Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 14, 2 August 1895, Page 21

Dublin Notes .

(From contemporaries.) The tourist season of 1895 promised to show a considerable advance on previous season in Ireland. Tht interest evinced in England is qnite exceptional this year, The applications for programmes of Irisn tonrs have never been so large in number. Field Marshal Lord Wolsely was 62 years of age on Jane 4 having teen born at Golden Bridge, Dublin, in 1833. He obtained his commission in the 80th Regiment in 1862, was raised to the pearage in 1882, and was made a Field Marshal on the 26th of May, 1894. Mr Timothy GleesoD, of Lisquinlan, Castlemartyr, Oonnty Oork, says that if the young men of Ireland, the pupils of the Nations] schools, and Christian Brothers schools continao the study of the language for the next ten years the preservation of the language will be assured, and its death averted. Edmund Downey, a Water ford man, and cocsin of Mr Dowling the successful Irish novelist, is dow bringing out a new Irish library in London. Mr Downey, who is himself a successful writer, as well as a publisher, has faith in the power of Irish literature to stand en its own merits in the market without adventitious aids of any kind* He is selecting and republishing in handsome form, and at cheap prices, typical works by our leading Irish writers. The first of the series has already appeared— viz., " O'Donnell," by Lady Morgan. The action of the Presbyterian General Assembly on the Chrißtian Brothers Question was as narrow and intolerant as it well could be. The only interesting feature of the discussion was the dignified protest of Bey J. D. Osborne Bgainßt the out-of-date and unwite policy of the Assembly and tha body it represents. The time is pass, ing rapidly when the majority, either in Ireland or Great Britain t will allow the education of their children to be fashioned so as to suit the ideas of the minority. The pretension of Presbyterians to say what shall or shall i.ot be tauzht in unmixed Catholic pchoola is as insolent as would be the pretension of Catholics to direct the teaching of Catholic Dogmsß in Presbyterian schoole. Liberty of teaching to all la the only just and the only wise measure. Octavius H. Beatty, who was recently selected as the Liberal candidate for the Parliamentary representation of Chelsea, England, is the son of P. W. Beatty, of Mountpleasant, County Louth. He was born in Brazil thirty years ago. Mr Beutty having begun his education at the Royal School, Armagh, went to Oxford, where he took the B. A. degree at the asja of nineteen, in the following year, obtainiog, also, the L.L. B degree of Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the English Bar trotn the Middle Temple in hia 21st year. In 1886 he married Miss Margaret Bpenser, daughter of Dr Spencer of Oxford, a lady who fully shared his advanced political viewß, and who was racently cli oed » progressive member of tho Kingston Board of Guardians. He U vice-president of the Wimbledon Radical Club, and a familiar fi^ura at the Eighty and National Liberal Clubs. The late r 'fiptain James Beatty Turner, of General Meagher's " Irish Biigudo, ' was a member of the same family on hi* father's side. Professor Dougbtrty, tne well-known Presbyterian Home Buler, has been appointed Assis'art Under Secretary for Ireland in succession to Sir William Kay p. The appointment is one calculated to give satisfaction. The new Assistant Under Secretary is a man of great ability and of J proved large-mindedness. His sympathy with popular claims and interests has o! en bee a exhibited, and he has not feured to risk ostracism for his opinions. Though his appointment leaves the Catholics of Ireland completely unrepresented among the permanent higher officials of tne Executive Government, his toleraol habits of thought and ut questionably liberal sentiment will do something to correct tde an<>unl> A few more men of his type at the centre of Irish G-ivermuent might perhaps lessen to some extent the evil repute of Dublin ',aetld. That, however, were too much I o hope. Four hours and a half was the time recently taken by the special train whioh the G-eat Sou'hern and Western Company ran to Killarney at popular fares. Tbia gave tourists, of whom there wert more than two hundred, rearly eijjht boura in the "Eden of the West" — should it Lot be Sjuth-West ? The rate of travelling would be at least sixty-five mi ea an hoar over some sections of the line This ought to satisfy the most exacting tonrist, and it proves that on our great lines we can travel as well as they can over the water — very much better indeed, thin tbey do on many of the big lines, where late trains on even ordinary excursion dayß are (t the order of the day." Snch a performance na that of Whit Monday, if fiequently repeated, should, and we believe would, end in making every Dubliner of the most modest m aiis take a trip to Killarney, and few pleasaner and cheaper trips could be undertaken by small parties. The following reports are included in the annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for the year 1894, which has just been issued as a Blue Book. With regard to industries in Ireland, Inspector Wood t? ate, of Dublin, remarks : " When I came

to Ireland in 1875 there were ten paper factoriea working in and around Dublin. I find at present there are only five working, and one of them it in not unlikely will shortly be closed. . . . With regard to the industries of this district, the most important of thana He in the north-east part, i. c., in Ulster. Tht industries in tha aonth and •oath-west I regret to say, with few exceptions, are small and unimportant, for tha most part entirely deptndant on local trade. I cannot report that I find many new industries starting outside Ulster to give employment to the numbers of unemployed." ; Inspector Soape, of Belfast, says : " I regret to have to report that ! the trade of Belfast generally has for the past year been passing through a very severe crisis owing to the uncertainty as to how the American tariff would be settled and aho owing to the very extensive failures, which have unsettled trade very considerably. Linen weaving. — For the first six months trade was fairly good ; since that time trade has been bad owing to the large surplus stocks which have accumulated. . . . With reference to the linen handkerchiefs, during the first six months the demand was very slow, in consequence of the uncertainty as regards the alteration of the then existing tariff in America. Since that time, the tariff having been settled, business has improved, and a greater demand has sprung up. Like remarks apply to such goods as linen kandkerchiefs (white) and various classes of household linens, comprising about five-eighths of the whole trade. With reference to the manufacture of cotton goods these have been largely on the increase, aa owing to the lower price of cotton these goods can be produced very cheaply, and are replacing certain classes of goods, more especially aB regards handkerchiefs. As regards shipbuilding and engineering works, trade has not been brisk. On the Queen's Island large numbers of hands have been discharged, acd one large engineering works is at the present time running only five days per week. Lord Wolseley, it is generally felt, will have to take prompt notice of the Btartl'ng criticisms contained in the life of Sir Edward Hamley, which has been published by Blackwood. General Hamley was a brave toldier who had distinguished himself in the Crimea; and he was at the same time an accomplished litterateur. He served under Wolseley in the Egyptian campaign of 1882 in charge of a division, but no sooner had he and Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived in Egypt than serious disagreements occurred between them. Hamley found that though he was in command of a division one brigade was missing. Wolseley declared that the arrangements could not be altered, but Hamley persevered with his protests against being stripped of half hie command, and eventually was successful, After the battle of Tel Xl Kebir, in which Hamley and his division played a conspicuous part, Wolseley, according to Hamley'd diary, tnrned away from him without speaking. Astonished at. this strange reception after having led the attack which won the battle, Hamley wrote a report which wbb given to Wo'seley. Later he wrote a more detailed despatch, but neither of them was sent home. In his formal and detailed despatch about the battle, Wolseley, while giving special praise to the two brigades Jed by General Hamley, did not name him in connection with his divisioD,his name being merely bracketed incidentally with a b*tch of other cifl era in a colourless paragraph corcluding the message. These and other occurrences greatly angered Hamley. who felt himself grossly slighted, and who believed that Wolseley was actuated by motives of jealousy. When he returned to England he asked that bis despatch -is should be made public, but this was refused. In his own vindication, therefore, he wrote the article in the Nineteenth, Century which created a s«naation in military circles at the time. The book just published raises the issue between Hamley and Wolßeley In a new and acute form, and the public will await Lord Wolseley 'a reply —bis side of the story having never been told — with more than ordinary interest.