Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 14, 3 August 1894, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

(From the Weekly Freeman.) Wa trust that a prompt investigation will be made into two occurrenoes of a peculiar kind in which the police figured, which are reported from the North, One report comes from Lurgan and the other from Belfast, and they were both in connection with tha great meeting in the County of Antrim. In Lurgan the Orangemen appear to have attacked peaceable persons going home from the meeting and to have dangerously wounded a priest. The police were nowhere to be seen, although they had been apprised of the necessity of being on the spot. The other occurrence was in Belfast, when a band and contingent from that city returned in the evening from the meeting. The band was asked to cease playing and the order was immediately obeyed. Then without warning the people were attacked with batons and by men in mufti with sticks, very many being wounded. We trust that when this matter is questioned the mere ipte diasit will not be accepted as on previous occasions.

A remarkable instance of Irish courage and daring is just now occupying attention in Liverpool. A man who was evidently suffering from the effects of drink, and behaved more or less like a mad man, jumped into the river at an early hour on Monday morning, An Irishman named Timothy Lehane, who is employed at the Prince's Stage, and who has rendered conspicuous service on various occasions in saving hf«, threw a life-buoy to the drowning man, bat he refused to take advantage of it. Recognising that the man was intent on self-destruction Lehane then jumped into the wster and grappled with him, endeavouring to put a life-buoy round him. The man resisted with all his might, and thereupon commenced a desperate struggle in the water. Both men as they struggled were swept along by the tide about twelve hundred feet. To the onlookers the scene was of the most exciting kind. Lehane adhered to his purpose despite the furious efforts uf his assailant, and ultimately by sheer pluck aod perseverance succeeded in getting the life-buoy around him. Other Hfe-buoyß were then flung to Lehane, and ooe of Lieutenant Sweeney's life-saving ladders vras brought into requisition. The two men were then rescued in an exhausted condition but after they had had a warm bath they speedily recovered This is the ninth or teuth life that Lehane has been instrumental in saving. He wears the first-class silver mei.il of the R >yal Humane Society. His daring heroism on the last occasion is now the theme of almost every tongue in Liverpool.

The report of the Governors of the B iltimore Fishery Bchool for 1893 is before us. The report opens with a suitable expression of the enormous lobs sustained by the School by the death of Father Davis in the autumn of 1892. Too work of the Scbojl has since gone on most satisfactorily. Since its opening 255 boys, from all parts of Ireland, bave been received within its walls— out of these there were discharged or tran B ferred to other sckools by ordar of the Chief Secretary, or licensed, 33 boys-died, 10 ; and 66 were obliged to leave when they had arrived at the age (viz, 16) prescribed by the governing Industrial Schools. There remained at the school at the end of the year 1893,146 boys. These bojsare taught various industriee eg — fiihiog, net and sail making, boat-building, carpentry, tailoring gardening, eto. The Governors complain very justly, as it seems to us, of the restrictions imposed by Act of Parliament on retaining boys who intend to btcome fishermen in the school after they have attained 16 years. It is pointed out that lads of this age are to > tender to endure the hardships of all-eight fishing at sea, even if they acquired all the requisite knowledge. If, says the report before us the time extended till they weie nineteen or twenty y.ars old they would then leave fishing schools thorough masters of their art Added to this, if six, or seven, or eight of such lads left a fishery •chool and went to live in the sama locality, there could be no better security for loan', out of the public funds now avail able for properly fitted out vessels, than the security of a vessel given into the hands of such a company. "One very important trade," says the report elsewhere, "and closely connected with Irish curing is coopering. I Q Scotland every fish curer is a cooper. It is a sine qua non that he should be so The Governors bave been unable, for want of means, to add this to their other industries. It reqaire 9 a large capital even to commence this trade Thousands of barrels are annually imported into Ireland for the American cared mackerel trade alone which might with profit be made in this country. The Governors entertain a sanguine hope that, when this want is known by those who take an interest in

saving these poor waifs and strays, and in having them brought up in remunerative industrial pursuits, they will be enabled to extend and accomplish fully the good work for which the school was designed, and for tbe teccessary funde for this purpose they make an urgent appeal."

On Sunday, June 3, the memorial cemetery of the late Father Charles at Mount Argus was solemnly opened in the presence of a great conoourse of people, and at th« same time a beantifnl and imposing Celtic Cross, erected in memory of the late Father Sebastian by the members of the Confraternity of the Cross and Passion attached to the Church, was unveiled. Tde names of Father Charles and Father Sebastian are inseparably connected with the growth and popularity of the Passionist Church at Mount Argus, and the touching tribute inspired by personal association and affection which was paid to their memories on Sunday by an old member of the Order, the Rev Father O'Neil, found an echo in the hearts of the multitude of people who were present. The cemetery, which adjoins the church, has been enlarged, and it is now intended to enclose it with a handsome wall. The cross which has been erected in the cemetery to the memory of Father Sebastian stands fourteen feet high, and is composed of Sicilian marble of a remarkably white tex Jure, the front and sides being very elaborately carved from ideas to* be found amongst our choice specimens of ancient crosses. The phnth is of County Wicklow granite,", an d in connection with the two steps surrounding tha cross increases its height by a couple of feet. The proportions are excellent, and the entire has a very striking effect, .he purity of the white marble standing out in fioe contrast with the background of rich and varied green tints. The work received much care in design and executioa at the hands of Mr O Neill, sculptor, M.R.1. A., by whom it has been erected. A correspondent writes :-The belated farrago of nonsense that has been poured on the British public in the name of the so-called Number One ' of the Invincible conspiracy has been assessed at ita proper value by every important organ of public opinion exoept the Jimet, Even such strong Unionists prints as the St James, Gazette and ihePatf Mall Gazette have in their reviews of the book expressly guarded themselves, and warned their readers against trusting the statements it contains. The Pall Mall says-" Extraordinarily ihameess and brutal is tha work just published, in which Patrick J. Tynan, who for yeara has fi^rcl before tbe world as 'No One, relates the history of toe Invincibles and the Pboeaix Park murders." Aad again-" Nor is this btory necessarily true. Toere is no very strong reason for trusting the word of a man who confesses himself the organ.ser of assassination." More shameful and disgraceful statements were never made than this man commits himself tothat is if the Bowdlerieed edition just published in England does no injustice to the one Tynan himself issued in America, in one part of it he declares that "the Parnelhte Government was with two exceptions the executive of the Invincibles." And again—" It was decided that as soon as a newcomer planted his foot on liish soil invested by the illegal and alien admin.stration (i.e., of England) with the authority of either of these offices (i.e., of Chief Secretary and Under Secretary) to perpetuate the British rule of spoliation he should be at once ' suppressed ' in mercy to the Irish nation." Now here are two statements of the most absolute kind. 1 That Mr Parnell and his colleagues had the absolute direction of tbe Invincible conspiracy, and (2) that the Invincible* had as a settled plan tbe killing of Lord Frederick Cavendish tbe moment he set foot in Ireland as Ohitf Secretary. Nobody knows better the value of both these statements than Karl Spenser and his advisers of that day . And if there 18 one thing more certain than another in relation to that terrible time, it is that Lord Spenser was convinced that the Irish Party were absolutaly gailtles, of any oonneatioa with the awfal tragedy, and that no one was more astonished when Mr Bourke'a companion was identified as the new Chief Secretary than the very men who perpetraied the deed, so little idea had they of the identity of the companion of the primary objact of tbeir vengeance. It was stated at the time, in what I should consider well-informed circles, *c -uthorities °ad information that James Carey did approach some of the Parliamentary chiefs with reference to some dark project, and that he was scouted out of the room by them. Ba this as it may -and I have never had an opportunity of testing the statementLord Frederick Cavendish, there can be little doubt, lost his life through having hke a brave man, come instantly to the assistance v, JT , " " BaW him aßßlliledl So little waß as to who Mr Burke s companion was that even some of the police at first understood that the second victim was Mr Bourke's brother, the artist, who was in the habit of accompanying him occasionally on his walk heme through the P«k. Tjoan'e truth! aba., can be judged

of from a s.nglc fact. He statea ,n tbe book-or is made to state for there are probably others in the matter, and I should not wonder if they knew something of the r'quests mads in csrUin quarters in Dublin recently for photographs of actors i Q th, scene, of those stirnng tim.s-ho says that he was in ,be Park wh.n the awful tragedy B ; teen. 0 "* '* ™ " ™^ * a