The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-05-14

of any grade or creed from such unseemly
festivities lie powerful tribute to thu
D Christian spirit of the country. Easte
, Sunday passed off as it should in the
t churches and without in the most edifyipe
manner, there being an entire absence o.
any excess on the part of the working
classes. The same is reported from al
, parts of the country.
Combinations in -Dublia.-The annual
Lenten Combinations for the city parishes
were brought to a close during Passion
| Week. This year the Cardinal Archbishop
was assisted in the work by the Bishop OF
Ardagh, the Most Rev. DR.. Conroy. The
number Of children. confirmed was little
short of six thousand. The single parish
OF st. Andrew, WestlaDd row, supplied
one thousand three hundred aud fifty.
The Bishop Of Ferns The consecration
of the Rev. Michael Warren, lately ap.
pointed Bishop of Ferns, is fixed for the
9TH of May, the third Sunday after Easter,
the Feast OF tue Protection of st. Joseph.
FRANCE.
Cardinal Guibert and the Chamber The
| request Of the Cardinal Archbishop OF
| Paris to be excused from attendance as a
witness in the Pontivy inquiry has appar-
emily given rise to some misconceptions
on the part of the English Press. His
Eminence has been represented as taking
| up position which implies that he is above
the law, and rs having positively refused
to give evidence. We have not the slight
est doubt that if the Cham Der of Deputies
were to insist on bis appearance the Car
dinal would, as French citizen, comply
with its summOns; but his we'll known
| aversion to political contests, and his
strictly ecclesiastical habit of mind, have
induced him to ask to be excused on
grounds equivalent 10 plea of nihil norit
en- causa He could, he said, give the
Chamber no information beyond that con-
tanned In his letter, namely, that all he had
to do with the Pontivy election was that
he wrote to the Bishop of Vannes to say
that the Abbe Cadoret had not received
from him any SANCTION or encouragement
In bis candidature, while at the same time
he had no reason for concealing the fact
that his sympathies as a private individ ual
were with the COmte de Nun. 1t ia quite
absurd, as the English papers admit, to
maintain that a Bishop or priest may
not write letter recommending a candi.
date; the right of NJ. Theirs or Gambetta
to do so has net been questioned, and in a
vast number of French constituencies the
weight which the expression of their opin
ion would have with the electors is likely
TO be mIeI greater than that which could
be brought to bear on the vote by any
c'esiastic in France. But in IL present tt
per of the victorious Republican, the faint
est expression of electrical " opinion, the
slightest symptoms of " clerical" support is
likely to be fatal to deputy. Fifteen out of
the thirty EIGHT petitions which passed the
bureaux and came under the Judgment of
the Chamber have been successful and
the unseated deputies are nearly all Con-
ser0ativeS.
The PrefectorGl Changes.-The came in
tolerance ID visible in the discomfort of the
Republican Press at the last changes in the
Procedures. New Projects wer" appointed
on Holy Thursday in nearly fifty depart
ments all the old Projects who have
shown themselves actively hostile To he
liz la Iuhj q, hraa
who were formerly Monarchica', bat since
the settlement of the new Consultation
have kept within the bounds of prcprety
and impartiality, have been either main
tanned or transferred to other posts. Tnis,
however, does not satisfy the r tdicals
they protested loudly against au acminis-
| trative propaganda in favor of Monarchy !;
they now want to see an Administrative pro-
pagsnda in favor of Rspu blicanism. They
have not yet seized the idea of permanent
civil service Independent of party, and
judging from the instance of the United
States We should be inclined to say that
| this was a plant difficult to raise in the
| soil of modern Republics.
| Moderate Aondrchists and the Moderate
| Republic The un9asiuess which we men
toned last week as spreading among the
ranks of the French Leyitimists is begin
ming to find practice, expression. They
see, or think they s.v, reason to fear that
| the extreme Radicals may get the upper
hand, and only the other day Communist
convict, who was thrown into prison for
| life on his return from Belgium, told the
| police he would not have to remain long in
confinement as his political friends were
in majority in the Chamber. But the
Legitimsts knows as we'll as everybody
else knows that the triumph of the Reds
would be soon followed by a reaction in
favor of the Empire, and that any other
kino u Monarchy has, for the present at
least, 90 ch,.nce in France. The failure of
the attempt st Restoration has placed the
Legitimist claimant to the throne in a
worse position than he occupied before, as
| plans which have been tried and have failed
are always more discredited than those the
success of which is still a matter of specu
| latiou. The abortive fusion has put the re-
representatives. of the Orleans branch out of
the running, and the BOnapartists are now
try ing to make those princes positively IN
popular, by quoting Lord Palmerston's
Memoirs in support of theory that the
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