Dublin Stoles,

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 38, 8 July 1892, Page 21

Dublin Stoles,

(From our exchanges.) Pathkb McMahon, a wealthy Irish-American clergymen, who recently endowed a chair in the Catholic University, Washington, has donated L3OOO to build an Anla Maxima in Maynooth College. The building has already been commenced. Father McMahon has retired from active missionary work, and resides in the University which he has so generously endowed. Mr Henry Matthews, the Orange Catholic Home Secretary, takes ft special delight in dwelling on the attitude of Orangemen towards Home Bule and the dangers of Catholic ascendancy. This was the theme of a speech he delivered the other day at Worcester. There is a beautiful flexibility about Mr Matthews' principles which never allows them to clash with his interests. The controversy on the Irish Educttion Bill between Archbishop Walsh and Mr T. W. Bussell is prolonged by an article this month from Mr Russell in reply to one from his Grace in the April number of the Contenyptrary Eeview. There is not much to choose between Mr Russell as an educationalist and Mr Russell as a politician. His views are pecnliar. Mr Russell pretends to be in extreme anxiety lest denominational education be established in Ireland. H9 shudders for the future of Protestantism, if such a calamity should occur. The faith of Protestant children attending mixed schools would, he fears, be undermined, and perhaps the whole educational system of the country fall into the hands of Archbishop Walsh, The Member for Tyrone would have Model Schools, which are practically endowed Protestant denominational schools, existing as they are now. To ex* tend any denominational privileges to Catholics Mr Russell thinks only less detrimental in its consequences than the granting of Home Bule, We have considerable respect for the Duke of Norfolk as a Catholic, but we do think that if be has a sense of shama he ought to feel ashamed of the political support he is giving to the berditary enemies of the Catholic religion, the Ulster Orangemen. On Wednesday evening, May 18, his Grace moved a vote of thanks to Lord Salisbury for another vile, anti-Irish, and anti-Catholic address which he delivered at Hastings, In this speech Lord Salisbury, so far from withdrawing his recent remarks about Catholics, emphasised them, and specially singled out Archbishop Walsh and the Irish clergy for abuse and sneers. How Catholic a proceeding it is to thank him for this attack on Catholics. The Duke of Norfolk also betrays his love for the Orange parsons by signing a circular begging for LIO,OOO, so that sixty of them — the oreme de la, creme of the bigots — may be enabled to address English and Scottish constituencies during the general election. They will repay his Grace's kindness and generosity by assailing, reviling, arid misrepresenting his religion in every town and hamlet throughout the conntry. His Grace is, no doubt, anxious to provide work for the Catholic Truth Society, Sir Richard Qaain, one of London society's most cherished institutions, was feted at the Garrick Club on May 8, by a select clique, comprising Henry Irving, David Piunket, John L. Toole, Sir Charleß Russell, and other ltading theatrical patrons and big-wigs, They presented him also with a couple of handsome silver bowls. London society has done about all it can for this wonderful old man, who commenced life as shop-boy to a small apothecary in the town of Mallow, County Cork. To this day Sir Richard Quain prescribes for and attends gratuitously all patients coming from the County Cork. He lives in the very best society, and is a welcome guest at country houses among such personages as the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Manchester, Baron Hirsch, Leo Rothschild and their friends. Just as American eccentricities and the American accent are accepted in society as a delightful " change," so the broad Irish peasant's brogue invariably spoken by Lord Morris and by Sir Richard Qaain is their strongest point. Sir Richard is noted for his fondness for prescribing alcohol. That practice prevented his being elected president of the College of Physicians a while back, when a wave of teetotal enthusiasm put in Sir Andrew Clarke in his stead. Sir Richard Quain, contrary to the proverbial rule, coosumes his own prescriptions. He makes no affectation of being a scientific doctor in the modern sense, but his insight into cases and power of diagnosis are truly marvellous; He does not believe in the modern plan of trusting largely to diet and regimen— rather in " heroic " doses of potent drugs. The Right Hon David Plunket is his dearest friend. He has a large family, and knows enough secrets about other people's families to scorch half Belgravia and Mayfair. Canon Brosnan publishes in the Irish papers the following letter from the new Archbishop of Westminster :— " Archbishop's bouse, Westminster, S.W., April 27, 1892. Dear Canon Brosnan, — Many thanks for your kind words and good wishes, which are a great consolation and help to me in the new responsibilities of this diocese, I shall be glad to do what I can for you, in the meantime I send you my hearty blessing, and to all your good works, and hope you will be able to finish them according to your heart's desire. With every

best wish, I am yours very truly, f Herbert, Archbishop-elect of Westminster." The friends of the O'Connell Memorial church (writes Canon Brosnan), the friends of Ireland, will, I am Bure, be glad to see this warm-hearted letter of the new Archbishop of Westminster. It is, indeed, an auspicious letter — a pronouncement fall of hope and encouragement. The heart of the great Cardinal Manning always beat warmly for Ireland, and from the very beginning his Eminence declared heart and soul for the Memorial Church. In the presence of the assembled venerable bishops of England he declared to me that he would stick to it ; and he did. He Btuck to it unflinchingly to the end. Only a short time before his death he renewed his moat generous subscription. He was ever proud of its progress ; many a time did he bless it ; many a time did he wish it complete success, and never lost an opportunity of recommending it to his friends and to the world. Is it not, then, a happy augury— a matter of hearty congratulation — that his Eminence's immediate successor, by the first act of his new reign, has so warmly taken up the cause ? On its behalf, on behalf of Ireland and of the Irish race, on behalf of the sacred cause of religious freedom won by O'Connell, I most humbly and respectfully thank Dr Vaughan ; and may I not add that, as the mantle of Cardinal Manning has fallen on his Grace, so may we fondly cberißh the hope that his Eminence's fatherly care, his afleetioaate and unwearied concern for the welfare and happiness of bis numerous Irish children and for poor Ireland, will form an ennobling feature in his Grace's future life and labours. M. L. Nemours Goudre, editor-in-chief of the Paris Univers, who worthily fills the chair left vacant by that staunch Catholic and patriotic Frenchman. Louis Veuillot, has placed bis pen and his paper at the service of Father Brosnan and in a stirring article in that able journal says :— Of all the monuments that the gratitude of Irelaad has erected or will erect to the memory of the Liberator none seems better adapted than the edifice undertaken by Canon Brosnan. It was for the religious emancipation of his brethren that O'Conntll fought such hard fights. He triumphed ;he set at liberty the Irish Catholics and with them the Catholics of England and Scotland ; besides he taught the Catholics of the whole world that eloquence and courage in the service of justice and truth can triumph over the greatest wrongs. It was the Liberator of Ireland who stood on the threshold of this century as the champion of religious liberty, and who still shows to Catholic France, discrowned by the Revolution, how victories of courage and faith are gained. We are sure that if Canon Brosnan obtains the authority of any French bishop to preach a sermon in favour of his work, he will witness again an immense audience, eager* like that which listened but a year ago to the Rev Pere Olivier. Notwithstanding their trouble and sorrows, the Catholics of France consider it an honour to contribute their mite to praise the Catholic Liberator and to show a fresh proof of their affection for the sister nation which, during the disaster of 1870, not content with having given the blood of her sons, in a few weeks raised from her poverty the royal sum of a million francs for our wounded."