Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-01
MAX 0'RELL'S LETTER.

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 LONDON, April IT.
 To the Editors of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The English are fast losing their head over this Irish business. The most strang meeting was held in Her Majesty's Theate last Wednesday to denounce MT. Gladstone' bill. A Whig nobleman took the chair The first resolution was proposed by the hei seconded by Radical The second resolu tion was proposed by the Tory chief anG seconded by Whig. Don't imagine that al this means the fusion of two or three parties into one; it means the confusion of all par ties. The upper classes are unanimous il their condemnation of the bill and all par ties seem to agree that it cannot pass as it is and if Mr. Gladstone does not see his way te maintain the Irish representation in West minister he will be overthrown; and then should not be surprised to see, in two ol three years, home rule granted to the Irisl by the Conservatives, by Lord Randolph Churchill perhaps. History repeats itself The Catholic emancipation bill was passed by the Duke of Wellingtons administration the corn laws bill was passed by Sir Robert Peel; the great franchise bill in 1867 by MT. Benjamin Disraeli; all Conservative govern ments who had prevented the same bills from passing when in opposition. Whatever may be the chances of MT. Gladstone's bill, there is no doubt that home rule will be con- ha Tra1 aR, ,o distant date. Who knows that the upper classes are not unwise in their present oppo- sition! MT. Gladstone is ready to indemnify the Irish landlords. It is not impossible that, if MT. Gladstone should fall, another ministry may give Ireland to the Irish with out taking the trouble of buying out the landlords.
 When I said that the English are getting mad over the burning question of the day ought to have made an exception in favor of Professor Huxley. He seems to have kept his head cool, and in letter addressed to a friend, but published in the newspapers with his permission, he snubs democracy in particular and his compatriots in general. Anxious watching of the course of affairs for many years past, he says, "has persua- ded me that nothing but sharp and sweeping national misfortune will convince the major ity of our countrymen that government by average opinion is merely circuitous meth cd of going to the devil, and that those who profess to lead, but in fact slavishly follow this average opinion, are simply the fastest runners and the loudest squeakers of the herd which is rushing blindly down to it's destruction.u This argument is not very forcible in the mouth of MT. Huxley, because it is well known that the learned professor does not believe in the devil. But in the following remarks it cannot be said that Pro- lessor Huxley is not right "There was a time, :" he adds, "when the political madness of one party was sure to be checked by the sanity, or at any rate by the jealousy, of the other. The majority ROW confound party leths and sentimental plague, and is too grossly ignorant of the elements of political science to have anything worth calling a con- viction outside of parochial and trade ques- tions." It is a fact that now in England, as we'll as in France, politicians have gone oH and cajoling chaos of political until the just penalty of be- lieving in their own fctions has befallen them, and the average member of Parla- ment is conscientiously convinced that it is his duty not to act for his constituents to the best of his judgment, but to do exactly what they tell him to do in order to be reelected by them.
 The Republicans in France seem deter mined to consider that liberty is monopoly
 
 the enjoyment of iU to those whose opinions do not coincide with theirs. After the SUD- pression of the Catholic university, the ejec- tion of numerous religious communities and the expulsion of the Sisters of Mercy from the hospitals, yet another case of tyranny has just reused the indignation of real lovers of liberty, who, strange to say, are now to be found in the monarchical ranks. At a little place called Chateauvillain there is 8 silk manufactory belonging to Messrs. Gi- raud & Co.,, of Lyons. This hamlet being three miles from any church, the founder of the manufactory built, forty years ago. chapel where his numerous employees might and, though it seems that the build ing was never licensed, it has been used without interruption ever since its erection. Great was the surprise and indignation of the little community therefore when an or der WAS received about week ago to close the chapel. I should mention that the priest who was wont to oficiate was paid and kept by Messrs. Giraud, and the chapel was to all intents and purposes a private one, such as many nobleman has for the use of his fam fly and servants, and it is therefore difficult to see on what grounds the order was given. the long and short of the matter is that sub prefect was sent to set seals on the doors of the chapel, and was met by num- Der of persons who had been in the habit of there, and who essayed to hin- der the representative of the government from laying sacrilegious hands on the build ing. To the resistance of the villagers the police replied with shots. One poor woman was killed, girl was shot in the back and man received severe wound in the neck What do the Republicans expect to gain by this kind of proceeding? The nuns and brotherhoods they have busted have found a home in Protestant England, thus receiving from a monarchy a lesson in liberty they ! seeing their error, they persist in this species of tyranny, and those who do not join hands with them are dubbed Jesuits. For instance, I constantly see this epithet applied by them to M. Jules Simon, who is we'll known for his toleration in religious matters. This is perhaps how it came to be bestowed upon him. After his famous speech against the expulsion of the religious communities Gin the name of liberty" somebody in the Senate asked the late Bishop Dupanloup, who was present, what he thought of M. Jules Si- mons speech. "WellI" replied the witty prelate, eff he goes on like this he will be a cardinal before I shall" This compliment killed the great Republican orator and phi losopher.
 Prince Jerome Napoleon, cousin of the late Emperor Napoleon H., and one of the many pretenders to the French throne, never was renowned for his bravery. He is still known by the nickname of Plonplon, cor ruption of Craint-p plomb C'tfears lead'), which was given him when he suddenly left the battlefield during the Crimean war. We were greatly amused last Wednesday when we heard of the news telegraphed from Rome to Bonapartist deputy that, after breakfast ing at the Quirinal with the King and Queen of Italy, Prince Jerome Napoleon, to revive old recollections and to set at naught the re- port that he is invalidated from Bright's dis ease, made the ascent to the ball above the dome of St. Peter's, and immensely enjoyed the view he there commanded of Rome and it's neighborhood. Jokers remarked when the telegram in question was being read that this was the first occasion, during more than sixteen years, on which the prince had com manded anything
 The poor late Empress Eugenie is in very bad health. It is probable that she will nev- er be anything but infrm and burden to herself. She shrinks from companionship and shuts herself alone to brood over her many sorrows. This poor lady is, indeed, to be pitied. Her past and her present life af ford one of the saddest contrasts in the his tory of modern times. It does not seem such a long time ago that she was considered the most lovely woman in Europe, undispu- tedly the most graceful. She was also witty in spite of assertions to the contrary. Once ber coT1sin Princa Jaroma Napolaor, had haen