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

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Lady Wilde (Speranza), her son, w. C. K.
Wilde-a promising ltterateur-Frauk Thorpe
Porter, and other writer's of less note, but
which has not, have heard, had 80 great q
success as last year. I may just add that most
Of the drawings in the Nation and in the an
nual are by John Fergus O'Hea, Soung and
clever Irish artist, who did some of the best |
things that ever appeared IN the London Ioma- |
hapk, and who is ow,painting picture of the
recent national conference, to the order of Mr. |
Lesage, the photographer and print seller of
Sackville street. I understand the painting |
will be ready in about four months from this |
date. Mr.. O'Hea is already favorably known |
by painting of the Punchestown Racecourse.
| I need hardly say anything about the reli-
| gious observauces of Christmas. In this Ca
tholic land the time is one for frequenting the
| churches and chapels more than for feasting
at home, and everywhere the piety and Catho-
lie feeling of the people have received q re-
markable manifestation. Cardinal Cullen
himself preached in the Pro-Cathedral, MARI
borough atr.-.,-+-.---- Mas ON Cifristmas day,
and on the same day There ssSsA.> rIia-
Eminence q pastoral, dealing chiefly and in
forcible manner with the religious persecution
on the continent. He remarked, among other
things, that the action of the Prussian Gov
eminent
how wise the Irish people and the Irish hier-
archy had been in rejecting scornfully the pro-
uosal to put o royal veto on the election OF
their bishops. This pastoral appears in an
other column of to-day's START 1t is worth
l remark that the very persons who, next 10
3 certain English statesmen, most approved this
] proposal were the aristocratic Catholics OF
: ireland, whose descendants are now, fifty
ardent ODDOl6nGS
i of Home Rule.
n OF politics can say but little in this letter
b and on one subject. Mr.. Monsell, who had
q beeu for twenty-six years M. P. for Limerick,
II has been made lord, and vacates his seat
d In the House of Commons. He was lately dis
|; mased from the Postmaster Generalship, when
Is Mr!Gladstone wanted to reorganize his minis
re- try l, the anti Catholic, anti-Irish interest
n, and the peerage is the compensation 1t il
1e really SSell for the national cause that MIR
es MonseI hs been so provided for. He was one
ed of the mos uoxious class of Irish politicians
~ He was Wig, devotedly attached to oftic
N. and to Englan% and always acted as the me
ST. dunn through &ich the Government and thu
,rs Catholic hierarc$r communicated with eaci
cir other lin which alecity he generally manage
in to bamboozle the Nshops into stepping int
nd Wing traps. He is GEE, aud in all probabilit
int his political career isN psed forever. He viii
Or. be succeeded in Limert by a Home Rulel
rs Mr. John ]. Kelly (sonNf Mr.. James Kell
ost once Repeal NJ. P, for LID kick city, has a
to ready come forward with az II and perfectl
ooo satisfaotery declaration of IN he Rule primo
in pies. But it has been ohject to him tbs
If bis father was an exterminator his ten AMI
ard and that he should, like Captain Ian of Ga
ore way, make restitution by restortN or con
,itb pensating pecuniarily the evicted, g lar as
.ist- practicable, before he asks any body Iris
,os- tenant-farmers to return him as thet &epr
Nv asutative. This is a most significant Aur
I'd stance. The result is that Mr.. Kelly WIZ
Las be elected and Mr.. w. H. osullivan, of
" at mallock probably will Mr.. osullivan
o mr. n farmer aud shopkeeper-a man of the PEG
He is q thorough Home Ruler-indeed n
more, for he was imprisoned as a Fer
'nfS subject under the suspension of the bat
more Corpus Act in 1867. He is. it is needless to
un- a Catholic. If elected, he will be the first
lAry NJ his class in the House of Commons,
.Ae'' there will be a triumph won for Home
zee" which will create q greater effect and gre
mon. seusation in England and Ireland than
u" VA other half dozen that have been achieved
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