IRELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 318, 26 December 1862, Page 5

IRELAND

(From the Home News,)

The Nation announces that the notorious Mr John Mitchell is about to depart from Europe, to take service in the army of the Confederate State3,of America. Mr W. Smith O'Brien refused to join his brothers and sisters in a petition to the Queen to allow them to use the title "honorable" when Sir Lucius O'Brien became Lord Ichiquiri—a title which their f.ither would have borne hud he lived. He assigns several reasons for declininsr the honor, in the strongest terms he could use- The first iv his political antecedents • the second, his conviction that a*i Irish peerage is a degradation rather than a dignity; and the third, because his anchors, in the time of Henry VIII., in accepting English titles, instead of the royal honors which belonged to the family, submitted to a degradation. The lapse of 300 years does not reconcile Mr S. O'Brien to that humiliation; hence he could not now participate in any proceeding which would be tantamount to an approval of the act. A cuiious announce nent has appeared in the Dublin journals. It professes to come from an officer of the Indian army, at present resident in England, who is-desirous of obtaining the agency ot an Irish estate. He is of business habits, and has the highest testimonials from general and other officers with whom he has served; but these are not the grounds upon which he re*ts his fitness for the office. He coolly winds up the list of Jits qualifications by stating that he "does not mind being shot at!" An Irit*h address to G iribaidi has been prepared and is in c urse of signature iv Dublin. It is to be accompanied by a testimonial from "the people of Ireland." The address hails him as a successful deliverer of his countrymen " from the most miserable of all bondage -that, which, as one of our own states-nif-n has we!l described ie, confines the intelect and | enslaves the soul;" and th<j glorious liberty which marks his path has not been tarnished or sullied by selfish ambition or boastful pride. Expressing sympathy with the liberator in this season of temporary failure, the signers of the address pray for his restoration to health and his future happiness, aud they conclude by observing that his " will no t be the least, illuminated pages of Italy's historic annals and of h-r----enduring chronicles of the great and good, havin^ revived in his own person and exemplified in his 'conduct and character the mar ial energy of Cas3ar with the Chri>tian devotedness of Constautine." A t its last meeting the Dublin Prince Consort Memorial Committee decided that StephenWreen sh. uU be thrown open to the public, and the memorial erected in the most suitable position within its ar-a. The Belfast fund to erect a memorial to the late Prince Consort, amounts, to nearl. L 2.000. At the la t m eting of the committee a plan was submitted of a be:tutiiul clock tower, which could be erected for L1.80i). Tralre was recently the scene of a party riot Tiie Dublin correspondence of the Times, dated September 29, contained the following account, of it • - The Protestants of Kerry were anxious' to hear Gavazzi, paitly from curiosity and partly from the interest they take, in commas with all their brethren in the stite and prospects of Itnlv, about which' they expected to receive inuc'i gratifying information trom an Italian patriot aud religious reformer. Accordingly many of the gentry attended with' their families. At the morning meeting, on Thursday (September 25), held ac 1 o'clock, the attendance uas large and respectable, nearly 30 carriages having be n drawn up at iho hotel, in the ball-room of which the lecture was delivered. The evenin"meeting was still more numerous, and a fact men* tioned by the correspondent of the f Vjfc Examiner should not he forgotten, that the great ins>v r ty were ladies, or, as he expresses it, " members of the'female sex " At both the meetings the admission was by tickets, which were sold. In the morning everything went off with perfect quietness. In the evening about a do^en younc men. known to be Roman Catholic*, and suspected to be beot on mischief presented their tickets, aud entered the meeting, taking up a position ju one corner of the room. The Roman Catholic reports state that ■ they listened attentively 1 till the Pope's Irish Brigade were called by the 1 lecturer "ragged Paddies,", and that they resented this insult, when they were put out with unnecessary . violence; and then the mob determined to be revenged. : The Prote«tant accounts, on the contrary, state that the Komau Catholics went to the meeting in pur- ' suanceof a preconcerted plan; that the tickets were purchased for them by parties behind the scenes \ who had organised the attack; that, in pursuance ■of their intentions, they commenced yelling and hooting when the lecture had proceeded but a little i way. The high sheriff (Major Crosbie) and two or ' three local magistrates were present, arid by their orders the Roman Catholics were cxi pelled. They resisted violently. A milee . ensued, and for fome time the room was a i scene of indescribable, uprcar. Sticks were freely i used, and rotten eggs, which seem to have been r brought for the purpose, were thrown at the head of • the lecturer; One policeman got a kick in iheJeg, J which disabled him for some ume, and rendered an I opt ration necessary jto save the limb. The lecture i t proceeded, b»t before its conclusion Wi immensei mob Jiad assembled in ifQiijt of the hotel, which was i »SB»U«d -witfii volley ftftw Yoiley of must sw&ijrigfc^

bat-, in rapid sucs&mQrr, each b-ing followed by the m-h of the platt v the wiiidovi. The RoVan UtJ-jlio rep .rfc state* thtt n m>h wis maJe at tlte front door of the ho-el, " which, if it h a j nt been ns»o'«U4'y rtsilted by th» pn'ie wit'i fiwl bw>n*ts iv id r a: coram m.l of e-tor AUmmv there r 4it: ti»asVMroull have taken plane" F ii: Q «- t* .f'jrcaan entrance, tiiey took to stonethrowinjr. \fanv pf^ the-police were hit with tbe rtanes and severely ■ hurt;, but they acted with admirable forbearance ' Portunately the lecture-i-oom was in the rear of the bnillmg-, and the condition were tolerably shel tsred,TOd for a time some of the la-lies rather enjoyed the sensation." But some of the windows opened on a chapel yard to which the rioters obtaine 1 access, and showered in stones from that direction. The assembly wera, therefore/ obliged to seek refuse m other parrs of the building. In the meantime the .. high sheriff the resident mad trate. Captain S-grave ani other gentlemen, exerted themselves to the utmost for the protection of the ladies, while the members of\rhe Popa'^i Brigade were gallantly striving to swrm the hote,'. Baffled in-their repeated att»mfi's ' they resolved to wreak their vengeance on all the Protestants in the town who '* patronised" Gravozzi A large quantity of plate-glass was broken in the shops in adUition to the windows smashed in the dwellinghouses. In the fronc of the hotel forty-seven panes were broken, together with two stained-glass lamps On the whole, the country will have to pay a good round sum for this destruction of property The glaziers are likely to be a flourishing bo Jy for some time in Ireland. It is worthy of inquiry whfther some of them may not be the ringleaders or the instigators of the mob. The correspondent of the Cork Examiner seems to rejoice in the achievments of his brethren, and taunts the Protestants because they did not come out with their wives and daughters to be stoned to death, or trampled on by the infuriated mas3es. In the following passage th» italics are his own :-" Gavazzi had to fly at 3 o'clock this morning from the Protestant town of Tralee while gallant defenders h-id to skulk home through' Mr Denny's demesne and back lanes to their r^idences." (lavazzi having learnt that he was to be attacked when leaving town on Friday raornin* posted during the night, with the gentleman who a£ compamed him to Kiliarney. and took the train to Dublin. Fortunately he received no injury. He was however, put to great expense and inconvenience, and' he was prevented from receiving special contributions for his Irish Ladies Printing Press. He preached yesterday in the Presbyterian church at Bray At the end of his discourse he stated that he was employed by no incorporated society, that he has to pay the expenses of his mission by his owu labours, that he has a number of young men being educated and trained for the Evangelical work in Italy, whom he entirely support?—that he had paid everything up to the Ist October, and that to this object the Sunday collections were devoted. In the evening he preached in the Metropolitan Hall, Dublin-

Signor Gavazzi was about to lecture on Italy in the town■ of Newry, but the magistrates received information that if he did so, serious riots were certain to take place, which would end in the destruction of property, perhaps loss of life. Two of them intimated this fact to the minister in whose church the lecture was to be held, and, consequently, the lecturer did1 not appear.

Colonel Hare, of Davenport, who has lately returned from the Mediterranean, has paid a visit to hw estate m the county Tipperary, accompanied by Mr P. 0. Howley, R.M. His visit was not expected by the tenants, and so there was no demonstration of welcome. He weut over the lands and inquired par ticularly into the circumstances attending the murder of his late agent, Mr Braddell. The result is that he has dismissed from his employment his baliff, Daniel who was present at Mr Braddell's murder, and allowed Hayes, the murderer, to escape. A man named Driscoll, a constabulary pensioner, has been employed as rent-warner. ]t is said to be Colonel Hare's iuteation to appoint no ag.snt at present. He has promised LIOO, in addition to the large sum offered by the Government, for such private information as may lead to the apprehension of Hayes. It was reported late y that he had left the country, and was beyond the reach of the police, but it is confidently asserted that he was seen recently coming out of a grove near the town of Tipperary, where th* murder was committed. Colonel Hare, it seems, showed no deposition to meet his assembled tenants in order to receive from triem tokens of their devotion to ha interest. Tins is no wonder, if he had heard what is stated as a fact—tlrit while they were sigainc an address to him, denouncing the conduct of tlie"nmr derer, and expressing a hope that he would be speedily brought to justice, they were devoutly repeating the " llosary " every day with their families, praying- that Hayes might be able to escape from the hands of the police.

The several rewards offered for the apprehension of Hayes now amount to the unprecedented sum of L9oO. That no person has. yielded to so great an inducement to become an informer against a man who was himself once a bailiff engaged in the work of eviction, places in a strong liglit the nature of the agrarian war in the south of Ireland. The Government offer of a reward was repeated in the Gazette of the 3rd October.

The inquiry into the conduct of the constabulary who, on the 3lst of August List, came in si*ht of Hayes, but did not capture him, has resulted in the dismissal from the force of Constable Hughes, who was m command of the party. He and another othcer were a mile or so in advance of the party when they saw Hayes in a field, running towards a hidingplace. Hughes, who was armed with a revolver determined to go back for his men, although his comrade offered to attempt the capture single-handed if Hughes would lend him the weapon. When the party returned, they could find no trace of Hayes Hughes was a long time in the force, and had formerly d.stmguisbed himself. The Rev. Dr M'Neece, F.T.CD, died at Boulogne on the 2oth of September. He was Archbishop limb's Divinity lecturer, which office he held for 20 years. Ihe Rev. Dr Salmon is spoken of as his successor in the professorship. Mr Jones has retired from the Chairmanship of the OouutyofDown. which is a first-class county, according to the arrangement of salaries for the assistant barristers. Mr Jones is to be suc-eeded by Mr Jolmstonp, from West Cork (second-class), to which Leahy from Louth (third-class), is promoted, and the new assistant barrister just appointed to fill this vacancy is Mr D. It. Pigot, son of the Chief Baron. Mr i?i«ot is a Roman Catholic. The salary of the 51*8!'* 8 ab°ut£o"oo a year, the second about £aOO, and the first about £1,100. When a vacancy occurs m one of the higher classes an occupant of standing and strong claims in .the lowest is moved up to it, and the vacancy thus created is filled by a new man.

Everyone Temerabers the story of the Killaroey echo, which to the question," How do you do, Paddy Blake?" answers, " Very well, thank you." A bull of the same kind, and quite as good, has been perpetrated by the editor of the Tra lee Chronicle in a. icaier. Ihe Kerry Post, referring to the Gavazzi roits, asks, " were the rotten egga brought into the room, and first flung not at the lecturer but at townsmen, legitimate acts?" To this question the Chronicle gravely replies,'« Echo answers, ' Unquestionably not.'" To several other questions "echo" answer s in a similar manner. " •'An iiffair of honour," says a Dublin letter, "is stated to have occurred on the Fair Green, as far as a challenge. The names of the. parties are well known in the county of Galway. The cause of the quarrel is stated to be a marriage which took place between the son of one of the gentlemen and the daughter of the other, a young lady of great personal beauty and attractions. The challenge was declined, but the challenger expressed his determination of posting his opponent. fe l

Ihe corporation of Dublin have just appointed a public analyst." There were four candidates. The v,>:i»g was by ballot, and Profess t Cameron had a large majority. His business will be to analyse all articles of iood and drink purchased within tbe city winch may be submitted to him for the. purpose, under the provisions of the 23rd and 24th Viet., C# Oil

.t A * correspondent of the Dublin Freeman reports the following attempt at abduction : "A desperate attempt was made on i'ie night of the 30th September to cany off hy force from her father' house, -near bngo, a respectable young woman named Davy ' A man named Michael O'Connor (a rejected suitor) accompanied by ; three' other men, armed having obtained admittance, O'Connor seized the girl and forced her outside Hie door, and placed her in a enr which he had in waiting, while two of the men who accompanied him held her sister and a servant girl and prevented them from giving any alarm However the screams of the young woman so friehtentd the horse that he commenced kicking, broke ihe shafts ot the car, ran off, as did also O'Connor and his .companions on hearing persons approaWng to the rescue. Ihe girl immediately returned toher father's house. She was dreadfully frightened, but received no other injury. Her father could render no aid at the time of the abduction, lie being ill in bed. O'Connor has been arrested and committed to gaol. None of the other three men can be identified by any of Davy s family." The .treat annual fair at Ballinasloe commenced on the 4th October. The sheep fair, which is always held firet, showed a very marked falling off.' The horse fair was opened on the 7th. As usual there was bnt a scanty supply of first-class animals; the reason being that horse? ot that kind are bought up in ttesfcables by English dealers during the previous days, so that those which are exhibited on the green are of an inferior class. The number of horses exhibited this year was 20 per cent, less than last year., Excellent hunters were bought for L6O to L4O and under. The fair ended wiih the cattle sale, which was held on the Bth. The morning was fine and at sunrise the green was quite crowded with buyers and sellers, the leading grazieis and salemasters mustering in full force. The demand was brisk, though at rather reduced prices, and in a very Bhort time tue whole supply was disposed of, and a complete clearance effected by 2 o'clock pm'. Mr William Dargan, who majrbe said to have created a new town at Bray, has added acother attractive feature to that fashionable watering-place [U» tea Mt apart aft exteaeirs mi wluafale piece tf

ground in front of the newlnte nat'onaf Hotel, the finest building of the kind in Ireland, which te to be dev.itei to athlesic pporis for the benefit of th^ inhabitants. If. will also be u«eWor flower shows and btzaars. The grounl was fornnliy opened a few d<<ys»go, whan th-i LoxULieu'tjn trit\vd;» present. A nainerou^partj as-embied tj witness the lnaiiguration and. the ioofc nicss and other sports which followed. ,-. "- The tenantry of the Duke of Devonshire at Tallow have ve"ently field a meeting (o eonsi '.er the propriety of presenting hi* Grace with a suitable testimonial as a mark of their gratitude for his generosity in remitting 20 per cent, of this halt-year's gale of rent. Colonel Connelly, M.P., has been distributing large suras of money among his tenantry in Donegal, the .principal' ,objects "of his generosity being deserving children attending schools." who were encouraged ■ by: valuable premiums. These examples are very good, \ but Viscount Lismore has ■' set one which is much better. He has adopted thi plan of .giving leases ot 21 years to the most deserving tenants on his estate The tenants whom he thus rewards and encourages are those who have obtained prizes and honorary distinctions at the recent show of the Qlogheen Onion Fanning Society.. A conference of gentlemen favo able to the'erection in Dublin of a monument to O'Connell was held on the 13th October, in the Prince of Wales Hotel, It was convened by Dr. Gray, who originated the movement, and is conducting it-with great energy and success. Many of the old friends and admirers of O'Connell were present. The Lord Mayor was called to the chair, A committee was formed to carry the object out, trustees of the fund were appointed, and among the resolutions passed was one expressing thanks to Dr Gray for his exertions. It is as the emancipator of the Roman Catholics, as the friend of civil and religious liberty, not as a Hepealer, that all denominations of Irishmen are called upon to honor the memory of O'Connell. There was but one member of Parliament present. The . resolutions . were nearlyall moved without sp^ecbe*, as it was saM they spoke fr>r thennelv-\s, and the object was so evidently good that it needed no advocacy. Dr Gray stated that he had already lodged L 252 to the credit of the general fund. [It has since been announced that the Lord Chancellor has subscribed L2O to the O'Connell Statue Fund. The Freeman's Journal points to the significance of this large subscription, as coming fro-n the head of the judicial bench, the head of the magistracy, the highest official next to the Viceroy, and "the, keeper of the Queeu's conscience in Ireland/ The Daily Express comments, in strong terms, on the a'leged impropriety of thus honor n"the memory of the greatest agitator, on the part of a high state iunctionary, and asks whether he is to be permitted to compromise the sovereign and the nation by thus doing homage to the memory of one who was convicted and imprisoned for violating the laws of his country by organising monster meetings which disturbed the peace" of. society and threatened the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.] The Daily Express contains the following letter, received by a gentleman in Kingstown, from a member of Meagher's Irish Brigade vx America :— Harper's Ferry, September 25. Dear Sir, --I write to inform you that I had a pleasant passage of 32 days to New York. I there engaged myself in T. F. Meagher's brigade for three years, With regard to promotion, it is like the French service ;it has to be well earned. It would strike you with pity to see numberless crowds of wounded men on the roads leading from Philadelphia Baltimore, Washington, and Middleto wn, in Maryland. All the farmhouses there are evacuated by their tenants and turned into hospitals. As to the number of slain on the batt'efield it i 3 not properly known. I was on it last Sunday, and it was a scene of horror and destruction - - a field of unburied rebels and some of our own countrymen. I have conversed with many of the wounded rebels, prisoners of war, under the care of our doctors. They are well treated, and glad to have fallen into the hands of the Union forces. The rebels had Harper's Ferry in their possession, but were completely defeated and beaten out of it. The Irish Brigade is now, in conjunction with the Potomac army, keeping Harper's Ferry, and a great number ot our troops are still in pursuit of the rebels I wish to inform you that the Irish Brigade numbers now but 650 men. They were mowed down like hay the da> before I reached them. I must also tell you that it is the height of foolishness for any one at hotne to bear trie great opinion of T. F. Meaner they do, as he is not at all the man he is" represented to be. He is a very good hand, lam mtormeu, at tyrannising over his men and neglecting them, as, for vny short time in the brigade" I have experienced. He has wearied us out by heavy marching, and now that we are encamped, a great number have not wherewithal to shelter us from the rain. There are thousands of waggons with the troops but no tents for us. lam ashamed of this letter, but it is written on the back of a knapsack. I have 13 dollars a month, and I got 89 on joining, of which I left 40 in the bank, in case I get out of this catastrophe. I have also to get 100 dollars when peace is proclaimed. I wish I could give you a picture of our present situation.' Our officers are as badly off as we are. When I first saw General Mealier iti the enmp he was more than " half seas over" from the effects of brandy. I remain yours,

._ _____ >s The Mayor of Deny, Mr B. M'Coskell, has* received an anonymous letter from some illiterate person, naming certain parties who, it was alleged were conspiring to murder him. The parties named seemed astonished at the charge, and solemnly declared that there was not the slightest foundation for it. Major Bruce, of the King's County Rifles, was nearly lost in a gale on Lough Dearg several nights ago. His jacht Lurline, caught in a tremendous gale, was driven aarround and abandoned. The major, Mr Button, and the crew got into the small boat,' and after an hour's hard rowing amid the billows reached a small island, where they were obliged to remain all night. Some valuable articles were lost in the yacht. Several morning.* ago, about two o'clock, a respectably dressed woman was found drunk and disorderly in the streets of Cork, using language highly unbecoming to her sex. She had returned with her husband from Australia a week before, with L7OO or LBOO. The first night after their arrival in the " dear old country" they were hospitably entertained in the B'idewell, for being drunk. The woman said in her defence that her husband had been beating her at the time and she " hallooed out." This was untrue, as the husband was not near her at the time. She was fined ss. This precious couple left their only child behind them in Australia.

On the eveninar of ths 21st October a public raeet- *? g ""S 8 beld in .B<iJfa9 t f<>r the purpose ot petitioning the House of Commons for the extension of the Forbes Mackenzie Act to Ireland. Resolutions were alopted deploring the raaay and aggravated evils arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors on the babbath day. A petition to fie House of Commons was agreed to, praying that, as the 16th and 17th of Victoria, cap. 67, known as the Forbes Mackenzie Act, had been of considerable benefit to the Scottish community, the enactment rai'ht be extended to Ireland. [The Act in question prohibits the sale of intoxicating drinks between the hours of 11 o'clock on Saturday night and 7 o'clock on Monday morning.]