Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-15
TWILL MAKE NO TERMS s{l apg
 1i Church of Rome and the Angli-s Fs sfur' ~ can RitualiSts s.t : .ba4 -' ttrr+ ARE STILL WIDE APART Rumor Has it That There Will Be New Car dinal for England Shortly.
 COMMENTS ON THE RECENT YACHT RACE John Bull Is Sore a Bear if His Press Is
 an Examplar-The General Drift
 Is Toward Very Coarse
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COMMENTS ON THE RECENT YACHT RACE


 ference that s-annually held in England under the auspices of the Catholic Truth society has hitherto been treated by the, press as unworthy of mention. It has this year suddenly assumed the imporii tance of leading congress. The conferH ence began at Bristol on Monday and terminated Thursday. The questions D fore the conference were not new, but the meeting derived unwonted interest from Cardinal Vaughns address on the sub- ject, which was a reply to the pope's letter to the English ritualists, who re- quested a reply. and Cardinal vaughn gave It in such clear terms as will end' discussion within the Anglican church on the basis of an agreement with the Roman Catholic church. The kernel or, the question of the reunion of Christen-, dom said Cardinal Vaughn. consisted in the admission of the Roman claim that the pope had received by divine right authority to teach and govern the whole church. The essence or the AnghGan po- sition was a ncgation of the Roman claim Until this claim was admitted no basis of reunion was possible. Ihe cardinal further declared that he dld nov expect to witness the submission or the English people as body to ciaifns tha'
 
 nation He looked to the slower pro cess of individual conversion. Ihese q. C. Iarations. which have been ill-receiVed by the ritualists of England are re ported to be also causing the pope dis- bppontment as check to ms plhhs toi a reunion of the churches.
 2. The report was accepted as true among the members of the congress that at the rext consistery at Rome another car djnal will be created for England.
 The congress concluded on Thursoay with a pilgrimage to Glastonbury abbey, the -lest shrine in England. Thousands of pn, ms, including 100 robed clergy trayeled by train from Bristol to Glastoh- bury. On Thursday a large cfoWo watched with the greatest synpathetic interest the long, banner-carryihS PIo- cession. composed of Catholic guilds, Jes- uits. Dominicans, Franciscans, Benedicts and Carmelites, alternately singing anu reciting prayers. r.
 Time does not soften the keenness of British chagrin over the outcome or me Americas cup contest. Ihe fleid Ill liIie frenzy utterly abandons deccncy. This "gentlemen's journal raves like hsh wife over the ignomfnious showing of the "British representative yacht, though its rawlings are, of course, directed against everything connected with the race that was not British Following are some of the choice expressions of this pa-' per, which purports to represent thef sporting spirit of Great Britain:
 Excursion steamers ladened with frantic Irish Americans who do not know. a yacht from an oyster boat" and The New York press, representing the rabble excursion steamers" This paper. togeth- CT, with others. looks upon the interfer-' ence of the excursion steamers as affect ing only the British boat.
 That the excursion fleet should in any way interfere with the American boat n frtIy 1vl. with other English papers the Field de-; clares the conditions governing the cup, contests need remodeling, notably that rule requiring that the challenger must sail the ocean on her own bottom. while the defender of the cup can be any lightly rigged rattle-trap which will hold to,' gether for four or five matches >.
 The Sporting Times says: When the cup. was won no special yacht was built to beat the America This boat had the open sea to sail on, and won on her mef-s its. No race has since been sailed under the same conditions of fairness. If it is true that the Valkyrie was disqualified in the second race match for tactics. which were admitted to be correct when the Defender pra cticed them on the Wig liant. no doubt is thrown on the honesty of the committee. but we cannot believe, 1t. That the Valkyrie should have been allowed to sail match in which. un- known to her. her opponents had hoisted protest flag before the line was crossed is another matter, which became a qucs-. tion of heads I win, tails you lose" affair on the part of the Defender and savors of the win, tie or wrangle system that was prevalent at the lowest meet ings in the worst days of horse racing This system happily, has been stamped here, but seems to have gone to America where it has been adopted in yachting
 The balance of the utterance of the Spectator is valuable. as reflecting edu- cated opinion outside of sporting cir cles. This paper says;
 Nobody need be surprised at Defend CTS victory. America has twice startled the world by a sudden and successful ad- vance in the designing of ships. The appearance of the America in the Solent in 1851 changed the principles of yacht building, and Ercssons production of the Monitor in 1862 caused every British dock yard within year to work night and day to reconstruct the navy The brain force producing such achievements can be scarcely overrated. In every eff fort to capture the cup competing vessels embodied the English and American designetrs skill al the date of the trial In the latter. as fin the earlier races. the New Workers more than held their own, chewing that they possess inventors of the highest calibre."