Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 39, 17 January 1890, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

(From the National papers.)

Archbishop OfiOKßand Mr.T.M. Healy, M.P., hare given theoonntry a It ad in the matter of providing for the safety of the threatened victima of Mr. Smiib-Barry. The former hat subscribed £50 to the Tenants' Defence Association ; the latter has subscribed funds of the £100. Mo two Irishmen havea keener eje for a national emergency., or a quicker readiness in taking steps to meet it. Their subscriptions are the moat eloquent expositions of the duty of the hoar that has yet been given. A German translation of a selection from Katharine Tynan's poetry has appeared. The volume is from the pen of Olara Oommer, who has given it the title of " KleebUtter," that is " Shamrocks."— It is dedicated to the Empress Augusta. The selections are from " Louise de la Valliere " and '* Sbamiocks," and include two favourite poems, " The Irish Hills " and •• The Flight of the Wild Geese." The translator cays in her preface :— " I thought it right to select some of then rare gems for Germany, and I ofEor them with a prayer for pardon if the translation renders but feebly the beautiful originals." Admirers of Miss Tynan's poetry will welcome this acoess to her fame. The forces of the Grown were again engaged, week ending November 23, in " th,e devil's work " on th,e Olanricarde estate at Portumna. Mr. P. M'Dermott and eight' of his sub-tenants were evicted, and in all fltfty person* were left homeless when Mr. Balfoar's Brigade had finished. Mr. M'Dermott was evicted from a mill which fie and his father' had built ; bat be faced the Joss «f it rather than betray the poorer tenants. His sub-^enant^ stood true also. Mr. Tener tried to seduce them from the combination by the offer of a direct tenancy at lower rents, bat the. tenants to a man refused. — Olanricarde and Balfour have now nearly exhausted their brutal programme of mutual confederation and assistance, bat so far they have not met a coward to quail before them Nor will they. Various rumours more or lesi credible are afloat regarding the Vatican and Ireland. It is stated that Monsignor Satolli is to take 3> tbe mantle that has fallen from the shoulders of his colleague, onsignor Persico. In other words. Monsignor Satolli, who acted recently as Papal delegate to the Baltimore conference on the occasion of the inauguration of the Oatholic university, will Bhortly after his return to, Borne a,tart for Ireland on a mission from the Pope to iuquira into the political and religions state of affairs in this country. It is, moreover, asserted that tbe Irish question wilj form the subject of farther negotiations between the Hoiy See and Sir J. L. Simmons, who is at present English delegate to his Holiness in connection with politioo-ecclesiasttcal matters affecting Malta and India. The Bog. lisa Government is also credited with tbe intention of sending a permanent representative to the Vatican. It is needless for us to add that we give these- reports merely for what they, are worth. The items telegraphed to London by English Tory journalists resident in Borne must be invariably taken with no small amount of salt.

Can anyone te^l us, who is Lieutenant-Colonel Wauchope. Is be an officer of the regular army ? Or is he only a mere militia swashbuckler like Orangeman Saanderson 2 Has he served any apprenticeship yet) in political life ? We should like to have some authentic information on these points. Meanwhile, we mast confess th <t we know as little of the lieutenant-colonel's antecedents or qualities as the heathen Obineo does of Robert Elsmere. la any cue, no less a personage than Mr. Gladstone must look to his laurels, Or else this gallant soldier may run away with tbem. In other words, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Wanchope is about entering the lists against the exPremier at the next general election, and will, according to several Primrose authorities, wrest the Mid-Lothian seat from the chief of the Liberal party. The colonel will hare the undivided support of the local Tories and Liberal Unionists. With this array of forcas beside him, the gallant officer may make a fight, but it will be at moat a sorry one. It will also, however, have its comic side ; for the spectacle of a pigmy wrestling or attempting to wrestle with a giant will be superbly grotesque. Dr. Croke, with hia usual generosity and patriotism, has forwaided ths sum of £50 to the treasurers of the Tenants' Defence Association. In a letter accompanying this subscription, hia Grace observes : " As loog as I possess an honest penny above roy legitimate calls aod indebtedness, that penny shall be at the disposal of those who aim at the protection and enfranchisement of any suffering section of oor people." His Grace, speaking of the impending struggle, refers to it as a bitter and, he might say, hereditary fight against a nest and network of bad landlords that still infest and have long impoverished (he country. They are armed to the teeth and in a twofold fashion. They have got money, however, in their pockets, aod the " Jaw of the land "ut their back. To face them successfully his Grace suggests that the farmers should be supplied with the proper financial means, and should, moreover, be in a position to defy while defeating the law. His Grace, in conclusion, dwelton the immediate necessity of coming to the relief of the tenants. "Two hundred buts," be observes, are being provided for the evicted tenants of tho Poosoaby estate, while Tipporary town is being threatened witn rain." The Archbishop's letter, marked as it is with the calm, practical, common sense and patriotic seal which characterise all the ntteraoces of hia Grace, is Bure to give a strong impetus to the progress of the new association. Mr. John Morley was on Tuesday evening, November 19, entertained at dinner by the Eighty Club, of London, the chair bavins; been taken by Sir Edward Grey, M.P. The banquet, which was held in St. James's Hall, was attended by over three nundred gentlemen. Mr. Morley, in responding to the toast of bis health, which was enthusiastically received, said he hoped nobody will suppose that the fact that they were about discussing other questions apart from the Iri»h one that evening, efficed their intention of keeping the Irish question to the front. The Liberal party, he said, had undergone some obliquity for ao alleged and a real change of view in 1886 ; bat

that obliquity wonld be a small matter compared itftta the ignomony tbat would affect all Liberals if they were to plads the Irish question behind any other. We have* he continued, behind the Irish question a great number of other topics of very considerable interest for which the Liberals are set as soon as the Irish problem is satisfactorily solved. After explaining with much logic and precision his belief that the Tory party ware not competent to deal with social reforms, be observed that any Radical programme ia that direction could only be carried oat by Radical statesmanship. Ha would, for initaupa, advocate a free breakfast-table for the toilers by remitting at least one-half the duties on such breakfast commodities as tea, coffee, a*d cocoa. The next item which the Radical party proposes, is Free Education. "We shall never receive," said Mr. Morley, " tbe proper results of a national system of education until we have placed all t tie schools receiving public aid under local representative authority." Speaking of landed property in towns and cities, Mr. Morley said that competent lawyers agreed that it was passible to value land apart from the buildings, and to charge a rate on the value, making the persons entitled to pay interest issuing out of the land up to the amount of value contributed in the proper ratio to their interest. Mr. Morley dealt, in conclusion, with the propriety of extending the powers of manioipal bodies, and entered into an able dissertation on poor-relief, wages as the great master-key of sooial improvement, shorter hoars for the toilers, and other cognate topics.

The twenty-second anniversary of the Manchester martyrdom w*s befittingly celebrated in Dublin. Thanks to the patriotic efforts of the Ladies' Committee in connection with the National Monuments' Association, as well of other ladies in Youghal and elsewhere, the monument to Allen, Larkin. and O'Brien, and the grave* of Anne Devlin, M< Manns, Sergeant M'Oarthy, O'Mahony, Keddio, Clarence Mangao, J. K. Casey (" Leo "), Neilson Underwood, and others of our dead were tastefully decorated with the choicest wreaths. The proceedings throughout were most orderly despite the fact that the cemetery was actually swarming with Mr. Mallon's detective brigade. Tbe demonstrations throughout the country were as usual proolaimed by the authorities. The coast ibulary, for instance, guarded the graveyard of Bath, near Tralee, as j jaloasly as if the integrity of the Empire were in jeopardy, simply because a memorial cross to the memory of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien happened to b* among the monuments within its precincts. The Mayor of Witerford had oa Sunday the civil flags hoisted half high, while a large contingent of the 8.1.0. thronged tha city, armed and equipped for any emergency. In Cork, Limerick, Mallow, Oarlow, and Kilkenny Mr. B*lf jur's creatures wers also actively employed in seeing that no demonstrations should take place. All these proceedings on the part of Dublin Castle are not only absurd bat fatile. No amount of batoning or dragooning— no display of military or constabulary force, however imposiog, will eradicate tbe predominant feeling from tbe Irish breast—vie., that Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien were innocent of shedding the blood of Sergeant Brett, and that the memory of these three Irishmen is as worthy of honour and veneration as that of any other martyr on the bead-roll of Ireland's patriot dead. These twin feelings are in fact more and more strengthened and confirmed by these ridiculous attempts made to suppress tbem.

Sir Henry James brought his reading of the evidence for the Times to a close on Friday, November 22, and for the first time attempted an oratorical flight. Concluding, he saii to the judges that his collation of crimes and slanders was the bis ory of Ireland for tea years, a history fall of crime, of a period of shams. Tbe telling of the truth — as the Times construes it— will, Sir Henry James prophesies, rouse the Irish people from their dreams, and induce them to seek new modes of action with true men to guide th tin. The presentation of the hotch-potch of slander as the history of ten years of Ireland's life is surely the highest pitch that the imaginative Pigottist has yet touched. Sir Henry James's peroration indicts not tbe Irish leaders but the Irish nation. But the prophecy that the nation would desert its leaders if once they are befouled shows the motive of the indictment. It is an attempt to drive the most effec ive leaders whaever struck for the rights of our people from public life. Even if " Parnellism and Crime " were signed, sealed, and delivered as the gospel of Irish politics by all the Unionist judges in England that could not happen. In winding up the proceedings Sir James Hannen stated that the judges had determined to call no evidence of their own motion. He ended by congratulating the counsel present — that is the counsel for the Tinas — and vaguely thanking besides them, " those others to whom thanks are dut," for the assistance derived from their labours. " Our labours, however, are not concluded," said the President. "We mast bear our burden yet a. little longer, Oae hope supports as. Conscious throughout this great inquest that we' have only sought the truth, we trust we shall be guided to find it, and set it forth plainly in the eight of all men." It they can find the truth by the half view which the Tory commission to them alone permitted, then, supposing them to be abive the ordinary prejudices of Unionists they may find it. But with such capacity for seeing round a corner and rising superior to their natural inclinations, no one who has attentively read the proceedings and noted the ejaculations of Sir Archibald Smith will credit the Qom.i missionere.

Mr. T. D, Sullivan addressed a great Liberal meeting at Glaston bury 'on Tuesday, November 19, at which the Mayor presided. The Tory councillors were greatly wroth that tbe head of the Corporation of Glastoabury should attempt to do honour to an ex-crimi-nal and author of" God sure Ireland.'' Toey presented a remonstrance, in which they said ; " We cannot help thinking that if you had been aware of the disloyalty which has uniformly characterised Mr, Sullivan's proceedings, of the virulent and insulting terms in which he has written and spoken of England and the English people of tbe brutality of the sentiments he has expressed towards gallant British soldiers who sacrificed their lives ii fighting for their Queen and country, or of the manner ia which be had held up for admiration as martyrs and patriots men who committed murder and other diabolical crimes, you would have spared your colleagues and fellow*

townsmen the disappointment and surprise which they feel at seeing your name associated with so reprehensible a character." Horrible to relate, Mr. John Morlaud, Major of Glastonbury was aware of it all. He replied, claiming liberty to act as President of the Glastonbury Liberal Association even though decorated with the mayoral chain. He had a bit of political philosophy to preach to the Unionists, too. " The great fact is," he replied, " that Mr. Sullivan in a special sense, for good or evil, represents the great bulk of the Irish people, and his writings express in vivid words their feelings and desires, If at a certain time he was opposed utterly to England, he was a mouthpiece of the National feeling. He did, indeed, hate England with bitterness, as the Power which, as ha believed, yr*n crashing down bis beloved country, and as be associated England's Queen with Kngland, he did not. »s some might nave don% toast her a£ banquets while feeling no true loyalty in his heart. Tnis hatred of England led him to exult over her defeats and to belittle her greatnest, whilst his Irish patriotism led him to glorify as martyrs tbe three nren who it ere found guilty of, and executed for, the death of poor Brett, the policeman, who was shot, probably unintentionally, whilst a successful rescue of Fenians was made upon the prison van. In this connection we may note that John Bright expressed strong doubts of the justice of the verdict, and that Mr. Swinburne, the poet, unsuccessfully appealed in lines of great power and beauty for mercy to the prisoners." " This hatred of England," continued Mr. Morland, " at the time of Mr. T. D. Sullivan's mayoralty, shared by three-fourths of the Irish people, was a terrible, a most deplorable f Act, and the true Unionists a.c those who sesk to find the causes of such a feeling and to remove them."

Tbe reply was of that sensible and statesmanlike kind which Tories canaot swa'low. Crush a Tory by reason and he flies for a brick-bat or a Belfast kidney. The Unioniits of Glas'oobury are of the same type as the Unionists of Sindy-row. They accordingly organised an attack on tbe Liberal meeting. But the Liberals were prepared. The rowdies were excluded from the hall, and taken charge of by the police outside. Mr. Sullivan addressed his meeting without interruption, and so convinced tha reason of his audience and roused their enthusiasm for the cause of Ireland tnat the friends of the cause were strong enough to give him a safe escort through tha streets of Glastonbury. The panegyrist of the Miochester Martyrs had bis own celebration of their anniversary, and his victory was the ▼indication of their memories.