IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 28, 2 November 1888, Page 13

IRISH NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Thh following contains its own explanation:— Lower Hutt, October 5 1888. William O'Bri.n Branch of the National League, Hutt and PeloDe, Wellington. New Zealand. To the Most Reverend Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin,— May it please your Grace to accept the sum of thirty pounds which we forward to you in aid of the poor evicted tenants of lieland. from the said Branch. Although thousands of milea away, under the Southern Cross, in the Antipodes our hearts bent in un.sjn with the high national aquation*? cf our pt-ople for Home Rule, for justice and freedom. We admire and estpem the noble eff^r's and stiugglc of our cotin^rvnun to liberate themselves from the thraldom if a galling, uunea able de-poti<- power. Theretrrnciatum ol our Gr-en Isln, and ami the <=ucco-n of \Ua great movement to '•ccure a Native hous.-ol Parliament in College Green havr our eeriest pjflyei We appreciate the dauntless and indefatigable ex rtions of our noble leaders and the able advocacy of our cause at the Vatican by yourGr^ce; theieby bringing to no"ught and foiling Rutish intrigue at Home. We protest against English coercion in Ireland, as e\il and degrading to our nation. We protest against he barbarous and inhuman treUment of our National champions aad pnesthcod, loading them with infamy, by ob igmg them to don the prison garb acd associate with criminal.). We cannot but applaud our poor tenants' usisfauc: to landlord rapacity in lieland. In New Zealand, jour Giace, the public opinion is with u°. The Press, as a mle, is with us, all Nationalists are with us, the ciuse is bound to triumph and some, c f us look forward to the day, with anxious desire, when Ireland in the langmge of the poet, „hall take her place among the nations of the earth, etc. We have great sympathy with poor John Mandeville whom an English Government murdered in prison. May the God of Mercy grant him eteinal rest. Assuring your Grace that we shall contribute our mite, and begging your Grace's blessing. —We remain with the most proiound respect, your Grace's obedient servants, Me^is. J. Ouiiffe, Secretary; T. Minogue, President- B Byrne, Vice- President ; J. Lane, Treasurer.