ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH GERMAN CATHOLICS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 51, 18 April 1874, Page 10

ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH GERMAN CATHOLICS.

(' Boston Pilot ') A public meeting of the Citholtcs of England to express their sympath> with the persecuted Catholics of Germany, was held in London on the Oth February. Resolutions were proposed declaring the strong and iiliry ether unanimous feeling of the whole British Catholic body at the sight of the imposition of penal lawn on their brethren in another land, and at the deprivation of the Church in Germany of rightful 'Iberly in the exercise of her most essential spiritual functions. The Pule of !NorfolK presided on the occasion, and Archbishop Manning delivered an address. A few days before this meeting was held, me anti-Catholics, under Mr Newdegate and Earl Russell, in the same hall, passed resolutions expressive of sympathy with Bismarck and the German Government. The 'New York Herald' cays :—: —

An a'jti-Cutholm meeting held in Berlin adopted a resolution thanking Lie peoplo of England for their Bympathy with the Gtarman Government in its persecution of tho Catholics. It is rather amusing to notice the luaruudund enlightened Germans, with Von Moltko at tlicir hfad, addressing Mr Newdegato and Lord John Russell as the people of Kuttknd. Most respectable Englishmen are ashamed of these persons, and the English press almost unanimously condemn the action of tlieir followers at 'At. James' Hall.