Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 46, 21 August 1891, Page 3

Dublin Notes.

(From the National Papers.) THK Duke of Argyle gels a sound dre3sing in the Ooercionist Daily Chronicle for his proposal to weed oat the population of Scotland by emigration. It is broadly stated that his Grace is an exterminating landlord, and it is half hinted that be has shares in the emigration line* into whose coffers his proposal would put coin. If his Grace had proposed to emigrate the Irish it would have been all right. They are fair game for the emigration agent. - The amount advanced on the Land Purchase account by the Land Commission during the six months ending December 31 > last was £570,211, o f which £108,576 went to Ulster, £173 986 to Leinster, £12,777 to Connaugbt, and £273,873 to Munsier. In 47 cases the sums advanced were between £2,000 and £4,000 an i in four caseß the amounts were above £4,000. Three hand..<l and eighty-eight applications were refused. The principal landloiUs coa-

oerned In the transactions were the Earl of Shannon, Viscount Doneraile, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Leconfield, Mr Martin Millar, Lord Normanton, Mr P. Townend, the Marquis of Waterford, Earl of Bessborough, tbe Skinners' Company, and tbe Drapers' Company. Though tbe Irish Land Purchase Bill, which bas now passed the third reading i D the House of Commons, had been before Parliament ovrr since November last, it was taken on only 36 sittings, including several mo; ning sittings. On one evening it was bronght in and read a first time ; two evenings sufficed for tbe second reading ; only part of one evening w*s needed to get the Bill into Committee ; in twenty-four sittings it passed through Committee ; in seven sitting! it passed the Report stage, and on Monday night was read a third time, Thus only about seven weeks of Parliamentary time were •pent on a Bill which is not only tbe principal measure of the Session i but one of the chief measures of the Parliament, involving an advance of millions of moaey. Such facts as these sufficiently diipose of any charge of obstiuction. The papers and correspondence of James Caulfield, first Earl of Cbarlemont, just published by the Historical Manuscript Commission, throw much light on Irish political life, during the second half of the last century. Lord Charlemont, who was the proprietor of tbe nomii nation borough of Cbarlemont — a email village in the county of Tyrone — returned two of the most distinguished men of the time to the Irish Parliament : first Henry Grattan, who obtained legislative independence for Ireland, and then William Plunket, the first Lord Plunket, who opposed the Union and afterwards contributed largely to win Catholic emancipation in tbe British Parliament. He was grandfather of the present Archbishop of Dublin, and the Bight Hon David Plunket, M.P. Students of the old tongue will be glad to hear that Dr Douglas Hyde— An Chraobhinn Aoibhinn— is on his way home to Ireland afte/ a nine month's sojourn in Canada, where he went to fill temporarily the Chair held by Smith O'Brien's grandson, Professor Btockley, in the State University of Ntw Brunswick. Gaelic studies are making immense progress in Iri <h- America, and Dr Hyde received a Gaelic welcome in Boston and New York on last Tuesday An Chraobhinn Aoibhinn deserves all the honour. He has saved at the eleventh hour the relics of the traditional lore of the Gaels which were perishing day by day as the Irish-speaking peasant spoke his last. When a nationally educated Ireland comes to value the work of this silent labour they will rate its worth high indeed. Thomas Addis Emmet, president of tbe Federation of America has issued an address to the Irishmen of the United States. It was determined from the outset that no aid should ba forwarded to promote faction in Ireland, and for the last six months the IrishAmericans have stood by and watched the battle without helping either side. Those six months had shown that the Nationalist Party still remains the trusted guardians of the country's cause, and the exiles of America are determined that tbe ruffianism of a turbo lent gang shall not be allowed to check the generosity of our Western friendß. Within one year a general election must come, and money will be required to fight it. The Nationalists at Home are steadily raising a fund for the last effort, and Dr Emmet appeals to America to contribute, not in the interest of faction, but in aid of the policy that has ever received the exile's support— the liberation of the old Una. Oae of our English contemporaries, writing about the recently published Charlemont Letters, says :— " The way to an Irish bishopric in 1779 is naively indicated in a letter from William Newcome, Bishop of Ossory, quoted in the Calender of the Donoghmore C jrrespondence. Tbis worthy prelate notes that he is • informed that the Bishop of Waterfnrd's life is despaired of/ and apprises bis correspondent tnat he has 'taken the liberty to solicit my Lord Lieutenant by letter that I may be appointed to that See.' Various reasons are urged, one beiDg a • wish to be a little richer, though at the expenses of convenience and happiness.' But the crowning argument has reference to political services. It is, in the bishop's own words, tbat he had ' supported an interest in this borough (Kilkenney), at a great expense, for a year before the last general election ; absolutely preserved the borough by making forty new freemen in the midst of the greatest obloquy and newspaper abuse (for our majority on the poll was only nineteen), and returned two members recommended by Government after a well-contested opposition, headed by Mr Ponscnby, a popular candidate and a native of this place.' A little later we come upon a letter from William Newcome, 'Bishop of Waterford,' about somione who had published 'a very able answer to Mr Hume's " Ef^ay on Miracles." ' "

At the Kanturk Quarter Sessions, before his Honour Mr J. P. Hamilton, Q C , an action was lately heard, in which a great amount of public interest was centred, arising out of the disturbances at the Nationalist meeting at Kanturk. The plaintiff was a shoemaker named Thomas O'Gorman, and the defendant Mr Callaghan M'Cartby, a respectable victualler in town. The action was for £20 for assault en the occasion. Tbe plaintiff proved th it on this day he was beaten on the head with a stick by the defendant. O'Gormau's witness, Thomas Sheehan, corrobrated his testimony. On cross-examinatiou, he admitted that he got <*runk to shout for Parnell. and that the

plaintiff (O'Gorman), ia company with others, drank some of the i whiskey with him. Tbe Becorder, in giving judgment, said each party bad a right to express their political views in every way ia their power short of vioUnce, and the anti- Parnellite party bad a perfect right to hold their meeting that day, and on the other side if people differed from them, they should not send two or three fellows to interfere with them and create a breach of the peace. He thought O'Gorman, who had been drinking Parnehite whiskey that day, and ■hooting for Mr. Parnell, was himself very much the cause of the injury he suffered. He wonld give a decree of £5. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the People of Schnll, for the purpose of establishing a branch of the National Federation, Rev. John O'Connor, P. P., presided. Amongst those present were Mr Gilhooly, M.P., Mr B. Boycroft, Chairman of the Schull Board of Guardians, and all the prominent local Nationalists. Mr Gilhooly, in addressing the gathering, said they had heard expressions of opinion as to what Wm. O'Brien would do when he came out of prison. He would say this, and he defied contradiction, that Wm. O'Brien declared, when he got the first intimation of the intended proceedings in the Divoroe Court, that if the English people declared against Mr Parnell he should discontinue his leadership, William O'Brien made that statement to him (Mr Gilbooly) in a conversation at Glengariffe. He repeatedly said that, if the English people who had been converted to Home Bale Bhonld declare against Mr Parnell, that the Iriih people bad no alternative bnt to compel Mr Parnell to retire from the leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Par'y. When he (Mr Gilhooly) bad tbe honour of standing beside William O'Brien to take their trial before two Removables at Cionakilty on a charge of conspiracy, he bad an opportunity of ascertaining Mr O'Brien's opinion of Mr Parnell in connection with the evicted tenants of Ireland. He pointed out to Mr O'Brien that the speech which Garvey, the police notetaker, was to give in evidence was an exact copy, word for word, of the report which appeared in the Cork papers. William O'Brien immediately said to him : "Mr Parnell's conduct has been so bad with regard to the evicted tenantß that we had better make do defence, and I will to go to gaol, ia consequence of his action. I can't get him to do anything." Daring the progress of the case William O'Brien complained bitterly of Mr Pamell'a action. He said he would go to gaol in conseqaence of it, and throw the responsibility of ' the movement upon him (Mr Parnell). What did this pretended sympathy of Mr Parnell for the evicted tenantß mean ? Mr O'Brien had said of him — " 1 can't get him io do anything for the evicted tenants. I can't gvt him to make one pronouncement in favour of them."