ARCHBISHOP WALSH'S RECEPTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 29, 13 November 1885, Page 19

ARCHBISHOP WALSH'S RECEPTION.

(Special Correspondence of the Pilot.)

Dublin, September 4.— Archbisbop Walsh arrived in Dublin today and was given an enthusiastic ovation. The whole populationturned out to honour the prelate of the nation's choice. Upon his arrival at Kingstown the Archbishop was met by local bodies of Nationalists which presented him with addresses of welcome. The Archbishop, replying to the addresses, said he bad placed before the Pope the wants, wishes, aims and desires of the Irisb people, with whom the Pope expressed himself as being in full sympathy. The representations of the Irish prelates to His Holiness made impossible ir> the future a misrepresentation of Ireland's cause.

Branches of the National League in Dublin, County Wicklow and Kildare sent deputations to Dublin to receive the patriot Archbishop. The Irish members of Parliament were present in force. and priests from all parts of Ireland. It was understoad that Archbishop Walsh had declined to receive any gift of money from the people, as his predecessor had generously anticipated the need and provided against it The late Cardinal McCabe, four or five years before his death, made a will, and bequeathed to his successor whatever be possessed — not only the house in which he resided, bat furniture, books, plate, carriages, horses, and whatever money remained after claims upon it were satisfied.

The text of the address presented to the Archbishop was as follows :—: —

" We, your devoted flock, clergy and laity of the Diocese of Dublin, hasten to offer to Your Grace our warm congratulations on your coming to take possession of the chair of your illustrious predecessor, St. Laurence OToole (applause), a chair placed on the Rock, against which the combined powers of earth and hell shall not prevail. That Rock is Peter, and his lawful successors, in whom Peter etill lives. We address you our Archbishop, as one whose antecedents have pointed you out as eminently fitted for the high office to which you have been raised by the Providence of God end the favour of the Apostolic See (applause). Your distinguished career as a student of the Catholic University of Ireland and of our National College at Maynooth ; your learning and ability, as proved by the manner in which you discharged your professional duties in the world -renowned Alma Mater of the greit body of the Irish priesthood; your successful administration as president of 'hat college — one of the largest and most learned in the Church ; the eiification given during a lecent period to the clergy and to the people of this Diocese by your patient endurance wi.ilst calumay after calumny was heaped upon you by a section of the public Press (loud applause), not in sympathy with the Catholics of Irelani ; these and mucn more, which, to be brief, we must admit, afford us a well-grounded hope aad expectation that in the ability, prudecce and zeal with which you will adnai .istcr toe ecclesias ical affaiTs of this Diocese, you will prove yourself a worthy s iccessor of a long line of Apostolic Prelates with which God has blessed the Diocese of Dubhu. We rejoice in a special manner that your appointment has put an end. and we hope for-ever, to any attempt to revive discussion on the hateful question of the veto (loud and continued applause), on which the bishops, priests and people of Ireland had, with th^ concurrence of the Sovereign Pontiff pronounced an emphatic, and, we had hoped. a lasting comdemnation nearly 70 years ago (loud applause). It is meet that your flock, clergy and laity, should torn to you, their father in Christ, not in their spiritual concerns only, but in their temporal troubles and difficulties as well, and that they should ask you to be the partner of their sorrows as well as of their joys. We do so now with a good heart as a »lpam of brightness is dissipating the dark night of our affliction. The recent past has accomplished much for our country, and giTen promise of the achievement of many needed reforms and ameliorations in. a not distant future. Our system of primary education is based on a vicious principle, and is not suited to the requirements of the class for who6e benefit it is intended (applause). In the higher departments of education, di — tributive justice is grossly violated by our rulers. In consequence of repeated confiscations and the operation of unjust land laws, our rural population has been impoverished, and driven by hundreds of thousands from their homes into exile ; these laws have been to a large extent modified, but much remains still to be accomplished (applause). The Providence of God has blessed our country, its land and water, with an abundance of natural and industrial resources. These resources hare been dehberateiy and persistently neglected by

those who rule over us ; unjust legislation has all but crushed their legitimate development, and the result has been that our trade has decayed, and our manufactures have been annihilated. The contrast between the stinted and spasmodic aid given by the State *o the development of Ireland's resources and that so lavishly expended for a similar purpose in wealthier portions of the Uaited Kingdom, affords just cause for complaint to the people of this country, and much reason for bitter thought and deep-rooted discmtent (applause). The condition of our poor under the Poor Law, as at present framed and administered, is far from being what it ougat to beiu a Christian country. As a means lo remedy these and many other evils, we look forward to a thorough reconstruction of the system under which Ireland has beeo, and is still, governed (loud and continued applause). In our eff jrts to procure the reform of abuses, ar^J to obtain such other measures as the requirement of our country imperatively demand— to be obtained however, by just and means— we rely with confi leuce on Your Grace's cordial sympathy and encouragetneut (applause). With ferrent players for Your Grace's health and happiness, we are your obedient, faithful children in Christ (applause)." The Archbishop, who was deeply affected, made eloquent replies to the addresses presented to him by the Lord Mayor and Municipal anthorities. When he entered his carriage the enthusiastic crowd removed the horses and dragged tbe carriage to the Archiepiscopal residence. Archbishop Wals'i afterward appeared oa the balcony of his residence and blessed the assemblage. Bands paraded the streets until a late hour, playing national airs. In replying to the above addresses of the Municipal authorities the Archbishop said th.it he had a deep and settled conviction that the only remedy for the grievances which Ireland had long laboured, with partial success to remove, was the restoration of the rights or which she had been deprived a century ago by means as shameful as any that records of national infamy could disci.- se. He rejoiced wjth them that the flag which fell from the hands of the dying O'Oonnell had again been boldly uplifted, and he prayed that it would never be refarled until the [rish Parliament wis restored. Dublin, September 7.— Archbishop Walsh was installed in his sacred office to-day in the Dublin pro-Cathedral. Tne ceremonies were witnessed by the Lord Mayor and Corporation. Messrs. Davitt and ODoherty, 12 Parliamentary supporters of Mr. Parnell, and a vast concourse of citiz .-ns.