The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-16

| it any wonder that Ireland wants Home Rulef
But to return to the debate. When Mr.. Bggar
| had concluded, several other Irish members
| spoke on the same side, urging that case
| whatever had been made ont for the bill-that
Irelapd's freedom from crime was quite remark
| able. The Government party on their side de-
termined to maintain q conspiracy of silence
| to give NO cause for prolongipg the debate; SO
they only put up one man-Sr NJ Beach, the
Chief Secretary for Ireland-who made q short
and ineffective speech, and did not venture
| even to attempt to answer the arguments of
the Home Rulers. 1t being now after twelve.
the Government thought q division should
| take place, bot the Home Rulers did not share
that opinion, and one of them moved the ad-
journment of the deba e. This motion
defeated, after q sharp discussion by ma jorty
of 23s to 63 votes but their arrows were not
yet exhausted. Major O'Gorman, of Water
ford, now moved the adjournment of the House,
saying that if an insolent and despotc majority
were to trample on the liberties of Ireland,
those liberties would die hard. Here Disraei
himself interviewed and threw up the sponge
He consent ted to the adjournment of the debate.
The House reese at about one o'clock, without
having advanced one step with the consdera-
ton of the Coercion Bill.
Great satisfaction was ex perienced in Ireland
at the result of the conflict, and Mr. Biggar
especially came in for a liberal share of graft
tude. Unfortunately, however, the victory of
the Irish was bat temporary. Last night again
the Coercion Bill came under discussion in the
House of Commons, and although Mr.. sullivan
Lord Robert Montagu, Major O'Gorman, and
several other Irish members, took part in the
debate Mr.. Biggar's amendment was rejected
the House went into committee, three or four
Home Rnle amendments were rejected, and
two three clauses of the bill were finally
approved of. Aud l suppose, although tough
tght will be maintained by the Home Rulers,
the bill viii Substantially pass upaltered
through both bouses. Aud what bill, and
vi hat time. When the country is profoundly
at peace, when the criminal judges are being
everyw here presented with white gloves, en-
blematic of the freedom from crime which pre-
walls in their districts, the ls~ is to be con-
tinued for fire years, whereby the personal
liberty of every man in the community is
placed at the mercy of the Lord Lieutenant or
of any malicious policeman in the country,
| whereby a man may be kept in prison for an
indefinite time without being brought to trial.
whereby man is allow ed to carry arms m
less specially licensed, whereby a W hole county
may be mulcted in thousands of pounds as
compensation for any murder or outrage per
petrated out of motives of personal revenge!
| And SO strictly are those laws enforced that at
| the races of Mullingar, recently, poor woman
| who is we'll Known on every race-course in the
/ Midland counties, and who was engaged in
exhibiting a figure dressed like the ancient
mariner and a toy gun with explosive caps
| (for the of which she charged penny a
shot, was arrested by the police for not baving
! had a license to carry arms, And to the
value that is to be put upon the alles atoms
made in support of those Coercion laws the
story told by Major OGormon in the House of
| Commons on last night is very Instructive. 1t
| is charged, c q , that letters threatening their
lives still very frequently sent TO landlords
and others in Ireland, and the Government
made this one of their principal grounds for
continuing the Coercion code. Major O'Gorman
| said that he knew of a in which a land
lord and n magistrate had received SO many
threatening letters that be left his country
for Dublin, bus che letters were all written by
bis daughter, who wished to live in Dublin in
order to get married. and who afterwards
when she had got married in Dublin, confessed
the fact and told her father to go back to the
| country, where he was in no danger whatever,
Last Sunday the Catholic members of Par
| lament-that is, the Irish Catholic members
(for in Sll the length of tolerant and enlieht-
ened Britai there is not a solitary Catholic
member, though there are both Greek and
Jewish mem beers )-preseuted an address of
congratnlat'on to Cardinal Manning on his re-
cent elevation TO the Sacred College. Cardinal
Manning's reply was full of good wishes for
the Irisu people, and took quite AN optimist
view of the future of ireland. The only
Catholic member, by the way, who refused
to sign the address to Cardinal Manning was
the truly Catholic and patriotic Major O'Gor-
man. His view is that English Catholics have
been just as hostile TO Irish in teresrs as English
Professionals and therefore as little deserve
recognition or thanks at the hands of the Irish
people. Unfortunately, there is much truth q
this view but then Cardinal Manning is Quite
an exception to the general rnle He has al
ways been great friend of Ireland and the
Irish people.
MIR. A. NJ. Sullivan. NJ. P. put the Govern
meDt and the whole House of Commons into a |
frightfnl state of mind last week. At present
the relations of the Press towards Parliament
are of the most absurd character imaginable
1t is absolutely indispensable that reports
OF the proceedings of the House shouId appear
in the papers, and yet it is a breac h of privilege
to publish any reports of those proceedings, |
and, in fact. only a few days since the Times
and Daily Meas of London were ordered to |
appear at the bar of the House to answer for |
having published, in their report of the pro- |
ceedInRs of IA select committee of the House n |
letter said to be a libel one of the m EN- beers. |
In view of these facts, Mr.. Sullivan asked on |
ThUrsday Lost ba.