BIGOTRY BEFOOLED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 52, 25 April 1874, Page 10

BIGOTRY BEFOOLED.

Ujjmsr therabor© lremding the Dablinf « Katibn * -hae the fotlowine cleveriy-writteh-tHrHcle riaictriing thfe' Tnceti^'hfeW'^ith' * =^i«w 6f< Cru*tp'^#fflß^reK^&iiß l fr6fedyS«r:-^' lt * r " »m ojrcai/iq^Jl .ermr. llf [ a, ■ J4f rented its penultiniato (tage iftst week ih Londoin. o TFMef*Wfl&" Bftttkreky itr w<teld' npriemv 4>»t» itew, forded rritd a lift; titid-dWfll^^pgle 'for dVriß^d'f&Hgiousfrtedttm'b^tlkYSe ferViBl»: felloW,'&^Hfa%'on*an&> Further -t^'^Ou B' 'E«t)eV6T: Wiftiam had< addressed^ few a «tfMai'fef season »Htf -W' »iteSri*£B»no'»o» i teSri*£B»n0'»oi l fc BbttwcJ Could°ntoy England, evangelical England, England with the Bible, stand by with folded arms The encounter, and not offer a word of sympathy to Bismagf^i WlOfig^a^ittfd^-tj^JVilliam ? Of course not. Ther* should be a meetuTg^a;! public meeting — at which an overwhelming quantity of sympat^ an 4 should be poured o«N g^W d ;«}Pi fflridßWW^lW l^' fe W s. t^th? r flreat struggle. Set/the .electejc, wi^f, in, motion,, gjve, ttoppjfopffic* toubft Jabpr,. speed, conj^a^ic^tjons teow, ev^(v^4y^f^tf to eyiery wcpgp.flf Ev W ge.Hp»l, f^nTj^et^o^dferiiaerlihe^ rally ip. jthfl ne^s fi a,p>^and l^-ypu^pl^d^laaftoaf Wu Mac ( bes ?! bannarajojithepu^er^lßpf^awn and. tyty. • For ; .the, i^tbj flf,%n^- n day. in %c calendar ,of cfvil ynd , religious jh.qerty— hjscauaejtne , T |jreat. meeiingrfoethe. sympathy with , popr, attack^',' Bismarck is to be held .on .the. evening* oft tjQab day in St. Jaffa's,. f Ji, vas done. The post'office, and the, wire^ special and otherwise, and Hie newspapers, and jhe secretaries, all did, their, work,- and, ip.due, time the ineetipgj came off, at which tlje paal^ron p^ bigotry waa to/be set^ojlipg .ojTef^, But^somehow the, effect f^as ajtjogeth.er iacomtnenp surate ff^n , the, iron^engity of thp preparations, ,^'he w.brld^ wis t to, ha^ r bepn.Btart^ed>., and^yet i,t; waa npt. 'Perhaps some, necessary, ingre,dienij h^dfbf*,en iorgott,en, ljy, the pitches wh^b cpncoettjd^ t)i^, iii^xjtwjce. Perj^iiSpa there.was nqt enough of the 'elenapnt iof bl^d i^jgotiryr in, places ready .(o^e gat^hera^ rHP-, 3Bp the cause .what jfc uifty^'tnej meefo ing.,|iaivi,i'ig com,^ and, gone, ip^eraf,<?r'nje^Bureirient,Qf the expected cauldron, rand. w> ! , it tUjTiis put be little bigge^ a saucepan/. Ever,y man with a reputation lor «anity ,or. a poaiticyi.to los§ caipfally away from thq meeting. Even, Eart Kusaejfl, wl\o seemed for spine weeks desirous of plujing Little Job h tq Bjan^arei'g Outlaw Chief, when the hour for appearance approached^^uo^ W ms(^ into the anus of his physWan and d,ediij^d t lie. coveted part. - Th r e chair .w^iftjtakeu by John Murr^v, B.irt. If is hard, to have eiiy it, but it m-n,st be said — the baronet ig utterly, unknown to fame,, I^o r 9ne knowa where he was piclced up,; is enbugtj t/j,at he presided at the meeting, which, comcally enough, considering the nature of the u,ddresse& which followed, ©■pened with prayer. Tfhen soipie letters were read — one fiiom the Archbishop of York, declining .to commit .hiimelf to the mpvem,ent, though,. " s|>e^J(infi generally," he said no one was more opj>oS|ed to Ultra.moiitane .policy tliin himself. The Archbishop, o^.panter^ury wrote in a-siunl r s.train. Three uthi-r bishqps, several . noble lords, 337 members of Parliament, mayors .of towns, and otlier locajly influential personages, besides 2uO elergyiuen "of all denopiinatious," stnt ," lejters of up^olqgy.^' Evidently none of the«e-saw their >Tay to identification with the pranks of the fanatics. The bueinpss of the evenn.g commenced by an appeal from the chairman to England, ia which he called on that elect of nations to arcuse from her lont; lethargic sluuubt r, and to confront with boldness her subtle and dangerous onemy. After this terrific explosion the Dean of Canterbury, ir;a;poqr. halfhearted \rnj[ ,qs)ir hpi were ashamed of his position, spoke to the following resolution. Sir Thorn. is Chambers followed, uud,^a,a might bo exp,ecled, made, up in vigour for, luck of wisdom.' 'Ih'en'aDr Jobson, of the Weshyiin persuasion, thought it neci'ssnry to refute the idea that there wasauj peisecutiou of Catholics going on in Germany. We admiie the doctor's appreciation of the eireuinstances ; but incline to think him rather unsuccessful in hirefutation. .And then T.hen — O powtrs of ridicule! spare vs — an Irish " Old Catholic " stood up (o "deeply sympathise with the people of Q-ermsiny in their diti-rtniuation to rcsisi ihe policy of the (JltiMinoritane porriori of the Church of Rome" ! ! Everyone knows who and -what poor Chambers is'y but Mr J. Lowry Whittle is what theatrical managers call "'a novelty," and " a sensation" besides. He is a graduate of the godleß9 Queen's Univeisity, a barrister-at-law, and rejoices in t'.ie lonely eccentricity of behifc an Irish "Old Catholic." He made o>o previous eflort to thrust himself on public notice a few years ago j that time as an' araent pamphleteering advocate of the secular rj stem of education. A more sweeping condemnation of that system was never pronounced than by its effects on his singular soli ; and no one will feel surprised afc seeing him take part in this very elaborate' hoox After him came the modern Don Quixote. As might be expected be mounted his bobby in chivulric haste; and, as the Knight of De la Mancha rode at the windmills, 30 Don Quixote De New dogate, ex' cusably forgetful ofWillinn and Bismarck, run full tilt at the convents of Great Butain. This must have feeeu fine fun for the audience, so we are not astonished ta learn that his remarks were recehed with app.aase. The last of the joke, however, was the best of it Another eccentric being, the ex-politician of the " two rows of brass pins," Sir Robert Peel, actually moved " that the chairman be requested to communicate their resolutions to the Gemma Emperor and the German people," and some Colonel M'Donald was found innocently to second the proposition. We cannot refiain from laughter at the notion. That this congregation of fanatical nobodies and eccentricities should formally forward the ir expressions of sympathy to the potentate of Germany, under the delusion that they aie doing a work ot weight and nuportam< even from their oblique poiut ol view, i» an idea comical enough to < .<>Lo -hiieks of merriment from a mulaucholy maniac. The whole thi 4 i» bo ludicrous that Mr Whalley might easily discover the traces of a .Jesuitical hand throughout. It would give the finishing stroke o f Latuos were that geutleman to inuke such a discovery, and, -with

kiia accus^omedT^dour, proceed to tefeitsV Mr- tidtyf Whittle^ t>r perhaps the half-hearted Dean himself, of collusion with that dreadful .•busrd affair, that th^membW&rJJefterborouiili is likely to be luckier , Jni his prosely tism than he has been-fer-somo time. ,i I oiWS ocnoufsdcy solemn) old WiUiafrv-iof Germany, saturated wUb firigefcitipftireaeitmgi thenriwo}uti)>n»;iof isynp-ifchy wjfch^bt? ;approp*Ja*ei'.<pioiM wihUen the gttitn humaurnof = the : jwt,. vin Bipito!o£}aiKUtn36st;:«tr)tinin^ after 'gravity,, wrii)kl«s the boroer* p| ,^isboou^!orid)fore^}Jr>epre«iDle-,dtwink)es, f t(>ihis'ey(?.i We can (an«y himr«laodturniiigoAn!Mttttfng)aho4 onjhiflt co-lftbourer. in rtli^ious^pj^*, secutiomtiwfaileblmuttertffg^bout the efeoat) of support the roaolotioOT haToio£ni£ledohLnno^(aifd we icani fancy thcirelaxttttion that, must foll3^, in eranothisl Qhatoecdidr'a iron jawa,, tat.iih© arrives «iiboutichu«lt|iagct<»t murtnttriiasienfeu/qßotlr.tlTeß&nkaovv so .w^ll; ithe Tral' nature ,«f ( th« struggle incwhsohithpyj are- r engaged that >it .itt'iat, be .utterly. .b&yoofl< theiP(poweritoarecßme;iwijtliipiro|>engiTavitif(«lie meftinc's oinmiserjitiQi*for the terrinie (pdation into which '*■ Bapali eticrriachtneut' "flms thrutt tairthi :mu<t. merit ablyj 'cotnecuppennoft «vb,«tn ' t hay leftin . that i a oold^loofdedopenaecationjfor conscience' sukeis. entitled to syßttpathy from pirofeaßed /toversoil" oivil tand reli<?ioii^ liberty "j [ i • /-,-,.