PAPAL DECREE. IS IT APPLICABLE TO IRELAND? GOVERNMENT URGED TO OBTAIN A DECLARATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1912, Page 7

PAPAL DECREE. IS IT APPLICABLE TO IRELAND? GOVERNMENT URGED TO OBTAIN A DECLARATION.

By- Ttlegrapb.— Prew Aisoolatl^p.— Copyright (Receiyed January 12, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Uth January. The Methodist Times states that the Government must obtain a satisfactory declaration from the Eapncy whether the recent Papal decree is applicable to Ireland. • It i^ impossible to accept Archbishop' Walsh's- statement as the final word.. Arphbishop Walsh is reported to have stated that the new Papal decree pro/hibiting laymen from prosecuting priests in State Courts applied exclusively to a few countries where the clerical privilegium had not fallen into desueude. Presumably Ireland, lie said, woidd not be included. Commenting 1 on the declaration of 'Archbishop Walsh, 'the Irish Times stated that if ' are withheld Home Rule wps inconceivable, and that Mr. BirrelPs Bill , would receive its quietus from the Vatjcan while unborn.* wiTT" ! -s OONSUIi AND FAMILY ON BOARD. v 01 7«le«r^h.T-^re»« Aiwclatlon.— Copyright, (Reoeived January 12, 8.30 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, 11th January, * The Russian Qdvernment ste^tner Ruse, 5383 tons, with 172 passengers on board, has been lost in a gale in the Black. Sea. 111. Carlan Useff, Russian Consul at Galatz (in Roumania), and family were on. board.