The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25


Wilde-s promising litterateur-Frank Thorpe
Porter, and other writer's of less note, but
which has not, I have heard, had great a
success as last year. may just add that M ost
of tho drawings in the Nation and in the An-
nual are by John Fergus O'Hea, young and
clever Irish artist, who did some of the best
things that ever appeared In the London Toma-
hack, and who is now painting picture of the
recent national conference, to the order of Mr..
Lesage, the photographer and print seller of
Sackville street. understand the painting
will be ready in about four months from this
date Mr.. O'Hea is already favorsbly known
by painting of the Punohestown Raceoourse.
need hardly say anything about the reli-
gious observances of Christmas. In this Ca
tholc land the time is one for frequenting the
churches and chapels more than for feasting
at homo, and everywhere the piety and Catho-
lie feeling of the people have received q re-
markabls manifestation. Cardinal Cullen
| himself preached in the Pro-Cathedral, Marl-
| borough street. at last Mass on Christmas day,
and on the same day there was read from His
Emiaence a pastoral, dealing chiefly and in a
foroible manner with the religious persecution
| on the continent. He remarked, among other
| things, that the action of the Prussian Gov
eminent towards the Catholic bishops proved
how wise the Irish people and the Irish HER
archy had been in rejecting scornfully the pro-
posal to put royal veto on the election of
their bishops. This pastoral appears in an
other column of to-day's STAR 1t is worth
remark that the very persons who, next to
certain English statesmen, most approved this
proposal were the aristocratic Catholics of
Ireland, whose descendants are now, ftly
enough, amongst the most ardent opponents
of Home Rule.
or politics can say but little in this letter
and subject. Mr.. Monsell, who had
been for twenty-six years M. P. for Limerick,
has been made a lord, and so yacates his seat
in the House of Commons. He was lately dis
missed from the Postmaster Generalship, when
Mr.. Gladstone wanted to reorgsnize his minis.
try in the anti-Catholic, anti-Irsh interest
and the peerage is the compensation. 1t it
} really we'll for the national cause that Air
} Monsell has been so provided for. He was one
of the most noxious class of Irish politicians
He was Wing, devotedly attached to Office
and to England, and always acted as the me-
dium through which the Government and the
J Catholic hierarchy communicated with eact
other in which capacity he generally managed
to bamboozle the bishops into stepping int
| WING traps He is gone, and in all probability
his political career is closed forever. He viii
be succeeded in Limerick by Home Ruler
Mr.. John J. Kelly (son of Mr. James Kelly
once Repeal N. p, for Limerick city, has al
ready come forw ward with full and perfectl!
} satisfactory declaration of Home Rule princi
pies But it has been objected to him tina
his fstheC was an exterminator of his tenant
and that he should, like Captain Nolan of Gal
way, make restitution by restoring com
pensating pecuniArily the evicted, SO far as il
practicable, before he asks any body of Irisl
tenant-farmers to return him as their repre-
sentative. This 10 most Significant circum
| stance. The result is that Mr.. Kelly will no
, be elected aud Mr.. w. II. O'Sullivan, of Xii
t mallock probably will. Mr. O'Sullivan il
q farmer and shopkeeper-a man of the people
He is a thorough Home Ruler-indeed he il
more, for he was imprisoned as Feniar
subject under the suspension of the Habea
Corpus Act in 1867. He is it is needless to say
Q Catholic. If elected, he Will be the first maj
of his class in the House of Commons, anC
; there will be a triumph won for Home Ruiz
which will create greater effect and greater
sensation in England and Ireland than any
other half dozen that have been achieved.
j.. J. c.
Tho celebrated Siameae twins died at their