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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 2, 4 May 1883, Page 5

The World of this week contains the following paragraph : — "Only three months ago Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., eloquently, and Mr. T. D. Sullivan effusively, proposed and seconded the election to the Dublin Town Council of their tried and trusted friend of long standing, Mr. James Carey, Land Leaguer, murderer on his own Bhowing, and, within the last few days, "accusing spirit" against some of his associates in the criminal dock. Of course the newly elected councillor was welcomed by Lord Mayor Dawson, in his most felicitous phraseology, to his seat in the conclave of patriots and publicans in the City Hall ; and from his well-known close alliance with Mr Parnell, Mr. Biggar, and Mr. Egan it was generally understood in Land circles that Mr Carey would in due time be put forward as a Parnellite candidate in the House of Commons." In all this — from beginning to end — there is not word of truth. Mr. O'Brien did not propose Carey's election to the Corporation; Mr.Sullivan did not second his election ; and neither of them could have proposed or seconded it, as neither of them is or has been a burgess of Trinity Ward, for which James Carey was returned. We may add that Mr Sullivan never saw Carey but once previous to his election, and had nothing whatever to do with his candidature. The other statements of the World are equally without foundation. And this paiagraph in the World, for which there is not the smallest foundation, if a fair specimen of the writing of the English press on the Carey incident. The most desperate, unscrupulous, and reckless attempts are made just now by English writers to discredit the Irish National party, the hope being that some at least of the mud flung will stick. We are not surprised at this circumstance, for we have long been aware of the nature of the fairness of mind with which the animal John Bull is said to be endowed ; and, moreover, we are not a bit frightened at it. It is, in fact, a sign of coming victory for Ireland, * for it is only a tottering cause that requires to be buttressed up by falsehood.— Nation, Nov. 24.