Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-09


 visit to His Holiness and that the Queen herself is going to Florence with view of proceeding to the Eternal City to have per sonal interview in ratification of the com pact. Old women "of both sexes" are more than perturbed; they are frightened from all propriety by this s3heavy blow and great Encouragement to their cher ished allegiance to Church and State. We shall doubtless hear again of the 3'anathe- ma-maranatha" hurled by that redoubtable clergyman of Edinburgh-Mr. Trimmer; Exeter Hall turned up it's eyes in holy hor- ! for yesterday at the impending infamy ;and | in the Orange districts of Ulster, the Irish bigotted bravoes, the Johnsons of Bally- kilibeg, and the reverend fre-brands the Kanes and Hannas of Antrim and Armagh will illustrate the Hudibrastic lines telling how:
 Pulpit drum ecclesastic
 Was beat with fist instead of a stick ] in proving that civil and religious liberty ! consisted in the Robespierrean idea of
 "cutting everybody's throat but their own as then they would be sure to be mas ters"
 The bigots of the iron times may how 1 ever possess their souls in patience, and sleep securely in the assurance that this ! little diplomatic firtation-rather alleged hirtation-will never lead to union of anything more than coldly courteous com pliments between the supposed contracting
 parties. The ''New York Herald's' Europ-
 can edition published in Paris yesterday | ventures to say, "The government En- 1 glish wishes doubtless to renew diplo- ! matic relations with the Vatican and this will shortly be done." We have no doubt of 1 the wish of British Ministers in the mat
 ter; but we cannot give faith to the proba-
 bility of accomplishment. It has been tried too often with failure in result to
 warrant any new hope. Each time of tri-
 al England had some peculiar point in
 Irish policy to subserve by semi-diplo-
 matic understanding with the Pontiff; but
 each time of trial there was keenness of
 judgment enough in the Propaganda to
 impede the little game. Lord Minto's designs had doughty antagonist in the great souled Pic Nono and MT Errington's mis- sion to LeoXIII a few years ago in opposition to the appointment of Archbishop Walsh should have taught England the inadvisa-
 bility of meddling with Papal policy. Sc now, the Duke of Norfolk has undergone ! nephew we believe-at any rate some close
 relative-at Rome in the person of Cardinal
 Howard. Oh, no there will be no diplo
 matic relations-as diplomacy is under stood-between- Rome and England. Rome
 as the Rome of the Popes is no longer the
 seat of temporal sovereignty; there are nc
 longer between these powers any questions
 of international ate-craft-indeed in mat
 ters of State as understood, the Vatican is
 not a power; however great and grand il
 spiritual supremacy. There is no diplo
 macy in religious doctrine or discipline And when we hear of England's desire tt cultivate correspondence with the Court O. , the Vatican we can give it but one mean
 ing-a desire for the further subjugation O.
 poor Ireland ''Nulla pax cum Roma was once the adopted cry of English big otry Rome will now return the compli
 ment in everything but Christian charity. ]
 HOSPITAL Sunday in Waterbury was no what we had expected. The Church col
 lections were not general and the amount
 realized not equal to the occasion. Many
 circumstances conduced to this disappoint
 ment. The weather was inclement ant . kept many persons at home; and then thu D notice of the appeal was of short time. w.
 are disposed to attribute the paucity of th
 offerings to any cause but a disinclinatio1 to aid in so worthy project or an indif
 ference to the claims on Christian charit,
 of human suffering. It is not too lat
 however, to atone for the neglect. None. is always in season. The Churches tha did not open collections yesterday can ap point some other Sunday. Churches tha did, can give another opportunity to thei
 congregations. But why limit the matte to Churches Boxes at Hotels and Bank and City offices might be made auxiliary t' the good work. Colonel Tremaine of tn
 Scovill House has his heart in the objec and would no doubt gladly give place fo the offerings of his guests, transient ant permanent; other hotel proprietors woult follow suit; and public offices sustained b, the public could have no better work thai
 the supplemental duty of aiding thus eff fectively in providing relief for public suf fering.
 MINNIE PALMER's Diamonds' is tn title line of an article in the New Have1 ''News," descriptive of the wealth in pre- cious stones possessed by this gifted ac , tress. This sort of advertising has beer
 run to earth-from Kate Claxton's burned up treasures at some Hotel confagratio1
 to the highway spoliations of Sarah Bern ; hardt's properties. It does'nt pay in thes : days; it is, in fact, played out. The peo , pie of New Haven who are to be favore, with professional visit by Minnie Palme J this week will not care rush about tn
 quantity or quality of her jewels, one iten