The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-02
M,rning Star and Catholic Messenger.
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From Our Own Correspondent
OUR IRISH LETTER.
DUBLrN. Feb. 9th. 1873.

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tus, of Dunmore, county Galway, will be put
on his trial for the exercise of undue influence.
The prosecution will be conducted with bitter
ness and yindictiveness, as surmised. OF this
we have had this week o notable proof. In
selecting the jures the process gone through
IS this !: First, forty-eight names are drawn for
each case by ballot from the long panel, which
contains over q thousand names. Then the
forty-eight names are further reduced to
twenty-four, the Crown officials striking oft
peremptorily twelve names. the traverser
twelve more. Now this has already been done
in five cases, and of the sixty thus struck off
BY the Crown officials-Mr. Palles, the good
ffty.sx are Catholics. In other words, they
struck off many Catholics as they could |;
they would, no doubt, have struck off all Che
Catholics could they have done it. The four
Protestants that they struck off were struck
of to give a show of fair-dealiug to the bust
ness. But NO one can or does fail to see that
audacous description. 1t is worthy of the
worst days Ireland ever saw, and has already
created widespread indignation. There is 10
excuse for it. Tho Catholics who are erased
are just the most respectable and independ dent.
think judged rightly when in my last said
Mr.. Palles would Ego the whole hog" on tho
ground that it was as good to be hanged for
stealing a COW as stealing lamb. He is dead,
politically, aud he knows it, and is, therefore,
desperate. If he had any political vitality in
him, this jury-packirg business would have
knocked IL out of him completely and for ever.
We thought we would have in a week or two
still another election besides those Of Armagh
and Lisburn, which still pending, and
about which have this week nothing new to
tell. The fact is. last Saturday one or two of
the newspapers of this city gave out that Mr..
w. +. Munster, tho member for Mallow, had
died in some part of the United States, whittier
he had gone for the benefit of his health.
Prime Jacie, no one could have very much doubt
about the statement, because it was generally
known that Mr. Munster had been this time
back seriously ill; and amongst those who felt
no doubt were the Castle law yers, and particu-
larry Mr.. w. M. johnson, the law adviser to
the Irish branch of the English executive. Mr.
johnson cannot have waited in Dublin five
minutes after the news was published, for he
was canvassing in Mallow at the time the news
became known there. He was very sure that
his time had come at last, and he certainly had
better reason to hope for success than any of
his tribe, because his father is the Protestant
minister of the town, and is highly respected
all that. On Monday or Tuesday, it was an:
nounced, on tho authority of his father, that
MIR. Munster was not dead at all; and of course,
as he was not going to give up his seat, Mr.
johnson had to leave the town at once, leaving
after him circular letter announcing that he
would be candidate whenever the opportu-
nifty would be 81 ven him. Poor Mr.. Johnson
worm.
However, there seems to be feeling Turk.
ing in the public mind that Mr.. Munste'
is, after all, dead, in dying state; and sir
Johnson himself, if / am rightly informed,
shares that feeling. After hc left Maliow, he
went--so l am told-right' across, without
stopping, to London, to PROV, as well as he
could, to his master, Mr. Gladstone, that his
return for Malow was certain, in the hope
that, if Gladstone believed him, be would b"
appointed Solicitor General in room of Mr.
Law, who has at last been appointed I" the
Judgeship of the Landed Estates Court.
Whether Gladstone believed him. of course !
cannot say; but this 1 know, that if he did
believe him he would certainly promote John
son, although johnson is but a thirdrate law
yer and quite Junior at the bar. The one
thing Gladstone is now most in need of is an
Tr,g1 Low .,nsn sv,f I<aI ,nf
Commons; and if the worst lawyer at the bar
could get such a seat, he would be at once pro-
noted. 1 trust that Mr.. johnson will not get
in, either now or hereafter, for Mallow; but
whether be will not, it is very difficult to
say. Mallow is q small corrupt constituency
constituency of unpatriotic shop-keepers that
last summer rejected the eminent John George
MacCartby, of Cork, for Mr.. Munster, solely
because they had brides in their pockets. or
knew they would get them from the latter
gentleman, and who have returned as their re-
presentatives, for the Same reason, some of the
most corrupt and time-serving politicians Ire
land has ever seen. There are notable politi-
clans in Ireland who would not touch Mallow
with 4 forty foot pole, because of it's smallness
and bad reputation.
The British Parliament opened to-day, and
what is called the Queens speech was, as
usual, read by the Lord Chancellor. AS far as
Ireland is concerned, the document would be
perfectly uni n teresting but for the announce
nent that the ministerial measure for the set
Element of the Irish University question would |
be brought forward at an early day. So the
Government have at last been able to agree
upon measure, and have had the courage to
launch it upon tho political wosld. for one
thought they would shirk it once again, for the
odds are ten thousand to one that they will
split on it as on a rock Trey can only avoid
splitting on it by failing to satisfy the Catho-
lies of Ireland and from various hints thrown
out during the past week by the ministerial
newspapers, both here and in England, l
gather that it is quito possible they will prefer
10 save themselves.
The result eff the deliberations of the Irish
Catholic bishops, on the II aud 22d of January,
appeared this week in tho shape Of lengthy !
and wcll-writtcn joint pastoral letter, which is
to be read IN all the churches aud chapels of
tie kingdom. Their lordships deal most ably
with tue prosecutions which the Church is Gu |
during in Italy, Germany, Spain, Switzerland
and other countries; condemned civil marriage |
and grataitous, secular and compulsory educa- |
ton on exceedingly good grounds, which can
not stop to enumerate; and finally announced
that on next Passion Sunday Ireland would be !
solemnly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of
Jesus. They, however, did not say what reso-
lntions they had adopted in reference to the !
Education question, the matter for which they |
lad chiefly come together On the contrary, |
they. said they had deferred publishing these
for tue present. ! suppose, though, they have
sent them to Mr. Gladstone as their uItimatum. |