Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 24, 5 October 1888, Page 9

Dublin Notes.

(From the National papers.) Mb. Gladstone, in expressing his thanks to a Sheffield deputation tor a handsome present on the occasion of bis golden wedding, said tbat when he secured Home Rule for Ireland his political woik would be finished. The population of Ireland continues to grow gradually smaller and painfully less. Recent returns show an emigration of 80,000 for the last year — an inciease of 20.000 over the year preceding. It represents the best element of the people, 60 per cent, being between 15 and 25 years of age. The populatioa has dwindled down toabout 4,750,000, and the ratio i 3 constantly augmenting. The Orangemen and Freemasons are in high favour with the British Ministry. Lord Salisbury thanks the Irish Orangemen for a vote of confidence in the Government as effusively and gratefully as if they were his bosom friends and tha sole e«pportera of his party ; and his cewhew, Mr. Balfour, whilst cultivating the sympathies of the Orangemen is careful to keep on cordial terms with the Freemasons. The ceremony of laying the corner stone of the O'Connell Memorial Church at Gahirciveen took place at 4 o'clock p.m. *n August 1, when the Right Rev. Dr. Oroke, Archbishop of Cashel, attended by the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Bishop of Kerry ; the Very Rev. Canon Brosnan, Rev. Father M'Carthy, and other priests in soutanes and surplices, proceeded from the presbytery to the edifice, which ia only a few yards distant from the Canon's residence. After the usual prayers had been said and the stone had been formally laid, tie proceßsion wended its way around the walls of the church, which have already reached the height of seven or eight feet from the ground. The structure, I may add, will be a purely Gothic one. and will easily afford accommodation for over two thousand people. The nave and chancel are 152 feet long ; the width of the transepts measures 102 feet ; that across the aisles measures 68, while the width of nave from centre to centre of column is 31. After the religious ceremony had concluded, the Archbishop, Bishop, priests, and several lay visitors took their stand on an improvised platform, where Canon Brosnan read an address to Dr. Croke from the priests and people of Cahirciveen, to which hts Grace suitably replied. The Archbishop was accorded a magnificent ovatioa on coming forward ; and when in the course nt hii remarks he informed bis tudience that he him9elf was half a Kerryman, the applause that greeted the declaration was actually deafening. The walls of the church were crowded with people eager to hear his Graci, while the young fry were perched on housetop and window-sill. After the Archb.Bop had concluded his speech, theie was a moment of silence, during which Mr. Guy, of Cork, was enabed to taka a photographic view of the occupants of the platform. When Mr. Guy was satisfied that all was right, a collection amounting to two hundred odd pounds sterling was immediately made — the Archbishop heading the list with £20. "A lorer of Ireland " writes: '"A few weeks ago I noticed a report of a generous donation to the Very Rev. Canon Monahan to chow esteem for him and the Bishop of N»ttine:ham. I was indeed glad to see it ; but may I venture to suggest that any one wishing to show their esteem and appreciation for the Bishop of Nottingham for his n anly and courageous sympathies to a poor and unjastlv treated cation, should send donations to himself personally? Very few people <ue aware of the real and hard losa that the Bishop has had to bear because of ' his sympathies ' ; few leahsethat he has been practically boycotted by the rich and unsympathetic of England ia their to-be-expected assistance in the general work of religiou in the diocese and its institutions. The Bishop is too noble, too manly, and too humble ever to make allusion to it, but there are some few, at least, who cannot but teel that, like roor Ire'and, he would be more largely helptd and liberally dealt with, if only he was less Irish. Lovers of Ireland, do not forget that his love tor your country has not been merely expressed in words, but, to use a vulgar phrase, 4< he is heavily paying the piper.' Do not let it be so. Come to the rescue 1 " Mr. Paroell wrote to the Times, August 6, challenging Mr. Chamberlain to publish the local Government scheme alleged to be in Parnell's handwriting. Mr Parnell says: "The publication of the scheme will fully establish the entire consistency of my public and private declarations on the subject. If Mr. Chamberlain still declines to publish the scheme, and contents himself with misleading versions of na purport, the public will appreciate his conduct and understand that its publication would neither substantiate his truthfulness nor vindicate hia candour. The same remark also applied to the astounding statement of h:s chosen go-between, O'Sbea. Let him print ths allege 1 Coercion Act, with the altarations in my hand in brackets." Mr. Parnell then argues at length that it was only Chamberlain's illegitimate exieasion of the Dublia Council scheme for merely administrative purp s?3, winch he favoured in 1832, sin 1 that ha has 6ince dcnoinced it. lie says: "Such a scheme would have been a t-uitable achievement for our small party ot 35, but the return of 8G Irsh members, said Lord Carn.xrvonM declaration to me in favour ot an Irish Parliament lendered the cjnsideration of Irish autonomy mdispensab'e, and 1 laid down this position at the Imperial Hotel dianer in the aituma of 1885. Our view in 1882, from whicu we never departed, whs tbat the functions cf tie proposal Council sboul.l be purely adnjitiistiativ^, and that it should not be scot pteil in the slightest degree as a substit ite for the Parliament wljichi&lr.iObamber.itin proposed. If Mr. Chamberlain publishes my letters, it will be tbat he must, early in 18S5, hire beoi fully acquainted with our views." The news that the health of John Dillon, M.P., is breakin^ down has caused a feeling of alarm among his friends, and it is feare^ that the same fare and fate is in store for his brother member. Th c eauee of Mr. Dillon's decline iv prison is due directly to foul air

together with insufficiency of exercise and diet. Mr. Dillon if, as U well known, a man of a very delicate nature as well as being a man of' delicate frame, and these unwholesome surroundings are having their effect. The most surprising thing in connection with ,his imprisonment is that he makes no complaint, but, on the contrary, is ready ti exaggerate any little attention on tne part of the prison authorities Speaking of hia incarceration, the Freevian's Journal says : '' If anything should happen John Dillon while in prison we do not know who could stand between the people aad those responsible." This in a degree is aa evidence of the alarm felt over his confinement, which bas been made all the more uncomfortable because of the humid atmosphere which he is obliged to live in. Tberain9, too, which have fallen so constantly during his three waeka* incarceration have prevented him from taking that exercise which is permitted him within his limited prison hou6e. Following is a summary of the Government bill for the appoint" ment of a special Commission to inquire into the Timed charges against Irish Members of Parliament, introduced in the House of Cjmmons, on July 10. Three commissioners are to be appointed by Government, with extraordinary powers to call witnesses, compel the production of documents, and issue commissions to examine witnesses in foreign countries. Tho usual penalties of perjury to be awarded for false testimony before the Commission. Article five says :— That any witness may be cross-examined on behalf of any other person appearing before the Commissioner*. A witness shall not be excu««d from answering any question put to him on the ground of any privilege or on the ground that the answer may criminate or tend to criminate himself. No evidence taken under this Act shall be admissible against any person in any civil or criminal proceedings except in case tha witness shall be accused of having given false evidence in the inquiry under this Act. Article sixprotects witnesses from civil or criminal suits based upon any evidence given by them before this tribunal. Mr. J. J. Clancy writes to the Boston Herald : " One statement I have heard on pretty good authority, to the effect that the Time* people, being now face to face with the necessity of producing the persons through whom it came by the forged letter, are offering huge rewards for the discovery of the actual forger or forgers, in order to get them or him out of the country, and that even if they taeaeed hi this search they will not accomplish their ultimate object, becauso there has been treachery in the camp of the forgers themselves. But there is nothing certain as yet, except that Mr. Parnell is now thoroughly roused, and is determined at all hazards to get to the bo.t orn of the plot. The investigation will not begin till November, the judges being determined to take their vacation before beginning work. When they do begin, a very heavy bar of English and Irish lawyers will be engaged. Webster and James will appaar, as before, for the Times, and the leading counsel for Parnell will probably be Russell and Rei 1, the member for the Dumfries boroughs, the former the foremost man at the English Bar, the latter one of its most distinguished membars. It is doubtful whether any other Irish member will be directly represented, and it is doubtful, too, whether it will be necessary for any other to engage a lawyer, though, of course, it is kard to tell what the swearing of the Time* witnesses will not necessitate." Gladstone, Pamell and their adherents are jubilant over the resolution of the Government to hold an autumn sossion,as it demonstrates, clearly, in their opinion, that the Parliamentary machinery is utterly disrupt/ad and no longer able to perform the legislative work required of it. Daring the session drawing to a olose, the lash question has held th-j boards, to the exclusion of all others, and the people of England, Wales and tr'otland, who for some years have been waiting for remedial legislation, now finding that cloture h\n failed of its purpose and that they are no nearer having the laws which they are so much in need of enacred, are reidy to clamour for a change in the manner of transacting ths public business. If the Government, Gladstone and Paraell think, wants to appeaie the people, and give them laws they demand, there is only one recourse left to them and that is to transfer the Iridh question tj a Parliament sitting in Dublin. Mr. J. O'Kelly, M.P. for North Boscommon, who was arrested in Mark-lane on Tuesday night, July 24, had a remarkable and adventurous career. He was educated at the University of Dublin and at the Sorbonne, Paris. For some time he served in the French army, taking part in the Franco-German war, and retiring as captain after the fall of Pans. He than became <i j >urnalißt, and was for a while one of the editors of tha New York Herald, As newspaper correspondent he went to Cuba. In that capacity he visite.l Cespsd«« and the Cuban rebels. On returning to the Spanish lines he was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. He was, however, saved by Benor Cistelar, and wrote in the expedition against the Sioux chief Sitting Bull, and in 1881 be went to the Soudan with the intention of visiting the Mahdi. His intention was, however, frustrated ; he was stopped at Dongolo by order of the Egyptian Government. The speech for which he has now b^en arrested was delivered in his own constituency at Boyle on June 25. A very interesting and suggestive caremoDy was performed on tho 2nd August at KUhmer, about five miles from Kilrush, when the Most Key. Dr. Dman, Vicar-General of the diocese, laid the first stone of the fir^t of toe houses which are to ba erected for the use of the evicted Vandeleur tenants, Cleary and Connell. The site is on the property of Mr. Reeve?, a near relative of Mr. Vaudeleur, and is magnificently situated. The Vicar-General wan accompanied by the Rev. Father o'Mearn, P.P. ; Rev. Father M'Keona, CO., Kilrush; aDd Rev. Father Scanlan, C.C, When the ground had beea prepared the Vicar-General read prayer 3 appropriate to the time, and laid and blessed the first stone. Addressing those present, be said the duty he had perf ormudwas one that raised to his mind sad and painful thoughts. He felt moved to think of what had been done in the past few weeks. He could not bring himself to speak of it. He prayed the blesaiag of Providence on what they did that day, believiog, as from his heart ha did, that it was a holy and sanctified cause in which they laboured. The Bey, Mr. O'Meara, P.P., on the part of the tenants of the parish,

w*Th?^ Bey -P rr l D l aan for hiß kindneßß in comin s *> hel P them. The building of the houses now proceeded, and before lone the tenants evicted will be provided with comfortable homes g rf«nHf n *? belllCoFe members of the Irish party are, beyond all B»»« Th«Tt? ' y oun ?. W , lllie Redmond, and old Joseph Gillfes «iggar. The latter won his laurels in the obstruction days— the days Jbenth^L^H 78 hand - W8 f raißed a « ainst the Irish members an y d S^o^ n^nT^Sg= ff&. X^ «E£ W?™ £ w6w 6 IS ' naturall y- nervous, diffident, shy, self-conscious. SdfffldiSu l^! 8 T'u """? When at tbe offing at his remarks, J t Jf: eDtl * ells tbe Hoaße he " afraid he is trespassing on its Wr »fr™ n tODe ° f a «>™orßke f an endorsing " hear, a benchTnnJr* 11 '^ 11^" 10^^^ buDchba <*< who glares at him from !n mif I Blgga , r> hG kQOW8 ' i Bon lhft P° u ° ce - to jump andsmtL, H V'T?' an ? 8 ° tbe un^^nate man stammers Wh t?« * ? ce f V ! Dtuall .y collapses amid the laughter-or rather tS£; dSSbt hi S T nt lau g bter ~of Joe. Biggar also ttnl! * gbt< by blocklD g blll s and opposing returns, in inconh? s TnlW g 9O ?P O T tBl u andnOteVen th ewarme B t solicitations of hiecolleagues will induce him to unbend and allow a bill introduced t/nJlnf > P ?f TBta?eT Bta?e Wben therule * of the House give him power £fi PMP M » tk ?\ Ta ° ncr aDd y° u °? Kedmond are also bursting with hv fmLti I— 0 ' fld^ f8 Big S ar in the moßt Bincer e form-namely, t™ ,g, g p\° ( r klng tbln^ 8 for honourable members opposite. But there is this evident difference between the two, whip T gai ?" a blgb Bense ot dut y for the &«>* °* the cause lAnr Tvf r a Bpirifc of devilr ?' fun and humour. The l*££r 8 tbe .^eatest wag m the House. Young Redmond, l.ke fh Si 1 f l'H earnest He BbOWB beßt h ™ fa e feels during ftlini^L* «*, bltter v s P ce eh from the Governmeat benches. His £!«£.?? A V l nt & BbootiD g awkward interruptions, in which he is ably assisted by Dr. Tanner. Another little game of the two «TpS™ !? l hG floor wben Par Del1 ' Dillo °> °r °' B "en is speaking, and shout themselves hoarse in rapturous applause from mLZ7 ?™ turn san^orum of the Tory benches I The quietest members of the pany are Edward Shiel, one of the whip., and J. H. even wlkJo JesSon Th' eUher ° f theße g entlemen to B P e « k ' ° r f«nnSm,h? S / 6 *>°th very young men.andable men,aorl it 9 , n n °. d n °, ub l ,m;, m ; P deß ty which restrains them from taking part now and then in the deliberations. I have only space to mention that Thomas ?i£n D \*£°, £ nQ With Big & ar in the representation of Cavan, is JB'?/J 8 '?/ 1 f u r tb u6u 6 aßßlduous manner he endeavours to cultivate a knowledge of shorthand by taking notes of the speeches from one of w«- ii«f 'wi. 1 ?DG? DG day Tentured ask Mr. O'Hanlon how be Zl F,u gf°-ng f°- n v the intric acies of phonography, and he assured T T^^ look that he was ablel ° <° ™lc twenty words a minute ! Tom will have to hurry up ; but he does not think it.