Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 22, 18 March 1892, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

("From the National Papers.)

By the kindly inittitive of the Vicar of Stranorlar, County Donegal* a mevtment has been set on foot to restore the grave of tke famous advocate and patriot, Isaac Butt, who lies in the Protestant churchyard there. The last resting-place of the father of Home Rule has recently fallen into a dismantled condition, and a subscription has now been Mt on foot amongst tbe members of the Irish Bar to restore it. Some of the Irish landlords who have not taken advantage of the Irish Land Purchase Acts or otherwise come to equitable terms with their tenants art still in a bad way. A titled lady who is in this position has just written to her bankers to know what can be realised on her library, her plate and jewels having previously gone. The catalogue, a bookseller tells us, was long enough to impress a person who bad no knowledge of the value of second-hand bookß but from a dealer's point of view the lot was not worth more than a few pounds. Among the floral tokens sent after Cardinal Manning's death was a handsome Celtic cross of white flowers with the following card attached :— " A tribute of affectionate regard to a great Englieh Nationalist, one of Ireland's truest friends, an advocate of justice, and a champion of the toilers everywhere. — From Michael Davitt." The Duke of Devonshire will pay a visit to his Irish estate in the course of the coming summer, and it is probable that he will stay at Lismore Castle for some weeks in the autumn. His Grace intends to take a more active personal interest in his Irish property than the late Duke found possible, and I do not think I am committing a breach of confidence when I say that he hopes to be able to aid considerably the development of Ireland's material resources. The Rev R. J. Casey, CO., St John's, Waterford, has written to thank all those kind-hearted friends and sympathisers who have favoured him with letters and telegrams of encouragement and sympathy before and since the persecution which be was recently subjected to, simply for having " cheered " for one of the most unselfish and noblest sonß Ireland has produced within the last century one who has travelled the world over to benefit his fellow-man, and to gather funds for the support of the widow and the homeless, and who has everywhere met with a reception worthy of the man and of the sacred cause he espoused. A nephew of Daniel O'Connell has just died in Haverhill Massachusetts. His name was Daniel Parant, and his father was a colonel in the Life Guards in the time of George IV., but afterwards left this country for America, Toung Paiant received a good education, and when the Civil War broke out he enlisted as a volunteer and served with distinction. At the close of the war he found himself with no means of support, and took up tbe calliDg of an actor, playing Mith travelling companies. It was while performing at a benefit at Haverhill that he contracted influenza in a severe form, and died in a few days at the age of forty-seven. It is stated in Dublin that in a very short time a cisc to which considerable interest will attach will come on for bearing in Dublin. The plantiff will be a Mr Howard, who seeks to establish a claim for the Wicklow estates, and the defendant the present Earl of Wicklow, who is an infant; Some twenty-five years ago proceedings were instituted on Mr Howard's behalf, he being then only a year old, laying claim to tbe title, and by a decision of the House of Lords he was declared disentitled. Mr Howard claims inheritance from the present Earl's grandfather. Since that time Mr Howard has b«en living in France, and yesterday he returned to Ireland to attend a conference of eminent counsel. We have have not yet seen a more terse, and, at the same time, complete definition of the meaning of Home Rule than that given by MrAsquith, Q.C., M.P. Here it is :— " He meant by Home Rule, in its application to Ireland — and it waß a principle that was capable of a much wider application— the granting by the Imperial Parliament to the Irish people of a legislature and an elective of their own with f nil powers to deal with and to dispose of all matters that concern ed the Irish people and the Irish people alone, subject to the conditions that the Imperial Parliament bt Westminster shall retain in all its integrity a paramount and indefeasible authority over every part of her Majesty's dominions." Mr William Redmond will not be in Parliament after the next election, as we learn on good anthor ity that he will be the factionist candidate for Cork. The advocates of perpetual dissension really intend to woo the electors of this city once again. But they will do so under more favourable circumstances on the next occasion. No divison of forces will take place at the general election. The enemies of Home Rule have been taught wisdom by the result of the three-cornered contest last November, and the sweetness of the eleven hundred votes cast for Captain Sarsfield will not again be wasted on the desert air. With Mr William Redmond will come forwaid a Unionist candidate, and the reconstituted party will vote solid for

the pair. Under such circumstances, the Nationalist! mast hold themselves in readiness for a sharp struggle when the next election comes tonnd. At the Limerick Petty Sessions recently the magistrate! were occupied in bearing a summons at tho suit of the Limerick Corporation, against Brother James P. Slattery, Superior of the local Christian Brothers' Schools, for the recovery of £73 Is 2d, rates for that portion of tae school buildings in Sexton street, used as a dwelling house by the Brothers. Up to some years ago municipal rates were not collected on these buildings, but the attention of the Local Government Board auditor having been directed to the matter the Corporation, under fear of surcharge, had to claim rates on the dwelling houses. Brother Slattery stated the Brothers were teaching 1 ,700 boys, some of whom paid no school-fees, while others paid one penny, or twopence or threepence. They had a lecture room in the dwelling house for the use of the students. They could not, according to their vows, devote one penny of their school fees for their own maintenance, as they were bound to give gratuitous education. A decree was granted, and an appeal has been lodged. An English paper states that that the vacant Archbishopric of Westminster will probably be bestowed on either Dr Vaughan, the Bishop of Salford, or Monsignor Gilbert, who had been for many years associated with the late Cardinal in managing the affairs of the great Metropolitan diocese; Dr Vaughan (remarks the Cork Herald) is proprietor of the Tablet, an organ which the Irish people have little reason to respect or ravere. It has opposed the concession of self-government to Ireland with almost as much unscrupulousnesa as the Times, and Dr Vaughan's politics are those of his paper. Ho is a Tory of the Tories, and consequently has the support of the " Cawtbolic " aristocracy .of England. On the othtr hand Monsignor Gilbert's views are more ia accordance with the opinioas of the great prelate just deceased, and his appointment would be extremely popular with tbe great majority of the Catholics of London, especially amongst the Irish, who constitute the bulk of the adherents to the ancient faith and who would be bitterly opposed to the appointment of a prelate holding the political and social tenets advocated by Dr Vaughan. Tbe name of the Right Bey Dr Bagsbawe, Bishop of Not. tingham, has also been mentioned in connection with the See of Westminster. It is wall known that the able and kindly Bishop of Nottingham is a devoted frsend of the Irish National cause. Earl Charlemont died at Biarltz on Tuesday January 12, at the age of 72 yeais. His father was made a peer of the United Kingdom ia 1837, and the now deceased Earl, who was the third of tbe line, succeeded to the seat in the House of Lords in 1863. He will in turn be succeeded by his kinsman, Mr J. A. Caulfield, who will sue. ceed to the Viscountcy. By the Earl's death a vacancy occurs in the Order of the Thistle, But Colonel Caulfield would not be Earl Charlemont if his elder brother had lived. This brother went away to Australia in the prime of life, and spent many years in the bush. Mr Caulfield once inocculated with tbe taste fjr bush life would not return to his native country, and he continued a roaming career until he fell into the hands of some natives about fifteen years since, and was killed, Viscount Dillon of the Irish peerage also died on the same day at his country residence, Ditchley Hall, Enstone, Oxfordshire, after a few days' illness. He was 16th Viscount of the creation, wbicb dates back to 1621, and he had attained the age of 80 years. He was at one time clerk in the Home Office, but on tbe death of bis brother, the 15th Viscount, in 1879, he succeeded to the title. His son, the Hon Harold Arthnr Dillon Lee, succeeds him, The new Viscount is 48 years of age and married, The late Lady Sandhurst was the widow of Lord Sandhurst, who was better knowu as Sir William Manßtield, of Crimean and Indian fame. She belonged herself to the Felloweß family of Norfolk. For very many years back she had been a devoted adherent of Liberal interests in the English metropolis, and was closely identified with the Women's Liberal Federation. Her name came prominently before the public notice for the first time in connection with the election of members to serve on the London Council. She was selected as candidate by the Liberals of Brixton and was triumphantly returned, but, on a petition before the Superior Courts, the election was nullified, on tbe ground ttut women were not eligible to ait on the Council, and her opponent, Mr Beresford Hope, was accordingly returned. Her memorable visit to Dublin in company with the Right Hon J. Stansfeld, M,P., Sir Wilfred Lawson, M.P., Professor Stuart, M.P., and other distinguished English visitors, will be fjesb in our readers' memories. But long before that occasion her undoubted iafluence and ability had been at the service of tbe cause of Home Rule on many an English platform, and at various elections she had rendered excellent services to Ireland which were not forgotten on her arrival in Dublin. On September 21st, 1889, the freedom of tbe City of Dublin was conferred on Lady Sandhurst and the Right Hon James Sttnsfeld, M.P., in the City Hall, on their return from visiting the districts where the struggle between landlord and tenant had been most acnte. Lord Charlemont, who had reached the ripe age of 71 years never took any prominent part in public life. The family dates back ' to the teign of Elizabeth, when one Sir Toby Caulfield, bailing from

Orett Milton, near Oxford, came over to do the Queen's bus: ness against the formidable enemy of English domination, ti e great O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone. Like so many others with a like mission, this Caalfield came to stay, and his residence was encouraged by the honours and considerable estates be acquired under the " plantation " schemes of Elizabeth and James 1. In dae course the family became " more Irish than the Irish," blossoming out into that fine specimen of an Irish nobleman, James, the first Earl of Charlemont, who became the unanimously elected Commander-in-Chief of the his'oric Ulster Volunteers, a force which numbered 25,000 fully armed men. As we are reminded in the publication recently issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, it was this descendant of Elizabeth's anti-Irish soldier who declared that " the emancipation of Ireland from the control ot tbe Parliament of England had from his early days been the dearest wish of his heart." And it was he, too, who boasted that his having " contributed towards that object by tbe introdnctioD of Henry Grattan into Parliament as representative of' bis borough of Charlemont was the bappinesß and honour of his life.' Tbe title, with tbe extensive Ulster estates, descends to Colonel Caulfield, D.L., of Drumsairne, formerly of the Goldstream Guard % and at present Comptroller of the Household to the Lord Lieutenant. Tbe Moßt Rev. Dr Nulty, Bishop of Mtatb, baa addressed to the olergy and laity of his diocese a pastoral, pleading eloquently for the completion of their great design, to accomplish which the Pope called upon the whole Irish race all over the world — the erection of a magnificent church in Rome, nnder the invocation of St. Patrick, their national Apostle. Toe mission of that church, ths Bishop says, will be that of an authorised and a truthful witness of the vitality and the generosity of tht faith of Irishmen now living, and bearing testimony to the sacrifices made for it by their foretathers in their reputation and fame, which they forfeited in defence of it ; in their property and their estates which they could have saved from confiscation by surrendering it ; and in their blood which they shed in torrents ia the fierce and sanguinary struggle which they bravely maintained for centuries to retain it, and ia which the combined powers of earth and hell left nothing uudone to wrest it from them. This witness will be farther authorised to enlighten the nations on the labours, the services, tbe sacrifices made not only by Irish missionaries, but alpo by the Irish race itself, to propagate, to dissemiaate, and to plant the Gospel of Christ as a vigorous and flourishing growth in nearly every civilised country in tbe world. But this is only one of the great objects for which tbe H)ly Father has encouraged the erection of this church of Be. Patrick in Rome. It will be essentially Irish in the faith it professes, ia the liturgy it follows, and in the public worship it offjrs to the Almighty ; aad it is the well-known wish of the Holy Father that thesn, its essential attributes, should be accompanied by the distinctive peculiarities of oar nat onal character. In this Church of St. Patrick prayers and sacrifices will be offered up every day for the temporal and spiritual welfare of tbe whole Irish race in its dispersion as w»ll as at home. Every Irishman who contributes according to his means to the erection and en. dowment of this church may justly expect a rich and invaluab'e share in the graces and blessings which the Almghty will shower down on our race in reply to the prayers and holy Masses that will be perpetually ascending to Him from this holy temple of St. Patrick in the Eternal City.