The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-05-10

P.s however, kicked up . row about the afrai,
at q meeting Of the Corporation, the result Of
which was that the members of She Council M
well as the Lord Mayor were allowed into the
Presence Chamber.
The government, through two or three of
their Castle friends here, have " warnedn the
Rag Of 1reland-the penny alter ego of the
Lrishman for, as they allege, two seditious and
reasonable articles. This is in accordance
with the notorious Coercion Act, and in ar
cordance with the same atrocous Act, if thew
choose to think any future article in the pane,
reasonable or seditious, they may send tho
police to seize everything in the Office and pass
on apology to any one. Such is British law in
Ireland. AS to the two " reasonable and sedi
tous" paragraphs in question, one of them
consists mainly of extracts from Froude show.
ing how the Irish fought in '95, and the only
thing in it that can bear q reasonable con-
struction is the description of the Queen as
"the foreign lady who rules this country
against the will of its Inhabitants" That is,
perhaps, seditious, but it is more stupid and
clumsy than seditious. The other paragraph
demanded that the Home Rule agitation should
be brought to a close and "other means
devised for saving ireland. Whether this is
seditious reasonable know not but, per-
haps it is fair inference that conspiracy or
force is suggested by the words "other meansn
And that is all. I can easily imagine how the
government of the United. States would laugh
at instead of threatening to seize the paper
that would publish such thing. Apart from
the unconstitutional act of the executive, it
may be safely affirmed that person in Ire.
land except, perhaps, the paper maker-if
even he-would be loser if the Flag and the
Irishman were seized to morrow. The warning
may add, was to be brought under the notice
of the House Of Commons tonight by Mr.. H.
0. Lewis, the Home Rule NJ. P. for Carlow.
The enemies of the Rev. Professor GalbIaith
the patriotic Protestant Fellow of Trinity
College, Dublin-have this week made most
determined attempt to ruin him socially. The
Professor has held several high and respens-
BILE positions in the University and the Dis
established Church. One of these positions
was place on the committee of the Protest
ant Synod.appointed to inquire into the future
position of the Divinity School of Trinity Col
lege. On yesterday the reappointment of this
committee came on, and his reelection was
opposed on the ground of his active exertions
in the cause of Home Rule. am glad to add
1naI IL vas successfully opposed. he was re-
elected by considerable majority.
This reminds me that the Protestant Synod
has during the week been doing some charac-
teristc things. Mr.. Saunderson, the defeated
Whig-Tory candidate at the recent election
for Cavan (Which is now represented by two
genuine Home Rulers)' brought forward bill
providing that priests of the Catholic Church
seeking admission into the Protestant Episco-
pal Church should be ordained. Mr.. Saun-
derson could not understand why they should
require re-ordiuaton in the case of Presby-
teriaus and Methodsts, and not in the case of
men belonging to their deadliest foe. And
he was supported by the bulk of the lay men,
bers Of the Synod. The bulk of the clergy,
however, saw and confessed that by denying
the validity of the orders of the Catholic
Church they would be simply cutting the
ground utterly from their own feet, and re-
sisted the proposal. The result was the bill
was rejected, it being necessary that a two
thirds majority of both laity and clergy should
sanction any change. But the thing will not
rest here. The laity think they know as much
about these matters as their clergy, and are
determn ed not to be ruled by the clergy!
J. J. C.