Irish News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 52, 25 December 1902, Page 9

Irish News.

about!, a million and a half, as compared with about a quarter of a million in 1883. The gross receipts were over £66,000, which was about treble the income of the other exhibition. So successful has the enterprise been that it is resolved to repeat it. DUBLIN.- An old and useful Society. In the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on Sunday, November 2, Key. W. Butler, S.J., made a powerful appeal on behalf of the Sick and indigent Roomkeepers' Society, which was founded in the year 1790, and has ever since been conferring incalculable benefits upon the sick and poon of Dublin. In the course of his sermon he said that the society stood unrivalled with regard to the prompt and adequate help which was given by its members. During the past year alone, which they could take as a fair sample, 6153 families, numbering 20,550 persons, had been visited at their homes, and 12,691 grants of relief had been made, amounting to £2525. During the past five years 53,715 grants had been made — certainly a magnificent and a glorious record, a record unequalled in generous Catholic Dublin. Rumored Change of Policy. When the last mail -left home there were rumors in Dublin to the effect that the appointment of the new Under-Secretary marks the inauguration of a fresh policy, and the information given by the London correspondent of the ' Irish Daily Independent,' if it be correct, goes to confirm them. Coercive measures are, he states, to cease, proclamations are to be revoked, and where the revocations take place, political prisoners will be released . A couple of months may pass, the correspondent says, before Coercion will be formally abandoned, but meanwhile it will be enforced with diminishing rigor. He asserts that the King's views are not unconnected with the intended change of policy. It is, in fact, whispered— with what truth we know not— that his Majesty has in firm language expressed fcis determination not to allow his name to be any longer associated with the process of abrogating the ordinary law. What King Edward is credited with having &aid as to the men charged before the Trish Removables is : 'If they have not committed an offence known to the ordinary law no charge should be made against them at all ' — words which every lover of justice must reecho. An Experiment. In deference to Catholic opinion (writes a Dublin correspondent) Mr. Muillot, manager of the Theatre Royal, a short time since cancelled Mr. Tree's ene-ace-ment" to produce the ' Eternal City ' in Dublin. He has, however, reconsidered his decision, and now announces that as the most influential Catholic newspapers have declared that no objection can be found to the play it .will be presented tb the IH,shi play-going pujr/lio shortly. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Tree, who is a great favorite with Dublin audiences and who would not willingly, il am sure, hurt the religious 'feelings of the citizens, will succeed in presenting the character of the Holy Father in a manner which will not give offence. Arrested. Mr. William Redmond, M.P., on arriving at Kingstown on November 4, was arrested and taken to Kiluiftinham Gaol on a warrant issued in consequence of his refusal to give bail to be ' of good behaviour.' The alternative to giving bail is six months' imprisonment. The charge against Mr. Redmond was that of using in a political speech language ' eminently calculated ' to lead to disorder. Death of a Jesuit. Rev. Father Alfred Murphy, S.J., one of the best known and most highly esteemed members of the Jesuit Order in Ireland, died in the early part of November at the house of the Order at Gardiner street, Dublin, where for over a quarter of a century he was engaged in missionary work. GALWAY.— A Saint's Birthplace. Bishop M'Cormick, of Gal way, presided over the ceremonials held recently in connection with the celebration at the birthplace of St. Colman at Gort. The day was observed as a holiday throughout all the surrounding districts, and an enormous attendance of people took part in the ceremony. Bishop M'Cormick recited the Rosary in Irish, and Father Cassidy delivered a panegyric on the saint. KERRY.— Sad Accident. An extremely sad fatality occurred at Spa, Tralee, on Sunday evening, October 19. Mr. J. Casey, Town Clerk, Tralee, who had a lodge rented at Spa, went for a walk along the beach about four, and an hour later was found dead in two feet of water Deceased was subject to apoplectic fits, and it is believed he was seized with one and was caught by the incoming tide and drowned. The deepest sympathy is felt for his bereaved family. MEATH. — Misgovernment. While speaking in response to an address of welcome from the Urban District Council of Trim recently, Cardinal Logue referred to the political situation. 'You speak^' he said, ' about misgovernment in your address, and I don't think that any person who studies the state of things in Ireland would for a moment deny that we are misgoverned. There is no doubt of that. The British Constitution is admirable. If you look throughout Europe at the present day you will find few Constitutions which would compare with it for se-

ci ngl * f ir e ! dom * to &c& c P e °P le and for aiming at everything that is for the people's good. But. gentlemen you are aware as well as I am that we are not Tiiw under the British ConstitutioT We arT Uvtog^uVer ' & in theory, but not in practice. We are governed not by the King, Lords, and Commons of England but we am «overn*l l by and in the interests of a vely 'amSli party ff re a l nn j re l and< As lon * as that stat © of things continues we have every reason to complain of miigovernment. There is no doubt your country is misgoverned We are paying the penalty, 1 suppose, for our fidelity to the old faitk of St. Patrick. If 'we had g°ve* Sp ou? f^^Jfe 8 *? 0 ? 11 * 11 and , the Ensl^ I have no doubt i?n? 8 rS 1 o^ d ll t^ we , W u Ould , be the P et children of Engh^irt^ 6 "'*^ 1^ of r^ hQ old . c - reed is Sweater than their hatred of the race. Hence it is that no matter what party is in office in England we know littte and feel less of the advantages of the British Constitution.' TIPPERARY.— Demise of a Priest. The death is reported of the Very Rev. M. Ryan, parish priest of Murroe. The deceased clergyman spent the first years of his missionary life amongst the Irish Catholics m Sunderland, and was next appointed Dean of the Diocesan College, Thurles, and curate in the archiepiscopal town. .Later on he filled the administratorship of Templebredin and Nicker, and it was during his ministrations in the parish that the fine church at Sarsfield s Rock was consecrated in the presence of Archbishop Croke, several bishops, and a great gathering of clergy and laity. Father Kyan was appointed parish priest of Murroe some 10 years ago, and was only 58 at the time of his demise. A New Church. The Most Rev. Dr. Fennelly, Archbishop of Cashel, on Sunday, November 2, laid the corner stone of a new church at Moyne. The new building is intended to replace the church in which he was baptised and received First Communion and also the Sacrament of Confirmation. In the course of an address his Grace said the ownership of the land for the man who worked it was the great remedy for the development of the resources and industries of the country. He asked his people to work for this object through) a crimeless organisation such as the United Irish League. WATERFORD Anti-Treating League. At the close af a retreat in Waterford Cathedral Rev. T. L. Furlong, Adm., said he had been speaking to the Bishop in reference to the Anti-Treating League. His Lordship had given it his approval, and hoped" that it would be taken up by the Catholic men in the city, especially by the members of the Temperance Hall. Anything that struck at even diminishing the evil would be a good thing, and thie object of the League was to put a stop to it altogether in the country, and as it had been very successful in the diocese of Ferns there was no reason why it should not be successful in the diocese of Waterford. GENERAL. More Revelations The London correspondent of the Melbourne 'Age' writes : ' The (Irish members have not been so aparessivo and daring for years as they are now. Nor have they ever been more united. Every day since the resumption of the session they have created some kind of hubbub and brought the Speaker to the verge of his endurance. Mr. Balfour and Mr. Wyndham have combined in various attempts to thwart and suppress them. Prepared for this they have retaliated by blocking Government business and forcing discussions by moving the adjournment of the House. The administration of justice in Ireland has been their principal topic, and some extraordinary allegations have been made as to the doincs of police and local judges and magistrates. Mr. W. O'Brien, in a speech lasting over an hour, accused a certain Sergeant Sullivan of the Royal Irish Constabulary of forgery, penury, and organising outrage. Tt was alleged that Sullivan wrote a letter signed John McHale. chairman of the Mulranny branch of the United Irish League, and sent it to a lad named Kellv urgin^ him to go with comrades with blackened faces at nicht and commit an outrage on a man who had offended the League. Sullivan, "With an armed patrol was waitinc for them at the appointed place, but they did not appear, and so the trap failed. Sullivan was afterwards prosecuted on the strength of the letter received by Kelly, who had promptly taken it to AlcHale ; a true bill was returned against him in the preliminary proceedings ; but at the subsequent full trial he was acquitted by means of a packed jury and other devices, according to Mr O'Brien. The Government was asked to re-open the case, but it refused to do so. It is difficult to see what other answer it could have returned. In another case, however, it was admitted by Mr. Wvndham that a constable who had committed perjury was still kept in the Irish force, though ' only for depot duty.' There havp been many indignant and sarcastic comments on this extraordinary admission. Only a few days ago a London policeman was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for perjury. Ireland has its own standards, and the general Government policy is non-interference. It is this distinction between justice in "Ireland and England that more than anything else enrages Irish members in the House of Commons. It is contended that as most of the offences committed against the Crimes Act of 1887 were of a political character they should never have entailed hard labor Mr Wyndham stated, in reply to a question, that no fewer than 1601 persons convicted under the Act have been sentenced to hard labor. The announcement sounded so incredible to Mr. Morley that it ha.d to be twice>^repeated to him before he fully accepted it.