Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 13, 28 July 1893, Page 9

Irish News.

Antrim.— At tte Belfast Police Court recently, the five Orarjgemen who were charged with having been leaders in a mob riot the night previous Lave Utmu convicted. Four of them were sentenced to six months' hard labour and the other to two months. Lord Salisbury paid a visit to the Giant's Causeway on Monday, At one place en rtute where be was recognised cheers for Home Rule were given. At Belfast on Friday, James Leslie, trading as Jaaies Leslie and Co., rectifying distillers Bandy row, B lfast, was summoned by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for nine offences under the Excise bye-laws, the principal being for having a pipe leading to his still, by means of which it was alleged, spirit could be introduced into the still after it had been secured by Excise officers. He was finad £500, the magistrates recommending the Commissioners to reduce it to £200. CarlOW*— Four members of the Order of Poor Clares have arrived in Carlow-Graigue, on tae invitation of the Rev Danid Byrne, P.P., for the purpose of establishing a branch of the Order in that parish. It is understood that suitable premises for the accommodation of the Sisters bare been obtained. Tbe foundation is from a House in the South of England. Gorlt* — A special train from Inchicore arrived in Cork en Fuaday, bringing a very large number of the employees of the Grett Southern and Western Railwiy Company on their annual excursion, Tbe excursionists were accompanied by a band, and many of them brought their wives an<l other female relative?. Tbe day was

spent in the city by the majority, while others drove to B arney and other pleasure resorts. The wel'-freighted spcial left for Incbicore on the return journey at about six p m. Derry.— Lord Salisbury addressing a meeting of Derry said that so far as they knew of Home Rule at preseut the financial proposals would mean bankruptcy to Ireland, for s s e would not b> abe to rhise taxation unkss England did. It would le-d to the s'oppage of the cattle trade with England now co beneficial to Irish farmers He contended thf»t th"; p^st history of those who would be the most powerful undi j r the Bill showed that they wou.d tramp'e the minority under foot. He indignantly repudiated any deßire to arouse iel.gious animosities It wis a libel on thy Ronam|Oi'bolic Chard to put on her shoulders what a lamentably disciplined corps of Celtic pnestß bsd itiflicted on Ireland. It was an emblem of power that might ba raised against them. He tru-ied that the dtsceodants of thoee people who had fought fo bravely for the liberties of Great Britain in the past in that city would be equally valiant and successful iv the fight which was now before them. Lird Salisbury brought his engagements in Ulster to a close on Saturday. Ia the morning his lordship received addresses from local political bodies, and later on witnessed a procession composed of pjhtical, religious, social, an \ other organisations Oa taking his departure from Londonderry he waß escorted to the station by the Corporation. Donegal*— ln the County of Djnegil, where according to the last cc isus 140,000 out of 180.000 are Catholics, ou> of 139 Jus ices of the P« aoe nine only ar- Catholics. Perhaps it is as weil to aa t that tbe Lord-Lidutenant of Donegal ia the Da\ct of Abercorn, tbe p-en-dent of the Unionist Convention ia Belfast last July, an 1 tbe cb.au-

mm of tbe Unionist demonstration in the Albert Hall on the 22nd ultimo. Quite a number of Amrican tourists a-rived ncently at Motile. Down.— At Rathmullen Petty Se sions, afew days ago, Hugh Doherty, of Legland, was charged with having used a cart without a name being on it, in violation of law. Defendant siid his name was on tbe cirt but was written in Irish characters, which he maintained was the proper language for him as an Irishman to use. He was asked by the chairman if he ciuld write Irish, in answer to which be stated that he could both read and write it. The constable stated that he observed fonae marks on tbe car', but could not understand what they indicated, and because of the constable's ignorance and poor Doherty'd 1 )ve for his native tongue, and bis disregard for " Sassenach" churac'ers, he was fined one fchilling and costs, At a meetibg of the licensed vintners of Dublin and suburbs, held oa Tuesday, it was determined to oppose the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor (Ireland) Bill in the Hjuse of Lords and to promote petitions against it. Legislation was called for to put down bogut club?, which, while interfering with legitimate trade, led to drunkenness, gambling, and immorility among the working classes. On Sunday list the Dublin Hinted Trades Council and Labour League held their fortnightly nesting, at which a resolution strongly disapproving of the Early Saturday Night and Sunday (Liquor) Bill was passed. Other important matters were also dealt with. On Sunday afternoon the last of the series of processions in honour of the Bless; 1 Virgin held at the PassioniGt Church, Mount Argus, on each Sunday, during the month of May, took place, and was attended by an enormous concourse of people. Four o'clock was the time announced for the function, and for some lima before that tour persona of all classes, young and old, were pouring in through tbe two entrances to the spacious

grounds attached to the churcb, until by half-past four o'clock thousands of people had gathered cither to take part in the procession or to witness it. The grounds and church were decorated with flags and bannirp, and the fee-*no prtsented reminded oDe of the popular religious demonstrations whirh so frequently take place in Contme'-tal Catholic countries on the occasions of great Church feaatn. At a recent meeting of the Dublin Ci'y Corporation ths Lord Mayor ann< unced thit in the course of he present year he would take part in the opening of the ImDeiial Institute, the Sanitary Congre^ of Edinburgh, and that he would visit the World'd Fair, Chicago, vi response to an invi'ation from the Chicago Municipality. A few days ago, in the Exoh qu-T Cour', Dublin, the trial of an action was reached in which Mr Byrnp, editor of the Irish Daily Independent , 6m d the Freeman's Journal Company f r libel, for the publication cf a letter headed ' Int-ulti' g the Bis x>ps." The writer of the letter alleged tbnt the plaintiff, in publishing ihe letter of the Archbishop of Cashel, ha I, for the purpose of insulting the latter, an " x " before the Biahop'd signature, i s cad of the cress which is usually prefixed to it. The c-ise was settled by the defendantj apologising aud paying all costs. The Very Rev Fat- er Kmcnet, Superior-General of the Society of the Holy Ghost, haa come over io Irelani to visit the houses of his Ord^r— Blatkrock Collie, St Mary's College Hathmines, and Rockwell College, ia tbe County Tipperary, The Very Rev Father Kmonet, who is a native of Savoy, jjined the Society of the Holy Ghost whm still quite h young student, a d had the privilrge of having as his first Suptri r the ventrab'e servant of God, Francis Mary Pbul Libirmajn, whose cause of the beatification is now before the duly See, He is the third Genera) of tbe Order since the

death of its Baintly founder. After the comparatively short period of fifty year's existence, the Society of the Holy Ghost now numbers 12C communities, miny of th m on the western and casern coasts of Africa, under five bi-hops and four prefects apostolic of the Order > Fermanagh. — 1 1 Fermanagh, where c >nsidcr<tbly over half the population are Catholics, out of 174 justices only onp is a Catholic. Kildarc — Religious observances and s-cial uoauarm^nts are chief among the rrost prominent participations of the Catholic soldierß of the Curraph Camp Garrison, Lteitrim. — In the Coun'y of Leitrim there are 71 magie'rates, <jf wi üm nine only are Catholic?. RoSCOtntllon.— Lord Dillon \n threaten^' se'ernl evictions in the town of Loughlyun. The tenants' leasffl, which were tor 99 years, have expired, and even although they aro willing to pay any fair settlement, he will come to no terms except make a clearance of those who are in his power. Slig'O.— Jack Gallagher, the oldest mw and one of the be?t known figures in Sligo, is dead. Deceased had, for 26 year', been attached to the Dominican Fiiary, and afterwards entertd the service of Alderman Mac Gill, where he remained for twelve years, and in whose house be died. Jack was a moat inveterate smoker, but it did not in the slightest militate against the robustness of his constitution, or the clearness of his intellect. He was 96 years old and bore a most exemplary character for piety, being a member of tbe Tertian Order of 8t Djminick. Tlpperary.-Miss Clevel md, sister of the President of the United States, and her travelling companion, Mrs SimpsoD, paid a visit recently to tbe Archbishop of Cashel, at the Palace, Thiirles. The visitors were shown through the Cathedral, the grounds and

schools of the Ursuhne Convent, the Presentation Convent schoolp, and 8t Patrick's College, by the Archbishop, the Very Rev Canon Ryan, president of tbe college ; the Rev N. Ruff ity, Adra ; and the Rev J, J. Ryan, vice-president of tbe college. Mies C.eveland ana her companion expressed th' ir admiration of the ecclesias'ical buildings and educational establishments in Thurlps, and left in the afternoon, accompanied by tbe Very Rgv Canon A. Ryan, to visit tbe ruins of the Abbey of HoJycroßs and the Rock of Cashel. Tyrone. —la Tyrone, where m're than half the populatu n are Catholics, but where the Lord-Lieutenant, who appointed magistrates is a Protestant and a Tory, out of 159 jutticcs cf the peace only six are Catholics. On Sunday Bridget Moran, a native of Bal'ygawlcy, South Tyrone, was interred in tr c Catnohc gravejard at Ackinduil, parish of Kilieshil. The deceased waß born in tbe year 1788, and wae therefore 105 years of age at the time of her death, which occurred on Friday. Rev John O Donnell, CO., Killeshil, (ftiiiated at the grave. "Water lord. — Preparations are in progress looking to the erection of a n^w sea-wall at Tramore. "Wicfelow.— ln Wickhw, where five-sixth of (he population are Catholic?, and where there are 104 Justices of the Peace, but five of them are Catholics.