Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 30, 16 November 1888, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

(From the National papers.)

His Eminence Cardinal Moran was, on September 11 , the guest of the Very Rev. Dean Byrne, P.P., V.G., Dungannon, where, accompanied by the Primate, the Most Rev. Dr. Logue, he was presented with an address from the Catholic inhabitants of the town, in which reference was made to the fact that his Eminence, in his home beneath the Southern Cross, while inculcating steadfast fidelity to the faith of St. Patrick, always impressed the Irish exiles with the allegiance due to their native land. The Cardinal, in reply, expressed his warm gratitude for the cordial reception accorded him in Dungannon. His Eminence added that he had spent the last few days enjoying scenery unequalled in Ireland. The names of Benburb, Ch&rlemont, and Dungannon, were, he said, imperishably inscribed on the pages of Irish history, and are noble records of past glorie*. In reply to an address presented him at Magherafelt by the St. Mary's Catholic Temperance Association of that town, his Eminence dwelt'l t ' on the flourishing state of the Catholic colonists in Australia, ascribing their Buccess to their temperance habits. Irish industry, genius, and enterprise, observed the Cardinal, when accompanied by temperance, always commanded Buccess in life. On Tuesday night his Eminence returned to thearchiepiscopal palace of Armagh.

The winter campaign was opened at Waterford on Sunday, September 9, when 30,000 men from Waterford, Wetford, Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Queen's County assembled on the famous hill of Bally - briken to pledge themselves once more to a defiance of Balfourism. Mr. Williim O'Brien and Mr. T. D. Sullivan were accorded a magnificent reception ; and the enthusiasm and earnestness of the meeting shows the spirit that is alive everywhere through the south-east of Ireland, As Mr. Sullivan noted,the day was the anniversary of the Mitcbelstown massacre ; and the thousands who assembled were just as ready to faca the worst that Mr. Balfour can inflict, as any of the heroes who, by the sacrifice of their lives, have made the name of Mitchelstown historic in Ireland and in Great Britain too. It was a consoling measure of Mr. Balfour's success. Hib conquest of Ireland has not proceeded very far ; and, if we are not mistaken, its advance will hardly subdue these thirty thousand stout hearts, full of determination that the abettor of Clanricarde shall not work his will on the people of Ireland unchecked, and that their liberties shall not be left at the mercy of every corrupt good-for-nothing whom the Castle bureauciacy selects to work its vindictive will upon the people of Ireland.

Mr. O'Brien's advice to the people regarding the coming winter was bold, unflinching, and timely. He cautioned the people, on ibe one hand, against criminal excesses that could not be defended, and, on the other hand, against cowardly submission to every outrage that Mr. Balfour and his minions care to inflict in the name of "the law." He asked the people never to do anything that they could not defend to their own consciences ; but declared that he himself would have no hesitaiion in defending before any audience in Great Britain the bravery of the men of Coolroe ; the boycotting of landgrabbers ; the honesty, nece=sity, and invincibility of the Plan of Campaign, find every act of resistance, contempt and defiance against every proclamation it-sued by Mr. Balfour suppressing liberty of Bpeech and combination. The sacrifices which the carrying out of that policy involved had been great. He knew them all and felt them all, but ten thousand times worse had to be faced by our unhappy race in the past when friendless before the world. There never was a generation of Irishmen since the Norman Conquest that had more reason to be grateful than the present one.

At the banquet in the evening, Mr. O'Brien vindicated the Plan of Campaign. He stiter), what is an undoubted fact, that there are at present ten thousand eviction-made-easy notices served and matured and liable to be executed. Those ten thousand notices meaD, if they are carried out, the turning out on the roadside of fifty thousand people. Against that flood of eviction the Plan of Campaign is the only defence. If it were defeated to-morrow, the evictions would be carried out remorselessly, and more to noot. But Mr. Balfour and the landlords are icstrained by the wholesome dretd tnat if they entered upon such a policy it would bring down the punishment of the Plan on every evictor. lender the circumstances, Mr. O'Brien declared that the tenants who are threatened and evicted because of their refusal to submit like slaves to the extortions of the rackrenters are deserving of the gratiiude and support of the whole body of the Irish tenantry. There cannot be a doubt that war is being waged against the Campaigners simply because they are most formidable foes of the rackrenters, and that they are not fighting for themselves alone. Wherever the tenants have brought a would-be plunderer to reason they have to thank the tenants who showed that the worst evicting landlordism could inflict would not better its own position. To complete the lesson for the evictors, and to encourage the brave men in their battle, the landlords must be shown, too, that it i& beyond their power toiDJure those tenants. It is necessary for the safety of the whole peasantry that that should be done ; and it is the duty of the whole Irish people to see that it is done. Lord Lurgan is anxious to sell his estate, but he can get nobody to buy. Some time ago he made his tenants an offer, which they unanimously rejected. He is now coming forward again — his terms on this occasion being much less favourable to himself than those which he formerly proposed. For the lands situated in the electoral division of Lurgan, originally offered at twenty years' purchase, he would ba willing to accept eighteen and a half years' purchase. For the lands situate in Mointiaghs, originally offered at eighteen years" purchase, he would accept sixteen and a half ycais' purchase, while lor the rest of the estate he would accept eighteen and a half years' purchase. The tenants, however, still consider his charges excessive. These sturdy, sensible Noithernß are not birds that are likely to be caught by bis Lordship's chaff. The eornmun benso peasantiy oi Ulster instinctively feel that landlordism is doomed, and the/ know

that they cm afford to wait for the day when they will not have to purchase their own improvements. Ulster, we are glad to Bee, is displaying a keen and subtle appreciation of coming eventualities. The " law " never met with such hearty defiance as braved it in the courthouses of Arthnrstown and Wexford during the proceedings in connection with the Ooolroe prosecutions. Tne contempt was climaxed by the closing scenes of Mr. Redmond's trial. The speech for the defence echoed and re-Schoel the " Bravo I bravo 1 my Wexford lads I " the speaking of which was Mr. Redmond's crime. The coercion Removables and all Wexford learnel from the mouth of Mr. Leamy that there was to be no shrinking, and the sentence of three months' imprisonment was accepted cheerily by the incorrigible culprit, and woen he wound up his speech from the dock by saying, •' I undoubtedly cheered these men when they were defending their homes against unjust eviction, and I shall chesr every man who defends his home against unjust eviction," the court rang with applause. There is not a Wexfordman who is not proud of the attitude taken by William Redmond, and there is not one worth his salt that is not prepared, not only to cheer those who stand up against eviction, but to give tnem practical help to defeat the desolators. For himself, he is inured to coercion dungeons. If we mistake not, he attained his majority while inhabiting a cell allotted to him by Mr. Foreter ; and Mr. Balfour will find him as indomitable and unconquerable as his predecessor did. As a matter of course, all Wexford will now bow down in homage before Mr. Balfour's justice, and be bound in the bonds of affection to the authority be represents I

The great demonstration in the Phoenix Park on Sunday, September 16, proved the extent to which the mind of the citizens of Dublin has been moved by the spectacle of the scandalous partisanship and vindictiveness of Judge Boyd, and by the patient endurance of his victim. It was the largest gathering of citizens that has been seen in the Parkforyears. The organisation and arrangements weremostjthorougb, aud the success complete. There was ample reason for the demonstration, for never was protest againßt judicial indecency and wanton invasion of public right more necessary. Judge Boyd bas degraded his office and has prostituted the powers of a Court established to deal solely with commercial business to political purposes. In the shameless exercise of his authority, he has imprisoned a perfectly honest and upright citizen without trial of any kind, altogether beyond precedent. His action is a menace to the liberty of every citizen, and is based on a presumption that is perfectly intolerable.

Toe Times has at last abandoned its swaggering attitude and displays all the meekness of a cooing dore now that it has been forced to come to the point and is compelled to show its hand. The conduct of its advocates on Monday, September 17, was piteous and humiliating in the extreme. The very fact of its not having employed the big guns of the law in its defence was the first sign of weakness that it displayed on this occasion. Its interests were represented by a junior counsel, who when asked by Sir J. Hannen if he proposed to substantiate any charges and allegations blandly replied that he did not know. "We will lay before your lordship," quoth the Times' lawyer, " such evidence as we can!" "We don't charge particular persons ; we make charges against organisations," continued this gentleman unblushingly, after his clients had exhausted all the vocabulary of libel and abuse on Mr. Parnell and his colleagues. And when Sir James Hannen asked who made those charges and allegations, Mr. Graham, on bsbalf of the Times, made reply and said it was the Attorney-Gentral in the recent O'Donnell tnai I The President thereupon directed counsel for the Times to draw up a list of the charges made. The Times, moreover, showed a decided unwillingness to mnke a full discovery of the ciocumentß or alleged documents defaming Mr. Parnell in its possession. The court made an order for the ditcovery, reserving for a future decision an application for their inspection by Mr. ParncU'a counsel. It is satisfactory to note that the issues are to be restricted to the limits of the late action of O'Donnell v. the Times so far as persons, charges, and allegations •ire concerned. On the whole the opening skirmish in this trial has been decidedly unfavourable to the libellers of Printinghous3---quare.

Mr. Wiluam O'Brien and his friends have stolen a march on the Royal Irish Constabulary in Clare, On Wednesday, September 19, a splended demonstration was held in Tullycrine without the usual accessoiies of policemen's helmets and the notebooks of Government reporters. People from all the parishes in West Clare, and even from places as distant from the scene as Loop Head, were present on this occasion, and testified their continued loyalty to the national cause. Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Cox, and Father Gilligan, the latter of whom, by-the-bye, is one of tnose priests whom Balfour has honoured with imprisonment, were in early morning pursued by a sergeant and a few subs, but eventually escaped the vigilance of these rather drowsy guardians of law and order. Among those present at the demonstratijn were Mr. and Mrs. Byles, of Bradford, and several sympathetic English visitors, including Mr. J. E. Summer, of the Mancliester Guardian, A large number of clergymen were also in attendance.

The object of the meeting was to protest against the evictions on the Yandeleur estate and condemn the letter on that subject recently addressed to the Daily News by Mr. Removable Turner. Mr. William O'Brien, who was the chief speaker on the occasion, and whose presence on the platform was hailed with enthusiastic applausft, said that C are has been scourged as no other county in Ireland has been scourged. Having alludeed to the calumaies indulged in hy Mr. T. W. Rußaell,the '• Emergency M.P.," at the expense of the evicted tenants of the Vandeleur estate, Mr. O'Brien had a word or two to say of Colonel Turner, who. although pud an enormous salary to act as magistrate, brags that he is the adviser an 1 instigator of the robbers who have seized the property and the houses of the Vandeleur tenants. " I would," continued the hon. gentleman, "be inclined at this moment to submit the case of the Vandeleur tenants to the arbitration of Mr. Reoves, a Sub- Commissioner and County Clare landlord ; and more than that, 1 Wi>uld be inclined to undertake here publicly, should Mr. Rerves decide that the tenants were miking a dishonest demand, that I myself would pay £1,000 to the fuuds of the Land Uuipaiauun ; but that if the Comrmssionera decided iv our favour > and decided that they bad made an honest aud fair claim, that

Colonel Turner should pay £500 for the benefit of the evicted tenants en the Vandeleur estate." Referring to the officials who are at present governing Ireland Mr. O'Brien branded them as bad, unprincipled and unscrupulous. " lam not speaking idly," said Mr. O Bnen; " I have this moment in my possession evidence condemniag an official even more powerful than Col. Turner, and if I were to publish that evidence the wretch wjuld be hunted from the society of decent men and women like a beast of prey." The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Byles, Rev. Mr Harley, Oxford • and the Rev. Father M'Kenm.

Mr. Balfoar, with his mean spirit of revenge, is still determined not to b« don« with Denis MacNamara, the brave news-vendor who laughed to fcorn all his thunderbolts some short time ago. Mr. MacNamara, being a publican as well as a news-vendor, has been served with a notice of objection to the renewal of bis license. The groun is alleged in this veracious official document are that Mr. MacNamara is not, forsooth, a person of good character and has not conducted his premises in a proper and orderly manner ! Mr. MacNamara owes n * 8 b * d character to the fact that despite, the pains and penalties of the Coercion Act, he dared to sell national newspapers containing reports of the " suppressed " branches of the League. This is the head and front of his offending. To the Irish people at large it is a certificate of his sterling honesty and patriotism. "This objection to a renewal of his license throws a very lurid light indeed on the dark ways of Mr. Balfour's administration in this country. Tbe Unionist papers which recently so enthusiastically belauded the Pope and called upon all good citizens and faithful Christians to obey his mandate will now have an opportunity for proving the sincerity of their respect for, and obedience to, the Holy See. There is reliable authority for stating that the Pope, disgusted at the present treatment of political prisoners in Ireland, has addressed 'to the Government a strong remonstrance on that and other subjects connected with the administration of the Coercion Act. Thanks to the many sterling friends of Ireland at Rome, the Vatican is kept informed of the true condition of affairs. The utter lack of humanity displayed by the landlords and their chief bailiffs at the Castle, the refusal of even the slightest conciliatory measures to the people, in short the harsh tyranny of Balfourism, has not been unnoticed there. 'His Holiness dwells chiefly on the fact that the last Bession has been barren of results so far as remedial legislation for this country is concerned. The news, the truth of which cannot be doubted, should cause Irishmen intense satisfaction. Whether the Government piy attention to the letter or do not the national cau^e will be benefitted. If they ignore the letter their rpal attitude will stand revealed to the world. If they hearken to it the disgrace will be theirs tint only nrePß-:re from without could move them to justice. In either case the futility of ruling Ireland by a foreign Parliament is clearly demonstrated.

With regard to Ireland, the case is very plain. She is in the position of a patient who is dying, not because doctors differ, but because help delays. Th2re is no difference of opinion among Liberals. The nature of the wound has bsen ascertained, the character of the remedy agreed upon. It is known that an amputation will be necessary, thut the severed anil lacerated aiteries will have to be scientifically taken up and tied. All this is settled. But in the meantime, the patient is ble-dinj; to death for want of a rough-anl-ready tourniquet improvised with a walking-stick and a pockethandkorchief. It is all nonsense to talk of •• Home Rule " and the " good t ; me coming " wh<-n there are fif'y thonsan i tc mnts in Ireland whom Home Rul<» will fi id homeless, and for whom the "good tim^ " will come too late— fifty thousand men— nay, fifty thousand families between whom and loofless ruin there now stands nothing but ihe difficulty of getting enou' h Emergency men to do the dirty work of putting them out of their homes. Surely, without any disparagement to the high and mighty medical authorities, here, if ever there°wns, is a case for the rough-and-ieady tourniquet. It is the plain and obvious duty (and, indeed, interest) of all Enelish Liberals to sec about stopping this shocking hemonhage without delay.

Mr. Balfour has been at last compelled to open thf> prison doors to John Dillon. His captive's health was becoming so precarious that our very wise and calculating Cnief Secretary determined to avert a possible and probable catastrophe which m-g'h' c >st him and his colleagues their seats on the Treasury benchep. If John Dillon had died in Dund .Ik Gaol \ is death would have sournio i tbe knell of the (Salisbury regime \n Ireland. This Mr. Ba furf >ur well know, ami such a contingency betook very good care to avoid. JII3 unconditional releaseof Mr. Dillon is another proof cf t v .e nrowin? weakness and infirmities of the Tory Cabinet. Surely, though slowly, is Mr. Bilfour being compelled to come down from his high horse and give up hia notion of governing the country with an iron hand. Even in his own camp murmurs are beginning to be heard condemning his Irish policy. Mr. D. lion's liberation will open the eyes of many English Tories to th- u'ter futuhty of continuing to carr/ out the provisions of the Coercion Act. A coach and four has already been dr yen tim s without number through its provisions. It has not attained any of the objects which were so ardently d ( sire Iby its autho s. It has crushed nothing that it was meant to ciush, and hag mluced nobody to abandon ihe national cause.

On Tuesday morning, September IS, to the general surprise of the public, Mr. John Dillon was unconditionally released fiom Dundalk Gaol. Shortly afterwards the lion, gentleman arrive i in Dublin and leseived a warm welcome at th<> Amiens street station from several of his colleagues and friends. It waa notice! that Mr. Balfour's ex-captive looked extremely pale and careworn, and the general opinion was that he was released not a day too soon. Mr. Dillon drove immediately with his friend, Dr. Kenny, M. P., to his own residence in Isprih Great George street, having been cheered very enthusiastically >-ii route. During the evtniog a large number of city bands paraied the streets, playing national air°. and serenaded tbe hon. gentltrmn, who, hftur iv pe<i ted call-, made his appearance and addressed the assemblage, thanking them for the kindness with which they had welcomed him out of piison. Mr. Dillon said that he oad uo iutenm a cf altering the policy 113 had adopted before he was committed to

gaol. He would carry on the struggle with iha same determination as formerly. Short as the time had bean since be waa released, it had been long enough to convince him that, thoagh many men kad b«en sent to prison, the Government had not broktn down the spirit of the people. The cause, he continued, is gathering force and strength day by day and hour b 7 hour, and its ultimate triumpti was now near at hand. Mr. Dillon's remarks were greeted with the most enthusiastio applause. Mr. Dillon purposes recruiting his strength in some healthy resort until the Parnell Commission resumes its inquiry in, October.