Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 44, 1 March 1895, Page 23

Dublin Notes.

(From the Weekly Freeman January 12.)

The Catholic Five Hundred, which has been formed to advance Cattolic interests in South London, has just been elected. Bach mission waß requested by the Most Rev Dr Butt to elect a certain number of representatives, calculated on the number of children attending its schools, an arrangement which secured proportionate representation. All the Sjuth London priests are to be ex-offirio members, and the first meeting is to be held next Wednesday for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, A. meeting of the parish priests of Down and Connor to nominate a Coadjutor Bishop was held on Tuesday, in 8t Malachy'a ollege, Belfast, under the presidency of Cardinal Logue. The voting resulted as follows — Very Rev Dr Henry, V.G., President Sfc Malacby's College, and Key D. M'CaßhiD, Adm, St Malachy's, 13 votes each, Dignissimi ; Rev Professor O'Loan, Maynooth, 10 votefl, Dignior ; Most Roy Dr O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe ; Very Rev Alexander M'Mullan, P.P., V.G , Ballymana, and Very Rev Dr Marner, D.D., P.P., Kilkeel, 2 votes each Digni ; Rev Henry Laverty, Adm., St Mary's, 1 vote. Tbe names will in due course be forwarded to Rome. The exterminator is on the warpath in Arran once more. The Christmas bellawere not permitted to toll their last note of peace and gladness for the season until the joy of the impoverished islanders was turned into gloom and despair by the appearance of the rent office emissary in oar midst with a large sheaf of eviction-made-easy notices, vhich he posted on the courthouse door, and returned by steamer to Galway again. No less than i>s families will have to go adrift and to tbe workhouse because they are unable to meet the landlord's demands. Your readers at home and abroad, who know the story of Arran distress last year, are convinced of the misery of tho poor Arranite in hie struggle to keep body and aoul I together. Even that he cannot do when his crops fail without the I aii of a generous public. | The At Home which was given by tbe Metropolitan Branch of I tbe Irish National League of Great Britain at the Adelphi Hotel, Strand, oq Monday evening was a most successfnl function. The company included many representative London Irishmen, and a very enjoyable evening was sptnt. la addition to an admirable concert there was also a dance, and Mr Naoroji, M.P., who is becoming a familiar figure at many Ir sh reunions, delivered a brief but very appropriate aidress. It may be added that the proprietor of the Adelphi Hotel has very generously placed a splendid suite of six rooms at the disposal of the Metropolitan Branch whenever it may wish to use them. Stimulated by tbe success vthich has attended I the "at home " jußt given, the committee propose to hold Bimilat reunions at frfquent intervals throughout the season ; and as a very tff.ctive means of bringing Irishmen resident in different districts in London into touch with one another their desirability cannot be gainsaid. Important communications from Auckland which we elsewhere ? publish are conclusive and encouraging proof that the Irishmen at a the Antipodes still follow w.th the keenest interest the movement r for Irish National Self Government, and are prepared to back it with r substantial aid. From tbe other side of the world comes a declara« c tien of confidence in the irißh National Party and an emphatic pro- ■ test againat dissension. The lesson so often inculcated in these b columns is preached as far away as New Zealand. There as here the g appealing cry is raised for unity in the National ranks. The subn scriptionß are liberal. They would be far more liberal if unity preQ vailed, The Auckland Branch declares with regret that " the dissenc aions in the ranks of the Party at Home have influenced unfavourably n the amount of tbe subscriptions and the general progress of tbe movee ment in New Zealand." It is to be most earnestly hoped th*t this last ■« obstacle — the last but tbe most formidable — to the Nationalist move* meat — will disappear, T:,is matter le in tbe bands of the people ; it

they make their will plain there ie no gainsaying their judgment. The old faction has almost passed away. We believe that the daDger of the new faction will be averted. We would fain remind those who exercise their miodg on this small point or that, and exaggerate their molehills into mountains, lhat there ia not and cauuot be a h jpe of satisfying everybody in every petty detail. If the Irish Party prove false to their trust, disband them, without hesitation. But so long as the country keeps them the country must trust them, and he is no friend of the Irish movement who peeks to fetter their influence by constant cavilling and calumny. Tnere are times whea folly assumes the gravi'y of crime. Th« Nationalist who, for petty personal motives, would breed dissension in the Irish Party, which is one effective instrument of the people's will, is guilty, wittingly or unwittingly, of treason to Ireland. Mingled with Ireland's gratitude to her exiled children for kind and wise words, and generous aid, is the hop* that each bright example and persuasive precept will inspire Irishmen at Home to go and do likewise.