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 dis•
graceful escaped. They also state that the " utmost
reparation in their power is due by tae 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'Donoghue. They
show that the respectable portion of the Roman
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-
, lun tary 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 Fitg-
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 agairst the scandalous
attempt to tuJu,. 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
breadetuffs 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 rtl'tnitted to him from the
England people' in 1847, with ,the name of the cor-
respondents and the amount of C. ;Leh remittance,
making a total, so far as I can ascertair: at present,
of £1,217 9s. 10d. for the relief of the poCY 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 prominentpart
in that meeting, for the same laudable purpose, and
confirm his sincerity with any subscription he could
afford for the relief of the Lancashire operatives ?
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
righ, tminded 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 tb!!
lE7:glad to this
Lancashire fund, while he only gave los. to a local
relief fund:—
" Though not a very old mfraonm,well remem-
bertoongst us
. cannot even ra.
a gland having before received
several occasions on which relief has been sent
on of her
with a right imperial hand
mcoeumn
btrey;
a; oldest
tbruatditthioenott.r.
people. And is it
ed because I, an humble indi-
Lodfnl of the many benefits received by my
charity for ana'
countrymen from
tomlerya
the free and noble English people
humble mite to relieve the tem-
porarybvtale:fa:lf therefore
distresscontributed existing in a district of that coun-
try, co-operating with others to repudiate
the Stigma of a national ingratitude, which a few
self-elected leaders of the people would seek to
attach to us, that I am to be called to account by
an anonymous scribbler, whose ideas of charity are
so perverted that, had he lived in Samaria of old,
he would have held up the good Samaritan' as a
man who had done an injustice to his countrymen.'

Mr. Bright has accepted an invitation to the
annual dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday, the 16th inst.
for the East
FUTURE MOVEMENTS OF THE ALABAMA.—Much
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 Commercc)
that
Indies.Ca Cap t, Semmescontemplated
icruising ground on
the part of the Alabama has been known, for some time by
ntendstochsaanilgieinomfetel
the initiated, and is onlyearrYing
nal programme."
The general dulness of the Palmeritan theatres
has been broken by the appearance among the au-
dience at the Garibaldi of Fut Pantaleo, just returned from
Aspromonte,.exdr, and prison. Of course there was a de-
monstration m his favour. lie asked for cheers for Gari-
baldi; and the house echoed with the " Vivas I" for the
wounded of Aspromonte. The fighting friar has been
requested not to assist at any more performances, as his
presence is too exciting, and he has appealed against the
order. There were also disturbances at the Teatro Rossini,
and the usual cries for the hymn.