OUTRAGE ON JESUIT REFUGEES IN JERSEY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 429, 1 July 1881, Page 14

OUTRAGE ON JESUIT REFUGEES IN JERSEY.

The Jersey Observer says that on a recent day, towards five o'clock in the afternoon, about the neighbourhood of Five Oaks, a gentleman (apparently) whose grey beard would suppose some experiences of life, and should suppose wisdom in some degree, was driving with two ladies (so their attire would lead to believe). He met small parties of Jesuits in twos and three?, taking their usual walk. As it could not have been his patriotism (for his country boasts of its hospitality to all refugees) it must have been his Christianity all the warmer, perhaps, for a little drink, which inspired him with heroic courage, and enabled him to rise to the full dignity of his opportunity. His whip was his Gospel weapon. Driving past these Bcattered parties, he slashed at them in their faces, wounding no less than six, one of whom is a venerable scholar of 63 yeais of age, whose profound learning has made his renown in France, Germany, and Italy. All were inoffensive gentlemen and refugees. Like Christians and true gentlemen, they bore in silence the dastardly outrage. Seventeen of them were within call to surround him. had they felt inclined so to do. He was hopelessly in their power, had they the will to defend themselves. It remains to be seen, says the Observer, if this profanation of our last soil, if this insult to our flag, offered, not by an enemy, but by a resident, if this coWardly and cruel discourtesy is to be accepted as a' matter of course. Even upon the plea that we are to take for granted all that is said about the Jesuits, we foresee the flush of indignation which will overcast the face of every Englishman when he hears that such an event has become possible even in an English dependency. No one will deplore such an event more than His Excellency, our most esteemed and liberal-minded Governor, not only personally— but still more as the Representative of our most gracious Sovereign — and of all the " Liberty," the " Honor," the " Chivalry," which form her inmost and priceless crown.