The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

THE IRISH CATHOLIC CL ÜB.

The seventh annual meeting of the members of this
club celebrated their seventh anniversary, yesterday
erening, by a dinner, at the Ad.elphi Hotel. Upwards of
160 persons were present, amongst Whom we observed :
Right Rev. Dc. G 3ZS, B;shop of Liverpol ; Very Rev.
Provost Cookson, Very Rev. Canon Fisher, Ver., Rev. Canon
Walwork, Rev. J uzent, Rev. B. O'Reilly, Rev. R.
Vand( pitte, Rev. J. O'Mara, Rev. P. Lirenby, Rev. S.
Walsh, Rev. J. J. Tobin, Rev. Thomas Walton, Rev. J.
Sheridan, Dr. Edgar, Messrs. Richard Sheil, John Yates,
jun. (chairman), J. B. Aspinall, M. A. M.Danald, James
L?vingston, C. Cl€ ments, J. C . Corbally, P. Kearney
rice._ chairman), R H. Shell, B Trevor, Thomas Daly, H.
Sharpies, James Whitty, Thomas Leete, James Neville,
Frenor, T. Carroll, James Dwyer, Owen Rice, J. 0.
Wood (hen secretary), James Quinn, Huhn, I.z.cf.
It is scarcely necessary to say that the dinner, being at
the Adelphi, and served by the worthy landlord, Mr.
Ridley, was of a most sumptuous description, and was
composed of every delicacy, and that, too, exceilent'as to
quality and quantity, as the following bill of faro will
show t —Mock turtle, roast saddles of mutton, roast and
boiled capons, hams and tongues, ro Ist beef, roast haunches
of mu' ton, boiled chickens, pigeon pies, roast lamb, sweet-
breads and widgeOns, roast turkeys, and sausages, boiled
round of beef, roast ribs of beef, cauliflowers, potatOes, carrots,
turnips, sallads, plumb puddings, rhubarb tarts, jellies,
raspberry, tourts, custards; &c., &c., oranges and apples,
filberts, raisins and almonds, savoy cakes and biscuits,
olives and ohesetitsi port and sherry, bucellas, claret,

champagne, and grogi.
Mr. John Yates, jets., Esq., occupied the chaue and the
vice chair was filled by Mr. Thomas Kearney.
The cloth hay ing been removed, Dr. Goss, the Bishop of
Liverpool, prodoutaced the blessing.
The Chairman soon after, rose to propose the first toast
of the evening; " The Pope." In doing so he said, before
he prOceeded to propose the first WWI he had to announce
that he had received letters of apology for hen-attendance
from several gentlemen whet! take a warm interest im the
well-being of this club. (Cheers.) lie tben gave "His
Holiness Pope Pius IL" (Applause.) IrrespecfiVe of
his personal qualities, His Holiness the Pope, by his high
position as the head of the church, commanded their
respect and veneration. He did not apologise for making
that the first toast, Catholics always did it, and that was
because he was at the head of the church; and they
thought that things spiritual ought to take the precedence
df all which was temporal. He then proposed the toast;
which was drank amidst the applause of the company.
Air—" Papal Mareli."
The Chairman: Having disposed of our !int duties as
hood subjects of our church; the next toast I shall pro-
ose, rind I knew it Will, as it always has been, be received
with enthusiasm. It is " The health of the Queen." (Raptu-
rous applause.) He was sure it would be so received by
Catholics. He was glad that they had such a lady on the
throne. (Cheers.) He then passed some high encomiums
upon her Majesty, as the Queen of England, as a wife,
and as a 'no:her, and said that she was not 1 ike some
Queens, who had endeavoured to stop the torrent of
religious feeling. The toast was then given and responded
to in the most enthusiastic manner.
Air—" God save the Queen."
The Chairman next proposed " Prince Albert and the
Royal Family," at the same time expressing his surprise
that the toast should be divided from that of the Queen,
seeing that they were all dear to each other, but as such
had been the custom, he would give it in the usual way,
" Prince Albert and the itoyal Family." (Great applause.)
Air—" The Cobourg March."
The Chairnian then called upon Mr. Walsh to oblige the
company with a song, and he immediately responded, by
giving, in excellent style, " The low back'd car."
The Chairman said, the next toast he had to propose
was, " the bishop of the diocese, and the English heir.
archye' (Applause.) In proposing this toast, he said
they were then coming nearer home, for they were about.
expressing their personal feelings on the bishop, who sat
on his right, and the heirarchy. (Cheers.) They all knew
how they were esteemed by the people. it was one trait in
the character of the bishop, that he, with others was
always happy in associating with the people on these
annual occasions, and on all other occasions. After a few
brief remarks on the way that the bishop and the clergy
bad always mixed with the laity, he, in the most flattering
terms proposed the toast. The toast was drank with
three times three hearty cheers.
Air—' The faith our fathers."
The Rev. Dr. Goss then rose to respond to the toast,
and, on doing so, was most cordially received. lie said
he begged to thank them for the kind reception that had
been given him not only on that occasion but whenever he
had had the pleasure of appearing among them, and he
wou:d take that opportuuity of thanking them for the
great kindness he had received since he had been the
bishop of that diocese, and the hearty co-operation he
had received, not alone from the clergy, but also
from the laity ; and he did hope that they would all
continue, as heretofore, to work harmoniously
together, and successfully achieve the great objects they
before them. (Great applause.) During the past
year, not alone as to our churches and to our schools,
for they will always remain on their hands, and their
churches would always require to be enlarged, and their
schools to be multiplied. (Applause.) But there was
one other great work that they have accomplished, and
that was the establishment of a reformatory for juvenile
criminals. (Cheers.) Unfortunately a great portion of
those who professed their faith belonged to the poorer
classes of the town, some of whose ancestors, 300 years
ago, had been driven from their own lands, and had to
seek a living elsewhere, but who, perhaps,
if they had what belonged to them, and had their own,
would be wearing a ducal crown. But, however
poverty might be regretted, it was not looked upon as
criminal, but should have the Christian sympathy of all.
They had there an establishment which would contain
upwards of 200 children, and at the present time there
were 110 inmates, but they must not rest with having
that refortnatory for the boys, but they must also have
another for the girls—(cheers)—and he had no doubt but
that they would receive the support and sympathy of all.
He then alluded to the training that some of their children
had received at the hands of the Protestants. They had
had a girl belonging to their own faith in the Industrial
Schools in Soho street. A short time since the mother of
the child went to demand her, when she said she would
not go with her—she would not go to the dirty Irish again
—she would not be a Catholic, but she would be a
Protestant, and she finished by calling her own
mother a liar. (Cries of " shame.") Thus that girl had
been instructed to deny her faith, her country, and to call
her mother a liar. For this training he did not blame the
heads of that establishment, :fur no person who looked
over the list of patrons and committee would ever imagine
that they would be guilty of such an act ; but it was
the assistants they employed, who had all the working
of the establishment, and being low minded, it was
those of whom the Catholic's had to complain. He next
alluded to the great progress the Catholics were making,
and the way worship was performed in the noble cathe-
drals that bad been built by themselves, but which had
been taken from them ; and said that they did not know
how to perform that worship, and therefore it would be
better to take those edifices from them. (Hear, hear,
and cheers.) The time was come when it would not do
for them to b 3 tolerated —the time was coining, for
with the others, time past was as a dead letter—but the
tune was coming when he hoped every Catholic would
assert the rights and privileges he possessed as an inhabitant
of this country, and exercise the right of asserting his
principles at the ensuing election. As citizens they had a
right to do so. lie was a citizen, and he had a right to do
so—(cheers) —and he vs ould do so. (Cheers.) He had a
right to vote, and he would vote. They, as electors of
the town, had to partake of the burdens, and they
had also a right to partake of its privileges, the
ssine as other citizens. (Cheers.) It was not for the
church to interfere with their temporal doings, but at
the same time he hoped that they would exercise the
right they had of recording their votes, but that they
would not do so for any man who was opposed to the
grant to Maynooth, or would have the Sabbath kept in
such a way that the poor man would be debarred from
having some rational enjoyment, and of also viewing the
beauties of nature. He would like to know if Mr.
Turner kept the Sabbath holy ? Did he go without his
hot steak for his breakfast ? —did he permit his bondman
Or his bondwoman to be free?—did he let his
coachmen and his horses remain quiet, but were not they
harnessed, and did not tlae carriage convey him and his
dame to church ? Yet these were the men who said to the
poor. " Keep holy the Sabbath," and would have them
closed up upon that day. (Hear, hear.) Why did they not
keep the Sabbath themseives ? (Cheers.) They, as
Catholics observed the Sunday, and he did not see any
objection to a person after he had attended prayers
twice or three times on that day, he did not
see any harm of a poor man walking into a
museum, or an exhibition for the purpose of viewing the
beauties of nature and of art. He would like to know

whether or not Mr. Turner did not, on the Sunday, turn
into his greenhouse, and examine and admire his beautiful
and orchidaceous plants. Then was it a greater sin for a
'poor man to walk into the crystal palace, and admire the
beauties of nature—JO admire the lily, the emblem of purity
and innodentey; than it Was Mr. Turner to walk into hiat
s
greenhouse, and look at his own beadli7ul plants. (Gre
Cheeriing.) He (Dr. Goss) mid not see any diffeij2ce
between the two, and expressed el hopei with9ut
attempting to dictate to the laity, as the
church never attempted to interfere in anything relating
to the laity, except it was as regards their spiritual and
moral requirements, that each man would do his duty, and
nut give their votes for such men as would have them shut
uo all the Sunday, and not be able to take their walk to
enjoy the beauties of nature, or even to look out of their
own houses. (Cheers.) Having thanked the meeting for
the attention they had devoted to what he addressed to
them, he resumed has seat amidst the greatest applaase and
enthusiasm.
Mr. M. A MPonald then, in eloqueat language, pro-
posed the Irish heirarchy, and in tiolot.l s. » ij s said he felt
honoured at being selected to preplfo a sent,:ment.
Air—" Grarnachree."
The Clairrnan then introduced Mr. Daniel Pev:ell to
propose the next toast—" Our local clergy "—and in doing
so, expressed his regret that his venerated father was not
present to have heard him make his first speech, but at
the same time congratulated the company that the sun
was following in the steps of his father. (Cheers )
Mr. Powell then in suitable terms proposed the toast of
" Our Local Clergy," which was enthusiastically responded

t o.
Air—" Home, sweet Home."
The Reverend Provost Cookson briefly, but feelingly
responded to the toast.
Mr. James Leeingston, in proposing the immortal
memory of Daniel O'Connell, said it was his melancholy
but reverential duty to propose the memory of him to
whose brilliant genius, incorruptible soul, and almost,
superhuman exertions, we owe the pleasing and proud
position of meeting here to celebrate the anniversary of
St. Patrick (Ireland's patron saint); not as aliens, but
as citizens—not as slaves, but as freemen ; for when lie
first saw the light we were slaves, but when it pleased
Providence to eall hint to receive the glorious reward
of the good and the just, he left us emancipated. (Hear,
and cheers.) In feebly, but sincerely and gratefully,
endeavouring to pay this sad tribute of respect to the
memory of the illustrious liberator of my native land,
I trust' I may not be considered as indulging in any
unworthy sectarian or partisan feeling ; for the same
genercius heattathat prompted—the same liberal and en-
lightened rniad that thought and suggested—the same
powerful, elorpient, arid gifted tongue that spoke, and the
Same hand that wrote, for Catholic emancipation,
prompted, spoke, and wrote with equal energy and suc-
tess, that his dissenting fellow subjects should be relieved
from the civil and legal grievances under which they then
laboured. (Hear, hear.) And although we are celebrat-
ing the feast of our national patron saint, and paying this
solemn memento it, our national patriot, on English soil,
I am happy to eee, by the presence here amongst us of so
many of our respected English friends, that the great ser-
vices of Erin's most gifted son is not, and will not be
effaced from their memory ; for they never can forget,
that, though some of the highest in rank and station of
the nobles of this land adhered With undying fidelity to
"the faith once delivered tto the saints,' still they were
aliens in the land of their birth, with scarcely any
social, but certainly without any political recognition,
until the mighty )Trish tribune, representing in
his own giant personage eight t illions (for we were
then eight millions) of faithful and devoted Irish,
" strong from their cradle and of sturdy brood," thun-
dered at and forced open the reluctant portals of the
British constitution, and bid the ancient Catholic nobles
Walk in and take their natural places in the patrician
palace of their illustrious fathers, from which they were
esteltided for centuries by the most iniquitous, the most
exclusive, and the most unjust laws. (Hear, hear, and
loud cheers) Our English fellow subjects who may
differ from us on more questions than one can scarcely
be expected to view with the same intensity of grateful
feelings the vast services of O'Connell as we do, still as
proverbial lovers and admirers of peace, order, and jus-
tice, their natural generosity Will not permit them alto-
gether to ignore the great benefits he rendered ,the state
by abolishing for ever religions exclusiveness, sectarian
intolerance, and political ascendancy—those never failing
fertile sources of national discord and national
weakness ; and consolidating in 'one united body,
without invidious or partisan distinction, the subjects
of the same sovereign, with equal laws, equal rights,
and equal privileges—" equal before the law, the
tax collector, and their country's foe." (Loud cheering )
O'Connell during his long and eventful life was the cur..-
sistent advocate and firm supporter of peace, law, and
order ; and, while enforcing with matchlee; eloquence
the just claims of his countrymen to their unjustly with-
held rights, ho never ceased to inculcate, with the zeal I
of an apostle, the sacred duty of obeying the laws,
respecting the constituted authorities, and paying
unreserved allegiance, loyalty, and devotion to the person
and throne of our mast gracious and beloved Queen.
(Cries of hear, hear.) Of the sincerity and efficiency of
this doctrine he has given. in his lifetime, ample proof, by
cancelling from his vocabulary such phrases as " physical
force," " bloody revolution," and substituting in their
stead the hitherto unknown, but now familiar phrase of
" moral force," by which he achieved the greatest social,
civil, and 'religious revolution, without being tarnished
with a single drop of human blood, the sob of a bereaved
widow, or the tear of a destitute orphan; while, in his
personal deportment, he exemplified that a good Catholic
must necessarily be a good and loyal subject, not as a
matter of political expediency or partisan bias, but in
implicit obedience to the divine injunction of " Giving to
God that which is God's, and to Caesar that which is
Caesar's.'' (Cheers.) My Lord, Mr. Chairman, and
gentlemen—l shall not further occupy your time than
Merely propose, in solemn and reverential silence, the
memory of our immortal liberator, Daniel O'Connell.
The toast was drunk in solemn silence.
Air : " Tara's Hall."
Mr. It. H. Shell, thm in a few plain and practical ob-
servations proposed, " Prosperity to Catholic Education,"
expressing a hope that no exertion would be spared to promote
its progress.
Mr. James Whitty then, at the request of the Chairman,
proposed " Prosperity to the Town of Liverpool."
(Cheers ) He expressed his regret that some persons,
more prominently connected witn the trade of this
great town and port, had mit been selected to
propose the toast ; but as he had been called upon to
perform the duty he would not shrink from it .; but as
such was the ease, it was not his intention to dwell upon
the extensive trade of the port, the ships of which conveyed
merchandise to every corner of the world, or to its imports
and exports, as it was well known to all present. But
there was one remark that was made by !the bishop, that
there were a great number of persons, who were brought
from other countries into this town, and had become located
here. Such was the fact ; and it was also a fact, that
these people so brought hero did nearly all the manual
labour of the port, and assisted in creating its prosperity,
therefore he (Mr. Whitty) argued that assisting in being
the producers of the prosperity, they had a right to
enjoy all the privileges that any other citizen possessed ;
therefore he called upon all Irishmen to exercise the privi-
lege they possessed by the elective franchise at the forth-
coming election, recording their votes for the representative
of that great Liberal party who had always advocated
and supported the social welfare in the community
in which they were placed. (Great cheering.) They, as
Irishmen, had no right to isolate themselves from the other
portion of the community—because they had a share—
having to contend with its burdens as well as its prosperity ;
in its prosperity, therefore, he hoped that every countryman
of his would, on the day of election, support that Liberal
party who have, and always had, been in favour of the
sentiment he bad to propose—" Prosperity to the trade and
town of Liverpool." (Great applause.)
At a subsequent period of the evening, Mr. J. B.
Aspinall proposed the health of the Chairman, which, it
is scarcely necessary to say, was drank with the graatest
enthusiasm. The Chairman responded, and proposed
the health of the Vice-Chairman.
After several other complimentary toasts, the meeting
separated, all having expressed the greatest delight at
having spent so agreeable an evening, everything having
passed off with the greatest eclat.

A SKIT oN COBDEL—The Paris Charivari has a capital
mock address from the Mandarins of Canton to Mr Cobden.
Ere is invited to come immediately to the ',land whose CUM
he had E 0 warmly pleaded ; and is promised, on his arrival,
a palace of porcelain ; a table constantly supplied with the
most delicate swallows' nests; promotion to the rank of
Mandarin of the first class ; and " last, not least, for a
parliamentary orator," the privilege of speechifying to the
assembled Mandarins every day, as long as be pleases.
THE GUANO MONOPOLY.—The government has made a
bargain with Muscat for about 1,500,000 tons of guano.
They have leased it to certain parties for five years (and
they admitted in the House of Commons those parties bad
nothing to do with the discovery), for no conAderatiou
no penalty beyond that of forfeiting the lease, if it proves
worthless. The lessees are to IDe at no expense beyond a
clerk to receive the royalty. The lessees say they will only
charge the public 20s per ton royalty, which, of course,
amounts to a million and a half sterling. There is no reason,
when the stir is over, why they should not charge £5 per
ton, instead of £l, if the manure proves as valuable as
expected ; but most likely they will compromise with the
Peruvian monopoly for an immense *sum. if we could get
plenty of guano at a low price we should not be dependent
upon foreign countries for a supply of corn. We should
be exporters, so that not only the agriculturist, but the
consumer, would be benefited to an extent beyond calcula-
tion. Papers have been moved for in the house, but of
course they will not be produced till after the elections are
over. if the guano is not to be sold cheap, why not the
revenue have the millions it is worth ? So much for Lord
Palmerston's free trade,—From a Correspondent,