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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 26 October 1888, Page 17

Thb Most Rev. Dr. Moran left Dunedin on Monday for Oamarn, where he is holding a visitation. Hia Lordship, we understand, will return to this city at the beginning of next week.

The Rev. Father Burke will deliver a lecture on the " Men of the Home Rule Movement" in the Choral Hall. Dunedin, on Tuesday, November 6th. Those who heard the rev. gentleman's lecture on a previous occasion need not be told what they may expect, and thoic

who did not hear it cannot too soon amend their misfortnna, or their fault, which ever it may be, if it be not both combined. The Christian Brothers' sieging class, " the yonng Oecilians," will, on this occasion also, as before, contribnte several songs and choruses during the course of the lecture, and we understand that most pleasing effects may be predicted from the pains bestowed on their training. The object is that of defraying the cost of the gymnasium and other improvements lately made in connection with the Brothers' schoolp, and it jb one that all must acknowledge thoroughly deserving of their support. Thb Bey. Father Laverty, a young priest just arrived from Ireland, has visited Dunedin this week en route from Melbourne to Ohristchurch, for which diocese he is destined. The rev. gentleman expressed himself highly pleased with his first impressions of New Zealand, as formed in the hospitable company of the Rev. Fathers Lynch and Vereker . Thk painting of the Madonna, mentioned by us last week as presented to the Dominican Nuns for their approaching art-nnion, was the gift of Mrs. Reilly, Danedin. Another valuable picture has since been Bent in, the donor being as yet unknown. The discovery by Truth that Sir A. L. Smith U himself a rackrenter is a very significant one. This Judge was looked upon as the one Commissioner, of the three appointed to decide between the Times and Mr. Parnell, who was least likely to be prejudiced. The furious anti-Irish temperof Sir " Torquemada " Day waswell-knowo.and Judge Eannen was strongly Buspected. Sir A. L. Smith, however, was supposed to be as unprejudiced as a member of high society could be ia dealing with a popular, and, moreover, a " mere Irish " cause. But now it transpires that the Judge is himself a rack-renting Irish landlord, and that he takes his seat on the Commission smarting under a rednction of 20 per cent, made by the Land Court in his rent?. OfjconraeSir A.L. Smith is firmly persuaded that Parnelliem is the roos of all evil, and that it is his duty as a man and a brother to identify it with ontrage and crime. As to the reproach brought against Mr. Parnell that by bringing his Scotch action he seaks to defeat the Commission, it carries its own refutation with it. For, if there is anything to be defeated in one (legal inquiry by another inquiry of the B»me kind, it can only be some illegality or contradiction of justice. Considering, however, what the judges are who form the Commission, Mr. Parnell would be a traitor to his cause in submitting himself unreservedly to their decisions. The lettar referred to by onr correspondent " Justice " as published by the Christchurch Star is identical with that to which we ourselves referred in a late issue as received from itß London correspondent by the Dunedin Evening Star. It ia only fair for us to state, however, that the Dunedin Star is always ready to publish argnments in favour of the Irish cause, and is free from the bitter animus that seems to prevail in Christchurch. Our correspondent returns a very able answer to the charges made against Mr. Parnell with regard to the Commission and his action in Scotland. As to the attack on Mr. Parnell's moral character, '• Justice," as we did ourselves, very properly passes it by unconsidered. And, indeed, nothing of the kind should appear in any respectable newspaper, nor could any respectable correspondent possibly be accountable for it. It is simply disreputable, or, to use a coarse term, justified by the occasion and necessary to express the truth, it is simply blackguard. Editors and correspondents who provide such details for their readers show the estimation in which they hold the society wherein their newspapers circulate. Thk charges presented by the Times to the Commission, as reported to us, implicate sixty-five members of the National party, ■ot, however, including Mr. Michael Davitt They accusa the various organisations of having had for their end Irish independence, which they certainly had, unless, as we suppose must be the case, the mean. ing be separation from England, which is not true. The members of these bodies are accused of conspiring to promote agrarian agitation, and to prevent the payment of rents, and of intimidation by means of boycotting, resulting in outrages. The leaguers are further accused of spending their funds to bribe the commission of crime, to hinder the detection of criminals, and to defend prisoners. The forged letters are also imputed to Mr. Parnell. We see, therefore, that a goodly programme has been drawn up, and if the Commissioners manage to get through with it in two months, they will deserve credit for their despatch and diligence. The Times, meantime, is doing all it can to impede or prevent Mr. Parnell's Scotch action ; thereby showing its dread of an honest jury. When it knew that a packed jary could easily be obtained by it, it dared the Parnellites to prosecute, but now \ when a fair jury is revealed to it, panic takes possession of it, and its efforts to eecapa are indecent in the extreme. The Tories, who are so bold in Ireland, show themselves rather timid in England. One of their party explains, for example, that the

quiet manner in which the statue of General Gordon was unveiled the other day, and which was complained of as Bhabby, w»s due to fear of the Socialists, who would have mpde a demonstration on theoccasion. Need we ask why Sir Charles Warren with his polict force, supported by troops of soldiers, was not taken into consideration ia the matter ? In Ireland Mr. Balfour would easily have provided for such an emergency, and the casualties ensuing would be made use of to illustrate his excellent method of rule. But a strong Government — or what is boasted of as being so, on one side of the Channel, becomes a mighty weak and cowardly concern on the other. The London correspondent of the OLago Daily Times tays Cardinal Morao, on his visit to Ireland, has occasioned some concern to the Vatican authorities by the action taken by him in politics. The only authority at the Vatican, however, with whom the Cardinal has to do in the matter is the Pope himself, and we may be convinced his mind is thoroughly understood by his Eminence. Nevertheless, we oan readily believe that to certain authorities at Borne, of more or less elevation, his Eminence's conduct has occasioned extreme dismay. And much may they profit by the lesson they so badly needed, and which the Cardinal has known well how to bestow upon them. Lord Habtington has evidently been doing a strong stroke of business at Belfast. His Lordship promises the Orangemen a system of local Government, when the country is in a sufficiently safe con - dition, that is, we may suppose, when it is a desert, from which the population has been completely driven out. But before that good time arrives, we may reasonably conclude that Lord Hartington and his friends will have little to do with granting or withholding any measure, of the kind alluded to or another. His lordship shows his true state of mind, meantime, by urging that Conservatives and Unionists should join to contest the Parliamentary elections. He evidently sees that the dissentient Liberals are on their last legs, and thab all their hope lies ia becoming Tories without disguise. But whether the electors will prefer the Tory and traitor to the simple Tory, we" have yet to see. Mr. Balfour, we are told, has shown at Manchester, that his Government in Ireland has reduced crime and outrage. But, then a man can show many things to those who choose to see them. With Mr. Balfonr for a showman in Irish affairs, airy nothing necessarily assumes very imposing shapes to the eyes of the interested or the unsophisticated. As to the gentleman's plea that Coercion is not so rigidly enforced as it was in Mr. Gladstone's time, what does that prove ? Simply that a stronger effort than that made by our Bomba was ineffectual, and that, therefore, he wastes diminished strength. A new Catholic periodical •■ The Catholic Magazine," has made its appearance in Melbourne. The magazine, which is published by the Victorian Catholic Young Men's Societies Union, and with the approbation of the Archbishop and Bishops of the Colony, promises very well. The first number, which is to hand, contains several extremely interesting, and ably written articles. Among the more notable is the first portion of the " Story of Joan of Arc," told by the Rev. J. O'Malley. S. J. But of this we need not say much, the writer's * polished style and eminent literary abilities being known throughout the colonies. The article quite sustains the reputation in question: The Rev. W. Kelly, S.J., alao contributes some fine translations from the Greek of Pindar. The publication ia neatly got up, and in every respect creditable to its publishers, and we heartily wish it a long and prosperous career. We have received from Mr. Davidson, local agent for the New York Life Insurance Company, a copy of the NenATork' News-Letter, a neat little publication which contains a great deal of interesting information on the subject of life insurance. Myers and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street. They guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. The r artificial teeth gives general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with the inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Bead — [Advt.] '•O'Connell's Grand-Niece" is a work which is just now creating something like a sensation io French literary circles. It ia a volume from the pea of Germaine d'Anjour, published by V. Lecoffre, 90 Rue Bonaparte, Paris. In the form of an historical romance, ' the author portrays with remarkable fidelity the Catholic spirit of the Irish people and the powerful influence which they have exercised on England and Scotland. The Liberator appears in every page of the work in the great role which it was his lot to play. His grandniece—the heroine— ie in all her trials and troubles a true impersonation of a high-minded lady, Catholic and Irish to her heart's core. Catholic France is not forgetful of the glories of Catholic Ireland. Catholic Times.