The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-25 00:00:00

711 E LATE &DONOGHUE OUTRAGE.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING.
It is gratifying to'perceive that The O'Donoghue remains
in his discreditable isolation. Not a single gentleman or
person of any position has taken up his cause. His fol-
lowers are confined to the senseless mob that cheered his
" princely " eloquence at Tralee, headed by the person who
insulted the memory of the Prince Consort by speaking of
him as " that foreign wretch," violent priests at Headford,
and the writers of the "National" organs. An imposing
array, truly, for one who—now that Smith O'Brien has
sunk into oblivion —is to wear the royal purple when Ire-
land escapes from under the heel of the Saxon I Most peo-
ple, even in this country, were under the impression that
" the Knight of the Glens " had considerable territorial pos.
sessions. The dating of his manifestoes from Derryquin
Castle, the ridiculous prefix to his name, and the court paid
to him by the "Church," strengthened this illusion; but it
is now rudely dispelled. A letter, which is receiving ex-
tensive circulation through the press, says:—
" It is high time that the public mind should be disabused
of the idea which seems to prevail in England, and in the
greater part of Ireland, that the above gentleman is a large
landed proprietor in Kerry, and that Derryquin Castle be-
longs to him. As to his Kerry property, lam in the dark
about its position, as are most Kerry men; and as to
Derryquin Castle, I can confidently inform you that it
never belong to an O'Donoghue, and that it probably
never will. It is the property of the Blands, and has been
let to The O'Donoghue for three years ; its owner being
away for that time in Devonshire. About one half of the
term has expired, so that in eighteen months or so The
O'Donoghue will date his letters to the iVornimg News
from some other quarter. The London newspapers labour
under the impression that the man has influence and power
resulting from a position. Hs has just as much influence
and power as he has property; and I think the sooner the
public knows this the better."

It was rightly assumed that the disgraceful conduct o,

Priest Conway at Headford, and The O'Bonoghue at Tralee,
would largely increase the subscriptions for Lancashire
throughout the country, Every loyal person, in fact, now
feels called upon to protest, by contributing to the fund,
against the narrow-minded opinions of the Kerry agitator
and his clerical imitators. More than one example is at
hard of the prevalence of this spirit. A meeting of the
gentry and traders of the county Galway, convened by the
High Sheriff and the Lieutenant, was called a few days
since, when an attempt was made to disturb the proceed-
ing. The Marquis of Clanricarde having proposed a reso-
lution of sympathy with the suffering operatives in Lanca-
shire, a Mr. O'Brennan, of the Connauyht Patriot, moved
an amendment. This created considerable commotion, but,
notwithstanding all the fury of its opponents, the resolu-
tion was carried, and, at the close of the meeting, the
noblemen and gentlemen present marked their indignation
of such conduct, as well as their sympathy with Lancashire,
by subscribing the handsome sum of £340. The principal
subscribers were—The Marquis of Clanricarde, £5O; Lord
Dunkellin, £26; the Marchioness of Clanricarde, £lO ;
Lord. Clonbrock, £3O ; Lord Ashtown (in addition to £lOO
already forwarded), £25; Sir Thomas Burke, £25; Lord
Clanmorris, £2O ; Denis H. Kelly, £2O ; Walter Shaw°
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Taylor, £2O; Mrs. Shawe Taylor, £10; Lord Dunsandle,
£10; Robert French, £10; Burton R. P. Persse, £10;
Thomas H. Burke, Dublin, £10; the Hon. G. Dillon, £lO ;
Robert Bodkin, £10; Lieutenant-General Hall, C. 8., £5.
A report of the meeting, published in the local journals,
thus describes a "scene" t 1 at occurred towards its close :

Mr. Robert Bodkin, J.P., said he had much pleasure in
seconding the resolution. He was aware that charity begins
at home--
Mr. M. A. O'Brennan hero seized his hat and waved it
in a most violent manner, shouting at the same time,
" Hurrah, huirah." He was seconded in his efforts by a
few persons, and finally sank into his seat exhausted.
The High Sheriff put the resolution.
Mr. M. A. O'Brennan—l beg your pardon, sir, as a cess-
payer.

Marquis of Clanricarde—l rise to order—l object—
Mr. O'Brennan—lt is not the first time that you and I
have met, sir. " When Greek meets Greek then comes the
tug of war." (Cheers and groans.) I will sit down until
you have done. (Cries of "No, no," "Go on," " That'll
do," and uproar, and " Hear the Most Noble the Marquis
of Clanricarde.")
Marquis of Clanricarde—lf he wants to speak on the dis-
tress in this country, let him sign a requisition to call a
meeting to consider it—(hear, hear)—and I pledge myself
to attend that meeting, and I pledge myself now to put
down, without inquiring into the amount of that destitution,
a pound for every ss. he puts down, to be applied to that
distress, (Prolonged cheering.)
A Voice—Shut up. (Groans.)
A Voice—Put the original resolution. (Cheers.)
The chairman then put the original resolution, and de-
clared it carried. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. O'Brennan (to the gallery people)—Was it carried ?
(No, no ; Yes, yes ; groans and cheers.) All against the
resolution will say no. (Cries of No, no, and counter cries
of Yes, yes.)

Mr. A. W. Blake moved a vote of thanks to the high
sheriff for his most dignified and most patient conduct in
the chair.

Mr. Eyre seconded it, and it was carried by acclamation.
Mr. O'Brennan said he wished to have an explanation of
the word "patient," No one acted improperly during the
proceedings.

Chairman (leaving the chair)—l had to wait an hour for
the train. (Laughter.)
Mr. O'Brennan—Very good. (Laughter.)
Mr. Kirwan—l think he has acted very patiently with
you.

Mr. O'Brennan --The chair is vacant now. You aro a
liwr, sir. (Oh, oh, hisses and groans.) You sneak.
(Hisses.)
The proceedings then terminated.

Another pleasing circumstance, be des the generosity of
the public who do not. D.nohue, is
sympathise with The 0-
the readiness with which such Roman Catholics as 11.'4
been literally "denounced" for subscribing to the relief
fund are defending themselves from the strictures of the.
Ultramontane press. Mr. Maguire, M.P., the mayor of
Cork, replied to the Morning 11(ews in a scathing letter, and
now the mayor of Clonmel, Mr. Hackett, has followed iu his
footsteps. In addressing that journal he says :
" I confess I still think it very presumptuous in any man
to direct his neighbour as to where and how his money shall
be expended. I know that parties who never gave a shil-
ling to this, or mayhap any other charity, have acquired a
claptrap notoriety by abusing the subscribers to the Lanca-
shire fund, and while I assure you I never thought for a
moment of classing you with such persons, I have not found

in your lengthened article >ne syllable to induce me to
change my opinion on eithei of these two points."
Mr. Hackett quotes letter from Roman Catholic priests
in Lancashire, to prove thelepth of tho distress there. One
of these appeals on behalf d 5,500 of his co-religionists, all
Irish, who are suffering. mayor then vigorously pro-
ceeds :

" Why, the amount reaitted from Ireland-410,000,
cuts but a paltry figure besies the munificent subscriptions
given in England; yet it ism evidence that Ireland is not
ungrateful. It is an ungrm,ious task to speak of oneself,
but your recommendation me to look amongst the lanes
and garrets of my own tow. forces me to tell you that I
have not waited for your suggestion to give it practical
effect. In the early portion of the year I was chairman of
,our local relief committee, ead was for days and nights en-
gaged in preparing to set its members at work on their
mission of charity. In fat noble cause Catholic, Pro-
testant, Quaker, Presbyterian, and Unitarian all united.
We went through lanes ant into garrets, and had the satis-
faction of bringing comfort to many an abode of sorrow.
For to-morrow I have summoned our local relief committee
again to assemble in order that when the Christmas time
shall come around they may bring relief to many a humble
fireside. My sympathy, then, you will see, was not wholly
expended on Lancashire. The subscription I gave to that
fund is not a tithe of wlat I have quietly devoted to the
cause of suffering at horns within the past year, and when
you leave the issue to be lecided by my fellow townsmen, I
cheerfully accept the responsibility and abide their verdict.
Will you excuse me for not entering more fully into the
sensation' portion of your long article ? I have shown
you that if we did not, as you assert, make any remittance
to the Mansion-House Irish Distress Committee, it was be-
cause we had many pressing claims upon us at home; but
you will permit me to observe that if those who did not do
so subscribe are really to be visited with all the pains and
penalties so magniloquently prescribed by you, you should,
as a matter of stern justice, include in the list the editor of
the Morning News, for in the report of that committee,
though Mr. A. M. Sullivan's name appears as a member of
the body, it does not figure in the columns headed £ s d."
The day is past for dictating to 'intelligent and liberal-
minded Roman Catholics like Mr. Hackett. They will not
suffer such interference. The Lord Bishop of Cashel, in a
Snttar to the Dress announces that he has transmitted £9OO
from Ins cuocese to manene.Ler.
he received from England the sum of £1,546 for distribu-
tion among his poor, and it is a great gratification to him
to be able to send back more than half the amount then
liberally sent him.

The Cork Reporter, a Roman Catholic journal, thus draws
the picture of The O'Dunoghue, in connection with the re-
cent proceedings at Tralee :—" Except the vain and weak-
minded young man, who, as the tool of more designing
persons, occupied the foremost place in endeavouring to
mar the object of the meeting, not a single person of the
class to whom the epithet ' respectable' is applied, joined in
that discreditable proceeding. The 0' Donoghue, of course,
is capable of any folly, and the attempt to teach him sense
or discretion would be a hopeless one. Having had the mis-
fortune to inherit one of those traditionary chieftainries that
conferred station and influence in a semi. barbarous period
of our history, and nearly allied to the man who, in our own
time, swayed in so marvellous away the popular mind of
Irslind, he imagines that his proper role is that of an Irish
patriot, and that, by enacting it, he can acquire somewhat
of importance before the empire. We believe the young
man has nothing vicious in his disposition, and we acquit
him of any deliberate intention to work mischief. Morbid
vanity and utter want of common sense constitute his sole
qualifications for mischief. But these are just the qualifi-
cations that make a man a dangerous tool in the hands of
others. In times like those in which we live, he can of
course prove dangerous in no other way than by compro-
mising to some extent the reputation of his country in the
estimate of wise and thoughtful men. On two or three
previous occasions he identified himself with movements
eminently tending to this result. And his appearance the
other day in his native ccunty to oppose its most respected
inhabitants in a work of philanthropic duty was only what
might have been expected from his singularly silly ante-
cedents."

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS

On Tuesday night the anniversary dinner in aid of the
funds of this institution took place at the London Tavern,
under the presidency of Western Wood, Esq., one of the
members for the City, The hon. gentleman was supported
by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, Messrs. G. Stock-
dale, Thomas Roberts, John Angell, C. Blowers, C. Esse,N.
B. Gunton, G. Hewett, J. L, Boothby, Robinson Fridley,
W. M'Culloch, Wm. Holt, J. H. Hughes, Thomas Parkes,
and several former pupils of the institution, who have now
become subscribers to its funds.
The following firms in the hop trade were represented :
Wood, Field, and Hanbury, Selmes, Masters, and Taylor,
Pattenden and Smith, Barlow and Ashbp, Thomas Parkes
and Son, West, Jones, and Whitehead, Kitchin and Turn-
bull, Thornton, Kennedy, and Co., G. Hewitt and Co., the
Hop Planters' Company, Woolloton and Sox.
This institution was originated in 1856 by a few commer-
cial travellers, who in that year appealed to the body, and in
a few months received £2,000 from it alone. Within 18
months a suitable house was leased at Wanstead, and 20
children placed in it, under the superintendence of a master
and matron, The rapid increase of the work made a removal
necessary, and a building, expressly designed fcr the insti-
tution, was erected at Pinner, and opened by his Royal
Highness the late Prince Consort on the 27th Oct., 1855,
and has since continued to increase in usefulness.

The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having been proposed
and honoured with great enthusiasm,the children—girls and
boys—were introduced into the room by Mr. Angell, the
senior member of the board, under the direction of the
matron and master, and their healthy, happy, neat appear-
ance elicited hearty and general commendation and ap-
plause. They were then marched into the gallery, and
having sung a hymn in chorus very creditably—
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the toast of the evening
amidst much applause. He was glad to hear the words
" Prosperity to the Commercial Travellers' Schools" so
favourably received, and he hoped, after they had listened
to the few wards he had to say, that they would hear the
rustling of bank notes as they had just heard the clapping
of hands and the chink of glasses. (Cheers and laughter.)
It was not necessary that he should say much in support of
the institution. To those who were unacquainted with it he
would simply say—Go down to Pinner and see for your-
selves. They would, if they did so, see a building—a sub-
stantial building, unadorned by any meretricious ornament.
They would find it within admirably adapted for the pur-
poses for which it was intended, not only with regard to
the instruction, but the comfort and health of the inmates.
They would find an admirable master and assistants fully
qualified for their work. The girls received an education
which would fit them for the positions they were likely to
fill in after life. The boys got an education which embraced
reading, writing, ciphering, mathematics, and Latin, to an
extent which would be of use to them in after life, espe-
cially in thoroughly mastering the grammar of the English
language. They were also wall greuuded in French, which
he regarded as a most valuable branch of education. Ho had
gone y, without the slightest
note
e down to nerraPtiionntolatsht atuoSseinrdeaharge of the school, and
therefore he had seen the institution in its natural and nor-
mal state. He found the pupils enjoying a partial holiday,
however, and could not say what the ordinary routine was,
but he found some of them engaged in decorating the place
for the Chrigmas holidays, and very tastefully they were
doing it. Others were engaged in amateur and voluntary
educational exercises. He had looked at the mathematical
exercises, but had not closely examined the pupils, for fear
of being plucked by them. (Laughter.) But, without boast
ing, he might say he thought his knowledge of French en-
titled him to say that the translations from English into
French, and French into English, were very well done. The
original compositions were also very striking, especially
when the ages of the boys were taken into consideration.
They all knew the value of a sound commercial education,
and he hoped the children now before him would avail
themselves to the fullest extent of the advantages which
this admirable charity offered them. It was of the highest
importance that the schools should be placed on a sound
and permanent footing. Ho was well acquainted with the
spirit and energy of the commercial travellers as a class, and
therefore he believed they would take care of the institu-

lion. He had had some experience in the calling himself.
When he was a very young man, he was sent out for his
father's house, but it was found he was not the right man
in the right place, for ho was never set out again. (Laugh-
ter.) Still, his experience had given him a knowledge of
the class of commercial travellers, and of the energy by
which they were characterised, and in behalf of his own
firm he could testify strongly to their honour, integrity, and
value 'He would, however, have no objection again to
become a commercial traveller, and to make the circuit of
the roomin behalf of the Commercial Travellers' Schools.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.

The next toasts were "The Chairman," "The Lord
Mayor, Sheriffs, and Corporation of London," " The Board
of Mangement," " Mr. George Moore, the Treasurer,"
and other toasts were proposed and honoured.
The subscriptions announced in the course of the even-
ing amounted to nearly £l,OOO, of which £5OO were in the
chairman's list.

The musical arrangements, under Mr. Donald King, in-
chided Miss Poole, Mr. Coward, and Mr. Lawler, and gave
great satisfaction.

Mr. Harker was toastmaster, and the dinner sustained
io high reputation of the London Tavern.

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