The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-04-28
TRTsH HAIL NEWS,
Dublin Nation. Aprila.

| oupAlh NeVsou, ApruS.
The only notable item in the Parliamen'
| tary news of the week ia the extraordi nary
| sitting OF the House of Commons on Tues
day night, when. in accordance with the
promise of the Government, the Sunday
Closing Bill came on for consideration in
committee. 1t was expected that the
opponents Of that measure would repeat
their performance of last session, and en-
deavor to prevent legislation by all kinds
of diiatory proceedings, and cure enough
the expectation was fulfilled. Mr.. w. II.
O'Sullivsn and Mr.. Murphy-a notorious
absentee and erstwhile anti obstructionist
aided by nine other Irish members, in
cluding Mr.. Patrick James Smyth-also q
notorious absentee-snd by about a score
of English members, indulged in q course
of the most rampant obstruction, making
speeches of extraordinary length, and for
hours nuing to move alternately that
progress be reported, aud that the chair
man leave the chair. From this it would
seem that Messrs. Murphy and Co., object
not to obstruction per sc, but to obstruc-
ton that is hurtfui to the Government.
And the Government that expressed such
horror at obstr action last session on other
questions, now not only did not censure 1t,
bat gave it indirectly, If not directly,
countepance and support. At the end Of
the sitting to which We are referring, no
real progress, however, had been made,
and it was found necessary to make rather
unusual arrangements for wearing ont, on
the occasion of the resumption of the con
flct, the opposition of "the All Ireland
Eleven"
1t is stated that the neglect of Irish
business in Parliament will this year be
brought under the attention of the House
OF Commons in an entirely novel manner.
A motion will be made, it appears, for the
reduction of the salary of the Chief Secre
tary, when that item comes on for ccnsid-
GRAFTON in committee of supply. For all
the good that the Chief Secretary does, or
ever will do, for this country, his salary
might as well be taken away altogether as
reduced. The late holder of the Office
was bad enough, but Mr.. Lowther is a
much greater political humbug, and we
observe tha. even the Tory members from
Ulster, who BILE spaniels rather than
any other class of animals in their devotion
to the Government, have become 80 dis
satisfied with his conduct in regard to the
Sunday Closing question that they are re-.
ported to be resolved on sending a com
plant about him to headquarters,
The Belfast election has terminated in
favor of Mr. Ewsrt, the candidate of the
aristocratic section of the Belfast Conser-
vatives. DR.. Seeds, the aspiring barrister
who became tha spokes man of the demo-
cratic section, was beaten by two to one,
and it seems that the very fact of his being
q baIrister contributed something to this
rasult, az did also the action Of the Catho-
lie electors. These latter, at a public
contest, but the Ulster Examiner, the local
Catholic organ, advised any Catholic who
pould give q vote to prefer Mr.. Ewart to
DR.. Seeds, and, no doubt, this advice was
followed.
An item of Australia Intelligence which
has come to hand within the past week
ers. Sir B. OLoghlen-who, after, as we
having accepted the seat for Glare,
took once and got elected to the Victorian
Assembly for West Melbourne-was pro.
NOTED last week to the post of Attorney
General, and is now trying to get re elected
to the Assembly. He will, no doubt, cue.
coed, and may, in due time, be appointed
to the bench, without even then thinking
it right to abandon his claim to sit for an
Irish constituency in London. 1t may sur
prise the clergymen and some others who
supported Sir B. O'Loghlen last year in
Glare, to know that the Ministry he has
joined lie ss decided an enemy of Catholic
education as that with which Irelsnd itself
ia blessed. Is there not public spirit
enough in Clare promptly to end the
present anomalous state of the Pariamen-
tary representation of that county
Cork promises to be soon provided with
an excellent school of art, science, and
N usic. A few days ago the local corpora
tion formally completed it's sanction of the
scheme for the establishment of the inst-
tuition in question, by appointing a COM
mittee in accordance with an Act of Parlia
ment passed last session. The school of
art which is already in existence, and
which has done such good work, is to be
by the addition of musical and
. scientific department, at an expense of
IS, 600, while yearly sum, equal to
penny in the pound, will be provided by
the corporation towards the maintenance
of the schools when established.
The Church-that is, of course, the Irish
Protestant Church--is, it appears, once
more in danger. Mr.. Roe, in his restora-
tion of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,
has been heretical enough to include in the
interior ornamentation q window with
cru6ifx depicted therein large cross
and an "Agnus Del" cut in stone; a screen
placp1 hafwaan tho choir ha