THE VOTE OF DUBLIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 22 May 1885, Page 19

THE VOTE OF DUBLIN.

(The Nation, March 21.) BY the overwhelming majority of 41 rotes to 17 the Dublin Corporaton on Monday last resolved that they would take no partinthe i demonstrations which are being organised by the CastleT party for the reception of the Prince of Wales. In so doing that body acted n «^^ )^ 77 v 0v 0^ the *^ce ß re^ nt • tivecbßl ' acfc «•» worthy of their w^. on the bi S be3t «* all the elected bodies in Ireland, and worthy of the regard in which they are held by the Irish people. n*««X W w°? ?u V ?£ ODg measnre iJ * was surprising to most people; but to the slavish West-British faction it was positively SffISLS? t* *™& iTiob beart fa Irelßnd has been cheered and comforted. From the national point of riew it would be 2SSLS faSrt 1 -?^ *S Dabli ; <**"**. after all that hat occM^ed in Ireland during the past four or five years-not to go any £S^^T* Wll &*,P" rt in publio di8 P lavß and festivities which rt^^2l?-I« WOnUI - *» vomited in favour of the Government of rvLTTS 7 - ? ««»n*tte national movement-in favour of tbe Onmes Act, in favour of police rule, blood-money, babes to informers, andex^-a taxation, in favour of Hallisy, and Clifford Lloyd, and Earl tC^^FT* Mr '. Pa ™. e lll l and the I"sh Parliamentary party. That is certainly the way » which their action would be ncored by the SIJS-UiS^IL .S^ were weak enon s h to go down to Kingstown or Westlaud-row and join with various packs of flunkeys in the presentation of what are called loyal addresses to the Prince of Wales. The story would go out that the discontent of the country was unreal, that XffiSSSL 1 ? 8 ™ fich S°£!' fcbat retanut were unnecessary, that £«™s^? MI ?3i 8 WOuld ** a *»*«**, and that all that would ever ££rf?S2Xi i^* 8 "£" c^Ptontstbat-migbfr arise tmongst the be to send some one' of England's large stosk of royal i 1 ?£^m- o yiOg 5™ p t i 11 ' onsh tbe «»n*>7. Wisely and well have SL?J ? ? Cor P° r aUon done in taking bare that no action of theirs SS - °PP° rfcu ° lt y f o' such misrepresentations. Not even : SftSflK l^'^ 8 * We A to del ? tbat t^ir oondubt in this case is dignified and self-respecting, while from their friends-that is to say, W^ure^^^^ fee^s It — I^S^ M ? c ii! lf BubE3 f vi «>oy *o esterior dictation that have been urged against the popular members of tbe Corporation have no weight or substance in them. It is true that some of those gentlemen 7£!%Z * li me \° f ? VODr ° f F»««»fcin« to the Prince an address of a sLroingly national character; but further consideration and a little there was the likelihood that the Prince would decline to accept an !«££a •» } md; in the nest place, should such an address be Sw^SSJi a !S,° al tone wonld ** dtawgarded by the adulators of SfJESSi 8 !!?^ m » a^? er^ of hh vi «t. while the fact would be S?^ that the Dublin Corporation hastened to mix with the £^ fSt"? 6^ 168 and « without le Sal oblation on SSFiEL i* la I dtb e}r homage at the feet of tbe Prince of Wales and ♦w SS^S' ntn tt A B f l^ coarce f0 ? tbe Corporation was that which they have adopted— to keep out of the business, and to reserve their rm-fSHS 1 T n ?? b °' wbetber they be princes, peers, or commoners, J?^° > nn * fc *° P op U P rotten institutionsV not to rehabilitate odious administrators, but to confer benefits upon and to brine free-~«-^i2£ * Sl \£ eopl ?;. The action o£ the^Corporation mSrks a %l £?^ 1? .l he P°i lM SP^ of that body, or^e might rather say, in tiie spirit of the constituencies that have ejected them. SifLt^^oT^^xl 688011 which itmay he hoped our rulers ?" .. X t wthat nothing can be gained by deferring 1% ?SZ?n?t£ "f htS Wbich mxxst be yielded to tbe Irißh Pe°Pte» w^fv.o^-JflP 011 ? 7 wM ? h fc he rulers of England can adopt is I S avel f , any farfcher in the d irecti6n it is taking to effect an honourable settlement with thelrish nation of the-national questio - which is at issue between the two countries.