Of the attentive
confederation, not only of the Bishops to
whom they are addressed, but also Of the
Government and Legislature. Mr.. Bourke,
seconded by Lord e. Fitzmaurice-so that
it is not party move-will oppose the sec
ond reading on the ground that the names
of members of Council have not yet been
submitted to Parliament. 1t is understood
however, that no serious opposition at this
stage will be offered by the Conservatives
or the Nonconformists; but from different
motives both parties are likely to unite in
Committee to make the Bill worse for Cath
lics than it is at present. And this is the
conclusion which forces itself upon US. MIR.
G ladstone's scheme falls of course far be-
low the point of absolute justice to four
Ireland. Yet if it proves impossible to
carry even this without the pairing and
chipping away of whatever is thought to
be advantageous to Catholics, what hope
remains that the just demands of the latter
will ever be satisfied SO long as the Legis-
]ative union endures7 The failure of the
present Parliament to settle this question
in an acceptable way will be an impulse to
the Home Rule movement such as it has
never yet received.-Iablet, March l.
ITALY.
Tile En- Hing and the Italian Dynasty
1t is asserted by a correspondent of the
Universe that the last drop of bitterness in
Don Amadco's cup was the discovery that
he was obliged to sign the decree about
the Artillery officers, because it was already
despatched with his signature attached to
it. This is q report which it is of course
next to impossible to verify the King had
already made up his mind before the 5th,
For that is the date of the letter, now pub
ishcd, in which King Victor Emmanuel
the receipt of the telegram
his sons intention to abdscate.
This letter is principally remarkable for
the care with which the writer guards
Aosta's imagining that he would return to
exactly the same position which he!formery
leld in Italy. "Political exigencies," say
the King, compelled your Majesty to re-
1ounce your eventual, and, thank God,
very remote claims to tho Crown Of Italy !;
but you have preserved, intact those to our
Affection and that of all Italians" In other
words: "You may come back as an ex-
King of Spain, but not as possible future
King of Iealy." In which words King Vic
or Emmanuel, as it appears to us, commits |
! blunder; his descendants with right of
succession are not SO numerous as to make |
t polite unnecessarily to put aside one
there is no one but the young |
Duke of Genoa and the childlcss Prince |
Eugene of Savoy Car;gnan.
SWITZERLAND.
Proceedings in the Diocese Of Bale.-That |
confessor of the faith in Switzer- |
and, the Bishop of Bale, remains in his
at Soleure for the present. until
further measures of violence shall be ad-
opted by the Federal Government. The
So called diocesan conference of five del
egates has decided on the deprivation of
the Chapter also for its refusal to appoint
q schismatical administrator of the See
and it is said to have urther determined
itself to appoint an administrator in the
person of Herr Wenzler, an excommuni-
Gated Prussian priest, who has been warm
y recommended by the Prussian Minister,
DR.. Falk. Tho mountaineers Of the Cath
bic districts of the Jura, annexed under
special stipulations for their religious free
lom to the Canton of Berne, have pre-
pared an admirable protest for transmission
o the Grand Council of the Canton, in
which they declare that they will never
ease TO recognize Mgr. Eugene Luchat as
heir sole and lawful Bishop, and in reii-
,ious matters will have nothing to do with
my one but him and the priests who re-
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