The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-01

two, Mos whey would be Infinitely preferable.
There are two other men-Mr. Butt and Mr.. A.
M. Salivan--who combine in themselves all
the qualifications necessary for the post, bat
who are not thought of for the strange reason
that they are each what O'Connell died-an
irish nationalist. The fact is, fear, the ma
jortyof the parties here who have got the
management of affairs into their haxds are
decided Wings, whose political decomposition
set in at various periods since death of the
Liberator.
An appeal for peouniary help has just been
made by one of tho Fellows of Trinity College,
d ablin, in behalf of the great-niece of Oliver
Goldsmith, now living in this city, eighty.fve
years old, and suffering from ill-health and
extreme poverty, her whole allowance being
four shillings q week!
To give o very good exemplifca.ion of the
work of the Infamous Coercion Act in this
country, think cannot do better than lay
before my readers the following letter, which
appeared in the London Times few days since:
'Sir-The motion made by me last night
for the production of papers connected with
this case came on at 80 late an hour that you
were unable to do more than give the bare
therefore, to stare the facts in the shortest
possible space. Pstrick Casey, q very young
man, suspected of beinga member of the Ribbon
Society, was arrested on the 18th of December
1871, and conveyed TO prison, where he re-
NAMED until the 26th of Jo)y, 1874. He was
never bronght to trial, but was turned out of
prison by the present Government as the direct
result of the serious debate which was held on
the subject in the House of Commons on the
18th of May last. During this Imprisonment
we know, upon official authority, that Casey
was kept in solitude for eighteen hours, and
for part Of the time for twenty-five, ont Of the
twenty-fouE. His health broke down, and he
was removed to prison near Dublin for medi-
Gal advice, and the papers moved for last night
were copies of the memorial he and his friends
addressed to the Government, aud copies of the
medical reports and of the minutes made upon
| the subject by the Lord Lieutenant, parts Of
which had been quoted in the House of Lords.
These papers were refused, and thus there 10
no remedy and NO means Of learning the his
tory of that secret transaction. People ont of
| ish freedom, and enjoying suoh safeguards as
Magma Chsrta, the Habeas Corpus Act, and
the other guarantees of individual liberty, find
it almost impossible to believe that under any
circumstances, or under any law, q subject of
the Qaeen could suffer long and close imprison-
ment, and then be discharged from prison,
denied q trial, and be thrown upon the world
without the possibility of establishing his
innocence express NO opinion here az to the
policy of the law, but do ask you to give
| these facts the publication of your columns,
| that they may ut least be pondered over by the
British people. am, sir, your obedient SER
want, MITCHELL HENRY,
House Of Conmons, July 80.
Mr.. Mitchell Henry is N. P. for Galway
county. No one has contradicted, and no one
can contradict, his story which may surely be
left TO tell its own tale.
The parishioners of Csllan broke into the
parish church on Tuesday last, after they had
been refused the key of the building by the
representative for the tune of the unfortunate
Father OKeeffe, who had gone to London to
speak for his unholy cause before ant-Catholic
zealots. Two days afterwards the interdict
under which the church had lain for so long,
was solemnly removed. Father O'Keefe is
now without any chapel to continue in his
sacrilegious ministrations. J &c.