Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 14, 27 July 1888, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

(Fro'u the National papers.) The meeting of the Irish Catholic Members of Parliament which was held at the Mansion House, Dublin, on Thursday May 17, was a significant and timely leminder to all whom it may concern that Ireland knows what her duty is when her religious and political interests are concerned. Fony-three members, including the Lord Mayor, attended. The resolutions, which were unanimously adopted on this occasion, pointed to the conclusion that the Holy Office Circular was employed by the unscrupulous enemies of the Holy See and Ireland, as a political weapon to prejudice the Irish cause ; ani that the allega ions of tacts put forth in tbat, document are unfounded such, as for lustence, the absertions regarding free contract, extortion of rent from tenants, and sundry other matters. Deep regret was also felt tbat the Holy See did not select for its condemnation the Crimea perpetrated in ihe name of the law in Ireland, and the cruelties that eviction brings with it in its train. It was furthermore resolved, that while unreservedly acknowledging as Catholics the spritual juris iiction of the Holy See, the members present recognised no right in the Vatican to interfere with the Irish people in the management of their political affairs. These resolutions were, as our readers will observe, moderate, but uncompromising m spirit. They reflect the views and teelings of the Irish people at home and abroad on the entire question. A most important and highly- euccessful mass meeting of the citizens of Dublin, convoked for the purpose of endorsing the action of the Irish Catholic members of tne Parliamentary party on the Papal Circular, was held in the Phoeiix Park, on Sunday, May 20. The avtendance was very large, and the demeanour of the people most oideily. The tone of the various speeches, while being respectful to the Pope and the Holy See, was firm and uncompromising. The chair was taken by the Lord Mayor, who, in a few happy epigrams, observed that the Irish Catholics were connected for different purposes and in different ways wuh the Powers beyond the shores ot lieland. By their own consent they were linked in spiritual affairs with the Holy See. Against their will they were in secular affairs and by secular laws linked to England. Their religion was independent of England as their politics were independent of Roma. They would, therefore, continued his Lordsmp, as soon think of taking their politics from the palace by the Tiber, as they would their religion from the palace by the Thames. The Lord Mayor was followed by Alderman Dil'on, who proposed : " That the citizens ot D iblm, in public meeting assembled, cordially endorse and adopt in their integrity the resolutions of the Irish Catholic Members of Parliament witn reference to the late Circular of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, and respectfully decline to recognise any right of the Holy See to interfere with the Irish peoplo in the management of Irish political affairs." This resolution was carried by acclamation. Mr. John Dihon observed that if the allegations contained in the Rescript were true, there was no manCatholic or Christian — ia Ireland who would not admit that they had been all pursuing anjimmoral path. Several other stirring speeches were delivered by William O Brien, Dauiel Ciilly, and Dr. Kenny. The demonstration was in every way an endorsement of the action of the Catholic members on the subject of the Rescript. The Bishop of Limerick last week, ending May 26, wrote a letter, ostensibly addiesscd to the Mayor, but in reality s'mi at first, not to the Major, but to several auti-liish and Orange journals. This letter was intended to influence the public meeting announced to be held in Limencii as a piutesi agaiust the Rjnian Rescript. Ia it Dr. O'Dwyer " officially and authoritatively" declared that the Decree ia binding on the consciences ot all vvh >m it concerns, and that it is a gnevouo Bin for anyone to deuy that the Pope has authority tj> issue it. Having thus treated the question as a matter of latth and morals, Dr. O'Dw-yer showed that he regards the Rescript as directed agaiust a poluic.il act ; for he says, •' It seems a pity for a merj detail ot political action " to run the nsk of rending the whole Irish nation to its base, at Home and abroad. The action ot Dr. O'Dwyer had no effect whatever in minimising the greatneid of the meetiog. It wa3 powerful ouly to prevent the attendance of the clergy. Probably its only effect was to cause a much more numerous attendance of the laity. The gathering, which was held in the AJarket-neld, was ot enormous uioportions. It is slated m the leport ot the Daily Express that there weie about 20,0U0 persons present. The city guilds and League branches came out in imposing strength and much picturesque display of banneis and bauds. Great squadions of mon cime in also from various parts of the bounty limerick, and the neighbouring Co xn ties of Claie aud Tipperary were also pretty well represented in the throng. Mr. Francis O'lvjeffe, Mayor of Limerick, took the chair, and a resolution adopting the action of the Irish Catholic Members of Parliament was moved by Mr. Maloney, of Kuocklong, and seconded by Mr. Henry O'tihea, of Limerick. Mr. William O Brien, M.P., who wa. htill suffering considerably frotu the effects ot his recent accident, and spoke under much disadvantage, then delivered a vigorous defence of the action of the Campaigners, and ■criticised strongly the political action of the Bishop. Mr. E'mucane, M.P., who followed, referred happily to the high antiquity of boycotting-. He pointed out that it onginated in tne days uf Adam and JSve, who boycotted their son Cain when he murdered his brother. Mr. Cox, M.P., also delivered an appropriate address. There is an aspect of Bishop 0 Dryer's letter which has no political significance, but which may, nevertneless, when all's aaid and done, turn out to be the most piquaut feature ot the whole document. We shall await iho action ot Komu on the point with the deepest interest, Dr. ODwyer has been betrayed into committing a high theological misdemeanour almost similar to, though far less grievous, than that for which Father Mathew was brought to book by the Holy dea over fifty years ago. He has, on his own responsibility, created a new sin.

The Rescript, as it was drawn up by the Inquisition, purported to be no more tbaa a piece of advice and admonition, backed tip by a pious opinion, it carefully abstained from attaching any penalty to disobedience, and thus avowed that it was not intended as a document obtdience to which was to ba obligatory. This attitude of the Inquisition does not pleass Dr. O'Dwyer. He thinks the Holy Office and the Holy Father ought to have gone a good deal further, and as they did not he has no hesitation in repairing their omission himself. He "authoritatively and officially" attaches a penalty to disobeying the Eescnpt, the moat awful penalty known to theology, the penalty of eternal damnation. He makes disobedience a grievous Bin. Henceforward, according to Dr. O'Dwyer, the man who joins the Plan of Campaign or "agitates " against the Rescript ipso facto forfeits grace, and if he dies in that stale he will be consigned to hell for all eternity. If Bishop O'Dwyor's assumption of Papal authority be taken as valid co me twenty thousand of his owu flock must be regarded as having iucurred this dreadful penalty last Sunday . The coercion intriguers at Rome ara not by any means as cock-a-whoop as they were. The special correspondent of the Forger, instead of congratulations, has taken to offering condolence to discomfited coercionists. The Rescript, it geems, is only a matter for individual conscience. The Pope is in no hurry to promulgate or enforce it. It is not intended to affect the political situation. Bo much we gather from a column of incoherent bosh on the subject of the Papal Infallibility. Tne following telegram of the Renter agency is briefer and more explicit :— " Rome, Tuesday, May 29. — It is affirmed in well-informed Vatican circles that the Pope will do nothing for some time which may tend to disturb further the public mind in Ireland ; having decided to observe this attitude of reserve in order not to lay himse.f open to reproach in political questions." So this is the end of the serits of rescripts, excommunications, and anathemas we were promised would be hurled against the Irish people if they did not forthwith embrace the landgrabber and emergencyman and put their necks under the feel; of the evictors. They are not all to be cut off from the Church like rotten branches after all, Mr. Keroaghan, of the Daily Express, to tha contrary notwithstanding. The Inshjpeople have themselves to thank for the change. His Holiness has, we doubt not, realised the falsehoods with which hia ears were wearied by designing intriguers, and the danger into which they were willing to plunge the Church for their own selfish ends. The laquisiiion was, doubtless, persuaded that the Plan of Campaign and boycotting were cruel expedients, fostered by a few unscrupulous agitators, from whom the mass of the people were burning to be released. We know the old I.L.P.U. fable well. The people here and beyond the ocean by meeting and resolution have given their answer to the calumny. Their sorrowful and indignant protest has been heard as far as Rome. " That Tiber trembles underneath her banks To hear the replication of these sounds Made in her concave shores." Henceforth it will be no longer possible to mistake their patience for apathy, or their religious devotion to the Holy See for toleration of foreign dictation in their political affairs. Sis hundred Yorkshire Liberals visited, on Tuesday, May 22, Hawarden Park, where they were cordially received by Mr. Gladstone, who, in response to loud calls for a speech, said that the Liberal party never stood upon broader, firmer, and surer grounds than they stand upon now. The Liberal party was never engaged in higher and nobler pursuits. Ireland, continued the right hon. gentleman, is at this moment the key to the position of every English question, and the real helm tbat steers the ship of politics. As regards Ireland, what, he asked, are we struggling for? We are labouring to restore peace to a distracted country. Mr, Gladstone's speech was received with the utmost enthusiasm by the audience. On the whole the demonstration was most impressive, and highly successful. Mr. Chamberlain has, through the columns of his journal, the Birmingham Daily Post, given the punlic another panacea for the ills of lie-aud. His article — tor there is no reason to doubt its authorship — is, we are informed, the first of a series of papers expounding the the Unionist policy. Tae opening sentences of this remarkable manifesto prove that Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ha 3 not as yet given o»'er that arrogance and flippancy which characterise his oratorical and other periormances. When, for instance, hedwelli on the decline of the national movement and the effects of the Papal Circular, he maunders the moat unmitigated twaddle. The Irish national movemont c.in never die ; and as for the results of the Inquisition Rescript they may be s a .en in the resolut : ons passed a few days ago by the Catholic members of the Irish Parliamentary party. Where the Birmingham bird is not altogether as blind as a bat is in his statement that coerciou is no remedy, and that something must be done on a large scale by way of extending local self-government to Ireland — tne Imperial Parliament, of course, alwaysjremaining the supreme arbiter ot our destinies. The new Birmingham programme comprises, in other words, county government and provincial assemblies. His article has fallen like a bombshell in the Tory camp, wh*re o'd fogies still cling to their pet theory of coercion, and nothing save coercion for Ireland. Lord Salisbury and his followers are now bey inning to see that they are leaning ou a broken reed in the person of Buimmagem Joe ; that tne wily magnate is at last leaving them in the lurch ; and that they must never again expect Birmingham to fall into line with them in the political arena. Irish Tories of courbe, stand aghast at the proposal to hand over county government to the Nationalists ; and howl like a herd of hyenas at the prospect of four provincial Parliaments starting into life throughout the country. The antics of these forlorn fellows are highly amusing to witness. They see the inevitable coming on them. They know now instinctively th-it no matter bow the wind may blow, the lingering power and influence which they possess will be ultimately wrenched fioin tb.pm. The handwriting is on the wall, and warns them that they have had their day, and must now make their bow, and reiire. Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Joseph Ohamberlaino in both of whom they so implicitly trusted, are abandoning them t their fate ; and in a very short time the Salisbury Cabinet itself

oh« 8t iff B .. ff ° lIOW Buit> However repugnant or insufficient Mr. Chamberlain s programme may be, we cannot but tender him our SlS;tS a ™ gpnt thelrißh dovecot into such an CmS^T^™ cn lT d ° n e £ Dew P base - There "* Inquisition iS 1 .!! 7° rStty , ! ; ce J of Removables at their heads, perambu)rSh > "J l l BI L d r ecfc ! oaß dra ?gi°K unfortunate tenants from their spring work and clapping them into gaol if they refuse to betiay their friends' and neighbours' participation in some newfugled crime created by the Coercion Ac r, King an^Emergencyman drink, or attending a meeting of the League. The very worst type of Removables are especially .elected fo? this work, promoted policemen for the most part, whose rigorous cross-examination will not be encumbered by any knowledge of law. Mr. Hamilton, who taS^ iß3^i 83^ ° f ?e? c ,, P ack d(J P en^°* on his givine sa'tisfac" tion to his employers, and who signalised his z»al and fidelity by inflicting theßavage sentence of six months' imprisonment on Mr Dillon, presides over the thumbscrew in Donegal The people have for their consolation the knowledge that this is he last and weakest effort of coercion. It has only to be faced and £h w \* in T tabl t: T . he^ tar Cumber clause had its teeth drawn f™ th £ "lumbers in Committee. Its victims are protected rfnll Z "^T . and of ordinary criminate. The punishment which wi nesses incur is a mere child's play compared to ordinary imprisonment. la Carrick-on-Miannon and elsewhere the cour-s collapsed in the face of resolute defiance o f the witn'sWs The Th«ll those summoned ib clear. It is hardly necessary to repeat it. They Bhoula show their contempt of the proceedings by refusing to attend until they aie arrested They should refuse to lend themsefves £« nY TH pr °^ dlDg by anßW ering a single question. They can never tell how their answers may be twist dor contorted into evidence against their innocent neighbours. If they must give the sborthandwriter in attendance something to put on Ms noils this formula may serve-" This Star Chambef «mS is constUuted to'help the conviction of indent people ; I refuse to be a sharer in its infamy." After that, silence absolute and complete ««»uijr. nf J he £?/ mbcr elaB ! i8 ! he latest '( w y like 'y the i^hope Wr, rLi, V° pc W ' th the comb '°ation 8 which he assured Englishmen months ago were cru*h»d out of exigence This is eminently satisfactory. It is an official confession that every o her weapon in the Gas- le lumber-ro^m has woefully failed from our ancient cobwebbed friend the garnishee to the thunderbol Tf the the Vatican : ' Epoi si mvove " The Plan moves on as serenely as the stars in ,ho, r courses. All but twelve nr>n.h<of the most brutal and vindictive coercion practiced since -98 are over and gone, and the m u tbe abßU u d P ° Bifion of beginning at the very ?i?na nf °tt a<k-.ry,n B by s,cret i .quisi.ion to find out something of the inner workings of the Plan of Campaign of which hundreds of thousands of pecpl, h ,ye had the fullest SnisanTe for eighteen months past. The police are the only persons in the — D ! f y " ho are «»«ant of what the Star-Chambe^nquiries are intended to elicit; and they will be in denser ignorance 'than ever when the Star-Chamber craze has run its course, for the Star-Chamber inquiries will c icit nothing more than a new proof of the paraTytic »- Zl^tT^ZT aDd the fad -^«- °< tfe nation The utter desperation to which the coersionists are reduced at the absolute failure of their policy of cXe X a ßpßr lt ion is forcibly Shibfted of Duhi n m TV * ls S p r r lamation of the Clt y and Co^ty of Dublin under the h-ar-Chamber sections of the Coercion Act Ihis outrageous stop was announced in the Dublin Gazette on Tuesday' May 29. No shadow of justification whatever is attempted to be shown for this proceeding. The people of Dublin, however, are not hkelytobebehmd the people of the provinces in frustrating this modern substitute for the rack and scavenger's daughter The last recess of the session is now over, and this week the 1 arhamentry year, so to speak, s'arts on the run home. It promises Mr r? ,c, cx + cltl ?g run may develop unknown possibilities E;?fi 5°9« SS f BPeeC " 8 at Haward « on Saturday and Monday, May 26 and 28. fastei attention oa the first bold peculiarity of the Bituation. That is the sate of affairs arising over the licensing clauses of the English Local Government Bill. The Times declares it was on these clau.es and not on the Irish question that the Southampton election w,s decided. Mr Gladstone takes up this declaration of the Time*, and sa-.s : "Re it so. L°t the nation now observe how the Parliaments m-ijonty a.c going to apply the lesson of the Southhampton election.' The Government an- pledged lip-deep to these compensation clauses, to the principle of creating an estate in a publican a license, which at present is only a privilege existing from year to year So are certain of t^e Liberal-Unionists. But tbe majority of the House of Ojmmons, including almost all the LiberalUnionist.-, are as dead against the principle as the e'ectors of Southampton, and would vote against it on the division, but because of wn.,t/ Because " Ireland stops, the way." Because an unnatural Parliamentary allianc- is sworn to do nothing which wou'd place a Uome Kule administration in power, the majority of the House of Commons are forced on English questions of the deepest Gravity to vote ajramst the dictates ot thbir own conscience. In orde"r to withhold from the Insh people their just rights, the vital interests of the English people are to be whist!, d down the wind on every critical occasion. Thus, as Mr. Gladstone points out, although an English question may be the immediate issue, Ireland, and always Ireland is the key of the situation. This is the lesson which is being driven home into tbe minds of the British people, and which will result in some curious manifestations even in the House of Commons before the next two months arp over. Sergeant William Judas O Connor, of Callan, has touched the lowest depths of cowardly treachery. He deserves a niche in oublic detestation beside the informer Talbnt, who desecrated the Most Holy baciam?nt in the in ten sts of the Oasie. Talbot could at least plead that he was a Protestant, bor-cant O'Connor has no such excuse Me believes in the religion he desecrates ; hu kneels at the feet of the

LZri f E* m ? lf to^ tta y- BenB 'en the House of God was not sacred from this contemptible spy: At the altar he worshipped tbe £ SLli V t i M . h i? O"»tor- He brought his note-boole with Mm to Mass instead of his prayer-book, and he strove to torture from tbe sermon of the officiating priest some words that might be used against him in a Coercion Court. When Father Cahill was put in the dock Sergeant Judas O'Connor, notebook in hand, stepped iauntily'into the witness-box. A brief cross-examination from Mr. Redmond" laid bare his perjuries to the court. It was proved conclusively chat the conspiracy was in the police-barrack, and that the sergeant had, with nis fellow-witnesses, concocted and compassed a lying travesty of the sermon. Siren the Removables could not stand thia. The priest was discharged Surely this ebould not stand in the way of the promotion Koyal Irish Judas has so fairly earned ? Ec did his best. He never expected to be found out, and h« has at any rate conclusively proved that sacrilege and perjury are but trifles to him in the faithful discharge of his duty to the Castle. They have discovered a new coercion crime in Castlerea A shopkeeper named Gormley was sent 1o gaol for a month without appeal oy Removables Parcell and Dillon for charging an emer. srncyman what their worships were pleased to consider an exorbitant pnea. This is incredible, our English readers exclaim. CerS^i y J f S IV™^ F°-rF °- r the future emergencymen will be well advisei to make their bargains through the Coercion Courts This is what is called free contract. Will the courts be kind enough to irive a month s i imprisonment to the landlord who charges " an exorbitant price for the land 1 Prisons would not be large enough to hold the rack-renters if the principle was generally adopted. We publish in another column a letter of Father T. B. Brideett contradicting certain expressions attributed to him in a sermon in London, and commented on in " Week's Work " in our last issue. Ihe words were communicated to us from a source on which we beheved we could implicitly rely. But we gladly and unhesitatingly accept Father Bridget's contradiction. It is to us a source of unfeigned satisfaction to learn that no such words were uttered by a Catholic priest. The comment which we felt it our duty to make of course disappears with the words on which it was based. To Father Bndgett we desire to express our deep and unfe ! gned regret for the pan that any misconception of ours may have occasioned him. Bat it is for his sake only and his bishop's that we can bring ourselves to regret that the comments have appeared, so numerous and so cheerIL S- are^e letters of kindly remonstrance and sterling sympathy which they have evoked from our Catholic friends in England Our space compels us to select one only amongst a multitude for publication. It is an absolute pleasure to be reproved in this M a ? 7 on i«o? pa £ etio^ mm : ~"" BartOQ House ' Richmoi i d . Surrey. May 20, 1888. Dear Mr. O'Brien.-I have not the honour to be an irishman, but my nearest and dearest are of your people, and I can truly say that in all things affecting your country your sorrow « 3 Jfw ' rr v7' a f ad J° ur . lo*I 0 * is m y i°?' I haye > the °. the right to speak frankly at this crisis. You are wrong to write so disrfspectfully in United Ireland of the 19th of the Bishop of Bouthwark lcru. 1 . CC)mment ' WPI ma 7 meati <>n, was not from Mr. O'Brien's pen 1 Whitever his own private opinions may be, his Lordship keeps them to himself ; and, as a matter of fact, I mavlmention that some of his most favourite priests are Irishmen and Home Rulers. His Vicar-Gpneral is one. He was formerly missionary rector at Arundel but I think it is not correct to say th.t ha ever wag chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. The Bishoo is loved and respected throughout his diocese by English and Irish alike, and your very disrespectful allusions to him will certainly give pain to many who like myself, ardently support your noble cause, and share your vidws entirely in regard to this Rescript from the Holy Office I am sure thtt you will forgive me for so speaking, and that you will gladly make tha amende which a pious Catholic should always make when he has been guilty of an injustice. And among all the virtues which make your noble race so conspicuous among Catholic nations, your love of justice and your generosity are the very first.— l am. my dear Mr. O'Brien, yours most faithfully Li, L (jUIBARA," ' ' We may surely claim indulgence if we write with some warmth of som.; Rmongstour Catholic co-religionists in England who have b >en tho most cruel and unscrupulous opponent* of our movement and tia .ucers of our people, unmindful of the deep debt of gratitude which they owe to Irish agitation. But we most earnestly assure our correspondents Out it was never our intention for od 6 moment to confound all EnglUh Catholics in our strictures. Weshouldbe indeed ungraUful if we for an instant forgot that the elite of the Catholic intellect, if not r.ink, in Ecgland is strenuous on our side ; above all if we forg )t the priceless services that the illustrious Cardinal Mannine has rendered to our ca-ise. While wo are on the subject we are anxious to offer a word of sincere and gratef al acknowledgment of the keen-sishted sympathy aad virile force of the Catholic Press whose larpp and rapidly-growing influence in England forms a wholesome antidote to the Court-guide Catholicity of the TnUet, which would fain degrade the ancient faith to a bigoted aristocratic superstition. ani mike the Vaticm an appendix ot ihe Primrose League. A frightful outrage took place at the fair of Templemore laßt week ; and the chief actors in it were a young lanilord and a bailiff foe one is naiied Lloyd, the other Swereny. Both had been at the fair, and both were, it is statei, under the influence of drink when returning therefrom. The master was unwilling to go home the servant was using some pressure to get him along, when naturally, the town being crowded, a small crowd gathered round the disputants A labourer named TbomsoD, who knew the parties, stepped over to advise the tipsy landlord to go along, and for thanks he was met with a bullet from Sweeny's revolver, fired, it is declared, at the landlord's bidding. A young man namr d Kennedy, a cooper, rushed forward to prevent more murderous woik, as the bailiff was brandishing his weapon wildW. He struck L'oyd with his fist, and Sweeny who stood within a foot and a half of Kennedy, presented his weapon pointblank, aad shot him through the heart. This brutal tragedy, enacted waitonly aud in the open day, aroused the indignation of the people

fo overflowing. They j )ined the police in the chase, and when the assassins were captured tbey wero strongly inclined to lynch them. It was deposed at the inquest by one of the police-sergeants t h-*t the only expression of regret made by the landlord was one to the iftvct that he was sony he didn't shoot mure. It was shown th*t the crime was committed without provocation, and a verdict of wilful murder Wrfß returned agaiust Hweeney, a- d of being accessory thereto against Lloyd. Both were taken to Clonmel Gaol, but whether only to join the liberated assassins of Coolgreany and Mitchelstown rem-uns to be seen. Unhappily the landlords and the licensed revoiver-menhave been but too well taughtthelussont lat the law, "thou shall not kill," has no recognition in j jry-box or Dublin Castle when murder is brought home to iheir doors. The world has been led to believe that Ulster is a land flowing with milk and honsy — a perfect Arcadia of contentment, prosperity, and all toe heavmly virtues and attributes. Intellect, culture, and enlightenment, it has be n over and over asserted, are to ba there found almost aione in Ireland ; and its burning loyalty is, above all, iis sign and sigual. This bright picture, we now learn, has a very different reverse. The revelation comes in a somewhat startling fashion. There exists in Ulster a body called the Handloom Weavers' Association, one of the objects of wbich appears to be to investigate the social condition of the poor cottiers who eke out an existence by working at their looms at home. The report just published discloses a state of things which, we do not hesitate to say, could not be matched outside of Ulster. The investigators report that "In many cases the poor weaver and his family have only one ' bay ' of a house to live iu,and in it what they term a bed — the bedstead being 6imply a lew old sticks, with an old quilt thrown over it, but neither blanket nor pillow, nor any comfort of any kind that I could see — nothing but the old quilt to hide their poverty — the man (of the house) sitting there almost naked, his wife almost terror-stricken at her condition, and three or four little children running about dressed in rags, and hunger pictured on every face. In other cases the family have got two ' bays 'of a house. These familus generally have six or seven children — the eldest of them pass the day ' winding ' for their father and mother — all of them in rags, dirt, and poverty, growing up in complete ignorance, kept from school or from being educatei in any way by the hands ol those who, instead of letting the parents of these poor children earn a fair living, go on in their unjust dealings, heaping up their thousands and thousands of pounds sterling, and building for themselves splendid mansions." But it is not alone that there is starvation, dirt, and outraged decency ; but there appcari to be in some cases also shocking cruelty. Children of tender years are set to work when they ought rather to be at Bcbool or at play. In one case, say the investigators, "we went into a house wheie we found a poor little boy of eleven years of age. chaiued to trie looms by the ankles, with a hanging lock worn at each ankle, the keys ot the locks in lAs father's pockets, sitting thereat the wheel, with no shirt of any kind on him. In this same house there weie three more children ' burrowing ' through the floor, the mother out looking for samethug for them to eat, and one sick girl lying in a aiate of consumption ; and all these are huddled together in one ' b.iy ' ot a house, along with the loom, and what they call a bed." What say tie " loyal " and prosperous manufacturers of Ulster to ibis terrible in lictment? it is a companionpicture to that of the groat lnsuiance frauds in Belfast. The pious church-gom^ gcutkmtn mixed up in these transactions are nothing if not "lojal." and would fig it to the death to maintain the Uuion. Verily, there seems to b 3 a good deal oE the whited sepulchre about " loyal and prosperous ' Unionist Ulster.