The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-18
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~ From Our Own Correspondent.
WI OUR IRISH LETTER.
DUBLIN, April 90, 1878.

NJ DUBLIN, April 26, 1873.
T}e question of Irish Education has again
90 Angaging the attention of Parliament and
|fE4S Irish people Mr.. Fawcett's bill for the
yb1<ksp of tests in Trinity College and In the
htFexnlty of Dublin-that is, for theoretically
pnyegting those Protestant Institutions into
Ee4$arts&or in tidel places of pstruction-came
? tcr SECOND reading on Monday evening, and
Pc reada second time. Think have already
I'd you that the Government have given it
Eefr support. and have undertaken TO get it
Arough the House this session. OF course, it
ae By TIER assistance that itreached a second
Iadingon Monday night. observe that some
gnr Eish Catholic papers express surprise
$hiq Gction on the Rart of the Government.
~ wtnder that M Gladstone should show
self 20 hostile to Irish Catholic educational
lteEestP as to support a bill which Irish Ca
ke&cs have never wanted, and now oppose,
hd'wk1ch is avowedly framed in the interests
the u idel party alone. 1 confess can see
p5hing, savoring of Inconsistency in such
fndstqnes action. His late education Bill
aa assoredly proof that he is not, to put it
1ldly,swell disposed towards Irish Catholic
kHcation. But this is not all. Two years ago
Rmade the same offer to Mr.. Fawcett which
; has just now made again-that he would
IpPort that gentleman's bill if he would take
Is Of it every provision for the future govern
ent OF Trinity College and the University of
nblin. and would make it simply a bill for
10 abolition of religious tests This offer Mr..
swcett rejected when first made, but he has
pw accepted, because otherwise he could not
ppe to get any portion of the measure passed
lis session, and for other reasons it is unneces-
" to mention.
What course the Irish Liberal membcrs-
at is, the representatives of Irish Catholic
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pursue in regard to Mr..
ewcetEs bill 1T is not easy at first sight to
htermipe. To abolish religious tests which
event Catholics from obtaining all the most
klnablo prizes in the principal University of
|eir own country-looks a fair measure enough
nay, one that ought to be eagerly welcomed
Catholics. There are no religious tests in
10 Casholic University; why should the repre-
ntatiees of the Catholics help by their votes
keep such things in Protestant University,
pecially when the Protestants themselves
Psire TO be rid of themf On the other hand,
pllege-for turning that insti tuition, in theory
least, into fourth Queens College-might
Aply appreciation and approval of the mixed
inhdel system of education ; and if SO, how
uld irish Catholics give such vote' But
ere is more important consideration.
here can be no doubt at all that the promo
r. of Fawcett's bill desire it to pass chiefly
scaase they believe or hope that its passing,
bile In no degree ipjuring or destroying the
totestant character of the institution affect
lyWin prevent the Catholics obtaining from
e English Parliament their separate rights.
40 their belief or hope is we'll founded. That
ling the case, l myself do not. see what an
ISL Eiberal member could do but oppose Mr..
kwcett at every stage.
The Irish Liberal members, however, came, as
whole, to no such conclusion. Some of them
d, and manfully obeyed the dictates of their
lscience. But others of them did not, and
Monday night they presented as pitiable a
|ectaele of disunon and confusion as could
ell be witnessed amongst even them. Mr..
itchell Henry, NJ p, Galway, Mr.. Butt, NJ.
|. (Limerick), and others belong to the for.
er class Mr.. PIN and others to the latter.
consequence of this absence of unanimity,
.A1ttchpn Henry. yhn moCeI rs pD a IL
ant 70 the motion for the second reading of
e bill, for u Royal Commission to inquire
10 the wishes OF the Irish people on the sub
b, had in the end to withdraw his amend
bnt.ti He would not probably have found a
zen m ell to vote with him. And this amend
enf having been withdrawn, no other was
owed and the second reading was carried
fthont division.
Lesane say word two rho more
arkable passages of the debate. Mr.. Mitchell
enry, who spoke after Mr.. Fawcett (who
bened the debate), devoted himself to show
g that even supposing-what was utterly
sible-that Catholics would resort in
|eat Plumbers to Trinity College in the event
the abolitionof tests that even surprising
oh 4 thing, they would not, for the next cen
Ery at least, obtain any share, however small,
the government of the institution that the
stitntion, theoretically of no creed, would
rtainly in practice be Protestant and anti
htholic. MIR. Henry succeeded in showing
lis, and spoke with considerable dash and
hngency and evident earncstness. Consider
r that he is Protestant, be behaved ex-
edingiy well. Mr.. Heron, the Catholic men,
u fer Tpperary, delivered the most curious
|eeeh of the night. He seconded Mr.. Henry's
and said he was prepared to vote
Eafnst the bill !; but he said in the course of
o speech that he would be glad to see reli-
onb tests abolished in Trinity College, having
boss himself once victim to them, and q lot
other things which fatty contradicted the
bte he said he would give. In fact, he was
contradicting himself. At one
uehe said Catholics would not go to Trinity
pllege because of it's Protestant influences;
kEnadiately after he said he himself had never
&c those influences while he was a student
ithin it's walls. At one time ha would de-
&isn against the mixed system ; at another
would seem to be defending it, talking, as
lid, a lot of the familiar secularist bosh
bout the good that may accrue from the train
mgf young men of different oreeds together
ID about the friendship that he knew to have
~ favored in Trinity College amongst stu
IEl3s of various creeds. The fact of the mat
3 -, Mr.. d. G. Heron, q. c., is q humbug and
Wind bag. He is a Catholic, was educated
/ Trinity College, and won n scholarship
lore, which he could not hold at the time in
|ptequence of his religion. The winning of
|ia aCho larship, and his legal fight for it with
q Aoard of Trinity College, have done duty
Is She learned gentlemen since on many an
|1a4ion. l believe it would be literally true
eeg that he never yet has made q political
|eDeh, either inside or outside the House of
br1ihons, in which he has not made mention
the scholarship business and see 10 reason
nunnOsa whV lie RhOul6 nnt on nm