IRELAND AND FRANCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 20, 13 September 1873, Page 12

IRELAND AND FRANCE.

In alluding to the late war, the Bishop of Orleans, in his great sr>p fif >h of the 27th* March in the ; .National Assembly, made tfitEng allusion to Ireland :-I asked for assistance everywhere, and I am happy to render justice to those who responded to. my appeal The people of Orleans were most geueroua, their charity was truly ad mirable. We received help also from abroa*, from England, from Belgium, and above all from that incomparable nation called Ireland . yes, incomparable by the heart (par le omr) and by the faith of its people. In my diocese alone I received 200,000 francs (£8 000 \* (great sensation,) and why was such a sum sent there? ' Well gentlemen, it was because the Irish people love France, and because ten years ago, when that country was a prey to fatrine I pieached a eermon at St. Booh m favor of the victims, and got 20,000 francs for them. You see I have been repaid with usurer's interest fereat applause,) but I was above all paid with the heart (part can?) It is not without a deep felt emotion that I remembi? the money