A " LIBERAL " CATHOLIC.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1911, 17 February 1875, Page 3

A " LIBERAL " CATHOLIC.

The thriving town of Cardiff belongs almost entirely to the Marquis of Bute, and we regret to say that he has recently been acting in a most despotic manner in several instances. Take the following :— "A number of members of the phurch of England who disapproved of the ritualistic practices in the parish church'resolved to build a hew church, but on applying fora site the. Marquis peremptorily refused. Some Wesleyans, who also applied fora site, have likewise been refused; as have been sites for a school and a cemer tery. It is quite intelligible why he, as a Romanist, should have refused ground for sites in each of these instances ; but what follows; is worthy of special notice. A number of gentlemen resolved to institute a Free Public Library and School of Art, and, although the Marquis refused any subscription to the scheme, the suni of £20,000 was raised without his aid;. On applying for ground on which to erect a suitable building, the Lord of Cardiff decreed that this only would be given in a backstreet, its surroundings being de? scribed in a local newspaper as " reeking with slaughter-houses and decorated with stables." Neither would he even here sell the requisite ground, but would let it at the enormous rental of £250 per annum. He objected to the building plan submitted to him as being too ornamental> and stipulated that an architect of his own nomination should prepare the plan. Besides these intentional obstacles which he threw in the way of the committee— he stipulated that after the building was. icbmpleted he should retain a certain control over it, which he was hot prepared then to state, but which would be defined in the lease to be granted. Need we say that after this the projectors abandoned the scheme of a free library in Cardiff. There can be only one interpretation put upon this condition — viz., to have retained the power to exclude every bcok in the Index Expurgatorius. He is a zealous Bomanist truly, but Ke is acting as an unjust and tyrannical landowner. It is actions like these which are making men inquire what is the use of an aristocracy, and demand those rights which the possession of property owes to the general commonweal. He is the greatest enemy of his order, and the time is not distant when he and others will be compelled to yield to the public necessity. In the meantime, the " noble" lord has achieved his purpose.—London Weekly Be view. „, „. .■*

< A negro held a cow while a cross-eyed man was to knock her on the head, with an axe. The negro observing the man's eyes, in some fear enquired;'" You gwine toMtwharyoulook?'' "Yes." "Den," aaid Cuffy, " hold the cow yourself, I ain't gwine to let you hit me." A jolly; Jack-tar, having strayed into a menagerie to hare a look at the wild beasts, was much struck with the sighs of a lion and a tiger in the same den. "Why, Jack," said he to a messmate, who was chewing a quid in .'.silent amazement, "I shouldn't wonder if, next year, they were to carry about a sailor and a marine living peaceably together." " Ay/ said his married companion, "or a man and wife."