The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

THE O'DONOGHUE OUTRAGE.

The O'Donoghue, if capable of the least reflec-
tion, must have repented before this of his conduct
at Tralee. It has been strongly condemned in every
quarter, even where he probably expected sympathy
and support. The people of Tralee themselves,
through their Chamber of Commerce, have just
joined in this general expression of condemnation.
At a meeting, specially called for the purpose, its
members have declared that "they feel deep regret
at the want of respect and the forgetfulness of his
sacred office with which the Rev. Dr. Moriarty was
received" on the occasion of The O'Donoghue's die
graceful escaped. They also state that the ‘, utmost
reparation in their power is due by the people of
Tralee for the irreverence thus evinced to his lord-
ship." These resolutions are a strong comment
upon the course pursued by The O'llonoghue. They
show that the respectable portion of the Rnmau
Catholic community in the very neighbourhood of
the district where he alleged the deepest distress
prevailed—distress so serious that he felt called
upon, according to his statement, to divert the vo-
luntary subscriptions of his co-religionists in Lanca-
shire into that quarter—wholly repudiate his leader-
ship and his conclusions. The chamber, before break-
ing up, resolved to present an address to his lord-
ship embodying the foregoing resolutions, and
bearing the signatures of all its members. It
will be recollected that at the meeting in Tralee
extracts were read from the letter of a Roman
Catholic clergyman the Rev. Edward Fitz-
gerald—expressing the warmest sympathy with
the Lancashire operatives, and recalling the muni-
ficence of England during the Irish famine. Feel-
ing called upon to protest against the scandalous
attempt to injure the collection in Tralee for Lan-
cashire, he has published a letter in which he thus
warmly repeats his former testimony on the subject :
" I cannot forget the summer of 1822. I was then
occupied day after day for several weeks in Mill-
town and Listry in distributing kiln-dried corn
plentifully, and held in store a large quantity of
breadstuffs and a cargo of potatoes, all for the relief
of the poor of these parishes, all at the expense of
our English neighbours. The late famine years are
fresh in the mind of every one. On looking over
some of the late Right Rev. Dr. Egan's papers, I
find an account of monies remitted to him from the
' England people' in 1847, with the name of the cor-
respondents and the amount of each remittance,
making a total, so far as I can ascertain at present,
of £1,217 9s. 10d. for the relief of the poor of his
diocese. If this distinguished bishop, of acknow-
ledged retiring habits, were then living, would he
not attend the Tralee meeting, if it were only to
proclaim the generosity of the benefactors of the
poor of his diocese ? Would not, I ask, the Right
Rev. Dr. Moriarty, his successor, be guilty of a de-
reliction of duty did he not take a prominent part
in that meeting, for the same laudable purpose, and
confirm his sincerity with any subscription he could
afford for the relief of the Lancashireoperatives
I rejoice that he has done so. The senti-
ments and the principles propounded by the
Bishop of Kerry in his pastoral and in his
speech at the meeting are too sound and too
comprehensive to lose their effect in tumult. They
are lauded by every respectable journalist, and every
rightminded layman will subscribe to them."
The O'Donoghue has the discredit of introducing
the bitterest animosities into Tralee and its neigh-
bourhood ; but he has also, much as he must regret
it, been instrumental in arousing a spirit among a
part of the Roman Catholic population quite at
variance with his designs. The letter of Mr. Fitz-
gerald alone would establish this, without the an-
nexed extract from a reply to an attack made upon
a trader, in Tralee, who has been assailed by The
O'Donoghue faction for having subscribed £1 to the
Lancashire fund, while he only gave 10s. to a local
relief fund:—

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r. right has accepted an invitation to the
annual dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday, the 15th inst.
FUTURE MOVEMENTS OF TIIE ALABAMA.—MUCK
speculation continues to exist regarding the future
movements of this steamer. "We are enabled to state on
the best authority (says the Liverpool Journal of Commerce)
that Capt. Semmes intends to sail immediately for the East
Indies. This contemplated change of cruising ground on
the part of the Alabama has been known for some time by
the initiated, and is only carrying cut Capt, Swamies'
Proffrarzune."