Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 9 November 1888, Page 9

Dublin Notes.

(From the National papers.) J™ LL ° ndon correspondent of the Western, Morning News says :- The Government has not yet decided what to do in the autumn about Lord Ashbourne's Act. The case stands precisely thus. The Commiaeion had five millions of money to deal with. It is asked to advance no leP 8 a sum than £5 701.000. It has sanctioned an expenditure of £4,638,000. It ha H issued loans to the amount of something more than three millions It has therefore in hand two millions, of ?^S??° 18 , ready a PP r °P riat ed, and has a margin of only some £360,000 to work with. The applications are coming in at the rate of nearly £200,000 a m .nth. Loans are being s motioned at the rate of something more thin £200,000 a month, so that by the end of September all the available money will be appropriated, and there will be applications to deal with for more than a million in addition." v *v r pme awarded for " English and one moder 1 language " by the Intermediate Education Board has been hitherto won by "the aid cf French or German, but this year Master Michael Hoban, Omstian Schools, Westport. substituting Irish for a foreign language, has taken first place in the £10 prize list, Junior Grade. This unprecedented achievement will be more fully appreciated when we consider that Jrench and German have allotted to them each 700 marks while Celtic has only 600. Master Hoban's success should be an encouragement to our youthful countrymen to study their own •' grand old tongue, ' and an inducement to the Intermediate Board, in the spirit of fair play, to make the marks for Celtic at least equal to those for French and German. The same youthful competitor has be«n awarded the silver medal and composition prize for Celtic. • J*f m i. er Somer8 > of Coolroe, who offered strenuous resistance had tortined his place with earthwork and trenches. Before operations were begun, he made an offer, which the Magistrate advised the landlord to accept. The landlord, however, refused. Two hundred policemen, with tbe aid of a battering ram, then began the attack. After thre» hours of useless conflict, an American gentleman offered to pay half of the rent, but his offer was refused. The police then resumed the attack, using their bayonets, but they were compelled to retire, many being injured. At 6 p.m., seeing that the gable was on fire, onf'j « j anl CaDon Doyle advised the inmates to surrender. I he defenders came out and were immediately arrested. There was a rumour laßt week that the forger of the Parnell attersnad much to do with the Edinburgh suit. One of the liish leaders says the letters and papers sent over here by Patrick Bgan have thrown a startling light on the mystery. They have furnished information on a lot of points which weie before hidden. Mr. Parnell has made up his mind as to the author of the letters and can lay his hands on him when he wishes. This is the reason ior his confident action lately.

The Loudon correspondent of the Western Morning News gives the following mysterious paragraph first in his letter of Monday la*t —"I hardly know how to put the piece of news which reaches me to-day. _Ifit be put too absolutely ie will be untrue. If it b 3 put too loosely it may be misleading. Perhaps it is best to say thai at the present moment Lord Hartington may, if he pleases, become, at what - •ver time he may chooea within tbe next few months, leader of the House of Commons. The suggestion of course is not hi«. Il does not come from him. But it has been made, and Lord Hartinoton's own decision will be filial as to the result."

The Lord Lieutenant has a pious opinion, which he communicated to a few people of Newtownbutler, in the County Cavan, on Tuesday, that the Government should give every poss'ble assistance and •ncouragement to the Irish people in fostering the native lndus.nes. What kind of encouragement? So far as piomi-es are concerned there has been an abundance. Mr. Goschen. at a Primrose banque/, vrould be prepared to give any amount of lip encouragement to every industry in Ireland. But when it comes to performance, the action of Mr. Balfour last session in parading and then shelving absolutely the Drainage Bills is a complete il u*tratioa of the insincerity of talk such as Lord Londonderry— probably for the want ut something e'ae to say— indulged in yesterdiy in a furtive way to a small salaaming deputation. The Government has at las>t become very much disturbad at lhe manner in which evictions are conducted m Ireland, and be^m to stow signs of fear lest the condemnation under which these scenes have fallen in England shall prove fatal t> thtir continuance in P °7/l\ ,o y aiV eß P eci ally incensed at Lord Clanncarde's cold-blooded and wholesale evictions, lhey have tried to dissuaJe him from bis determination to oust his tenants, but it is useless. He is determine tto carry on the war to the knife, and will grant no mercy, even to the sick and h -lploss. Shy lock-like he insists npon thewhjle pound of flesh, a id wilt not accept payment of rent. He ms-s s upon proceeding, and it is a striking c >mm -ntary upon tne pos tini >n of the Government that they aie obliged to re ider assistance to what even they condemn. Ihe evictions will greatly injure th- Government, for Liberal speakers all over the couatry are making use of the scenes at the evic ions to exemplify the brutality of Mr. Balfoui s policy. M-. Shaw-Lefevre, Postmast .r-Geni-ral in Mr. orlads:ones government, was present taking notice of all that went on with a view of arousing English electors to a sense of th- cruelty and horror of England's policy towards Ireland. The ex-Minister personally aided seveial of the homeless families. Cardinal Moran vmted the Archdioees; of Tuam last week (ending September I), and on entering the archirpiscopal town was presented with an address of welcome by the township Commissioners. His Eminence replied in a few touching words— wouls wuich show, as previous addresses delivered by the Cardinal since he came amongst ua have shown, how deeply he has been impressed with the difference that exists between the sjcial conditioner his native country and that of the country of his adopt, on. Caidinal Moran speaks out boldly what he thinks. The colonies, he says, are prcs-

perous because they enjoy the blessings of that good government which never fails to bring prosperity. Their system of government v pood alike for the colonies and for tin Empire at large. Their having separate Parliaments, observes his Eminence, does not weaken their loyalty ;it rather adds to it. This the Cardinal spsaks to from his own personal experfeace, apirt altogether from the general knowledge whicb everyone has of colonial affairs . We can conceive nothing so strongly calculated to make Home Rale converts than a contrast between the conditions of Irelanl and any of the colonies. The silent, steady, and deaily decay of t"heone, and the evei -growing prosperity of the other, tell their own tale. The progress made by the National Indemnity Fund is watched with extraordinary vigilance by the Daily Express and the Evening Mail. Their articles on the subject betoken an amjunt of industry ia scanning the lists and reading the letters which we publish that is quite amazing as well as amusing. Wo deem it right to direct their special a-tention to a few facts in connection with it appearing in our columns to-day. One of them is that at a meeting of the Nationalists of Belfast between £200 and £300 were subscribed. Another is thar a first instalment of £50 is on its way to us from Newry for the same object. A third is that £40 were subscribed in Naas on Monday, September 3. A fourth is ihat £40 more were contributed m Thurles on tbe same day. A fifth is tuat a fund was opened in Oarlow Bimultaneou-ly. And now we cad their attention to the list of acknowledgments irom ourselves. They will there see the list of donations headed by one of the oldest and one of the youngest bishops in Ireland. The Venerable Dr. Leahy sends £5, and the youthful Bishop of Kilmore sends £10. They will note that every quarter of Ireland is well and substantially represented. They will see Dublin and Galway, Kerry and Wicklow, Roscommon and Tipperary, Dungurven and Dungannon, all uniting for the common object. We shall ask them, in conclusion, to note that both the Bishops named ara very clear in their expression of opinion. " I say fur myself and the priests of Kilmore. 1 says Dr. McGennis. "that we have found the National League free from association or sympathy with crime." And Dr. Leahy gives it '• the sanction of his approval and support.'" Complaints that are onl y too reasonable have been made over and over again of the delay which face 3 the tenants applying to have judicial rents fixed. Half the value, such as it is, of the Land Acts, has been sacrificed by the bungling slowness of the machinery provided for giving effect to the remedial legislation. How far an improvement in this respect will follow from the recent multiplication of the sub-Commi sion remains to be seen. Meanwhile, •' A Memorandum for the Guidance of Assistant Commissioners " has been issued from the offices ot the Irish Land Commission. It is a characteristic document. In a series of paragraphs, elaborate in th^ir minute^pardcularity, the order in which the hearing of applications for the fixing of judicial rents is set forth. The Sub-Commissions are manned by one legal Commissioner, and by two, sometimes four, and sometimes six Assistant-Commissioners. The memorandum develops a scheme by which the assistants will branch off in their district into pairs, and by which tbe le^al Commissioner will skip about from pur to pair, and from week to week, in a manner most economical as to time, and Siving as to travelling expose?. The memorandum is of no interest to the public generally, save as showing how very precis? and painstaking a body like tbe Irish Land Commission can be in aff drs of redtape, while looseness and de'ay are its dit-tinc ive feature* in the practical portion of its proceedings. Ji some of tbe time which is monoplised by flooing the Press with rubbishy documents, and preparations fit doing business which ousrht to be dour, we should have less conipl int> tiom the suitors m the Land Courts and the public service would be. the gainer. -^Mr. J. Cairn«. agent to the Committee of the Arrau Relief Fund, his prepared his leport consequent on the completion of the charitable work undeitaken by the Committee. From th-; commencement of tbe movement on 1114 26th Maich till the Ifith August, when the last distribution was made, there were 1572 tons' of potatcei 22 tons of Indian and oatmeil. and 16 cwt of (lour given out to the various distucts on the three ltlands. The number of families ipheved was 483, numbering 2,314. Wr. Cairns declares that the iclief tnus given his been the means of saving, not only the lives of nviny ot Us recipients, but also aU the catt c on the islands. We take the following huggestive paragraph from the report —•• Tte planting of the islands has been unaccountably neglected. Had it been undertaken even hfty j cars ago, that which i 3 now a wild, chrerlew waste of lock would be clothed with verdure, the natural salubrious climate marie stilltmore so, cord pasturage afforded for cattle and by the harbour for game aflbrded an additional attraction would be given to the islands, and an added source of industiy and convenience to the inhabitants. Now one can tray. 1 from end to end. and in the matter dtrtc* will have to uronouued 'all barren.' Except for tl c iew trees around the vicarage at Kilvonnn, and Mr. Johnstons residence at Kilmurvey, there is uot m nenal for a whip-handle in the thiee islands, lhe remedying of this preat defect might well be undeitikcn now with immediate bereft', by affording much-needed employment, and with important futuio results." AU this, unfortunately, has an application far wider than the district lefeired to. On*: of the most disingenuously sophistical and malignantly unfa r articles ever penned has ju«t appeared in the Spectator signe I with the mmc of Mr. Dicey. Its subject ia the Commission Act for investigating the charges male against Mr. Parnell and tbe other Iruh representatives by ihe Times. Its object is to push ihe Commission into an inqu ry dr omnibus rebus et quibusdam ahh, in order taat the Commission may report even vaguely against them on some general issue. Its prompting motive is tic evident belief or tear in Mr. Dicey's mind that there is no case against ihe members of I'ailiament. Mr. Dicey wants to provide against the effect of Ihisconcluti m ; so he setshinaself down to thow that it ihe Commission report fa^urably to the L ish representatives, this should not cause a single coercion let to wavt-r in his opposition to Home Uuleorm his suppoi t of theno'e alternative to Home Kule — viz. coeni >n One would not be so -truck by Mr. Dicey'd paitisanship did he tiee y admit and insist in the same dogmatic way that neither should an unfavourable report ie-

gardmg the Irish representatives, with Mr. Parnell at their head against the Times and the Government make any difference in the attitude of the friends aDd aiders of Home Kule. But he is not at aII bo frank concerning this aspect of iha case. On the contrary, hp pets in a stabbing sentence insinuating a comparison between French Jacobinism and Irish National Leagmism, calling it " an ascertained fact that the Jacobins were a faction ruling France by a mixture of fraud and terror which stripptd Jacobinism of the moral authority which would have been due to any par.y which justly represented the will cf France." Everyone with a knowledge of the historv'of pocial revolutions knows that they are invariably attended with loss of life and transfer of position and property fn m individuals and classes. It is claimed for Mr. Parnell and his colleagues with incontrovertible truth that the social involution of which they arc the constitutional mouthpeices is the least bloodless and the most conservative revolution, so to speak, ever witnessed in any country. When Mr. Pamell's party was forme 1, Ireland was on the eve of drifting back into the old method of unconstitutional organisation, and Mr. Paroell is the man who in winning so much by means of Parliamentary tactics absolutely converted bis countrymen abroad as well as at home from violent ways and desperate oourses. It is when an issue like this is on. its trial before the English people that Mr. Dicey attempts to poison their minds, and cramp their understanding down to a pettifogging question whether in the social revolution " the Parnellites have or have not overstepped the limits of legality." Finally, Mr. Dicey wants the Parnellites to be held accountable for all transgressions of the Coercion Act — that is, he wants th*»m to be held guilty of " Crime " for instance— viz , crime because the offence is against the law of the l»nd— in the case of the tenants resisting eviction at the bands ot a Clanricarde. Could a thesis be reduced to a greater absurdity. But underlying all this venom of Mr. Dicey 's there is observable that which ou^ht to make us all glad. It is plain that men of Mr. Dicey's acumen see that the Times is, as Ue saying goes, " up a tree," and that Mr. Parnell is master of the situation. It is also plain that for the great bulk of Englishmen the issue tLe fight between Mr, Parnell and the Times means in practice the victory of the baitlefor Home Rule. To use Mr. Dicey's own words. " the losers must pay up their own stakes."