Dublin Baits.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 5, 24 May 1889, Page 9

Dublin Baits.

(Prom the National papers.) THB '-National Protest" in England is a movement which is making history. The first great public symptom was an event to be remembered. The magnitude and significance can, however, ba partially gleaned from a perusal of our docked report. The speech of the Irish leader on the occasion was studiously moderate and dispa^i mite. On the other hand, the indictment of Mr. John Morley rose to the level of a philippic. It was a philippic, and a terrible one— a tremendons indictment against the guilty Government and its copartnet in guilt, the infamoun Times. We may regard the St. James's Hall meeting as the initial operation in a movement in force against the whole front of coercion— -synonymous now with fraud and subornation of perjury— and a movement which is sure to sweep from power and public esteem the whole set of knave 3 and villains who have been at the bottom of the gigantic plot. Baron Dowse enjoys a reputation for fairnesj, as well as a certain kind of wit— though what's wit in a judge might be regarded as a very different kind of attribute in a man who hasn't five thousand a year— "whose smile makes glai, whose frown is terrible." We should be glad to set down Baron Dowse as balonging to the sheep of fairness rather than the goats of iniquity; but surely if he could joke at the expense of Pether the Packer in Limerick courthouse last week, he might also afford to be fair to the Corporation and citizens. His funny Lordship, after observing that he wouldn't stay in the draughty courthouse to oblige Pether, " although he teas a Clare man." proceeded to characterise the rejection of the bill for extra police by the Corporation of Limerick as a attempt to evade " their lawful debt." Collectively the Corporation of Limerick stand higher, in the matter of paying "lawful debts," than the Corporation, say, of Belfast ; individually, there is not a man of the body that has not as clean a record as any Northern, not excepting the learned Baron. As a matter of principle, the Corporation reflects the sentiment of all Limerick in rejecting the bills of the Constabulary department. As a matter of fact, we believe Limerick could very well dispense with any Constabulary, extra or otherwise. There is no disturbance of the peace there, save when the Constabulary themselves choose to break the monotony of their cultured leisure by breaking the heads of the peaceable citizens. A deputation from the Corporation had waited on the witty Baron for the purpose of explaining why they objected to the tax, but we are Borry for his lordship's reputation for " fairness "—which seems to stand much upon the same basis as his claim to " wit" — that he did not receive them with ordiuary civility ; nor would he listen to their explanation of the circumstances under which the Limerick Corporation refused to vote the people's money for services they never wanted and never asked for, and know to be entirely unnecessary. On Friday March 9, in Puckane, near Nenagh. there were laid in their last rejting-place the mortal remains of Mr, Dan Darcy, of KilladaDgan. He was a magnificent type of a Tipperary tenant - f aimer, tiis stalwart form was always seen to advantage in eplendid knee breeches, cut-away coat, brass buttons, and highluwp, He was a relentless foe to evicting foxhunters, and was amongst the first farmers in Ireland who put a stop to the rougbriding proclivities of the sportive gentry. Accordingly, whea this fine old man died, the foxhunt ers organised a hunt on the very day cf his funeral, and the meeting place waß fixed quite close to the churchyard where he was about to be interred. Borne members of the hunt, notably an evictor named Webb, and an Orangeman i amed Waller, commenced riding up and down turough the people at the funeral in full hunting rig. There was a considerable force ot police on the ground armed to the teeth. The fact of these being there proves beyond doubt that the hunt meet was meant to be offensive, so the consequences be on their own heads. It was too much for stalwart Tipp rary hearts, ani with a stirring shout that sounded strangely at a funeral, the people made a charge on the valiant hunters aud their guard of police. Several horsemen were knocked spinning out of then saddles, among them being Waller, and the whole body were sent helter-skelter across the^country by the mourners over honest Dan Darcy. In the teeth cf the hottest fire ct coercion, with the whole forces of the Empire landed against it, the Plan of Campugn moves eveuly and placidly on from victory to victory. District-In3pector Shaw's description of the invariable conclusiou of the Plan of Campaign conflict is still true : " The money remains lodged ia the hands of the unauthorised agents until the landlord gives in." Tue active intimidation of brutal Removables at home and the vague remours of evictionpromoting syndicates in London affect the indomitable Plan not one jot. The landlords have been giving in with more tnan usual celerity of late. They seem to have been somewhat shaken in their confidence in Mr. Balfour and coercion to pull them through. We have bulletins before us announcing three most complete and signal victories for the Plan in tne counties of Koscommon and Majo, Lord De Freyne, ia Koscommon, was not content with the first fall the Plan gave him. He renewed the struggle last year with the evident encouragement of the Government. The powers of the Government were strained to help him. A Coercio i Court sat en permanence in Castlerea, and every Nationalist, from John Fnzgibbon downwards, that was proved or suspected to have bo much as mentioned the De Freyne estate was putoutof the way in G'astlebarGaol. A Star-Cham oer Court was Bet up on the estate, and all the tenants were invited to attend, as the ducks in the nursery rhyme are iuvited to come and be killed, and they treated the invitation with univeisil find magnificent contempt. Final result of all : The landlord gave in. The tenants' terms were agreed to. The landlord paid the war indemnity in the form ( f costs.

On the Worthington estate, in the county of Mayo, the struggle had been bitterer and more prolonged, and the success was consequently the more signal. The landlord had been fool enough to evict, and the firet term, 'f course, was the restoration of the evicted and

the payment of all costs of the eviction. The heavy reductions claimed by the tenants on the judicial rents, bringing the old rents down to a half, were recorded in full. Not less sharp was the lesson taught, after a struggle of exceptional length and bitterness, oi the Gibbons estate, in the county of Mayo, The agent had gone in for wholesale evictions, and, as a consequence, had to go in for wholpsale restorations. The heavy cjsts incurred in this amusement left, we fear, but a small margin over the rent, less six shillings ia the pound, wnich he was compelled to receive as satisfaction in full under the Plan. We often think, not without amusement, how the beaten and baffled rack-renters must curse under their breath Ht the brave Mr. Baltour'a boasts of the magnificent success of his administration. If this be success, we wish them ts of it. As might have been expeod, the charge preferred against the two policemen, 0 isey and Davey, by the herdsman Burns has ended in a victory for the police. Removables Hodder and Keogh adjudicated in the second case last week at Ballyvaughan, and the result was a dismiss. Both policemen left the court, according to the usual formula, without a stain on their characters. The cbarge wan that the policemen had been plajing at outrages. Burns swore that he had caught them in toe act of catting off the tail of a cow, and that when he challenged them and ran after them, he had been fired at by them. His evidence was corroborated by members of his family. So circumstantial were the statements that the Crown had no alternative but to take it up, but the mode in which they went about the business showed what way their desires lay. District-Inspector Br>tt, Bally vaugban, pro'ecuted, Mr. Maloney defended, and Mr. Thoma9 Lynch, Ennia, who appeared for the prosecutor on the' previous occasion, but whom the magistrates refused to hear, now applied to have the conduct of the prosecution, but District- Inspector Biett objected. Mr. Lynch said— " It is the universal practice that when an individua, lother than a policemen, prosecutes, he can be represented, and the conduct of the prosecution placed in the hands of a solicitor who represented him ; and in this case he did not see why the Crown should object, unless indeed the case was a bogus one, and he had no hesitation in saying the prosecution was a bogus one." The District-Inspector still objecting, Mr. Lynch was refused a hearing, and the latter then said that the matter would not be let rest there, as very probably a civil action would be instituted, and that the matter would be ventilated in Parliament. The proceedings, which were farcical to the highest degree, were then gone through', and it is quite evident from the evidence given, that if ths defendant was a peasant the decision would have been different. As it was, the case (as was anticipated) ended in a dismiss, and the accused policemen are now at large and on duty again. A question was asked about the matter in Parliament, but as usual no satisfaction was obtained from the Chief Secretary. The subject ought not to be allowed to drop. Though the times are highly unfavourable for the cultivation of the intellectual faculties of Irishmen, save in the direction of devising means of resistance to naked tyranny, the movement for the conseivation of our ancient language makes fair headway. We gather tLis much from the eleventb annual report of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language. Were the country allowed to settle down to the development of its genius and its physical resources, we doubt not, however, that the rcults to be recorded wouid be of vastly greater magnitude. Taking everything mto consideration, it appears to us that the society has reason to congratulate itself on the rate of progress attained under very disheartening conditions. The number of pupils who have parsed the examinations in Gaelic last year show a considerable increase on the preceding return. At the Intermediate Examinations, too, there has been a steady rnte of increase in the number of successful students. The Christian Brothers are so conspicuous ia their exertions to advance the cause of the Irish language as to deserve a maiked encomium in the report. Stress is laid upon the fact that while the Senate of the Koyal University has full power to establish a chair of Celtic, no step has yet been taken to appoint a Professor iv t^at depaitment. Wo may refer to another fact rueulioned in the ieport as proof of the hold which the claims of our ancient language may establish, even over minds not always the most congenial. Amongst the must ardent advocates of the movement for its iesuscitation, was an ex-officer in the British service, General Smytbe. At the time of bis death he was Vice-President of Ibe Society lor the Pieservation of the Irish Language ; and it now appears that by his will he has bequeathe i to the Koyal Irish Academy, the reversion of a sum of three thousand poum s for the encouragement ard promotion of the study of Irish by tne publication of books, aid to teachers, etc. In this connection, we note with satisfaction that the funds of the society are ia a very satisfactory state, and the sale of its books is consUnt and increasing. Since the publication of these Irish works began, over ninety-one thousand of them have been bought by the public. He deserves credit, too, for the exposure that he has made of the methods of the " Forger " and its agente. He has made manifest the reckltsa subornation of peijury on which they rest the case. Any lie ihey could collect was good enough to cast, withont proof or coirobDration, at the Jrish leaders. They rated blindly in the gutter for filih to pelt them with, soiling oDly their own hands in the proCBS?. The utter jianco of Coffey's evidence tbrowa a curious light on the value cf the evidence that preceded him, when the witnesses made up their minds to lie, Dot merely in statement, but on oath. We are driven to imagine what would be the effect if " this most valuable witness," Coffey, as the Attorney-General described him, had the reckless malignity to go right through with his fahe story to the end, as the others bad done. What dimning evidence it would hive been called against the two Nationalist members of Parliament, and how worthless their aenials woula seem to the sneeiing Pigotns s who traduce them. If Pigott had not forgjcl the letteis, and so lefc himself open to overwhelming exposure, with what tenacity the " Forger " and its respectable counsel would have clung to his cock-and-bull stories of conversations with Messrs. Patrick; Egan and Eugene Davis, in which Mr. Parneli's complicity iv dynamite, outrage, and murder was freely acknowledged and discussed. Coffey'o

comparative honesty throws a strange light on the evidence of (he superlative rascals. The President, with great indignation, bundled poor Coffsy off to gaol for contempt of court. But if he would clear the court of the men who really have made it contemptible he must deal summarily with the whole gang of sleek and respectable calummatois who dabble dirty hands in perjury and forgery, and hire humbler rascals to make their lus good. The Grand Jury of Donegal have awarded four thousand pounds compensation to the widow of Inspector Martin, and a thousand pounds moie to Constable Oarey. The county at large is saddled with the payment of this sum— an enormous one for so poor a county as Donegal. In like manner the Wexford Grand Jury have de -reed £500 to Head -Constable O'Brien on account of injuries he alleges he received Bt the famous attack on •• Seiners' Port," when he was pitched off the roof and drenched with some liquid, The barony of Shelburne will have to bear the whole of this levy. While the interests of the police force are thm looked af cer so handsomely, not a penny of compensation has ever been suggested for the families of the men murdered by the police at MitchelstowD, at Youghal, ani at Middleton, This is part and parcel of the wjole system of " law and order "in Ireland. The people* lives are as nothing ; the policeman as sacred at the Grand Llama.

There is a perfect dragonnade in persecuted Gweedore. No man's house is safe from invasion by night ; its wretched inhabitants are not free to eat, or sleep, or pass along the Queen's highway. Battahons of soldiers and police swarm " thick as autumn leaves in Vallambrosa " all over the country; the old '98 custom of issuing " passes "to tha people is revivei. While the sojars and the polis manoßuvreon land, the warships manoeuvre by sea; all the night, time the iron-vested ships sail around the coast, flinging searching shafts of electric light into every creek and inlet. All this becaußaT in the attempt to ai rest a priest coming straight from the ahar, a lasb policeman lost his lite. When a mere civilian's life is taken by the police, theieare no squads of soldiers or fleets of ironc'ads sent out, but a rush is made to the Queen's Bench by the Liffey to quash the just verdict <f a coroner's jury. It is marvellous with what patience these Donegal peasants bear the persistent harrying ; but more marvellous still their total absence of alt resentment. If coals of fire could be heaped upon the wretched persecutors and detainers of their countrymen, we might hope for some good from the incident which the Berry Journal in the following words narrates :—" The present conduct of the police towards the people here, and that of people towards the police, differ widely. A few diys ago, while an armed party were on au all-night search through the mountains, one of their number got fatigued, and was unable to proceed farther ; whether his comrades were able to assist him or not is unknown, but in any case the constable was left to starve if he wished. In thi9 plight the poor fellow was found by Connell Gallagher, who wss looking after sbeep. Oonuell carried the constable — who was speechless — to his home further down the mountain, and, having procured warm drinks, and got the constable to bed, he with great difficulty restored him to life. Ihe constable reported this next day, *nd relate! how Con Dell was instrumental in saving his life.' The chronicle of what followed has yet to be written.

The gallant defenders of Falcarragh have gone to gaol for the desperate crime of standing up like men for their homes, and wives, and children against the biutal Emergencymen. A packed jury ot Fermanagh did the trick as was expected. Poor wooden-headed Judge Johnston sentenced them to five mouths' imprisonment all round, and to justify the Castle in sending the prisoners to a jury instead of giving them a short shrift before a brace of Removables, honoured the gallant Neal Doogan wi'h a sentence of eight months' imprifonment with hard labour, bting just two months more than bis colleague, the renegade Home Ruler, JuJge O'Biien, thought proper to inflict ou tbe tespectable coerciomsts in Belfast for wholesale fraud and lorgery.

Those gallant peasants faced their imprisonment as biave'y as they faced the crowbars or the Emergency men or the levelled rifles of the police and soldiers. But surely nis not too much to ask that the smue and callous administrators of ttii a barbarous system would at least spare the cruelly-wronge i peasants their nauseous homilies on morality. They are bound, tbeyprotes', to administer the law as they find it. They are paid handsomely to administer a law which is the quintessence of savage injustice. So be, it, Let them administer it, if not with shame, at Ica-tt in silence. Let them do their dirty work and pocket their silanes a^ hold tbeir tongue*. It drives one mad to hear this smug, self-sufficient judjic, with his salary of four thousand a year, gained by judicious bnbeiy and corruption in Mallow aud obedient voting in the House of Commons,from a lofty pedestal of Bupenor virtue preaching to the wretched peasant the sacred bead, of the family the duty of allowing the home he has built to be pulled down over his loved one 3 turned adrift on the wrr!d, and tbe horrible iniquity of striking one brave blow for their defence.

The unfortunate peuny-a-liner, Coffey, was sent to prison for contempt of court because he refused to verify on oUh the false statements with wtich he hoaxed the easily- boaxed emissaries of tbe " Forger." A policeman induced Coffjy to tell lies abaut the Iri.-k members, but Sir Henry Jrtrnes could not get him to bwear 10 tnem. Therein lies bis offence. If, like Delany, Colem«n, Connor, and the rest, he had sworn up to his faKe statemi; nti, he would have left the court without a stain on his character. We have little duubt in this business that Coffey, " though on pleasure- he was bent, yet bad a Iruga! nind." He waDted coin and amusement combined. He supplied his blood-curdliDg stones, ai Sir Charles Russell once neatly put it, in response to market demand and remuner4tive prices. To a poor devil of a penny-a-liner, hanging about in a little country town, very impecunious and not over scrupulou , the allurements offered by tbe "Forger" were well nigh irresistible. The £115 and a trip to London were not to be despised. They were but a foieta^te of what he would have receive lif he swore up to the mark. To our mind the poor devil deserves much credit that, unlike the other informers whom the " Forger " seduced nto the witness-box, he drew tbe line »t perjury.

It is quite plain that the brave Mr. Balfout intends to chirk oat of the Seagrave scandal as quietly as may be. The pretence of farther investigation, three months and more after the charges are made, is clearly a cowardly fraud. We would wish to recall our readers' minds briefly to this most discreditable incident. Nearly a fortnight before Parliament adjourned at Christmas Dr. Tanner made direct and specific charges against Removable Seagrave of fraud and embezzlemeut of the meanest kind. He charged him with cheating in the cantepn accounts ; he charged him^with embezzlement of the folJiers' pay ; and he charged him, lastly, with tbe most despicable crime of which a man could be guilty, the purloining of a five-pound note entrusted to him by a sick comrade for his destitute tamily. Dr. Tanner gave name, date, and locality for his charges. He alleged that Seagrave had been cashiered for these and other malpractices, and that his dismissal was duly recorded in the official organ, the Capetown Gazette.

Tbe brave Mr. Balfour and the conscientious Mr. G)sch«n treated the charges with supercilious contempt, and scornfully refused an investigation A week later, when ample time had been allowed for inquiry, Dr, Tanner returned to the attack. Mr. Ba.four rose ostentatiously to leave the house while he was still speaking. Dr. Tanner was naturally provoked into strong language — not stronger than the occasion warranted — and be was forthwith suspended by the Speaker. During the recess he was astiduously prosecuel, and a strenuous effort made to clap him into gaol before he conld get back to Parliament, aud so effectually terminate his inconvenient inquiries. This pretty little plan was not successful. T»e indefatigable doctor again returned to the charge, and was rewarded by the information that Removable Se^grave was on leave— a kind of pleasant vacationwhile tne question of his alleged fraud and embezzlement was under leisurely investigation. Dr. Tanner suggested that a cablegram to the Cape to any one of tha officers he meationed as presiding over or assisting at the courtmanial by which Beagrave was cashtere I would s ttle the question forthwith, and he was met by the humorous rejoinder that official documents could not be transmitted by wire. It is hardly possible that the Government was ignorant of his disreputable antecedents. But dirty men were needed to do dirty work, and so he was selected. Gentlemen of character or position could not be trusted to give the servile obedieuce the Castle system demands, to blindly convict and sentence, innocent or guilty, at the word of command, and to accompany each sentence with an hypercritical little homily on the immorality of opposition to the sacred principles of rack-renting and eviction. Seagrave's antecedents, it seems, warranted his sejection f,r positions of tbe very highest responsibility. He was in charge in Mitchelatown, smoking a cigarette, while three unfortunate and unoffending peasants were butchered by the police. He has presided at many a coercion court, tent more than one Catholic piiust to gaol, an 1 preached many a homily from the bench, with uplifted hands and eyes, on the horrible immorality of boycotting and the Plan of Campaign.

The brave Mr. Balfour, being compelled to retreat from his notable policy of prison torture, very naturally adopts tno meanest and most despicable method of retieat. Prison degiadation was, as we have more than once declared, the very essence of his coercion policy. He confessed to Mr. Blunt, in a conversation which he never yet plucked up courage to specifically deny, that he puiposed breaking down the health of bis political opponents in gaol. On that occasion he honoured Mr. John Dillon with special mention, and Mr. John Dillou is now on a voyage to the Antipodes as a last hope of regaining tbe health breken down by three months *>f Mr. Balfour's delicate attention in the piison in Dundalk. Mr. Ba'.four openly exulted in the system of petty prison barbaritu s Weromembsr bow jubilant he was in Glasgow over " the squali \ dutail«' of the torture to whicb poor John Mandeville'n giant strength slowly succumbed. " O'Brien's small clothes " were the theme of countless brilliant jests of his uncle and himself. He evoked "roars of lautjntcr "at the Brutality Banquet by his inimitable dtscription of his victim naked in his cell.

William O'Brien has cocquarcil. There will b? no moic clipping and stripping of prominent Nationalists. Tbe mdaunted Dr. Tanner will not be called upon for those vigorous right-handers which he promised the fiist warder that laid violent hands on him. The brave Mr. Balfour has all along prottstei against any distinction between the Nationalist leaiurs and their humblest followers, and the Natiocahst leaders, none m ra heartily th-xn Wm, O'Brien, have disci-timed such a distinction. Now tnat the leaders have licked Mr. Balfour ou the question of prison treatment, will he have the unspeakable meanness to take Ins revenge on the followers who cannot make their voices heard thiougi the thickness of the piison walls? Will t!iey bedooied the concessions tbe leaders have extorted ? We shall see.

We know what happens the pitcher that goes once too often to the well. The same fate has overtaken Mr. Ba four. Throughout his Irish administration he h.s lied with a magnificent auiacity that has often taken our breath away. He had many tools to work with, but a lie was a handle that fitted them all. That splendid falsehood with which he annihilate"! hR imprisoned newsveudors was a fair sample of Ins higher flights in the mendacity department. His autiwtr to all charges wu* to call hisaccuser a liar, and let it re^t there. The tox may run long but he's taken at last. Ihe brave Air. Balfour is captured in the tuthhes of his own reckless and cotitiii'lictory lying over the piison treatment of Mr. O'Brien, and is now vainly strivirj^ to sneak out of the hobble into which he ha* br> ught himself. His fir&t great lie on the subject was tho statement, on which he founded his justification at the Brutality Banqu t, tt>«t Mr. 0 Brien had thrown every obstacle in tl o way of medical examhaiu n. From this state - ment he was compelled relucrantly to reueat when confronted with the facts. Piejfoi hard on bis retreat be took shelter in the astounding confession ihat when be made tuj siatemc it he had no official report at all : that bis only source ot information uus the Freeman repoi 1 , of which he contradicted every word, to the delight of hits ti tering parasites

By-'lio-bye, we bc^ leave respectfully to lcmimi Mr. Punch of a promise he nude. When the forged lcttcis fust appeared, Mi . Puuch

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declared that if they proved forgeriss the Times, instead of " Jupiter the Thunderer," would be known thenceforward in Punch's columns as " Vulcan the Forger." The time ia come for the fulfilment of that promise. A graphic picture of famine-stricken and persecuted Gweedora is presented by the question and answer in the House of Commonß— searching inquiry and reluctant reply. The place is overrun with soldiery and police ; houses are broken into, and men arrested without colour of legal justification ; flying peasants have shots fired at them "as signals," it is said, that they had better wait. To crewn all, Sergeant Mahony has taken to issuing permits to tbet<rrorstricken peasants to live and move in the wild passrs r.f Donegal. A number of th°se etartline documents were actually produced in the House of Commons. They rend as follow :— " Pasi " (her* follows the favoured pcasant'jjnarnc), "higned,owen Mahouy, Sergeant R.T.C." Tie methods of continental despotism Lave nothing to touch this. Sergeant Mahony is a Pasha of maoy tails in Q weedore. Pressed by Mr. Healy to inform the House what had become of the rights of the poor peasants who were not fortunate enough to secure the gracious countenance of Sergeant Mahony and police-passes entitling them to travel < n the Queen's high road, the brave Mr. Balfour replied with a transient flash of his old flippancy — '* Jf the honourable gentleman would give us some instance of anyone deprived of his lights unduly he will have some right to ask the question." Tnis certainly is cool, considering that twenty-one confessedly innocent peasants have been arrested on an outrageous charge, detained from week to week in gaol on meaningless lemands, and finally discharged without a tittle of evidence being offered against them. The brave Mr. Balfour manifestly does not consider this an undue interference with the rights of mere Donegal peasant?. Firing at them by way of signal to stop comes under the same category of constitutional restriction. These successive exposure?, one would think, would put a stopper I to Mr. Balfoms mendacity. When Mr. Sexton detailed Mr. O'Brien's treatment from his own lipa, be was met by Mr. Balfour with a reckless, point-blank contradiction. Human patience could stand it no longer. The Lord Mayor pie«(d for an impartial tribunal to decide the question of veracity between them. Mr. Balfonr was burning for an investigation, bat could not for the life of him hit upon a satisfactory tribunal. A committee of the House of Commons would not do at all. '• Old Scuniliiy '' being appealed to. was of precisely the same opinion, but to the utter dismay of tbeconspirators, Mr. Gladstone indignantly interposed and insisted on an enquiry. An enquiry, we take it, we are now b^und to have. It does not matter a pin's point who the men any be Mr. Balfour selects to whitewash him if ihe evidence be publicly taken, any more than it matters wh^t the opinion of the three Tory-fedected judges may be on •' I'arrellism and Crimp." With ihe evidence fully befoie them the public can j'ulge for themselves 1 . The inevitable exposure of Mr. Baltour's mtndacity will bave results outside this special question. Once a ba^e coin of bis is detected and nailed to the counter his spurious is<=up will p--.ss current no more. l}u<e r/g/o in terria, etc. ? Here is an account of a St. Patrick's Day niunei in P^ns : — "A t-t. Patiick's dinner took place last r.igbt at th«* Gran'i Hotel. Therj was a stiong spiinkling of real Irish puesto, but the hulk if those present were Iri9h only by descent more or Ip"j remote. Among them were the AbHe Connellv. of the Catholic Uuiverritv of Pans ; Kea'-Admiiat O'Neill and his Ron, who is a cadi-t hi, the Fonfainebluau Acidemy : Colonel Brady, Colonel Harty de Pierrebourg. M. O'Connolly, and the Vicomte O'Neill de Tyrone Though most of the guests were more at home in Fiencii than in English, tos*y nothing yf Erse, Irish topics were appro; cbed in a truly patriotic i-pirit. particular enthusiasm being caused by the Kenriington election. The guests-, after putting shamrock leaves in the;r buttonhdis, sat down to a iVnst which inclu led • petit* pates a In Parnell,' 'tiprbrti an >r/t/iki/,' ' noiitrs de fruits a la (rladxt/tne,' and a ' bombo Home Rvli ' "' What thoughts it suggest*, this re-union of descendants of the Wild Geese and the Irish of tt-day, to toaston the feast of the National saint the \ictory of Kenning on, ihe triumph of Pttrnel), anl the glortps of 'he did Englishman who has given the bignal for ihe ending ( I the <*£t>-long feud between the two )on»;warring rac s.