GENERAL

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 44, 3 November 1904, Page 10

GENERAL

Spoils to the Victors Yet another legal appointment in Ireland has gone to a Protestant lawyer. This time it is Mr. Wakciy, K.C., who has been appointed County Court Judge of Roscommon. '1 lie County Court* Bench now numncis fifteen Protestants to six Catholics in a country whcic the vast majority of the people are Catholic. The Superior Court Bench is even more exclusive. The Irish Martyrs Cardinal Vmcen/o \annutelli has informed the Congrejgatitin, of Rites that the Archbishop of DuUlin has completed the diocesan process for the canonisation of tjio Irish martyrs, with the exception of tlie evidence of Cardinal iMora.ii, which is expected shortly. Cardinal Logiue, Archbishop, of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, is hastening the diocesan process for the canonisation of Oliver Plunkctt, so that iboth will so*m be presented for the examination of the Congregation of Rites. A Parallel The London ' Daily News,' commenting en the lick case says -—Mr beck's case us a hard one ; Dfit he was honestly convicted by an honest English jury, and when his innocence was disco\ered he was promptly pardoned But in the case of the victims of Sergeaint Sheridan they were tried tor crimes committed by Sheridan himselt ' ana not alone was the evidence perjured, but tiie iuries were ' packed.' To make matters worse, one ol the victims of a deliberate police plot died in prison. And what happened to Sheridan, avowed incendiary and periurer ? He was allowed to sail away from Quconstown a free man, while his aecomiphces>-vrde admissions of Ministers in tihe Commons- aie at this moment either compensated, or wearing the King's uniform in Ireland. Cases of miscarriages of justice-deliberate miscarriages leading to the scaffold, the transport whin, atad the penal cells— coulid be enumerate*! by the hundred in Ireland. But there has never been a committee, as iin the case of Mr. Beck. The Reform Association The changes in the Irish political honzojn (says the ' Cartholic Times ') axe as-tomsftmg. Tihe aloal phenomenon is the appearance of Irish landlords as aconites of Home Rule. True, the demand is foi a yen modeled form of self-government yet the mmemen , under whatever aspect it be regarded is a most notewortllw sign of the times. Probably Mr. Dudley S. ACrosbv correctly interprets the aims of its promoters whfn he as cs in the ' Westminster Review ' whether it ZZt possible for all parties, whilst the Land Acts of rpcent years are being given a fair trial, to put Wien neads together ,o that they may discover a cen ral platform m which all can agree-a platform ".Unz .m sl broad aenerotus, anS comprehensive basis ot nation alism in its best sense, which shall gain the svjpport o every earnest Irishman.' That such.a proposal should come from the landlord class is an indication of the steady development of an educative influence in Ireland wmthp Government listen to the proposal ? It v English and Scotch constituencies.