Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 9 January 1891, Page 5

Dublin Notes.

(From the National Papers.)

They have rewarded murderer Delaay, by the way. At last the bargain that was struck in Maryborough Gaol has been carried out, and the Invincible goes free. He was not much service to the Forger, but Mr. Balfour probably thought that it would not do to discourage the honourable profession of informer in Ireland, and so, bad as it looks, the door of Dalany's cell is opened, and he goes away with his pockets tilled with the rewards of the Coercionist Government. It is a disgraceful incident, and puts the seal to the proof of the participation of the Government in the foul conspiracy behind the Forger. Mr. Edwin De Lisle has fallen on evil days and evil tongues. His services to she Catholic cause have never been properly appreciated, we fear ; and now he isbemgrepudiaied a«only a cham of a Tory. Even hi-* own frienia, we learn trom thp Daily Mn<s, are turning agauißi him, and he will be pxir Mr. De Lule inde d— poor inspirit at all events — if he clings to his sett in ppue ot the last kick which he has just received from the Licenced Victuallers, who are n ;w also repudiating him, aid this afier giving hwn a bauqu t. Wnat, has tau-ed ll the trade" t > repe t of us h spitahty appears to have been his uufortunat defence of bis attitu 1c on the Local Taxadon Bill. lie said the Bill would not have affected ihe conhumption of liquor, inasmuch as cubs would have been oppnel. To this no objection was takun, and, reamed by what the Brewing Trade Review calls 'he meaningless cheers of the L u^hborouwh licensed victuallers, he weot on to say lhat the trade had no claim upon the public, altnough he admitted there was a claim on somebody. It is perceived, of course, that the •• somtbodiea " must be the publicans who remain. Tbe-e views, we learn, wer<- repudiated by substquent speakers ; but says the organ above named, "th^ mistake was in having anything t ) say to Mr. D.> Lisle at all. He has been tried and fouud wanting He should be turue.i out neck an 1 crop." Again, " Better to have in Parliament an out -ami-out Kadical who is an honest opponent thrin a wtak-koeed Cons rvative who will sacrifice his party rather than his personal whims." Ihe week (end.ng November 15), ha 9 been made memorable by the revelation of ihe atricnies perpetrated by the Stanley Expedition A di-pute between the officers has led to recrimin&tiona in which the most horrible allegations are made. One of the commanders has btcn charged with buying a young girl ior six pocket-handkerchiefs in order to test the cannibalism of the natives It is allesed that he took sketches of the several stages of tne rnurler and cooking of the child. Tne person against whom this is alleged is, we are sorry to say, a Dublin man. Major Baittelut is charged with the most fiendish cmelty. and it a tithe of the allegations is true, the face of a European in " D.nktst Atrica " will foi a lonjj time have but tho most evil associations. It this ih advancing civilisation, «ye say, in heaven's came 'eavr the Africans to thLir haath^Dibiu and barbarism. In one belief, tne Stanley expedition ought to have confirmed those whom it touched — namely, in the txittencu of a demon. The devil of the African's terrors will in the future, we fear, wear a white face. Mr. GUd>-tone on his jiurney to Hawarden on Thursday, November (J stopo. d at Carlisle 10 receive addresses a"d made ash ;rt ttpeech in wh eh hi briefly summed up once moie the case against Coercion and ihecd^e fui a Dissolution. C ercion is maintained in In l*Dd, though it mak. s the peopie detest th«s law, though it is di-hoi.ourabie to Kn.'land before the civilised world, though it is weakening to the Empie, tnough it is a t-pendthnft system, i bough it is in convenient. It is maiutaiucd in spite of the expressed opinion of Scotland, of Wake, of Ireland, and agaiuet the manifest present opinion ot Eng«

land. The Liberal Leader recalled what Lord Salisbnry declared constitutiona government requires when such a divorce of sentiment between Parliament and the people has come about as has taken place emce 1886. " Dissolution," eaid Lord Salibsury in 1884 "is the > only appeal which the people bave against a Prime Minis er who ia not acting according to their wi.h. That a prime Minister should have a nght of advimng an appeal to the country ( do not deny for a moment ; but Ido deny that he has a right to interpose bis will and say that the people may storm and object and say my course is wrooe but so long as I can control the m.j.rity in a Houee of Commons elected under my auspices and controlled by my machinery, so lone will I not permit an appeil to the people against myself " Mr Gladstone wants that doctrine to be applied now. He has no doubt about the result if it were applied. The result is easy of calculation It would be a Home Rule majority of, at least, eighty. Mr. Goschen spoke at Halifax on the same day in answer to th Midlothian speeches. He attempted no reply to what they did contain, but abuted Mr. Gladstone tor what they did not contain de spoke a page of the Times and called loudly for the production of the Liberal meacures. Wuh regard to the Land Purchase Bill he declared that the Government would go forward with the measure • but he gave " no light " himself on the point whether it would be amended or not. Not on* word was spoken by the Chancellor of the Exchequer about a Local Government Bill, though he made great parade of the determination of the Tories to fulfil their pledges. Curiously enough the one fulfilment he promised was a flagrant breach for if ever a party was pledged the Tories were pledged against Land Purctase Mr. Morley, speaking at Scarborough on Frid y, November 7 gave Mr. Goschen some of the light of which he was in search He gave clear expression to his own views as lo Land Purchase. He declared that any system of Land Purchase would be in the highest de* pee dangerous not only to the Treasury, but dangerous to the peace between England and Ireland, which did not comply with three conditions. Tbe first was that the State should not be the creditor of an individual debtor ; the second, that no system of State Pur chase was safe unless accompanied by a general political settlement* and the third, that no system would be safe which did not give the Irish authorities an interest in these transactions. The tenant purchasers under the Ashbourne' Act are finding out what an iron-vitalled monster of a landlord is the State Those of them who purchased merely to escape eviction and in the hope of something turning up, are appealing to the Court for re itf but find UK^I! ( '° Urt * ha 9. n ° P °. Wer torelieve thft °°- Mr. Commigsione. M'Carthy very fairly recalls the warning which he gave five years ago to intending purchasers ; but bis remarks imply, wbat we do not think he would deny, that there have been many cnses where Ue tenants weie forctd to buy. It ia not much consolation to tell them that their complaint against duress is too late, and that it should have been made at the time tbe agreements were bdfore the Court Hut to make tbe complaint then would have been to invoke the evil of which these people had so much diead. The root of the evil lies in the Balf urian policy of refusal of all relief from arrears at the same time that a ferocious attack was being made against the tenants' combination ; and the conspiracy of Undl rds and Gjveroment bia worked evil hera as elsewhere. Probably now the, will manoeuvre as Lord Waterford has manoeuvred, to buy back the farms at a song' and pocket tbe difleierce between the price which they forced their tenants to agree to pay under threat of eviciijn and the price which they themselves will have to pay ia the open market, carefully overstocked by Mr. Justice Monroe and Company. The who.c policy is a moßt artistic swindle. J Another Trish pressman has been sent to gaol for the crime of publishing the report of a public meeting. Mr. Walsh of the CatM Sentinel will during the next three months have leisure and reason to iurninate over ihe difference which law, or rather the administration of tbe law, makps betwef n a Nationalist Pressman and a Tory Pressman. He reported a meeting at which Mr. John Kel'y attended and made a speech calculated io offend the susceptibilities of Mr. Balfour and his braves. He told the people who assembled that if they were illegally attacked by the police they should defend themselvis. In a word, he told them to exercise the right which no less high an authority tban Mr. Gladstone has again and again asserted is tbe people's— the right to defend them-^lves against violent interruption of their lawful meeting*. Ihis speech was reported by Mr. Walsh. If we do not mistake a summary of it also appeared iv tbe Time*. It might bave been reported by any Tory newspaper with impunity. The meeticg was not proclaimed. The speaker of tbe occasion has not been prosecuted. No one who attended the mee'in? has been picsecuted. But Mr. Walsh goes io ga.l because of the crime of refusing to limit himself to the publication of those items of Dews to which the Castle censors do not object. This is the eqnality of the law. Wbat is not a crime in Priming-house square or In the office of the Clonmel Chronicle is a crime in the office nf the Cothel Sentinel. c ot The mean and miserable persecution to which those who have earned tbe hostility of Mr. Balfour's agents in the country are t-üb-jected has got a new and brutal illustration in the case of Mr. Jam-s Maye, who was prosecuted at Rathcorm .c on Tuesday, November II for assaulting a coostable. The constable was engaged in canyin.*' p out Mr. Balfour's pat.-nt process for provoking Na ion-tusta to ti illegality-be was snadowing Mr. Maye. Tbe shadowing was con- f timud until the object of the provocation cou.d stand v no longer and got a loan of a neighbour's horse to ride away. He ' raised a stick as if to stnke the policemen," and for this he was prosecuted " The magistrates— two miluaiy pensioners— found him guilty of a a "constructive assault." They found that the consiabU was not in jured. But yet they ordered the defendant to find bail for his good" *i behaviour or go to gaol for six months. The injustice of the aherna- h tive is patent, and was patent t o those who gave it. They knew the h dtfpndpnt con'd not give bail, or that if he did his police persecutors would soon find the means, by "constructive" cnmmality to make him pay bis bails. They, therefore, put on a penalty as great as that ft which was imposed a week ago by another bench of justices on the "

Emergencyman who outraged the Wexford child. Mr. Maye will spend the nmo length in priaon at the E mergeucy ruffian, and all Ireland, which is scandalised at the contrast, will of course Ion" f< the opportunity to tbrow itself into the arms of Mr. Balfour,